Darth Vich's insurrection

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Darth Vich's insurrection

Prelude[]

TheSith Empire was a totalitarian andxenophobic regime ruled by the reclusiveSith Emperor and run by the twelveDark Lords of the executiveDark Council. In3681 BBY, the Empire's rulers led their massivemilitary force and legions of inferiorSith Lords into a war against theGalactic Republic that would last for twenty-eightyears. ThisGreat Galactic Warbegan in theTingel Arm of theOuter Rim Territories and saw many early victories for theSith, in spite of theEmperor's reluctance to form alliances and the general Imperial proclivity to only trustHumans and theirPureblooded Sith contemporaries.^[3]

Despite the early success, the Empire faced a threat from within in the form of the young and ambitious SithLord,Darth Vich. Around 3,681 BBY, Vich took note of theplanetRattatak^[3] in theTrilon sector.^[4] A new addition to thegalactic community, the world's fierce and hardyRattataki people had only recently begun to leave the perpetual wars of theirhomeworld to seek violent glory elsewhere. Vich, intending to seize power from the Dark Council, saw the Rattataki as his opportunity to topple the standing Imperial regime.^[5]

The insurrection[]

Disregarding a millennium of xenophobic Imperial tradition, the young Vich traveled to Rattatak and recruited hundreds of tribes of thealiens into hispersonal army by promising them glory in battle against the Republic in the Great Galactic War.^[3] Vich led them away from their world and identified dozens of them asForce-sensitive; while most of the aliens became dangerous and impressivewarriors for his cause, Vichtrained theForce-talented few in thedark side of the Force asacolytes andapprentices. Although his resources and ambition were both formidable, Vich's attempt at ascendency was quashed by the Dark Council.^[5] Forces under the control of the Dark Lordskilled Vich during the insurrection, and the deceased Sith Lord'sarmy was swiftly disbanded.^[3] Rumor later held that it was Vich's own Rattataki acolytes who betrayed him to the Dark Council, thus ensuring his downfall.^[5]

Aftermath[]

Following the insurrection, the Dark Council sentenced many of the Rattataki warriors to death andenslaved the others. The Council again turned its focus to the Great Galactic War, but the insurrection had nevertheless managed to attract the Empire's attention—the strongest of the enslaved Rattataki were soon taken out of the slave labor pools and thrust into lessons at theSith academy onKorriban to complete the training thatDarth Vich had begun. Others resisted the Empire's presence on their homeworld, either by fleeing Rattatak and joining fringe enterprises or by remaining on the planet to fight the occupiers and gain battle glory.^[3]

The Great Galactic War dragged on for nearly three moredecades and ultimately culminated in a Sith victory.^[3] During theCold War that immediately followed the Great War, word of Vich's surviving Rattataki Sith acolytes persisted only as rumor.^[5] Although the Dark Council would continue to face infrequent challenges from upstart Sith Lords like Darth Vich, these secessionists, revolutionaries, and usurpers like LordTytonus^[6] and DarthsIkoral^[7] andMalgus were all foiled and killed, allowing the Council to continue its rule.^[8]

Behind the scenes[]

Darth Vich's insurrection was introduced toStar Warscanon as background lore for the online role-playingvideo gameStar Wars: The Old Republic. The event was first mentioned in the Rattataki entry onThe Holonet, an online databank containing information about characters and events inThe Old Republic. The entry was first posted in2011 but was deprecated along with several others after the website's update prior to the game'sDecember release later that year.^[5]

Sources[]

• Rattataki onThe Old Republic Holonet(original site is defunct)(First mentioned)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia

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