Lorn Rhys

Lorn Rhys was the Director of the Bureau of Operations within Imperial Intelligence under the reign of Emperor Bacharan Valak, in the years 6 ABY and 7 ABY.

Powerful and influential, Rhys was a prominent figure in galactic politics and the Galactic Empire itself. Secretly, however, he was a prominent member of the Vigiliant Movement, and rumored to be its leader.

In 7 ABY, Valak came crashing down on the Vigiliant Movement, and Rhys was one of the Imperials who was hit the hardest. It was believed he was killed by agents of COMPNOR and the Imperial military, and for the most part this was true, as Rhys had entered into a coma and kept under the care of Kartijan Lore of FineLine Spaceways.

However, in 12 ABY, making contact with Vassily Korolov, a Royal Guardsman, Rhys returned to the Empire and cultivated a coup against the reigning Emperor Kendal Osbourne. He sparked the Third Imperial Civil War by initiating the Battle of Selene, which saw the destruction of the Dark Eminenence and of Selene itself, as well as the imprisonment of Osbourne.

As the Civil War raged on, leading to the Neo-Imperial Movement, Rhys continued to consolidate his power - he was, however, cut short, by the arrival of the mysterious Darth Pain, who assumed the title of Empress. However, Rhys, having somehow tapped into the dark side of the Force with the help of Korolov, returned as Darth Malus and killed the Empress. He then took the title of Emperor.

Throughout most of 12 ABY, Malus reigned over the Empire, but his reign was one of weakness, Civil War and tremendous loss in the Galactic Civil War. Coruscant was taken by the New Republic in 13 ABY, and the Empire - especially the military - became angered with their supposed ruler. The Third Imperial Civil War continued to rage on, despite the destruction of the Neo-Imperial Movement on Etti IV, and finally in mid-13 ABY, Malus was overthrown by Darth Malign, who had been trained by Aleister Vadim - the mysterious Sith vying for total control over the Empire.

Dreven was blockaded by Warlord Malign's fleet, and Malus himself was captured. Like Osbourne, whom Malus had frozen in a slate of carbonite, Malus was frozen in carbonite and set alongside Osbourne in the Emperor's throne room aboard the HIMS Malevolence, as gifts for Aleister Vadim.

Malus's legacy came to an end, and with the rise of Malign, Vadim, the return of the Neo-Imperial veterans, and the agreement between them and High Lord Vassily Korolov, the Third Imperial Civil War came to an end.