Darth Maul

Thanks to one of the probes, Mol was able to locate her ship shortly before the fugitives planned to take off. Darth Maul set off across the sand dunes of Tatooine on his personal "Blood Fin" gravity bike, heading straight for the Queen's ship. However, he encountered Qui-Gon Jinn, one of the Jedi who protected the queen, and a local boy, Anakin Skywalker, in whom he felt an unusually powerful connection with the Force. The Sith Lord attacked the Djinn, engaging the Jedi knight in a long-awaited lightsaber battle. The Jedi ordered Anakin to board the ship and give the pilot the go-ahead for takeoff. During the short but intense duel, Maul used his deadly agility, exhausting the Djinn with his aggressive fighting style. Just as the Djinn succumbed to Maul's power and fury, and the Sith lord was preparing to end the Jedi, the queen's ship came to the rescue, and the Djinn jumped onto the lowered ramp, leaving Maul seeing things in the middle of the sands.
Although Jinn and Amidala managed to escape, the Sith revealed their existence to the Jedi for the first time in millennia, and their return ten centuries after the destruction of the ancient Sith remained a mystery to the Jedi Order. Despite his minor setback, Maul used the incident to fuel his hatred and plunge further into darkness. They say he did not know that Skywalker, the boy who was destined to become the Chosen One, would one day destroy almost all the Jedi and become a Sith lord himself.

After years of waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on the Jedi, Darth Maul took an important role in his master's plan to overthrow The Galactic Republic and the destruction of the Jedi. Darth Sidious, publicly known as Shiv Palpatine, Senator of the planet Naboo, using his hands He organized an invasion of his homeland under the pretext of disagreeing with the recently introduced taxation of trade routes between remote star systems of the Republic. The Federation, using its ships, established a blockade of Naboo and prepared its army of battle droids to land on the planet. Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, whose post Palpatine was determined to secure, dispatched the Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi resolved the situation diplomatically, but the Federation attempted to kill two Jedi, forcing Jinn and Kenobi to land on the surface of Naboo. Arriving there at the same time as the invasion began, the Jedi rescued the queen. Padme Amidala and escaped from the planet, breaking through the blockade. Amidala was necessary for the implementation of Sidious's plans - in order to legitimize the criminal occupation of the planet by the Federation, the Queen's signature was required. That's why Sidious sent Darth Maul to find the Queen and the Jedi. Maul traced the distress call sent by Naboo Governor Sio Bibble, which was addressed to Amidala, who was on Tatooine. With the blessing of his teacher, Maul traveled to Tatooine in order to find the queen. He arrived in the desert world on his personal starship, which he used as a mobile base during his search. From his ship, he launched three Sith probe droids, one for each of the three nearby settlements, to quickly locate Amidala and its Jedi defenders.

After completing his business in the Drazkel system, Maul returned to Coruscant, where he met with his teacher and learned that Sidious was aware of his unauthorized raid and the murder of his padawan. However, Sidious was not disappointed by his student's actions after Maul told his teacher that his thirst for Jedi blood had not been satisfied. On the lower levels Darth Maul of Coruscant began to create his own criminal group called the Kates Cartel. Going after a thief for hire The convict Peyroux, who was force-sensitive, supposedly hired him and, after confirming Peyroux's potential, killed him by pinning him to the wall with a piece of metal. Maul's actions angered Sidious, and the dark lord of the Sith took the student back to Malakor to teach the bloodthirsty Zabrak a lesson. On a devastated battlefield Maul inhaled the ashes of the ancient Sith fallen there and received a vision in which, to his surprise, he appeared as a Jedi master. When the enraged Maul rejected this path and came to his senses, Sidious reminded the student that anger is his tool, not his master.

After returning to the auction, Maul allowed the Mugan leader, Ji Kra, to purchase Katis. After the auction, Maul and his bounty hunters attacked Ji Kra and his crew, hiding on their ship. When Kra and his muguns were finished, Maul ordered Bane to leave the Exrexus residence and send the ship into space. In a conversation with Katis, Darth Maul confirmed the padawan's hunch that he was a Sith. However, Exrexus booby-trapped the shuttle with explosives, causing Maul, Katis and the bounty hunters to crash on the moon Drazkel. After surviving the landing, they say, Katis and the bounty hunters climbed out of the wreckage of the shuttle to the surface, after which they discovered that Exrexus had sent several ships in pursuit of them. Maul and Cad Bane decided to split up: Maul and Katis diverted the attention of Xev's thugs to themselves, while Bane, Sing and Wordeilo went to get a ship for them. Soon, Maul and Eldra were surrounded by Exxus hunters, and Maul gave Katis her lightsaber. The Sith and the Jedi took the fight back to back and defeated the opponents together. After defeating the enemies, their temporary alliance ended — nothing stopped Maul from carrying out his intention to test his strength in battle against the Jedi. Darth Maul and Eldra Katis activated their lightsabers, and the duel began. Each of them was a worthy opponent for the other. Eventually, Katis used her sword to trigger a landslide that buried the Pier. However, the Sith apprentice got out from under the rubble, catching the padawan by surprise, and struck Eldra with a blow to the chest. After destroying her lightsaber, Maul collided with FE-B3, after which he got rid of the witness droid. Bane and the other mercenaries picked him up on a hijacked Flaming Star class shuttle. The Sith Lord paid for the bounty hunters, and they dropped him off at the Xev Exxus hideout. There, Darth Maul killed Xev to ensure the preservation of the Sith secret.

Maul hired a group of bounty hunters, which included Cad Bane, Orra Sing, Wordeilo, and True-three-tech, and traveled to Nar Shaddaa in order to obtain information about the location of the Exxus auction. During the search, Maul started a fight in one of the bars when he was mistaken for a Jedi. During the fight, Maul was temporarily blinded and could have died if Bane, Sing and Vordaylo had not intervened in the fight. Bane informed Maul that the bounty hunters had managed to get an invitation to the Exrexus auction: they had destroyed the Haddrex gang, stolen their ship and protocol droid, FE-B3. True-three-tech and the Pier tortured the FE-B3 until they extracted information about the bidding venue from it. Maul and the bounty hunters traveled on the Haddrex gang ship to the Drazkel space station to participate in the auction. Exrexus informed the audience that a Padawan, a Twi'lek named Eldra Katis, had been discovered on a wrecked Republic transport ship that had been attacked by pirates. While Exrexus was chatting with the guests, Mol searched the space station and found Katis locked in a cell. Xev noticed and caught a Datomiri man sneaking up to the camera, and they say, not wanting to reveal his identity to Exrex ahead of time, introduced himself as Seris Madret from the Haddrex Consortium. After that, Maul discussed with Bane and the rest of the bounty hunters a plan for further actions, as well as a backup plan.

During the last years of his training with Sidious, Darth Maul began to lose his patience. The young Sith lord was eager to engage in open confrontation with the Jedi. Maul spent his time hunting wild creatures such as Raftars on Tuon Kethi, and shadowing the Jedi Kaat Quine and Bardon Jace in the shadows of Coruscant. While hunting raftars, Mol reflected on their malice, ruthlessness, and freedom. The Rafters he hunted didn't have a master, unlike the Mole itself. Sidious ordered Maul to avoid contact with the Jedi until his plan was ready for implementation. Sidiously praised his student for his thirst for revenge, however, he did not want Maul to reveal his existence before the right moment came. Sidious threatened Maul with killing him if the Dathman continued to risk the secret of the Sith's existence. In an attempt to quench Maul's thirst for blood, Sidious sent him to the Kellax system to eliminate pirates who were interfering with the Trade Federation's activities. Maul went to Kellax and destroyed the pirates who captured the representatives of the Trade Federation. The pirate, who mistook Maul for a Jedi, begged for his life in exchange for information. The pirate informed Maul that Xev Exrexus of the Exrexus cartel had captured a Jedi Padawan, who was going to be auctioned off for the highest price. Maul executed the remaining pirates, as well as the captured members of the Trade Federation, and went in search of the padawan.

A boy from the race of Dathomir Zabraks, who later became known as Darth Maul, was born by the Dathomir witch mother Talzin on the planet Dathomir. Like the entire male population of the planet, he belonged to the Night Brothers clan along with his siblings, Feral and Savage. It hadn't been a year since the boy's birthday when Talzin gave Mole and Savage their first tattoos. When Maul was a child, Talzin's mother became an ally of the dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious, with whom she exchanged wisdom and power. Sidious eventually left Talzin, despite promising to make her his student, and instead took Maul with him, seeing potential in the boy. Under Sidious' tutelage, Maul began training as a Sith apprentice. For many years, Maul has been training to become a Sith weapon. He became a skilled acrobat and a skilled warrior, trained to be ruthless towards his enemies, and learned how to use a double-bladed lightsaber. During Maul's early years as an apprentice, Sidious took the Dathomirian to Malakor, where a great battle between the Jedi and the Sith had taken place a millennium earlier. Sidious forced Maul to inhale the ashes of ancient Sith warriors who died during the activation of an ancient weapon located inside the temple of the Sith of this world. When Maul inhaled the ashes, he had a vision of members of the Sith Order being struck by the Jedi. He felt the blows of sword after sword, just as he felt the deaths of his fellow Sith. The Sith training had created a thirst for revenge in Maul The Jedi Order, which almost completely destroyed the Sith a millennium ago. Together with teacher his, Maul hoped to destroy the Jedi and restore the power of the Sith in the galaxy.

As a student of Darth Sidious, Maul trained tirelessly to become a Sith weapon designed to help Sidious destroy the Jedi and seize power over the galaxy. He studied various forms of martial arts, including terasashi, created specifically for fighting against the Jedi. Maul became a skilled warrior and a skilled acrobat, capable of ruthlessly destroying most of his enemies with his twin-bladed lightsaber. He demonstrated his effectiveness in lightsaber combat against Qui-Gon Jinn on Tatooine and Naboo, eventually killing the Jedi master during the second duel. During this fight, Maul confronted two Jedi at once, withstanding their onslaught and managing to seize the advantage by separating the opponents. However, Maul was very self-confident about his abilities, which allowed Kenobi to surpass him and defeat the Sith Lord, which resulted in Maul losing his lower half of his body and being isolated in the Outer Rim for more than ten years.

At the heart of Darth Maul's life and motivation was revenge. As a Sith apprentice, Maul longed to take revenge on the Jedi for their victory over the Sith and wanted to regain the power of the Sith over the galaxy. After years of exile and sanity restoration, Maul turned his thirst for revenge against the galaxy, declaring himself and his brother the true Sith lords. Most of all, Maul sought revenge on Obi-Wan Kenobi, who defeated the Sith in a duel on Naboo, thereby forcing him into exile. Maul felt devastated by the loss of power - knowing about his teacher's planned Clone Wars and intending to take part in them, Maul returned from exile to find that the Sith plan was progressing successfully without him. Because of this, Maul stopped at nothing to achieve his revenge, whether it was a massacre of civilians, a deal with pirates, or fomenting a civil war on Mandalore in order to gain power and attract Kenobi's attention. Maul's mind was damaged during his exile. He became obsessed with revenge, fueled by it (despite being cut in half), and remained alive only because of his hatred for Kenobi, despite losing his mind and some of his memories. His aggression and fear compounded his madness, which is why he attacked Savage Opress when he first encountered his brother at the Bingo Minor. Talzin used magic to restore Maul's mind and memories, restoring his sanity, but preserving in him the desire to take revenge on those who ruined his life. Maul's power has given him a thirst to dominate both the Sith and the galaxy. Despite this, he was aware that his teacher, Darth Sidious, possessed such power that was beyond the reach of the Mole. Maul was afraid of his old teacher, and when Sidious arrived on Mandalore and defeated Maul in a lightsaber duel, he begged him for mercy. After Sidious tortured Maul with Force lightning on Mandalore, the Dathworld man became immune to pain, as he later told the Deathwatch soldiers who rescued him.

A force-sensitive male Zabrak from Dathomir who lived between the last years of the Galactic Republic and the rule of the Galactic Empire. He was the son of Talzin's mother from the Sisters of the Night clan. The dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious, took the young Maul from Dathomir and made him his disciple, after which the Zabrak became known as Darth Maul. After revealing the existence of the Sith by the Jedi Order, Maul was defeated in a lightsaber duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi during the Battle of Naboo. A decade later, he returned from exile and founded a criminal syndicate known as the Shadow Collective, intending to regain his lost power. His quest for revenge on Kenobi and the Sith did not exhaust itself during the imperial period, which led him to clash with an early rebellion against the Galactic Empire. As a Sith lord, Maul believed that his destiny was to rule the galaxy, as well as overthrow the Jedi and the Republic. However, after Maul's defeat in the Battle for Naboo, Count Dooku, a former Jedi master who became Sidious' new student, took his place. The war, which was aimed at the destruction of the Republic by the Sith, began without the participation of Maul - the entire galaxy was raging The Clone Wars. Maul returned in the midst of the conflict and founded the Shadow Collective, uniting several criminal organizations to destroy his enemies and regain his lost position. He led a revolution on the planet. Mandalore, with the help of his new allies, a group of Mandalorian fighters called the Death Watch, executed the Duchess. Satin Kryze as revenge for Kenobi, to whom she was an old friend and the object of romantic attraction. Soon after, the Pier was captured. Sidious, who used his former student as part of a plan to eliminate Talzin's mother, whom Sidious saw as a significant threat to his future rule of the galaxy.