Hate, Anger, Vengeance...these are all vessels of the Dark Side. Look past the thin veil of mortality. Embrace the blackness of eternity. Let the Dark Side engulph your soul. The Force is everlasting. Devour it. Little is known of Nihilus's true beginnings, other than the fact that he was a survivor of the Mandalorian Wars, and might have been at one point a prisoner of the Mandalorians. After the war he was found by Darth Traya to be Force-sensitive, and she began training him in the ways of the Sith at the Trayus Academy on Malachor V. After his true powers and potential were realized, Nihilus, along with fellow Sith student Darth Sion, plotted and turned against their dark mistress. They cast Traya down, stripped her of her power, and expelled her from the Sith Order. Their reason for doing this was because Traya insisted on fighting a "Shadow war" against the Jedi. Nihilus and Sion preferred a direct, much less subtle approach. Nihilus chose to destroy the Force-sensitive planet of Katarr (and much of the remaining Jedi Order with it); Sion chose to lead his sect of Assassins in destroying the remaining Jedi.Darth Nihilus ravaged and consumed whole worlds to feed his insatiable appetite for power. This was conducted from the bridge of his flagship, the Ravager. Nihilus's powers were so all-consuming that all those who came into contact with the Sith Lord became slaves, mindless servants to his will, as seen in the crew of the Ravager.One such servant of Nihilus was Visas Marr, a Miraluka female from Katarr, a planet consumed and destroyed by Nihilus. The Sith Lord sent Visas on a mission to find and bring the last of the Jedi before him, so that he could consume his power and essence. But this would be the mighty Sith Lord's undoing - the Jedi Exile broke her from Nihilus's bonds after she boarded his ship, and she subsequently turned against her former master. Along with the Exile and Mandalore, she defeated him on board the bridge of the Ravager. The Exile, with the choice to sacrifice Visas, killed the Sith Lord. After his death, his body dissolved in an aura of dark side energies.What happened to Nihilus after his body dissolved is unknown. Whether he is truly gone shall remain a mystery. Interestingly, his true identity is not revealed even when Visas looked at his face after his defeat, leaving questions about whether his previous personality may have been anyone of consequence. Visas, being able to see the world solely through the Force, merely said when she looked upon him that she saw a thousand graveyard planets and an eternity of hate and hunger.Like most of the Sith Lords, Darth Nihilus's name has some meaning (nihil is Latin for nothing). He has no loyalties to anyone but himself, and will consume both Sith and Jedi with his hunger, which notes that his name fits his current personality quite well.It should be noted that Nihilius never speaks a clear word, he simply emits patterns of sounds. Though what Nihilus is saying is never revealed, it seems Visas can understand him and talk to him in Basic.Name origin
The name could be derived from the word "nihilism", or merely from Latin "nihil", meaning "nothing" - very appropriate to Nihilus's mysterious persona.
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Form II: Makashi. After Form I's proliferation as a saber combat technique, Form II or "Way of the Ysalamiri," came about as a means of lightsaber-to-lightsaber combat. It is described as being very elegant, powerful, and requiring extreme precision. The blade manipulation required for this form is very refined and requires much focus, but the results are extremely powerful.Count Dooku, from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, has mastered Form II to the highest degree, fighting with the precision built into the ancient technique.
Form II: Makashi
81%
Form V: Shien
70%
Form VII: Juyo/ Vaapaad
50%
Form III: Soresu
42%
Form VI: Niman
25%
Form IV: Ataru
6%
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The Ravager was a ship in the service of the Old Republic during the Mandalorian Wars. One of a fleet of Republic capital ships resembling the later Star Destroyers, the Ravager left the Republic along with most of its brethren at Malachor V. Darth Nihilus took the ship from the graveyard in orbit around the planet, making it his personal flagship. Technically unspaceworthy, the Ravager was held together by Nihilus' will, making it comparable to the ancient tales of ghost ships held on many worlds. Its hull was blasted open in several places and shielded only by its magnetic field.
The silent bridge of the Ravager
