Remi Remi , also known as Oblivion , was a human male who was a member of the Acolytes of the Beyond . In 5 ABY , during a revolution staged by the acolytes in Coronet City on the planet Corellia , Remi was taken to the local Peace and Security station in the city by a detective named Erno , after he caught the boy vandalizing a wall with the message ' Vader lives ' and stencilling a picture of Vader ' s armor on it . After being rescued by Kiza , a Pantoran female and fellow acolyte , Remi went to the archives located underneath the station and returned with a red bladed lightsaber which he used to cut off one of Erno ' s hands . Prior to the Battle of Jakku , Remi and his fellow Acolytes traveled to the planet Devaron . Remi grew besotted with his new lightsaber acquisition and delved deeper into the dark side of the Force . Remi incurred the wrath of the late Emperor Palpatine ' s former adviser Yupe Tashu when he expressed jealousy that Kiza had received the mask of Viceroy Exim Panshard . As punishment , Tashu stripped him of the lightsaber and handed it to Kiza . Overcome by rage and jealousy , Remi tried to recover his blade from Kiza during the attack on a New Republic outpost . However , Kiza killed him with the lightsaber . Biography . Coronet City revolution . Remi was an adolescent who lived during the Age of the Empire . Following the Battle of Endor , Remi began experiencing Force vision s of fallen Sith who had gone to the Beyond . He joined a cult known as the Acolytes of the Beyond , who revered the Sith and the dark side of the Force . During that time , Remi befriended and became romantically attached to a Pantoran girl named Kiza , who was also an Acolyte . Remi played a role in planning and organizing the Coronet City revolution . He falsified the papers which enabled Kiza to infiltrate the local Peace and Security station disguised as a secretary . Their plan was to steal an ancient Sith lightsaber from the archives beneath the police station . As part of the plan , Remi spray - painted the Darth Vader mask sigil and the message " VADER LIVES " onto the side of the P & S station . He was promptly arrested by the Corellian detective Erno , who brought him in for questioning . Remi remained uncooperative and told Erno that Vader was still alive . When Erno pointed out that Darth Vader had perished during the Battle of Endor , Remi responded that death was not the end . When Erno demanded to know the boy ' s name as part of the booking process , Remi responded that his name was Oblivion . Erno offered to be lenient on the boy if he named his other Acolyte comrades . However , Remi remained defiant . When Erno dismissed the Acolytes as a " buncha suck - ups " for the Empire , Remi responded that he was not serving the Empire but something greater . Erno then asked Remi why he was not wearing a mask and remarked that Vader was a bad guy . Remi responded by asking Erno if he was a good man . When Erno questioned him about the mask again , Remi responded that an Acolyte had to earn it . Remi then added that the building was old and that he knew that the museum next door shared the basement with the P & S station . Before Erno could question the boy further , the security officer Spob Rydel entered the interrogation room to inform Erno that the Acolytes were attacking Coronet City . While Erno was distracted , Remi escaped from the room and made his way downstairs into the archives . Meanwhile , Kiza killed Erno ' s fellow detectives . Before Erno could stop Kiza , Remi returned and sliced off Erno ' s blaster hand with his Sith lightsaber . After recovering the weapon , Kiza clubbed Erno on the head and told the detective to warn his people that the Acolytes were coming . Death on Devaron . After obtaining the Sith lightsaber , Remi grew more egotistical and obsessed with the weapon . As an esteemed Acolyte , Remi was allowed to keep the lightsaber . Remi and his fellow Acolytes then gathered on the planet Devaron to attack a New Republic outpost near an old Jedi temple . Their attack was part of a coordinated series of strike against the New Republic across the galaxy . Prior to the attack , Remi , Kiza , and the other Acolytes gathered around their master Yupe Tashu , who had been one of the late Emperor Palpatine ' s advisers . Having conferred with the spectres of fallen Sith , Tashu gifted the mask of Viceroy Exim Panshard to Kiza . Remi became jealous and demanded that he possess the mask . Tashu chastised Remi for angering the fallen spirits . As punishment , he confiscated Remi ' s lightsaber and gave it to Kiza . Remi and his fellow Acolytes then attacked the New Republic outposts with various weapons including clubs , machine shop blades , and chop - axes , which had all been painted in red . Overcome by rage and jealousy , Remi took advantage of the confusion of battle to attack Kiza . He managed to throw her to the ground and knock the lightsaber out of her hand . Remi denounced his former lover as unworthy and claimed that the lightsaber rightfully belonged to him . Following a struggle , Kiza managed to find the lightsaber and shoved the blade through Remi ' s skull , killing him . Kiza then rejoined the attack on the New Republic outpost . Personality and traits . Remi was a male Human who was around fourteen or fifteen years old in the months following the Battle of Endor . He was known to have unusually white teeth . According to his lover Kiza , Remi had the perfect mix of confidence and injury . She likened him to a tamed monster and a fire whose flame was both brutal and beautiful . Remi was young , angry , and gorgeous . Despite not being Force - sensitive , Remi experienced Force visions of fallen Sith . He joined the Acolytes of the Beyond and shared their reverence for the Sith and dark side of the Force . Remi regarded his movement as being greater than the Empire . Remi refused to recognize lawful authority and remained defiant while being interrogated by the detective Erno . Remi also knew how to use a lightsaber and severed one of Erno ' s hands with it . After obtaining the Sith lightsaber , Remi grew more egoistical and arrogant . He believed that his lover Kiza was unworthy of inheriting a Sith relic known as the mask of Exim Panshard . Overcome by rage and jealousy , Remi attacked Kiza and tried to recover his lightsaber . However , Kiza shoved the blade through his skull , killing him and causing his eyes to burn to cinder . Behind the scenes . Remi first appeared as a minor antagonist in Chuck Wendig ' s 2016 novel " " . He also appeared in the 2017 novel ' s sequel " " , where he was first identified as Remi .