| rdfs:comment | - Velian, when he turned seventeen, joined the Nationalist forces and became a Guardsman. Anticlea, the youngest Sakaros child, was born to Nagarian and Velia. For his refusal to pay double taxes to the Nationalist government, Nagarian was executed in a raid, along with his wife. Velian participated in the raid and was left to dispatch his siblings. Filled with rage and the burgeoning power of the Force lurking just below the surface, Tak took up his family’s ancestral Sith sword and cut his brother down, escaping with his sister.
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| abstract | - Velian, when he turned seventeen, joined the Nationalist forces and became a Guardsman. Anticlea, the youngest Sakaros child, was born to Nagarian and Velia. For his refusal to pay double taxes to the Nationalist government, Nagarian was executed in a raid, along with his wife. Velian participated in the raid and was left to dispatch his siblings. Filled with rage and the burgeoning power of the Force lurking just below the surface, Tak took up his family’s ancestral Sith sword and cut his brother down, escaping with his sister. For the next four years, Tak fought with the rebellion against the government, raising his sister with the aid of other rebels. He led several successful raids against Nationalist facilities with his best friends, Barreck and Ilyana, earning a name for himself as an uncannily good warrior and demolitions expert. When Tak was eighteen, though, his entire world would be totally shattered. Returning from patrol one day, Tak spotted his sister across a clearing, and she ran toward him. However, a Guardsman spotted her as well, and opened fire, mortally wounding the girl. Consumed with rage, Tak forgot his blaster and beat the Guardsman to death with his own rifle. Holding his sister in his arms until she died, the young Sith lost his mind to bloodlust and went on a rampage, murdering a nearby garrison of forty-two Guardsmen with his bare hands, though he sustained several grievous injuries and needed a month to recover afterward. After he healed, Tak was a changed man, cold and bitter even to his comrades. The ambush death of Ilyana less than two months later only made him more detached, and Tak’s comrades began to worry for his mental health. It was during this period that the young man began to unconsciously touch the dark side of the Force in his anger, setting the stage for the next period of his life.
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