Entry in the Jedi Archives
Little is known about Darth Ptas. What little we do know has come at great expense. Many Wookiees died in the great wars of Kashyyyk to learn certain things about the past of Darth Ptas.
What little we do know is that Darth Ptas was once known as Lady Aku, an apprentice of Darth Ikijji, who in turn was an apprentice of Darth Syn, one of the original members of Dark Lords of the Sith. Before she was Lady Aku, nothing much is known other than that the journals of Darth Knave reveal that he lured her into his Sith Order, Sith Legends, having discovered her on Dantooine.
As Lady Aku, before becoming Darth Ptas, she resided at the Sith Legends base in Orion. During this time she studied under Darth Ikijji, frequently traveling to Dantooine to hunt down the Jedi, Nenilai Valentine. During this time she also learned the arts of light-saber creation and fire projection from Darth Ron'Zar, also an apprentice of Darth Syn.
After becoming Darth Ptas she pledged herself to Dark Lord Malice, a powerful and dangerous Sith who, despite several attempts to destroy his plans on the part of various forces, refounded the Sith homeworld of Ziost, then relocating the Sith Citadel to Byss, where it remained until that entire world was destroyed. During that entire time, Darth Ptas ruled over Sith Legends as Dark Lady, and along with Dark Lord Malice. They continued this arrangement through the time when Sith Legends moved to Ziost, where Ptas & Malice ruled until she mysteriously disappeared.
After a long period of rumors to her death, she reappeared with the resurfacing of the Dark Lords of the Sith, and is said to have been sighted in Byss, which also seems to have been reconstructed, though all of our probe droids sent to the region have not returned, and our Jedi scouts have come back in boxes.
Personality
Ptas is extremely dangerous and never to be reasoned with. The Jedi Incident Reports Archive indicates that she has never come to Jedi territory and left without leaving behind a corpse. She is a skilled assassin and to be treated as armed and dangerous at any time. When she speaks, the words may say something else, but they simply mean, "I am going to kill you." If she has the ability to restrain her insatiable desire to constantly kill, then we have seen no evidence of it.
Appearance
Ptas stands extremely tall for a female. Has not been seen without a cloak covering her appearance. It is believed that she may use Sith Alchemical tricks to mask her appearance at times, but it is not known if she holds any alternate identities of which we are unaware. Despite the front of her cloak hanging open, the only time holocams and surveillance droids have picked up any verifiable features is when the shadowy areas within the cloak were illuminated by her saber as she sheathed it after killing a Jedi. It is thought that some cybernetic enhancements/repairs may explain the metal tube that was seen running from her heart area into her neck area..
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Etymology of "Ptas"
The name "Ptas," like any good Darth name, has its roots in the ancient languages. In the case of "Ptas," it is actually an Ancient Greek command, πτάς, the second-person singular aorist indicative active of πέτομαι, "to fly (away, in ones own best interest)."
ψυχὴ ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη Ἄϊδόσδε βεβήκει
- Homer.
"The soul flew out from his limbs and walked into Hades."
ἆρ᾽ οὖν οὐχὶ ὅσῳ ἂν μᾶλλον τοῖς πολίταις ἀπεχθάνηται ταῦτα δρῶν, τοσούτῳ πλειόνων καὶ πιστοτέρων δορυφόρων δεήσεται;
πῶς γὰρ οὔ;
τίνες οὖν οἱ πιστοί; καὶ πόθεν αὐτοὺς μεταπέμψεται;
αὐτόματοι, ἔφη, πολλοὶ ἥξουσι πετόμενοι, ἐὰν τὸν μισθὸν διδῷ.
- Plato
"Won't she need a larger and more loyal bodyguard, the more her actions make the citizens of the Galaxy hate her?"
"Of course."
"And who will these trustworthy people be? And where will she get them from?"
"They'll come flying through hyperspace, if she pays them."
(Excerpt from 'Plato's Galactic Republic')