Sarasu Taalon Sarasu Taalon was a male Keshiri High Lord of the Lost Tribe of Sith around the time following the Second Galactic Civil War . A native of the planet of Kesh , he sat on the Lost Tribe ' s Circle of Lords by 43 . 5 ABY . In 44 ABY , Taalon led a group of eleven capital class ChaseMaster frigates , along with his flagship , the " Black Wave " , to retrieve the Sith apprentice Vestara Khai and a group of dark side Nightsisters from Dathomir . He then entered into a feigned alliance with Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker to confront the dark side being in the Maw named Abeloth . The Sith intended to betray the Jedi and force Abeloth to join them , but the mission failed , as Skywalker survived the betrayal and apparently killed Abeloth . The alliance was repaired afterward , although they soon discovered that Abeloth had not actually died . Taalon was later killed by Vestara Khai after beginning to transform into an Abeloth - like being . As the Sith were unaware of the transformation , they subsequently saw Khai as a traitor . Biography . Early life . The male Keshiri Sarasu Taalon hailed from the remote planet Kesh . A Force - sensitive , Taalon joined the Lost Tribe of Sith on Kesh — descendants of a group of Sith that had been isolated on the world for millennia . By the time following the Second Galactic Civil War , Taalon had become a High Lord , earning him a seat on the Tribe ' s ruling Circle of Lords . In 41 ABY , the Sith Meditation Sphere Ship arrived on Kesh and informed the Sith there of the galaxy ' s current state — the Sith had been defeated and the Jedi were growing in number and power . Ship soon after learned of an s18 light freighter en route from the planet Eriadu and ordered for five Sith to accompany it in attacking the freighter . Taalon was chosen , alongside Lady Olaris Rhea , Rhea ' s apprentice Vestara Khai , and the Sith Ivaar Workan and Ruku Myal . Ship took the Sith offworld and attacked the freighter , forcing it to land . The Sith then embarked on a hunt for the surviving crew , breaking off into two groups — Taalon and Rhea in one , and Khai , Workan , and Myal in the other . Khai , Myal , and Workan soon killed two of the crew members , while Taalon and Rhea cornered the other four . The Sith were successful in their hunt , and Taalon called them back to the freighter to take inventory . Ship continued to take members of the Tribe offworld , allowing them to leave Kesh for the first time in thousands of years and helping them form a new armada from the vessels they captured . After two years , the Tribe ' s armada numbered over two dozen ships . However , the Meditation Sphere deserted the Tribe soon after , and the Sith sent a strike team , commanded by Rhea , to recover Ship and kill Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker . The Tribe on Kesh eventually received a hypercomm message from Vestara Khai , learning from her that the strike team had been defeated during the ambush of Skywalker . She also informed them of Abeloth — a dark side entity who had managed to trick the strike team and hold them for a time on her planet in the Maw , and who was also causing a psychosis among various Force - sensitives throughout the galaxy . Taalon was then put in command of a fleet of elven ChaseMaster frigates , including his flagship , the " Black Wave " , and dispatched to recover Khai and confront Luke Skywalker and his son , Ben . The Sith planned to feign an alliance with the Jedi with the pretense of wanting to eliminate Abeloth , while they actually intended to force Abeloth to serve the Tribe and then kill the Skywalkers . Alliance with the Jedi . Upon arriving in orbit around Dathomir , where Khai had found refuge among the Raining Leaves Clan of Dathomiri Witches , a convoy led by Lord Viun Gaalan landed to retrieve Khai and capture a group of dark side - wielding Nightsisters . The Nightsisters were taken to Taalon ' s fleet in orbit , but Gaalan was attacked by the Skywalkers and forced to flee without Khai . Khai was captured by the Jedi and taken aboard their ship , the " Jade Shadow " . As the Jedi left Dathomir , however , they were confronted by Taalon and his fleet of ChaseMasters . Taalon ordered the Jedi to enter a parking orbit , and , realizing that they were completely outmatched , the Skywalkers complied . To the Jedi ' s surprise , Taalon proposed that they form an alliance for a mission to destroy Abeloth , lying that she was using her powers to influence the Tribe ' s apprentices as she was with the Jedi Order ' s Jedi Knights . The Jedi were dubious at first , but they agreed to the proposal under the circumstances that Khai remained aboard the " Jade Shadow " . Luke Skywalker also suggested that they enlist the assistance of his friend , Lando Calrissian , in navigation of the Maw , and Taalon agreed . The allied forces then stopped at the planet Klatooine to wait for Calrissian to arrive with his asteroid tug , the " Rockhound " . While on Klatooine , Taalon ' s second - in - command , Leeha Faal , learned of the Fountain of the Ancients , a sacred and beautiful fountain of wintrium in the Derelkoos Desert on Klatooine . Taalon was intrigued by the fountain , and was overcome with a desire for it . The Jedi discovered that the Sith were planning to betray them — learning that what Taalon had said about the Tribe ' s apprentices was a lie — and Skywalker suggested that they move the fleet to await Calrissian just outside the Maw . Taalon agreed , and convinced the Jedi to allow him to leave two frigates behind on Klatooine in case any problems arose . Taalon then elevated Faal to Captain of the " Winged Dagger " , demoting its previous captain , Syndor , to her second - in - command , and ordered her to retrieve wintrium samples from the Fountain . She passed on her orders to Vyn Holpur , captain of the other ChaseMaster that remained on Klatooine , the " Starstalker " , and he carried out the raid after Taalon and the rest of the fleet left the system . The raid was successful , although the Sith were caught and Holpur and his crew were condemned to death . Faal and her crew escaped the same fate by claiming that Holpur had acted of his own accord , and they returned to Taalon and the fleet outside the Maw alongside Calrissian and Jedi Knight Jaina Solo . Skywalker convinced Taalon to make a brief stop at Sinkhole Station — a space station in the Maw where the Skywalkers had encountered Abeloth , and where the Tribe ' s strike team had attacked the Jedi — but they found the station to be completely destroyed . The allied forces then traveled straight to Abeloth ' s planet . Abeloth ' s planet . Upon their arrival there , Skywalker suggested that they walk beyond shadows — a realm of the Force that consisted of locations corresponding to real locations on Abeloth ' s world — in order to locate Abeloth . Despite Khai ' s warnings against it , Taalon agreed to the plan , bringing with him Faal and Khai ' s father , the Sith Saber Gavar Khai . Once beyond shadows , they arrived at the Lake of Apparitions ; Luke Skywalker warned the Sith of the danger of stepping off the path , but Faal was dragged into the fatal Depths of Eternity to her death nonetheless , to Taalon ' s great distress . Soon afterward , after speaking with his deceased wife , Mara Jade , Skywalker decided that they needed to return to the real world instantly . Immediately after leaving the realm , they found that Vestara Khai had let the Skywalkers ' friend , Dyon Stadd — a Force - sensitive who had fallen under Abeloth ' s influence — escape from his restraints aboard the " Jade Shadow " , so that they could follow him to Abeloth . Taalon chose twenty - one other Sith , including the Khais , to join the Skywalkers in the search for Abeloth . They found Stadd in a cave in a volcano where the strike team sent to recover Ship had first encountered Abeloth . He reported that Abeloth had attempted to consume his life energy , but had fled upon sensing the Sith and Jedi . Luke Skywalker led the allies down a tunnel at the back of the cave , leading them out to a courtyard . Abeloth showed herself and attempted to trick Skywalker into believing that she was actually his long - lost lover , Callista Ming , but Skywalker deduced that she had merely consumed Ming , just as she had attempted to do with Stadd . While the two conversed , the Sith began weaving a control web — a Force power they had learned from the captured Nightsisters — over the courtyard . Abeloth prepared to attack Skywalker when he refused to join her , and Taalon , the Skywalkers , and the Khais charged the entity . Abeloth incapacitated Vestara Khai , and Ben Skywalker quickly left the action to tend to her . Taalon , Luke Skywalker , and Gavar Khai were all held at bay by Abeloth ' s Force lightning and telekinetic powers . She then disappeared , leaving her assailants accidentally attacking each other for a moment , before she reappeared at the far end of the courtyard . Taalon , Khai , Skywalker , and one other Sith resumed the attack , beginning to wear her down . Khai suddenly feinted a strike at Abeloth before redirecting it at Skywalker , beginning the execution of the Sith betrayal as the rest of the Sith lowered the control web onto Abeloth . Skywalker deflected Khai ' s blow and turned to continue dueling Abeloth while his son returned to confront the Sith Saber . Taalon and the Sith continued trying to capture Abeloth , but despite their overwhelming numbers , Luke Skywalker gained the upper hand in the battle . Abeloth finally repulsed all of her assailants with a giant telekinetic blast and fled the courtyard . The Jedi and Sith quickly recovered and followed her back up the tunnel to the cave , where Skywalker attacked and apparently killed her . Pool of Knowledge . Taalon suggested that they should examine Abeloth ' s body to learn more about her , and the Sith and Jedi tentatively repaired their alliance in order to investigate more into Abeloth . While searching ancient ruins on the planet , Taalon and Luke Skywalker encountered the Font of Power , and the High Lord heard voices coming from the Font . Taalon also recognized the symbols on the ruins as those affiliated with the Destructors , a race in Keshiri mythology who were said to wipe out galactic civilization every few eons . Soon afterward , the allies witnessed Abeloth ' s dead body morph into that of Dyon Stadd , and realized that she had somehow switched bodies with him before Luke had killed her . Following a three - hour standoff , the Jedi convinced the Sith to accompany them back to their ships , where they had left Abeloth , whom they had thought was Stadd . However , they found that she had fled . As they bean to search the planet for Abeloth , Ship returned , and the Sith lied to the Jedi that they had called the Meditation Sphere back — in reality , the vessel was under Abeloth ' s control . Ship convinced the Sith that they needed to visit the Pool of Knowledge in order to find Abeloth , and agreed to take them there . It dropped the allies off nearby the Pool , and they split into two groups — Taalon , Gavar , and Luke in one , Vestara and Ben in the other — to find it . Vestara and Ben found the Pool first , and the apprentice called her fellow Sith to her through the Force . At the Pool of Knowledge , Ben gazed in and saw Abeloth fleeing toward their vessels , and realized that Ship ' s move had been a ploy to get them out of the way so that she could escape . However , the image soon after changed to show Kesh , and Gavar believed that the Jedi were trying to learn the location of their homeworld . Luke threw Gavar back with the Force to prevent him from attacking Ben , but Taalon ignored the occurrences around him — inside the Pool he saw the Throne of Balance , whereupon sat a Jedi queen . Fearing that this was an omen that this queen could prevent the Tribe ' s takeover of the galaxy , Taalon demanded to know who she was . The Jedi did not answer , and instead chose that moment to attack , but Taalon dove into the Pool before they could stop him . As he reemerged from the Pool , he was hit by Vestara , who had been sent flying backward by Ben . He punched her in fury , and Luke quickly engaged the High Lord in combat . However , the Grand Master soon used the Force to send Gavar tumbling into Taalon and Vestara , and cut off the Sith Saber ' s forearm . Luke was knocked away by Force lightning , but the Jedi fled the grotto , collapsing the entrance behind them . Taalon was certain that the Jedi knew something important about the queen he had seen on the Throne in the Pool , and thus devised a plan for Vestara to learn more about her . He beat Vestara and then sent her off to find the Jedi , hoping to make it appear as though she was escaping his punishment . He and Gavar chased her back to the beach where they had left their ships , and upon their arrival there , Taalon blasted her with Force lightning . Luke suddenly opened fire on the two Sith ; both dodged for cover , but two bolts clipped Taalon . He and Gavar then returned fire , and Luke retreated down the bank to find Vestara . As Taalon and Gavar moved forward , however , they came within proximity of a thermal detonator planted by Luke , and the resulting explosion stalled them , allowing the Jedi to escape with Vestara in Taalon ' s personal shuttle , the " Emiax " . Transformation and death . Following his dive in the Pool , Taalon began to change in appearance ; he started becoming more and more like Abeloth . He lost all taste for the foodstuff normally enjoyed by the beings of the galaxy , causing him to grow weaker due to starvation . Along with Gavar , he left the world in Ship and met up with other members of the Sith armada — which had continued expanding and was now posed to begin an invasion of the galaxy . Soon , a message from Vestara came via a relay post on Boonta ; she reported that the Jedi had tracked Abeloth to Pydyr , a moon of Almania , and that she suspected they had already called for reinforcements . The Tribe decided to send Taalon , Gavar , and several other Sith to Pydyr aboard the " Kondo " - class assault shuttle " Obuuri " . Upon their arrival , they discovered that the moon was beset by a plague , forcing them to wear hazard suits . Taalon , meanwhile , was conflicted — he desired to learn from Abeloth what exactly he was becoming , but he needed the Jedi ' s help in finding her . Thus , when Gavar and Luke determined to start a fight upon meeting on Pydyr , he ordered the Sith Saber to stand down and swore to the Jedi that he would help kill Abeloth . Taalon , Gavar , and fifty more Sith joined Luke , Ben , and Vestara , aboard the " Jade Shadow " as they traveled to the Fallanassi village on Pydyr , with more Sith in the " Obuuri " following them . Luke told the Sith that wearing hazard suits would not protect them from the plague — which was in actuality an illusion put forth by Abeloth via the White Current , the Fallanassi ' s perspective of the Force — reporting that Ben and Vestara had worn hazard suits , and they still showed signs of the disease ; although he lied that the Jedi had a technique to resist it . Gavar was furious that Luke had not protected his daughter and began to threaten him , but Taalon cut him off , insisting that Luke was just trying to get them infected by convincing them to take off their suits . Suddenly , Ship appeared on the " Jade Shadow " tactical display , but Fallanassi illusions made it appear to be a full fleet of Sith meditation spheres . Taalon still claimed that the spheres were under Sith control , but as they neared , the " Obuuri " opened fire on them . Skywalker , however , the only being present who could access the White Current and see through the illusions , piloted the " Jade Shadow " straight into the fleet . Soon afterward , the " Obuuri " crashed into a cliff veiled by the White Current and was destroyed . Taalon began to demand that they land and await reinforcements , but Luke suddenly dove down to the island , and the illusion blocking it from view was broken . Upon landing at the village , they were met by several Fallanassi , who agreed reluctantly to help heal the Sith from the plague . However , Taalon finally realized that the plague was just an illusion , although the rest of the Sith remained unconvinced . Taalon demanded to know where Abeloth was , and he began to question the Fallanassi Akanah Norand Goss Pell as three more shuttles of Sith arrived on the island as reinforcements . When Pell was not as forthcoming as Taalon wished her to be , he signaled for Gavar to hold another Fallanassi hostage . Pell answered his next question — that Abeloth was staying among the Fallanassi because she was a Fallanassi — but when Luke asked whether that meant she had always been one , or if she had recently joined , Pell declined to reply . Taalon then signaled Gavar , and the Sith Saber killed his hostage . Pell grew angry , saying that he could not intimidate her , and drove Gavar to madness with visions in the White Current , until Vestara finally knocked him unconscious . Pell — who was actually Abeloth in Pell ' s body — released the visions onto all of the Sith , save Taalon and Vestara . She then invited Taalon into a gathering hall to converse with him , but the Skywalkers and Vestara followed . Luke tried to convince the Sith High Lord that Abeloth was attempting to play the Jedi and Sith against each other , but he desired too greatly to learn what he was becoming . Taalon opened the battle before Luke could move into the optimal position from which to attack . Luke managed to defeat Abeloth , killing Pell ' s body , before turning to battle Taalon and Vestara , but Abeloth suddenly returned in the form of Callista Ming . She overpowered Luke , but prevented Taalon from killing the Jedi Grand Master , expressing her desire that he suffer as much as she and Taalon did ; and the High Lord agreed . She knocked Luke unconscious and Taalon trapped Ben in a Force net , and they also brought Gavar into the hall , though he remained unconscious . While conversing with Taalon , Abeloth revealed that the reason he could not eat was because mortal food could not satisfy the kind of being he had become . She then began feeding him dark energy from her tentacles . Luke , however , finally returned to consciousness , and he caused a distraction by making the ceiling collapse . In the ensuing confusion , Vestara , whom Taalon had abused for being a mere apprentice long ago , jumped forward and killed the High Lord ; she did not want to allow him to become another Abeloth , as she recognized the threat that Abeloth posed to the galaxy . The Force net around Ben disintegrated , and the Jedi fought off Abeloth , forcing her to retreat . When Vestara tried to take the Jedi captive , Luke awoke Gavar as he praised the apprentice for killing Taalon . Gavar , believing her daughter to have betrayed the Sith , began to attack , but was knocked out by Vestara . Vestara was then forced to flee with the Skywalkers , as the rest of the Sith on the planet — who had finally recovered from their visions — presumed that she had betrayed the Tribe and killed Taalon . Personality and traits . Sarasu Taalon was a lavender - skinned Keshiri male who spoke with a beautiful and melodious voice . He valued power and was not afraid to let those who did not live up to his standards die . He had a predilection for things of beauty , particularly glass . He was intrigued by wintrium , his interest piquing when he learned that the substance had properties very similar to glass . He expressed fascination and wonder upon the sight of the Fountain of the Ancients , Klatooine ' s largest concentration of wintrium . Behind the scenes . Sarasu Taalon was first introduced at the end of Aaron Allston ' s " " , the fourth novel in the " " series . He was then featured prominently in the fifth and sixth novels , " " , by Christie Golden , and " " , by Troy Denning , respectively . Taalon is the sixth Legacy era Sith Lord of the Lost Tribe to be named . He is also the second Keshiri Sith Lord to be identified thus far , as well as the second High Lord to be named , the first being Takaris Yur .