Emperor ' s Voice ( Sith Empire ) The Emperor ' s Voice , formally addressed as the Voice of the Emperor by other Sith , was a position within the reconstituted Sith Empire that was held by the Sith Emperor ' s current host body . First created after a failed assassination attempt in 3950 BBY , the Voice allowed the Emperor to protect his true form as a Force entity while still delivering commands to his servants and carrying out his will . The Emperor utilized many Voices of different species , genders , and ages throughout his lifetime , transferring his consciousness and powers from body to body as his hosts succumbed to the ravaging effects of the dark side . As the Galactic War ignited between the Empire and the Galactic Republic in 3642 BBY , the Dark Council or Darth Baras began a coup years in the making as he attempted to take the place of the Voice and thereby become the supreme authority within the Empire . Trapping the true Voice on the planet of Voss with the aid of the dark entity Sel - Makor , Baras secured his power base and proclaimed himself to be the Voice of the Emperor before the Dark Council . However , Baras ' former apprentice and the newly - appointed Emperor ' s Wrath killed the true Voice in order to free the Emperor ' s essence and struck down Baras for his transgression . The Emperor ' s next Voice would fall in battle with the prodigal Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython , forcing the Emperor ' s essence into hiding and abolishing the post of Emperor ' s Voice while his essence healed . While not a true Voice in terms of its place in the Sith Empire , the body of the Human Valkorion served as the Emperor ' s second body for centuries , ruling over the Eternal Empire of the planet Zakuul even as he controlled the Sith Empire through his Voice . Role and powers . The position of Emperor ' s Voice was more than a simple title — through Sith magic and the long - lost technique of transfer essence , the Sith Emperor transferred his consciousness and life force into a host body , allowing him to interact with the world as more than just his true state as a being of pure Force energy . The host ' s mind was completely suppressed , crushed beneath the weight of the Emperor ' s mind , and their body literally became the Sith ' s own . The process also conferred the Emperor ' s immense strength in the Force upon the Voice , though his abilities could be bolstered by the host ' s own powers — the Emperor utilized a Voss Mystic as his Voice during the Cold War in order to take advantage of the Voss ' prophetic abilities . When the host Voice died , typically from the side - effects of the Emperor ' s immense strength in the dark side , the Emperor ' s essence was released from the body and returned to the care of his Hand — the twelve Servant s who carried out their master ' s will across the galaxy . Servant Two , a member of the Emperor ' s Hand , was mentally linked to the Emperor more so than all of his other agents , and as a result , the prophetic Servant was always aware of the Voice ' s presence and location even when the Emperor was dormant . Upon receiving their master ' s essence , the Hand would procure a new Voice for the Emperor and aid him in establishing control of the host body . Unbeknownst to all but the Hand , Vitiate — as the Sith Emperor was once again known as after splitting with the Sith Empire near the end of his life — also had a second host body that he controlled simultaneously with the Voice : the Human Valkorion , whose form he used to rule the Eternal Empire of the planet Zakuul for centuries . History . The Emperor created his first Voice around 3950 BBY , after a failed attack by the Jedi Master Revan and his allies brought the Emperor ' s body within arms ' reach of harm . The Emperor took Revan captive and imprisoned him , but the Emperor — who feared only death — was terrified by the close brush with death . As a result , the Empire ' s supreme ruler delved into further studies of the dark side in order to preserve his physical form — a body that had been rendered ageless but not invulnerable by the dark ritual the Emperor had performed over a thousand years earlier . Discovering how to transfer his consciousness and powers into the bodies of others , he took his first host and named the individual the Voice of the Emperor — the literal embodiment of the Emperor ' s absolute will and his mouthpiece to the Dark Council . The Dark Council soon learned that the various individuals who would appear throughout the next three centuries were in fact the Emperor ' s host bodies , and therefore obeyed the Voice ' s commands the same as they would the Emperor himself . Serving as the focal point of the Emperor ' s energies , the Voice allowed his consciousness to reach out across the galaxy to direct his agents and observe his enemies . Among the beings that the Emperor used were a young female Human and an elderly Sith pureblood , and during the early years of the Great Galactic War with the Galactic Republic , the position of Voice was filled by a male Human . The Dark Council and the rest of the Sith Empire were unaware , however , that the Voice was not the only host of their ruler — growing tired of the galaxy and the Sith teachings that limited him , the Emperor established a new kingdom — an Eternal Empire based on the planet Zakuul in Wild Space — and ruled over it through a host body named Valkorion . Unlike the Voices , the Emperor ensured that the Valkorion body survived for centuries , sparing it the ravaging effects of the dark side . The Emperor split his consciousness and focus between the two Empires , but gradually abandoned the Sith Empire as time went on and invested more of his attentions to Zakuul . Several years before 3641 BBY , not long after the Treaty of Coruscant ended the war in 3653 BBY , the planet of Voss was discovered by the Empire , and the Emperor was intrigued by the prophetic abilities of the native species . Therefore , he instigated an attack on the planet by Imperial forces while his Hand kidnapped a male Voss Mystic from the surface . The Emperor would experiment with the Voss ' powers over the next decade , using the abilities of his host and those of a captive Revan to gaze into the future as he made preparations to repeat on a galactic scale the ritual that had given him immortality . However , the Dark Councilor Darth Baras manipulated the Emperor throughout the Cold War , feeding him information on the mysterious dark side entity known as Sel - Makor that resided in the Sith complex called the Dark Heart on Voss . Finally , in 3641 BBY , the Emperor decided to investigate Sel - Makor in the event that the entity could be useful to his ongoing plans . However , when the Voice entered the Ancient Halls of the Dark Heart , the Emperor found that he could not leave — the Ancient Halls were a place that no Voss could ever exit , just as Baras had planned . Before the Emperor could reach out to his Hand and explain Baras ' betrayal , Sel - Makor seized control of the Voice and began to battle the Emperor for control of both his host and the Sith ' s own powers in the Force . With the true Voice out of the way , Baras began his attempt to proclaim himself the Voice , betraying his apprentice in the process . However , acting on the fragments of instructions that the Emperor was able to send them during his struggle , the Hand appointed Baras ' apprentice the newest Emperor ' s Wrath and unleashed the Sith Warrior upon Baras ' allies . The Wrath eventually located the true Voice on Voss , and after defeating it in battle when Sel - Makor seized control of the body , the Wrath was ordered to kill the Voss host in order to free the Emperor ' s essence . With the death of his host , the Emperor ' s essence was able to return to his Hand and acquire a Human male as his new host . This Voice would ultimately fall in battle with the Emperor ' s enemy , the Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython , when the Jedi confronted the Sith ruler in the depths of the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas . Despite all of the Emperor ' s power , the Knight was still able to strike him down and kill the Voice , grievously wounding the Emperor ' s essence with the power of the light side . Forced from their host , the Emperor ' s energies were left without an anchor and fell into a deep slumber at the shock of the blow . The injury also affected his control over his Valkorion body ; Valkorion ' s power faltered , causing the mental blocks he had placed within the mind of his daughter Vaylin to lapse . The Emperor ' s incorporeal essence took shelter in the dark side energies of the moon Yavin 4 , and when the Sith Empire turned on their former ruler upon discovering his plans to destroy the galaxy , the position of Voice was abandoned entirely — now known as Vitiate , the former Emperor did not take a new host and instead ravaged the planet Ziost before consolidating himself entirely in the Valkorion host body . Valkorion was slain shortly afterward , and Vitiate was forced to bond himself to the figure known as the Outlander , though he sought to ally with the Outlander and did not make his new host into a true Voice . Behind the scenes . The Emperor ' s Voice was first mentioned in the 2011 novel " " by the Dark Councilor Darth Nyriss along with the Emperor ' s Hand and the Imperial Guard . However , the 2012 reference guide " " directly contradicted this statement , as it established that the Emperor created his first Voice " after " Revan attacked the Emperor in 3950 BBY , meaning that the position did not exist when Nyriss mentioned them to Lord Scourge in 3954 BBY . The position of Voice of the Emperor is a major plot point in Act III of the Sith Warrior class in the " " , released by BioWare and LucasArts in 2011 , where the Emperor is voiced by Doug Bradley . The player ' s master , Darth Baras , betrays his apprentice at the beginning of Act III as he attempts to proclaim himself Voice , and the Emperor ' s Hand appoints the player as the new Emperor ' s Wrath . After eliminating Baras ' sister Darth Ekkage on Belsavis , the player searches for and finally locates the true Voice on Voss , which they must battle when Sel - Makor takes control of the body . After defeating Sel - Makor , the Wrath kills the Voice at the Emperor ' s command , freeing his essence and allowing him to take on a new Voice — the Human male that Jedi Knight players encounters in " Doomsday , " their Act III finale . The Emperor ' s Voice is ultimately killed by the Jedi Knight during their battle , though it is only revealed later in a message to the Emperor ' s Wrath that the Emperor ' s essence did in fact survive . Servant One of the Emperor ' s Hand tells to Sith Warrior players that the Emperor returned to his true body and entered into a deep slumber in order to heal from the damage inflicted by the Knight during their fight , thereby eliminating the need for a Voice at that time . However , the later expansions " " and " " establish that Vitiate had in fact not restrained himself to a single host , and no longer used his original body . The player character of the expansions , the Outlander , unintentionally becomes a pseudo - Voice after the death of Valkorion , the Voice that Vitiate used to rule over the Eternal Empire of Zakuul .