He started life as a successful business man who worked in the Outer Rim. He saw a profit from the rise of Dooku's Confederacy and invested his vast fortune into the organization, earning himself a place on the Separatist Council. It was at that point that he took the Kuati Verdan Lay as his lover. However he grew disillusioned with the war and was persuaded by Sith agent Sha'ala Doneeta to betray Dooku and he began gathering supporters and building his own droid army from his own factory on Abelone. Following the failure of Doneeta's attack on the Might of the Sith, Darlak was met by her ally Arula Dru and he called a conference of his most powerful allies on Abelone. He set out his plan of attack by stealing the Subjugator-class heavy cruiser the Annihilator from the Sluis Van shipyards,