LEGENDS · 138 ABY · LATE IMPERIAL CIVIL WAR
Mission to Korriban: Antares Draco rescues Marasiah Fel
An Imperial Knight disguises himself as a Sith to save a captive princess, but his own capture exposes the Hidden Temple.
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An imperial heir becomes a hostage
Marasiah Fel, daughter of Roan Fel, was captured by Sith forces after a disastrous encounter near Agamar. Her value to the One Sith extended beyond dynastic symbolism: she possessed political and military knowledge about the Empire-in-exile, and her captors hoped to break her resistance. The Sith took her to Korriban and held her inside the temple where Sith inquisitors practiced coercion. As a prisoner, she faced deliberate attempts to make her reveal protected information, rather than anything resembling a lawful trial.
Roan Fel issues a brutal conditional order
Emperor-in-exile Roan Fel directed Imperial Knight Antares Draco to locate and rescue the princess. Fel also ordered Draco to kill her if rescue failed, fearing that she might disclose valuable intelligence under torture. The order raises a stark question about a ruler's responsibilities toward family and subjects. Roan treated the danger to the Empire as justification for contemplating the death of his own daughter. The source establishes the conditional instruction; it does not show Draco accepting its moral premise without conflict.
Three fighters travel in disguise
Draco planned to infiltrate rather than launch a conventional assault. He adopted false Sith tattoos and drew upon his anger to make his performance plausible. Fellow Imperial Knight Ganner Krieg and Jedi Knight Shado Vao accompanied him, pretending to be prisoners captured on Agamar. This was a risky collaboration between people whose orders and Force traditions did not fully coincide. The presence of a Jedi among Fel's rescuers demonstrates the temporary coalition developing against Krayt's regime.
The Chambers of Persuasion
The group entered the Sith Temple and reached the area where Marasiah was confined. Draco learned that the inquisitor overseeing her torture was Darth Havok, formerly Eshkar Niin, his own teacher. Marasiah initially distrusted Draco when she saw the disguise and believed he might have betrayed her. Krieg and Vao defeated the nearby guards, and the three allies released her from confinement. The rescue did not immediately eliminate the larger danger because the temple remained controlled by multiple armed Sith.
Draco stays behind
While the group fought its way to their vessel, approaching defenders threatened the escape. Draco remained on Korriban to delay the pursuit while Marasiah, Krieg and Vao departed. He confronted Havok and rejected the inquisitor's invitation to embrace the Sith. Havok defeated him and took him prisoner. The apparent sacrifice enabled Marasiah to return to Bastion but left another important official vulnerable. This is a partial rescue victory, not a total defeat of Korriban's Sith defenders.
The connection to the Hidden Temple
The imprisoned Draco was subsequently tortured and deceived into believing Marasiah had again been captured. His captors extracted the location of the Jedi Hidden Temple on Taivas and passed it to the One Sith command. Darth Krayt used that information to set a trap for his enemies, leading to the later encounter on the Wheel and assault on Taivas. That causal chain matters: the Korriban rescue, the interrogation of Draco and the Hidden Temple battle are distinct events. Conflating them would obscure how secret intelligence was acquired and exploited.
Anthropological assessment: obedience, kinship and coercion
Korriban reveals several competing concepts of legitimate obligation. Roan Fel prioritized the Empire's security even over the life of a daughter. Draco, whose ties to Marasiah were personal as well as official, chose to protect her at the cost of his own capture. The Sith manipulated those attachments to obtain strategic information. The case makes clear that forced disclosure is not the same as informed agreement. A history of the consequences must distinguish the violence of interrogators from the constrained actions of the prisoner.
Published evidence and chronology
The rescue unfolds in Star Wars: Legacy (2006) #49–50 by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema, set in 138 ABY. Draco's subsequent imprisonment is revisited in Legacy—War #1–3. The cover above is from issue #49 and is identified as artwork from the source publication, not an alleged image of Draco entering the Chambers of Persuasion. The chronology does not invent a precise torture duration or a total count of Korriban's defenders.
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