Darth Karrid Darth Karrid , born Kana Tarrid , was a female Falleen former Jedi who turned herself over to the dark side and became a Sith Lord of the Sith Empire under the tutelage of Darth Malgus during the later years of the Great Galactic War . During the Galactic War , she commanded the Sith ' s ultimate warship , the " Ascendant Spear " , via a cybernetic interface . She also succeeded Darth Hadra as Head of the Sphere of Technology and took her seat on the Dark Council . When she in turn was killed over Duro , Darth Acina replaced her on the Council . Biography . Born during the Great Galactic War , Kana Terrid was a female Falleen found to be sensitive to the Force and enrolled into the Jedi Order . Placed under the tutelage of Jedi Master Gnost - Dural , she soon distinguished herself from the other Padawans by her ambition and her adventurous behavior , which led her master to put her on a dangerous mission in the Sith Empire . Indeed during the Cold War , Terrid was tasked to infiltrate the Sith Order as a double agent by becoming the apprentice of Darth Malgus , but over the years she began to believe in the Sith tenets and fell to the dark side , giving Republic intel to her Sith masters . The final stage of her transformation occurred when lured by the prospective of becoming the commander of the " Ascendant Spear " , a highly advanced warship designed by Darth Mekhis , she fully gave herself to the dark side by receiving the implants enabling her to control the starship , becoming Darth Karrid . Without having lost a single battle during the renewal of the hostilities between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire , Karrid soon earned a reputation of a strategic prodigy and ruthless leader which attracted the favor of Darth Marr . Thus , the Sith Councilor supported her accession to the Dark Council to replace the deceased Darth Hadra as head of the Sphere of Technology , but the other Sith Lords favored Darth Gravus due to their xenophobia towards non - Human and non - Pureblood Sith and also because of Darth Karrid ' s former master ' s attempted coup . When she learned from Marr about the Council favoring Gravus , she devised a plan to discredit him . Karrid intervened in Gravus ' s battle at Leritor , where she goaded him into attacking her , giving her the right to destroy his ship . She simultaneously attacked and destroyed both the Imperial and Republic fleets . When Gravus begged for mercy , she refused to listen and proceeded with killing him . This act gave her the Dark Council ' s approval and was appointed as Darth Hadra ' s replacement . Not long after , Theron Shan , the man who foiled Mekhis ' s plans years earlier , was determined to destroy the last of her creations . He and Karrid ' s former master , Gnost - Dural , infiltrated the " Ascendant Spear " and proceeded to sabotage it while finding a way to make Karrid go to Duro , where the Empire was planning to attack next . Karrid eventually became aware of Gnost - Dural being aboard , and knowing that she could not defeat him alone due to most of her time spent on becoming acquainted with her ship , fought him with her apprentices . Gnost - Dural allowed himself to be captured and , preying on Karrid ' s ego , acted to have been trying to prevent her from going to Duro . When Gnost - Dural proclaimed that it was too late to go , Karrid fell for the bait and set a course to the planet . Upon arrival at Duro , she immediately began to fire at fleeing Imperial ships who had fled the battle . She then began to fire at the Republic fleet gathered by Jace Malcom , but was surprised that she missed completely . Eventually , she realized that a saboteur on her ship was uploading viruses , and took steps to prevent him from interfering any further . As Karrid was going to fire the killing shot at the Republic fleet , the saboteur , Theron , flooded the ship ' s systems with false data , overloading them . Karrid , who was one with her ship , lost connection with it and opened the command pod which she used to control it . Seeing that a man in his underwear ( Theron had taken off most of his clothes to deal with working in the Spear ' s engine room ) had caused Mekhis ' s ultimate creation to be ruined , she activated her lightsaber and began to attack him . The timing of Republic ships attacking the Spear ' s exterior saved Theron from certain death . Frustrated that her all - mighty ship was going to be destroyed , she rushed back into the command pod in a desperate attempt to save it . However , Theron had no intention to leave her alive , and threw his discharged blaster into the pod before it closed , killing Darth Karrid and ending the threat of the " Ascendant Spear " once and for all . With Darth Karrid dead and her position vacant , the Emperor ' s Hand later chose Darth Acina to replace her . Powers and abilities . Darth Karrid was an expert on technology . She was a practitioner of the lightsaber form Niman and also capable of Force lightning . Behind the scenes . Darth Karrid was first introduced in the 2012 novel " " , which stated that Darth Karrid was chosen as Darth Hadra ' s successor . However , the character Darth Acina was introduced in , the first Digital Expansion for the BioWare video game " " , and her Codex entry stated that she was the successor to Hadra . The Codex entry ' s error was rectified in Update 2 . 1 . 1 to correctly state that Acina succeeded Karrid .