Horak - mul Horak - mul was a Sith Lord in the years leading up to the Great Hyperspace War . A member of the Sith species , Horak - mul was native to an area of space known as the Sith Empire . After the death of Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos , Horak - mul sided with one of the contenders for the title , Ludo Kressh . Kressh ' s main rival was Naga Sadow , a progressive Sith Lord with expansionist ambitions . In 5000 BBY , Sadow staged an attack on the Sith Empire by the Galactic Republic , and used this opportunity to declare himself the new Dark Lord of the Sith . This led to a schism between Sadow and Kressh , with Horak - mul siding with the latter . Sadow then staged another raid , this time leaving evidence that he was actually complicit ; upon seeing this evidence , an angered Kressh ordered Horak - mul and a fellow supporter , Dor Gal - ram , to gather their forces to attack Sadow . What ensued was a skirmish at Khar Delba , and Horak - mul and his allies were outwitted and defeated by Sadow . Horak - mul , along with Gal - ram , was killed in the battle when Sadow ordered the crew of Horak - mul ' s flagship to betray and kill him . Biography . Horak - mul was a Sith Lord in the years leading up to the Great Hyperspace War and was native to a region in the galaxy known as Sith Space . During his lifetime , Horak - mul participated in an event that was later known as the Subjugation of the False Apprentice , and he created a number of tablets alongside fellow Sith Dor Gal - ram . In 5000 BBY , longtime Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos died after a century of iron - handed rule . Two Sith Lords , Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh , stepped in to try and fill the power vacuum . Horak - mul supported Kressh , the more conservative Sith Lord , over Sadow , an ambitious Lord who wanted to expand the Sith Empire ' s boundaries . During the Funeral of Marka Ragnos , a ship coming from the Galactic Republic , the " Starbreaker 12 " , landed in Korriban ' s Valley of the Dark Lords , a canyon where the funeral was taking place , and its crew — the two Humans Gav and Jori Daragon — were detained . A great debate began regarding the Humans ' fate ; Kressh wanted to execute them immediately , while Sadow wanted to keep them alive , believing that they had important information . Finally , Sadow staged a Republic attack on the Sith Empire , riling the Sith into a frenzy . Following this attack , during a meeting of the Sith Council on the planet Ziost , Sadow declared himself the new Dark Lord of the Sith . Horak - mul watched on in silence as the majority of other Sith Lords voiced their support of Sadow . An outraged Kressh called his remaining supporters to rally around him , and Horak - mul left the meeting with the Sith Lord . After the meeting , Naga Sadow , now having been officially crowned the Dark Lord of the Sith , staged a Republic attack on the " Starbreaker 12 " hangar on Ziost and made off with the ship . Upon witnessing the scene , Ludo Kressh found Sadow ' s emblem amidst the carnage . Shocked and angry , Kressh summoned Horak - mul and Dor Gal - ram to his private world of Rhelg to confer on these developments . There , Kressh informed them of Sadow ' s complicity in the assault and ordered Horak - mul and Gal - ram to gather their fleets to stage a surprise attack on Sadow . Horak - mul did as he was commanded , massing his forces and joining Kressh ' s and Gal - ram ' s fleets at Khar Delba , the site of Sadow ' s citadel . They commenced their attack , launching a rain of fire on Sadow ' s base . Horak - mul exclaimed that victory was inevitable ; however , Sadow had another trick up his sleeve . Sadow had hidden his fleet in orbit around Khar Delba ' s moon Khar Shian , and the fleet attacked and caught Horak - mul and his allies off - guard . Sadow then moved on to the next stage of his plan , ordering the crew of Horak - mul ' s ship , in reality Sadow ' een — Sadow ' s elite assassins — to kill him . The Massassi crew attacked Horak - mul while he was distracted by the battle , caught him unaware , and murdered him — though Horak - mul would later claim that it took five assassins to kill him . Dor Gal - ram was killed by the same treachery , and Kressh was defeated in the Battle of Khar Delba . The artificial eye of Horak - mul was eventually lost , but was retrieved in 3963 BBY , over a thousand years after Horak - mul ' s death , by Jedi Covenant Shadow Celeste Morne . Horak - mul was later buried on the moon of Yavin 4 by his followers , though scavengers removed Horak - mul ' s sarcophagus from the moon over a thousand years later and were carrying it aboard their ship , the " Starrunner " , when the Sith Lord ' s spirit drove the crew insane above the planet Hoth . A few years later , in 3642 BBY , Horak - mul ' s spirit was possessing the body of an Ortolan chief when he encountered the Sith Inquisitor Kallig of the reconstituted Sith Empire . Kallig possessed the power of Force walk , the ability to bind Force ghosts to one ' s own body and draw upon their power , and Horak - mul agreed to allow Kallig to bind him if the Sith would perform a task for him : the destruction of a Sadow ' een Temple on Hoth . After Kallig desecrated the temple , Horak - mul possessed the shell of a droid in order to inform Kallig of the " Starrunner " location . Upon locating Horak - mul ' s spirit in the depths of the crashed superdreadnaught " Star of Coruscant " , Kallig bound Horak - mul ' s spirit , and the ghost aided the Inquisitor in the young Sith ' s battle against the Sith Lord Darth Thanaton . However , Horak - Mul and the other Sith spirits whom Kallig had bound later mentally harassed Kallig , threatening to drive the Sith insane . As he was haunting the Inquisitor ' s thoughts , Horak - Mul said : " You think you ' re the puppeteer , but you ' re just the puppet . Eventually , Kallig discovered a mind - healing ritual on Voss that could the subdue the ghosts . With help from a Voss dream - walking cult , Kallig confronted Horak - mul in a dream . The Sith Lord assumed the appearance of Darth Thanaton but his illusion was destroyed when a Gormak Force - shaman named Hadrik used a dream - rock to force Horak - mul to reveal himself . Kallig then used Horak - mul ' s power , along with the other ghosts , to finally defeat Thanaton and assume his seat on the Dark Council . Though the other ghosts pleaded to be freed , Horak - mul willingly decided to stay , knowing that he ' d at least see the galaxy than return to his tomb on Hoth . Personality and traits . Horak - mul was a staunch supporter of Ludo Kressh and considered Naga Sadow ' s ambitions to expand the Sith Empire as self - destructive and foolish . However , due to the popularity among Sith Lords of supporting Sadow , and the risks inherent in speaking out against the Dark Lord of the Sith , Horak - mul was careful to hide his opposition to Sadow ' s dreams of conquest . Before the attack on the " Starbreaker 12 " that Sadow manipulated to appear as a Republic raid , Horak - mul considered the Republic a myth ; however , the attack convinced him otherwise . Horak - mul sported an artificial right eye known as the Eye of Horak - mul . He also wore a ceremonial robe . During his duel with Kallig on Voss , the spirit of Horak - mul wielded a purple - bladed lightsaber . Behind the scenes . Horak - mul first appeared in " " , a story arc of the " " comic series , which was written by Kevin J . Anderson and released in 1996 . In these appearances , Horak - mul was illustrated by Dario Carrasco , Jr . He was later mentioned in " " . In 2008 , Horak - mul received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " . If the Sith Inquisitor chooses to free the ghosts at the end of Act III of " " , Horak - mul refuses to depart and stays on with the Inquisitor . However , if the Inquisitor was more light sided , he / she would have the option to let the ghosts pass on .