Daegen Lok Daegen Lok was a male Human from the Tython system who was a member of the Je ' daii Order , having been trained by Je ' daii Master Quan - Jang . When the Despot War erupted in the year 25 , 805 BBY with the Despot Queen Hadiya ' s attempts to conquer the Tython system , Lok went undercover in Hadiya ' s Despot Army and became one of Hadiya ' s generals , not to mention her lover . Lok ultimately killed Hadiya , ending the war , and he was promoted to the rank of Master in 25 , 800 BBY . Overconfident in his abilities , Lok ventured into the Chasm , a rent in the surface of the planet Tython that drove mad all who dove too deep into its depths . There , Lok witnessed a vision of an army of dark warriors wielding blades of fire , and the vision drove the Je ' daii mad , driving him to the dark side of the Force . The Je ' daii Council refused to believe Lok ' s vision and banished him to the moon of Bogan , but the mad Je ' daii held onto his vision , gathering his power in the dark side of the Force for the next seven years . In 25 , 793 BBY , Lok received a vision of the dark warrior who led the army in his vision in the Chasm , and the young man — Xesh — arrived on Bogan as an exile only days later . Upon learning of Xesh ' s knowledge of the blades of fire , which he called Forcesabers , Lok recruited Xesh in his quest to create more of the weapons and thereby prove his vision to the Council . The two escaped Tython in a hidden starfighter in order to craft Forcesabers , pursued all the while by the Je ' daii , who battled the two fugitives several times before a final encounter on the planet Shikaakwa . Lok ' s dreams of conquest were ended when Xesh was convinced to turn on the mad Je ' daii , and Lok was imprisoned once more on Bogan as the Je ' daii began to prepare for war with the Rakata Infinite Empire . However , as the Empire gained more ground , Lok was freed from Bogan and allowed to lead the Je ' daii as a general . Biography . Early life and the war . A Force - sensitive Human male , Daegen Lok was born in the Tython system and trained as a member of the Je ' daii Order by Quan - Jang , the Temple Master of Anil Kesh — the Je ' daii Temple of Science on the planet Tython . During his time as a Je ' daii , Lok had an adventure on the planet Sunspot , the closest planet to the star Tythos in the system , and while there he rescued the alien Slug . Lok became friends with Hawk Ryo , a Twi ' lek Je ' daii from the planet Shikaakwa , and the two had become Je ' daii Ranger s before the year 25 , 805 BBY , when the Despot War erupted : a conflict between the Je ' daii Order and the Despot Army under the rule of the Despot Queen Hadiya . After uniting the crime barons of Shikaakwa , Hadiya began to try and conquer the Tython system . Lok was approached by Volnos Ryo , Hawk ' s brother and the middle son of the baron of Clan Ryo on Shikaakwa , who offered to help Lok infiltrate the Despot Army to gain revenge against Hadiya for her killing his father and older brother . Posing as a disgraced Ranger with Ryo ' s support , Lok joined the Despot Army and rose through the ranks , earning a place as one of Hadiya ' s generals and even becoming the queen ' s lover . Lok himself developed feelings for Hadiya , and the line between his deception and his true mission began to blur until Volnos Ryo contacted him and reminded him of his purpose . At that time , the Despot Army on Tython itself , laying siege to the Kaleth , the Temple of Knowledge , and Lok slept in Hadiya ' s tent with the queen . That night , as Hadiya was sleeping , Lok stabbed her with a dagger through a slit in her armor . However , his hesitation — assassination was forbidden among the Je ' daii , and Lok ' s feelings for Hadiya were also a factor — led Lok ' s strike to not be fatal , and Hadiya grabbed a dagger of her own and sliced Lok ' s face across his right eye . Enraged , Lok drew his sword and slew Hadiya , and he then proceeded to slaughter his way out of the command camp , leaving only one survivor . Without Hadiya ' s leadership , Hadiya ' s generals fought for power amongst each other , and the Je ' daii soon defeated the remnants of the Despot Army . Visions in the darkness and exile . Around the year 25 , 800 BBY , Lok was promoted to the rank of Je ' daii Master , and he soon decided to explore the Chasm , a planetary rift below the Temple of Science Anil Kesh , with Hawk Ryo . Brash and overconfident in his power , Lok ignored the fact that the Chasm messed with the minds of any who entered , and he ignored Ryo ' s cautions against heading deeper into the Chasm . However , as Lok gazed deeper into the darkness , both he and Ryo were overcome by a Force vision of an army of dark warriors wielding blades of frozen fire marching across Ska Gora , led by a being with one red eye . In Lok ' s vision , he led the Je ' daii against them . The vision drove Lok insane , driving him into the dark side of the Force , and Ryo pushed aside his vision to pull the two of them up out of the Chasm . When questioned by the Je ' daii Council , Lok told them of his vision and warned them of the coming danger . However , the Council did not believe Lok ' s vision , and as Lok continued to wallow in the dark side , using the Force to manipulate the minds of others . As a result , both Lok and Ryo were exiled to the moon of Bogan , where the two were ordered to meditate on the Force and restore their inner balance . Ryo came to deny his vision and found balance once more , but Lok refused to forsake his vision and the dark side . Over the next seven years , Lok figured out how to remove the cuffs that kept prisoners separate , and he also discovered a crashed Pho - V fighter that had escaped the Je ' daii notice . In his madness , Lok carved an enormous carving of himself wielding the blade of fire , and numerous pictures of the weapon . In 25 , 793 BBY , Lok witnessed a second Force vision — an apparition of an armed warrior , wearing a helmet with a single red eye and possessing the blade of fire . It was the same warrior who led the dark army in his vision , and Lok watched from Bogan as Tython was enveloped in a fierce Force Storm . A few days later , the dark warrior arrived on Bogan , having been exiled there by the Je ' daii . Two months after that , Lok decided to test the stranger ' s powers and attacked him , using a mind twist to manipulate his opponent ' s mind . The stranger overcame him quickly and displayed the ability to generate lightning , but Lok stopped his attack by asking him why the stranger appeared to him in a vision . When Lok questioned the stranger about his name , the young man introduced himself as Xesh , a Force Hound of the Rakata . Lok freed Xesh from his cuffs , hiding them underneath the young man ' s blankets to fool the sentry droids , and then took Xesh to the cave where his Pho V fighter was crashed . Lok then told the stranger the story of his vision and his exile , but Xesh ' s recognition of the carvings that Lok had made of the blade of fire brought his story to an abrupt halt . Excited , Lok demanded that Xesh help him make more of the " Forcesabers , " but Lok showed Xesh that the ship ' s power cells were completely empty — only to be astonished when Xesh generated lightning to power the cells , restoring the ship ' s power . As Xesh continued his efforts to restore power , he soon began to overload the reactor , and Lok angered the young warrior when he pulled Xesh away from the cells . As Xesh rested , Lok piloted the ship and lifted off from Bogan before setting course for Krev Coeur , all the while contemplating whether or not allying with Xesh was a good idea . Building weapons and an army . However , as they approached the crystalline planet of Krev Coeur , the starship began to fail as the engines overloaded and the controls stopped responding . As Xesh awoke and came to the cockpit , they entered the atmosphere of Krev Coeur and started to crash , prompting the two to grab parachute s and leap to safety . On Krev Coeur , Lok sought out Slug , who was on the world , and he called in the favor Slug owed him from Sunspot . Slug led them to a particularly valuable reserve of crystals , which Xesh began to peruse to find the crystals necessary to create Forcesabers . When Slug objected to Xesh ' s selection , Lok mind - tricked Slug into accepting the deal — but when Slug began to discuss the rumors that Lok had gone mad and asked for payment so that he would not tell the Je ' daii about his presence on Krev Coeur , Lok threw Slug off of the nearby cliff . Fortunately for Slug , a Je ' daii Ranger named Bel Zana reached out with the Force and saved him , and Zana then ordered the two fugitives to stand down . As Xesh leapt to confront Zana , Lok reached into Zana ' s mind and discovered her fear of fire , leading him to use a mind twist on the Ranger . Lok ' s power over her mind was so total that Zana ' s body itself believed it was on fire and began to manifest burn marks , though Temple Master Jake Fenn and Je ' daii Journeyer Sek ' nos Rath arrived to support Zana . Fenn engaged Lok in battle , and though Fenn scored an early strike on Lok , the mad Je ' daii gained the upper hand over the Temple Master by pretending to be weakened . Reaching into Fenn ' s mind , Lok discovered his feelings for Zana and proceeded to cast the Ranger off the cliff . Sek ' nos Rath sacrificed himself to save Zana , but Xesh and Lok escaped in Fenn ' s moment of distraction . The two made their way to the factory world of Nox , where Lok secured them use of one of the factories , Gratz Foundry , by mind - tricking its owner Gratz into believing that his factory had been invaded by nashtah . Lok shaved and washed off the filth of his imprisonment before donning a suit of leather armor , and also procured a set of armor that Xesh requested while the Force Hound set to work making the Forcesabers and altering the crystals to work in the weapons . When the process was complete , Xesh gave one of the weapons to Lok and told him how the blade was powered by the dark side , though Lok showed himself perfectly capable of igniting the blade . The next stage of Lok ' s plan involved gathering an army , so he and Lok sought out Hadiya ' s four remaining generals — Bakko , Shri - Lan , Gav Vannar , and Ka ' un Damm — in Skrag ' s Cantina in the city of Boneyard . A hooded Lok introduced Xesh to the four criminals before revealing his face , and Xesh and Lok made quick work of the slugthrowers that the four drew on Lok when they recognized him . Holding them at bladepoint , Lok asked them to return to Shikaakwa with him and help gather an army to take Tython . Ignoring their skepticism , Lok explained his desire to save the Je ' daii from the army in his vision , but Xesh interrupted their conversation by informing Lok that the Je ' daii were tracking them . Xesh and Lok left the cantina only minutes before Hawk Ryo arrived , and Lok and Xesh split up as Ryo began to follow Lok — but Lok manipulated his friend ' s mind with a mind trick , causing Ryo to pursue an imaginary version of himself while the real Lok headed towards the nearby spaceport . The imaginary Lok briefly battled Ryo and demanded that the Ranger admit to having shared the vision in the Chasm before leaping off the side of a building , and the real Lok met up at the spaceport with Xesh , who had captured one of his pursuers — a Journeyer named Shae Koda . Battle on Shikaakwa and imprisonment . Despite the loss of Hadiya ' s generals as allies , Lok and Xesh continued to the planet Shikaakwa to seek further allies . Placating Koda with a mind trick , Lok led Xesh and Koda to Ryo Fortress , the headquarters of Clan Ryo , and used a mind trick to bluff his way into the building . Locating Baron Volnos in his personal chambers , Lok explained his plans to unite the remaining Hadiya loyalists on Shikaakwa into an army , and Lok countered Ryo ' s exclamations of belief by reminding the baron how he himself had had a hand in Hadiya ' s death by helping Lok infiltrate the Despot Army . An angry Ryo deployed a security droid that targeted both Xesh and Ryo with lasers , but when Ryo implied that Xesh was Lok ' s servant , the infuriated Force Hound pulled Ryo into the line of fire with the Force before using his Forcesaber to bat back the droid ' s fire and destroy it . Further conversation was forestalled by the arrival of Hawk Ryo , Ranger Rori Fenn , Sek ' nos Rath , and a stranger named Trill who demanded that Lok and Xesh surrender . Reaching out with the Force , Lok pulled down the ceiling of the chamber and ordered Xesh to grab Koda and follow as he leaped out onto the roof . Lok and Xesh split up to separate their pursuers , and Lok swiftly destroyed Rori Fenn ' s sword with his Forcesaber when the Ranger attacked him . As he knelt over the downed Je ' daii and prepared to toy with her mind , Hawk Ryo delivered a flying kick to Lok ' s jaw to knock him away . Drawing their Forcesabers , the two began to duel as Lok pried into Ryo ' s mind and overwhelmed him with memories of the vision they shared in the Chasm . Ryo disrupted Lok ' s attempts by throwing him against a nearby wall with the Force , and Lok expressed his fury and disgust with his former friend about how he had refused to acknowledge the truth of their vision — and how he refused to acknowledge the fact that the Je ' daii would only survive if they embraced the dark side . Xesh ' s arrival gave Lok the time he needed to recover his Forcesaber , and he sliced off Ryo ' s leg below the knee as the Ranger was battling Xesh . However , Ryo ' s cry of pain awoke Koda , who overcame Lok ' s mental influence and attacked Lok with Ryo ' s fallen Forcesaber . Lok ordered Xesh to kill Koda so that he could kill Ryo , but Koda convinced the Force Hound to make his own choices — to choose not to be a slave — and Xesh turned on Lok , promising never to be anyone ' s slave ever again . Angered at Xesh ' s betrayal , Lok reached into Xesh ' s mind , but doing so was a mistake — the darkness and pain in Xesh ' s mind overwhelmed Lok and almost knocked him unconscious . The Je ' daii promptly captured Lok and returned him to Tython , where the Je ' daii Council sentenced him to imprisonment on Bogan once more . During his sentencing , Lok demanded that the Masters force Hawk Ryo to confess what he saw in the Chasm , and he promised the Je ' daii that they would have to summon him back when the dark army from his vision arrived . Temple Master Ketu did in fact speak with Ryo about the vision , though Ryo admitted that their visions had been different — in Ryo ' s vision , it had been Xesh who had led the Je ' daii , not Lok . Leading the Je ' daii . However , as the Infinite Empire of the Rakata invaded the star system and gained more ground over the course of a year , the Je ' daii decided to free Lok from Bogan in hopes that he could lead them to victory . The Je ' daii had been able to repel the Rakata from Tython , though the invaders had taken Obri , Mawr , and Ska Gora , and the Settled Worlds had allied with the Je ' daii under the leadership of Master Rajivari . In 25 , 792 BBY , the Je ' daii predicted the Rakatan attack on Shikaakwa , and Lok ' s forces ambushed the Flesh Raider soldiers as they attempted to attack Ryo Fortress . Lok discovered the main Rakatan position , but when he encountered a number of large walkers , he fled their destructive firepower and encountered Xesh . Xesh identified the attackers as Rakatan annihilator s , and at Xesh ' s instruction , Lok ordered Hawk Ryo ' s squadrons to conduct a strafing run on their position despite the presence of Je ' daii in the area . The attack was successful in destroying the annihilators and blunting the main Rakatan assault , and Lok called for Rajivari to send all of their forces to converge on his position . Joined by the units under Masters Tave , Quan - Jang , and Tem Madog , Lok ' s forces overran the Rakatan position , forcing the Rakatan Sub - Predor Ceh ' let to withdraw back to Ska Gora . At Xesh ' s warning , the Je ' daii were forced to wipe out the Flesh Raiders to the last man , as their enemies would never surrender , and Lok slew dozens of the enemy before the battle ended . In the aftermath of their victory , Lok gave a victory speech to rally his troops , claiming that any sacrifice was necessary to assure victory and that the Force was with the Je ' daii . Personality and traits . A fair - skinned Human with black hair and golden eyes , Lok was a proud and brash Je ' daii whom Quan - Jang considered to be his most promising student in the years before his vision in the Chasm . Lok wore a loop earring on his right ear , and his face was scarred over his right eye after Hadiya cut his face in the Despot War . While on Bogan , Lok ' s hair began to gray and grew long and haggard , though he later cut his hair and shaved his face other than a small goatee on Nox . He also discarded his prison robes and donned a suit of black leather armor . He was skilled at deception and espionage , filling the role of a disgraced Ranger perfectly without suspicion , but he became caught up in his role and his feelings for Hadiya until Volnos Ryo reminded him of his mission . Even before his vision , Lok danced close to the dark side , and his tendency to use mind tricks earned him reprimands from other Je ' daii . In the years after the Despot War , Lok ' s sense of superiority only grew , and his sense of invincibility led him to ignore the warnings about the depths of the Chasm in his lust for adventure . The vision in the Chasm drove Lok insane , and he sank further into the dark side as the Je ' daii Council refused to believe Lok ' s vision and banished him to Bogan . In his madness , Lok viewed himself as a kind of savior for the Je ' daii , and he refused to renounce his vision or regain the balance that was expected of a Je ' daii . He became ruthless and even more manipulative than before , and delighted in twisting the minds of others to prey on their fears and weaknesses . Lok was wary of Xesh ' s power and but understood the danger in the young warrior , but he also viewed him as a useful tool and decided to control him to make use of his strength to further Lok ' s own goals . Lok believed that the mind was far more dangerous than the blade , and did not refrain from using the Force to manipulate the minds of his enemies and others to achieve his goals . Hawk Ryo ' s refusal to admit the truth of their vision was a betrayal in Lok ' s eyes , and he truly believed that the Je ' daii needed to forsake the balance and embrace the dark side in order to survive the coming war . Powers and abilities . A skilled Je ' daii , Daegen Lok was powerful in the Force — particularly in the dark side . Lok was proficient in the use of telekinesis , but his true strength lay in those Force powers that dealt with the mind : he was a master of the mind trick , and developed a technique known as the mind twist that could cause a victim to believe whatever Lok wanted . The mind twist was so powerful that it could cause the victim ' s body to believe the mind twist — Bel Zana ' s body began to exhibit burn marks when Lok twisted her mind into believing she was on fire . Lok was also skilled in prying into the minds of others , discovering their fears and using them against them . An experienced warrior , Lok was skilled in the use of swords and other weapons , and he kept up his skills while exiled on Bogan . Behind the scenes . Daegen Lok was created by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema , the writers of the " " comic book series , and he was first mentioned in the for the series . Lok first appeared in the of the series ' first arc , " " , and he appears briefly in various issues of the arc before going on to be a major character in the second arc , " " . Lok was also mentioned in the " Blaster " department of " Star Wars Insider 138 " , during an interview with Ostrander and Duursema about the upcoming " The Prisoner of Bogan " arc .