Trial of Meetra Surik The trial of Meetra Surik took place in 3959 BBY at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant . In this trial , a Jedi General of the Mandalorian Wars was exiled from the Jedi Order , and sent to wander the galaxy far from the battlegrounds where she fought , in order to achieve true understanding of what she had wrought at Malachor V in the close of the conflict . Meetra Surik was since often known as the Jedi Exile . History . Jedi Masters Kavar , Vrook Lamar , Lonna Vash , Atris and Zez - Kai Ell were all part of the Jedi High Council when they judged Surik in this trial , with Lamar , Vash and Atris being the most unsympathetic , especially Atris . According to Kavar , at the time of the trial , they had just learned that Revan had betrayed them , and that he was returning from the Unknown Regions at the head of a Sith armada . Meetra Surik was the only Jedi to face the Council ' s judgment after the wars , and with all the others being dead or fallen to the dark side of the Force , many thought her to be a spy . Vrook and Atris believed that the only reason she did not follow Revan against the Jedi was because she could no longer feel the Force . Vash was among the Masters who convicted her the most , but she felt Surik had changed since the events on Malachor , and she stood up to Atris after Surik had left the Council chamber , when she said the wound Surik carried was a sign of dark side corruption . As she was sentenced to exile , the former Jedi General was asked to surrender her lightsaber , which she defiantly stabbed into the center stone . Atris would recover the weapon and keep it as a reminder of what can happen when passions dictate one ' s actions , which is how she thought it was with Surik when she went to war . The truth , however , is that Atris wished she had the strength to follow her , which she almost did actually , eventually renouncing out of fear to defy the Council . She once told Brianna , one of her Handmaidens , that Meetra Surik was a personal hero to her , and that she died inside when Surik chose Revan over the Jedi . Almost a decade later , Atris would arrange for Meetra Surik to return to Republic space and leak knowledge of her presence in hopes of drawing the Sith out . The Force brought her to the Telosian Jedi Academy , where Atris was willing to put her on trial again for dooming the Telosian Restoration Project , which was really her fault for exposing Surik to a Sith attack in the skirmish at Peragus II . Meetra Surik ' s utility droid , T3 - M4 , recovered from Atris ' databanks a holorecord of her trial in which the councilors debated after her departure . She discovered her going to war was not really what concerned them when they cast her out of the Order , so she sought them out and spoke to them , with the exception of Lonna Vash who had perished . As she inquired of them the real motivations for her exile , she discovered the true reason was in fact that they were afraid of her , of her innate ability to change people through Force bond ing . Kavar and Zez - Kai Ell would even admit as much , that to see what she had become after losing her Force - sensitivity was terrifying , and that it was probably why they sent her away rather than try to understand what happened . The assassin droid HK - 47 , who counted among his masters both Revan and Meetra Surik , once speculated that Revan allowed her to return to the Council because he felt that it would serve to erode their will , like parading defeated leaders before their people . The very day of the trial , Master Ell decided to leave the Jedi Order . When Meetra Surik found him on Nar Shaddaa , he explained that the reason for which he and many other Jedi scattered was their disillusion on the Jedi teachings , which he had come to recognize as flawed . He felt that the fall of so many Jedi throughout history was due to some sort of backlash created by the self - righteous acts Jedi did to preserve the galaxy , and that the one chance to see where they had gone wrong , they cast it aside . He even admitted Surik was right to do what she did , that the Jedi who went to war were not to blame , for they were taught to protect innocents , even when their Masters would not . However , when Surik encouraged the remaining Jedi Masters to gather on Dantooine , their judgment remained . He , Vrook and Kavar were firm in the belief that the wound Meetra Surik carried would bring about the end of the Jedi , so they decreed she was to leave for good , and without her tie to the Force . The three were confronted and killed by Kreia in the ruins of the Jedi Enclave as they attempted to cut her off from the Force . Behind the scenes . This event is depicted in the computer and video game " " . Among the scrapped ideas which can still be found in the game files , there is evidence that at some point Kreia was intended to be behind the Council ' s verdict . Cut content also includes more lines from the trial scene , in which Vash said the Jedi had played into the hands of the enemy when they let the Order be split in the Mandalorian Wars , and that the only chance to know what had happened to Meetra Surik and what the future lay in store for her , was to let her return to Malachor V . The color of the Surik ' s lightsaber , chosen in a conversation with Atton Rand after Peragus , determines what color the lightsaber in the holorecord is and what color the lightsaber Atris kept after the trial . Canonically , color of her second lightsaber appears to be of the cyan crystal , however , it is unknown what color was the blade of the one taken by Atris .