Luke Valkoroven

* Lord Vindictar
* Luke Valkoroven (Young)
* Luke Valkoroven (Old)
* Lord Vindictar (Cyborg)

**Luke Valkoroven** was a human male Force user who left the Jedi Academy and spent a quiet life before being seduced by the dark side and preparing a cult under him, taking on the identity of **Lord Vindictar**. He joined Cora Kenta's enclave and kept his public identity clean, aiding Darth Thorn, Sharr Eck and Toren Akora in their quest to retrieve the ancient Sith artifacts and restore the Force. Upon it's restoration, Valkoroven's powers were amplified to beyond his natural limits and he embraced his dark side identity, becoming a rival to Darth Thorn as a Sith Lord.

## Biography

### **Unusual Life of a New Jedi**

Born in 6 BBY, Valkoroven spent most of his childhood under the Empire. After the Battle of Yavin, Valkoroven and his Parents went to Tatooine after they got their first transport of Coruscant. While on Tatooine Luke felt unsettled like something was missing from him. After his parents disappeared he survived on his own for few weeks/months on the desert planet alone. Several years after the formation of the New Republic, Valkoroven got a chance to a trip off world and signed up to be trained at the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV. He travelled together with Lumi, someone he later developed close feelings for. Valkoroven was apprenticed to Balblo Kentowi and was aided by Pite Tverlo, Varon Startreader and Val Tor during his time of training. His time as a Jedi was cut short when Lumi was captured during a mission and Balblo had to leave her behind to save his own apprentice, sending Valkoroven into dark side rage as he went back after Lumi and slaughtered through Imperials and their loyalists, even civillians. In Nar Shaddaa, Valkoroven encountered his teacher and fellow Jedi and was thrown down by Tverlo after a confrontation but survived his fall. After being overwhelmed and captured by Imperial forces, Valkoroven found himself imprisoned aboard the Star Destroyer of an Inquisitor where Lumi was also kept. With the Jedi finding and attacking the Star Destroyer, Valkoroven took his chance to escape though was stopped and confronted by Lumi who sensed his dark nature and the two engaged in a duel. Lumi was bested and Valkoroven was not too careful in the battle, slashing her accross the chest, resulting in her death. Valkoroven then quickly fled by stealing a TIE Fighter.

### **Guilt and Redemption**

Valkoroven laid low in the following month, depressed and feeling guilty of his actions. He returned to Yavin IV to pay respects to Lumi's tomb and was caught by Balblo while leaving and Valkoroven expressed his guilt and wished to make up for his errors. He was accepted back into the Jedi Academy and took his next steps by following the trail of his mother, as he felt something called out to him in the Force. He teamed up with Balblo in his search which led him to Scarif, where his mother, now an Inquisitor, served the Imperial Remnant and converted captured Jedi to Dark Jedi. Managing to escape her grasp, Valkoroven and Balblo went back to Valkoroven's old home in Tatooine. After fighting off reborn and nearly escaping the rigged estate, Valkoroven briefly saw the Force ghost of his father and learned he was killed by his mother after their capture by the Empire, as she was converted to the dark side and became an Inquisitor of the Emperor. Following this revelation, Valkoroven ventured alone to the Mustafar system to confront his mother. Captured by her, Valkoroven endured brief torture though his mother could not stand it and soon stopped. She caved in before her son as she could not bring herself to commit any harm to him, despite having executed his father. Suddenly, she was stabbed and killed by someone wearing the armor of the other Inquisitor, who unbeknownst to Valkoroven was actually Varon in disguise. Valkoroven quickly escaped the Star Destroyer and went back to Yavin IV. There he saw Balblo for the last time in years, thanking him in his efforts to train him but that the Jedi path was not for him. Valkoroven left the Jedi Academy and started living a quiet life in exile.

### **Hidden Darkness**

Valkoroven could not truly quit the conflict forever however, despite his attempts, the lure of the dark side was strong and eventually Valkoroven caved in. Sometime after the fall of the New Republic, Valkoroven started building connections and gaining followers, secretly stuffing Malachor with smuggled equipment and gathering many holocrons and other artifacts to learn the secrets of the Sith. He was able to find and rally under him various dark side cultists left over from Dreackil's reign and stocked up certain places as his hideouts such as a facility in Dromund Kaas. After the Valley incident, Valkoroven craved the Force even more. He joined up Cora Kenta's Jedi Order after learning about some members efforts to find artifacts that allowed one to use the Force, still posing as his normal self in public and became a Jedi Master out of his involvement in the long gone Jedi Academy. He took on Talak Kasra as his apprentice.

### **Lost Force**

One day, Valkoroven met a familiar face in the Dantooine enclave. Darth Thorn, posing as a Jedi, entered it with Shruk. Valkoroven and Talak left to go find Jillian Kenta at the Ruusan, in Valley point zero but were followed by Thorn and Shruk whom were also followed by Toren. The tension escalated between them before the local safety alarm went off, warning about the rakghouls. Valkoroven stuck with team along with his apprentice as they decided to go to the Ruusan temples and search for Jill or otherwise the artifact. Their search didn't conclude successfully and both Toren and Tasra were bit by rakghouls, latter killed by Thorn and Toren was cured by him after telling him that he knew the possible location of an artifact in Tatooine and then told him of an old man in Mos Shelpa. Following Jill's comms trail to Vjun, the crew fight off Resistance mercs disguised as Stormtroopers and Valkoroven splits off from the crew, looking for the scepter artifact. He finds it held by a zabrak and defeats him in a duel despite his lack of Force powers and then grabs a hold of it as he is found by Darth Thorn. The two engage in a lengthy duel and then Shruk and Toren show up, assessing the situation and help keep Valkoroven in place as Thorn snatches the artifact from him. The trio decide to leave the Sith Lord as he lets them go. Valkoroven follows Shruk and Toren to Tatooine as they meet the old Jedi in question and go to a cave where it is supposedly held. With Veamon showing up, he claims to be friends with Valkoroven and be called there by him. Soon Darth Thorn and Samantha show up as well. No longer trusted by anyone or trusting anyone himself, Valkoroven decides to leave the conflict prematurely and escape as the battle was futile. However, he is caught by Pard and brought to Darth Thorn on the request of a bounty and was interrogated on the suspicion of him being a Resistance spy. Shruk took his comms link and Valkoroven was imprisoned, next to Liu Kahn's cell. Soon, Valkoroven's innocence in the matter was proven and he was allowed to walk among the crew freely. From Mandalore to Dagobah, Valkoroven followed the crew and met his old master and friend Val Tor again. Valkoroven got a chance at a 2nd duel against Thorn after Liu Kahn was defeated with the artifact sword. In the duel, Thorn taunted and revealed to Valkoroven that he killed his mother and this enraged Valkoroven, making him angry and reckless, thus losing the duel but his execution was stopped by Jillian as she intervened and got in between him and Thorn. With Drengus arriving, Valkoroven escaped Dagobah with Jill and Toren and the trio escaped Drengus' forces by flying towards the Mustafar system. There, they took momentary station in the Galactic Order cruiser but escaped as chaos broke loose when Jillian suspiciously threw an artifact aside and seemingly caused everyone who checked it to go insane. The trio flew back to Dantooine and landed at Cora Kenta's estate. Jillian invited Valkoroven to her house on Jedi matters. While waiting for Cora Kenta's arrival, Valkoroven spoke to Toren and appealed to him with how he lost everything, convincing him to try and steal an artifact from Darth Thorn. They ventured to Tatooine, Bestine headquarters but they were caught and Thorn ultimately convinced Toren that Valkoroven was merely using him to get to the artifacts himself and Toren shot Valkoroven in the stomach, seemingly leaving him for dead. Thorn in secret had Valkoroven carried away to a medical station and had him patched up. After a month, Valkoroven was healed and agreed to work with Darth Thorn again. He aided his search on Tython, seeing the fallen Nihil, which interested him. After they caught Shruk along with taking his artifact, Valkoroven followed Thorn in his assault of Yavin IV. The crew was led to the former Jedi Academy, anyone who held the artifacts went more insane and started seeing things. Darth Thorn and Valkoroven had to be knocked out before coming back to themselves. Split up on the streets, Thorn decided to trust Valkoroven with an artifact and the two assaulted the Citadel at the heart of the planets Federal domination. He further aided in the fight against Strife when the two were reunited with Shruk and Toren. Upon the Galactic Order's invasion of the planet, Valkoroven and Thorn followed Drengus to his cruiser and Valkoroven met Balblo, his old Jedi Master, who had decided to serve Drengus, believing his lies of restoring the Jedi Order. Valkoroven fought Balblo and the two were tied as their duel stopped upon Balblo seeing Drengus holding his fellow Jedi in tubes and drained. Thorn, Valkoroven and Balblo together fought against Drengus and were injured and as Valkoroven aided Balblo, Thorn finished off Drengus. Landing back on the Citadel streets, Shruk and Toren had decided to take the artifacts and go save Kreddrell in the abandoned Federal facility. Balblo agreed with them and as Valkoroven secretly wished to rival Thorn and knew he alone was no match, agreed to go with them. Swiftly escaping Thorn's grasp, they made their way to the facility but were followed by Thorn, who deceived them that he would use the artifacts to heal Kreddrell and Valkoroven reluctantly agreed like the rest of them. Thorn instead made Balblo use the artifacts to restore the Force, making him go insane, and Thorn killed him afterwards. Upon realization and with the power of the Force, Toren and Shruk attacked Thorn but when Shruk was knocked out, he realized that it would be foolish to try and battle him at this moment and convinced Toren to stop fighting. Darth Thorn stuck to his end of the deal and dropped them off a nearby town at Tatooine.

### **Rise of Lord Vindictar**

The Yavin IV incident had strange effects on Valkoroven, it had boosted his power to unimaginable levels, beyond what he had before and what any known Force user in history had. Realizing what had truly happened and the potential of it, Valkoroven acted quick on his feet and hired mercenaries and gangs to target Bestine and any other relevant ties to Darth Thorn while he scattered his stocks and followers to places such as Vjun. Meanwhile, he gathered all he could from Malachor and made his way to Tython, which had now been transformed by the Galactic Order into a quarantine planet containing individuals whose midichlorian counts were determined too high, thus Force sensitive. Valkoroven, now fully embracing his new name, Lord Vindictar, corrupted the surrounding area of the Nihil and started a riot with the imprisoned Dark Jedi, scaring off the Galactic Order officials from the planet long enough for him to gather his followers inside the Nihil and power it up using purely the power of the Dark Side of the Force. However, as he did this, he was tracked by Darth Thorn. Vindictar released a Force shock trap to stun the Dark V, Thorn's shuttle, long enough for the Nihil to escape. Thorn managed to track down Vindictar but he had enough time to Force drain Exegol dry. Darth Thorn infiltrated the Nihil with AK-50, forcing a showdown between the two. Darth Thorn was better duelist but ultimately Lord Vindictar was more powerful and Force raged, putting him at the edge of power limit. Darth Thorn was bested and thrown outside the window of the bridge. AK-50 was shooting at Vindictar and giving him an annoyance but the skilled droid managed to flash itself and fly off to space and save Darth Thorn as the Dark V came in to take them and then jumped to hyperspace out of there. Angered by his victory being cut short and Thorn still surviving, Lord Vindictar ordered his followers to find and kill Darth Thorn.

## Personality and traits

### Young Initiate

Valkoroven was always a caring individual, rather emotionally tied compared to his fellow Jedi brethren. Valkoroven had a very rough understanding of morality as to him, those he cared about were good and those who harmed them were evil. Abstract concepts such as peace were never ultimately meaningful to Valkoroven, though he understood what they meant in technicality. Valkoroven would do anything to protect those he cared about and would be enraged by those who harm them, becoming emotionally unstable if anything happened to the people he cared about. When enraged, Valkoroven's unstability made him dangerous, as anyone who even merely stood in his way of helping the person he cares about or avenging them could suffer greatly, such as when he slaughtered Imperial loyal civillians in Jakku. Anyone else uninvolved also meant nothing to him.

### Exile

Growing older, Valkoroven's understanding of morality became more mature but never truly changed as he always lived with the guilt of killing Lumi and potentially harming those that truly mattered to him. His depression made him apathetic and ultimately nihilistic however with the Force in his mind, this slightly made him power hungry. Part of Valkoroven was only awaiting death while the other part was craving the power to cheat death. Ultimately, the latter feeling grew stronger as Valkoroven was motivated to learn the secrets of the dark side and build connections while the former was seen in his public identity in how he presented himself as an experienced Force user to other Jedi and his crew members.

### **Lord of Hunger**

With the Force unleashed, Vindictar was absolutely psychotic, consuming all those that stood in his way. Still motivated by the same morality that he held, except he felt he had lost everything, so he was merely taking revenge and taking from others. Vindictar had lost any sense of proper morality in his quest for hunger, murdering, deceiving and committing to worse actions merely to satiate himself. Despite reading Sith holocrons and considering himself a rival to Darth Thorn, Vindictar was not even grounded by the Sith Code in any sense, he was motivated purely by his desire for revenge against Darth Thorn and a need to constantly consume so as not to lose his power.

## Powers and abilities

### Lightsaber skills

Valkoroven had received lightsaber training from his father since a very young age and continued to receive training later at the Jedi Academy, as well as having some experience due to his encounters on Tatooine against thugs and tuskens. Valkoroven was as adept as any average Jedi at handling a lightsaber, despite getting rough at it as he saw no action in his late age. His main tactic in duels was to overpower the opponent with sheer strength, thus Valkoroven used more aggressive and weight heavy styles in lightsaber combat. Combined with his Force rage, as a dark side user, Vindictar was a very dangerous foe despite not being the most fancy saberist.

### Dark Rage

Young Valkoroven was able to boost his strength and speed in combat through sheer rage by utilizing the dark side. Despite not being the most skilled Jedi, this gave him a good edge against his opponents in his early career and allowed him to slaughter through Stormtrooper squads easily.

In his time as a Dark Lord, Vindictar became unstoppable when he became enraged, making even the strongest of Sith Lords such as Darth Thorn look like a joke. Enraged Vindictar was dangerous as a beast, causing so much destruction and death. However the power exhausted him and Vindictar was at his most vulnerable after his rage ended, requiring him to consume another planet to satiate his power.

### Lord of Hunger

After the Force restoration on Yavin IV, Vindictar experienced a power surge unlike any seen in history by any other Force user. Vindictar's midichlorian count was boosted and corrupted to a new record and made him unbelievably strong in the Force. This made him unmatched in pure potential, however that potential needed to be fulfilled and Vindictar took the easy path, learning Force drain and consuming planets. This temporarily made him unbelievably strong yet his power was fading and thus Vindictar had to consume planets dry through the Force, daily, not to lose his power.

His newfound power allowed him to achieve new feats, such as being able to Force drain entire planets. Similar to myths heard of in Sith legends but never truly seen, Lord Vindictar was able to consume pure planets dry through Force drain, killing the planet and making it uninhabitable and killing anything that otherwise lived on it.

## Equipment

Valkoroven was left a lightsaber powered by a pure white kyber crystal from his parents, which he used since his childhood on Tatooine to his time as a Jedi. He also used a DL-44 blaster pistol on Tatooine. When he joined the Jedi Academy, he built a new lightsaber utilizing a blue and purple kyber fusion, giving his saber a violet blade. He used these lightsabers during his short dark side tenure but gave up his white lightsaber at Lumi's grave. Valkoroven kept his violet Jedi lightsaber since but after the Force restoration, he built himself a Sith lightsaber utilizing a synthetic red crystal, which he used during his reign as Lord Vindictar.