Battle of Malachor V The Battle of Malachor V , also called Ani ' la Akaan — the " Great Last Battle " — in Mando ' a , was the final cataclysmic battle of the Mandalorian Wars . It transformed the planet Malachor V into a " graveyard world " after Revan sacrificed a significant portion of his own forces to obliterate the Mandalorian Neo - Crusaders . History . Preparations . In the year 3960 BBY , Revan forced a final confrontation with the Mandalorians above Malachor V . He deployed a massive Republic fleet to the planet consisting mostly of those whose loyalties to himself remained in doubt . In utter secrecy , he had prepared a superweapon , known as the " Mass Shadow Generator , " which had been designed by the Zabrak engineer Bao - Dur . The weapon was the centerpiece of a trap with which he hoped to bring about a conclusive end to the destructive conflict . Commanding the fleet and overseeing the device ' s use was a capable and jaded Jedi General , Meetra Surik ( later known as the Jedi Exile ) who had taken part in the recent bloody campaign on Dxun . Revan lured the Mandalorians to Malachor V and a massive fleet battle ensued in orbit . Battle is joined . Revan himself was delayed outside the system by a Mandalorian scouting party . He eventually arrived at Malachor and entered the fray , but he was late and the Mandalorian Fleet was far from defeated . Soon thereafter , he was able to draw Mandalore into a direct confrontation and strike the great Mandalorian leader down in single combat . Meanwhile , more and more of the Revanchist Jedi fighting in orbit became affected by the dark power emanating from the planet below . Their resistance was worn down by years of bloody warfare and they were thus drawn to the dark side . With renewed vigor , Revan ' s forces pressed the attack . They soon achieved a stalemate and then slowly began to push the Mandalorian fleet back towards Malachor V . Conclusion . Finally , as the fighting grew intense , Meetra Surik observed that the Mandalorians had taken the bait and that her trap was set to spring . With a nod of her head , she commanded Bao - Dur to activate the secret weapon . Moments later , she watched in horror as a significant portion of both fleets were suddenly drawn from orbit into a vast gravity vortex that was powerful enough to crush the countless ships into the planet ' s crust and fracture the world to its very core . Few ships from either fleet survived the battle of Malachor V unscathed , but the Mandalorians sustained the worst damage and the highest casualties . In the wake of their fleet ' s almost complete annihilation by the Mass Shadow Generator , the Mandalorian survivors rapidly transmitted their unconditional surrender , thus ending the Mandalorian Wars . Aftermath . Once an agricultural world , Malachor V was fractured by the Mass Shadow Generator and tranformed into a cluster of planetoids that were only tenuously fused together by the gravitational anomalies present in the Malachor system . The broken remains of the planet were orbited by the drifting wreckage of countless Mandalorian and Republic warships . Littered with destroyed vessels from the battle , the surface below became a barren graveyard echoing with the deaths of thousands of Jedi , Republic soldiers , and Mandalorians . Thereafter , it was constantly assaulted by tectonically - generated storms that were capable of pulling ships from orbit . Revan disarmed and disbanded the Mandalorian clans following the battle , allowing them to scatter across the Outer Rim . There , devoid of leadership and honor , they degenerated . A few Mandalorian survivors returned to the Mandalore system , but many , including Canderous Ordo , humbled their pride and became mercenaries for hire . Other groups became outright bandits in a futile effort to relive their glory days . After slaying Mandalore the Ultimate and winning the war with a sweeping victory at Malachor V , Revan and Malak were hailed as heroes and saviors of the Republic . Soon after the battle , they led the remainder of their forces into the Unknown Regions under the pretense of tracking down the remaining remnants of the Mandalorian fleet , but they did not return and they sent no word of their whereabouts . In time , the Republic feared them lost in some tragic disaster , but in reality , they were amassing their forces to prepare for a conquest of the Republic . Meetra Surik , the Jedi General who had brought the war to its cataclysmic conclusion proved incapable of withstanding the psychic backlash of the destructive energies that she had unleashed . The concentrated deaths of so many Jedi , Mandalorians , and Republic soldiers all at once created a immense Wound in the Force . The only way for her to endure it was to unconsciously deafen herself to the Force . Thereafter she was deafened to its call ; incapable of sensing it through the interference caused by the echoes of the suffering that she had witnessed . Behind the scenes . The battle is described in the video game " " , its , the historical article " Chronicles of the Old Republic " , and the " Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide " , but the various descriptions contain a number of notable discrepancies . In the first game in the KotOR series , Canderous Ordo states that Revan alone was responsible for winning the battle , but in the second game , he remarks that it was Meetra Surik who defeated his people . The sequel also makes it clear , via Bao - Dur ' s dialogue , that Revan was delayed and that his fleet was in dire straits by the time that he arrived — a fact which is difficult to reconcile with the other descriptions of the battle . Although " Knights of the Old Republic II " has the Exile ordering Bao - Dur to activate the Generator , the " Revan " novel , " The Essential Guide to Warfare " and " Timeline 9 : The Mandalorian Wars " state that Revan was the one to activate it . The manner of Mandalore the Ultimate ' s death is also unclear . " Knights of the Old Republic " and " The New Essential Chronology " state that Revan killed Mandalore in hand - to - hand combat , but in " Knights of the Old Republic II " , Canderous states that Revan executed him .