Darth Vurik Darth Vurik was a male Sith Lord who served Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Krayt ' s One Sith order during the Second Imperial Civil War . In 132 ABY , Vurik was dispatched to the planet Nyriaan by Krayt to investigate rumors of the existence of the Sith " Interdictor " - class cruiser " Dying Sun " , which dated back to the Jedi Civil War . After arriving on Nyriaan and locating a Sith settlement , Vurik was attacked by the Sith worshipers of Darth Glovoc , a Sith Lord who was in stasis and encased in an oubliette . During his pursuit of Glovoc ' s oubliette , Vurik slew many of these Sith before eventually being confronted by a group of fugitive Jedi . Despite wounding several and slaying one of the Jedi , Vurik retreated from battle to the capital of Nyriaan , Locus . Failing to apprehend Glovoc ' s oubliette , Vurik elected to hire bounty hunters to hunt down the Jedi on Nyriaan as he continued his search for Glovoc , whose subjects had hidden him in a secret location . Biography . Darth Vurik , a male , served the One Sith order of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Krayt as a Sith Lord during the Second Imperial Civil War . Shortly after Krayt deposed Emperor Roan Fel and set up his own Empire , his Sith agents discovered rumors that the " Interdictor " - class cruiser " Dying Sun " , a Sith warship that operated during the Jedi Civil War — an ancient conflict initiated by the Sith Lords Darth Revan and Darth Malak against the Galactic Republic and Jedi Council — had crashed on the Mid Rim planet Nyriaan . In 132 ABY , Vurik was dispatched by Krayt to Nyriaan to investigate these rumors , hoping to find Sith artifacts such as Sith holocrons . After Vurik arrived on the planet , he began his investigations and eventually discovered a settlement of the descendants of the Sith survivors of the crash that occurred at the end of the Jedi Civil War . Vurik was attacked by these people who called themselves the " Children of the Tempest " — beings who were physically and mentally maligned by generations of inbreeding — hoping to defend the oubliette of the Sith Lord Darth Glovoc , the " Dying Sun " captain and the Sith descendants ' object of worship . Vurik slew many of the Sith who were attempting to defend Glovoc , who was comatose and held in stasis inside the oubliette . However , Vurik ' s actions were noticed by members of the local clans , who also were harboring some fugitive Jedi . Vurik was confronted by a group of several of these Jedi ; during his confrontation with them , the Sith Lord injured many of the Jedi and killed at least one before he was defeated by them . This caused him to retreat to Locus , Nyriaan ' s capital . Despite this , Vurik injured many of the Jedi and killed at least one of them . During Vurik ' s battle with the Jedi , the Sith worshipers of Glovoc used the opportunity to move Glovoc ' s oubliette to a hidden location while Vurik was distracted . After the battle , Vurik was unwilling to report his failure to Darth Krayt . He chose to stay on Nyriaan and attempt to locate Glovoc , hiring bounty hunters to find and kill the Jedi who attacked him . Personality and traits . Darth Vurik was a male Sith Lord who , when confronted by both the Children of the Tempest and the Jedi on Nyriaan , was willing to engage both groups in battle . He was determined to apprehend Glovoc and his oubliette , and , when faced with reporting his failure to Darth Krayt , he chose to instead stay on Nyriaan and continue his search for Glovoc . Powers and abilities . As a Sith Lord in Darth Krayt ' s One Sith order , Vurik was sensitive to the Force . His fighting skills were enough to annihilate many of the members of the Children of the Tempest . His abilities enabled him to wound many of the Jedi who attacked him and kill at least one of them . Behind the scenes . Darth Vurik was introduced in the 2010 Wizards of the Coast resource book " Galaxy of Intrigue " , in which he functioned as one of the characters who affected the planet Nyriaan ' s history . Because he held the " Darth " title , this article refers to Vurik as a Sith Lord .