Originally posted by Darth_Janus
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OMG, I wonder how long it will last.
Dark Lord of Jawas
Darth Janus was born a small, screaming jawa babe in the desert wastes of Tattooine to two unhappy parents. Secretly of the bloodline of the great Sith Lord, Marka Ragnos, Janus was a halfblood- that is, half jawa, half Sith. His dark powers began to manifest when he was aged three years. He crawled out of his room and to a nearby well, where he proclaimed that anyone who drank of this well would die horribly. Few believed him, including his parents. They all died, as the well was contaminated. There were dead jawa bodies everywhere.
Orphaned and alone so young, the soon-to-be-mighty Janus struck out on his own, crawling off into the desert. He encountered a large group of sand people roaming the wastes, and Force persuaded them to take him to their leader, whom he quickly defeated in mortal combat. Having tossed aside their leaders' broken body, the young Janus thus subjugated the entire Tuskan raider clan, which he used as his first army. Working methodically, he began to unite the sand people clans through battle and manipulation, moving towards his ultimate goal of dominating the more advanced cities and ports owned by the sentients in places such as Mos Eisely and Mos Espa. Lone moisture farmers in secluded areas were captured and brought to Janus' main camp, where they were interrogated for information and then sent to labor camps, mining ore in the valleys.
His first victory against a major enemy came when Janus, now aged twenty, laid siege to Mos Espa. In a grueling ten days, the budding Sith Lord finally starved the inhabitants- mostly humanoid sentients- into submission. On the eleventh day, he and his entourage of elite jawa guards marched into the city, claming it for their own. Amidst the rubble, Janus found the body of two Jedi knights. Most everything was picked over by the jawas. However, the lightsabers were brought before Lord Janus, and he took both as his special mementos. Eventually, he used rare crystals found in Tattooine mines to augment them, and was truly fierce from then on.
Janus then moved his armies westward, to conquer the swath of metropolis that contained Mos Eisley. When the city was his at last, a few months later, Janus and his crew began to commandeer ships. Thus began the jawa exodus into the reaches of space.
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The Great Jawa Wars
Janus' army of spacefaring jawas then moved on to conquer planets on the Outer Rim with frightening speed and precision. Gathering mroe and more jedi and sith holocrons, lore, and weapons, Janus delved more and more into the mysteries and powers of the dark side. This attracted the attention of the Jedi Council and the Republic, who were still healing from the wounds inflicted by Exar Kun and Darth Revan, not fifty years prior. The Republic sent a fleet of warships to the Outer Rim, and engaged Janus' jawa forces above Dantooine. In the chaos and suffering that followed, the Republic was decimated, the jawa leader having used a high-level battle meditation to totally undermine the Republic's efforts. Admiral Fortuna, the Republic leading officer, was captured and held as ransom for a million credits, only to be murdered when the credits where given to the jawa army.
After this, the Jedi Order sought to combat this new threat, but Janus suddenly disappeared, his army vanishing beyond the Outer Rim into the Unknown Regions of space. Finally, after three years, he returned, a full fledged Sith Lord, and the new Darth Janus literally appeared (along with his cohorts, Darth Faurus and Darth Sorgo), straight out of hyperspace, above the skies of Coruscant with his new fleet of Sith warships. In his altimatum to the supreme chancellor, Darth Janus gives us insight into his views on the Republic, democracy, and the Jedi:
"Oooteenie!"
He then gave the order for his Sith Jawa elite forces to glass the planet.
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Janus is Challenged
In response to the heinous order, the head of the Jedi Order, Master Brianna, called out to this Darth Janus, begging him to spare the lives of the sentients on Coruscant. Janus agrees, and allows Brianna to come aboard his ship, where the two fight on the bridge. Brianna is defeated, and Janus sends her severed head to the Jedi Council, along with demands for the Order to abandon their temple and join his forces as lowly servants or die in defiance.
The Jedi mostly chose the latter.
Janus ordered his fleet to glass key parts of the planet and to engage the remnants of the Republic fleet, while he and his elite Sith jawas landed on Coruscant. What followed has been entitled 'The Second Jedi Purge', with the first refering to the Jedi Civil War and Revan's machinations.
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The Rise of the Sith Jawas
Within hours, the Jedi were exterminated, and Darth Janus held claim to the Republic and the known galaxy. He decreed from this point onward that all the history of the 'Talls' be erased, and a new age of the Sith Jawas would ensue.
However, this was not to be. There began rebellion, mostly in the Mid Rim and Core worlds, where sentients would not abide by the rule of short, Sitherly jawas. For the next ten years of his reign, Janus had to fight constantly, sending his troops from one location straight to the next, combatting the Talls and their revolts. Finally, Corellian smugglers and rebels managed to ambush his transport above Kivala, a Mid Rim world. Janus envoked ancient Sith magics, and detonated the star of the Kivala system, effectively destroying the rebels, but crippling his transport vessel. With the only coordinates he could think of, Janus made the hyperspace jump to Tattooine, where he landed to find his loyal sand people had been routed by offworlders. Janus cursed the galaxy and his fate, and hid in the desert, in his old temple below the surface, licking his wounds and biding his time, that the jawas may again rule the galaxy. The makings of his empire were overturned within the decade, and the other sentients, shamed at such a defeat, struck it from the record.
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