The Tenebrous Way

"The Tenebrous Way" is a short story written by Matthew Stover and illustrated by Brian Rood for Star Wars Insider 130. It introduces Darth Plagueis's Sith Master, Darth Tenebrous, who later appeared briefly in James Luceno's novel Darth Plagueis.

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The story is from the point of view of Darth Tenebrous, taking place when he is killed by his apprentice, Darth Plagueis. Tenebrous contemplates his belief in his own calculations and his apprentice's obsession with immortality. The dying Sith Lord had developed a retrovirus that cut him off from predicting the future—the resulting maxi-chlorians, long-living midi-chlorians, enable Tenebrous to transfer his consciousness into Plagueis' body. Intending to transfer his essence to a "Savior" of the Sith, Tenebrous panicks when he realizes that Plagueis is in turn being killed by his own apprentice. Tenebrous continues to be conscious and is forced to experience the moment of death again and again.

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