Maul Opress

> "The Sith took everything from me. Ripped me from my mother's arms, murdered my brother, used me as a weapon and then cast me aside. Abandoned me. Once, I had power, now I have nothing. Nothing."
>
> - Maul

## Summary

Maul Opress, commonly known as Maul, was a Zabrak male and formerly a Sith Apprentice to Darth Sidious. He was trained in the way of the dark side of the force and soon became a formidable enemy to his opponents. Leading the Shadow Collective comprising of the Pyke Syndicate, the Black Sun, and Death Watch, Maul was a powerful crime lord who commanded his forces from the shadows. Thought to be supposedly dead, this was just what he needed to plot his return to power.

## History

Born in 54 BBY on his homeworld of Dathomir, Maul showed great potential with his gift of force-sensitivity. Due to this he was swiftly picked up by Darth Sidious and trained to be his Apprentice.

After his tedious and painful training by Sidious, he was sent to re-capture the queen of Naboo, so the trade federation could make her sign the peace treaty; giving the trade federation the planet. Maul soon tracked the queen down to the planet of Tatooine, being accompanied by 2 Jedi ambassadors. Maul would use probe droids to locate the queen, finding her royal Naboo Starship landed on the outskirts of Mos Eisley. Maul would then ride his speeder-bike over towards the ship when he spotted one of the jedi, Qui Gon Jinn, and a young Anakin skywalker. Maul jumped off of his bike and engaged Qui Gon Jinn in a fierce duel while the young Anakin skywalker would board the ship, and the ship would begin to take off. Maul and Qui Gon Jinn continued to battle fiercely before Qui Gon Jinn jumped aboard the ship, and escaped, leaving Maul on the sandy ground beneath him.

Maul was then soon sent to Naboo to kill the two Jedi Ambassadors, Qui Gon Jinn and Obi Wan Kenobi. Maul hid in the shadows, and practiced his strategy and lightsaber swings. Until he had been alerted the Jedi had arrived, and he rushed to meet them, revealing himself to the two Jedi, igniting his lightsaber. The two Jedi engaged Maul, and maul seemingly used his knowledge of the facility to his advantage. Moving to a generator complex, the duel raged on, until maul knocked Obi Wan Kenobi down a level, separating the Jedi. Maul continued to lead the remaining Jedi, Qui Gon Jinn to a reactor shaft, with laser barriers. Obi Wan Kenobi caught up, but was unfortunately blocked by the timed Laser barriers. And suddenly then, Maul used the hilt of his saber to hit Qui Gon In the Face, stunning him, and then he stabbed him fatally through the torso, enraging Obi Wan Kenobi. Obi Wan Kenobi then rushed Maul with his saber, and Maul and Kenobi got into a fierce and aggressive duel. Kenobi was then disarmed and force pushed into the reactor shaft, but managed to grab a hold of a imput nozzle. Maul taunted kenobi and attempted to dislodge him when Kenobi force jumped up, took Qui Gon's saber, and split maul in two from the waist. sending him tumbling down the shaft, starting his long lived hatred for Obi Wan Kenobi.

While tumbling down the shaft, he used the force to grab an air vent, leading him to a trash container. His hate and will to live plus a combination of nightsister magic and sith tenacity was keeping him alive, but all for the price of his sanity. Maul's broken body was soon dumped on the world of Lotho Minor, in a large junkyard, where he then fashioned himself a spider like, six limbed apparatus that allowed him to walk again. He would go practically insane on the planet, surviving off of food that he had recieved from an Anacondan named Morley. Maul remained mad with rage and despair but his drive for revenge against kenobi kept him going. Soon, he was found by his brother, Savage Opress, taken to his home world of dathomir, where Nightsister leader, and mother of Maul, Mother Talzin, would repair his broken mind and gave him a pair of new cybernetic legs from an incantation. With his mind restored, Maul set out to get revenge on Obi Wan Kenobi, with his brother, Savage joining him by his side.