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A human Sith Lord active during a war between the Jedi Order and the Sith, Bichan wore a red face-concealing mask and wielded a lightsaber with an attached whip. At one point, he fought and killed a group of eight Jedi, including the teacher of the Padawan Toul. The Sith Lord became interested by the anger displayed by the Jedi apprentice and spared his life, with Toul being left with a lingering sense of fear by the confrontation. Later, Bichan was noticed at a city on a marketplace asteroid by Toul, who was acquiring supplies there for a mission to the planet Dolgarak.
The Sith followed Toul and the mechanic Ara there, shooting down their starship with his own craft. Subsequently, Bichan engaged Toul in a lightsaber duel atop a speeder that Ara drove up one of the two statues of prophecy located on Dolgarak. Their confrontation continued atop a stone ring connecting the heads of the two statues, where Bichan eventually disarmed Toul and demanded that he either surrender to the dark side of the Force and join him or die. At that point, however, Ara, who realized that she played a part in a prophecy that had foretold the duel, distracted Bichan through the use of explosives, allowing Toul to summon his own lightsaber and decapitate the Sith Lord. (Read more…)
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