known for much of his 1300-year life as "the sith emperor", lord vitiate was a sociopathic young lord in one of the earliest iterations of the sith empire. when that empire fell, he led an exodus of survivors to the other side of the galaxy to establish a continuation of it, with himself as emperor. it was vitiate who corrupted revan and malak, but revan's redemption and malak's defeat seemingly derailed his plans. three hundred years after revan's disappearance, the emperor launched a surprise attack on the republic, setting the stage for the video game "".