Darth Kaos (RP)

*Subject to timey-wimey confusion - due to time travel and nonsense!*

## Darth Kaos

**Darth Kaos**, born as **Kára Volshe**, was a Force-sensitive Vahlan female. She was born in 44 BBY in Keren, Naboo. She served as a physician and Commodore, eventually in the Imperial Naval Medical Corps, before joining the Inquisitorius and the Ember of Vahl, eventually training as a Sith under Lumiya - and then joining the One Sith beneath the name Darth Kaos. She was killed in action after the broken timeline resulted in the One being sent back to face the Ewok Emperor.

## Biography - *Pre-Timeline Shift*

> *Pre-timeline shift - this does **not** follow the ‘corrupted’ timeline currently ongoing in flashback and source events.*
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### **Early Life**

Kára was born to a middle class family on Naboo, in the mountain city of Keren. Her mother, Michré, was a staunch supporter of the Republic and a scientist employed at the Keren Medical Centre. Her father, Jonpa, was an advisor for multiple Naboo businesses, moving frequently and temporarily to Theed and Kaadara. She had a brother, Chrisian, and a sister, Emiliana.

Her childhood was mostly uneventful. She possessed odd dream precognition, something that plagued her sleep and came on in erratic fashion. Mild Force attunement being far from uncommon for those of Vahlan ancestry, there was no reason to pursue such vague happenings.

Despite this challenge, her interests strongly lay in medical science and diplomacy, and thus she followed the path of many Naboo youth - experimenting with internships and junior academies offering education in both. Her family relocated to Theed for a time, then returned to Keren for their higher education.

At 14, she noticed intensifying of those unusual occurrences that she had passed off in her childhood. Glimpses in the corner of her eye, faint whispers, worsening nightmares. They lead to nothing, and so meant nothing, as her family assured her.

She accomplished excellent grades over the next two years, and at 16 was slated to enter a Core World university to pursue a doctorate in medical sciences. It was around this time of change and stress that her odd psyche began to crumble. Her mind began to slip, but she told no one about the whispers, the twisted beings that met her gaze in mirrors and the shadows, the dreams, or the feelings of unease that never left her. To tell anyone would be a sentencing to some institution, far from her gilded future.

### **Military Career**

#### ***The Rise of the Empire***

Upon achieving her doctorate from Aldera University‘s School of Medicine, and secondary specializations in Acute Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology from Theed University, Kára enlisted directly into the Republic military, within the medical corps. By this time she had experienced several tumultuous relationships and friendships, all a symptom of her greater condition. Bending beneath the stress of deployments and lack of stable social life, she turned to spice as more than just the occasional comfort.

Her next deployment in 19 BBY brought her to Dantooine, where she met Elgin Cvetkovic, then a Colonel in the Republic Military and a prominent politician of the Raioballo sector. Following an extended partnership, the two entered a romance and remained stationed in Raioballo or Chommell sectors, Elgin utilizing his influence to keep them together despite the chaos of the shifting political tide.

At the end of 19 BBY, Kára met Lassa Vodia, a sub-lieutenant in the Medical Corps serving below her. They became friends, serving a short term in the Outer Rim on missions before returning to Raioballo to continue efforts of the newly-formed Galactic Empire.

The formation of the Imperial Military after the rise of the Galactic Empire saw Kára promoted to Commodore, while Elgin rose to General. They both were stationed on Carida as of 17 BBY, her medical expertise granting her the ability to care for wounded in a hub of the Empire. Elgin and her married, the stability of their station more than most military could dream of.

The sanctity of her and Elgin's lives together were short-lived, for her mental state had continued its decline in the years since her graduation. Her spice use reached a peak, Elgin placing his own rank and pristine record on the line for her. He in fact tricked her into serious withdrawal, then arranging medical care near her family upon Theed. Her temporary leave from the Medical Corps was not taken well, and she faced disciplinary action shortly after her return, despite her recovery being incomplete and unsurprisingly, a failure - a fact she kept from Elgin.

She suffered a miscarriage after relapse into spice, her precognitive visions and hallucinations becoming even more intense during her recovery. She was admitted into a psychiatric hospital in her hometown of Keren, but the situation quickly escalated when she turned on a fellow patient and killed him. Her records were doctored and sealed at the request of Elgin, who had contacted both Crueya Vandron and Armand Isard to do so. She was released after some months, heavily sedated and unable to return to her career. She maintained a home on Naboo, but fell into depression whilst on her hiatus from her role in the military.

It was in 13 BBY that they finally divorced. After a brief and blissful recovery, her condition had worsened yet again. Though it was not as severe as her state four years prior, she became a risk too great to Elgin, who was seeking security for his life along with rank and achievement that she had endangered now a dozen times.

#### ***Leaving the Empire***

Now 31, Kára maintained rank and returned to Keren along with now-Captain Lassa Vodia, taking a position as a physician researcher at the city's medical center. Her tenure was short-lived, as her mental state reached a desperate low. For weeks she vanished from her normal life, unable to be reached by anyone but Lassa. Concerned, Lassa arranged psychiatric evaluation and contacted Vandron again, warning him of her friend's descent. It was upon discovering this that Kára fled Keren. Unwilling to risk losing what little livelihood and freedom she had, she then fled Naboo at large, following a hallucinogen-enhanced vision she had repeatedly witnessed in her feverish withdrawals from reality. It first brought her to Hutt Space and the Sith Worlds, but it soon became evident that was not her intended destination. The archives gave her a language, spun by her visions. That of the Vahla. She rented a ship under an alias, setting course for Serenno.

### **Serenno**

Her initial arrival in Carannia offered little solace. It was only a contact that found her, scouring a library in some corner of the city, that gave her any direction. They recognized the creature she had drawn as one of mountain folklore, which led her to a small town on the outskirts of the mountain region. Her visions intensified, but her search ended with fever gripping her - as it did much of the town. She was one of few to survive. A Vahlan healer discovered her still in the throes of illness, and learning of her ailment, brought her to the cult's settlement.

Her recovery amongst them lead the cult - the Ember of Vahl - to learning about her visions and the seeming-hallucinations she witnessed. Their knowledge brought new light to her suffering, as they declared her not only a Chosen of Vahl - but the supposed incarnation of their patron goddess. She had little choice but to undergo their rituals, the only promise that she would regain her sanity and harness that which plagued her.

The rituals were trying, harsh, and required physical pain as well as sacrifice. Though, she survived. And with her survival - she thrived, gaining a new command of the whispers of the Force and visions it provided her. She emerged with a new-found power and understanding, her skin scarred and painted, but her mind resilient.

#### ***The Ember of Vahl***

From 12 BBY to 4 BBY, Kára studied extensively, until she was seen fit to take the title of the cult’s lead, the true incarnation and voice of their goddess. Combined with the Dark Side teachings of the cult, and their history, she chose aptly to refer to herself as Chosen of Vahl. She delved into study of biology, manipulation of life, and the arcane. She led the Ember in their search of their homeworld, the lost rituals of the Vahla, and the true identity of Vahl. She continued to have visions, pursuing them on worlds such as Rhen Var and Yavin IV, even daring to enter enemy controlled space to investigate them. Though her mental illness was far from controlled, it was stable as a result of the Vahlan intervention, and she was able to lead the Chosen as well as the Ember in their desire for knowledge.

### **The Inquisitorius and Fall of the Empire**

The Galactic Empire began to prove a threat, and Volshe ventured to worlds of Imperial control. She acquired a new identity with her name and near-decade of experience, and in a bid to control the Empire's knowledge of the Vahlan cult, joined the Inquisitorius. Her efforts kept the Vahla out of public and Imperial focus.

In the time she spent serving the Inquisitors, she also made tenuous connections. She eventually left completely, her involvement already lessened after the end of the Purge in 1 BBY. She returned to the cult, taking a role of diplomacy, and continuing to strive for her newfound goals of power and immortality.

### **Lumiya**

In 6 ABY, Volshe, whilst traversing the Outer Rim discovered Lumiya, herself maintaining a low profile. The meeting sparked a tenuous, cautious alliance that eventually resulted in Lumiya - under the guise of a different name - as her master. Volshe continued to train beneath Lumiya for near the next decade. Her training did not end, formally, but dissolved as Lumiya shifted her focus and Volshe returned to the cult.

She continued to pursue the secrets that evaded the Vahla, though her discoveries were stifled by the ongoing conflicts between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic. As a dark side cult, the Vahla were at many points forced to seclude themselves on their worlds, to avoid facing consequences for their religion - despite the fact that they did not care to pursue Galactic politics or engage in petty wars.

**Kraytite Sith**

Volshe remained as a powerful figure of the Ember, and eventually garnered notice upon Serenno from a visiting Sith, associated with the Kraytites. Her visions had strengthened and they spoke of Krayt being not only powerful, but valuable as an ally. She allied herself with Krayt and his cause temporarily, taking the name of Iella Draav during their initial meetings upon Serenno.

She assumed a role of a lesser, weaker Sith from Coruscant, and began rumours of her "master's death" to remain out of direct notice and make it seem the Ember were now amenable to Krayt's demands, while simultaneously attempting to find opportunity to take over the Order.

However, she was soon betrayed by her then partner Darth Arktys in a moment of unexpected weakness on Khar Delba, with permanent consequences. A scar upon her thigh, and mental shift due to the severity of such a betrayal. She returned only a few years later to kill him, but failed. He fled to an unknown planet, and though she attempted to trace him, there was no sign of him in known space.

Against her better judgment, and her fear, she remained in the ranks, although now reassuming her title of Viscretus. She served Krayt's goals to ensure the continued survival of the Vahla, but eventually his plans seemed to threaten their very existence.

She vanished at some point prior to 120 ABY, returning to her tenuous alliance just as the Sith-Imperial War began. She left again shortly thereafter, in 129 ABY, the zealotous Order far too chaotic to meet her goals or satisfy her desires of immortality. However, she was not far removed from them - and occasionally re-entered the greater galaxy.

Her second exile alongside the Ember lasted only a few years, ending only as opportunity arose in 131 ABY. Though her hesitation to partake in the chaos of the Galaxy still remained, she returned to serve Krayt at the request of Darth Nihl, though she refused to do so as a full fledged One. During her exile she had adopted a son, Rand, and had a daughter, Nirai, raising them both from infancy. She did not bring them with her initially, believing Saffia and her homes a safer residence than any other place in the Galaxy. She acted in many capacities, at this time, many of which were unrecorded. At one point, however, it was recorded that she reprised her previous role as part of Intelligence as well as that of a physician, on Nar Shaddaa, and a senatorial aide.

## Biography - *Post-Timeline Shift*

Darth Kaos was sent back in time with the other One, and was subjected to the full force of the malevolent Ewoks - an undisclosed amount of time passing before such occurred. She fell victim to the Ewok Emperor, and then was killed in action, the year approximately being 14 ABY.