To draw out Obi-Wan Kenobi into a confrontation, Maul and his brother voyaged to nearby Raydonia, home to a simple settlement of colonists. Maul brutally murdered the settlers, broadcasting horrific images of the carnage to the Jedi Temple.

Though it was clear it was a trap, Obi-Wan voyaged to Raydonia, where he was stunned to learn that Darth Maul was indeed alive. Together, Savage and Maul overpowered Kenobi, knocking him unconscious. Maul wanted to savor his vengeance against Obi-Wan, a vengeance he had to stall for over a decade.

Asajj Ventress, a former master of Savage Opress and now a bounty hunter, tracked the dark warrior to Raydonia, and stowed aboard his vessel as it left the world. A longtime enemy of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Asajj now saw that they had a common foe. She teamed up with Obi-Wan to rescue the Jedi Knight from the evil brothers.

As Kenobi and Maul dueled, Maul kept trying to draw out the darkness in Obi-Wan. He goaded Kenobi with words about the murder of Qui-Gon Jinn. Obi-Wan unleashed his fury against Maul, but he could not defeat the dark warrior. Obi-Wan and Asajj escaped, leaving Savage and Maul to plot their next move.

After a scourge through the sparsely defended outposts of the Outer Rim, Maul began to orchestrate his plan of conquest. With Savage as his new Sith apprentice, Maul began building an army by coercing underworld types to follow his command. He began with the shiftless Weequay pirates of Florrum.

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Adi Gallia were able to follow Maul's path of destruction to Florrum. Maul lamented that he was discovered too soon -- his plot was only just getting started. Still, Maul engaged Kenobi in a lightsaber duel while Savage killed Gallia in combat. Savage and Maul double-teamed Obi-Wan, who succeeded in cutting off Savage's arm.

Fortune turned against the brothers Sith. With Savage wounded, Maul retreated only to discover that his pirate forces were no longer under his command. Hondo Ohnaka had reunified his pirate group, and ordered them to attack the Sith. Maul and Savage hastily retreated from a barrage of pirate blaster-fire.

A blaster bolt hit Maul in his mechanical legs, shearing off one of his claw-feet. A puff of Nightsister magic emerged from the ruined limb, and Maul was reminded just how vulnerable he still was without an army.

The crippled Maul and maimed Savage fled in an escape pod into interstellar space to recover from their injuries and plan their next move.

The near frozen bodies of Maul and Savage were discovered aboard their drifting escape pod by Death Watch. A curious Pre Vizsla brought the incapacitated Sith brothers back to his camp on Zanbar.

There, medical droids rebuilt Maul's ruined legs, replacing them with a pair of humanoid limbs. When Maul made his hatred of the Jedi Order -- and Obi-Wan Kenobi, specifically -- clear, Vizsla realized had a powerful ally in the making.

Vizsla's dream was to conquer Mandalore and reinstate his beloved warrior heritage. Though Maul agreed to help, he had a larger plan in mind. To secure a base of power, Maul sought to gather powerful crime lords together to create a Shadow Collective.

Maul began with usurping the leadership of Black Sun. Backed by Death Watch, Maul had his brother kill the leadership council of Black Sun in one blow. This move soon attracted other criminal elements, like the Pykes.

Maul next targeted the Hutt clans. He launched an assault of the Hutt Grand Council on Nal Hutta, but met stiff resistance from a team of elite bounty hunters.

Most of the Hutt Council escaped, though Maul tracked them down to Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine. There, he had Jabba the Hutt swear fealty to the Shadow Collective.

After a staged attack on Mandalore positioning Death Watch as saviors, Pre Vizsla betrayed Maul and assumed total control of the planet.

Maul then challenged Vizsla to duel to the death; according to Mandalorian warrior tradition, Death Watch would align behind the victor.

After a fierce battle, Maul dispatched Vizsla with a violent beheading, and became leader of Death Watch and Mandalore.

Obi-Wan Kenobi had come to Mandalore to rescue Duchess Satine, but both were captured. The Sith Lord taunted his enemy and murdered Satine before Kenobi’s eyes, reveling in his revenge.

Maul’s hateful act garnered unwanted attention, however: across the galaxy, Darth Sidious detected a tremor in the Force and soon left for Mandalore.

Upon arrival, Sidious declared the Sith brothers to be his rivals. In an intense duel, he killed Savage and toyed with Maul, ultimately deciding not to kill his former apprentice.