Taken by the Empire from his mother as an infant because of nascent Force powers, he was one of a handful of
Imperials who tried to infiltrate the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV. Unlike the others, however, Brakiss had a true talent for
the Force. Brakiss semed to successfully turn from the Dark Side and became a student. But when, as a part of his
Jedi training, he was sent on a journey in which he had to confront himself, Brakiss emerged terrified and angry. He
left the Jedi Academy, never to return.
A physically stunning man, Brakiss was endowed with blond hair, blue eyes, flawless skin, a perfectly straight nose,
and thin lips. After his experiences on Yavin 4, he became adminstrator of droid manufacturing factories on the moon
of Telti. He helped Dark Sider Kueller plant explosives in a new
series of droids that were sent throughout New Republic worlds.
Brakiss remained filled with anger, irrationally continuing to blame his mother for allowing him to fall into the hands of
the Empire when he was an infant. His mother aided me on the planet Msst and led me to her son on Telti, where I
had to face my former student in battle. Brakiss had apparently stopped using the Force of his own volition, and
Kueller was using him as a pawn to trick me into going to Kueller's homeworld of Almania. After Brakiss's tampering
with droids was discovered, he was attacked by astromech droids that had been subverted and was driven from Telti.
About six years later, under the Second Imperium's attempt to re-establish the power and reach of the old Empire,
Brakiss was put in charge of the Shadow Academy, a twisted mirror image of the Jedi Academy. The purpose of the
Academy, based on a large space station, was to train a new army of Dark Jedi to take over the galaxy. It was here that
Zekk was made the Second Imperium's Darkest Knight. Also aboard
this station was where Lowbacca, Tenel Ka, Jaina Solo, and Jacen Solo were held when kidnapped by Imperium agents. The station
was outfitted with self-destruct mechanisms, and Brakiss wasn't permitted to leave the Academy. He lived under the
constant threat that the mechanisms would be triggered by the mysterious leaders of the Second Imperium. When
the station was moved to the orbit of Coruscant and launched attacks on the New Republic, Jaina Solo figured out
how to disable its cloaking device. The station managed to escape to a new hiding place, but the leaders of the
Second Imperium, fed up with Brakiss's failures, detonated the explosives aboard and he was killed.
