An admiral once held a position in Darth Revan's Sith Empire as a servant of the Dark Lord of the Sith during the Jedi Civil War, a galactic war fought between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire; this individual was the commander of the entire Sith fleet. The admiral questioned the commands of Darth Malak, Revan's Sith apprentice, at one point during the war, which led the Sith Lord to relieve the admiral of command in the Sith armada. Saul Karath, a former Republic admiral who had switched his allegiance to the Sith Empire, was appointed commander of the entire fleet by Revan some time after 3958 BBY.
The predecessor of Karath was referenced in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a video game created by BioWare in 2003.