Darth Plagueis

Darth Plagueis monitors the unconscious Darth Venamis, keeping him static in a in his Aborah laboratory as an experimental subject. The droid 11-4D reports Venamis is stable with a high midi-chlorian count. Plagueis learns that Tenebrous had instructed Venamis to search for potential Force-sensitive beings to use in his schemes, just as he had asked Plagueis.

Plagueis considers his relationship with his late Master, Tenebrous. In a flashback, Plagueis recalls how Tenebrous orchestrated Plagueis’s conception through a Force-sensitive mother. As a child, Hego Damask discovered his powers when he compelled a playmate to fall to his death. Later, his father traded him to Tenebrous for political advancement. Damask began his apprenticeship and learned the Sith Grand Plan, taking on the Sith identity of Plagueis. Returning to the present, Plagueis considers that he is the culmination of Darth Bane’s line—the originator of the Sith dynasty and rules—but resolves to advance the Grand Plan on his own terms.

Plagueis hunts the Force-sensitive prospects Venamis had identified. In Lianna City, he and 11-4D track a Shi’ido shapeshifter to the Colliders Casino who is using his Force powers to cheat. Learning that he is working for industrialist Kerred Santhe II but heavily in debt, Plagueis threatens to unmask the Shi’ido, telling him to make more money.