Jedi Civil War The Jedi Civil War , also known as the Second Sith War , the Old Republic Insurrection , and by the Mandalorians as the War of the Star Forge , was a devastating conflict that began when the Jedi Knight Revan , who had led the forces of the Galactic Republic to victory in the Mandalorian Wars , founded his own Sith Empire and declared himself the Dark Lord of the Sith . The war began when he , along with his friend and apprentice Darth Malak , led an invasion of the Galactic Republic in the year 3958 BBY . With the aid of veterans from the Mandalorian Wars and a host of Dark Jedi converts that had served with them , the former Jedi hoped to take over the Republic in anticipation of a greater threat posed by a Sith Empire that lurked within the Unknown Regions of the galaxy . During the war , Darth Revan brought the Republic to its knees and nearly succeeded in conquering it , however , a trap set by the Jedi and unwittingly abetted by Malak left him comatose , with his mind nearly destroyed . Barely alive , he was taken from the wreckage by the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan , whose skills in battle meditation and the Force had allowed the mission to happen . Taken to the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine , Revan was healed by the Jedi Council and reprogrammed to believe that he was an agent loyal to the Republic . Revan was assigned under the command of Shan , who was then placed aboard the " Endar Spire " . In 3956 BBY , with the intention of drawing out Revan ' s fragmented memories of the Star Forge , the vast space station that was the source of the seemingly endless resources of the Sith , he was taken to the ecumenopolis of Taris where a Sith fleet under the direct command of Malak was waiting in ambush . Eventually escaping from Taris , Revan , along with Shan , the Republic commander Carth Onasi , and several others , fled to the Dantooine Academy , where the Jedi Masters there retrained him . After several weeks , the Dantooine Council sent him and the crew of the " Ebon Hawk " back out into the wider galaxy to track down the Star Forge ' s location , at the heart of the ancient Infinite Empire of the Rakata . Later , after a number of ancient Star Map s had been uncovered , Malak led an attack against the Enclave , devastating it and further crippling the Jedi Order . After finding the last Star Map and , from it , deducing the location of the Rakatan homeworld , Revan , the Jedi , and the Republic launched the war ' s final battle . Revan vanquished Malak aboard the Star Forge , and the Republic successfully routed the Sith forces . With Malak dead , the Star Forge destroyed , and the Sith fleet scattered and defeated , the long and costly war came to an end . Origins . The Mandalorian Neo - Crusades . The seeds of the Jedi Civil War were sown nearly twenty years before the conflict would come to pass . Beginning in 3976 BBY , the Mandalorians , a race of warriors that descended from the Taung of ancient Coruscant , embarked upon a second campaign of conquest after reforging themselves in the wake of the defeat of the Sith Lord Exar Kun during the Great Sith War . Taking worlds and ravaging colonies throughout the galaxy beyond the edge of Republic space , the many clans of Neo - Crusaders , under the leadership of Mandalore the Ultimate , carved out a territory greater than that ruled by the Hutts in the span of little more than a decade . After hearing of what was happening beyond the Outer Rim Territories , the Galactic Senate initially declined to respond , choosing not to act in the defense of planets outside of the Republic ' s borders . Many senators , still weary of war after the devastation wrought by Kun and the Krath Holy Crusade , did not wish to subject their constituents to yet another conflict unless the Mandalorians threatened the Republic itself . Once he felt that his clans were sufficiently battle - hardened , Mandalore soon obliged them , taking up the secret offer of the Sith to challenge a worthy foe . Launching a three - pronged invasion in 3963 BBY . Mandalorian fleets poured into Republic space through invasion corridors blazed through adjacent sectors along the Outer Rim , sparking the Mandalorian Wars . In the opening battles of the conflict , particularly at the Battle of Serroco , forces of the Republic Navy were overwhelmed by superior numbers and tactics . Despite these unfortunate events , the Jedi Council refused the Republic ' s desperate pleas for aid , sensing that there was another , hidden threat that had yet to reveal itself . Though many of the youngest and brightest members of the Jedi Order were eager to combat the Mandalorians , the Jedi Masters would not allow it , preferring to keep private their own fears and plans for war . The Revanchist Intervention . The Battle of Cathar played a large part in changing the situation . During the Neo - Crusades that predated the invasion of the Republic , forces under the leadership of Cassus Fett , Mandalore ' s chief tactician , attacked the world of Cathar , enslaving and killing as many Cathar as possible . It was theorized later that this flagrant attack was one of many that were calculated to draw the Jedi into the conflict . The gamble paid off ; after having revealed the truth about what really happened on Cathar , the young and charismatic Jedi Knight Revan — who became known as " The Revanchist " — defied the Council and began to rally younger members of the Jedi Order , including his friend Alek , who began calling himself " Malak " during the wars , to his cause . After lending their support to the battered Republic fleet , they soon proved to be more than capable commanders in the field , quickly rising through the ranks . Soon , they were given direct control over the entire Republic Navy . Revan used this newly - bestowed authority to spearhead the Republic war effort ; under his inspired leadership , the all - but - defeated troops of the Republic recomposed themselves and began to push the Mandalorians back . Some time during the Mandalorian Wars , Revan visited both Malachor V and Korriban , slipping closer to the dark side and alerting the Sith Emperor of the Sith Empire to his existence . After a series of bitterly - contested battles on Dxun and Althir , the war ' s climax was fast approaching . As the fighting reached a fever pitch , Revan began to devise a way to end the war before the Republic was too weakened by the conflict to face the threat that was to come . Working in secret , he built a new Sith academy over the crumbling ruins of the older complex on Malachor V , and used the dark side energies contained within to bind the most trusted of his Force - sensitive followers to his will . These beings became the building blocks of the order of the Sith assassin s — a group that he kept secret even from Malak . In 3960 BBY , Revan forced a final confrontation with the Mandalorians above Malachor V . During the battle , Revan lured Mandalore into a direct confrontation , facing and overcoming the Mandalorian leader in single combat . However , Revan learned from the dying Mandalore that the Mandalorian Wars were arranged by the Sith , and that Mandalore had been manipulated . After ending the Mandalorian Wars with a resounding , if very costly victory thanks to the activation of the Mass Shadow Generator by one of his Jedi generals , Revan and Malak led the remainder of their forces into the Unknown Regions under the pretense of tracking down the remnants of the Mandalorian fleet . As time went by without any word from the Jedi who had won the war for them , the Republic feared that they and the soldiers under them had been lost in some great , unknown disaster in the depths of unexplored space . Return of the Sith . Following Mandalore ' s directions to Rekkiad , Revan and Malak hid Mandalore ' s Mask in the tomb of the Sith Lord Dramath the Second , and they followed the trail to the planet Nathema and then to Dromund Kaas itself . However , they were led into a trap by the Sith Emperor , who broke the wills of the two Jedi Knights , making them his servants and anointing them as Dark Lords of the Sith . The Emperor then sent the pair back to the Republic as advance agents , tasking them with the mission of searching for the Star Forge , an ancient Rakatan superweapon , to accelerate his plans to exact revenge on the Jedi and the Republic . Revan and Malak found a Rakata n Star Map in the ancient burial mounds on Dantooine , near the 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 . Despite this warning , Revan accessed the Star Map , along with Malak , and they later discovered Star Maps on Kashyyyk , Manaan , Korriban , and Tatooine . Having triangulated the Star Forge ' s location , the two traveled to the Rakata system , but they broke free of the Emperor ' s control and established their own empire . Fueled by the dark side and drawing raw materials from the star over which it had been constructed , the space station was both an automated factory and battle dreadnaught , capable of manufacturing a virtually endless supply of ships , droids , and other materials of war rapidly and on an unprecedented scale . In the hands of Revan , the Star Forge would become the heart of a new Sith war effort . From the upper levels of the factory complex , which was hidden within the unmapped Rakata system , Revan founded his new empire , bringing with him all those who had sworn their service to his cause . Revan and Malak returned to Korriban and seized control of the tombworld , establishing a new Sith Academy . The teachings of the dark side began to filter down through the rank - and - file of the Republic military that had been placed under the direct command of Revan and Malak . Nearly all of those who had served under him swore their loyalty to Revan over that of the rest of the Republic and the Jedi Order ; included among them were some of the top military leaders of the Army and Navy , such as General Derred , and Mon Halan . As they forsook their oaths and followed him beyond known space , Revan ' s corruption spread downward , forming the core of his new Sith Empire . In addition , Revan also commissioned the creation of HK - 47 and other assassin droids like him to carry out politically - motivated assassinations all over the galaxy . The war . Early campaigns . The shipyards of Foerost . Located in the Deep Core , the shipyards at Foerost was one of the largest such facilities in use by the Republic Navy . Forty years prior , during the height of the Great Sith War , the yards had been raided by a combined force of Krath and Mandalorians , during which they stole approximately three hundred warships for use in an attack on Coruscant . When Revan and Malak , now called Darth Revan and Darth Malak , declared themselves to be the new Dark Lords of the Sith , one of their first overt acts was to execute a repeat of this raid ; using codes given to them by Saul Karath , Sith bombers passed through the perimeter sensor nets without being detected and began ravaging the inner defenses . As the Republic attempted to mount a defense , many of their warships were boarded and seized by Sith trooper s ; these newly - commandeered vessels were quick to join with the fleet of Sith vessels that had arrived to ensure the success of the raid . Thusly armed , the forces under the two former Jedi began their assault on the unsuspecting galaxy . Conquering an empire . Remembering their leadership during the Mandalorian Wars , large numbers of Republic officers and soldiers began to defect to the new Dark Lords of the Sith . Consequently , the two Sith Lords were able to rapidly carve out a new Sith Empire without needing to commit to much fighting . Battles were fought at Roche , Axxila , Gizer and Randon as Revan and Malak expanded their empire . Additional actions at Yag ' Dhul secured a pocket of space around the Rimma Trade Route and Corellian Trade Spine crossroads and delivered the Tapani sector and the shipyards of Fondor to the Sith . Other pockets of Sith space emerged around the Allanteen system and Gamorr . In the Core Worlds , Corellia , Duro and Bellassa came under Sith control . Sith attempts to break out of these pockets throughout the war were unsuccessful , however , with the Republic keeping them contained with victories at Commenor , Denon , Devaron , Rhommamool and Foless . Despite this , the new Sith Empire eventually came to control a third of the settled galaxy . Seeing the need for corporate assistance in providing necessary materiél for the war effort , Revan also entered into a partnership with Czerka Corporation , a galaxy - spanning conglomerate with such diverse interests as mining , slaving , and manufacturing items such as arms , armor , and droids . Offered a trade monopoly within Sith space , the corporation helped to sponsor the establishment and growth of the Dreshdae colony on Korriban as part of their supply network . The corporation continued to provide logistical support for the Sith Empire throughout the course of the war . Pollard Seario was one such high - ranking corporate officer ; he offered control of one of the corporation ' s hidden military research facilities , dubbed Czerka 431 to the Sith . Among the activities performed there included experiments on Juggernaut war droid s , performed by scientist Joni Ree . Ree , hoping to help the Republic , provided the outpost ' s location , hoping to escape in the ensuing attack . The Republic sent a small force , which succeeded in destroying the base . Ree , along with three other soldiers , was then sent by the Republic to AB - 343 , which they had captured near the start of the war , in order to acquire any possible intelligence . Not wishing to reveal their alliance , the Sith sent an assassin to eliminate the team . The GenoHaradan bounty hunter guild also sent an assassin , as they believed that it was in their best interest for the alliance between Czerka and the Sith to remain unknown . The two assassins , upon finding their marks , proceeded to launch an attack . The Bombardment of Telos . In the year 3958 BBY , Admiral Saul Karath openly declared his intent to abandon the Republic he had once served . As a test of his loyalty , he was ordered by Darth Malak to bombard the strategically - placed Republic world of Telos IV . Given command of a fleet of Sith warships , Karath surrounded the planet and demanded that its government surrender . After being rebuffed by the local government , he ordered his fleet to commence a devastating orbital bombardment . The resulting attack was carried out with brutal efficiency , scourging the surface of the once - lush and prosperous world of all animal and plant life and causing the atmosphere to degrade into a miasma of toxic vapors that produced acid rain . While some citizens were able to escape on intra - system shuttles , millions were killed , and many more died soon after due to medical supply shortages and the after - effects of the bombardment . Karath ' s forces , meanwhile , departed the system , allowing the evacuation ships to survive unmolested so that the refugees contained therein would stand as testimony to what the Sith were capable of . A nearby Republic task force , with which the Commander Carth Onasi was serving , arrived in the system shortly afterward , but by then it was too late to do anything more than ensure the evacuees were able to reach safety . Strike on Iridonia . The Sith were interested in capturing the Zabrak homeworld , Iridonia and destroying the Republic fleet based there , so they sent the former Jedi , Acaadi , to prepare the planet for an attack . He infiltrated a band of Mandalorians , who had been stranded on the planet following the Mandalorian Wars . Over the next few months , they came under Acaadi ' s leadership and he had them destroy a Republic military communications center on the planet , in preparation for the Sith attack . Afterward , Acaadi no longer needed the Mandalorians , so he rid himself of them by having some of them run into his old comrade , the Jedi Duqua Dar . Acaadi then killed the Mandalorians and rescued Dar from them , before proceeding to persuade him that the Jedi were holding him back and that he should leave the Order . They were overheard by a group of Jedi and spacers , who had been working with Dar , and Acaadi and Dar were forced to flee . They made their way to a secret hangar on the edge of the city of Wortan and Dar waited there along with some Sith commandos , while Acaadi and some commandos flew off in a shuttle to sabotage the flagship of the Republic fleet above Iridonia , " Champion of Iridonia " . The Jedi and spacers arrived and tried to persuade Dar that Acaadi had tricked him . They fought and killed the commandos , before learning of Acaadi ' s plan . The Jedi flew to the " Champion " , to warn its commander , Admiral Rokon , of what Acaadi was going to do . Acaadi spoke into a security camera and revealed that he and his commandos were already sabotaging the ship and that it was too late . At that moment , about a dozen Sith ships arrived and engaged the Republic fleet . The Jedi confronted and defeated Acaadi and the commandos , ending the immediate threat to the " Champion " . However , a large number of Republic ships defected to the Sith during the course of the battle , and the Sith were ultimately able to secure Iridonia . A successful campaign by the Sith against Palanhi , a planet on a hyperlane to Coruscant followed , and a Republic offensive against Ithor ended in failure . Turning the tide . The investigation of Nyriaan . Following a vision that he had had of the planet Nyriaan , the Sith Lord Darth Glovoc decided to travel there , aboard his flagship , the " Interdictor " - class cruiser " Dying Sun " . The " Sun " arrived near Nyriaan and carried out a detailed scan of the area surrounding the planet . However , the ship ' s active sensors were detected by the Republic , which sent a strike force to attack the cruiser . With Glovoc concentrating all of his attention on Nyriaan , the Sith did not detect the approaching Republic ships until it was too late for them to escape . The resulting battle was very violent and the Sith succeeded in destroying three Republic cruisers and many Republic starfighters . However , the Republic forces inflicted heavy fire on the " Dying Sun " and fired many torpedos at it . The ship was crippled and eventually became caught in Nyriaan ' s gravity well . It broke up into several pieces , which then fell to the planet ' s surface . The Republic forces declared that they had been victorious in the battle and never investigated what the " Dying Sun " had been doing at Nyriaan , assuming that it had just been hiding there to avoid discovery . Republic victories . Following the victory at Nyriaan , the Republic had a string of successes in the south - west of the galaxy . The Sith advance on New Cov from Allanteen Six was halted . Meanwhile , in hopes of denying the Republic its greatest source of scouts and explorers , Sith forces attacked neutral Rodia . However , the Jedi uncovered their plot and signaled the Republic fleet for help . Republic forces on the Rimward Corellian Run drove away the Sith fleet , and in the aftermath of the battle , Rodia officially joined the war on the Republic side . From Rodia , the Republic launched a campaign which resulted in victories at Mon Gazza and Lannik . The capture of Darth Revan . Two years later , the war continued , with the Republic barely holding itself together beneath the hammer blows of Darth Revan and Darth Malak ' s armadas . In the hopes of ushering in a new phase of the war , or at least to give them breathing space , the Jedi Council drafted a plan by which they could capture both Sith Lords , thus depriving the Sith of their greatest leader and tactician . A two - part plan was put into action ; first , a group of Republic operatives aided by a pair of Jedi acquired data on the Sith Lord ' s fleet on Sernpidal . With this data , the Jedi and Republic , aided by the talents of a young Jedi Padawan named Bastila Shan , who had mastered the art of battle meditation at a young age , a small force of Republic warships engaged the fleet of Darths Revan and Malak . While the two sides fought , Shan , accompanied by a number of Jedi Knights , boarded Revan ' s flagship , overcoming his guards and cornering the Dark Lord on the bridge of his command ship . However , Malak became aware of what was happening and , in a bold maneuver , he ordered the ships under his command to fire upon the bridge of his mentor , intending to kill not only the Jedi boarding party , but his own friend in order to claim the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith for himself . Unknown to the newly self - proclaimed Dark Lord , however , Revan was still very much alive . As the only other survivor of the attack unleashed by Malak , Shan used the Force to preserve the flicker of life that still remained within the unconscious Dark Lord . This act caused the formation of a near - physical bond , linked through the Force , between the two , an event that would have lasting repercussions though nobody knew it at the time . Hoping to save his life and , perhaps , bring about his redemption , Shan took Revan ' s body from the wreckage of the warship ' s command deck , escaping from the battle and bringing him to the Dantooine Jedi Enclave Council . The Jedi Masters there , Vandar Tokare , Vrook Lamar , Zhar Lestin , and Dorak , used their own mastery of the Force to not only heal Revan ' s wounded body and mind , but to gain access to and erase his remaining memories of having been the Dark Lord . A new Dark Lord . Shifting priorities . Though the ultimate objective of that mission had been successful , the result of their efforts ended up backfiring on both the Jedi and the Republic . Emboldened by his seizure of the Sith crown , Malak continued on the crusade began by his former mentor . Although he was far from Revan ' s equal in strategy or tactics , and was also unaware of Revan ' s many secret dealings and projects , such as the Sith assassins and the academy at Malachor V , the new Dark Lord did have numbers — and the Star Forge — on his side . Even as he shifted the scope of his military campaign from one of conquest and conversion to a series of massacres intended to demonstrate his resolve , Malak undertook an active side quest aimed at capturing or eliminating the Jedi Bastila Shan , whose battle meditation he both coveted and feared . The new Dark Lord reasoned that , if he could not have her and her talents at his side , then she had to die in order to secure the chances of success for his war to seize the galaxy . As the Jedi worked on the severely - wounded Revan , planting within him the belief that he was a loyal soldier of the Republic serving under Shan ' s command , Malak prepared a trap of his own , which he sprung on the small Republic fleet led by the " Endar Spire " , a " Hammerhead " - class cruiser , over the Outer Rim ecumenopolis of Taris . In the skirmish that resulted , Shan , Revan , and Carth Onasi , along with a small number of Republic soldiers and crewers , escaped the doomed vessel , landing in different spots on the surface of Taris ; Shan landed somewhere in the Lower City while the pod containing Onsai and Revan impacted upon a pedestrian walkway in the Upper City . While Shan was taken prisoner by the swoop gang known as the Black Vulkars , who intended to sell her into slavery , Onasi pulled an unconscious Revan from their pod and hid out in an abandoned apartment , where he remained in a coma for three days . Even as the " Endar Spire " was being turned into free - floating hydrogen , space and ground forces under the command of Malak were taking control of Taris and instituting a planet - wide quarantine , circling the planet with a fleet of Sith warships whose auto - targeting laser cannons could obliterate any vessel that attempted to leave the surface . With little else to do , Carth , along with Revan ' s new identity , began to search Taris for clues as to what had happened to Shan , believing her to be the key to eventually stopping the Sith — if that was even possible . Eventually , working with members of the Hidden Beks gang and with help from the streetwise duo of Mission Vao and Zaalbar , the two Republic soldiers were able to gain an approximation of where Shan was being held and why — as the Vulkars ' share of the victory prize for the " Tarisian Season Opener " swoop race . Seeing a chance to rescue her , Revan accepted Gadon Thek ' s offer to infiltrate the Black Vulkars ' base in order to retake a prototype swoop engine accelerator that had been stolen from the Beks ; in return , Thek , leader of the Beks , would let Revan enter the swoop race under the Bek banner . After winning the race with a surprising upset , ostensibly having never piloted swoop bikes before , Revan was accused by the Vulkars ' leader , Brejik , of cheating ; when Brejik refused to release the hitherto unconscious Shan , she used the Force to free herself . In the firefight that followed , Brejik and many of his Vulkars were dead , leaving Shan and Revan free to return to the apartment where Onasi , Vao and Zaalbar were hiding out . Revan ' s reemergence . The actions at the swoop race caused quite a stir among the criminal element on Taris , attracting the attention of the Mandalorian mercenary Canderous Ordo , who up to that point had been working as the personal enforcer for crime lord and Exchange boss Davik Kang alongside the recently - hired famed bounty hunter Calo Nord . Sensing an opportunity to further his own interests , since Kang had not been paying him the credits that had been promised , Ordo offered Revan a deal : in exchange for the party breaking into the Sith - controlled military base on Taris and stealing the codes necessary for a ship to leave unmolested by the Sith in orbit , he would offer them access to their ticket out , Kang ' s personal starship , the " Dynamic " - class freighter " Ebon Hawk " . With the aid of the custom - built astromech droid T3 - M4 , Revan , Shan , and Onasi were able to enter the base . After clearing it out and defeating the Sith Governor in charge , the trio met up with Ordo at Javyar ' s Cantina in the Lower City . The mercenary then took Revan to Kang ' s estate , ostensibly in order to recruit him into the Exchange , however it was instead a ruse to get them inside . Once Kang had left , the party set out to steal the " Ebon Hawk " . Around this time , a group of six Mandalorian mercenaries stranded on Taris attacked a Sith Marauder and a number of Sith troopers in a newly - established Sith outpost on the planet . Meanwhile , in orbit , Malak was growing frustrated at the fruitless search for Shan . As a last - ditch measure , and in keeping with his personality , he ordered Admiral Saul Karath to begin a systematic bombardment of the planet . A somewhat hesitant Admiral Karath complied , noting that it would take several hours to reposition the fleet in order to conduct such an operation . This delay would prove to be costly , as it was during that time that Revan and Ordo succeeded in stealing Kang ' s prized freighter , eliminating the crime boss and , in appearance , Calo Nord as well , even as the Sith bombardment began . Flying amidst a deluge of turbolaser blasts that was fast turning the city - world into flaming rubble , the " Ebon Hawk " swooped by the apartment where the rest of Revan ' s companions were staying , picking them up and angling hard for the stars . As they made haste to ascend the planet ' s gravity well far enough to enter hyperspace , a sextet of Sith fighter s began to give chase . Manning the freighter ' s dorsal gun turret , Revan was able to quickly dispatch the enemy starfighters , leaving the way clear for the ship to flee to Dantooine . It was during his time on Taris that Revan began to experience odd flashes of his old memories ; dreams at first , in which he witnessed snippets of the events which led up to his apparent death , these soon developed further . Upon first meeting Shan as his new self , Revan witnessed a vision of his capture , though he did not recognize its significance at the time . As soon as the " Ebon Hawk " landed at the Dantooine Enclave , Shan left the ship to speak with the Council there to report on what had happened upon and to the city - world — including what Revan had reported seeing . Nor was this the last sending , for soon after this both of them shared yet another memory , a vision in the form of a dream depicting Revan and Malak within a nearby set of ruins , who were seeking out " the secrets of the Star Forge " . The quest for the Star Forge . Mission on Kashyyyk . Recognizing the significance of these visions , for it was what they had intended when wiping the memories of the captured and comatose Revan , the Dantooine Enclave Council debated whether or not to retrain the former Knight in the ways of the Jedi . Vrook was cautious , for he believed that there was a distinct possibility of Revan returning to his dark ways ; however , after discussing the matter in private , it was decided by the Council to induct the amnesiac warrior back into their ranks . Over the following several weeks Revan went through intense remedial Jedi training , working with Shan under the supervision of Jedi Master Zhar Lestin . After proving his knowledge of the Jedi Code , constructing a new lightsaber , and seeking out and redeeming the fallen Cathar Jedi Juhani , Revan proved to Lestin that he was ready to become a Padawan ; thus proven , he , Shan , and Onasi were sent out to investigate the ruins from the vision that the two Jedi had shared . What they found within confirmed what the Jedi Order had previously thought , that Revan and Malak , after falling to the dark side , had sought out and found the Star Forge by means of a series of Star Maps . Armed with this knowledge , they sent Revan , Shan , Onasi , Vao , Zaalbar , Ordo , and the redeemed Juhani out into the larger galaxy to discover where , precisely , the Star Forge was located — and to destroy it . As the party sought the Star Maps on Tatooine , Kashyyyk , Manaan and Korriban , word of Shan ' s escape from Taris reached Darth Malak , relayed by Calo Nord , who had narrowly escaped that world ' s destruction himself . Malak and Admiral Karath promptly hired the man to track the Jedi down , capturing her if at all possible while doing whatever was necessary to deal with her companions . It was also at this time that the first hints of a certain other being ' s survival came to the Dark Lord ' s attention as well , though this fact was kept in strictest confidence . Throughout their quest , the party led by Revan ran into Sith agents , including detachments of Dark Jedi . After uncovering the first Star Map , hidden within the lair of a krayt dragon in the Eastern Dune Sea of Tatooine , Nord caught up with them . Aided by a quartet of Rodian and Aqualish thugs , he attempted to carry out his contract ; the two Jedi and Onasi proved too much for them , however , and Nord , along with his hirelings , were slain . With nothing left to be done on the desert world , the crew of the " Ebon Hawk " departed for Kashyyyk . While on Tatooine the party was largely responsible for alleviating the threat posed by the Sand People to Czerka ' s mining and the citizens of Anchorhead , in addition to rescuing Mission Vao ' s brother Griff and a number of Jawas . The Star Maps themselves seemed to be emanating their own dark side aura , as they affected the environment in their vicinity ; on Tatooine , the dark side energies attracted one of the largest krayt ever seen by that time , while on Kashyyyk , it was theorized by the reclusive former Jedi Jolee Bindo , who joined Revan ' s party , that the ancient Rakatan monument was responsible for the dangerous nature of the Shadowlands , as the lower levels of the Wroshyr forests were dubbed . As Revan and his companions continued on their journey , they became caught up in the affairs of the locals ; on Kashyyyk itself , Revan , with the help of Bindo and Zaalbar , thwarted the slave trade in Wookiees conducted by Czerka Corporation , On Manaan , where strict neutrality laws were enforced by the native Selkath under pain of kolto - export sanctions , Revan , Shan , and Onasi were forced to deal with a sort of shadow war waged by the Republic and Sith Empire ' s presence on the aquatic world . After raiding the local Sith Embassy in order to recover an encrypted data module for Roland Wann , the chief Republic diplomat , Revan was provided with the means to access the Hrakert Rift and Hrakert Station , the secret Republic installation constructed there , where Wann believed that Manaan ' s relic was located . Once on the ocean floor , Revan cleared out the station , destroying its kolto - harvesting machinery in order to placate the Progenitor and gain access to the map . All was not as it seemed , however , because shortly thereafter he met up once again with Malak ' s Shadow Hand Darth Bandon , who had been sent after Shan by Malak once word of Calo Nord ' s death had reached the Dark Lord . In the duel that followed , Bandon and the pair of Dark Jedi accompanying him were killed . The Jedi Enclave is destroyed . Even as Revan and his companions followed their mission , Malak himself was preparing to attack the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine . Though the dark side clouded their perception of future events , the Dantooine Council did have sufficient warning to successfully evacuate most of the important relics , holocrons , and other material stored there , as well as to retreat themselves . However , the Sith assault came too quickly for a general retreat ; the Enclave itself was pulverized by an orbital strike even as Sith troops descended to the surface to subjugate that world . Many Jedi were killed in the onslaught ; throughout the Sith occupation that followed , many civilians were rounded up , most of whom never returned . This sent shockwaves throughout the Order , further weakening it and the Republic ; it would not be until well after the war that the Sith themselves would abandon the planet . Capture and revelation . Leaving the world of Manaan behind , the " Ebon Hawk " set course for the Sith tombworld of Korriban , where they knew the last Star Map was to be found . However , the ship was intercepted en route by the Sith " Interdictor " - class cruiser " Leviathan " , the flagship of Saul Karath ; after being yanked from hyperspace by the ship ' s gravity well projector , the freighter was snagged by the capital ship ' s tractor beam . Even as they were being slowly dragged into the ship ' s main hangar , however , Onasi , Shan , and Revan busied themselves formulating a plan for escape ; they soon decided that it would be best for another member of the party to use their own talents to either avoid or escape confinement , then liberate the rest of the crew from their holding cells . Admiral Karath interrogated Revan , Shan and Onasi personally , informing them of the destruction of the Dantooine Enclave as he attempted to learn what mission the Jedi Council had sent them on ; however , despite his torturing of Shan , the Sith fleet commander was unable to learn anything , and left the prisoners as they were tortured into unconsciousness . During this , the " Ebon Hawk " crewmember succeeded in getting away from their guards . With the help of a Rodian captive , they were able to access the detention level computer system and unlock the holding cells and force cage s that held the rest of the group . Now reunited , the crew planned the next phase of the breakout . While Revan , Shan and Onasi made their way to the ship ' s bridge in order to deactivate the tractor beam and open the hangar , Ordo led the rest of the crew in retaking the " Ebon Hawk " in order to prepare it for departure as quickly as possible . Carving their way through the Sith troops and Dark Jedi that swarmed the vessel ' s command deck , the lead party eventually had to don space suits and enter the bridge proper through an exterior accessway via an airlock on the ship ' s hull . Confronting Admiral Karath on the bridge deck , the party was offered a chance to surrender ; the offer was rejected , however , prompting a furious fire - and - lightsaber fight that resulted in the Admiral ' s death . With his dying breaths , however , the onetime Republic officer told Onasi of his companion ' s true nature , but with little time to spare before Malak ' s imminent arrival , there was no chance to explain the situation . Making a break for it , the three fled back through the command deck and to the hangar level . Despite their haste , the trio was intercepted by the Dark Lord just meters away from where the " Ebon Hawk " was berthed . As surprised as he was amused at the events that had transpired since his betrayal , Malak gleefully filled Revan in on the details of who he was — and what he had been made into . The redemption of Revan . Shan confirmed what the Dark Lord was saying , elaborating on her role in the trap that had been set , and the part she had played in saving Revan ' s life . Believing that she had his best interests at heart and had indeed been attempting to bring about his redemption , Revan forgave Shan ; this incensed Malak , who condemned his former Master ' s attitude as weak and declaring that he had been right to take the mantle of Dark Lord from him . The two fought amongst the blast tunnels on the hangar level , with Revan driving Malak back , but the Dark Lord fought back hard . Catching up with the duelists , Shan , with Onasi watching helplessly , intervened , throwing her lightsaber at the Sith Lord as she interposed herself into the fight and urged the pair to flee to the " Ebon Hawk " and find the Star Forge . Onasi and Revan did so ; as the freighter escaped into hyperspace , the party came to grips with what had been revealed . Distrustful at first in the wake of this revelation , Onasi relented when the rest of the crew sided with Revan . With Shan captured , the party had little choice but to press on to Korriban and uncover the final Map . A barren world that radiated with the dark side , Korriban ' s only features at that time were the small spaceport located at the Dreshdae settlement and operated by the ubiquitous Czerka Corporation . Also evident was the nearby Sith Academy . Since the planet was well within Sith Space , the Sith Empire held jurisdiction ; this meant that , in essence , the Sith there could do as they pleased with little or no fear of retribution . The party was not without direction , though ; as had happened on all the other worlds visited thus far by Revan , he was given a vision of his old memories , which showed that that world ' s Star Map was located within what appeared to be a tomb . Conversations with various denizens of Dreshdae offered yet more clues , and it soon became clear that in order to get to the final map and find the Star Forge , the party had to infiltrate the Academy . Eventually , after securing a medallion from the corpse of a violent Sith student , Revan was admitted into the Academy by Yuthura Ban , the Twi ' lek apprentice of Uthar Wynn , the Academy ' s headmaster . As it happened , Ban and Wynn knew full well what the Star Map was and its true significance ; though the party now had access to the Valley of the Dark Lords , this was only a step in the right direction . Through the two Sith Masters , Revan was able to learn all he needed to " become a Sith in full " and gain access to the Map , which was located within the tomb of the ancient Sith Lord Naga Sadow . After finding the ancient structure and finally uncovering the hyperspace coordinates for the Lehon system and the Rakatan homeworld , Revan confronted the two Sith , ultimately killing Wynn and redeeming Ban . With the Academy ' s leadership taken out of the picture , the other Sith turned on Revan and his companions , bringing about a violent melee that virtually wiped out the entire faculty and student body . The Battle of Rakata Prime . After clearing out the Sith Academy , the party left Korriban behind , bound for the hitherto unknown homeworld of the Rakata , where the Star Forge was located in orbit above the system ' s primary star . Elsewhere , the Republic Navy had driven the Sith off Iridonia and defeated them at Basilisk and the Chazwa system . The crew of the " Ebon Hawk " had barely come out of hyperspace in the Lehon system before they were assaulted by a small , half - dozen strong vanguard of Sith fighters . After eliminating the half - squadron of enemy ships , the freighter inadvertently flew through the disruptor field that served as the station ' s primary defense mechanism . With their hyperdrive damaged and running on only one sublight engine , Onasi was forced to make an emergency landing on one of Lehon ' s smaller islands — the very same island that held the Temple of the Ancients . After several run - ins with the native Rakata , including violent encounters with members of the tribe of The One and peaceful contact with the Elder Rakata , Revan was able to piece together what had transpired during his — and Malak ' s — last visit to the hitherto forgotten world . With the help of the Elders , he , accompanied by Jolee Bindo and Juhani , entered the Temple of the Ancients in order to shut down the disruptor field so that the incoming Republic fleet , summoned by Onasi prior to their crash , would not suffer a similar fate . Atop the Temple they were confronted by Shan — who was now the Sith apprentice of Darth Malak . The fallen Shan attacked the trio ; however , after being forced back , she attempted to persuade Revan to follow her lead , joining her in embracing the dark side in order to reclaim the title of Dark Lord from Malak ; she claimed that the Jedi had brainwashed Revan and used her battle meditation for their own ends and were jealous of the power that they both held . Revan , in turn , entreated her to give up the dark side , citing the fact that he had done the same . Incensed , Shan retreated to her shuttle and fled to the Star Forge . As the trio returned to the repaired " Ebon Hawk " , they discussed what had transpired ; Revan declared his intention to save Shan , and so the party left the planet , joining with the battle already in progress . Under the command of Admiral Forn Dodonna , a force of " Hammerhead " - class capital ships and Republic blockade runners , supported by A - wing military fighters and assault fighters , engaged the " Interdictor " - class cruisers and fighters of the Sith armada under the command of Admiral Varko . Supported by Jedi under the leadership of surviving Dantooine Council member Vandar Tokare , the " Ebon Hawk " docked on the station itself ; as a number of the Jedi Knights who boarded alongside them secured an escape route , Revan and two of his companions pressed into the interior of the vast complex , engaging Sith troops , assault droids and Dark Jedi at every turn . As the two fleets squared off in the space beyond the Star Forge , Revan eventually penetrated the outer defenses , finding and confronting Shan once again . Still in the thrall of the dark side , Shan dueled with Revan ; even though she was re - energized by the Star Forge ' s dark side energies after each round of combat , she could not overcome him . Professing his own love for her and encouraging her to draw upon their bond within the Force , Revan was able to redeem Shan , convincing her to use her battle meditation to aid the Republic fleet to atone for her betrayal . With this key reversal , the momentum of the engagement shifted ; gaps began to open within the Sith battle lines , openings which were exploited by the Republic ' s starfighters and capital ships . As Shan used her powers to turn the tide of the engagement , Revan went on to confront Malak atop the highest levels of the station . After striking down two Jedi he had captured , the Dark Lord activated a number of ancient droid - producing machines ; sealing the room , he fled further into the factory complex . Eventually working his way through the onslaught of combat droids and deactivating the factory , Revan pressed on , defeating Malak in a lightsaber duel , during which the Dark Lord attempted to siphon off the remaining Force - energy of several Jedi that had been killed when he attacked the Dantooine enclave . Revan , however , was able to use his own power to prevent further instances of this siphoning . After defeating his former apprentice in blade - to - blade combat , he and Shan , along with Onasi and the others , boarded the " Ebon Hawk " and escaped the station ' s destruction . With the Star Forge destroyed , the will of the remaining Sith forces in orbit was broken and they were defeated in detail ; as a result of this action , the destructive war that had claimed so many lives — on both sides — finally came to an end . Aftermath . Though the forces under the defeated Malak were routed in the wake of the Star Forge ' s destruction , the Sith were by no means completely dead ; many of the remnants fought amongst themselves for what few scraps of power remained . Also , other empires began to take from the weakened and leaderless Sith , seeing they were too preoccupied with fighting themselves to stand united against real foes . With these events the Sith Empire began to be reconquered by the Republic and anybody else wanting territory . The Sith , helpless to reverse these events began fall into a rapid decline . As well , the Jedi Order was but a shadow of its former self ; some estimated that barely a hundred had survived the war and still remained true to the Jedi Code . The war had devastated planets throughout the galaxy , from the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim through to the fringes of the Core Worlds , leaving countless billions dead and many more homeless . These refugees wandered the galaxy , many ending up on Nar Shaddaa , becoming prey for criminals , pirates and slavers ; veterans of both sides , deprived of an army or cause to fight with or for , found work as freelance pilots , mercenaries , raiders , or petty thugs . Restoration and rebuilding . Not long after the end of the Jedi Civil War , the Galactic Senate elected a new Supreme Chancellor , Tol Cressa , who on a platform of reconstruction and rehabilitation began to issue directives for such works as the Telosian Restoration Project , an effort undertaken by a herd of Ithorians led by the Force Adept Chodo Habat to restore the surface of Telos IV . Over the years that followed the vast Citadel Station , and beneath it the many Restoration Zone s necessary for the project , took shape . Under Ithorian care , Telos began to show signs of recovery , however the situation began to change as Czerka Corporation gradually took over the project with an eye toward profit . Eventually , the Republic began to overextend itself with their recovery efforts ; the Navy was still woefully understrength , and many strategic yet remote worlds became less and less secure for the simple reason that the men and matériel necessary to guard and protect them did not exist . On worlds like Dantooine , which had weathered the occupation by the Sith badly , and Onderon , which had escaped the wrath of the Sith for reasons unknown , the situation began to deteriorate . Criminal elements like that represented by the Exchange , as well as the Hutts , became more pervasive than ever , and without adequate pan - galactic law enforcement they soon began to build mini - empires of their own ; this contributed to a further weakening of the galaxy ' s infrastructure . An unknown threat and Revan ' s departure . After the war ' s end , Revan , through the Force , began to recover more and more of his lost memories despite what the Jedi had done to wipe them away . Even as the Republic attempted to stamp out the last vestiges of the Sith Empire , sending a task force to Korriban approximately one year after war ' s end that found only empty ruins strewn with the remains of dead Sith , the former Dark Lord remembered a threat that he had encountered in the Unknown Regions . Leaving behind his love , Shan , along with those who had served alongside him at war ' s end , and all of his possessions , Revan departed known space in order to face this threat in his own way . The exiled Jedi Master Kreia , who had taught Revan for a time when he was still a Padawan , had gone in search of both him and what had driven him to leave the Republic behind and wage a war against it ; eventually she too found Malachor V and , corrupted by its dark energies , began to form the Sith Triumvirate . The First Jedi Purge . In the years after the close of the Jedi Civil War , the weakened Order became weaker still due to the actions of hidden fragments of the beaten Sith Empire . Though disorganized and lacking strong leadership , the remnants of Revan ' s Sith assassins began to prey upon stray Jedi , using their unique power to detect and draw upon the Force within another being . When Kreia fell to the dark side and became Darth Traya , the Lord of Betrayal , she found and revitalized this forgotten Sith cult ; along with her apprentices Darth Sion , the " Lord of Pain " and Darth Nihilus , the " Lord of Hunger " , she began to undermine the Republic from within , precipitating a number of incidents that would later be known as the First Jedi Purge . Some of her actions were unwittingly abetted by Atris , one of the last surviving members of the Jedi Council ; such incidents included the devastation of the Miraluka world Katarr , which resulted when Nihilus used his powers to destroy all life on that world , including the Jedi who had gathered there . Atris ' plan to draw out the hidden threat by leaking the time and place of the Jedi gathering had backfired , with the result that many of the most powerful of the surviving Jedi Masters were lost to Nihilus ' hunger . Five years after the end of the war , an exiled former Jedi Knight , cast out of the Order in the wake of her involvement in the Mandalorian Wars , returned to known space . Thrust into the midst of the Sith Triumvirate ' s actions when they learned of her existence through Atris ' leaking of her status onto the HoloNet and other coreward databases , this so - called " Jedi Exile " was forced to contend not only with the legacy of the Mandalorian conflict that she had helped to end , but also the Jedi Civil War that she had chosen not to participate in . Despite the fact that so many people seemed to want to kill her , the Exile and those who followed her proved to be the injunction against failure that the Republic so desperately needed in order to survive . Her actions on Dantooine , Nar Shaddaa , Onderon and Telos served to strengthen the bonds of the Republic , as well as blunting a resurgence of the Sith . Through her the Jedi Order , having been almost made extinct due to the machinations of Darth Traya and the other Sith Lords , was reborn . Eventually , however , she too departed for the Unknown Regions , in pursuit of Revan and the fight he led against the true threat that still lingered in the dark , unexplored regions of the galaxy . Legacy of the Jedi Civil War . Fought throughout the galaxy on many different fronts that saw pain and death visited upon hundreds of worlds , the Jedi Civil War was , up to that point , the most destructive conflict in the history of the galaxy . The legacy of that conflict would be felt well beyond the Galactic Civil War some four thousand years later , even as many different offshoots and factions of the Sith Order attempted to gain control of the galaxy — or simply to become powerful in their own realm — in their own way . Also , not until the Great Galactic War , around three hundred years later , and the New Sith Wars , some two to three thousand years after the end of the Jedi Civil War , would forces of the dark side again seek galactic conflict on such a scale . Eventually , through Palpatine , the Sith would indeed succeed in conquering the Republic from within , remaking it into an Empire , ruled by the Sith , and dedicated to propagating the continued existence and dominion of the dark side . Before he defeated the Brotherhood of Darkness , Darth Bane sought out the wisdom of his ancient predecessor , the Sith Lord Darth Revan , and even as late as 137 ABY Darth Krayt would seek the same ancient advice on the dark side of the Force , though from those who flourished before and , in the case of Darth Nihilus , rose to prominence in the aftermath of the Jedi Civil War . Combatants . Revan ' s Sith Empire . Formed from the survivors of Revan ' s forces at the end of the Mandalorian Wars , along with their warships , the new Sith Empire that was created grew exponentially . This was due in large part to the discovery and use of the Star Forge , but also through an influx of volunteers from conquered worlds and elsewhere . The core of the new Sith military , made up of those who had given their allegiance to the Jedi who had come to help them against the Mandalorians , rather than those who had stayed behind , included some of the best and brightest of the Republic ' s war leaders . Generals such as Derred and Mon Halan , and admirals such as Saul Karath , translated Revan ' s strategic plans for conquest into winning battlefield tactics , using their knowledge of Republic ships and workings to win a string of devastating victories early on . In the wake of the betrayal and capture of Revan by Malak and the Jedi , the Sith Empire continued to assault the Republic without mercy . Malak preferred to abandon his former Master ' s overall vision in favor of outright slaughter and the utter destruction of all who would oppose him . At the same time , however , Malak and , at his behest , a large part of the Sith military and a number of their Dark Jedi , became focused upon the capture or assassination of Bastila Shan , whose mastery of battle meditation had thus far proven to be one of the few things that held the advancing might of the Sith in check . Even as the reprogrammed Revan undertook the task the Jedi Council had set for him — that of locating the Star Forge — the hunt continued . Eventually , however , at the Battle of Rakata Prime , the redeemed Revan , fighting alongside his companions and the Republic Navy under Admiral Forn Dodonna , prevailed in a duel with his old apprentice . In the wake of the Star Forge ' s destruction , Revan ' s old Sith Empire quickly splintered , with leaders and minions alike hurrying to lay hands upon the few scraps of power that remained . By the time Republic forces arrived on Korriban approximately one year after the war ' s end , all that remained was howling emptiness and the tattered corpses of dead Sith . By the time of the first Jedi Purge , many scattered remnants , lurking on other worlds , had been reformed by the Sith Triumvirate . Jedi Order . Still reeling from the Great Sith War even forty years after that pan - galactic conflagration that saw the fall and death of so many of their number , the Jedi Order was hesitant to commit to the Mandalorian Wars . Instead , led by Revan , a large number of younger Knights , and even some Masters took it upon themselves to leave the Order behind , joining up with Republic forces battling the Mandalorians on the Outer Rim . Even while this was happening , the Jedi High Council were attempting to determine the nature of the threat that lay behind the Mandalorian invasion , though they did not , in the end , commit the whole Order to the fighting . This hesitancy would come back to haunt them when , three years after the end of that war , Revan and Malak returned to known space at the head of their old fleet , augmented by vast numbers of Star Forge - produced ships , fighters , and war droids . As the war unfolded , however , Darth Revan ' s Sith assassins , working from the shadows , kidnapped and either killed Jedi or tortured them until they gave in to the dark side and joined with Revan , and later Malak ' s , Sith Empire . Jedi were dispatched by the Council in the hope of finding some way to thwart the seemingly unstoppable advance of the Sith , however many did not return , likely hunted down and killed by the assassins Revan had created . In the wake of the Dark Lord ' s capture , reprogramming and Jedi retraining , the Council sent Revan out to find the Star Forge and , once pinpointed , to lead Republic forces in destroying it . As the war ended the trials of the Jedi were far from over as , by the end of the battle that saw the destruction of the Star Forge , barely a hundred Jedi remained . These numbers would be whittled down even further as the Sith destroyed themselves , as Revan ' s assassins were still active ; later , the disaster that befell the Conclave on Katarr and the continuing purge by the Sith Triumvirate would all but eliminate the Order . However , the return of the Exile would breathe new life into the shattered Order , and those she would train in the ways of the Force would take up the mantle of Jedi . Galactic Republic . Like the Jedi Order , the Republic was ill - prepared to face the onslaught of Revan ' s new Sith Empire . On top of the massive casualties , loss of infrastructure , and crippling blows to its military borne during the Mandalorian Wars , the Republic still had not yet recovered from the Great Sith War waged by Exar Kun and the Krath . Faced with an enemy that had formerly boasted its finest in military technology and leadership , augmented by the hitherto unknown power of the Star Forge , all the Republic could do was fight as best it could though victories were almost nonexistent . Things began to change slightly when Bastila Shan began to use her mastery of battle meditation to aid the Fleet , helping them to hold off the Sith just enough to prevent their total dominance ; through her aid , the Republic military was even able to secure a small number of victories . As the war reached its midpoint , with Revan presumed dead and Malak now focusing on a war of destruction rather than simply a war of conquest , the situation seemed to become more and more dire . Even as the reprogrammed and retrained Revan attempted to reacquire his knowledge of the Star Forge , the Republic was barely holding on ; reports of battlefleets lost in far - off engagements peculated in and around the Dantooine Jedi Enclave regularly . After the war ' s final battle , it seemed that the Republic had weathered its greatest storm , however , all was not as it appeared to be . Despite the well - funded campaign to foster the reclamation and rebuilding of worlds devastated by the Jedi Civil War , five years later the Republic faced imminent collapse not from war , but from the simple inability to support itself . Corporate interests , criminal organizations , secessionist movements and , even , the actions of the hidden remnants of the Sith served to weaken the galactic government from within . However , thanks largely to the return of an exiled Jedi Knight , many of these activities on a number of key worlds were halted , and the Republic once again began to reassert itself as the dominant power in the galaxy . Key Sith figures . Darth Revan . A highly - gifted and charismatic Jedi Knight , Revan was sometimes considered one of the most powerful Force - users of his day . An enigmatic figure when it suited him to be so , he sought out the teachings of many contemporary Jedi Masters , including Zhar Lestin , Dorak , and the woman who would become known as Kreia . When the Mandalorians began their Neo - Crusade , Revan made it his business to monitor the events unfolding on the edge of the Outer Rim , eventually earning the ire of the Jedi Council for his willingness to investigate on his own . Even before the Mandalorians directly attacked the Republic , he was urging the Jedi to intervene , however it would not be until war was declared that his message gained notoriety . Known as " the Revanchist " , he gathered followers to him and set off to war ; soon after becoming involved , the tide of the conflict changed , with the Republic beginning to halt the advance of the Mandalorians and , eventually , pushing them back . By the end of the war that followed , having embraced the dark side in order , as believed by some , to prevent a greater evil from conquering the galaxy , the newly - crowned Dark Lord of the Sith launched upon his campaign of conversion that incorporated his incredible abilities as a tactician and strategist . Aside from engaging in open warfare that , for reasons unknown to everyone else , attempted to preserve both military and civilian infrastructure whenever possible , the Sith Lord engaged in political assassination . His assassins and assassin droids targeted politicians that he saw as destabilizing influences on the Republic , some of the more powerful of which he confronted and killed himself . After the trap which nearly killed him , Revan ' s memories of being a Sith Lord were scrubbed from his mind as he was being healed at the Dantooine academy ; the result of which was a man who believed himself to be a loyal agent of the Republic . Over the course of the next year , however , Revan began to regain fragments of his lost memory and identity , fragments which aided the search for the Star Forge . After a confrontation with his old apprentice , in which he was informed of his true name and nature , Revan nonetheless chose to remain on the path of the light . His part in ending the Jedi Civil War , both in defeating Malak and redeeming the fallen Shan , secured his redemption . When his full memories returned , however , Revan departed known space for reasons that he would not disclose , apparently never to be seen again . Darth Malak . Formerly known as the Jedi Knight Alek , Darth Malak apprenticed himself to his old friend Revan not long before the pair began their campaign to enlist Jedi into fighting the Mandalorians on the Outer Rim . Though a powerful Jedi in his own right , he did not have the same skill in strategy or tactics , as well as the wisdom or charisma of his counterpart . Nonetheless , during the Mandalorian Wars he was as crucial to the success of the Jedi involvement as many others , and when Revan fell to the dark side , he was one of the first to join him on that path , diving headfirst into the teachings of the Sith . By the Jedi Civil War Malak was as ruthless and brutal as his Master , if not more so , and nursed an ambition to eventually supplant his mentor and friend as Dark Lord , an ambition he acted upon even as the Jedi attempted to capture Revan . Malak ordered his ship to fire on the bridge of the flagship , killing everyone there save for Bastila Shan and , barely , Revan . With the title of Dark Lord of the Sith his at last , Malak continued to prosecute the war his mentor had started , though without the latter ' s abilities as a commander and war leader . While Revan preferred subtlety , cunning , and the use of appropriate force to win his victories , Malak resorted to simple brute force , a strategic and tactical shift made possible by the increasing productivity of the Star Forge . Even as he spurred his armies on to commit greater atrocities , Malak soon became obsessed with finding and , preferably , capturing Bastila Shan , whose battle meditation had thus far been one of the few bright spots for the Republic during the war . Eventually getting his wish in the end of the battle that saw the death of Saul Karath , his foremost admiral , Malak took the captured Shan to Lehon where , using a combination of torture and seductive teachings , bound her to him as his apprentice . Not long after , however , the redeemed Revan arrived on that world , bringing along with him the Republic fleet . In the massive battle that resulted , Shan was redeemed and Malak , confronted by his former Master , was slain in an epic duel . Saul Karath . A decorated officer of the Republic Fleet prior to the start of the Mandalorian Wars , Admiral Saul Karath was one of the first senior commanders to confront the Mandalorians in open warfare , at the Battle of Serroco that saw the massed Republic fleet overwhelmed and the planet ' s famed Stereb cities turned into radiation - filled craters . When the Jedi Knights Revan and Malak , along with their followers , joined the war effort , Karath eventually became one of their subordinates . Serving throughout the rest of the war , the admiral lent his considerable talents to battling and eventually defeating the Mandalorians . When his superiors fell to the dark side after the conflict ' s conclusion at Malachor V , and later when they began to reorganize the Republic forces under their command into their Sith Empire , Karath joined them , eventually becoming the supreme commander of the Sith fleet . As a final test of his pledge of loyalty to the Sith , Karath was ordered by Malak to take his fleet to Telos IV and demand its surrender and , if he was rebuffed , to destroy the planet utterly . Such was the case and , following his orders , Karath and his fleet bombarded the planet ceaselessly until it had been turned into a scarred and scourged rock coated in an acidic , toxic atmosphere . His worth proven to those with whom he would join , Karath soon became , in the words of his former protégé , " half the reason the Sith have done so well in the war . " Some time later , he was tasked by Malak with the destruction of the Outer Rim world of Taris in an unsuccessful bid to prevent the escape of Bastila Shan from the planet . He eventually met his end after capturing the " Ebon Hawk " , the transport used by Revan and his party while seeking the location of the Star Forge ; confronted on the bridge of his flagship by Revan , Shan and Carth Onasi , he revealed the identity of Revan to the latter just before dying . Key Republic figures . Bastila Shan . An apprentice during the outbreak of the Mandalorian Wars , Bastila Shan was still in training at the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine when Revan and Malak went off to war , her skills in battle meditation not having been revealed . As she matured within the Force , she maintained faith in the choice of the Jedi Council to not get involved in the conflict . By the time of the outbreak of the Jedi Civil War , however , she had attained the rank of Knight , becoming more and more skilled with the art of battle meditation . During this time she began to actively participate in the Republic ' s struggle against their former allies and comrades , using her talents to stave off the Sith just enough to ensure they did not achieve total dominance . As the situation became dire , she was tapped to lead a small Jedi strike team on a mission to infiltrate the flagship of Revan , even as a small force of Republic capital ships drew the Sith into battle . Despite the betrayal of Darth Malak , Shan was able to use the Force to preserve the flicker of life within Revan , taking his comatose form from the heavily - damaged warship and fleeing to Dantooine . The bond created by this act allowed Shan to perceive the thoughts and feelings of the reprogrammed Revan , thus she was assigned to accompany him during the later quest to track down the Star Forge . She was captured , however , during the otherwise successful attempt by the crew of the " Ebon Hawk " to escape the Sith Interdictor ship " Leviathan " , the flagship of Admiral Karath . Seduced to the dark side over a period of one week , she became the apprentice to Darth Malak , who wished to graft her battle meditation to the endless fleets brought forth by the Star Forge . She confronted Revan twice after this , once at the Temple of the Ancients on Lehon itself , and again on the Star Forge ; Revan , however , was able to draw upon their Force - bond and the love they held for each other to bring her back to the light . As an act of redemption , Shan focused her battle meditation once again , this time to enable the outnumbered Republic fleet to achieve its objectives — the destruction of the Star Forge . In the aftermath of the war , however , she began to realize that Revan had remembered something from his time as the Dark Lord , the bond between them allowing her to catch glimpses of what he recalled . Shortly before his departure into the Unknown Regions , Shan , concerned that Revan may not return , implored the astromech droid T3 - M4 to find someone capable of helping him , which the droid did , in the form of the Jedi Exile . Carth Onasi . A native of Telos IV , Carth Onasi was serving in the Republic Navy when the Mandalorian Wars erupted , earning the rank of lieutenant in the wake of the Battle of Serroco . A protégé of Admiral Karath , he fought with distinction during the conflict , earning many decorations throughout the course of the war . One of the few soldiers who remained loyal to the Republic after Malachor V , Onasi was shocked when Karath proposed that he " think about his own survival , " though he did not immediately realize that his mentor was trying to recruit him into the Sith . Onasi took this betrayal hard , but what happened during the Battle of Foreost , and particularly the bombing of his homeworld that saw the death of his wife , Morgana and the disappearance of his son , Dustil , inspired a very strong desire for vengeance against Revan ' s Sith , and Karath in particular , within him . Stationed aboard the " Endar Spire " with Shan and , unknown to him , Revan , Onasi , now a commander , eventually ended up on Taris after the warship was destroyed . After escaping that world , he and the rest of those aboard the " Ebon Hawk " fled to Dantooine , where in time he would be sent along with Revan , Shan , and the others to seek out the location of the Star Forge . Serving as the freighter ' s pilot , he also participated in the successful escape of the ship and crew from his former mentor ' s vessel after having gotten the chance to face Karath in battle . Though the revelation that the one with whom he traveled was in fact Revan disturbed him , it nonetheless did not dispel his belief in the mission or of Revan ' s intentions . It was Shan who sent out the call for Republic reinforcements in the Lehon system to destroy the Star Forge , and it was he who advised Forn Dodonna and Vandar Tokare as to the situation in the unfolding battle . Following the war ' s conclusion , he was promoted to the rank of admiral and , acting on orders from Revan before the latter ' s departure from known space , took charge of the Republic ' s recovery efforts . Five years later , he participated in the Battle of Telos IV , as the commander of the reinforcement fleet dispatched to thwart Darth Nihilus ' s attack on Citadel Station . Vandar Tokare . A respected Jedi Master who was seated both on the Dantooine Enclave Council and the Jedi High Council , Vandar Tokare was one of the foremost leaders of the Jedi Order at the time of the Mandalorian Wars . Like the large majority of the rest of the contemporary Masters , he advised caution while appraising the threat that the Mandalorians posed to the Republic . Either unable or unwilling to reveal his and the rest of the Council ' s fears about the unfolding war or their plans for intervention in the conflict he , like the rest of the Jedi Council , did not support Revan and his followers ' desire to enter the war on behalf of the Republic . During the Jedi Civil War that followed , Tokare oversaw the Jedi Order ' s attempts to aid the struggling Republic against the Sith under Revan and Malak . Giving his approval to the attempt to capture Revan , he also presided over the Council ' s decision to use the memories of the comatose Revan against the Sith . Later , when Revan , unaware of who he was , was brought before the Dantooine Council by Bastila Shan , Tokare kept the other Masters present , Dorak , Vrook Lamar , and Zhar Lestin , in check lest they accidentally let slip certain information ; at the time Revan was , in fact , the only one present who did not know the true extent of what the Council had done . Tokare concluded for the Council present that Revan was to be retrained as a Jedi , and it was also he who set the crew of the " Ebon Hawk " out into the galaxy in order to track down the Star Forge . Escaping along with the other Masters the attack launched on Dantooine by Darth Malak , he returned to command the Jedi contingent that participated in the Battle of Rakata Prime . Around five years later , he would perish along with many other Jedi at the Conclave on Katarr , when Darth Nihilus used his power to destroy all life on the planet in order to feed his hunger . Behind the scenes . According to Chris Avellone , the retroactively applied name " Jedi Civil War " came from Obsidian Entertainment , and it was approved by LucasArts and Lucasfilm on the first pass , citing that the war was fought primarily between the Republic and a Sith Empire that was , at its core , made up of forces formerly of the Republic . Additionally , it could be seen as another galactic civil war in which Jedi , both light and dark , played vital roles on both sides . According to the reference article " The History of the Mandalorians " , written by Abel G . Peña and appearing in " Star Wars Insider 80 " , the Jedi Civil War was known to the Mandalorians as the " War of the Star Forge " . Many of the details of the latter part of the Jedi Civil War are determined by player choices within the video game " " . Even though the player can seek out the Star Maps in any order they like , journeying from planet to planet at will , it is assumed for sake of clarity that the party visited Tatooine , Kashyyyk , Manaan , and Korriban , in that order , before journeying to Lehon . While the canon version of the story features a redeemed Revan who becomes the savior of the galaxy , there is also an alternate , dark - side ending in which Revan can choose to reclaim the title of Dark Lord of the Sith after slaying Malak . Drew Karpyshyn , in his article " Heritage of the Sith " which appeared in " Star Wars Insider 88 " , stated that " Revan and Malak began a 20 - year campaign to end the ' tyranny ' of the Jedi Council once and for all . " Though Karpyshyn was in fact the lead writer working for BioWare on the story for " Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic " , this account does not seem to mesh with the timeline given in the game ' s sequel , as well as the " " series of comic books , published by Dark Horse Comics . Information presented in " " also suggests that this could either be an error on Karpyshyn ' s part , or that the " Heritage " article was written from an IU perspective , taken from the point of view of the Sith themselves .