Darkonda

Darkonda was a psychotic agent in the service of the United Alliance of Evil and Ecliptor's rival as well as the archenemy of Andros.

Darkonda was a ruthless and violent bounty hunter who had been directly involved in roughly a hundred different wars, assassinations, and crimes throughout known space. Little was known about Darkonda's past before becoming the deceptive bounty hunter that he was today. Over the years Darkonda had acquired extensive knowledge about countless locales throughout the Milky Way galaxy along with connections in the criminal underworlds of various planets, even Earth.

Approximately 15 years before Power Rangers in Space, Darkonda was hired by Dark Specter to travel to the planet KO-35 in the Karova System to capture Karone, the sister of Andros the future Red Space Ranger.

In the years that followed Darkonda took an increasingly important role in KO-35 history. Although the specifics are still not known, Darkonda was a significant player in the events that led to the eventual evacuation of the planet including the Barillian Bug infestation that decimated much of the planet's population. After the complete evacuation of the planet, Darkonda used it as a base of his own. Unchallenged, he looted and pillaged all that the Kerovans left behind in their hurry to evacuate KO-35. At one point, Darkonda encountered Ecliptor. The two took an immense disliking for one another and became rivals.

Several years later Darkonda met up with Astronema, now the Princess of Evil, and won a place on her Dark Fortress as her second in command (co-ranking with Ecliptor) after he infected Carlos Vallerte, the Black Space Ranger, with the venom of a Barillian Bug. He also attempted to turn the Rebels of KO-35 against the Power Rangers by framing the Rangers for a mysterious ailment that was turning people into coral.

Secretly, Darkonda planned on killing both Astronema and Ecliptor and taking over her Dark Fortress. Although Ecliptor was aware of Darkonda's true intentions, Darkonda blackmailed Ecliptor into remaining silent by threatening to reveal the secrets behind Astronema's origin to her.

While in Astronema's service, Darkonda had many secret conversations with Dark Specter, in which he openly questioned Astronema's loyalties. After Astronema learned of her true past, Darkonda suggested that she be destroyed (along with Ecliptor). Dark Specter, however, was not (fully) persuaded despite Darkonda's insistence.

When Astronema briefly defected to the Power Rangers, Dark Specter gave Darkonda command over the Dark Fortress. Darkonda was also tasked with planting cybernetic implants on Ecliptor that would suppress any feelings he may have had for Astronema. After Astronema was captured, Darkonda altered her as well, turning her into a being of pure evil. To his surprise and anger, the newly reprogrammed Astronema promptly retook control of the Dark Fortress and threw him out despite his protests that she would have been destroyed without him. He teleported away, but not before reminding Astronema that he still had some lives left while she only had one.

Some time later, Darkonda was recruited again by Astronema, this time to lure the Rangers into a trap. It is unknown how or why she enlisted his aid, although Dark Specter may have ordered her to do so.

He later returned to aid the UAE in Dark Specter's Universal Conquest. He was with Astronema's army attacking the planet Earth. In a final act of betrayal, Darkonda commandeered a Velocifighter with two missiles powerful enough to destroy the Earth and planned to use one of them to destroy Dark Specter in an attempt to take power in controlling the universe for himself. He intended to use the other to destroy the Dark Fortress with Astronema and Ecliptor on board. However, after he fired the other missile, Dark Specter reappeared and swallowed the Velocifighter and Darkonda with it, killing both him and Darkonda in an instant as the missile exploded the instant he swallowed the traitor. Ironically, by using up the only planet destroying missiles the Alliance had, Darkonda unintentionally saved Earth from destruction.

**Darkliptor**

Darkliptor is the evil entity that results from the forced fusion of Darkonda and Ecliptor. In this form, Darkonda's mind is always dominant over Ecliptor's. However, Ecliptor can force them apart.

In the first, Darkonda forces Ecliptor to merge with him, and then battles the Rangers in his Darkliptor form. Upon being overwhelmed and defeated by Andros and TJ, Darkliptor is forcibly split back into the two villains. Darkonda then grabs hold of Ecliptor, fusing with him again as they're grown by the Satellasers. At the climax of this battle, when faced with the Astro Delta Megazord's final attack, Darkonda split the fused form apart and held Ecliptor in front of him to take the brunt of the blow.

In "Astronema Thinks Twice", Darkonda again forces Ecliptor to merge with him, but this time Ecliptor manages to force them apart, much to Darkonda's surprise and anger. This marked the last appearance of the form.