No. Those beings weren't people at all.
Trayas was from an insectoid race, and not like Geonosians or Houn. These were tiny insects, tick sized. They became capable over time of forming a group intelligence when enough of them gathered together.
There are no other records of thos species attaining force awareness- Trayas was unique. Some of these insects managed to gain a conneciton with the Force but there was no question of them being Light Siders. The collective entitiy that was Trayas started to take a rather cannabalisitc approach to communal living within the hives- his will started to consume and overcome other insect group minds, and his power grew and grew and grew.
Trayas constructed a robotic body for himself, inside which were these swarms of ticks now dominated by his single personality. And his power still grew, as did his swarm size, and so over tiem he added a second eobot body he could control, and a third. Each contained a Trayas swarm, each controlled and co-ordinated perfectly by his one collective mind, held together by his powers with the Force.
So there were three of Darth Trayas going around all the time- at least, that is how it appeared to others. This gave him some rather obvious advantages, and he became a powerful Sith Warrior; being able to duel opponents three-on-one was handy. Each individual Trayas was maybe not as powerful as a potent Jeid or Sith, but together they proved rather unstoppable.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
No. Those beings weren't people at all.Trayas was from an insectoid race, and not like Geonosians or Houn. These were tiny insects, tick sized. They became capable over time of forming a group intelligence when enough of them gathered together.
There are no other records of thos speicies attaining force awareness- Trayas was unique. Some of these insects managged to gain a conneciton with the Force but there was no question of tem eging Light Siders. The collective entitiy that was Trays started to take a rather cannabalisitc approach to communal living within the hives- his will started to consume and overcome other insect group minds, and his power grew and grew and grew.
Trayas constructed a robotic body for himself, inside which were these swarms of ticks now dominated by his single personality. And his power still grew, as did his swarm size, and so over tiem he added a second eobot body he could control, and a third. Each contained a Trayas swarm, each controlled and co-ordinated perfectly by his one collective mind, held together by his powers with the Force.
So there were three of Darth Trayas going around all the time- at least, that is how it appeared to others. This gave him some rather obvious advantages, and he became a powerful Sith Warrior; being able to duel opponents three-on-one was handy. Each individual Trayas was maybe not as powerful as a potent Jeid or Sith, but together they proved rather unstoppable.
Yeah, that's just weird and creepy...
No, no four-limbed Jedi.
But... Trayas' story is indeed rather short. In the histories you have read he is a bit of a footnote- some comments about his unusual nature, and his part in Malphas' rise to power.
But actually the thing Trayas is most famous for is that he died on day one!
Trayas was commanding the armies attacking Damaria. By sheer coincidence- or not, if you believe so about the Force- a Jedi was at the capital at the time, resting during a long journey home to Coruscant after a mission. History seemed to lose track of who this Jedi was, but he helped organise resistance, he couldn't hold the world, there was no hope of that, but he led operations that allowed a great deal of the civilians, and the entire Government, to evacuate the world- and at some point in these proceedings het met and killed Darth Trayas (which just goes to show that 'unstoppablle' is a point of view,. Those bastard Jedi, always pulling off heroic things...)
Histories after that tend to talk about Trayas' more historically significant replacement, selected by Malphas in his infamous 'Island of Fire'. But that's getting off the point.
Yes, Damaria survived the war and is a thriving Republican world today.
But you have kind of hit upon the big question there, Gallador. Because Damaria was reasonably important, but so were each of the hundreds of worlds Malphas attacked on Day One; he was aiming to cripple the Republic as fast as possible (an effort which culminated at Tarantis).
And so what history has never been able to record, and no-one has ever known... is quite why Malphas sent Trayas there. But it seems he wasn't expecting a Jedi there, so that wasn't it.