Jolee Bindo Jolee Bindo was a male Human Jedi who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the Great Sith War . Having participated in several Rimward missions , Bindo fought against Exar Kun , and went into self - imposed exile on Kashyyyk soon afterwards . Near the close of the Jedi Civil War , he joined Revan against Darth Malak and the Sith Empire . Biography . Life as a Padawan . A Force - sensitive Human , Jolee Bindo was inducted into the Jedi Order and trained in the ways of the Force at the Coruscant Jedi Temple . During his days as a Padawan , Bindo was considered brash and reckless , often defying the will of the Jedi High Council in order to do what he felt was right , as exemplified by his actions during the blockade of the Ukatis system . Cut off from the rest of the galaxy by its own king , the Ukatis system was unable to receive food and supplies , and no help from the Senate was forthcoming . Bindo decided to help the people himself . He acquired a ship and was joined by a friend . Together they stole from the rich , considering it a " tax on the greedy , " and ran the supplies through the blockade to the planet . Eventually , his craft was shot down on the planet by none other than his future wife , Nayama , and the two were married , although marriage was frowned upon by many Jedi of the time . He discovered her to be strong in the Force , and he took to training her personally despite the advice of the High Council and his Padawan status . During the war with Exar Kun , his wife , like many other Jedi , fell to the dark side . She attempted to turn Bindo , who resisted , culminating in a vicious lightsaber duel which brought her to her knees . Unable to kill his own wife , Bindo let her go ; this would ultimately lead to the deaths of many Jedi at her hands before she was finally struck down in battle . A sensitive topic for Bindo , the Jedi believed that he was unlucky in his life and just had , " So many bad memories , some you never want to think about ever again . " In fact , it took much prodding and questioning by Revan to extract any information about his wife at all , much less the entire story . The Council did not punish Bindo for his actions , though , stating he had learned his lesson the hard way . When instead they wished to promote him to the status of Jedi Knight , Bindo lost faith in the wisdom of the Council , and went into self - exile , giving up his aspirations to be a Jedi Consular . Exile on Kashyyyk . After spending a year in the home of his good friend Sunry , Bindo took to wandering the stars . He drifted for years , keeping employed when necessary . For a time he even took up smuggling , and he was not above using a Jedi mind trick to get past customs . Eventually he crashed on Kashyyyk , and explored the Shadowlands for the next twenty years . At first , the Wookiees believed him to be a benevolent forest spirit , calling him " the hairless one " , and so left gifts and fruits outside of his dwelling , until the old hermit explained the truth to them , albeit with some embarrassment , as he was knocked out cold by Freyyr , who wanted to see if the spirit was solid . Still , Bindo remained a friend of the Wookiees , helping them protect the Shadowlands and its wildlife from poachers . He often wandered through the forest , ready to defend himself from predators , sentient or not , with his lightsaber . Late during his wandering , he discovered an ancient computer guarding a Star Map , and ended up making 152 attempts to communicate with it ; however , the computer had been secretly reprogrammed by Revan , during his first trip to Kashyyyk with Darth Malak , to respond to nobody but himself . Journey and friendship with Revan . When Revan passed through the Shadowlands a second time , once more seeking Star Maps , he encountered Bindo who was fighting off a pack of Katarn s . Bindo attached himself to the party , partly out of boredom and partly to face his own past . He was one of the few members of the party to know Revan ' s true identity all along , although he decided it was not his place to say . As he traveled with Revan , he was often reminded of an old friend , Nomi Sunrider , whom he had known during his time as a Jedi . On Manaan , Jolee met his old friend Sunry when Sunry was awaiting trial for the murder of Elassa Huros . Although the ultimate outcome of the trial is not recorded , Jolee was greatly disturbed to learn that Sunry had committed the crime and was reluctant to accept Sunry ' s justification for the act . At one point , Revan questioned Bindo as to why the old man had accompanied him . Bindo responded by relating the story of a man who followed a snake , only to be bitten and killed by it . When questioned about his motives by the snake , the man replied that he had been leading the snake away from his village . Revan could only puzzle over what his role in relation to the story was . Bindo ' s professed neutrality , already belied by joining Revan , was rendered further questionable when Revan landed on Rakata Prime , the home planet of the Rakata . When the Rakatan priest caste allowed Revan into the Temple of the Ancients to disable the Star Forge ' s disruptor field , they insisted on him going into the temple alone . Bindo , however , persuaded the priests to allow him and fellow Jedi Juhani to strengthen Revan ' s resolve to not be seduced by the dark side again - this time by Bastila Shan . Bindo remained with Revan until the end , and along with Revan ' s other companions , was honored at the Republic ' s celebration of their victory over Darth Malak . Bindo dropped out of the public eye by the end of the Dark Wars , serving the High Council in an absentee role for several years before disappearing completely . Several articles of clothing believed to have once belonged to him were in circulation during Meetra Surik ' s journey to rebuild the Order . A holostatue of Bindo was erected in the Leisure Garden section of the Axial Park in the Coronet City on Corellia , along with the statues of Revan and his other companions . Personality and traits . Even during his days with the Order , Bindo allowed emotion to drive his actions , and thus walked a fine line between the light and dark sides of the Force , claiming that he saw " only in gray . " Despite his view , Bindo clearly believed that there was evil in the galaxy , as witnessed during the fall of his wife to the dark side as well as his experiences during his time in the Ukatis System . Likewise , Bindo ' s " gray " view didn ' t stop him from having a stable position against the Sith , and being a good man throughout his life . He appeared as a cantankerous old man who readily dismissed the galaxy and its troubles with an impatient wave of his hand . Bindo appeared to outsiders as a grumpy old man , directing his scorn at both the young and old alike , but his care and wisdom still shone through the many layers he draped around his heart . He insisted that all he wanted was peace , and yet he was drawn back to war when Revan arrived in the Shadowlands for a second time . Bindo sensed a powerful destiny ahead of Revan , though he insisted that he was simply along for the ride . Even when Shan insisted that Bindo was a Jedi and needed the Order ' s structure , he waved her off , saying he had done plenty well without it . Likewise , he cautioned Carth Onasi ' s insistence that the universe would be irreparably changed should Malak succeed in collapsing the Republic . " " Heroes and tyrants rise and fall , and historians sort out the pieces … don ' t go thinking that this war — your war — is any more important than any other war simply because you ' re in it . " " Jolee Bindo was prone to speaking in story and allegory , with a sense of humor that was wickedly sarcastic and more than a bit self - derisive . In addition to the snake story , he told the tale about a Jedi Master named Hortath ( or possibly Hartoth , according to Bindo ' s own memory ) , who was blind and refused to believe he was , who met a Padawan who asked him for directions , not knowing that Hortath was blind . He followed the master ' s incorrect direction unthinkingly , and a Council who may have covered up for the blind master out of their own blind adherence to rank . Even his tale about Andor Vex was a cautionary tale intended to get Revan looking at the potential for folly . Still , he never considered himself Revan ' s teacher in any form . " " Don ' t coddle me , child , I ' m neither a Jedi or your master . I ' m just an old man who ' s been lost in the woods for far too long . " " In his various conversations with Revan , Bindo appeared to stay on topic , at least for a little while , before ( seemingly ) randomly moving off into one of many various memories of someone he encountered or heard of as a Jedi Padawan in the Order , such as that of Hortath or Andor Vex ( above ) . When asked the moral or meaning of these stories , he usually gave an answer similar to , " " Someone my age is entitled to ramble , dammit ! " " Revan never really knew if there was a meaning to these stories , though they did keep him moderately entertained . Powers and abilities . Despite the fact that he followed the Jedi way and used the Force , Bindo did not consider himself part of the Order because of his history , or rather due to the fact that the Order had failed him . He never officially progressed beyond the rank of Padawan , although he explained to Revan once that he was to be knighted before he went into exile . His time in the Shadowlands only enhanced his survival skills . He had even learned to craft medicine from simple herbs , without any access to kolto or medical supplies . He could also speak Huttese . Physically , despite his age , Bindo ' s time living in the dangerous Shadowlands kept his body in shape and nimble and saw him into dangerous situations on a regular basis . Even though lightsaber combat was not his primary strength compared to his command of the Force , the very first time he talked to Revan , several katarn s had fallen to his lightsaber . In their travels , Bindo would display his signature talent for Jedi Mind tricks , something he thought could serve them well when Admiral Saul Karath ambushed them , if he was going to be their " Leviathan " prison break agent . He possessed a unique personality that allowed him to command the Force through both its light and dark sides . Lack of records have made it impossible to know the specific extent of Bindo ' s powers , but he could have potentially mastered dark arts such as Force lightning as easily as any other power , which would have been nearly unthinkable for most light - sided Jedi of the time . It was possible that his philosophy on controlling his emotions — neither blocking them nor allowing them to control him — allowed him to draw on the Force as he did without fearing corruption from the dark side . Behind the scenes . Jolee Bindo is a playable character in the computer and video games " " . He was voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson . His Databank entry claims that : " Though a useful ally , Jolee is not crucial to the completion of the KOTOR storyline . " This is contradictory because Revan actually needs Bindo to get past a Czerka force field that stands in his way to one of the Star Map s as he is the only one who could get past that force field and he is an obligate party member in the Temple of the Ancients . Also , the face - off with Bastila Shan on the Temple is a re - run of Bindo ' s with Nayama , of which Revan learns during their journeys ; there is little margin for error that Revan ' s final choice of allegiance and final confrontation with Bastila were meant to be influenced by Bindo ' s experience . Despite his issues with the Order , when he was called to make a choice , Bindo proclaimed his standing with the Jedi ; he did so with Sunry , and would with Revan if he chose to reclaim the mantle of Dark Lord . His tendency to follow the light side is also matched by a Force alignment score of 55 . Promotional pictures depict Bindo wielding a blue - bladed lightsaber instead of the green one he wields in - game , which is the signature color for his Jedi Consular class . Game files indicate that , like Bastila Shan and Juhani , Bindo too was meant to have his own special ability , namely Psychic Static , an advanced Mind trick variant . In " " , there are two items that might have belonged to Bindo : Bindo ' s band and Jolee ' s robe . In the same game , Brianna asks the Jedi Exile about how love conflicts with the Jedi Code , saying that either the lovers would be removed from the order or must maintain a secret love . The Exile responds by calling it " Pulling a Bindo . " This is a reference to Bindo when he married secretly . In the non - canonical dark side story , Revan embraced the dark side at the Temple of the Ancients summit on the Rakata n home world . He reclaimed his title of Darth Revan , Dark Lord of the Sith and accepted Bastila Shan as his apprentice . Jolee Bindo and Juhani tried to prevent this but they were struck down by Darth Revan and his new apprentice .