Szajin Szajin was a Hutt leader who held the title of Archon during the Hutt Cartel ' s occupation of Makeb in 3639 BBY . Biography . The title of Archon dated back to the ancient Hutt Empire - part judge , part cultist , sworn to uphold ancient Hutt traditions and defend their empire against any threat . Though the title faded with the fall of the Hutt Empire , Szajin brought back the title when Toborro led the Hutt Cartel in its conquest of Makeb , serving as a secret advisor to the Cartel leadership . He sought to restore the greatness of the Hutt Empire , making the Hutts a proud race in the galaxy once again . Makeb and its supply of the rare substance isotope - 5 would give the Hutts a tremendous source of power , one that could rival both the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . At some point , Szajin told fellow Hutts Khobisho , Prodoranya , and Manju to stay at Solida Hesk ' s palace , where it would be safe . While the Republic forces battled against Toborro and began evacuating the planet , the Empire contended with the Archon in a shadow war as they sought to claim the power of isotope - 5 for themselves , in order to stave off the Empire ' s impending collapse during its Galactic War with the Republic . An Imperial strike team stormed Stronghold One in an effort to seize the Hutts ' stockpile of isotope - 5 , only to discover that Szajin had used all but one sample to create an army of war droids . The strike team managed to escape the fortress with their lives , burying the droids in lava . Szajin later became suspicious when the Imperials invaded the abandoned mining mesa where isotope - 5 was first discovered and dispatched an Regulators squad to capture or kill any Imperial they find . When the squad failed to return , Szajin presumed that the Imperials were desperately attempting to mine what isotope - 5 they could before Makeb ' s imminent destruction and dispatched Phobium Squad to round up Makebian engineers skilled in the use of the deep - core laser drills . This prompted the Imperials to rescue the engineers and recruit them to operate the mining lasers to stabilize the core before it ripped the planet apart . However , Szajin eventually learned the Empire ' s true plan when he captured Katha Niar , a former Ministry of Logistics bureaucrat running the support team for the strike force , and tortured her . Laying siege to the Archon ' s palace , using its own defense turrets to bring down its shields , the Imperial strike force entered the Archon ' s throne room and confronted him while he was in conference with Regulator commanders . The Archon mounted a massive battlemech , fueled by isotope - 5 and armed with missiles and a powerful laser beam , to engage his opponents . The Imperial forces managed to defeat the machine , leaving the Archon at their mercy . Despite this , Szajin boasted that the secret would soon be out that the Empire had prevented Makeb ' s destruction , and that once the atmospheric interference had cleared , he would inform the Cartel fleet . The Imperial forces , however , chose to put an end to such issues by retargeting the laser drills to cause groundquakes at all the mercenary bases , causing the mesas to collapse and drowning the mercenary bases in magma . With the secret safe , the Imperials then killed the Archon . Behind the scenes . The outcome of the battle with the Archon in the final Imperial mission , " Revenge of the Archon " , is determined by the player ' s conversation choices . Destroying the mercenary bases is the dark side option , and automatically ends with the player slaying the Archon . The light side choices are to negotiate with the mercenary forces , allowing them to leave Makeb if they told no one of the Empire ' s presence ; once that is done , all that remains is the Archon ' s fate . The light side option is to have the mercenaries take the Archon into custody for imprisonment on Dromund Kaas ; the dark side option is to kill him .