vindican was a male dark lord of the sith and a member of the sith species itself, who served the sith empire during the great galactic war against the republic. he was the master of darth malgus and, alongside him, joined the sith empire fleet on the attack of a republic fleet over korriban, with the intent of retaking the planet from the jedi. aboard the cruiser, vindican and malgus dueled a zabrak jedi master named kao cen darach and his apprentice, satele shan, but the latter managed to escape, and vindican was severly injured by darach. after killing him, malgus looked down upon his fallen master and, in an act true to the rule of two, executed him with his own lightsaber, thus becoming the new sith master.