The Asha-Karat

# "Victory Over Death"

The Asha-Karat is a Sith Empire in the unknown regions based off of the ancient world of Rakata Prime in the Rakatan Cluster. It operates as a theocracy, where the current Sith Triumvirate Council Members are revered as deities. It uses large amounts of droid and slave labour to account for it's small population of citizens, and is made up mostly of species from The Unknown Regions. Created by Darth Malotre and his dark side accomplices.

#### Hunt for the Star Maps

The dream of creating a New Sith Order was originally created when Darth Malotre (At the time Al'va Kir) found a mysterious Map on the desert world of Tatooine. It was incomplete, but when his recent acquaintance Jegy Sesara informed him that it could be an ancient sith artifact, marking the location of the lost planet of Rakata Prime, Malotre made it his mission to recover all of these maps.

##### Ren'Var's mission to Kashyyyk

Ally to Darth Malotre, Ren'Var, departed to the wookiee planet of Kashyyyk in order to find more of the incomplete map Malotre had uncovered on Tatooine. With no help from the local Wookiees, Ren'Var ventured into the jungle alone. Using the force to try to locate what he was after, he eventually discovered an ancient temple, where the Star Map was resting. But as he approached it, he felt an uneasy sensation, and the jungle fell silent. Ren'Var was attacked by a massive hulking sith war beast, which threw tree trunks at him and charged him down. Ren'Var attempted to dodge the creature, but was knocked aside and winded. Ren'Var channeled his anger and pain into the dark side, and grabbed the beast with the force, cracking one it's ribs and wounding it. Dodging another tree trunk, Ren'Var tried to retreat through an elevator, but the path was blocked. Luckily, the wound he had inflicted on the creature was enough, and it eventually succumbed to it's injury. Ren'Var left kashyyyk with the data from the Star Map.

##### Madness on Manaan

Around the same time, Darth Malotre would head to Manaan to recover more data from a seperate map. When he arrived, he was met with the site of some sort of recent accident, with medical vehicles scattered about the star port. After overhearing some locals claiming that the damage had been caused by a Jedi, Malotre decided to proceed with caution, dawning a black cape and hood as a disguise. He learned that the jedi had supposedly escaped the city into the ocean in a submersible craft, and found a Selkath Investigator on site, and offered his services to help hunt down the Jedi. Despite being initially suspicious, the Selkath eventually agreed to let Malotre help, and offered him a submarine to chase after the Jedi. Malotre took the sub, and found his way to a Kolto Processing Facility, a suspected spot where the Jedi could be hiding. Malotre entered by ripping off one of the blast doors with the force, but was caught in a blast from an explosive which had been planted on the other side of the door, and was flung back. Luckily he was not critically wounded, and quickly pressed further into the facility. He noticed another blast door begin to close nearby, and used a burst of Force Speed to jump through the rapidly narrowing gap before it shut completely. He made it through, but was almost sliced in two but a cut from a lightsaber. Malotre used a force barrier to block the attack, and had time to see the figure who had attacked him. A givin, wielding a double bladed blue lightsaber and wearing dark robes.

The two engaged in a battle to the death, with the Givin Jedi eventually attempting to breach the underwater foundations walls to drown he and Malotre. Malotre tried to distract him, but was unsuccessful. The battle continued as water poured inside the facility, and ended with Malotre getting the best of the Jedi, snapping their neck and letting them sink in the deep water which had filled the hallway. Malotre swam deeper into the facility, and passed through another blast door which shut behind him, and the room drained itself of water. Malotre found himself in a massive Kolto Storage facility, and hid when he heard footsteps approaching. A voice called out to him, demanding that he reveal himself. Then Malotre saw that the voices belonged to a droid, who was accompanied by a squad of large clone wars era V2-Series Commando Droids. Malotre used the force to tear open the door he had come through, flooding the storage facility and short circuited the Commando Droids. But their leader, an orange coloured assassin droid was unaffected. The doors of the facility began to close to seal off the flow of water, and Malotre rushed to the door where the droids had come from. The assassin droid spotted him, and unleashed a hail of blaster fire. Malotre reached the door, and ended up in a large control room filled with command consoles and computers. He came face to face with a tall, eight foot figure called "The Master". Malotre geared up for a fight with The Master, but when the Master learned that Malotre only came for the Star Map, which rested in the facility, he laughed and allowed Malotre to take it without a fight. Malotre downloaded the data of the star map, and took another submarine back to the surface. Successfully retrieving his prize.