Garu

Garu was a male humanoid Sith Lord of the Sith Empire who lived during the Empire's final years and fought in the Great Hyperspace War. A warlord on the planet Korriz, Garu was the rival of the Sith Lord known as the .

Garu commissioned Tritos Nal, a master of Sith magic and alchemy, to construct him a powerful Sith sword for him. However, the sword, which became known as Garu's Warblade, was stolen by agents of Garu's rival, the Sith Lord known as the Patron. In 5000 BBY, Garu sent a minor battle fleet to capture the Starbreaker 12—a scout ship from the Galactic Republic that had been discovered in Sith space—but the Patron's agents interfered and prevented Garu from securing the ship.

Garu was one of the last known Sith Lords to be in possession of the Holocron of King Adas, though Garu's death on the planet Ashas Ree during the Great Hyperspace War that destroyed the Empire in 5000 BBY saw the disappearance of the holocron. Eventually, Garu's Warblade was broken into pieces and scattered across the Esstran sector by the time of the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the reconstituted Empire.

During the New Sith Wars, Brotherhood of Darkness member Seviss Vaa researched the worlds of the Sith Empire, and claimed that Garu lost or abandoned King Adas's holocron just prior to the Great Hyperspace War in his recordings in the Telos Holocron. The contents of the holocron were later published as part of the compendium Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force written by the Jedi Master Tionne Solusar in 40 ABY.

Long after his death, the monstrosity Zeta Magnus took the alias Saturna of Garu in reference to the long dead Sith Lord. Jedi Padawan Halagad Ventor connected the names which led him to believe that the title had influenced the Dantari legend of a shaman called Garoo on Dantooine.

Garu was first mentioned in the 2001 roleplaying supplement The Dark Side Sourcebook, by Bill Slavicsek and J.D. Wiker. The 2007 reference book Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force contradicts itself on when Garu lost the Holocron of King Adas, as it both said after the fall of the Sith Empire and just prior to the Great Hyperspace War. The 2008 reference book The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia confirmed Garu lost the holocron and died during the Great Hyperspace War. The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia also erroneusly claims Garu was a Dark Lord of the Sith, or Jen'ari.