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The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi
The final confrontation between the Jedi and the Nihil…
Eshkar Niin was anIktotchi member of theImperial Knights, aForce-using Order loyal toEmperorRoan Fel of theGalactic Empire. Niin became a Master within the Order and the instructor ofAntares Draco, to whom he taught strategy and philosophy while training theHuman in the ways ofthe Force. Niin later abandoned his vows as an Imperial Knight and deserted the Order. Heattacked the EmpressElliah Fel andkilled her, but was subsequently defeated by Draco, who had been sent to kill him by the Emperor. Draco believed Niin to be dead, but the Iktotchi survived and joinedDarth Krayt'sSith Order, becoming theSith InquisitorDarth Havok.Krayt's Empireseized control ofthe galaxy from Fel in130 ABY, andseven years later, a group ofSith took Fel's daughterMarasiah captive and brought her to the galacticcapital ofCoruscant. From there, Havok took her to the SithplanetKorriban and begantorturing her, hoping to learn valuable secrets of herfather's.
In between interrogation sessions, Draco arrived on amission to rescue her and remained on-world to buy hertime as she escaped the planet. Havok confronted his former student and defeated him in alightsaber duel before taking himprisoner deep in the planet's dungeons. Havok inflicted agonizing torture on Draco in an effort to learnImperial secrets, and eventually used Draco's love for Marasiah to prompt the prisoner to reveal the existence of aJediHidden Temple onTaivas. Krayt's forces thenattacked the temple, but theJedi and their allies evacuated and thencounterattacked at Coruscant. Krayt was slain, and hisSith trooperarmy, whose members were linked to his will, went insane. Havok and several other Sith escaped from the madtroopers on Korriban and fled the planet, and Havok rendezvoused withDarth Nihl, his new Master. Under Nihl's leadership, the Sith went into hiding.(Read more…)
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