Revanchist The Revanchists , also known as the Jedi Crusaders , were a renegade faction of the Jedi Order who assisted the Galactic Republic during the Mandalorian Wars . In 3964 BBY , the movement was founded by the Jedi Knight Revan , who wished to take a more proactive role against the invading Mandalorian Neo - Crusaders . Under Revan ' s leadership , the Revanchist Jedi went against the Jedi Council ' s wishes and participated in scouting missions on the Outer Rim . In the following year , Revan uncovered the truth of the Mandalorian ' s genocide of the Cathar people . Although the Jedi Council did not give the Revanchists their full support , they begrudgingly allowed the Revanchists to join the Republic Military under the banner of a Republic Mercy Corps . During the war , the Revanchists , under the leadership of Revan and his friend and fellow Jedi Knight Malak , led the Republic to victory in numerous battles . In 3960 BBY , the Jedi ultimately defeated the Mandalorians in the war ' s final battle on Malachor V . However , most of the Revanchists that were not killed during the battle fell to the dark side of the Force over the course of the next year . These Jedi followed Revan and Malak , now the new Dark Lords of the Sith , under their new Sith Empire . The two Sith Lords declared war on the Jedi Council and the Republic , initiating the Jedi Civil War . Three years later , Darth Malak was defeated by Revan , who was redeemed by the Jedi Council , and Malak ' s Sith Empire was defeated at Rakata Prime . History . The Mandalorian Wars . In 3964 BBY , during the Outer Rim skirmishes between the Mandalorian Neo - Crusaders and the Galactic Republic , a young and charismatic Jedi Knight named Revan moved throughout the Jedi Order , arguing his case for Jedi intervention in the war . At the start he was considered a lone voice among the Jedi , although he eventually gathered something of a following . The first Jedi to join his cause was his closest friend Alek , who aided Revan in the recruitment of Jedi to their cause . The Revanchists , who were also known as the Jedi Crusaders , began to gather and scout the looming Mandalorian threat on the Outer Rim without the Jedi High Council ' s support , as the Mandalorian and Republic fleets battled ineffectually within the neutral Republic frontier . On their way to the Outer Rim , Revan and his Jedi stopped on the planet Taris in hopes of recruiting more Jedi from the local Jedi temple . While there , Alek , Revan ' s longtime friend and honorary apprentice , attempted to recruit a Padawan named Zayne Carrick . After Alek rescued Carrick when the Padawan was freefalling in the Tarisian cityscape after a failed attempt to apprehend the Snivvian black marketeer Marn Hierogryph , the two had a conversation about the war , in which he tried unsuccessfully to recruit the Padawan . Carrick mentioned that the Jedi Masters on Taris , especially his Master Lucien Draay , did not think the Jedi should be involved in the Republic ' s war with the Mandalorians , and that the Masters taught him and his fellow students that the Jedi were supposed to defend the Republic against the Sith . Alek told Carrick that sometimes one had to enter the darkness to save the light , and then stated that the Sith threat was dealt with decades ago . While Revan went to investigate events on Onderon and its moon Dxun , most of the Revanchists , including Alek , were captured on the planet Suurja before its fourth battle by the Neo - Crusaders . They were taken to Flashpoint Station , an abandoned Republic research station that the Mandalorians had captured . The Revanchists became test subjects of a sadistic Mandalorian scientist named Demagol , who was attempting to divine the source and nature of the Jedi ' s Force abilities , hoping to negate and / or replicate them . The Revanchists were rescued by fugitive Jedi Zayne Carrick — who had been framed for the Padawan Massacre of Taris by Carrick ' s Master and Revan ' s associate Lucien Draay — and Mandalorian turncoat Rohlan Dyre , who had come to rescue the female Arkanian Offshoot Jarael . The group of Revanchists headed back to Republic space with the unconscious Demagol . Later on the planet Cathar , as they were searching for evidence of the Mandalorian ' s slaughter of the Cathar people , Revan , Alek , and their followers felt the deaths of thousands on Serroco as the Mandalorians rained nuclear warheads on the surface of the planet Serroco . A short time later , Revan , along with the Republic admiral Saul Karath and the Mandalorian leader Mandalore the Ultimate , was invited to bid on the exogorth superweapons that the Adascorp leader Arkoh Adasca was selling . Alek , who had been instructed by Revan to take this potential threat " out of the mix " , represented the Revanchists in place of Revan , who remained on Cathar to find evidence of the Mandalorian ' s massacre of the Cathar people . Revelation on Cathar . Sometime after the Adasca affair , the Taris Siege , and the bombardment of Jebble , the Jedi Master Lucien Draay , a member of a secret Jedi cabal called the Covenant , was appointed to the Jedi Council . Draay claimed recent Republic intelligence reports indicated there was a blow to the Mandalorian ' s plans of conquest , seemingly by an insurrection in their ranks . He stated that the " interventionist " path sought by Revan was wrong both for the Jedi and the Republic . The Council approved Draay ' s motion which ordered the recall , or even detention , of the Revanchists . After Alek , who was going by the alias " Malak " in order to avoid the warrant for his arrest , testified against the Covenant on behalf of the fugitive Jedi Zayne Carrick , he was sent back to Revan and his Jedi with a final warning . He went under protest , telling the Arkanian female Jarael that he would remain " Malak " until there was an end to the war ' s suffering . When Malak arrived on Cathar , the Jedi Master and High Council member Vrook Lamar and a group of Jedi went to the planet to confront Revan , Malak , and the Revanchists . Lamar and the Jedi told Revan that the Mandalorians were not worth the Jedi ' s aid in the war , and ordered the Revanchists to disband permanently . During the discussion , Revan found and picked up a helmet , when some light shone on it , all the Jedi experienced a vision of the Mandalorians driving the Cathar out to the sea . They witnessed a Mandalorian female , who had owned the helmet now in Revan ' s hands , pleaded with Cassus Fett , Mandalore ' s primary strategist , to spare the Cathar , arguing that they had been beaten . However , Fett was intent on gaining revenge for what the Cathar had done to them during the Great Sith War , and ordered the Cathar ' s genocide . After the vision ended , Revan became enraged , shouting that the Mandalorians did not have to kill them , since they were beaten , and that while the Mandalorian female recognized this , the other Mandalorians refused to listen to her . He then donned the mask , swearing to take up the Mandalorian female ' s cause and not remove the mask until the Mandalorians had been defeated . Although the truth of what happened on Cathar was known , the Jedi still did not give Revan and Malak their full support . However , Revan managed to organize the Revanchists under the banner of a Republic mercy corps . The Jedi Council allowed Revan , Malak , and the Revanchists to participate in the Mandalorian Wars . Both Malak and Revan were promoted to the rank of general . The revelation of what occurred on Cathar also convinced many more Jedi to join the Revanchists . The final battles . The Revanchists quickly became vital to the Republic ' s war effort . Revan and Malak proved to be capable commanders in the field and swiftly rose through the ranks , with Revan ' s tactics and Malak ' s righteous fury unmatched . Revan , who had been given full operational control of the Republic ' s forces , used his newly found authority to spearhead the Republic war effort and under his leadership , the all – but – defeated Republic Navy began to push the Mandalorians back . However , at some point during the Mandalorian Wars , Revan and Malak found a Rakata n Star Map in the ancient burial mounds near the Dantooine Jedi Enclave . After successfully passing the " trials " set for them by the guard droid that had been left behind by the so called " builders , " they were given access to the Star Map . Moments before they went beyond the door that led to the dark side artifact , however , Malak warned Revan that stepping beyond this threshold would mean that they could never return to the Jedi Order . Whether or not Revan considered this , or even cared , as he paced in front of the sealed door is unknown ; but if he had any doubts , he swiftly cast them aside . At some point during the latter part of the Mandalorian Wars , during the Kanz Disorders , the Revanchists raided an isolated slave colony on Lorrd II , the second moon of Lorrd . They freed the slave population on the moon . However , this was not done out of a sense of justice , rather , this was to acquire Lorrdian gemstone s for use in lightsaber construction , because the gemstones were imprinted with the Force . It was said that the Lorrdian gemstones allowed the wielder to anticipate a sentient being ' s actions . Later during the wars , in the year 3961 BBY , Revan found another Star Map on the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk . Sometime after he found the Kashyyyk Star Map , Revan discovered the ancient Sith world of Malachor V , which was considered taboo to the Mandalorians . On its surface , Revan was quickly assaulted by the destructive dark side energies that permeated the world , yet through the strength of his will , Revan was able to withstand the dark power without succumbing to it . Soon thereafter , Revan stumbled upon the Trayus Academy , an abandoned training center built by the ancient Sith Empire . While unearthing the planet ' s buried secrets , Revan learned the location and significance of the planet Korriban , the homeworld of the ancient Sith species . In the year 3960 BBY , Revan forced a final battle with the Mandalorians over Malachor V . Revan dueled Mandalore the Ultimate on the planet ' s surface , but learned from his defeated enemy that the Mandalore had been influenced by a group of Sith to attack the Republic . After he defeated Mandalore , he forced the surviving Mandalorians to surrender , ordering his forces to dismantle their weapons and Basilisk war droid s . Revan also denied the Mandalorians their fallen leader ' s ancestral mask , denying the vanquished force the right to choose a new leader . Revan condemned the Mandalorians to perpetual exile , causing many to become bounty hunters , bodyguards , and mercenaries . Revan and Malak followed Mandalore ' s instructions to the planet Rekkiad , where they discovered the tomb of the Sith Lord Dramath the Second . From the Sith ' s Dramath the Second ' s datacron , the pair learned of the " true " Sith Empire , and left Mandalore ' s mask in the sarcophagus while they departed for this new enemy . However , Revan and Malak were broken by the Sith Emperor , who sent the pair back to the Republic to prepare for his invasion . Revan and Malak would break free of their conditioning , but they were still corrupted — they established their own Sith Empire and rediscovered the ancient Rakata n superweapon known as the Star Forge . With the exception of Meetra Surik , the Human female who would later be known as the Jedi Exile , most of the Revanchist Jedi who survived the battle became Sith , serving the empire of their former leaders . Revan and Malak , who had each taken the " Darth " title , declared war on the Jedi Council and the Galactic Republic that they once sought to defend . Legacy . Shortly after Revan redeemed himself by defeating Malak and his Sith Empire , he left for the Unknown Regions to search for the reconstituted remnants of the Sith Empire , which both he and Malak encountered after the Mandalorian Wars . Approximately three centuries after Malak ' s death , the True Sith Empire that Revan went to battle launched an attack on the Republic . This ignited a war that lasted for decades until the Sith Emperor signed a treaty with the Republic . Images of members of the Revanchist organization were featured in two holodocumentaries produced by the Kel Dor Jedi archivist Gnost - Dural for the Jedi Archives . Members . The Jedi who joined Revan experienced regular interaction with the Republic military , sharing the mess halls , battleships , and front lines . While the Revanchists were hailed as heroes by the Republic and its citizens , some of those Jedi abandoned the war when they saw how thoughtlessly Revan approached the dark side . Others were spies that were commissioned by the Jedi Council to report on Revan and his Jedi ' s actions . When Revan set off to challenge the invading Mandalorians , Revan ' s closest friend Malak was the first to join his cause . The Jedi Master Arren Kae , who had trained Revan , joined her former Padawan in his war effort against the Mandalorians . The Jedi Cariaga Sin , Nisotsa , Talvon Esan , and Xaset Terep were all recruited by Malak , along with Meetra Surik , the Human female who would eventually come to be known as the Jedi Exile . Other Jedi who were a part of the Revanchist organization included Cale Berkona , Ferroh , Duqua Dar , Acaadi , Voren Renstaal , an Ithorian Jedi , and the Jedi Master Zez - Kai Ell ' s Padawan . Apparel . The Revanchists typically garbed themselves in traditional Jedi robes , which they supplemented with armor plating , similar to that worn by the Republic ' s soldiers . Double - bladed lightsabers were in great vogue amongst the Revanchists , with many of the renegade Jedi taking advantage of the increased kill power afforded to them by the weapon ' s twin blades . Behind the scenes . The Revanchists were first mentioned indirectly in BioWare ' s 2003 Xbox and PC video game " " , as part of the backstory for the events in the game . The organization were featured prominently in the , written by John Jackson Miller and published by Dark Horse Comics . The group was first identified as such in " , " which was featured in the comic series ' . Further details on the Revanchists were featured in " " and the " Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide " . The organization received two separate entries in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , under the names " Revanchists " and " Jedi Crusaders . " Images of Jedi affiliated with the Revanchist organization were featured in the eighth and ninth entries of the " Galactic Timeline " , an online video series created to elaborate upon the background for the upcoming PC video game " " . The entries , titled " " and " " , respectively , are available through The Holonet section of " The Old Republic " official website .