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Vitiate
Valkorion
The Sith Emperor
Biographical information
Homeworld
Medriaas[1]
Born
5113 BBY,[2] Medriaas[1]
Died
Multiple host body deaths, 3950[2] c. 3640 BBY[3] (Transferred consciousness)[
4]
3637 BBY,[5] Zakuul (Valkorion's physical body)[6]
3630 BBY,[7] Zakuul (final death)[8][9]
Physical description
Species
Sith (Original body)[1][10]
Various (Host bodies)[4]
Force entity[11]
Gender
Male (Original body and consciousness)[1]
Hair color
None (Original body)[1]
Various (Host bodies)[4]
Eye color
Black (Original body)[1]
Various (Host bodies)[4]
Skin color
Red (Original body)[10]
Various (Host bodies)[4]
Chronological and political information
Era(s)
Old Republic era[12]
Affiliation(s)
Old Sith Empire[12]
Reconstituted Sith Empire[1]
Sith Emperor's power base[2]
Eternal Empire[6]
Apprentices
Exal Kressh[12]
[Source]
 "My life spans millennia. Legions have risen to test me. [ ] My ascendance is
inevitable. A day, a year, a millennium it matters not. I hold the patience of sto
ne and the will of stars. Your striving is insignificant. Let your death be the
same."
?The Sith Emperor[src]
Vitiate, known for the vast majority of his life as simply the Sith Emperor and
known to his Eternal Empire as Valkorion, was a Dark Lord of the Sith who recons
tituted the Sith Empire after its destruction in the Great Hyperspace War and we
nt on to rule it for over 1300 years. To the people of the Eternal Empire over w
hich he ruled in his later life, he was His Glorious Majesty, Slayer of Izax, Im
mortal Master and Protector of Zakuul their Immortal Emperor. Born in 5113 BBY as
Tenebrae, the illegitimate Sith son of Lord Dramath of Medriaas and a poor farm
woman, the child who eventually became the Emperor killed his own father at the
age of ten and was granted the title of Lord Vitiate by the then Dark Lord Marka R
agnos three years later. Vitiate renamed his world Nathema and ruled it for the
next century, content to exclude himself from Sith power struggles and even the
Great Hyperspace War when the Galactic Republic destroyed the Empire in 5000 BBY
. Summoning the remaining Sith Lords to Nathema with the promise of salvation fr
om the Jedi, Vitiate turned on his fellows and used their strength to perform a
ritual that made him immortal, at the expense of every living thing on Nathema.
Shedding his identity as Lord Vitiate, the self-proclaimed Sith Emperor led the
scattered survivors of the Empire on a twenty-year odyssey into the Unknown Regi
ons, where he established a new Sith Empire on the lost colony world of Dromund
Kaas. He delved deep into the mysteries of the dark side of the Force as his peo
ple built a new civilization and expanded the Empire's domain over the next thou
sand years. His life prolonged through the power of the ritual, the Emperor soug
ht a way to repeat the same feat of Sith magic on a galactic scale. However, doi
ng so required a war war that would destroy civilizations and fuel his power so th
at he could consume everything in the galaxy and become like a god. To that end,
the Emperor arranged for the Mandalorian warrior culture to attack the Republic
, and he turned the powerful Jedi Knights Revan and Malak to the dark side and s
et them upon the Republic after the Mandalorians were defeated. Yet a redeemed R
evan returned to challenge the Emperor once more, and Revan's near-success and s
ubsequent capture led the Emperor to pursue further safeguards against his death
. Now truly an entity of pure Force energy, he ensured his survival through the
transference of his consciousness between host bodies known as Emperor's Voices,
and the Emperor launched his own war on the Republic almost three centuries lat
er.
During the course of the war, the Emperor's efforts to create the extensions of
his will known as the Children of the Emperor were nearly derailed by his traito
rous apprentice Exal Kressh, but Kressh was eliminated before she could do lasti
ng harm to her Sith Master's plans. As the war neared the end of its third decad
e, the captive Revan was able to mentally influence the Emperor to sue for peace
with the Republic, and the resultant Treaty of Coruscant saw the Sith leader re
turn control of the Empire to the ruling Dark Council and retreat into seclusion
in order to prepare his ritual. A powerful young Jedi who would become known as
the Hero of Tython drew the Emperor's attention during the subsequent Cold War,
on account of the visions that centered around the Jedi Knight, but the Emperor
easily crushed the Jedi's will and turned the Knight to the dark side along wit
h the rest of a strike team sent to capture the Sith ruler. The Knight broke fre
e of the Emperor's control months later with the help of the immortal Lord Scour
ge, the Emperor's personal executioner or Wrath, but the Emperor had already set
his plans in motion as the galaxy spiraled into renewed war.
As the Hero raced to stop the Emperor's agents from starting the ritual, the Emp
eror dealt with the machinations of the traitorous Sith Darth Baras and returned
to Dromund Kaas, to activate his Children across the galaxy and prepare for a f
inal confrontation with the Knight. While a Republic fleet invaded Dromund Kaas,
the Emperor fought the Hero and the astromech droid T7-O1 in a climactic battle
that ended with the Emperor's defeat. The loss of his Voice drove the Emperor i
nto a deep slumber while the galaxy escalated further into war, prompting the Si
th Lord Darth Malgus to try to seize the throne of the Empire. A returned Revan
attempted to restore the Emperor to a physical form in order to kill him once an
d for all, and though the mad Force-user was stopped by an Empire and Republic u
nited in fear of the threat a returned Emperor posed, the Emperor's essence was
able to regain his strength by feeding off the deaths and chaos that resulted fr
om the coalition's battle against Revan's forces on the moon Yavin 4. Now known
simply as Vitiate by the Empire he once ruled, the former Emperor took control o
f the planet Ziost, possessing the world's population and bringing about a horri
fic cataclysm there.
However, Vitiate disappeared in the aftermath of the Ziost massacre, only to rea
ppear as Valkorion, the leader of a hidden Eternal Empire in Wild Space. Unbekno
wnst to the rest of the galaxy, Vitiate had spent the last several centuries for
ging a new society on the planet Zakuul as his host body Valkorion, and even had
three children, Arcann, Thexan, and Vaylin. After Valkorion's sons raided the l
arger galaxy and drew the attention of the Republic and the Empire, Valkorion wa
s struck down in a confrontation with his treacherous son Arcann and a famous wa
rrior known as the Outlander. Releasing his hold on his Human form, Valkorion em
bedded his energy and consciousness within the Outlander's mind, leading Arcann
to freeze the Outlander in carbonite for five years. The Outlander was eventuall
y freed and began to lead a revolution against the Eternal Empire and now-Empero
r Arcann's domination of the galaxy, and Valkorion counseled the Outlander and o
ffered to share his immense power with his new host as the Outlander's Alliance
sought to topple Valkorion's son from the Eternal Throne. Not long afterwards, t
he former Sith Emperor died a final death at the hands of the Outlander and his
own family, though his powers and accomplishments were still remembered millenni
a later.
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