Darth Malak
Darth Malak is a male video game character who features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Alek was a male Force-sensitive human born a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away where he was an inhabitant of the planet Quelii. He and his mentor and best friend, Revan, were Jedi that were connected with the Order's enclave on Dantooine. While they were there, they discovered a Star Map that had been left on the planet by the Rakata, a species that had ruled the galaxy in the distant past. When the Mandalorian Wars began and Outer Rim planets began to fall, Revan defied the Jedi Council and insisted on defending the galaxy alongside the Old Republic starfleet. The first to follow him was Alek, against the wishes of his own master. Together they rallied many young Jedi and began destroying the Mandalorians in battle after battle, finally defeating the mercenary leader, Mandalore the Ultimate, above Malachor V, a long forgotten Sith world. The duo took their fleet, however, and passed beyond known space, insisting that they had to destroy the remnants of the Mandalorian armada. While beyond the Rim, they found the Star Forge, an ancient marvel of Rakatan engineering. Corrupted by the dark side energies present on Malachor and the power by the Star Maps and Star Forge, Alek and Revan fell to the dark side and founded a new Sith Empire out of the Jedi and Republic forces who still followed them. Revan then became Darth Revan, Dark Lord of the Sith, and Alek rechristened himself Darth Malak. However, it is hinted in the sequel that the Revan was not, in fact, corrupted, but chose the dark side merely to conquer, and ultimately strengthen the Republic against some unknown threat.
During their mission in the Unknown Regions, Revan and Malak encountered the Sith Empire on the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas, and learned of the Dark Lord of the Sith known only as the Sith Emperor that led it. While there, the two Jedi posed as mercenaries for months, attempting to learn anything and everything about the Emperor. They found out that the Emperor was raising an army to again invade the Republic, and eventually located a member of the Imperial Guard who agreed to sneak them into the Imperial Citadel; however they were unaware of the Imperial Guard's bond to the Emperor's will and were instead led into a trap. Revan and Malak attempted to fight the Emperor but were overwhelmed by his power. He broke their will, twisted their minds and granted them the "Darth" title and sent them back to act as the vanguard of his invasion and report back when all resistance was crushed. Their mission was to recover the Rakatan Star Maps and locate the Star Forge. He intended to use the Star Forge to accelerate the construction of his Sith armada, which would enable the Sith to defeat the Jedi and the Republic centuries ahead of schedule. However, the Emperor underestimated the power and strength of their will and minds. Revan and Malak believed that they were acting of their own accord and, in doing so, were able to block their memories of the Sith and the Emperor. Revan and Malak located three additional Star Maps on the desert world Tatooine, the Selkath's oceanic homeworld Manaan, and the ancient Sith tombworld Korriban.
While Malak served Revan loyally for a time, eventually, he began to chafe under Revan's command and sought to claim the title of Dark Lord for himself. The moment came when a Republic strike team, led by Jedi Bastila Shan, staged an assault on Revan's flagship. Malak wanting to seize the command of the Sith Empire, at last had the perfect plan to do it. He opened fire towards the command deck of Revan's Flagship knocking out Revan and giving the Jedi the chance to take him back to Dantooine and basically rewire his mind with the force, while Malak believed that he had taken his old mentor's place as the Dark Lord of the Sith. While the war against the Republic was going very well, he feared Bastila's gift of Battle Meditation, a rare Force power that enabled her to strengthen the Republic forces' resolve and coordinate their fighting effort while sapping the will of their enemies, making her a threat to the entire Sith war effort. Malak expended tremendous resources in an attempt to locate her. Malak nearly succeeded once when he blockaded the planet Taris. Although he had the planet destroyed to prevent Bastila's escape, she nonetheless was able to return unharmed to Dantooine accompanied by her rescuers. Among these heroes were two citizens of Taris, Mission Vao and Zaalbar; Republic pilot Carth Onasi; the utility droid T3-M4; Canderous Ordo; and Revan himself, his mind reprogrammed as a crewmember from the Republic cruiser Endar Spire. Bastila and her companions left Dantooine in search of the source of Malak's power. While on their search, Bastila was captured by Malak. Malak corrupted Bastila to the dark side of the Force and made her his apprentice.
The source of this power was the subject of the Star Map that Malak and Revan had discovered on Dantooine long ago: the Star Forge. The Star Forge was an enormous space station and battle dreadnaught constructed by the Infinite Empire of the Rakata. The Rakata were a technologically advanced but savage species who extended their power throughout the galaxy by means of conquest. The Star Forge was constructed above one of the poles of their home star. There, the Star Forge fed on the star's energetic hydrogen and the dark side of the Force to produce an unending supply of starfighters, capital ships, and war droids for the Rakata prior to their collapse, and now for the Sith. The heroes on the quest for the Star Forge called in the Republic fleet to attack the Sith. For a while, it looked as if Malak would be able to destroy his foes in a single, glorious day. Fate – or the Force – handed Malak a stunning defeat, however, and it would be he who would die when his former master; and old friend, Revan, returned. During the battle, his old master boarded the giant machine in the Ebon Hawk, defeated an attack force of Forge droids, slew nearly the entire pool of Malak's Dark Jedi and Sith apprentices, redeemed Bastila, and finally killed his old friend in single combat. Malak tried to blame Revan for his fate, but then admitted that, in the end, the only person he had to blame was himself. Humbled by that knowledge, still bested by Revan despite all his clever plans and conquests, Malak, realizing that nothing he had ever done or could ever do could compare to the things done by his former master, at last acknowledged his inferiority, and his final words were the truest he had ever spoken: "And in the end, as the darkness takes me, I am nothing". Afterwards, Malak came to die whilst Revan helped stop the Star Forg thus saveing the Republic.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Darth Malak is pale-skinned human with a bald head adorned with a durasteel plate that covers his face from below the nose. The prosthetic was made necessary by an injury that completely severed his lower jaw.
Powers and abilities
During his time as a Jedi, Malak was trained as a Jedi Guardian, focusing on lightsaber combat and physical aspects of the Force. Eventually, Darth Malak came to be counted among the skilled swordsmen of his time. In combat, he fought in a one-handed, aggressive style. As a Jedi, Malak used the Force as a means of protection and healing.
Darth Malak is a master swordsman and an adept Force-user, excelling particularly in such dark side skills as Force lightning, life drain, and Force choke. He also excelled in lightsaber throw and Force stasis. Darth Malak used an improved lightsaber that produced a longer blade, if compared to the standard sabers. The hilt was identical to that of a shoto.
During his later reign as a Sith Lord, Malak employed the Force to choke more than one person at a time. Before his final duel with Revan, Malak demonstrated this ability to the former Sith Lord, simultaneously choking two of the Jedi that he had captured. Immediately after, the Dark Lord exemplified his skills by throwing and plunging his lightsaber into the chest of one of the captured Jedi. Malak's strength with the Force enabled him to create a whirlwind of Force energy that would encircle his victim, and he also possessed the ability to create a stasis field with the Force that he used to freeze his enemies in place. He was proficient in using the Force to augment his speed and to suppress the abilities of another Force user. Malak was able to render himself virtually invulnerable to most Force powers for a limited amount of time, and was additionally capable of leaping large distances in order to reach his enemy.
Notes
- Darth Malak was created by BioWare where he first appeared in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003) that was part of the Star Wars Legends continuity.
Appearances
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: (2003)
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