Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

[pukunui]

And honestly I’m not sure how he survived. Was his hate so strong he survived bisection? Did Sidious shove him in a bacta tank before his sell by date? No idea.

Yes to the first question, no to the second. Here's the answer as per Wookieepedia, which draws on the Clone Wars cartoon plus various auxiliary sources:

"Through his hate and rage, Maul managed to survive being cut in half as his top half fell down the reactor shaft and into a trash container. A combination of his Nightsister magicks, Dathomirian physiology and Sith tenacity served to keep him tethered to life even as his sanity began to leave him. Maul's shattered body was dumped on the junkyard world of Lotho Minor, where he lived in the bowels of the planet. There he utilized discarded metal to fashion for himself a six-limbed apparatus that allowed him to walk again."

Mother Talzin could sense that Maul was still alive, so she sent his brother, Savage, to look for him. When Savage found Maul on Lotho Minor, he was insane and resembled a cyborg drider. Savage took Maul back to Dathomir, where Talzin restored his mind and fashioned him a two-legged mechanical lower half out of salvaged Separatist droid parts and Dathomiri witch magick.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yes to the first question, no to the second. Here's the answer as per Wookieepedia, which draws on the Clone Wars cartoon plus various auxiliary sources:

"Through his hate and rage, Maul managed to survive being cut in half as his top half fell down the reactor shaft and into a trash container. A combination of his Nightsister magicks, Dathomirian physiology and Sith tenacity served to keep him tethered to life even as his sanity began to leave him. Maul's shattered body was dumped on the junkyard world of Lotho Minor, where he lived in the bowels of the planet. There he utilized discarded metal to fashion for himself a six-limbed apparatus that allowed him to walk again."

Mother Talzin could sense that Maul was still alive, so she sent his brother, Savage, to look for him. When Savage found Maul on Lotho Minor, he was insane and resembled a cyborg drider. Savage took Maul back to Dathomir, where Talzin restored his mind and fashioned him a two-legged mechanical lower half out of salvaged Separatist droid parts and Dathomiri witch magick.

That was a great storyline!

 

[MarkB]

There he utilized discarded metal to fashion for himself a six-limbed apparatus that allowed him to walk again."

I feel like the legs are less impressive than manufacturing himself a new digestive system.

Still waiting for the epic tale of Darth Maul's lower half. Maybe it managed to graft itself onto the head and torso of one of the battle droids that got bisected during the fighting.

 

[Dioltach]

Still waiting for the epic tale of Darth Maul's lower half. Maybe it managed to graft itself onto the head and torso of one of the battle droids that got bisected during the fighting.

That idea has legs.