Mission to Taris ( Desolator crisis ) In 3643 BBY , during the early days of the Sith Lord Darth Angral ' s crusade against the Galactic Republic in response to the death of his son Tarnis , both the Republic and the Sith Empire dispatched operatives to the planet Taris on a mission : the retrieval or capture of the scientist Nasan Godera . Watcher One of Imperial Intelligence was tasked with capturing and interrogating the former Republic scientist on his knowledge of superweapon design , while General Var Suthra of the Republic sent a young Jedi Knight — the one responsible for Tarnis ' s death — to rescue the doctor . Watcher One ' s forces managed to stay one step ahead of the Jedi , the Knight ' s companions , and a team of agents from the Republic Strategic Information Service , the Republic ' s intelligence agency , as the Republic operatives and Jedi searched Godera ' s laboratories on Taris , and Watcher One was successful in capturing and evacuating Godera to the Imperial Intelligence Outpost on Taris . In order to secure time to interrogate Godera , the operative made a deal with the Knight , revealing the existence of a Sith assassin named Rora Seake and her mission to wipe out a Republic colony . After defending the colony , the Jedi tracked down Watcher One to retrieve the doctor as part of their deal , but the Imperial agent was ordered by Darth Angral to capture the Knight . Watcher One ' s efforts failed , however , and the Jedi allowed the defeated operative to leave and make a new life in the Republic while the Knight rescued Godera and delivered him to the Republic . Despite the Knight ' s success , the information gathered during Godera ' s interrogation proved vital in Angral ' s construction of a superweapon known as the Desolator . Prelude . During the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire , the Sith Lord Tarnis infiltrated the Republic superweapon initiative as a scientist , and in 3643 BBY he attempted to use the Planet Prison superweapon against the Republic ' s capital of Coruscant . Tarnis also sent information on the Republic ' s other superweapons to his father , the Sith Lord Darth Angral , before he was killed by a young Jedi Knight in a duel . Angral witnessed the duel via holotransmission , and in revenge for his son ' s death , he declared war on the Republic . Using his son ' s information , Angral dispatched his apprentices to take control of the Republic ' s superweapon projects ; Angral also followed up on Tarnis ' s suspicions that Doctor Nasan Godera , a brilliant scientist who designed most of the Republic ' s superweapons , was hiding out on the planet Taris : he contacted Imperial Intelligence and ordered them to capture the scientist . The Empire ' s intelligence agency , which maintained an outpost on the planet , had already confirmed Godera ' s presence there , and they sent Watcher One — one of their highest - ranking operatives — to head the mission . In the aftermath of the Coruscant debacle , General Var Suthra , the head of the superweapon initiative , sent the Jedi Knight who had slain Tarnis to the planet Ord Mantell in order to investigate an Imperial listening post there . The Knight , the Jedi ' s Padawan Kira Carsen , and the astromech droid T7 - O1 discovered evidence of Angral ' s plans for a " Desolator " superweapon , and General Suthra then sent the trio to Taris — after finding mentions of Godera in Tarnis ' files , Suthra suspected that the Empire intended to capture the scientist . Godera had abandoned the Republic after the government submitted to the Empire ' s terms in the Treaty of Coruscant that ended the Great Galactic War a decade earlier , and he had constructed a series of underground laboratories on the ruined planet of Taris amid the Republic ' s reconstruction efforts . The Republic had recently discovered a facility in the Republic Resettlement Zone staffed by Godera ' s droids , but the Republic had been unable to locate any other labs ; Suthra sent the Knight to investigate the facility and meet up with the small monitoring team stationed there . The mission . The chase . Watcher One had a contingent of Imperial operatives under his command , and upon learning of the Jedi Knight ' s mission and impending arrival , he ordered the soldiers to begin searching Godera ' s laboratories . Watcher One and a number of Imperial stealth operatives , droids , and Intelligence officers searched the Resettlement Zone lab , and the soldiers made quick work of both the monitoring team and Godera ' s droid assistants and defenses . One of Godera ' s droid assistants who was tasked with surveillance , RE - M0 , remained hidden and witnessed Watcher One use the facility ' s tracking relays to trace Godera ' s biosignature to another facility in the Brell Sediment region . In order to prevent the Jedi from doing the same , the operative then destroyed the lab ' s central computer before he departed , leaving his men behind . However , the Jedi Knight and a companion arrived at the laboratory while the Imperial forces were securing the facility , and the duo fought their way through the soldiers and battle droids , killing all of them . As the pair explored the lower level of the facility , Watcher One activated a communications terminal and engaged the Knight in conversation . The Imperial operative was distracting the Jedi in order to allow his stealth operatives to get in place for an ambush — he revealed knowledge of the Jedi ' s exploits as a Padawan on the planet Tython to undermine the duo ' s confidence , and then terminated the communication after ordering his operatives to eliminate them . The Knight and the Jedi ' s companion defeated the battle droids and stealth operatives in the battle that followed , and once the dust settled , RE - M0 emerged from behind the wreckage to speak with the Jedi . Identifying the Knight as a member of the Jedi Order , RE - M0 explained that he had remained hidden from both the Republic team and the Imperial operatives , as his programming prevented him from cooperating with lifeforms other than Godera or a Jedi . Relating his observations about Watcher One ' s actions , RE - M0 requested that the Knight reset the external tracking relays while he repaired the central computer , and the Knight and the Jedi ' s companion departed to locate the relays . Fighting through the pirates and scavengers in the Sinking City region , the duo reactivated the three relays , and after RE - M0 sent the Jedi Godera ' s location , the pair headed to the Brell Sediment facility . Meanwhile , Watcher One ' s forces had secured the Brell Sediment laboratory and captured the scientist , knocking him unconscious . Knowing that the Jedi was on the way , the operative developed an elaborate deception : he donned a holoprojector that disguised him as a Rodian , while a squad of Imperial Shadow Commandos equipped with stealth projectors were left in the main chamber . Their captain was disguised as Watcher One using a holoprojector , and a corpse disguised as Godera was left on the floor in an attempt to trick the Knight into believing the scientist dead . The distraction . When the Jedi arrived at the facility with a companion , the pair found " Kulaa " hiding near the entrance with an unconscious Godera , though " Kulaa " claimed that the two were Godera ' s assistants and that they had escaped the Imperial raid . Believing the Rodian ' s claims that Godera had barricaded himself in the main lab , the Jedi ordered them to get to safety and headed deeper into the facility . Watcher One quickly ferried his captive northeast to the Tularan Marsh region , where he took the scientist to the Imperial Intelligence Outpost in the ruins of Transport Station 5 . However , at the same time , RE - M0 ran a second bioscan and realized that Godera was no longer in the Brell Sediment lab , and he rushed to the other facility to warn the Knight . The Jedi and the Knight ' s companion eliminated the Imperial soldiers guarding the facility and made their way into the main lab , where the duo was surprised to see Doctor Godera apparently lying dead at the feet of Watcher One . " Watcher One " requested that the Knight stand down and offered a cessation of hostilities , claiming that Godera had committed suicide , but their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of RE - M0 . The droid warned the Jedi that Godera was not yet dead , and an irritated " Watcher One " shot RE - M0 before deactivating the holoprojector disguise . The fight that followed saw the Shadow Captain and all of the commandos , despite the commandos ' advantages of surprise and numbers . Watcher One witnessed the fight via holocomm at the Intelligence outpost , and when the Knight proved victorious , he contacted the Jedi and revealed his " Kulaa " deception . Before the Knight could depart , the operative proposed a deal : he had learned of a Sith assassin named Rora Seake who had arrived on Taris to destroy a Republic colony , and in exchange for time to interrogate Godera , Watcher One would give the Jedi the location of Seake ' s target . With the lives of civilians at stake , the Jedi begrudgingly agreed to Watcher One ' s deal , and the agent identified Seake ' s target as a colony on the shores of the nearby Lake Brell . The Jedi and a companion raced to the colony bunker to find the colonists hard at work under the leader Yelzrin , but the duo did not arrive in time to evacuate the colonists — Rora Seake arrived with her two pet jurgoran s only minutes after the Jedi . Seake was angered to learn that her mission had been compromised , and set her pets upon the Jedi before attacking the Knight herself after their deaths . The Jedi and the Knight ' s companion emerged victorious in the duel , eliminating the threat to Yelzrin and the colonists , and then followed Watcher One ' s coordinates to the ruins of Transport Station 5 . The endgame . Around that time , SIS agents under the leadership of Agent Fau - Kes arrived on Taris and set out to locate the Jedi on General Suthra ' s orders . However , the search party dispatched to Godera ' s Resettlement Zone lab found the aftermath of the battle with the Imperials , and Fau - Kes ' s team assumed the worst , though they continued their search from Olaris . In the Tularan Marsh , the Knight and the Jedi ' s companion fought through the rakghoul - infested tunnels of Transport Station 5 to reach the Intelligence outpost . After defeating the dozen Imperial soldiers who guarded the facility , the duo breached the outpost ' s main chamber to find that Watcher One had completed his interrogation and was reporting success to Darth Angral via holocomm . Angral was furious to learn that Watcher One had compromised with his son ' s killer , and ordered the agent to take the Knight alive and bring both the Jedi and Godera to the Imperial capital Dromund Kaas . Expressing his regret for breaking their deal , Watcher One nonetheless drew his blaster and attacked the Knight with two other Intelligence operatives . The Jedi and the Knight ' s companion ultimately emerged victorious in the fight , slaying the other operatives and injuring Watcher One . Wounded , Watcher One questioned his opponent on what his fate was to be , and he was surprised when the Knight allowed the agent to leave — to make himself a new life in the Republic . The Knight then freed Doctor Godera from his imprisonment , and convinced the doctor to return to Olaris and help the Republic once again . When the Knight , the Jedi ' s companion , and Godera arrived at Olaris ' s spaceport , they found Agent Fau - Kes waiting for them , and Fau - Kes took custody of Godera and escorted him back to Coruscant . Aftermath . Doctor Godera was given the position of scientific advisor to General Suthra , and served as a consultant to the general and the Knight as the young Jedi continued the search for the stolen Republic superweapons . The Knight headed to the moon of Nar Shaddaa to locate the Power Guard supersoldier project , and then investigated the statuses of the Shock Drum and Death Mark laser projects on the planets Tatooine and Alderaan . The details of the mission to Taris were highly classified in the Republic ; the planet ' s name and that of Godera ' s rescuer were both redacted from Godera ' s SIS personnel file , and the mission was described only as a " near - abduction by Imperial Intelligence . " Behind the scenes . The mission to Taris first appeared as the Jedi Knight class storyline on the planet Taris in " " , a video game released by BioWare in 2011 . The Taris storyline is separated into four missions , but the third mission can be one of two missions depending on the player ' s alignment . If a player has a dark side alignment , Watcher One informs them of a deal between a Sith and a pirate captain for valuable Jedi relics . Light - side and neutral players receive the mission to save the colonists ; regardless of their alignments , players can ignore Watcher One ' s offer and continue straight to " The Rescue . " However , as the Jedi Knight is a Republic character and is assumed to take the light - side choices , this article assumes the Knight saved the colonists . Similarly , this article assumes that the player allowed Watcher One to live , rather than attempt to arrest him — an option that ends in his death — or kill him .