Raid on the SIS safe house In 3643 BBY , during the Sith Lord Darth Angral ' s personal war against the Galactic Republic amid the Cold War between the Republic and the Sith Empire , a number of Mark II Power Guard s — advanced cybernetically - augmented supersoldiers — attacked a safe house on the moon Nar Shaddaa . The safe house belonged to the Republic Strategic Information Service , and the Power Guards had been sent by the Sith Lord Sadic , who had tortured the location of the safe house out of SIS Agent Galen . The Power Guards killed several agents , but the arrival of a young Jedi Knight only minutes into the attack saved the lives of the remaining agents , as the Knight dispatched the Power Guards . Prelude . In 3643 BBY , during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire , the Sith Lord Darth Angral declared a personal war against the Republic after the death of his son , Tarnis . Using stolen information on the Republic superweapon initiative , Angral dispatched his apprentices to seize control of several Republic superweapon programs . One of Angral ' s apprentices , Sadic , was tasked with acquiring the Power Guard Enhancement System , a supersoldier program of adrenal stimulants and cybernetics that was based on the moon Nar Shaddaa . Not long after Sadic ' s forces successfully located and took control of the project , Agent Galen of the Republic Strategic Information Service — the Republic ' s intelligence agency — arrived on Nar Shaddaa and attempted to track down the project himself . Galen was soon captured by Sadic , who subjected the operative to the Power Guard process and also tortured him to extract information on the SIS ' s operations on the moon . A young Jedi Knight soon arrived on Nar Shaddaa in search of both Galen and the project , and , with the aid of the SIS branch under Bureau Chief Rieekan , the Jedi Knight was able to locate the main Power Guard Cybernetics Lab . After dispatching the Imperials guarding the facility , the Jedi recovered an encrypted datapad that could provide clues as to where Sadic had moved the project , so Rieekan asked the Knight to bring the datapad back to the SIS safe house in the Promenade shopping complex . However , Sadic dispatched a trio of Mark II Power Guard s to the safe house , intending to put an end to their meddling in his affairs . The raid . The Power Guards entered Gudnem ' s Gadget Emporium , the store that the safe house used as a front , and killed the staff before using Galen ' s passcodes and overrides to access the rear turbolift that led to the safe house . The Power Guards quickly overwhelmed the surprised SIS agents within the safe house , and Rieekan was killed in the firefight . The Jedi Knight arrived minutes after the Power Guards , and , upon finding several Power Guards still in Gudnem ' s Gadget Emporium , the Knight and a companion cut down the mind - controlled supersoldiers and headed down to the safe house . They were just in time to stop the Power Guards from killing the last of the agents , including Special Agent Korol Tander and Agent Diyaz . Aftermath . With the heavy losses among the SIS staff , Tander wanted to pull out entirely , but the Knight convinced Diyaz to decrypt the datapad anyway , and Diyaz traced the Power Guard project to a Imperial weapons factory in the Lower Industrial Sector . Diyaz planted a tracker on the Knight as the Jedi left to take out the factory , and , though the remaining SIS agents abandoned the safe house , Tander also contacted General Var Suthra , who sent in the special operations unit Blackstar Squad to help destroy the Power Guard project . The loss of the safe house was a severe blow to SIS operations on the moon , to the point that SIS Director Marcus Trant was notified of the loss , and he used the attack as a cautionary tale a week later when permitting Agent Theron Shan to pursue a mission into Imperial space . Behind the scenes . The attack on the SIS safe house was first mentioned in " The Old Republic — The Lost Suns 2 " , an issue of " " comic book miniseries that tied into the then - upcoming video game " " . The issue was released on July 20 , 2011 , five months before " The Old Republic " release , and the actual attack then appeared in the Jedi Knight - class mission " Striking Back " on Nar Shaddaa in " The Old Republic " . After the attack , the player has three options to convince Tander and Diyaz : ask Tander to stay , Force Persuade him , or punch him . Harming Tander results in dark - side alignment points , but as the Jedi Knight is a Republic class and thus assumed to choose those options that reward the player with the maximum light - side alignment points , this article assumes that the player did not attack Tander .