Darth Apparatus

Darth Apparatus was a Sith Master Human male that served the Sith Council in his later years. Born on Tatooine to unknown slave parent, later in life he became the lover and husband of Bianca Holloway and had a daughter, Ryori Holloway, with her. After he was separated with Bianca, Darth Apparatus would go on to have more children, such as Sephiroth Marzullo with Fiera Marzullo as well as James and Delilah Nepenthe with unknown parents. He also developed romantic interest and fathered Setesh Vu Noi and Sokara Vu Noi with Darth Isolda.
His early life is mixed with rumor and legend. Most theories point to Tatooine as his homeworld and that he used to be a slave until his teens. By the time Darth Apparatus began his tutelage as a Sith, he had already required cybernetic limbs for both arms and his entire left leg. Darth Apparatus began his life as a Sith under the tutalage of Dark Sith Order Master Lady Silencia. However, his time under her was short as he left for Darth Octavian's Sith Empire and became the apprentice of Joshua Grant.
It was not long until Darth Apparatus ascended to the rank of Sith Knight. Around this time, the Sith Empire Octavian created began to crumble, so Darth Apparatus began a long journey across the galaxy going from one Sith order to the next. It was during this time that he found Bianca Holloway, an ancient pirate that had been frozen for thousands of years. He decided to travel with the newfound companion across the galaxy. Eventually, both of them developed romantic feelings for each other and became lovers.
When Darth Apparatus came across Ziost, he was confronted by Malice Draclau, who claimed to be the Horseman of Famine. Darth Apparatus pledged his loyalty to Lord Famine and the Regnum there and began to fight battles for the Horsemen. He remained in good favor with the Lord of Famine up until his betrayal at the hands of Sky Kerberos. At that point, Darth Apparatus fled just to be sure he could escape the Lord of Conquest's grasps.
Eventually, Darth Apparatus began to fight for the Sith once again. He was still with Bianca at that time, yet also managed to have a small daughter with him as well. While they were living on Ruusan, Darth Apparatus had to go out for fight another battle leaving behind his lover and child. Both Ryori and Bianca were captured by slavers, forcing the Darth to chance them around the galaxy. After a year's search, he ended up believing he had failed to save them and finally gained the hatred he would need to become a Sith Master.
Soon, Darth Apparatus joined the Sith Council and became on the leading members of it. His worth for the faction was typical shown through battle, such as those on Manaan and Naboo. He deveoped the reputation of a dangerous Sith Master with the power and weight that could not be taken lightly.
Darth Apparatus eventually picked up Moira Vu Noi as an apprentice and trained her with many of the same philosophies that could be found in the Rule of Two. He taught her as much as he could until her initial betrayal on Kesh. There, Darth Apparatus forcibly conceived the twins he hoped would become his sacrifice to maintain everylasting life as well as become corrupted by the vast amount of knowledge left behind by the Lost Tribe's Grand Master. He hoped that this vicious act would have washed away much of the dark love he developed for the newly christened Darth Isolda.
Bianca and Darth Apparatus eventually found each other once again. While his own philosophy at the time suggested that he killed his old lover to protect himself from developing mercy, Darth Apparatus decided he would attempt to live out the life he wanted to live with her as a husband.
= Affiliations =
In chronological order
* Dark Sith Order
* The Sith Empire, Fifth Knight of TSE
* The Silent Eternity, General of Ground Forces
* Brotherhood of the Sith
* Regnum in Potestas
* The Sith Council (Current)
= Biography =
=== Early Life, Mysterious Origins ===
Much of Darth Apparatus's early life was unknown to the majority of the galaxy. Most of it was surrounded by rumor and legend. Several facts that were agreed upon was that Darth Apparatus was born as the Human Darth Apparatus and most likely orphaned as a young child.
The most prominent of possible origins for Darth Apparatus is that he was a slave since birth on Tatooine. In this version of his early life, he escaped just before his teens by killing his master. The process of his liberation resulted in one of his limbs having to be replaced by mechanic parts. From then, he journeyed accross the galaxy as a low key mercenary and bounty hunter until he discovered his potential in the Force. After that, the Darth-to-be searched for the Dark Sith Order until he made his way to Korriban. By the time he reached the Sith homeworld, he had already obtained his iconic mechanical limbs.
Another popular explanation of his origins is that Darth Apparatus was the child of two powerful Sith yet was raised on a secluded planet. He rapidly grew from a young age and eventually murdered both his parents at a young age and lived in the wild for several years. In this iteration of his early life, it is said that Darth Apparatus discovered his Force potential when he had to fight off continuous waves of slavers attempting to capture the boy's potential. Eventually, the boy managed to fight off the last of the slavers willing to take him on, yet the fight took a toll on his body by resulting in his three mechanical limbs. It was after the struggle against the slavers that Darth Apparatus made his way to Korriban to hone his skills in the Force.
There are several other theories to his origins, yet most of them are consistent with several facts. First, Darth Apparatus's parents died when he was young in a violent nature. Second, he had his three iconic mechanical limbs by the age of 21 when he reached Korriban. Third, the Darth had knowledge of his Force potential long before he willingly arrived on Korriban. Ultimately, only Darth Apparatus may know the truth of his origins as it is uncertain if he had told anyone before where he originally came from and if what he said was the truth.
== Sith Apprentice ==
As with all characters that go through TGC, their story begins as an apprentice, padawan, or trainee. Though Darth Apparatus's apprenticeship was rather short, it still laid the foundations for what would become Darth Apparatus.
=== A Naive Wanderer ===
Darth Apparatus found Korriban at the age of 21, and was accepted to be trained by Lady Silencia. There was no way for him to deny Silencia's powers as a Sith Master. She was able to lead the man through a maze of rotting corpses as a way of torture or maybe to see if Darth Apparatus was worthy of becoming a Sith. Darth Apparatus learned had some of the basic Sith powers and noticed an increase in his skills. His fate changed when the Sith Empire was created by Darth Octavian after he had turned 22. He was tempted by the new Sith faction to the point that he left Korriban and the Dark Sith Order for Pergitor.
=== First Betrayal ===
Defecting to the Sith Empire was a treacherous act for the young Sith. The Sith Empire was having an active civil war against the Dark Sith Order, the rule Sith faction at the time. Joining the Sith Empire was the first example of what would become the many treacherous acts that Darth Apparatus committed. At the Sith Empire, there was some personal success. While he was there, his training was finished off by Joshua Grant and Darth Octavian. After Joshua sliced Darth Apparatus's arm off, the relationship between the two as Master and Apprentice was very tense, mostly for the reason that the severing of the arm was unprovoked. The training consisted mainly of Darth Apparatus travelling in Pergitor's wild and living off of the Dark Side that surrounded it. During his walkabout, the young Sith discovered many secrets that the Dark Side could reveal. One was the communication with animals. Yet, another, more power, secret was discovered; the power to commit one's feelings tot he Dark Side. This powerful technique would sacrifice the Sith's sanity to the Dark Side, but at the same time his strength would increase by an incredible amount. He was quickly promoted Sith Knight and declared Darth Apparatus by Darth Octavian. His time as an apprentice was quick, which left him craving to learn more about the Dark Side.
== Sith Knight ==
The Sith's journey as a Knight was long and unrelenting. His loyalties and resolve were constantly tested, and what came through the smoke was the foul beast known as the Mechanical Sith.
=== Fifth Knight of the Sith Empire ===
With a new hunger for knowledge of the Dark Side, Darth Apparatus quickly began studying the Dark Arts of the Sith. His studies took him deep into usually taboo skills. One of the lost arts that the cyborg studied was aeromancy, control of the wind. His appetite for knowledge of the Dark Side was seemingly never quenched. He continuously consumed Holocron after Holocron.
Through his time with the Sith Empire, Darth Apparatus took on three Apprentices at the Sith Empire. All seemed to have the potential of becoming great Sith Lords in the future at first. Most of them deserted the Empire after learning the impossibly difficult training the Darth Apparatus provided. The cyborg believed that one should have their weaknesses ripped from them, so he heavily exploited their flaws during training. Should one of his apprentices feel too arrogant, the Sith would continuously humiliate them. Should one have felt too righteous and civilized to let their desires take hold, then the Sith would tempt them through agitation. This type of training is still used by the Sith today, continuous exploitation of weaknesses. However, none of his apprentices were knighted.
Then, there was a terrible event on Pergitor. A massive asteroid had passed by Pergitor, and many meteors broke off from it and crashed into the surface of the dark planet. Many Sith died from the meteor shower, yet Darth Apparatus managed to survive along with other Sith. Some of his apprentices had gone missing after the meteor shower. Cedric, one of the apprentices, managed to be found and his training resumed. Yet, the Sith Empire collapsed and dissolved not long after the meteor shower that critically wounded the Empire. Some say that the collapse was also due to the corruption of the Empire’s leader, Darth Octavian. Yet, it matters not what caused the collapse, for the Sith Empire’s demise was what began Darth Apparatus’s growing dislike in people around him.
At the age of 24, Apparatus was alone in the hostile Galaxy and had to find a new place to call home or die.
=== Life as a nomad ===
After the Sith Empire had fallen, Darth Apparatus journeyed the Galaxy for some time. He had no way to study the Dark Side like he could on Pergitor. Then, Darth Apparatus found Dagobah and was amazed the find that many of the Sith Knights from the Sith Empire fled to Dagobah to create their own faction, which were lead by Remy Gray. He quickly joined the group of former pupils and was the declared the leader of their ground forces. He was able to train one Apprentice, Darth Xarus, for a few months, yet the apprentice was only temporary. The Sith continued to learn more of the Dark Side, discovering new techniques. Then, the Sith Knight would find that Dagobah was not enough for his hunger for power. The Silent Eternity was dwindling in numbers, so the young Sith left Dagobah in search of stronger allies.
Then, Darth Apparatus journeyed through the Galaxy and found a group called the Brotherhood of the Sith. He was welcomed within their ranks, as some of the group's elite were once with the Sith Empire. Yet, his journey with them was quick after that group had dissolved into nothing, leaving Apparatus to journey further into the Galaxy for power.
=== Finding Bianca Holloway ===
During his travels as a Knight, Darth Apparatus went to a long abandoned planet in search of treasures. A fortune hunter tipped Darth Apparatus off about some ancient facility was uncovered on a volcanic island. Once Darth Apparatus arrived on that island, he found the rumor to be true. By entering a cave at the side of the volcano, Darth Apparatus entered an old, dark and rusted facility. The maps and signs were all in an old dialect of Basic, which made it difficult for the young Sith to decipher.
After several days of traveling every inch f the facility, Darth Apparatus discovered one path that lead to a door with a green, blinking button. It was the only sign of running electricity he had found in the facility in all of his travels. He opened the door to find a large part of the facility light itself up and was soon greeted by a robot.
After a short conversation with the robot, Darth Apparatus was taken to an old AI called "Vigil." It told Darth Apparatus that the facility was meant to cryogenically freeze subjects on this planet for a certain amount of time. For whatever reason, the facility had been abandoned along with the frozen subjects. Vigil told Darth Apparatus that only one subject still lived. Intrigued, Darth Apparatus asked to see the lone survivor.
The chamber Darth Apparatus was in descended as if it was an elevator and brought Darth Apparatus to the cryo-pod of Bianca Holloway. Darth Apparatus woke Bianca. The first interaction those two had was Darth Apparatus poking her forehead. Once alert, Bianca revealed a flirtatious personality describing how she would rather be awoken by a kiss. Darth Apparatus responded with flirts of his own and gave her that kiss.
Once they finished making out, Darth Apparatus and Bianca discussed for several minutes as she recovered her ability to move. Darth Apparatus described the condition of the galaxy to Bianca, which had drastically changed after the many thousands of years she was frozen. Bianca at first was somewhat skeptical of the claims Darth Apparatus made. She soon found out that such hyperboles were actually normal occurrences for Darth Apparatus.
As the conversation continued, Darth Apparatus got to learn a bit more about the type of woman Bianca was. He learned that she pirated the oceans of the planet and that she was about as anarchic as he was. She was intrigued in everything new about the galaxy, from Darth Apparatus's prosthetic arms to his lightsaber. Darth Apparatus even had to demonstrate that a lightsaber could kill her before she touched it out of curiosity.
The two were able to quickly leave the facility. At that time, Bianca informed Darth Apparatus about his fatal illness. While Darth Apparatus could not heal her, he thought that it would not be hard to heal Bianca once they reached a major planet like Coruscant. After she coughed up a bit of blood, Darth Apparatus decided to carry her down the rest of the way.
Darth Apparatus noticed through the Force that there was danger near his ship. When they reached it, Bianca and Darth Apparatus saw pirates attempting to loot his ship. After setting Bianca down, Darth Apparatus prepared for a fight. Bianca overestimated herself by thinking that the blasters the pirates had were unwieldy. She was proved wrong in the opening shot as a pirate accurately shot a blast at Darth Apparatus. However, the Sith was able to block the blast with his lightsaber then yank the pirate with the Force in order to impale him on the Sith's lightsaber.
Bianca was shocked at this display of seemingly supernatural powers. As Darth Apparatus continued to slaughter the pirates, she became increasingly concerned over his "magic" and even thought of Darth Apparatus as a demon. Once the pirates were all dead, she was extremely cautious around Darth Apparatus. The Sith explained that there was nothing demonic. It was just the Force, which was a natural part of the galaxy.
Still skeptical over his motivations, Bianca reasoned that she had no choice to accept Darth Apparatus's help. The two left the planet and headed to Coruscant, where she would be cured of her disease.
In truth, Darth Apparatus was simply curious in Bianca. He was interested in seeing how someone that did not understand the galaxy could adapt to a new environment. Bianca proved herself to be capable of doing so and so much more.
=== Falling in love ===
For two years, Bianca and Darth Apparatus traveled together. Darth Apparatus was still trying to search for a place in the galaxy while Bianca would tag along. She had adapted well to the galaxy. She understood that Darth Apparatus was a Sith, what the Force was, and how vast the galaxy truly was.
Instead of being a mere object of curiosity, Bianca had become something of a necessity in Darth Apparatus's life. She complimented his usually brash and direct style of fighting with clever analysis and precise strikes. Bianca also helped enriched Darth Apparatus's life as a person.
As Bianca dramatically read stories, his understanding of the universe would grow bit by bit. She would read the most common of fairy tales to the most ancient of Sith lore. He would learn about the philosophy of other Sith as well as the exploits of the popular Marka Ragnos, Naga Sadow, and Darth Bane.
Bianca became a friend for Darth Apparatus. Any thought of killing her in the end vanished. In a way, he dreaded thinking that the two may have to part some day. He did not understand the depths of this feeling until the night of his twenty-eighth birthday as they traveled through Hyperspace. Bianca read the story of Sleeping Beauty and gave him a unique gift - a hand woven cloak, Force crystal, and several bottles of mechanical oils.
Jokingly, Darth Apparatus said he would have been satisfied with a kiss. Bianca was somewhat shocked at the request, but gave it anyway. After their tender embrace, Darth Apparatus accidentally said "I just wanted you." After that, the two realized that they had fallen in love after two years of journeying together. They vowed to give everything they had to each other and made love for the first time.
Once they finished, the ship had dropped out of Hyperspace and was attacked by pirates. Darth Apparatus was thrown off the bed and slammed his head against a metal cabinet. For a brief moment, he saw a vision that had an empty house, a lone man, and a crossbow. The vision confused him for a moment, but Darth Apparatus quickly recovered from the light concussion with the help of Bianca and fought off the pirates.
After defeating the pirates, the two decided to continue their journeys together as lovers.
=== Regnum in Potestas ===
The Darth reached the dark planet of Ziost. He was greeted by a strong Sith Master known as Malice Draclau. On the planet was a group of four elite Sith Masters known as the Four Horsemen. Malice Draclau was known as the Horseman of Famine. Darth Apparatus wanted acceptance to follow the Horsemen in the Regnum in Potestas. There was now a chance to become one of the most powerful Sith. While Apparatus studied the Dark Arts and discovered new secrets, he took several Apprentices, yet all were either killed or went missing after some time. Apparatus was regarded as a loyal member of the Horsemen, yet he only cared for either himself or the first person he pledged allegiance to, Malice. 
In the Regnum in Potestas, Apparatus would seek to cause terror in the Galaxy. He became more and more powerful as he journeyed the Galaxy searching to create havoc. Apparatus caused terror in the name of the Horsemen on several planets, such as Yinchorr, Ruusan, Bespin, and Naboo. As he grew in the ranks of the Sith, Apparatus ordered the construction of the Leviathan for a gift to the Horsemen. The Leviathan eventually was claimed by one of the Regnum's newest Sith Masters, Darth Monnik. Though, Apparatus had kept the construction of the Leviathan a secret since it was given to the Horsemen. Apparatus never entered the ranks of "the Seven Knights of the Regnum" when he was a member of their forces.
Though, the reign of the Horsemen did not last forever. Word had spread to Apparatus that Malice was defeated by Sky Kerberos. When this happened, Apparatus's loyalty to the Regnum was gone. The faction quickly changed its shape into the Sine Occasu. Being most loyal to Malice, Apparatus had to flee to prevent being killed by Sky.
===Separated from Bianca===
After a few more years, the new family were using Ruusan as a temporary residence. Darth Apparatus still being a Sith warrior meant he frequently traveled to go to battle, so finding permanent residence was nearly impossible. For several weeks, a slaver gang had been terrorizing Bianca's family, yet they were always repelled by her or Darth Apparatus's actions. Just before he left to go to battle, he killed another member of the gang with ease. Ryori Holloway, who was conceived on their first night together, playfully attempted to crush the gangster's skull as her father had done to other's before. Amused, the Sith Knight picked her up and cleaned her up before eating his last meal with the family and setting off.
Yet, he was not to see either of them for a very long time. The slavers managed to catch Bianca off guard the night after Darth Apparatus left. She managed to evade their attempts to capture her and Ryori at the home and managed to get away on a speeder. However even after a long chase, the slavers managed to capture Bianca and Ryori, leaving behind Bianca's crossbow Varric as a taunt for Darth Apparatus.
When Darth Apparatus returned to the home, he discovered Varric on the counter and realized the inevitable. In rage, he destroyed the house and its surroundings with the Force save for Varric. He took the crossbow and went off in serach for Bianca. For over a year, he followed the slaver's galactic organization following each piece of evidence he could find as well as destroying every encampment he found. Eventually, he found one slave compound already devastated before his arrival. There, he discovered a necklace he had given to Bianca that held a holo-image of their daughter amongst the charred bodies
It was then that Darth Apparatus assumed she was gone forever. However, he did not know that she was till alive and that their paths nearly crossed several times. He still gave up on his search after finding Bianca's necklace. He returned to their last home on Ruusan and buried the necklace along with the ring he was going to use to propose to her and fully embraced the idea of beginning a malevolent Sith Lord.
=== Return to Korriban ===
Darth Apparatus eventually came out of hiding as a more grotesque creature, and he found that the Sith factions have formed one called the Sith Council. Intrigued, Apparatus approached Korriban to discover that the old enemies of the Regnum were now allies. Apparatus was greeted by a former Jedi he had met on Yinchorr, Sophie Maurow. He then joined their ranks and began growing stronger. His first battle against the Jedi as a member as the Sith Council was on Ruusan. There, he became consumed by the Dark Side and unleashed a destructive Force attack. The effects were mostly negative, yet it unleashed a new type of beast within Apparatus, causing him to become mad.
This eventually led to the Mechanical Sith's indifference in life around him. That long change since the destruction of the Sith Empire was finally complete; he ceased to believe in the value of anyone other than himself. The line drawn between allies and enemies faded. The world became a solid shade of gray.
During the rest of his time as a Sith Knight, Darth Apparatus gave clear examples of his total disregard in the lines drawn between alliances. On Endor, he began studying a recent outbreak of a dangerous disease linked to the Dark Side. During his time on Endor, he infected a Jedi, Tahira Solo. He did not bother to stay on Endor to further observe the sickness's progression on her, as he was impeded by a rogue Sith, Thistle Hinata.
After a Jedi attack on Korriban, Apparatus came across a young former Jedi Knight known then as Darth Grimm. After a brief fight, in which Darth Apparatus was the victor, he learned that Grimm wished to journey toward the Sith Temple and destroy it. The Sith was willing to let this manipulator of thousands of droids to pass and attack the Sith Temple, even though Darth Apparatus was supposedly allied with the Sith Council. Darth Apparatus carefully watched from a distance of the carnage below until a spiteful presence, Anesia Jy’Vun, made itself known. Apparatus quickly met up with the angered witch and had a brief duel against her. He escaped the duel, certain that he would lose without a well thought out plan. Grimm's invasion ended with no success, and Darth Apparatus ceased to have any contact with him.
Darth Apparatus also trained gained another apprentice during his tenure at the Sith Council. This apprentice was, however, the son of Venge Draclau, Christian Maruzllo-Draclau. The Sith was intrigued with this boy the reason that he was the son of a man that frequently antagonized Malice Draclau. Darth Apparatus’s ties to Malice would serve as amusement for this rather odd Master and Apprentice relationship. Darth Apparatus noticed that Christian was a civilized being, feeling that he should not submit to his own temper. To counter Christian’s resolve for resisting desire, Darth Apparatus constantly finds ways to agitate the young boy. However, Darth Apparatus was quick to grow bored of the boy, and abandoned him so that he be raised by a more fitting master, his cousin.
== Sith Master, pre-Corruption ==
Near the dawn of his thirtieth birthday, Darth Apparatus was officially dubbed a Sith Master. With the new title came new privaledges. He found himself bored of the Galaxy, looking for a new purpose. That would come later in an unexpected offer.
===Governor of Onderon===
Darth Apparatus found that there had been a vacancy in the governorship of Onderon. Looking for an opportunity to find entertainment, he was quick to take the title. However, he was also quick to forget the duties of a governor. He almost abandoned the weak Onderon, even when it was under attack by the Galactic Empire. Luckily, Onderon's safety was insured when a group of powerful Sith traded Malice Draclau for an alliance. Darth Apparatus was able to hold onto the governorship, and the political strain that came from the battle was quickly suppressed.
It was not long before Darth Apparatus's view of Onderon slowly began to change. He took more control over the monarchy and even gained considerable influence over Queen Darrina. Which her "consent", he began to amass a strong military of united Onderon people. It took him a while to create the image to the Onderon people as a tough yet fair ruler. So long as the Queen did not voice her opinions, Darth Apparatus was free to do almost whatever he wished. He formulated a plan in order to further unite Onderon and create an even greater empire than Freedon Nadd could ever imagine.
===Invasion of Naboo===
The Sith Council collectively assembled behind a Sith Master named Judas Iscariot and attacked the Jedi's homeworld of Naboo. Darth Apparatus chose to participate in the invasion and came across a Jedi Master known as Kahne Porte. The two skilled swordsmen began a duel that lasted several minutes until interrupted by another Jedi Master, Hawk Hinata. Darth Apparatus was immediately in a disadvantage and had to think of a way to escape alive. Another Sith, Garith Darkhold, proved to be useful in distracted Hawk and Kahne several times. When he was ready, Darth Apparatus prepared himeslf to use a powerful technique he had rediscovered from a long lost Sith Holocron. By concentrating a violent amount of Darkside energy to his fingertips, Darth Apparatus was able to create a powerful blast that was enough to destroy anything it touched. Both Kahne and Hawk were able to escape the blast untouched, yet Darth Apparatus suffered damage in his mechanical arm. Unable to fight, Darth Apparatus chose to retreat from Naboo. The Sith Council would fail to completely capture the planet, yet caused significant damage to the Jedi Council.
===The Turning of Mike Zenima===
One day, Darth Apparatus found himself on Yinchorr, a planet he had not visited in years. When he approached a ruined Jedi Temple, Darth Apparatus was quick to discover a Jedi Master, Mike Zenima, in doubt about the Jedi Council and its efforts to save the Galaxy. When the Jedi's Padawan, Rek Burgan, appeared, Darth Apparatus thought it was appropriate to "say hello". Mike Zenima was quick to draw his blade an attack Darth Apparatus. The Darth, however, did not attack back and was more content with taunting Mike Zenima. This "fight" was taken into the ruined temple as Darth Apparatus continued his taunting. Because of Mike's previous doubts, it was easy for Darth Apparatus to push the Jedi Master emotionally until he attacked with only anger and revenge. As the fight continued, the ruined temple began to crumble and collapse.
In this moment, Mike Zenima realized that he had become a Sith in spirit and decided to join the Sith Council. However, his Padawan was unable to let Mike go. Rek attempted to knock Mike out, yet had his arm sliced off. Just before he blacked out, Rek attempted one, last sacrificial attack in order to stop Mike Zenima by bringing down the entire temple. Darth Apparatus escaped the collapse and did not look back to see if either Mike or Rek survived the temple's collapse. He left Yinchorr after forgetting what why he was on the planet in the first place.
===Dominique ===
Nearing thirty-five, Darth Apparatus was hunted down by an unbearably stubborn foe. Eventually, that foe was revealed to be a little girl, no more than ten. The girl claimed that she was Dominique , daughter of the Darth. Even if no DNA test was administered, the Darth searched his feelings and discovered that the girl's words were true. He reluctantly accepted the girl into his life. It was not long, however, before he discovered Dominique's thirst for blood, comparable to his own when he was younger. Eventually, he opened up to the fact of having a daughter, and came to accept her more than his estranged son, Sephiroth Marzullo. Unfortunately, Dominique did not have an affinity to the Force. That did not excuse her from joining the Empire. The two of them continue to have a close relationship, with the Darth still keeping his feelings to a minimum, knowing his plans would have no room for extra baggage.
===Death Star's Destruction===
One day, outlaws managed to attack and take over the Death Star. As part of a contingency plan, Darth Apparatus employed the services of Chaos Maxtor in an effort to keep the Death Star from the hands of the outlaws. It was part of a two pronged attacked, which required both Chaos and Darth Apparatus to hid from the outlaws. Darth Apparatus hid in the kitchen after he discovered that one outlaw used insane prostitutes to take over the Death Star. The Darth's logic was that the prostitutes would never go into a kitchen.
Once the Darth emerged from his hiding space, he quickly made it to the engine control room. There, he met an outlaw posing as a trooper. Keeping to his usually skeptical demeanor, and not willing to listen to anyone, the Darth pushed through in order to stop Death Star's dangerous trip through Hyperspace. However, he was unable to stop the Death Star in time and it emerged from Hyperspace in the Coruscant system.
However, Chaos managed to succeed in his part of the plan. He managed to overload the core of the Death Star. However, in the process, Chaos was killed. Darth Apparatus managed to escape the Death Star with his daughter, shooting off into space in a transport only to watch the Death Star explode just a few hundred miles from Coruscant's surface. The result was Coruscant's surface getting ravaged by the debris, something similar as to what happened with the Ewoks after the second Death Star Palpatine's Empire built was destroyed.
===Conquest of Utapau===
After several months of work, one of Darth Apparatus's colleagues, Venge Draclau, made the necessary maneuvers to buy out a sinkhole on Utapau. In that sinkhole, Venge built a large device that could create an EMP that would have been capable of knocking out all electronics in the entire system. Darth Apparatus was stationed on Utapau as a representative of the Sith, and managed to get the Pau'an people to accept the Sith and Imperials that lived in the Sith Hole as citizens of Utapau. The Pau'ans were unaware of the device.
The newly created Alliance managed to get word of this device and sent a strike force to destroy it. Because of outlaws dumping spice Sith Hole, most of the Sith and Imperial troopers were unable to fight off the task Force. Venge Draclau, for a reason unknown to Darth Apparatus, activated the device at only half a percent of its maximum output. The result was Darth Apparatus being disable in three of his four limbs. As the strike force pushed further into the sinkhole, it was apparent that the Darth could not fight them off. Chaos Maxtor, however, eventually arrived and managed to save Darth Apparatus before he was struck down by Jedi Master Kyp Durron. The two of them escaped the sinkhole and almost made it out on a transport. However, Caleb Torran, in a Jedi starfighter, shot missiles at the transport. Realizing this, Chaos threw Darth Apparatus out of the transport to a safe distance. He died when the missiles struck the transport, totally disintegrating his body.
After an Imperial orbital strike destroyed the EMP device, which fell into outlaw hands, Darth Apparatus was helpless against the Jedi that surrounded him. However, Santeria Decuir managed to swoop in with a Dactillion and saved the Darth before he was captured. Later, after Imperial forces managed to convince the Pau'ans that the Alliance was not to the trusted, Darth Apparatus further sealed the deal with his plea of pathos, saying the Jedi ruthlessly attacked the Sith Hole, carefully not telling them of the EMP device.
===Invasion of Geonosis===
The Sith and Empire made a joint effort to invade and conquer the Rebel planet Geonosis. Darth Apparatus led a sizable ground force to attack and conquer a droid factory before moving onto the main objective, the control spire. During the initial invasion, Darth Apparatus was slowed by a clone general known as Nomad. The attacking forces were brought to a halt. However, a gigantic zillo beast emerged from below the surface and wreaked havoc on troops of both sides. Nomad and his troops fell back into the droid factory. Taking advantage of this, Darth Apparatus pushed forward and into the factory.
After he ordered the troops to go in and take the factory from the rebels, Darth Apparatus quickly found himself engaged with Nomad in an intense duel. Both fighters found themselves evenly matched, as Nomad had the right tools, equipment, and physical stature in order to fight toe-to-toe against a Sith Master. The fight eventually ended with both Darth Apparatus and Nomad wounded and exhausted. When other Rebels discovered the duel, Darth Apparatus realized it was time to break off the fight. He was gracious enough to know that he kept such a powerful foe from the less than capable stormtroopers.
However, the Sith and Imperial forces were unable to push further into the droid factory. Darth Apparatus realized this and called for a strategic retreat. Neither the Sith nor Imperial forces were able to fight a war of attrition on a Rebel planet. However, he knew that one day he would be back on Geonosis in order to conquer the planet. The Darth was excited at the chance of one day finishing the fight with Nomad.
===Attempts to become Dark Lord of the Sith===
During his tenure as a Sith Master of the Sith Council, Darth Apparatus eventually had aspirations to become the Dark Lord of the Sith. This lead him to researching the title for any prophecies as well as procedures to become one. He eventually happened upon a prophecy which basically gave the Sith titles as gods. He also took upon himself to make this prophecy come true, confiding with Sophie Maurow on making sure it was true.
However, not all happened as planned, so Darth Apparatus decided he had to unite the Sith under his name by Force. His chance came in the form of the resurrected Kith Veloron. She along with Darth Skiazo, Skelosh Delaroche, Mortuus Assyr, and Lord Valentai found the current Sith regime to be lacking in action. Having been placed upon the High Council earlier, Darth Apparatus decided to lead this group to one of their deliberations to begin chaos.
While the group's attentions were basically to inform the Sith that action was required and that only those that acting more than talked deseved to be called Sith, Darth Apparatus intended for the situation to devolve into a fight. Everything went as he predicted it to occur as the Sith in delegation immediately began voicing their concerns that the Sith group were only interested in their own greed. Darth Apparatus coaxed Santeria Decuir to attack Mortuus Assyr in order to truly begin the fighting and watched as the scene devolved into a brawl.
Yet, Kith and her group were unable to wipe out the Sith that opposed them. This created a wide splinter in the Sith Council that had since been growing wider. Darth Apparatus realized that it was pointless to unite the Sith and forgone any more attempts to take the title of Dark Lord. Like Darth Bane, he knew it was best to start over and begin with just two: one to embody power and the other to crave it. From there, he began to search for ways to bring the Sith to true greatness.
Even since then, there were several Sith that claimed Darth Apparatus to be the Dark Lord. Those that did include: Chaos Maxtor, Archon Kaan, Vishk Tarron, Moira Vu Noi, Sophie Maurow and several others. Whether or not they still regarded Darth Apparatus as the Dark Lord of the Sith since then was unknown. Several Sith reognized him as a pretender to the title while not voicing any support, which include those such as Ket Limelight. Malice Draclau, Venge Draclau, Santeria Decuir, and others directly opposed the pretender. This rift made it impossible for the Darth to truly ever be recognized as the Dark Lord of the Sith.
===Meeting Another Long Lost Daughter===
 
While participating in the Tournament of the Saber, Darth Apparatus was pitted against a young Jedi named Ryori Holloway. At first, this match appeared inconsequential. However, Darth Apparatus quickly realized through the Force that Ryori was his own daughter. He also commented on that he could even point out who her mother was due to the remarkable resemblance Ryori had with her.
The revelation to Ryori was hardly emotional. Both Darth Apparatus and Ryori accepted their relation as it was - purely biological. Still, Darth Apparatus took every moment he could to point out every similarity between the them.
A heated duel between the two followed. In the end, Ryori advanced due to decision.
==Sith Master, post-Corruption==
In the beginning of his masterhood, Darth Apparatus was well in control of his ambition and desires. It was only until his journey to Kesh that he was corrupted by a mysterious force. This led to a spiraling decay of his previous motive and inspirations and transformed the Darth into a true monster.
===A Dark Apprentice, Moira Vu Noi===
In a move he hardly did, Darth Apparatus took up an apprentice. He hardly trained apprentices, as they have all died or deserted through the process. He also found the entire process to be needlessly time consuming. However, he found one particularly interesting apprentice with the potential to serve him well.
Moira Vu Noi approached Darth Apparatus at the temple on Onderon. She intrigued the Sith Lord in being a Vahlan oracle. He hoped to use her in order to get a glimpse of the future and find knowledge long lost.
However, Moira was more obsessed with the Darth than he had expected. Since she was a small child, she was plagued by visions of some dark man. When she was able, she searched the galaxy from him out of curiosity. This curiosity eventually evolved into unending obsession. Once she found Darth Apparatus, she pledged everything to him. 
Knowing this, Darth Apparatus took her unwavering loyalty for granted. Being an avid follower of Darth Bane's philosophies, especially on the Rule of Two, the Darth knew that he could not keep her as a true apprentice until she wanted to kill him.
After training her for some time, he used her supernatural abilities to find the location of the Lost Tribe of the Sith on Kesh. Knowing that Moira was able to rise to the ranks of Sith Knight, he called this visit to Kesh her trial. There, they faced endless waves of the xenophobic Lost Tribe. He followed Moira's visions to an underground cavern that housed the ancient Sith ship Omen. 
In this cavern, the grandmaster of the Lost Tribe and his apprentice faced Moira and Darth Apparatus in a battle. However, the elderly grandmaster ordered his apprentice to not interfere in what would be a two-on-one fight. In the middle of the duel, Darth Apparatus used the Darkside ability Drain Knowledge to extract information from the grandmaster. This was easily achieved as the Darth had driven one of his lightsabers into the grandmaster the moment he attempted this technique. The grandmaster quickly died. Instead of his body going limp and falling to the ground, the grandmaster dissolved into thin air.
The battle was not over, though. The apprentice, no longer tied by her master, attacked Darth Apparatus and Moira. She proved to be more capable than the grandmaster. However, she ended up being possessed by the spirit of the grandmaster. Instead of assisting his apprentice, Darth Apparatus was mentally crippled by the sheer amount of knowledge he had ripped out of the grandmaster's mind. Moira fought the possessed apprentice alone, even after the Darth was able to sort through the information. The grandmaster proved to not be used to the apprentice's body, severely limiting his potential to fight. Moira eventually tapped into a deep well of anger. Empowered by her rage, she struck down the possessed apprentice.
Once again, the grandmaster's spirit was not cosigned to Chaos. It took a female form above the Darth and Moira. It warned Moira that she would either suffer the same fate as the grandmaster's apprentice or much worse one as part of Darth Apparatus's sacrifice.
Both Darth Apparatus and Moira managed to return to the ship immediately. Once there, Darth Apparatus claimed that Moira had passed the test and bestowed upon her the rank of Sith Knight and title of Darth Isolda. However, during their quick journey back to the shuttle and his declaration of Moira becoming passing the trials, it became more apparent that something had happened back when Darth Apparatus drained the Grand Master of his knowledge.
Then, Darth Apparatus told the newly christened Darth Isolda to take what she had craved all this time. However, it was just another test for the young Sith, as Darth Apparatus viewed her training to be incomplete so long as he was alive. It turned out that Darth Isolda had a dark love for the Sith Lord, as much as love as any being as evil as her could have. Yet, she desired his power even more as it turned out she had been playing the part of the completely obedient apprentice all along. In her visions, she saw that coming to Kesh would bring them to the Grand Master, who held the secret to eternal life. Using the being that had haunt her dreams for her entire life, she managed to lure him to Kesh and steal this knowledge. At the shuttle, she then decided to take that from Darth Apparatus and truly complete her training.
Darth Apparatus was not entirely certain that she was playing him all along. His suspicions were always there, yet the mask Darth Isolda had was perfect. When it began to fade away, Darth Apparatus came t to realize that he held the same dark obsession that Moira held for him. He nearly believed that he could rule the galaxy with her forever before remembering his own Sith philosophy. Love, of any kind, was a weakness to the Darth as it taught him mercy. As Darth Isolda armed herself, he did the same with the intentions of killing his near complete apprentice.
However, as their duel began, whatever the Grand Master left behind began to take hold of the Darth. His own desires became corrupted and conflicted with each other. He desired Darth Isolda and for her to become a perfect apprentice, as well as power for himself. During the early parts of the duel, the Darth was conflicted over what to do.
It was only until Darth Isolda shocked him with Force Lightning by his own will that the Darth finally came to a conclusion. He told Darth Isolda the process of immotality, which required anchoring one's soul akin to how Exar Kun did with over five hundred souls. Then, a sacrifice of one's kind was necessary to become the new vessel. Darth Apparatus decided that he would create the vessel with Darth Isolda's body.
Using the Force to continue to move his body after being electrocuted, Darth Apparatus returned Force Lightning to Darth Isolda and overwhelmed her. After beating her and electrocuting her for a little more, he force himself upon her and proceeded to conceive the sacrifice he desired. After the deed was done, Darth Isolda took her revenge by stabbing Darth Apparatus in the kidney, adding another scar for him to remember.
As the shuttle exited Hyperspace and approached Iziz, Darth Apparatus violently threw her out of the shuttle in mid air. He also called the authorities to pick her up and heal her while he went away to another system in the galaxy.
===Prison Break on Hoth===
During an unprecedented prison break on Hoth, Darth Apparatus quickly traveled to the planet to help prevent any prisoners from escaping. Accompanied by several dozen stormtroopers, he waited for almost an hour in the cold in just outside the prison's blast doors in order to prevent any from escaping. Eventually, a horde of prisoners made it past the blast doors. Nomad, an Alliance general that the Darth fought before, led the prisoners.
This ensued in the second duel between Darth Apparatus and Nomad. It was an uphill battle for Nomad, who had just fought another Sith Master with nothing but prison clothes and a shard of glass. Nomad managed to stay resourceful enough to stay alive, as he stole one of the Darth's lightsabers.
Several outside events also assisted Darth Apparatus in the battle, such as a ship being shot down and crashing on top of Darth Apparatus. Nomad was also below the ship when it crashed, yet Darth Apparatus saved him by indiscriminately erecting a protective Force bubble.
However, Darth Apparatus emerged from the wreckage in an incredibly enraged state. Drowning in his wrath, the Darth viciously continued his attack on Nomad - well past the clone trooper's breaking point. Being no ordinary man, Nomad was determined to win freedom for him and the rest of the prisoners.
Eventually, an LAAT/i gunship spotted several red lightsabers through the light smoke of the wreckage and opened fired on the assumption that both Nomad and Darth Apparatus were Sith. The dual ended with Darth Apparatus being thrown far away from Nomad - allowing the Alliance general and the rest of the prisoners to escape on outlaw transports.
===Abduction of Adrianna Fiore===
On Endor, Darth Apparatus searched for possibly the key to creating a new Death Star. Many other high profile citizens of the galaxy descended upon the moon to retrieve this device. The Darth discovered Adrianna Fiore, a Jedi Master attempting to bring order to the troubled planet, along with her friend Rianna Organa, another Jedi Master. Darth Apparatus, along with several other Sith, attacked the Jedi. However, his attention quickly focused on Adrianna Fiore.
Eventually, the Darth noticed that she was pregnant. After asking, he learned that the father of Adrianna's child was Malice Draclau. Immediately, Darth Apparatus ceased to fight Adrianna for the purpose of killing her and attempted to subdue her. It did not take long before she was knocked out by the Darth's power and taken from Endor.
Darth Apparatus took Adrianna to an Imperial prison on Alderaan. However, it was not long before Malice Draclau found him. Darth Apparatus attempted to justify his actions to the fellow Sith Lord by explaining that he desired to revive Dark Underlord with the child as his vessel. Whether or not this was his true intention was unknown. Regardless, Malice did not agree with the idea and attacked Darth Apparatus. Their struggle allowed Adrianna the chance to escape, and their fight immediately ceased. Darth Apparatus chose not to pursue Adrianna, realizing it would have been too much trouble to achieve what he wanted from her.
===Attack on Necropolis===
When the Nightsisters left the Sith Council, Malice Draclau immediately organized a strike against their new homeworld: Necropolis. Darth Apparatus was among the attacking Sith and immediately went after their civilians in a village away from the main fighting.
In just no time, Darth Apparatus came across a young Nightsister named Kalina Volk. Immediately, Darth Apparatus began to attack her, attempting to strike her down at all costs. He came close several times to ending her life before several Nightbrothers came to help her.
Kalina and the three Nightbrothers, one being Christian Draclau, someone Darth Apparatus attempted to train, fought Darth Apparatus in an ancient church on Necropolis. They fight lasted for a long time and Darth Apparatus managed to stay on top despite being outnumbered. Darth Apparatus focused on Kalina Volk, however, due to a feeling he had.
After several minutes, Venge Draclau, another Sith Master, appeared and immediately subdued Christian Draclau. The ancient temple at that point could not bear the conflict and began to crumble, so Darth Apparatus moved outside and continued to fight Dhani Marzullo.
When Kalina Volk ran toward a forest, Darth Apparatus immediately abandoned his attempt in killing Dhani and chased after Kalina. He managed to corner her with little effort. Then, Darth Apparatus showed her a supposed vision of the future, saying that she was denying herself this future by staying with the Sith. With enough coercion, Kalina was convinced to become Darth Apparatus's new apprenice.
Then, a Zabrak Nightbrother Knight appeared and attempted to prevent Kalina from turning against the Nightsisters. His efforts were in vain as both Kalina and Darth Apparatus attacked him and tossed him into the forest. They immediately left the planet after that to begin her training.
===Cleansing of Korriban===
When the Rogue Jedi Order attacked Korriban, Darth Apparatus was on the other side of the galaxy. Upon immediately hearing of the attack, he made his way to Korriban as fast as possible. Some say his roar could be heard throughout the entire galaxy.
After making it to Korriban, Darth Apparatus eventually confronted a Sith Apprentice named Delilah Nepenthe. She was a Firrerreo adopted by a high class family of Onderon, so he immediately recognized her. However, he knew in another way. During the battle, Darth Apparatus revealed to Delilah that she was actually his own daughter, suggesting that she was adopted into Onderon's high-class society because of other means. The revelation that Darth Apparatus was her father shook Delilah. She contemplated as whether to kill him for abandoning her or follow in his footsteps, beginning the uneasy relationship between the two.
Eventually, the Sith repelled the Rogue Jedi Order from Korriban, securing their homeworld for another day.
===Infiltration of Dathomir===
Eventually after splitting from the Sith, the Nightsisters launched a massive attack against the Alliance by invading Dathomir. Their drive was to take back their homeworld they lost after being exiled. The battle was massive, occurring on nearly all corners of the planet and in its orbit. Eventually, the Empire and other Nightsister allies joined the battle in their own interests.
Darth Apparatus recognized the chaos and infiltrated Dathomir with Darth Isolda after a sexual rendezvous with her. He informed other Sith to only attack non-Sith in order to give them a chance of taking Dathomir from under both the Nightsister and Jedi. However, many Sith did not heed this advice, giving the Sith Lord further reason to not attempt to unification.
When Darth Isolda and Darth Apparatus reached Dathomir's surface, they immediately went to Santeria's mansion. They found a few Nightsister stragglers attempting to relive some nostalgia and immediately killed them. Even after searching the mansion, they did not find what they were searching for and took off to the nearby caves and tombs.
Word was that they did find the object they went to Dathomir to find. The battle was simple a secondary objective to their plans, so it did not bother them that the Jed managed to win the war of attrition against the Nightsisters.
===Purification of Naboo===
Reyven Samoth funded the creation of a Super-Star Destroyer christed the Devourer. He invited the Sith of the galaxy to tour the potential destructiveness of the ship as well as partake in a feast. Darth Apparatus entered the dining hall as many of the Sith were still eating and drinking. It was then that he recalled the words of Kith Veloren as they stormed the Sith Council. He could see that the biggest problem with the Sith still remained: they were content to sit around and do nothing rather than use the warship they were on. However, with a little taunt, Darth Apparatus managed to get the Devourer and its escorts to shift their course toward Naboo and begin a strike against the Jedi.
When the Sith reached Naboo, several went on their own separate ways as Darth Apparatus and Darth Isolda walked up to the Jedi temple gates. The Jedi were in a group meditation as the two Sith approached. However, Ryori Holloway immediately sense her own father and rushed for the grand foyer to confront her father. Darth Apparatus's reaction upon seeing her was with silence.
Yet, Darth Apparatus and Darth Isolda did not infiltrate the temple alone. Just behind him was a dropship carrying scores of Sith, which crashed through the temple gates much like the Sith had done to Coruscant in the days of the Old Republic. Once the Sith began to swarm out, Darth Apparatus ignited a long handle crimson lightsaber and began to fight Ryori and her Jedi Padawan and love interest, Ahote Hawk.
===Finding Bianca Again===
One night on an Imperial world, Darth Apparatus was informed by an Imperial that a thief had snuck aboard a ship and began stealing everything. Reluctantly, Darth Apparatus went to this ship to confront the outlaw. Once he found this outlaw, he discovered that it was Bianca Holloway, who he had not seen for over two decades.
The two had an emotional reunion, with Darth Apparatus first being unable to accept the fact that Bianca had survived after he was certain of her death. He was nearly convinced that all he was seeing was a ghost of his past. While she looked slightly aged from her early twenties, she seemed to be just the same person physically as the last time he saw her. It was when she began to speak to Darth Apparatus that he realized that this was the real Bianca Holloway he had lost long ago.
Then, Darth Apparatus was in conflict with his own Sith code. Love was forbidden, as it taught him mercy. He struggled against his own desires for power and Bianca. The two had an emotional reunion, embracing each other for minutes. They began to reconnect their hearts, with Bianca finally managing to reignite his love for her by revealing that she had the ring and necklace he buried long ago.
Immediately, Darth Apparatus placed the ring on Bianca's finger, essentially completely the proposal he wanted to do over twenty years ago. They were married on the spot as the captain discovered them.
=Personality and traits=
When he was young, Darth Apparatus was quiet to himself. He hardly kept any relationships after he escaped his master. The hate he had built up because of his years of mistreatment fueled the Force sensitive boy's connection to the Dark Side. Through the confidence that the Dark Side gave him, Darth Apparatus became very confident of himself. He would usually enter battles at the drop of the hap regardless of the opponent. His actions were usually not the wisest, and he would occasionally brag about the occasionally awe inspiring feats he displayed. His immature behavior was probably the last remnant of any humanity. His evil actions could have easily been explained by the simple fact that he was an immature young adult that did not have a solid moral compass.
What stood out about Darth Apparatus was his insatiable desire for power. That, coupled with his immature behavior, he frequently betrayed companions for who appeared to be the strongest. This craving for power did not stop even after he was officially knighted. However, it was when he turned 25 after he was knighted that there was a gradual change in Darth Apparatus's personality. He began to distance himself from his given name and took up a Darth title. He would frequently hide his face behind masks or the shadow of a hood. He was slower to act, yet his deeds were just as heinous as when he was young.
By the time Darth Apparatus became a Sith Master, all possibilities of being a good person had vanished. The Darth's personality at that point could best be described as neutral evil. His main objective was making himself more powerful than anyone. The same distrust of any other beings continued, and his continuous betrayals became more thought out and planned. The Darth was indifferent to the life of other beings. The typical reason the Darth would kill anyone was because they were an inconvenience to his objectives that he could afford to destroy. He also had little regard for authority. On multiple occasions, he ignored advice and orders of high ranking officials just because they were a hindrance to his overall objective. The Darth also frequently hid his face behind and iron mask when he was a Sith Master. This allowed him to have the chance to infiltrate planets easily, as well as provide a way to hide any and all of his tells that may show through his facial expressions.
Darth Apparatus's relationships with others during his time as a Sith Master were hardly normal or mutual. Even those with his children were strained. He view romance as an unnecessary part of human life. Though, the Darth occasionally indulged in sexual activities, as evident through his children. Though, such activities became less and less frequent. Bianca Holloway's return in his life helped healed a lot of probles the Darth had with his relationships with other people. However, even his own philosophy of the Sith strained that relationship.
==Relationships with other people==
===Malice Draclau===
While Darth Apparatus had two masters before becoming a Sith Knight, it was not until he met Malice Draclau that he found a mentor and superior to follow. Being Sith, their relationship was very rocky. Malice keenly recognized the possibility of Darth Apparatus continuing to betray the Sith orders he had previously been a part of. Darth Apparatus did tasks in the then Lord Famine's name and helped lead armies for the Four Horseman.
It was not until Sky Kerberos, then Lady Conquest, brought down Malice that what had been his seemingly unwavering loyalty to the Sith Lord began to fade. Darth Apparatus began to act out more on his own and he became increasingly defiant against Malice upon his return to the galaxy. They have sense had minor conflicts, one being Darth Apparatus leading Darth Molor and her entourage into the Sith Council chambers and another by abducting the mother of his own child. Their conflict would likely continue until one of them was destroyed forever.
===Bianca Holloway===
Darth Apparatus first met Bianca when she was first awoken after thousands of years in cryogenic sleep. Immediately interested in Bianca and how she could adapt, he decided to take her along with him through the galaxy. Upon hearing of the disease she bore, Darth Apparatus easily managed to find a way to cure her. At first, Bianca was terrified of Darth Apparatus being a Force sensitive being until she realized that it was to her benefit. The two would continue to travel together for several years after leaving her home planet.
After two years, both Bianca and Darth Apparatus realized their love for each other and began a romantic relationship. She had a child, Ryori Holloway, which Darth Apparatus wished would become a powerful Sith one day. However, both Bianca and Ryori were separated from the Darth after being captured by slavers. It took over two decades before he found Bianca once again. After and intense, emotional reunion, Darth Apparatus decided to make an attempt in spending the rest of his life with Bianca despite the conflict he had as a Sith.
===Darth Isolda===
While Darth Apparatus had attempted to train many apprentices, it was not until he trained Darth Isolda that he found one truly worthy of learning his powers. At first glance, their relationship seemed to be simply Moira following Darth Apparatus's every command. However, as she revealed on Kesh, it had been a plan all along for Moira to gain even more power. The newly christened Darth Isolda did have feelings for the Sith Lord, even if such feelings of love were too corrupted by evil to ever be called such by a normal person.
However, Darth Apparatus did end up developing feelings of his own for his apprentice. He viewed her as a near perfect Sith, much like himself, and the revelation of her plot made him even more infatuated with her. Yet, being Sith following a philosophy similar to the Rule of Two, both knew that one of them eventually had to kill the other.
Even after their first duel against each other, both Darth Apparatus and Darth Isolda continued to encounter each other as their motivations and goals frequently matched the other. With Darth Apparatus, Darth Isolda had twins which she named Setesh and Sokara Vu Noi. Darth Apparatus had yet to meet them by the time of the invasion of Naboo, yet he did know of their existence. When Bianca Holloway and Darth Apparatus rediscovered her, he attempted to forsake whatever obsession he had left of Darth Isolda in order to be with his first love.
===Ryori Holloway===
When Ryori Holloway still lived with Darth Apparatus at an early age, he arguably loved her at that time. Darth Apparatus planned to lead Ryori down the same road of darkness that he took much like other Sith Lords such as Maliace Draclau had attempted with their own children. However, when he rediscovered her over two decades later as a Jedi, that love was swiftly replaced by pure hatred only because of who she fought for. Darth Apparatus made it clear in their first duel against each other that he would kill her if given the chance, yet he still had a desire to have her renounce her Jedi ways and join the Sith.
=Powers and abilities=
==Lightsaber training==
As a member of the Sith Empire, Darth Apparatus was trained in the basics of lightsaber combat. He had multiple masters that helped him learn the basics of several lightsaber forms. 
During his time as a Sith Knight, Darth Apparatus favored single-bladed combat with powerful strikes. These went hand in hand with his brutal, chaotic personality. It also helped that such a fighting prowess was augmented by the strength of his mechanical limbs. During the height of his time as a Knight, Darth Apparatus usually never utalized Force powers during a duel, relying only on swordsmanship. This usually resulted in him losing ranged battles.
Once he became a Sith Master, Darth Apparatus continued to refine his lightsaber abilities. Like all great Sith warriors, he developed his own fighting style, unique to himself. He encorporated fundamental elements of Makashi into a twin lightsaber fighting style. Most of his attacks were precise. He frequently aimed for weak points, such as a blind side or the neck when fighting armored foes. His physical strength allowed him to fight with two lightsabers without being overpowered easily. He also frequently gave ground when being pushed, so he could both save energy and stamina as well as prevent his own blades from being pushed into his body.
A strong advantage in the Darth's fighting style was its diversity. He could go from a fast, precise technique to a strong, powerful technique in a split second. Twin strikes usually shocked opponents not expecting a powerful strike from a dual wielding enemy. Darth Apparatus's fighting style also allowed him to either go on an all-out offensive, constantly attacking foes from different angles, or an aggresive defense, by defending an opponent's attack with one blade then simultaneously attacking with the free blade.
What was possibly the deadliest feature of Darth Apparatus's lightsaber combat was the use of deception and trickery. He frequently entered battle with both lightsaber hilts in hand, yet only one was ignited. It allowed him to have more control over the Force, yet it also allowed him to get in close to opponents and attack with the, most likely, forgotten unignited lightsaber. He frequently used Tràkata, exploitation of the lightsaber's ability to turn on and off, in order to break blocks and confuse opponents. The Darth also frequently feined defeat in order for the opponent to even let their guard down for one moment. Darth Apparatus also frequently kicked, punched, and elbowed opponents that were too close to strike with a lightsaber. If it was not for him wearing an iron mask, it would have been likely that he bit opponents. The Darth was also not above throwing sand and other objects into the face of opponents in order to gain an advantage. He frequently used the Force in his attacks as a Sith Master, no longer needing intense concentration like he needed when he was a Sith Knight.
==Force powers==
As a Sith Master Darth Apparatus had formidable powers in the Force. This was mostly due to the psychological elements he embraced on being a Sith. He enveloped himself in his limitless ambition and hatred. This gave him a powerful grasp on the dark side.
Darth Apparatus managed to hone his skills with telekinesis. Rather than focusing on complicated, showy Force powers, Darth Apparatus saw the near limitless ability of just simple telekinesis. As a result, his tells for Force push and pull were usually very small. All that he required to focus his hate was a twitch of the muscle. His strikes in the Force were also very much like a punch, coming in hard and fast as if it was an extension of his own body.
This fine-tuning of his abilities in telekinesis also allowed the Darth to easily use it in the midst of lightsaber combat. He usually did not have to stop in order to pull off a powerful push. He would also frequently attempt t drag others with the Force into his own lightsaber blade.
The Darth also used novel ideas for Force telekinesis. During his duel against Ryori, the Darth slashed the trunks of nearby trees on Endor in order to weaken their integrity. He then used a single, powerful push in order to topple nearly all the trees near Ryori, nearly killing the then Jedi Padawan.
Darth Apparatus had some precognitive ability. This usually manifested in split second feelings of impending danger, which boosted his reaction time in combat. Darth Apparatus also frequently had dreams that vaguely foretold the future, including one he had most of his life which revolved around te death of Artemis Obauldi.
One of Darth Apparatus's most powerful techniques was Force Destruction. It was essentially a blast that destroyed nearly everything in a few meter radius. The Darth channeled his intense anger through his hand and toward his target. His first use of the technique resulted in the destruction of his arm. However, with practice, he managed to be able to shoot a red Force Destruction blast at will. Yet, like other practitioners of this skill, it was used sparingly due to the tremendous amount of energy it required.
Being a cyborg, Darth Apparatus never used Force Lightning. The use of such would most likely have disabled his limbs. However, he has shown at desperate times to have used his powerful technique in both a destructive and creative way. When his limbs were disabled on Utapau and a shuttle over Kesh, he enveloped them in the Force. Sparks of electricity could be seen on his arms, which he used in attempts to electrocute others through contact. The electricity and Force also allowed him to move his then useless limbs, yet his mobility was extremely limited.
=References=
=See Also=
Darth Apparatus's Trope page
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