Star Wars : The Old Republic — The Lost Suns Star Wars : The Old Republic — The Lost Suns is the third story arc in the " " comic series , a tie - in to the " " . Unlike the previous two installments , " " and " " , it is not a reprint of web comic content available on the " Star Wars : The Old Republic " website , but an all new story focusing on Theron Shan , the son of Jedi Master Satele Shan . First revealed in " Star Wars Insider 124 " , the series consisted of five issues released monthly , with the first one released on June 8 , 2011 . Plot summary . In 3643 BBY the Jedi Master Ngani Zho , who is now living as a vagrant recalls the Great Galactic War and the accomplishments of his former students — Satele Shan , Jaric Kaedan , Syo Bakarn , and Bela Kiwiiks — at the Battle of Rhen Var , where Shan led them and the Republic Army to victory and personally defeated the Dark Councilor Darth Mekhis . On Coruscant , Theron Shan — an agent of the Republic Strategic Information Service — interrupts a meeting between Black Sun and a Twi ' lek smuggler named Teff ' ith , whom Shan subdues after defeating the Black Sun thugs . Shan is called in by the SIS Director , who sends Shan on a mission to locate and retrieve Ngani Zho because he had reappeared near Imperial space after a decade of absence . Zho had raised Shan as a child after his mother , Satele Shan , gave him up to continue serving as a Jedi . At the same time , Darth Mekhis — now scarred from her encounter with Satele Shan a decade prior — tests the prototype warship " Javelin " and sends her Sith Knights to capture Zho . Theron Shan brings a captive Teff ' ith along for the ride as he tracks down Zho on the planet Taris , but their reunion is disrupted by the arrival of Mekhis ' Sith Knights . The two flee back to Shan ' s ship , and Teff ' ith begrudgingly aids them in their escape to save herself from the Sith Knights ; as they depart Taris , Shan questions Zho about his absence , and Zho has a mental breakdown as he tries to force Shan to take them to the Vesla system — one of the seven systems ceded to the Empire during the Treaty of Coruscant . Shan tranquilizes the crazed Jedi Master , and he then sets out for the shadowport of Port Nowhere to acquire the navigational data necessary to get to the Vesla system . The agent also recalls how Zho had been like his father , but how the Order had ultimately asked him to leave when it became apparent that Shan was not Force - sensitive . On Port Nowhere , Zho and Teff ' ith distract a smuggler in one of the ship ' s cantinas by offering to hire him while Shan hacks the smuggler ' s vessel and downloads the man ' s Imperial clearances and navigation charts for Imperial space . The trio then heads to the Vesla system , where Shan sets them down on one of the outlying planets and they spend the next few days constructing a spy ray to survey the inner planets and see what the Empire is doing in the system . With the spy ray , Shan discovers that the inner planets have been destroyed by various weapons technologies , and Zho ' s memories return completely as Shan identifies the Sun Razer : a massive space station around the system ' s sun that is siphoning the star ' s materials and energies to produce massive superweapons . However , the three are captured by the Imperial warship " Valor Prevails " before they can escape the system . As Zho is tortured by the Sith aboard the Sun Razer , he relates how he went undercover as a slave to investigate the Empire ' s activity in the Vesla system after the Treaty . Zho had helped protect his fellow slaves from their Imperial overseers for many years , but his mind locked away his memories of the Vesla system after he witnessed the Empire test their new weapons — a test that killed almost all of the slaves who had helped to construct the Sun Razer — and Zho had somehow made his way back to the Republic . At the same time , the Imperial captain Eisek attempts to lure Shan to the Empire ' s service by giving him a tour of the Sun Razer , but Shan refuses Eisek ' s offer and he is taken to the torture chamber with Zho . However , Shan quickly frees himself and Zho , and they meet up with Teff ' ith , whom Shan had ordered to remain hidden aboard their ship to avoid detection ; the three then decide to destroy the Sun Razer . Shan attempts to assassinate Darth Mekhis in order to get close to the controls for the Sun Razer ' s shields , but Zho sacrifices himself to save Teff ' ith when they encounter Imperials as the two head back to ready their ship for departure . Despite Shan ' s capture , the agent outwits Mekhis and her subordinates and deactivates the Sun Razer ' s shields , exposing the station to the sun and thereby causing its destruction . Shan and Teff ' ith escape and go their separate ways , and after reporting back to the Director and giving him data on the Sun Razer , Theron visits Satele on Tython and delivers news of Zho ' s death without identifying himself as her son . Behind the scenes . In - text references to the events surrounding the " Flashpoint : The Esseles " place " Star Wars : The Old Republic — The Lost Suns " more specifically during the early stages of " " between the prologue and chapter 1 .