Darth Bandon Darth Bandon was a Human male Jedi Padawan who defected to the Sith Empire during the Jedi Civil War , a conflict initiated by the Sith Lords Darth Revan and Darth Malak . Sometime after Malak betrayed his Master , Revan , during an ambush by the Jedi and Republic forces attempting to capture them , Bandon became the new Dark Lord ' s first Shadow Hand , elevating him to second - in - command of the Sith Empire . When the Sith attacked the Republic warship " Endar Spire " above the planet Taris , Bandon boarded the ship along with the Sith trooper s and Dark Jedi under his command and tried to capture the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan . He killed the Republic ensign Trask Ulgo , who sacrificed himself to save the former Sith Lord Revan , who had been mentally reprogrammed to be loyal to the Republic and to serve as a common soldier by the Jedi Council . Shortly after the destruction of Taris , the bounty hunter Calo Nord was hired by Malak to follow in pursuit of Shan , who escaped the bombardment with the help of Revan and his companions . After Nord was slain by Revan , Malak dispatched Bandon to find and capture the Jedi . Bandon located Revan in Manaan ' s underwater kolto harvesting base known as Hrakert Station , on the Selkath homeworld Manaan . The Sith apprentice confronted Revan and his allies after they found a fourth Star Map that would give them the location of the Star Forge — the ancient Rakata n space station under Malak ' s control . Bandon underestimated the former Dark Lord and his companions , assuming that they would be no match for him . This proved to be his downfall , as Revan and his team vanquished Malak ' s Shadow Hand , along with the two Dark Jedi accompanying him . After his death , Bandon ' s head was severed from his body and preserved by the Sith . Three hundred years later , it had eventually been put on display in the House Alde Royal Museum on Alderaan . Biography . Early life . The Human male who would be known as Darth Bandon was a Jedi Padawan , though he never fully accepted the teachings of the Jedi Code . Even though the Force flowed through him , Bandon ' s powerful emotions , such as anger and hatred , raged within and fueled his strength . His Jedi Master tried to curb these strong emotions , but the brash Padawan chafed under his Master ' s guidance . In the year 3959 BBY , the former Jedi Knights Revan and Malak , the heroes of the Mandalorian Wars , found the ancient space station known as the Star Forge — a relic of the Rakata n Infinite Empire that had ruled the galaxy nearly 20 , 000 years before — and named themselves the new Dark Lords of the Sith . Revan and Malak declared war on the Jedi Council and the Galactic Republic , initiating the Jedi Civil War . Bandon rejected his old Master and the Jedi Order , fleeing to the revitalized academy on the ancient Sith homeworld of Korriban . Jedi Civil War . As a student in the new Korriban academy , Bandon fully embraced the teachings of the dark side and the Sith Code . This — along with Bandon ' s strength with the Force , his natural cruelty , and his utter ruthlessness in his quest for power — soon set Bandon apart from his fellow students and brought the attention of Darth Malak , Revan ' s Sith apprentice . Bandon eventually won Malak ' s admiration . Two years into the Jedi Civil War , the Jedi and Republic forces set a trap for Revan and Malak in an attempt to capture both Sith Lords . During the battle , Malak betrayed his Sith Master by ordering his flagship " Leviathan " to open fire on Revan ' s vessel . After Malak thought he successfully eliminated Revan , he seized his former Master ' s mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith . In the tradition of the Sith Order , Malak sought a single learner among his followers to become his official apprentice , someone that could learn the Sith secrets and use them to effectively destroy the Jedi and the Republic . Malak took the promising Bandon as his Shadow Hand , which made him second only to his Master in the Sith Empire . The Dark Lord taught much of his knowledge of the Sith to Bandon . Malak was not disappointed with his choice of taking Bandon as his apprentice , because Bandon killed many Jedi during the war . In a short time , rumors began to surface that Bandon would challenge Malak for the right to rule the Sith ; Bandon eventually began to set his sights on his Sith Master ' s throne . Raiding the " Endar Spire " . In the year 3956 BBY , Darth Malak was searching for a Jedi Knight named Bastila Shan , fearing her strength in Battle meditation , a Force power that boosted the Republic forces ' morale during battle while sapping the Sith ' s will to fight . When Malak learned of Shan ' s location aboard the Republic warship " Endar Spire " , he sent a Sith battle fleet to ambush the ship . Above the planet Taris , Bandon led the boarding party that stormed the " Endar Spire " , in an attempt to capture or kill Shan . An amnesiac Revan — who had been rescued by Shan after Malak betrayed him and later mind - wiped by the Jedi Council — was placed under Shan ' s command as a common Republic soldier . Bandon confronted Revan and the Republic ensign Trask Ulgo during their attempt to reach the ship ' s escape pods , also hoping to ensure that Shan fled the ship alive . Bandon was given a chance to kill both Republic soldiers . However , before he could do so , Ulgo made a desperate charge , sacrificing himself so that Revan could get to the escape pods and flee the ship with the Republic commander Carth Onasi . After Bandon killed Ulgo , he departed the " Endar Spire " before Sith interceptors destroyed the ship . Shan had successfully fled the ship aboard one of the escape pods and crash - landed on Taris . Revan and Onasi also crashed onto the Tarisian surface . In response , Malak captured Taris and ordered a blockade of the planet so that the Sith could search for Bastila Shan . Search for Bastila Shan and downfall . After Malak ordered the destruction of Taris in an attempt to kill Bastila Shan , Malak was informed by the bounty hunter Calo Nord , who survived Taris ' destruction , that Shan had successfully escaped Taris ; although , Nord was unaware that it was Revan , Malak ' s former Master , who assisted in her escape . Malak hired the bounty hunter to find and capture Shan , however , Nord was killed by Revan during the Jedi ' s search for the Star Forge . The Sith Admiral Saul Karath informed Malak of Nord ' s failure on Malak ' s flagship " Leviathan " , and asked if he should hire another bounty hunter to send after Shan . The Dark Lord determined , however , that no mere bounty hunter could stand against a Jedi . Bandon was summoned to the ship ' s bridge immediately ; when Bandon arrived on the bridge , he killed a Sith trooper that walked in his way . Malak sent Bandon after Revan , Shan , and their companions , and Malak ordered his apprentice to bring Shan to him alive , if possible . Bandon located Revan at the Republic ' s kolto harvesting base known as Hrakert Station , which was named for the Hrakert Rift in which the base was located , on the Selkath homeworld Manaan . The Shadow Hand confronted Revan and his allies in the station after Revan located a fourth Rakatan Star Map , which was necessary to learn the location the Star Forge . Accompanied by two Dark Jedi , he presumed that Revan and his team would be no match for him . He expressed his fear that someone else had killed Revan , thereby depriving him the " pleasure " of slaying Revan . When Bandon was asked by Revan how he managed to make it to Hrakert Station , the Sith Lord replied he acquired an underwater vessel and used the same route that Darth Revan and Darth Malak used underwater , leading him to the station . Bandon also told Revan that he was no match for the Sith apprentice , although Revan had defeated Calo Nord , whom Bandon thought was pathetic . Revan recognized Bandon , stating that he would pay for killing Trask Ulgo . The Sith Lord told Revan that his words meant nothing to him , unless he wished to beg for his life , and added that he would try to make Revan ' s death both quick and painful . Bandon and his Dark Jedi then engaged Revan and his companions in a duel . Despite Bandon ' s skill , he and the two Dark Jedi assisting him were killed by Revan and his allies . Legacy . After Bandon fell in battle and Revan ' s party left the scene , his remains were retrieved by a group of Sith acolytes who preserved his head through Sith alchemy . Some time after Malak ' s death and the Sith Empire ' s collapse , the acolytes found themselves lacking leadership , and began to believe they could use the preserved head to communicate with Bandon ' s spirit . The acolytes eventually embarked on a misguided attempt to reattach the head to a new body , attracting the attention of the Jedi , who put an end to this cult . However , no trace of the head was found . Somehow the head ended up in the possession of Risha Drayen during the Cold War , and she used it during her quest to locate the treasure of her father , Nok Drayen . Peema Ahuff , curator of the House Alde Royal Museum , wished to acquire the head and place it on display to honor Alderaanian hero Trask Ulgo , who died in combat against the Sith Lord . Ahuff was was willing to trade a hyperdrive engine for it , which Risha and her smuggler cohort needed , so the smuggler went to make the trade and learned that the gangster Skavak had traded a fake head and absconded with the hyperdrive . The smuggler pursued Skavak ' s agents and retrieved the hyperdrive , then gave the real head to the museum , where it was put on display . At some point after Bandon ' s death , his double - bladed lightsaber also came into the possession of the resurgent Sith Empire , and was available for purchase by a well - trained Force - sensitive agent . Bandon ' s role in the Jedi Civil War was remembered for millennia to come , though not always with perfect accuracy . According to an entry on the Jedi Civil War from the Twi ' lek Jedi Deesra Luur Jada ' s holocron , when Revan and Bastila Shan were captured by the " Leviathan " , Bandon was killed after Revan managed to escape . In 40 ABY , the investigatory agent Gannod Chant , who worked for the Council on Security and Intelligence , translated a manuscript written by suspected Sith sympathizer Ingo Wavlud . Wavlud ' s manuscript , however , stated that Bandon died in the year 3951 BBY along with Darth Traya , Darth Sion , and Darth Nihilus . Personality and traits . During his time as a Sith , the Human male known as Darth Bandon was known for his ruthless behavior . He was willing to take the lives of people and damage equipment to enforce his position , even for a perceived transgression as minor as walking in his way . He was also focused on the destruction of the Republic , and the slaughter and extinction of the Jedi Order . Bandon thought that his skills were more than adequate to defeat Revan and his companions , telling the former Dark Lord that he was no match for him . Some in the Sith hierarchy felt that Bandon would eventually rise to challenge Malak for his mantle of Dark Lord , because of the Sith belief that the strongest must rule ; and , it was also believed , that when the apprentice surpassed in ability the Master , the Master must fall . As time went by , Bandon grew arrogant , and he began plotting to overthrow Malak . Powers and abilities . Darth Bandon spoke and comprehended Basic and Sith . Bandon was proficient in the use of his double - bladed lightsaber , killing many of his former Jedi brethren . He also displayed his proficiency in using a single lightsaber when he dueled the Cathar Jedi Juhani . Before Bandon fought Revan , he had yet to meet his equal in combat . Because of his strength in the Force , Bandon was capable of using many Force powers . He could use the Force to push his opponents to the ground and could use it to alter the air currents around his opponent , turning it into a maelstrom . This swirling vortex of Force energy would lift an opponent into the air , spin them around , and completely immobilize them . Bandon was also able to use the Force to render himself virtually invulnerable to most offensive Force powers for a limited time , demonstrating this against Revan . Bandon ' s strength with the dark side of the Force enabled him to use dark - sided powers such as Force lightning , and he also used the dark side to tap into his rage and direct it against his opponents . He could use the Force to instill fear in his opponents , driving them temporarily insane . Bandon was capable of using the dark side to drain his enemies ' life - forces , and to strangle his opponents . He could also use it to debilitate his victims , having it work as a fast - acting toxin . After Bandon joined the Sith ranks , he constructed a double - bladed lightsaber containing a red crystal . His lightsaber resembled the one used by the Sith Lord Exar Kun , who initiated the Great Sith War forty years before the end of the Jedi Civil War . Bandon also wore a customized set of light fiber armor which he fitted to his robes . Behind the scenes . Darth Bandon was created by the developers at BioWare as a villain for the 2003 Xbox and PC video game " " . He was voiced by Neil Kaplan . Bandon ' s name was derived from the word " abandon . " In the article " " The 100 Greatest Things About Star Wars . . . Ever ! " " , which was published in " Star Wars Insider 100 " , Bandon came in the twenty - second place , beating his Sith Master Darth Malak , who came in at twenty - third place . A picture of Darth Bandon in the " Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide " depicts him dueling the female Cathar Jedi Juhani . When Abel G . Peña , who was one of the authors of the campaign guide , was asked on his official thread on the StarWars . com Message Boards whether or not Juhani was present when Darth Bandon confronted Revan , Peña stated that it was " up in the air for the moment " . Darth Bandon was featured as a miniature in the " Jedi Academy " wave of " Star Wars Miniatures " , released on June 30 , 2009 . However , his figure was listed as " Sith Apprentice " . Bandon received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " . Darth Bandon is referred to as a Sith Lord in the section detailing the Sith Order in the " Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide " . However , both his entries in the campaign guide and the Databank refer to him as a Sith apprentice . The guide " " states that Revan killed Darth Bandon after escaping the " Leviathan " . However , Bandon was defeated by Revan after he found the fourth Star Map , shortly before Revan and the crew of the " Ebon Hawk " were captured by the " Leviathan " . The guide also states that Bandon died in the year 3951 BBY , along with Darth Traya , Darth Sion , and Darth Nihilus . However , Bandon was killed by Revan five years before in 3956 BBY . The planet on which Revan battles Bandon is determined by the order in which the Star Maps , which lead to the location of the Star Forge , are obtained . Bandon appears on the planet where the fourth Star Map of the journey is found . If Revan has already found three Star Maps , and for any reason returns to the site of one of the previous ones , Bandon will confront Revan . Bandon is accompanied by two hooded Dark Jedi on Manaan or the desert world Tatooine . If Revan encountered Bandon on the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk , he is accompanied by two Dark Jedi wearing armor . On Korriban , Bandon is accompanied by two students from the Sith Academy , the place where he was trained .