A made a Dark Apex once. He was a Force Knight who lost his wife and daughter to a Dark Lord and went mad with grief. In the years to follow he became a cybernectic giant and imbued himself with alchemical prowess. In his search for immortality and the power to resurrect his loved ones, he was drawn to a Dark Star. There he built his fortress and began to draw strength from the Darkside Nexus that was represented in the celestial star. Here he created a Star Forge and began churning out terrible black machines. Failures in a vain attempt to recreate a lost technology. A technology which could create a new likeness of his lost loved ones. HRDs that where spirited by Shards. Sentient Force Crystals.
His greatest creations became his nine daughters. One of which was latter converted to the Light by a Jedi Knight. Eventually returning to the Dark Star as a Jedi herself, to confront her father and liberate her sisters from his grasp. This cybernetic demon, once a man, was too powerful to be destroyed merely physically. But upon his destruction, the Dark Star consumed the fortress in a Celestial Storm and pulled his spirit into the Nexus with it. Trapping him for all time. As the Star had always intended.
In the time that followed his Jedi daughter became his greatest legacy and his greatest champion. Teaching her robotic sisters the ways of the Force and reclaiming the lost heritage of their creator. The man who came before the machine and of the women whom he once loved; and with whom they were built in the physical likeness of. Years later, and in the end of the story, they finally forgave their 'father' for his sins and embrace his memory. The journey of their creation.
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To summarize. A character cannot be a Dark Apex without also having a story that is just as grand and all-encompassing as mythology itself. To become a legend, one must become: a legend.
Trust me mate. There are always more stories to tell. And when you get there? You'll find that every ending is just the beginning of something even greater.
