Remulus Dreypa

In his role as a Baron, Remulus Dreypa was once a member of the Jedi Order during the Hundred-Year Darkness, a century-long period of conflict between the Jedi and a dissenting group of Dark Jedi. This conflict, known as the Second Great Schism, divided the Jedi Order throughout its history. These Dark Jedi, wielding the power of the dark side, discovered that channeling the Force with sufficient intensity could enable them to manipulate life itself. They then pioneered the science of Sith alchemy, allowing them to transform living organisms into monstrous creatures known as Sithspawn. At some point, for reasons unknown, Dreypa turned to the dark side and became an admiral within the Dark Jedi fleet.

Dreypa is known to have participated in the Battle of Corbos in 6900 BBY, the decisive battle of the Hundred-Year Darkness, which resulted in the Dark Jedi's defeat. Other notable Dark Jedi participants included Karness Muur, XoXaan, Sorzus Syn, and their leader, Ajunta Pall. Following the battle, these Dark Jedi were exiled to the Stygian Caldera. There, they discovered the planet Korriban, home to the red-skinned Sith species. Utilizing their mastery of the dark side, these Dark Jedi exiles subjugated the Sith and established the first Sith Empire and Sith Order. Dreypa played a significant role in the development of the Sith Order and its philosophy. He believed that a true Sith should only live for themselves and that caring for others made one a slave to other individuals.

During his exile in the Stygian Caldera, Remulus Dreypa received a powerful amulet from Sorzus Syn. Karness Muur, another exile, had already received another talisman created by Syn. Syn also revealed to him that the Sith species was genetically similar enough to humans to allow for alchemical crossbreeding, a fact that interested the Sith Lord, who was interested in a Sith priestess and concerned about his bloodline dying out with him. During his time among the Sith, Dreypa also created oubliettes, which would cause a being inside it to endure a living death while also making them immune to sensors. It was intended to imprison Muur to prevent the Muur Talisman's influence from escaping, but it failed because Muur was assassinated before the oubliette could fulfill its purpose.

Years later, after enhancing their dark powers and solidifying their control over the Sith, Dreypa and some of his fellow exiles decided to seek revenge on the Jedi Order and their weak Republic. They assembled a strike force, gathering their new armies and twisted Sith beasts. Before departing, Dreypa broke into the labs of Sorzus Syn and stole several Leviathan larvae. These Sithspawn, deployed during the Battle of Corbos, could drain the life force of sentient beings. Dreypa and his Dark Jedi allies left their hesitant comrades behind and ventured out of the Stygian Caldera.

However, Dreypa and his forces encountered a Jedi patrol composed of Corbos veterans searching for the Exiles to ensure they no longer posed a threat to the Republic. After a chase across the galaxy, the Jedi and Sith ships crash-landed on Kesh, where the space battle evolved into a fierce clash of lightsabers and Force powers. Unable to call for reinforcements due to Kesh's strange magnetic field, Dreypa and his Jedi adversaries fought with unparalleled ferocity, devastating the planet with all available weapons, including his Leviathan monsters. These events would be remembered by the native Keshiri people as the "Great Calamity." The Dark Jedi and their Jedi opponents became known as the Destructors and Protectors in Keshiri mythology.

During this conflict, Dreypa realized that the Talisman given to him by Syn was intended to trap his spirit. However, Dreypa modified the Talisman to control the Leviathans and extend his lifespan. He also placed several Leviathan larvae in the volcano Sessal Spire, where they could mature and hibernate safely for four millennia.

Ultimately, Dreypa failed to achieve his ambitions of escaping Kesh and wreaking havoc on the galaxy. Appalled by the extent of the damage and the destructive impact of the conflict on Kesh and its inhabitants, his own Dark Jedi allies turned against him. They sealed the Sith Lord in his oubliette and formed a truce with their former Jedi opponents. Seeking atonement, the Jedi and Dark Jedi dedicated themselves to finding true neutrality between the dark and light sides of the Force, settling in Eshkrene, the planet's south pole, where they formed a new community, the Doomed. They also built a settlement known as the City of the Doomed. For thousands of years, the Doomed and their descendants watched over Kesh and the Keshiri, initially guarding the prison of Remulus Dreypa and later monitoring the influence of the Lost Tribe of Sith on Kesh.

Two thousand years after Dreypa's arrival on Kesh, another ship from the Sith Empire, the Omen, crashed on Kesh. The Omen and its sister ship, Harbinger, were transporting a mining crew to Phaegon III to extract Lignan ores for Sith Lord Naga Sadow's upcoming invasion of the Galactic Republic. During that mission, both ships were attacked by a Jedi starfighter, and the Omen was knocked off course while attempting to enter hyperspace. Due to the planet's strange magnetic fields and the ship's heavily damaged condition, the Sith crew and passengers became permanently stranded on Kesh. While these Sith were primarily Humans, they included several Red Sith, Massassi, and one Houk named Gloyd. The Massassi succumbed to an unknown pathogen in Kesh's atmosphere, while the Red Sith were killed during the Red Sith Purge in 4985 BBY.

Under the leadership of Yaru Korsin, these Sith successfully subjugated the Keshiri population on Keshtah Minor by claiming to be the legendary Skyborn of Keshiri religion. They became known as the Lost Tribe of Sith, ruled by a Grand Lord selected from among seven High Lords. The Tribe experienced a power vacuum following the disappearance of the ruling Grand Lord Lillia Venn in 3960 BBY. This power struggle lasted over nine hundred years and devastated much of Keshtah Minor. While the Doomed considered intervening in Keshtah by 3000 BBY, they relented after a reformist Grand Lord named Varner Hilts came into power. Besides rebuilding war-torn Keshtah Minor, Hilts improved the status of Keshiri in Sith society by allowing Force-sensitive Keshiri to join the Tribe. Most importantly, he successfully reunited the Tribe by committing it to reaching and annexing Alanciar, another continent across the ocean.

In 2975 BBY, High Lord Edell Vrai developed a fleet of airships, allowing the Tribe to cross the ocean and reach Alanciar. They initially faced resistance from the Alanciari Keshiri, who had developed a militaristic civilization to resist any Sith invasion. The Alanciari traced their civilization to the arrival of Adari Vaal and a group of Keshiri exiles fleeing Sith rule in 4975 BBY. Vaal initially supported the Tribe to improve her social standing but came to despise Sith rule, leading her to stage an unsuccessful uprising. While the Sith invaders suffered heavy casualties, High Lord Korsin Bentado killed the entire War Cabinet, Alanciar's highly centralized military government. Ultimately, the Tribe gained the support of the Keshiri by using the Alanciari man Jogan Halder to convince his people that the Sith were not a threat but the legendary Skyborn. Thus, the Sith convinced the Alanciari to submit peacefully to their rule.

Following the annexation of Alanciar, the Sith gained access to lumber and the Alanciari's naval tradition. This allowed the Tribe to build a fleet of wooden sailing ships to explore the unknown regions and seas of Kesh beyond Keshtah and Alanciar. In 2974 BBY, one such exploratory ship, the Southern Star, was sent to explore Eshkrene and made first contact with the Doomed. Following a skirmish that ended with the death of several crew members, including the ship captain Chegg, the remaining crew, including Parlan Spinner, an exiled Sith anarchist, and Takara Hilts, Grand Lord Hilts' daughter, were captured by the Doomed and brought to their city. The leader of the Doomed, a S'kytri named Kaliska, told Spinner and Takara about her people's history. The Doomed's mysterious "Great Weapon" piqued Spinner's interest. Spinner saw the weapon as a chance to settle scores with the Tribe. The anarchist escaped, wounded the guards guarding Dreypa's oubliette, and stole it to destroy the Tribe and its institutions.

Spinner also freed the Keshiri crew of the Southern Star and fled aboard their boat before the alarm was sounded. Convinced by Kaliska of the danger of the "Great Weapon", Takara Hilts and the latter tried to prevent Spinner from opening the sealed box, but arrived too late to stop Remulus Dreypa's emergence from his prison after four thousand years of imprisonment. Following the Sith Lord's awakening, Spinner and the Keshiri crew immediately sided with Dreypa and pledged their allegiance to him. Meanwhile, Kaliska and Takara were taken captive and imprisoned within the ship's hold. While Kaliska submitted and entered a state of meditation, the Sith princess resisted her captors and had to be restrained in chains.

After several days of voyaging across the Southern Ocean, the Southern Star arrived in Keshtah and landed at the port town of Eorm, Spinner's hometown. During the voyage, Spinner told Lord Dreypa about the historical origins of the Lost Tribe of Sith and their empire. The Sith Lord was surprised that an entire Sith civilization had developed on Kesh while he had been imprisoned in the oubliette for millennia. Lord Dreypa was grateful to the Sith rebel for freeing him and swore vengeance against the descendants of his Dark Jedi allies who had imprisoned him in his oubliette.

Since he had been imprisoned in stasis for a long period, Lord Dreypa was slowly recovering his memories but could not remember all his powers at the moment. Spinner also told Lord Dreypa that Eorm was his hometown and expressed his desire to destroy the town to prove the Sith Lord's powers. Dreypa agreed to level the town but first had to attend to his two captives: Kaliska and Takara. Lord Dreypa had spared Takara Hilts since her father was the leader of the Lost Tribe and he felt that she would be useful as a hostage for future bargaining.

While on the outskirts of Eorm, Dreypa sensed panic emanating from the town and decided to use the city to display the extent of his powers to his new allies and their prisoners. The local townsfolk had failed to meet their quota of producing enough sailcloth to supply the Lost Tribe's fleet of wooden ships. As punishment, the local Sith Lord Galathos had ordered his troops to raze several houses. When a local Keshiri begged for mercy claiming that the townsfolk had labored day and night to meet the order, Galathos used the Force to choke the man. Galathos also added that the reformist Grand Lord Hilts was too far away to stop such abuses. However, Galathos was interrupted by Lord Dreypa himself who killed him by using powerful Force lightning bolts.

Dreypa then used the Force to conjure flames, incinerating Galathos's troops. After this fiery display, Spinner rallied the crowd of slaves who had become dazed by the power of Dreypa, stating that the Tribe's rulers in Tahv had let the people down and that this new Sith Lord would fight for them against their oppressors. However, Dreypa interrupted Spinner to tell the crowd that he was fighting for nobody and that he would not stay on Kesh.

The Sith Lord harangued the onlookers for not keeping to the true Sith path but promised that he would overthrow the tribal leadership, whom he derided for becoming lax and complacent through the exploitation of others. Dreypa also vowed to return to the stars which he described as his domain. Finally, the Exiled urged the townsfolk to join him in order to get revenge against their former tormentors. Dreypa's speech calling for the people to "break their chains" had a spell-binding effect on the people of Eorm.

Among the onlookers stood Takara, the captured Sith princess, and Kaliska, the leader of the S'kytri Doomed. Kaliska cautioned the Sith princess against underrating Dreypa's perilous abilities, recalling how he once endangered the entire planet. Eavesdropping, Dreypa quickly identified the winged S'kytri woman as a descendant of the Dark Jedi who had betrayed him and confined him within the oubliette.

Dreypa then disclosed that he had managed to endure his millennia-long imprisonment within the oubliette thanks to an amulet given to him on Korriban by his rival Sorzus Syn, who intended it to trap his spirit. However, Dreypa had modified the amulet to aid his survival within the oubliette. Though his memories remained incomplete, the Sith Lord remembered seeking something. He inquired of Kaliska whether her people possessed it, but she feigned ignorance, claiming concern only for the Keshiri natives' welfare.

Subsequently, Dreypa declared that his campaign would extend beyond Eorm and that the Lost Tribe would eventually serve him. Takara countered that this was her Tribe's homeworld and that they would resist him. Dreypa then insulted Takara by threatening to kill her father, Grand Lord Varner Hilts, whom he dismissed as a "fool." Concurrently, Spinner, Dreypa's new "partner," went to the guardhouse at Eorm and retrieved the lightsabers of the deceased Sith. Returning to the village, Spinner presented one of these lightsabers to Dreypa.

In response, Dreypa elevated the young man to the rank of Sith Lord and ordered him to distribute the remaining lightsabers to his newly-formed peasant army. Dreypa then announced their march on the Tribe's capital at Tahv. Takara rebuked Spinner for betraying his own people and collaborating with an enemy. However, Spinner dismissed her lecture, disowning the Tribe as his people and claiming that he aligned himself with the Exiled to overthrow the ruling elite.

Takara then attempted to insult Spinner by suggesting that Dreypa would claim all the glory. She told him to return to Dreypa's side, disparaging him as a mere slave who had changed masters. Dreypa considered the Sith princess Takara a valuable hostage for negotiations. He ordered two Keshiri guards to take Takara and Kaliska into captivity. However, the Sith princess had pilfered two lightsabers and swiftly defeated her captors once they were out of sight. Kaliska persuaded Takara to return with her to Eshkrene and rally the Doomed to thwart Dreypa's plans. The two women fled, taking all the uvaks of Eorm with them, thus depriving Spinner and Dreypa of an "air force."

Meanwhile, the Lost Tribe, informed of the Eorm insurrection but unaware of Dreypa's presence, assembled its warriors under the command of Varner's wife, Iliana, and advanced against Dreypa and his followers in the Marisota Floodplain, a vast plain that had witnessed numerous battles between rival Sith Lords. Grand Consort Iliana initially dismissed the Eorm incident as a simple slave rebellion but expressed concern over the vast numbers and level of organization.

During the battle, Dreypa and Spinner eliminated many of their Sith opponents. Spinner exploited the fighting to settle scores for real and perceived grievances. While Dreypa killed several opponents with Force lightning, Spinner cruelly plunged daggers into the chest of an enemy Sith warrior. As the man bled to death, Spinner declared that he had returned and was teaching the man a "history lesson," suggesting that some would find it more interesting than others.

However, the battle's course shifted when the Grand Consort deployed her air forces, the Skyborn Rangers, who decimated much of Dreypa's untrained peasant army with their glass daggers. Facing defeat, Dreypa criticized Spinner for failing to utilize uvak steeds. Spinner explained that their army lacked professional riders and that learning to fly an uvak took months. Spinner suddenly remembered that the guards with their two hostages had not yet caught up with the main army. An argument ensued between the two commanders when Spinner pointed out that their forces had moved too quickly.

Dreypa remained unconcerned, expressing his eagerness to reach the capital Tahv to escape Kesh. Despite experiencing periodic memory lapses since his revival, Dreypa finally recalled the existence of the Leviathans and ordered his surviving troops to follow him to Sessal Spire, a large volcano situated on a peninsula southwest of the battlefield. The Lost Tribe's commanders observed their retreat, and Iliana gloated that the enemy was entering a trap since the volcano was a dead end at the rim of the continent Keshtah Minor, overlooking the Southern Ocean.

Spinner and Dreypa eventually reached the molten crater of the volcano. By then, Spinner had begun to question Dreypa's sanity and attempted to negotiate his surrender with Iliana and the other Lost Tribe pursuers. The Grand Consort immediately recognized Spinner as the man who had tried to assassinate her husband in Tahv. Spinner, however, tried to remain cheerful and offered to make a deal with the Tribe, claiming that his leader had apparently gone insane. He cheekily remarked to Iliana that her husband Varner would have dismissed his involvement in the uprising as another prank gone wrong. However, Iliana refused to offer any quarter to the young anarchist, threatening to throw him into the lava after they killed the ringleader.

Iliana then turned her attention to Dreypa, who insulted her for marrying a "doddering old man." He offered Iliana the chance to become his new consort, claiming to be a true Sith with "real" power. Iliana rejected the offer, stating her preference for Varner, who had no delusions of grandeur. Iliana then disparaged Dreypa as a mere slave who had learned some Force tricks and donned a ridiculous outfit. She ordered her troops to throw Dreypa and Spinner into the molten crater. However, Dreypa used his talisman to awaken three fully developed Leviathans. These ancient Sithspawn, developed during the Hundred-Year Darkness, had a fearsome reputation throughout the galaxy. The Sith Lord had stolen them from his rival Sorzus Syn's laboratory on Korriban.

Having awakened his Leviathans, Lord Dreypa commanded them to kill all the Sith present, including both the Tribe loyalists and the rebels. Spinner and Iliana barely escaped as the massive monsters used their tendrils to pluck Sithlings. The Leviathans then drained the life energy from their prey, leaving behind shriveled husks. The Leviathans also absorbed the knowledge of their prey, which Dreypa gained access to. Spinner tried to save himself by begging his former ally to spare him. However, Dreypa rejected Spinner's pleas, stating that he had no allies and that his so-called allies had betrayed him centuries ago.

Dreypa considered the Leviathans all the help he needed. In the middle of the feeding frenzy, Dreypa and his Leviathans came under attack from the "Doomed," who had flown across the Southern Ocean from Eshkrene on their uvak steeds. Kaliska led the attack, ordering her warriors to target the Leviathans' blister traps and urging them to fight for the fight they were born for. Dreypa unleashed Force lightning on the attackers. At that point, Spinner deserted Dreypa. She attempted to execute Spinner for his treachery, but they were distracted by Iliana's cries after she was captured by a Leviathan.

Soon, Takara was also captured by the Leviathan. Spinner intervened and attacked the Leviathan, using his daggers to puncture the beast's blister traps. A freed Takara threw her lightsaber to Spinner, who used it to slay the Leviathan. While Spinner and Takara saved Iliana Hilts, she had been aged by the Leviathan, no longer the young warrior queen but an old woman. From that point, Spinner and Takara joined forces to stop Dreypa's ambitions.

The Doomed kept the Leviathans preoccupied, allowing the three Humans to escape before more Leviathan larvae hatched. Takara and Spinner loaded the debilitated Grand Consort onto an uvak. By that stage, Dreypa had gained the upper hand over the Doomed with Force lightning and the Leviathans' powers. One Leviathan caught a Rodian member of the Doomed in a blister trap.

Since the Sith Lord commanded the Leviathans, he absorbed their knowledge and learned that the Doomed were descendants of the Jedi and Dark Jedi who had imprisoned him within the oubliette. Though the Doomed had pledged never to wage war near the Keshiri, they had broken that rule to stop him. Dreypa learned through the absorbed memories that his ancient forebears had hidden something from him.

The only Sith survivors of the Sessal Spire massacre were Spinner, Takara, and Iliana. Kaliska was the lone survivor of the Doomed on Keshiri, most of her brethren having been slaughtered by Dreypa's Leviathans. While Takara guided the uvak carrying her mother, Kaliska spoke briefly with Spinner. Since Dreypa's Leviathans were too strong for the Doomed and he was rapidly learning their secrets, Kaliska suggested combining their assault with the Tribe's remaining forces. However, Spinner dismissed the idea, feeling that the Tribe's leadership would regard her as a freakish alien like the Leviathans.

During the conversation, Spinner and Takara learned from Kaliska that the ancient forebears of the Doomed had hidden a Jedi starship within the Keshiri burial cairns beneath the Circle Eternal, the center of the Lost Tribe's government and the Hilt's palace at Tahv. Kaliska explained that the Doomed had sworn never to leave Kesh as long as they remained Force-sensitive. Kaliska convinced Spinner and Takara to destroy the vessel before Dreypa could get his hands on it. While Kaliska distrusted Spinner, they settled for him because his expertise as a grave robber allowed him to break into the catacombs and find the starship within hours. In exchange, Kaliska offered to accompany Spinner to ensure he carried out the task. Spinner also agreed to ferry Takara's debilitated mother Iliana back to Tahv on her uvak, where the Tribe's Force sages could treat her.

Dreypa and his Leviathans quickly caught up with the party. Spinner and Iliana escaped on the uvak back to Tahv. However, Kaliska was captured by one of Dreypa's Leviathans, which drained her life energies and memories. Dreypa quickly found through his Force bond with the Leviathans that she was the last survivor of the Doomed, whom he derided as traitors and fools who had betrayed and imprisoned him within the oubliette. He taunted Kaliska, claiming that her people's exile had been self-inflicted and ultimately futile in preventing his re-emergence. He quickly learned that the Doomed's forebears had hidden the Last Hope in Tahv, the Tribe's capital. Dreypa then ordered his pet Leviathans to transport him to Tahv.

Dreypa was unwilling to enslave the planet, regarding it as a primeval backwater, as he was more interested in conquering the galaxy. Instead, he allowed his Leviathans to feed on the entire planet after he had left. However, Dreypa was interrupted by Takara, the Sith princess who had stayed behind to delay him. She promised that Kesh would instead consume him and reiterated that the planet belonged to the Lost Tribe. Dreypa taunted her, remarking that the Tribe had already sent its best forces against him and that she was the sole survivor.

However, Takara replied by taunting the Sith Lord that the Tribe had broken chains from people like him long ago. Takara was referring to the red-skinned Sith rulers of the ancient Sith Empire whose forebears had enslaved the Tribe's Tapani human ancestors. The two Force-users then engaged in a duel with lightsabers and Force lightning, but Dreypa quickly gained the upper hand due to his superior mastery of the Dark Side. He then took the Sith princess captive.

Meanwhile, Spinner and Iliana made their way back to Tahv. After Iliana was taken away to be treated by the Tribe's sages, Spinner sneaked into the burial cairns beneath the Circle Eternal. There, he found the Last Hope. However, he failed to fulfill his promise to destroy the vessel and instead headed into space. Spinner's escape from Tahv caused extensive damage to the surrounding area. Within minutes, Spinner had reached the space above Kesh and marveled at his first sight of the Kesh system.

However, Lord Dreypa sensed Spinner's departure through the Force and used a holo-emitter he kept on his person to contact the Sith outcast by activating the ship's hologram projector. The Sith Lord commented that the late Kaliska had been right to distrust the young Sith. He denounced Spinner as a sniveling slave who had stolen something he wanted. Dreypa explained that Kesh's magnetic field was limiting the range of the Last Hope, which enabled him to transmit his ultimatum via his holo-emitter.

Lord Dreypa then threatened to use his Leviathans to destroy Tahv unless Spinner returned the Last Hope. However, Spinner was undaunted by Dreypa's threats and claimed that he did not care about the fate of his own tribe since they had marginalized him since his birth. Dreypa then presented the captive Takara Hilts, his former foe who had become an unlikely ally after Dreypa turned on him. Hilts was in the grips of one of Dreypa's Leviathans after the Dark Jedi had beaten her in combat.

After reading through Kaliska's memories, Dreypa found that Spinner had a weakness: he secretly loved and cared for the Sith princess. On the ship's intercomm, Spinner tried to downplay his affection for Hilts by claiming that they were enemies. However, Dreypa did not believe the young man's lies since he knew that Kaliska knew that Spinner had earlier saved Takara by helping bring home her mother to Tahv.

Dreypa was sickened that the so-called "Sith" Tribe on Tahv cared about other sentient beings since it contradicted the Sith credo that Sith adherents should only care about power. Finally, Dreypa offered to trade Takara and Kesh for the ship. He instructed Spinner to meet them in Tahv in exchange for allowing Spinner to rule the planet after his departure. Takara herself was enraged at being described by Dreypa as Spinner's weakness. In a fit of rage, she told Spinner to leave Kesh, claiming that no one on the planet cared about him, and warned him not to return.

Dreypa then ended the transmission with Spinner and left the youth to ponder his ultimatum. Ultimately, the Sith outcast was moved by Dreypa's ultimatum and realized the destructive and cruel tendencies of the ancient Sith Lord. He realized that he could not live with sacrificing his entire world to Dreypa's wrath and abandoned his desire to escape Kesh and explore the galaxy. Spinner then headed back to Tahv and asked the Last Hope's computer to give him a quick tutorial on operating the vessel's weapon systems and tractor beam projector.

Meanwhile, Dreypa launched his attack on Tahv and quickly laid waste to much of the Tribe's capital. An aged Iliana Hilts led the defense of the city, but even the Tribe's elite Sith Sabers proved no match for his monstrous Sithspawn. One Leviathan broke into the Grand Lord's palace just as the scholarly Varner Hilts had begun efforts to evacuate the Tribe's prized tomes. The monster was about to devour the elderly Sith Lord when Spinner arrived over the palace in the Last Hope. Spinner then used the ship's tractor beam projector to drag the Leviathan into the skies. He then used the ship's turbolaser cannons to destroy the beast. Spinner also used the starship's intercom system to announce to the Grand Lord that he had come to help the Tribe. Spinner then killed several of the remaining Leviathans by strafing them with his turbolaser systems.

Lord Dreypa was furious when he saw his pets being wiped out by the Last Hope. Soon, the Sith Lord was left with only one Leviathan and his hostage Takara, who was still trapped in the beast's tendrils. Dreypa then ordered his Leviathan to leap on top of a tall building to meet Spinner and his starship. The Dark Lord repeated his ultimatum and threatened to murder the Sith princess. However, Spinner remained defiant and told the Sith Lord that he was "going to send him back to his coffin in pieces." At that point, Takara used Force lightning to attack the massive Leviathan, beheading the monster. As the beast descended to its death, she and Dreypa leapt onto the hull of the Last Hope. Realizing that he had both Takara and Dreypa, Spinner took the starship on a fast spin to the Southern Ocean.

Due to its advanced engine systems, the vessel reached the shores of Keshtah within seconds. Spinner then stopped the vessel and hovered over the ocean before opening the cockpit's canopy. He claimed that he was ready to deal with the Sith Lord and apologized for destroying his monstrous "critters." He offered the Sith Lord the opportunity to leave Kesh for good in return for taking his deal to rule the planet.

However, Dreypa threatened to kill both Spinner and Takara for the trouble they had caused him. Before he could kill them, Spinner grabbed Takara, and they jumped from the vessel into the ocean below. However, Spinner had earlier reset the ship's computer to take the vessel on a one-way course into Sessal Spire's caldera. To prevent Dreypa from changing the ship's course, he had the course program locked. As planned, Dreypa re-entered the ship's cockpit and strapped himself into the seat.

At first, Dreypa gloated over his escape from death and tried to set the ship on a course for Coruscant. There, he intended to seek vengeance against the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order. However, the ship's computer announced that the vessel was set on a one-way course into Sessal Spire's caldera. Dreypa was unable to alter the ship's course since Spinner had tampered with the controls. Thus, the Dark Jedi was trapped in a metal death trap as the vessel crashed into the volcanic crater. With that, both the Sith Lord and the Last Hope, the only means of getting offworld on Kesh, were destroyed.

Dreypa's death ended a major threat to the Lost Tribe's existence and prevented any knowledge of Kesh from reaching the wider galaxy. Meanwhile, the former Sith outcast Spinner was welcomed by his former enemies as the hero who had saved Tahv and the Tribe from annihilation at the hands of Dreypa's Sithspawn. He would become one of Grand Lord Varner's Hands and developed a romantic relationship with Varner's daughter and his former enemy Takara Hilts.

During the Mandalorian Wars, an oubliette of Dreypa came into the possession of Pulsipher, a Mandalorian scientist who threatened to place Zayne Carrick into it if the young Jedi did not tell him how to use the Muur Talisman, which Pulsipher had found on Taris. During the events that followed, Pulsipher was killed, and the power of the Talisman unleashed when the Jedi Knight Celeste Morne was possessed by the spirit of Dreypa's rival, Karness Muur. To prevent Muur from raising legions of rakghouls and threatening the galaxy, Morne then unknowingly fulfilled Dreypa's original wish, imprisoning herself, Muur's spirit, and the Talisman into the oubliette.

The oubliette remained in the ices of Jebble for thousands of years, but it was later found by a group of miners and opened by Darth Vader during the early days of the Galactic Empire. Freed from his agony, Muur cursed Dreypa for the oubliette's creation. As for Morne, tormented and partially under the control of Muur, she engaged in a duel with Vader, forcing him to flee, and subsequently ordered stormtroopers turned rakhgouls to destroy the oubliette of Dreypa.

As a founding member of the Sith Order, Remulus Dreypa was entirely self-centered and deeply believed that caring for others was a form of servitude. For much of his existence following the Dark Jedi's defeat during the Hundred-Year Darkness, Dreypa dedicated himself to returning to the stars to exact revenge on the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic. Due to his Sith beliefs, which emphasized personal ambition at the expense of others, Dreypa viewed all sentient beings as inferior, destined for destruction or servitude.

Dreypa was a captivating speaker who could inspire people to fight against those who had committed real or perceived wrongs by using his Force powers. Due to his millennia-long imprisonment within his oubliette, Dreypa was driven mad by his ambitions and suffered from memory loss. However, he gradually regained knowledge of his former powers and weapons after being freed. Dreypa's fighting abilities, dark side powers, and his Leviathan Sithspawn would make him one of the greatest challenges the Keshiri and Lost Tribe faced.

Dreypa also possessed a fiery temper, which he used to fuel his dark side powers, including Force lightning. As an Admiral who had led military fleets, Dreypa was angered by the incompetence of his forces, whose lack of air support led to their defeat during the Battle of the Marisota Floodplain. During the retreat to Sessal Spire, Dreypa descended into madness, shouting and ranting continuously. His behavior was observed by Parlan Spinner, who decided to desert him.

Despite his selfish outlook, Dreypa was not immune to interest in the opposite sex. He found Grand Consort Iliana Hilts attractive enough to attempt to seduce her into becoming his consort. However, Iliana rejected his advances, leading the Sith Lord to unleash his hibernating Leviathan Sithspawn on the Tribe's forces. His exploitative attitude toward women was also evident in his order to his Leviathans to devour Kaliska and his attempts to use Takara as "insurance" to force Spinner to return his starship.

As one of the original Sith Lords, Dreypa was a formidable adversary, skilled in Force lightning and convection, and proficient in Sith Sorcery. He also wielded a red lightsaber with proficiency.

Remulus Dreypa was first mentioned in Star Wars: Vector, a comic storyline released in 2008 that intersected separate storylines from different comic series, including Knights of the Old Republic, Dark Times, Rebellion, and Legacy. This combined storyline was developed by writers including John Ostrander and John Jackson Miller.

Dreypa made his first appearance in Miller's Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral 2, first released on September 12, 2012. Miller also expanded on his biography and developed his character. He was killed off in Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral 5, the finale to Miller's stand-alone Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral which debuted on December 12, 2012.