Prologue and Recorded Files about Darths Bane and Zannah
It was a clear and calm dusk in the Underworld. The sky was beautiful, streaks of red and orange colored the few high-altitude clouds that slowly darkened as the daylight faded. A fairly young woman noticed the soothing scenery of the atmosphere above as she opened her eyes from a deep sleep. Rather than bringing her a sense of peace, the sky brought her sudden confusion and panic. The woman blinked rapidly in disbelief before swiftly sitting up to check her surroundings. She didn't recognize anything around her: tall grass, open plains, distant trees, and unknown flora and fauna that scattered throughout the landscape. She then got up on her feet to gaze further out towards the horizon. This woman was Darth Zannah.
A few meters to her right side laid her master Darth Bane. Bane slowly opened his eyes and gave a few blinks to clear the fogginess of his vision. His eyes then darted all around in confusion and at the recall of the battle he was fighting.
He quickly rose to his feet and spotted Zannah. Without saying anything he ignited his lightsaber and got into a fighting stance.
"Wait!" Zannah yelled. She immediately sensed something was very wrong.
The vastness of the Force felt different, the planets and places of the galaxy that she recognized when reaching out with the Force were no longer there. The universe beyond Ambria felt empty, void of life. But where she stood was not the deserted world of Ambria.
Bane felt the same thing as her. He looked up across the dusk sky as though it might give him clarity to his questions. He then fixed his gaze back to Zannah. "What did you do? Where are we?"
"I didn't do anything," Zannah replied. "When our lightsabers clashed, everything went black."
She looked around and reached out with the Force a second time to make sure her mind wasn't playing tricks with her. "This isn't Ambria. We're on another planet."
Bane knew his apprentice, and now Sith rival, was just as confused as him. He deactivated his lightsaber and put it back on his belt. "How can this be? Neither of us used the Force in such a manner to bring us to this planet."
Zannah felt a sense of dread building up deep within her. "Bane, I don't think we're even in the right galaxy."
"That's impossible," he snapped. "We're probably in the Unknown Regions somewhere, or possibly on the edges of the galaxy."
Darth Bane walked a few paces back and forth trying to think about their current situation. "Only long and deep meditation can tell us where we are in the galaxy, or worst case in the universe. For now we should find out what planet this is and any sort of civilizations that may reside here."
Zannah thought for a matter of moments about his plan. "You're right."
"We will work together to find a way back to Ambria," Bane declared, "but once it is found, we will continue our fight for the mantle of Sith Master."
Zannah stood more straight and looked directly into Bane's eyes. "I hope you'll be ready. I will claim my destiny and you will fall at my feet."
Satisfied with her words, Bane gave a sinister smirk and a low chuckle.
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Darth Bane
Name: Darth Bane/Dessel/"Bane"
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Classification: Human/Dark Lord of the Sith
Power Tier: Planet (busting) level [the Huntress perceived a poisoned and dying Path of Destruction Bane (his weakest incarnation) as vastly more powerful than anything she's ever seen, despite having witnessed through psychometry the Devastation of Ambria-in which a Sith sorceress created a wave of Force energy that destroyed all living beings on the planet. In addition, Ambria itself was devastated by the energy that was unleashed upon its surface, warping the landscape and infusing it with the dark side of the Force.]
Strength: Unknown, at least superhuman [through use of Force augmentation, Bane could potentially channel his entire Force reserves into lifting and striking strength if needed.]
Speed: Relativistic+ with FTL reactions and combat speed [his martial attacks appeared as a series of blurs to Zannah (who can track and calculate the trajectory of lightning in slow motion), can outpace torrential rain for several minutes while practicing his defensive lightsaber form, can move faster than other Force users can see, and seemed to wield a dozen blades from Zannah's perspective.]
Powers and Abilities:
Main Lightsaber Form(s): Form III (Soresu), Form V (Djem So), Form VII (Juyo)
Telekinesis: Bane can use this through the Force to put his mind literally over matter, capable of blasting opponents, shielding himself or disarming people, deflecting or redirecting many forms of attack, its limits are only those of the creativity that Force User has. The degree of this power is such that Bane can disintegrate targets, demolish large camps and landscapes, and collapse colossal temples as side effects of his Force waves. Bane also moved the Dxun moon out of its orbit, and mused to be able to play with the orbits of planets and moons like a child playing with toys. Notable uses also include Force Barrier, Choke, Wound, Kill, etc.
Force Lightning: An offensive Force technique that uses Force energy to produce electricity with one or two hands that stream outwards from the fingertips, its speed is usually great enough to catch an opponent off-guard even when prepared, and can be used either in bursts, or simply torrent out in an a gush of agony on its victim; Bane's usage of Force/Sith Lightning is great and advance enough to reduce dozens of Force Users into charred husks. His lightning is also able to kill targets instantly and instantly disintegrate them to ash, kill Drexls instantly into charred corpses, and blacken and destroy Orbalisks (which are impervious to lightsaber strikes). His lightning also causes the surrounding air to remain charged with electricity for quite a while.
Cryokinesis: Darth Bane siphons the heat energy out of an opponent. It's potent enough where the power can leave the afflicted a frosted corpse.
Convection: Using the Force to alter his own body chemistry, Bane causes his own body to burn with an incredible heat that causes no lasting harm to himself and can be used to badly burn others.
Pyrokinesis: A Force power that allowed a Force-user to manipulate and generate fire by rubbing and heating up air molecules together. The uses of this ability range from manipulating the molecules of combustible objects to controlling large explosions and generating raging infernos.
Force Drain: This dark side technique is both offensive and defensive, as it draws the life energy out of targets to exhaust or kill them quickly. The life force is then added to the user's own, acting as a sinister form of Force healing. An advanced form of this power is Death Field, where Bane can create a spherical field of pure dark side energy that would instantly cause those caught within to wither away and die.
Mind Tricks/Telepathy: A spectrum of Force powers that revolve around mental attacks. They can be used to read minds and communicate thoughts, cause hallucinations and cast illusions, and outright manipulating the minds of others to trick, deceive, maim or kill them. Other forms of these powers include Force Fear/Horror, etc.
Force Sense/Precognition: This ability could be used to feel another being's feelings, the future, ripples in the Force caused by momentous or traumatic events, and impending danger. It allowed a Force user to see the immediate future, helping the user to accurately predict an enemy's movements/attacks/intentions and to predict the outcome of dangerous situations. This power can also be used to gain vague impressions of events happening in other places or times.
Force Destruction: A dark side Force power used by Sith and Dark Jedi, allowing them to create a massive energy field and throw it in any direction. When used, a massive amount of energy was stored up within the user, then he or she could blast a large radius vaporizing anyone and anything that got too close to it. Even those who escaped direct contact with the blast would be launched asunder by the power's backlash.
Transfer Essence: A radical dark side power that Bane can use to transfer his living essence (soul) and consciousness into the body of another, or even into an inanimate object. Thanks to this technique, his spirit can survive the death of his body and can invade the body of another, though he must overpower and expel their own consciousness to accomplish this, and his original body will be destroyed in the process, reduced to ash. If Bane fails to take the body of his opponent, his spirit will be forever lost to Chaos.
Sith Sorcery: An arcane expression of Force ability described as the full destructive power of the dark side of the Force. Through the recitation of spells, execution of hand gestures, and/or the handling of various artifacts, darksiders were able to channel the raw power of the Force's malignant side to warp minds, alter the environment, and obliterate whatever obstacles stood in their way. Through ancient Sith archives and Darth Revan's holocron, Bane learned many devastating rituals and magic techniques that held awesome potential, with some being so terrible and dangerous that Bane doubted he would ever dare to use them.
Thought Bomb: The result of an ancient ritual that unleashed the full volatility of the dark side of the Force. When detonated, a thought bomb annihilated the entirety—corporeal and non-corporeal—of everyone caught within its blast radius and absorbed their fragmented souls into a swirling vortex of perpetual torment that resolved into an orb of silver iridescence. The detonation immediately destroys a continent, turns a planet into a desert wasteland overnight, creates planet-wide nuclear winter and erratic weather patterns, and kills virtually every person on a planet. The Sith Lords of the Brotherhood of Darkness created a Thought Bomb on Ruusan, at the order of Bane, to eliminate the Jedi's Army of Light. Seeing that Bane attained an astronomical and exponential increase in dark side power and knowledge over the decades, he should be easily capable of creating a Thought Bomb all by himself.
Force Storm (weather): A Force power that presumably combined Force Whirlwind and Force Lightning to create something akin to a tropical storm. Also known as "Summon Storm", this power telekinetically manipulated the atmospheric conditions to whip the weather around the user into a frenzy. The top Sith Lords of the Brotherhood of Darkness gathered together, with Darth Bane as the main initiate and power source, to create a planet-wide Force Storm that ravaged the entire surface of Ruusan in a firestorm, obliterating the landscape for countless miles. Seeing that Bane's power and knowledge increased tremendously over the years since Path of Destruction, he should easily be capable of generating a planetary Force Storm all by himself.
Tutaminis: Through the Force, Bane can draw potentially harmful energy into his body and diffuse it or channel it away completely.
Force Blind: A burst of Force energy that can overwhelm an enemy's optic nerves and render them temporarily blind.
Force Sight: A Force ability that enhances the bearer's visual and spatial perception even in the dark or behind walls. This power is very useful against attacks that disrupts or impairs vision, such as flash grenades.
Force Scream: An involuntary Force exertion manifested by those whose alignment was with the dark side of the Force. It was a scream of strong frustration, rage, or grief emitted through the Force. This power caused devastation to any that were unfortunate enough to be in proximity. Force Scream had been called "a wave of hatred, amplified and fueled by the dark side, that is capable of smashing through mental and physical defenses with ease."
Force Rage: This Force power allowed a Force user to tap into his or her innermost fears, pain and hate, and convert them into an intense rage. The user could then channel the anger to increase his or her own speed, strength, and ferocity. However, the body could not handle such rage for long periods of time, so the user became greatly weakened for some time after the rage subsided.
Force Healing: A power that used the Force to accelerate the natural healing process rapidly, and could be used to heal the most fatal of wounds and injuries. The dark side variant of Force healing is twisted and malignant, since Bane can feed on the pain and anguish of others to sustain or invigorate himself for hours.
Animal Bond: The Force ability to control an animal. Once calmed, the animal could be used by the Force user in various ways, including as a mount or guard beast.
Detoxify Poison: A Force power that allowed a Force-user to detoxify poisons or eject them from their body in a much shorter amount of time than would normally be possible. It could also be used to cleanse their body of alcohol, allowing the individual to remain sober while consuming vast amounts of the drink.
Dun Möch: A form of combat that used distraction and doubt, usually through taunting, in conjunction with lightsaber combat. Dun Möch commonly involved spoken taunts, jeers, and jests that exposed the opponent's inner weaknesses or doubts, which had the end result of eroding the opponent's will.
Hatred: A method of focusing a Force user's inner fire so that it can be stoked with outrage, disgust, and fear until it burns with white-hot intensity. This full embrace of the dark side lets their hate radiate from their body in palpable waves that can send another's mind into catatonia.
Hibernation Trance: An ability that allowed Force-users to go into a very deep hibernation state. It slowed the user's metabolism and breathing to a standstill, causing the individual to only use one tenth of the air of a normal individual. To all outward appearances, the individual appears to be dead; only thorough testing would determine that they were alive.
Crucitorn: A technique that makes it possible to detach one's mind from coarse sensations. It can allow the practitioner to endure any torture and withstand any injury. This power can also be used to increase the pain of a selected target by focusing on their wounds, agitating them through the Force and causing more pain to course through their body, making it much more painful than how it would feel being left alone.
Inertia: A Force power that allowed a Force-user to shift his body's inertia, allowing him to perform otherwise impossible stunts, such as running on walls and ceilings.
Memory Walk: This power consisted of mentally reaching into a victim's mind, forcing them to relive all the worst memories of their life, both painful ones and ones that were merely embarrassing, over and over and over again to the point where it almost seemed to cause physical pain.
Mind Shard: A Force power that allowed a Force-user to mentally splinter an opponent's mind, racking the victim with pain.
Possible Abilities:
Mechu-deru/Mechu-deru vitae: Although Darth Bane was never shown to use or know this ability, he did acquire the Holocron of Belia Darzu which contains vast amounts of knowledge and teachings about the ability. Unless Bane overlooked or disregarded that knowledge, he could possibly use the Force to gain an intuitive understanding of mechanical systems and exert his influence over inanimate objects and robotic constructs, and mix Mechu-deru with sorcery to create Sithspawn called technobeasts.
Darth Zannah
Name: Darth Zannah/Rain/"Zannah"
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Classification: Human/Dark Lord of the Sith
Power Tier: Planet (busting) level [holds the potential to surpass her master Darth Bane].
Strength: Unknown, at least superhuman [through use of Force augmentation, Zannah could potentially channel her entire Force reserves into lifting and striking strength if needed].
Speed: Relativistic+ with FTL reactions and combat speed [saw the world as blurred streaks of color when using Force speed as an untrained child, able to keep up with her master blow-for-blow in lightsaber combat, able to track and calculate the trajectory of lightning in slow motion and dodge it with ease.]
Powers and Abilities:
Main Lightsaber Form(s): Form III (Soresu)
Telekinesis
Mind Tricks/Telepathy
Force Sense/Precognition
Force Destruction
Sith Sorcery: As a powerful Sith sorceress, Zannah's greatest talents lie in this field of Force powers. She derived most of her teachings from Freedon Nadd's holocron as well as everything Bane had to teach her about sorcery. Her sorcery skills are such that she can cast rituals and spells that Darth Bane could not grasp himself.
Dark Side Tendrils: A technique that conjures pure Force energy in the form of tendrils. These tendrils rose in the form of black mist from the ground and took the form of serpentine tentacles which swarmed their victim and attacked with the power of the pure dark side. The technique requires a fair level of concentration from the user, making it somewhat difficult to manifest without the required skill. When conjured by Zannah, the Dark Side Tendrils were able to instantly annihilate any kind of matter they come in contact with, as well as subject the individual who got injured to the full scope of the void of the dark side.
Summon Fear (Spells of Madness): Similar to Force Fear, horror, insanity, or Torture by Chagrin, summon fear was a dark side Force power conjured through Sith magic that caused the victim to experience their worst fears to the point of hysteria. It was a very powerful ability, and the duration and intensity varied depending on the caster. Short durations could result in the victim waking up with only a small recollection of what happened. Longer applications could cause one's physical form to seize itself into unconsciousness, while the mind was virtually destroyed. The body remained effectively comatose, while whatever lasting consciousness was tortured for all eternity. Spells even longer endured could very well result in the victim's death.
False Light Side Aura: A dark side Force power conjured through Sith magic that covered a darksider's dark side aura with one of light. This power can fool even Jedi Masters and its effects can linger for up to several years.
Spell of Concealment: Similar to the Force cloak ability, conjuring a spell of concealment through Sith magic allowed the caster to hide or cloak the presence of one or multiple individuals.
***Likely Abilities:
Although Zannah never directly displayed any of the following powers in her showings, it is highly likely that she knew how to use all of Darth Bane's powers due to the function of the Rule of Two (he taught her everything he knew). As such, Darth Zannah would likely be well-versed in the techniques of Force powers like Force lightning, Force drain, tutaminis, Force scream, Force rage, etc. This would also include rare and odd Force powers like the thought bomb and essence transfer.