The Imprisoned One The Imprisoned One was a Rakata n who lived during the Infinite Empire ' s dominance over the galaxy . His quest for personal power resulted in his own kind imprisoning his consciousness in a mind prison . His consciousness vessel was eventually rediscovered twice ; first by Revan during the Jedi Civil War , and again several centuries later by the Czerka Corporation during the Cold War . Biography . The Imprisoned One lived sometime during the height of the Infinite Empire . Despite the numerous , galaxy - spanning accomplishments of his race , he sought to enhance his own prestige beyond that of any Rakatan . Seeking to use the Force and some kind of nanotechnology to assure his own immortality , he quickly became regarded as a criminal and a heretic amongst his own kind . They hunted him down and , by means of other technologies lost to history , extracted his consciousness from his physical body to be placed in a mechanical vessel . The vessel was placed deep in a cave , to become his eternal prison . With the eventual fall of the Infinite Empire , he lay dormant and forgotten in his prison for many thousands of years . Eventually he was re - discovered and interacted with by Revan during his when he opened the prison against the warnings of Lurze Kesh . The Imprisoned One knew how to perform a ritual that could release another from the Rakatan Prison . He made a deal with Revan , the most recent to enter the endless void . If Revan could defeat him in a game of riddles , he would be free . However , if Revan lost , the prisoner would get out and inhabit Revan ' s body , dooming him to an eternity in the box . After a few riddles , Revan managed to stump him . The prisoner stayed inside and reluctantly proceeded to release Revan , helping the hero along with his quest for the Star Forge . Three centuries later during the Cold War , the Imprisoned One was later discovered again by a team of Czerka Corporation archaeologists , whom he quickly turned into unthinking drones by means of the very nanotechnology he had used to attempt his own immortality millennia earlier . Emergency protocols executed by the Czerka staff were effective in isolating the cave and preventing the spread of the Imprisoned One ' s infection , but the damage was done : once forgotten to the sands of time , the modern era was once again aware of his existence . Some time later , the Imprisoned One ' s infection once more began to spread past his cave . Eventually it came to the attention of both the Imperial and Republic forces on Tatooine when a number of individuals became infected and turned on their co - workers . Behind the scenes . The Imprisoned One first appeared in " " video game . The riddle game he plays with Revan seems to be inspired from the portion of " " by Tolkien . and fought with riddles in order to negotiate his exit from the caves . Some of the riddles of the ' game ' between the Rakata and Revan , indeed were first seen in " The Hobbit " . One such riddle is " What has roots as nobody sees , is taller than trees , up , up it goes , and yet never grows " After initially appearing in " Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic " , The Imprisoned One appeared again in Bioware ' s 2011 Massively Multiplayer Online follow - up title , " Star Wars : The Old Republic " . Finding and dealing with the Imprisoned One is the climax of the Tatooine story arc for both the Republic and the Empire . Republic players are given the option of destroying the mind prison to prevent the Imprisoned One from ever being freed ( light side ) , or giving it to a rogue Czerka agent to exploit ( dark side ) . Empire players can also destroy the mind prison ( light side ) or turn it over to the Imperial Reclamation Service for exploitation ( dark side ) .