Scourge

Scourge is a pureblood Sith male who served as a Sith Lord of the reconstituted Sith Empire and later as the Emperor's Wrath, the personal enforcer of the Sith Emperor, before he allied with the Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython in order to prevent the Emperor from extinguishing all life in the galaxy. Born several decades before the Jedi Civil War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire under the Sith Lord Darth Revan, Scourge excelled during his time as a student at the Sith Academy on the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas. After two years of service in the outer reaches of the Empire, Scourge was recalled to Dromund Kaas to uncover the person responsible for the recent string of assassination attempts against Darth Nyriss of the Empire's ruling Dark Council.

Scourge battled political intrigue and rivals in his search for the truth, and after he was led to believe that Nyriss's fellow Dark Councilor Darth Xedrix was responsible, he killed Xedrix—only to learn that Nyriss had manipulated him: The assignment had been a test of his loyalties. Nyriss revealed the existence of a conspiracy against the Emperor as she showed the younger Sith how the Emperor had stripped the Force from his own homeworld of Nathema and killed millions in order to become immortal. Convinced that the Emperor needed to be stopped, Scourge allied himself with the Jedi Masters Revan and Meetra Surik while planning to confront the Emperor—but when he witnessed the future and saw that it was another Jedi who was destined to destroy the Emperor, Scourge turned on his allies to ensure his own survival.

Rendered immortal and appointed as the Emperor's Wrath, Scourge served the Emperor loyally for over three centuries, killing the Emperor's enemies and carrying out his will. Not until the Galactic War began to break out between the Empire and the Republic did Scourge encounter the Hero of Tython, the Jedi from his vision, and set in motion his plans to aid the Jedi. Scourge watched as the Hero was forced to become a servant of the Emperor when a strike team of Jedi failed to capture the Sith ruler, but when the Hero broke free from the Emperor's control, Scourge betrayed the Sith to help the Jedi escape. Pledging his loyalty to the Hero, Scourge aided the Knight and the Jedi's crew in foiling the Emperor's plans to repeat the dark-side ritual that he had used to devastate Nathema but on a galactic scale. With Scourge's aid, the Hero defeated the Emperor's servants and vanquished the Sith ruler in a final confrontation, and Scourge was awarded the Republic's Cross of Glory for his role in stopping the Emperor's plans.

A pureblood Sith with crimson skin and facial tendrils, Scourge had bright red eyes and a thick-chested torso. Scourge was ambitious and power-hungry in the years before he became immortal, and his arrogance and pride were among the few emotions that remained after the Emperor's immortality ritual stripped him of his senses and humanity. The ritual warped Scourge's ability to process his environment in the fashion that others did; he was physically incapable of feeling simple pleasures, such as the scent of his favorite foods or the warmth of sunlight, though not to the point that his physical abilities were compromised. As a result, he grew to treasure the memories of the things that he could no longer sense or feel. Scourge was sardonic and grimly fatalistic, and he developed a uniquely cynical viewpoint during his centuries of service, as he observed how his fellow Sith seemed unable to change their self-destructive ways. Following the Emperor's final death, Scourge lost his immortality and regained his emotions. Having regained the very things he had been stripped of for centuries led him to realize how much companionship meant to him.

Unlike many of his fellow Sith, Scourge was willing to devote himself to a cause other than his own personal gain, though his Sith mentality made him more than willing to sacrifice his allies in order to advance his cause, as he did to Revan and Meetra Surik. Scourge was intelligent and cunning, and he enjoyed using power and also manipulating others to his own ends. He disliked greed and selfishness but was also disgusted by mercy and other Jedi sentiments that he viewed as weak. However, the Sith Lord acknowledged that the strengths of the Jedi were not necessarily lesser than those of the Sith. While Scourge respected strength and power, the Emperor's desire to sacrifice all other life just to gain power horrified Scourge, and he devoted himself to stopping the Emperor through any means necessary. His duties as the Emperor's Wrath prevented him from ever taking an apprentice, and because of the effects of the immortality ritual, the Sith was unable and unwilling to enter romantic relationships or begin a family.

An expert swordsman, Scourge was exceptionally powerful in the Force, and the Jedi Master Revan believed that he had incredible potential. As a Sith Lord, he wielded a blood-red lightsaber with a spiked crossguard and fang-like hilt, and he was proficient in at least three forms of lightsaber combat: the defensive Soresu form, the overwhelmingly offensive Juyo form, and the acrobatic Ataru form. In battle, Scourge made use of both powerful, two-handed strikes and strong, sweeping blows with his lightsaber, and he also utilized unarmed combat in conjunction with his lightsaber. Scourge often enveloped his fist with lightning during combat and delivered punches to his opponents.

Scourge was skilled in using the Force to sense enemies in his surroundings, and he made frequent use of telekinesis in combat and as a tool of intimidation. He bolstered his physical abilities with the Force in order to increase his speed and agility, and he could guide a thrown lightsaber with the Force to strike his intended target in the heat of battle. Another of his skills was the ability to wrap the dark side around himself, concealing his presence from others and also keeping him warm.

After becoming the Emperor's Wrath, Scourge received extensive biochemical enhancements throughout his body, which further increased his strength and worked to sustain the effects of the immortality ritual that Scourge underwent at the Emperor's hands. He was classified as a heavily armored, close-combat assassin, wearing a suit of heavy, black, spiked armor and utilizing a personal energy shield generator to protect himself from blasterfire and most attacks.

Sith Purebloods are a species of red-skinned humanoids that originated on the world of Korriban, before eventually resettling on the ice-world of Ziost. Also distinct for their bone spurs, facial tentacles, and genetic predispositions toward both left-handedness and the dark side of the Force.

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