Order of Revan

The **Order of Revan**, also known as the **Revanites**, was initially a secret society within the Sith Empire that adhered to the teaching of the powerful Force-user Revan. Balancing the light and dark sides of the Force, consequent to its restoration in 1000 ABY, the order seeks to restore the beliefs of Revan, practising the Dark Side and the Light Side without adhering to either.

The order eventually used the abandoned Jedi Praxeum on Ossus as their base of operations; the order kept the information hidden from the Empire and the Jedi Order. After being discovered on Ossus, Reekai moved the order's headquarters to the ruined temple of the ancients on the Planet Lehon in the unknown regions.

## History

Decades before the Cold War between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, the Human Tari Darkspanner stumbled across records of the ancient Force-user Revan, a man who had been both Jedi and Sith almost three hundred years earlier.

During her explorations, Darkspanner learned how Revan and his allies had confronted the Sith Emperor, and she came to believe that Revan had emerged victoriously—and that it was he, and not the Emperor, who sat on the throne of the Empire. She soon founded the Order of Revan, which recruited all species and walks of life from across the Empire.

Devoting themselves to Revan's teachings, the order sought to bring the Empire into a balance between the light and dark sides of the Force—the ways of peace and war—from within.

Growing to be several hundred members strong, the order—whose members became known as Revanites—began to attract scrutiny from the Empire's ruling Dark Council, who sought to stamp out their heretical teachings.

The Dark Council forced the order to cease their meetings in the Empire's capital, Kaas City, on the planet Dromund Kaas and retreat into Dromund Kaas' jungles.

They established a compound near a cave in which the order maintained a shrine to Revan.

Some Revanites devoted their entire lives to the order's teachings and excluded themselves from Imperial society.

In contrast, others met in secret and maintained their ordinary lives while adhering to Revan's teachings.

The Dark Council viewed the Revanites with contempt for mixing Jedi and Sith teachings; hence, one of their goals was to root out and destroy the secretive organization before its teachings could spread even further throughout the Empire.

### Revan Reborn

In 3638 BBY, during the Galactic War, Revan himself emerged at the head of the order, having somehow survived his near-fatal battle with Imperial forces on the Foundry.

However, Revan did not survive intact; Revan's mind was split between his light and dark halves due to centuries of torture by the emperor and the Dread Masters, the light half of him becoming a spirit. In contrast, the dark half retained physical form, possessing strength and cunning but no wisdom.

Obsessed with destroying the Emperor, Revan took control of the Revanites to achieve his objective. Under his direction, the Revanites secretly expanded, placing agents into high-ranking positions in both the Empire and Republic.

Their agents, Darth Arkous of the Dark Council and Colonel Rian Darok of Republic Special Forces orchestrated simultaneous smash-and-grab operations that were the Korriban Incursion and the assault on Tython to recover Rakata technology.

With the aid of a Selkath geneticist named Gorima, they eventually created invincible cyborg supersoldiers to form their Infinite Army base. When strike teams from both galactic powers discovered what they were up to, the two conspirators fled with the research, destroying the underwater base where they had created the supersoldiers, thus erasing all evidence that could expose their order.

Sith Lord Lana Beniko and SIS agent Theron Shan, who had once worked closely with the conspirators, discerned that the Order of Revan planned on annihilating both Empire and Republic, and thus cooperated, along with a Wookiee named Jakarro to find a way to stop them.

Darth Arkous and Darok fled to Lehon and set up their cyborg conscription operation within the Temple of the Ancients. When their pursuers tracked them down, the subsequent battle destroyed the Infinite Army and caused the two Revanites' deaths.

Revan himself soon arrived in-system with a small fleet composed of both Imperial and Republic capital ships. Declaring the Infinite Army's loss a minor setback, Revan opened fire on the temple in an attempt to kill the interlopers, but they escaped via shuttle.

Subsequently, the Revanites arranged to deal with the strike team's allies; Jakarro received twelve death sentences on his head. The SIS disavowed Theron, and the empire accused Lana of murdering Darth Arkous.

The trio then went underground to find a way to expose the order. The order later enlisted the Nova Blades pirate gang's services to target key hyperspace lanes to force both Republic and Imperial command fleets to the pirate haven of Rishi.

The plan was for the Revanite fleet to attack both sides while sleeper agents aboard both fleets sabotaged the ships they were on. Theron, Lana and Jakarro contacted their allies and masqueraded them as a rival pirate gang to harass the Nova Blades to get intel on the Revanites' plan.

Once they had information on the trap, the team fought past the Revanites guarding the signal jammer blocking communications in the sky battle. Once they deactivated the jammer, Theron uploaded the Revanite agents' identities to both fleets, resulting in their detainment.

### End of Revan

With the Revanite infiltrators excised from their fleets and the Revanite flotilla routed, both Republic and Empire agreed to a temporary truce and ally against Revan.

Revan took his remaining forces to Yavin 4, where the slumbering Sith Emperor resided after his defeat at the hands of the Hero of Tython. The Revanites overwhelmed the small number of Imperial Guardsmen stationed at Imperial Guard Academy and secured the Temple of Sacrifice.

Within the temple was a device capable of consuming all life on the moon to resurrect the Emperor, whom Revan intended to bring back from the brink of death so he could destroy him for good. However, the coalition forces arrived on Yavin 4.

They grudgingly worked together to break past the Revanite lines and destroyed the temple device, believing Revan would be unable to defeat the Emperor. Ultimately, the elite members of the Coalition confronted Revan on the Forgotten Terrace and beat him permanently.

The conflict between the Coalition and Revanites had fueled the Emperor's revival, who then departed Yavin 4 without taking a physical form or possessing a body. Revan was then confronted by a Force ghost of his other half, who convinced the dark half to release his hold on their physical form and merge once more, making Revan whole once more as his physical body vanished, leaving only his scarred mask and lightsaber behind.

With Revan's defeat, the Revanites were left leaderless and presumably disbanded. As the Republic and Empire departed Yavin 4, they left token forces to watch for any sign of the Revanites if they continued to operate on the moon.

### Order restored

Milennia later, the Jedi Knight Reekai Lyndtur discovered ancient records of the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Revan and his mastery of both the Dark and Light, in the archives of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine and cross-referenced it with documents in the Jedi Temple's archives.

Through diligent research, she tracked the ancient lord; the force guided her to the hidden and forgotten planet, Dromund Kaas in the Esstran sector of the Sith Worlds region, where she discovered an ancient altar built by the old order of Revan, where she was reborn.

Returneing to Ossus, she retrieved the Telos Holocron, but the Jedi Council subsequently exiled her, her dangerous research.

Reekai then accessed the Telos Holocron and learned from the many sith lords that had imprinted their knowledge upon it, Ajunta Pall, Naga Sadow, Darth Bane, Darth Revan and even Darth Sidious.

While some attempted to turn her, she could barely resist and cast aside the darkness; she quarantined the Holocron by hiding it deep within the ancient temple, before focusing on Revan's teachings and restoring the Order of Revan in the depths of the outer rim.

The Order of Revan slowly gained new followers, and in the early second millennium since the Battle of Yavin had only four members. In 1002 ABY, the Order relocated to Lehon. Taking many artefacts with them such as the Telos Holocron, the Sword of Ajunta Pall and Darth Magice's Holocron.

## Organization and philosophy

Revanites believed that either Jedi or Sith could not follow the path to power. The idea of rebirth was of particular import to the order, as they knew of how Revan had been Jedi, Sith, and then reborn as something new when both betrayed him.

Though the Order of Revan's original members were of the Sith Empire, the order taught that one should not rely only on the dark side: Revan achieved greatness because he relied on both the light and the dark, using the Force as a whole. The order was also patriotic; they did not seek to destroy the Empire, but instead, change it from within.

The Revanites welcomed all alien species, as they knew how many of Revan's companions and allies had been droids and aliens—but they believed that Revan had done so because he thought servants were more useful when they were powerful.

Because Revan accepted allies from many different walks of life, the order did the same: the order included members from every level of the Empire's society, from high-ranking Sith and military officers to commoners and even slaves.

The order also had Mandalorians of Clan Farr, who served the order as a matter of honour, as Ceta Farr sought to ensure that everyone would remember Revan's name. Tari Darkspanner, the Master of the Order, believed that Revan had defeated the Emperor and taken his throne.

She also thought that the Emperor's silence during the Cold War meant that the Dark Council had imprisoned Revan.

Those who sought to join the order would have to undergo an initiation, in which they would complete various tasks for different members that would test their knowledge of the order's ideals and their devotion to them.

During the initiation, prospective members would visit the Revanite Cave and meditate before the order's altar, where many would receive Revan's visions.

Every initiation also included a trial of the past, which would bind the initiate to Revan and help them understand the order's history.

When Revan himself directly took control of the order, the Revanites had expanded to include Republic individuals in their ranks. The order had forgotten their roots, now fanatically devoted to the former Jedi.

Having agents in high-ranking positions in both galactic superpowers enabled them to pull strings and covertly falsify information, similar to the Star Cabal.

Despite this, the Republic and Imperials remained wary of each other, having been on opposite sides. The order's new purpose was to wipe out both Empire and Republic, a goal the Revanites had taken to the point of fanaticism.

However, once Reekai restored the order, she reformed it into a cult that mixed the ancient sith ways with Jedi teachings. To join her order, however, it would be enough to aid her in one of her endeavours as with the pilot, Chiv Antilles.