Quinlan Jyn

> *"Darth Revan" redirects here.*
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> "*Our thoughts will always betray us. We must act on instinct - lest our emotions will break through, and corrupt us. This is the Jedi way."*
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> -Quinlan Jyn during the battle of Krosis
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Jedi Master **Quinlan D. Jyn** *(pronounced Quin-lin Jin)*was a famous Jedi who was active during the *Jedi Civil War* of the old republic.

Quinlan's very essence - his entire being was conceived by midichlorians. Being one of prophecy, Jinn's origins were extremely dark - for he was formerly, and unknowingly, the dark lord and founder of the modern-era Sith - Darth Revan.

After realizing the evil that he had brought to the galaxy, and finally breaking away from his Sith roots after being betrayed by his own apprentice, Darth Malak, having his memory completely wiped and re-assigned, Quinlan set out to become a Jedi - forming the order, and restoring peace and balance to the galaxy. Jinn clashed with his former apprentice-turned-Sith Lord Malak, with the two becoming arch enemies.

Quinlan Jyn is widely regarded as the most revered Jedi Master in history - and is heavily considered to be the forefather of the modern Jedi order in it's entirety.

## Biography

### Background

Quinlan Darius Jyn's birth is that out of ancient Jedi legend - his father was unknown, and his mother died in childbirth. The event which took place at the birthing grounds was an *extremely* rare phenomenon, only recorded twice - the *Blue Eclipse* of legend.

> "*As the sun's eclipse took place - the infant came to life... At that moment, the sun turned a shade of dark red - and quickly shifted to a bright, calming blue... which ceased as the birth finalized."*
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> *-Jedi Lore, ancient Testament*
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Quinlan Jyn was the only infant born *exactly* as the eclipse entered it's prelude. It is widely believed that this was due to the immense power of midichlorian energy that took place to be able to conceive his life energy, and ultimately form the most legendary man in recorded galactic history.

Jyn's mother died in childbirth, and his father was never identified (theorized to have never existed), therefore he was sent off to an orphanage in his homeworld of Naboo. Jyn's childhood was relatively normal, however, a surprise Jedi arrival on Naboo rendered the orphanage's children recruited for training, with all it's occupants begging for a change. Quinlan, however, was visibly displaying force-sensitive abilities, and was taken to Dantooine to be trained as a Jedi.

As the Jedi Masters monitored and tested the Padawan learners, Jyn's extreme force sensitivity was unprecedented. Perplexed and in awe, the Jedi trainers took Jinn aside, and brought him directly to the Grand Master of the order, Vandar Tokare.

Vandar was shocked at the boy's disposition to the force, and his raw abilities, and offered to train him as his personal apprentice, since he had been longing for one for some time. Jyn reluctantly agreed, however at this time he did not understand the force, or the Jedi order itself.

### Life as a Jedi

Jyn trained directly under Vandar for years, eventually becoming a Jedi Knight and, finally, a Jedi Master. His power, overwhelming even for him at this point, rendered him the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy, even dwarfing Vandar's abilities.

#### Meeting Malak

Due to his prowess, Vandar personally assigned a problematic Padawan learner for Jyn - a young, force-sensitive boy named Terowyn Alek. Alek was quiet, and extremely prone to jealousy, fits of rage, and defiance. It was believed that only Quinlan had the ability to help the boy. Many of the Jedi Masters suggested dropping the boy from the program entirely, yet Vandar refused to give up on him.

Jyn (known as *Revan*at this time) and his apprentice eventually became some of the most powerful Jedi of all time.

> *"Revan had many Masters, Zhar, Dorak, Master Kae before Kae left for the Wars. Toward the end of his training, he sought out many to learn techniques. It is said that he returned to his first Master at the end of his training, in order to learn how he might best leave the Order."*
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   A Human male, the individual later known as Revan was born in approximately 4002 BBY, and some believed that he had been born in the Outer Rim Territories. The child who would be remembered as Revan was eventually discovered to be Force-sensitive and was accepted into the Jedi Order. The Jedi Master Kreia claimed to have been his first teacher in the ways of the Force. Regardless of the truth of her statement, the Human was trained along with a fellow student named Alek on both the planet Coruscant and at the Jedi Enclave on the planet Dantooine. Both Humans received further training from the Twi'lek Jedi Master Zhar Lestin, who noted that the future Revan possessed what he described as an insatiable desire for knowledge. Lestin believed that it was simply youthful exuberance and eagerness, and he expected the young man to become a champion of the Order—a sentiment shared by Master Vandar Tokare, though Master Vrook Lamar was wary of the student's desire for knowledge.

The Jedi studied under a number of Jedi Masters after leaving the tutelage of his first teacher, learning from Master Lestin, the Enclave's chronicler Master Dorak, and Arren Kae. The former Jedi hopeful Mical later claimed that Revan had undertaken a thorough study of Force bonds and other uncommon Force powers during his time as a Padawan. Alongside Alek, the future Revan achieved the rank of Jedi Knight sometime before the year 3964 BBY, and the two were widely acknowledged as being among the most promising members of the Jedi Order. However, Alek's friend was commonly recognized as the more powerful and intelligent of the pair, and he was seen as the leader among the two. By 3964 BBY, the man was a well-known, charismatic, and powerful Jedi Knight. According to Mical, Revan returned to his first teacher in order to learn how to best leave the Jedi Order, though he did not follow through.

### The Mandalorian Wars

#### The Revanchist

"*When the Mandalorian threat first arose, Revan and Malak were eager to defeat the enemy of the Republic. But the council thought it best if we moved with care and caution. The true threat, the council feared, had not yet revealed itself. But Revan would not be dissuaded. Charismatic and powerful, it was inevitable many of the Order would flock to Revan's seemingly noble cause. Malak was the first to join his closest friend. Others followed, many of our youngest and brightest, intent on saving the galaxy from the Mandalorian threat.*"
―Zhar Lestin
That year, warriors of the Mandalorian culture began an invasion of the Galactic Republic's territories in the Outer Rim, bringing the Mandalorian Wars to the larger galaxy. Outraged at the Jedi Council's refusal to involve the Order in the conflict, the young Jedi Knight began to move among the Order, arguing that the Jedi should actively aid the Republic Military in its fight against the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders. The Republic media branded him as the "Jedi's own crusader," and the "crusader" gradually gathered a following of like-minded Jedi as the number of military and civilian casualties continued to rise. Alek was the first to join the cause, and his friend soon became considered to be the honorary "Master" of those who followed him.

With the backing of Alek and his other followers, the Jedi Knight decided to journey to the war front against the wishes of the Jedi High Council so that he could scout the enemy lines. On the way, he and his followers stopped on the planet Taris in the Ojoster sector in order to meet with the Jedi Master Lucien Draay. The "crusader" hoped to recruit more Jedi to his cause from the Jedi Tower on Taris, but neither Draay nor any of the other Jedi there were willing to oblige. Not long after departing Taris, the Knight left Alek and the majority of his followers on the planet Suurja while he himself investigated Mandalorian activity on Onderon and its moon Dxun. However, many of his followers were captured by Mandalorians in an ambush at Suurja. Considering his findings to be "disturbing," the Knight reported his findings to the Jedi Council on Coruscant shortly after the Republic officially entered into the Mandalorian Wars, though the Council once again told him that the Order had no place in the war. In response, the Council dispatched the Human Knight on a mission to rescue those Jedi who had been captured. As he departed the Council chambers on Coruscant, the Knight encountered Master Draay and, after a brief conversation about their views on the war, he departed to complete his assignment.

The Jedi's followers, including Alek, were eventually rescued from the Mandalorian scientist Demagol on the planet known as Flashpoint by the fugitive Jedi Padawan Zayne Carrick, who had been framed by his former Master Lucien Draay for murdering his classmates on Taris. Once reunited with Alek and his followers, the Knight continued his campaign for Jedi intervention in the Mandalorian Wars. Finding himself to be a celebrity to the larger Republic as the head of the Revanchist movement—as his faction became known—he was cast by the Republic media in the role of a crusading savior who was wrongfully ignored by the Jedi Council. Though he was first referred to as "the Revanchist Leader" in news reports, the young Jedi Knight soon became known simply as "the Revanchist."

Over the course of the year 3963 BBY, the Revanchist continued to travel the galaxy and bring his message of Jedi intervention to all who would listen. A Cathar Jedi named Ferroh, one of the Revanchist's followers, brought the planet Cathar to the Revanchist's attention. Ferroh's entire species had vanished from their homeworld ten years prior, and the Revanchist—believing that the Mandalorians were responsible—began showing other Jedi the abandoned world in order to convince them that the Mandalorians needed to be stopped. He and Alek were on Cathar when Mandalorian forces under the command of their leader Mandalore the Ultimate attacked the planet Serroco. In the Battle of Serroco, the Mandalorians bombed the planet's surface with nuclear warheads, and the Revanchist felt the death of thousands of innocents from several sectors away. Not long afterward, The Revanchist was invited by Lord Arkoh Adasca, the head of the Adasca Bio Mechanical Corporation of Arkania, to bid on weaponized exogorths that the businessman sought to sell to any faction in the Mandalorian Wars. The Knight was unable to attend the auction due to pressing business elsewhere, so he sent Alek in his place. Several Jedi had visions that Adasca's exogorths could change the course of the war, so the Revanchist instructed his friend to ensure that the danger the weapons posed was eliminated. In the aftermath of the Adasca affair, the Revanchist was rumored to be arranging a meeting between several Jedi opinion-makers.

Shortly after the Adasca affair, the Taris Siege, and the bombardment of Jebble, Lucien Draay was appointed to the Jedi Council. He reported to the Council that Republic intelligence reports indicated that there was a blow to the Mandalorians' plans of conquest, reportedly by an insurrection within their own ranks, and stated that the "interventionist path" sought by the Revanchist was wrong for both the Republic and the Jedi. The Council approved his motion, which ordered the recall, or if necessary, detention, of the Revanchists. The Jedi Council sent Alek back to the Revanchist and his followers with a final warning after Alek, now going under the guise of "Captain Malak," testified to the Jedi Council against the secret cabal known as the Jedi Covenant.

#### Fighting the Mandalorians

> *"I don't know your name—but I take up your cause. I will not remove your mask until there is justice—until the Mandalorians have been defeated once and for all. So swears… Revan!"*
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The Revanchist was on Cathar again when Malak returned from Coruscant, but Master Lamar and several other Jedi Masters followed him there. The Masters confronted the Revanchist and his followers, informing the young Jedi that the Mandalorians were nothing special and demanding that the Revanchist movement disband. However, in the midst of the discussion, the Revanchist discovered a Mandalorian mask underfoot. When he picked it up, the entire group of Jedi was enveloped in a Force vision of the past: hundreds of Cathar were storming toward the nearby beach, pursued by a swarm of Mandalorians led by Mandalore's lieutenant Cassus Fett. The Jedi tried to defend the Cathar, but their lightsabers were unable to harm the phantom Mandalorians. The Jedi watched helplessly as the Cathar were herded into the ocean, and Fett's forces prepared to massacre the Cathar

One Mandalorian, however, flew in front of the Cathar and pleaded with Fett on their behalf, arguing that they were defeated and genocide was unnecessary. Fett declared that the Cathar had to be annihilated for dishonoring the Mandalorians during the Great Sith War, and that if the warrior wished to stand with the Cathar in their final moments, then she could perish alongside them as well. Fett saluted her efforts before authorizing his warships to fire away, thus killing the female Mandalorian and all of the Cathar. It was that woman's mask that the Revanchist had found, and after being inspired by her sacrifice, he placed the mask on his face. Drawing his violet-bladed lightsaber and adopting the simpler name of Revan, he vowed to wear the mask until all of the Mandalorians were brought to justice for their atrocities.

Even the Jedi Council was affected by the details that were discovered behind the massacre of the Cathar. Although they were still unwilling to lead the entire Jedi Order into the war, the Mandalorians' war crimes were sufficient enough for the Council to begrudgingly sanction the intervention of Revan and his faction on behalf of the Republic. Officially, they still denounced Revan's actions as unwise and too hasty, and continued to dissuade the rest of the Order from joining Revan's cause. In reality, the Mandalorians' own actions made it impossible for them to stand in the way of Revan's cause. However, Revan came up with a solution that would appease the Council and allow him to respond to the growing public clamoring for the Jedi to take action. Inspired by an initiative from the days of the Great Sith War thirty years earlier that had allowed civilian healers to work with the military, he proposed that the Revanchists be deputized into the Republic Military as a Mercy Corps. The Council grudgingly agreed to Revan's request, and the newly formed Mercy Corps was placed directly under his command.

In the following weeks, the Revanchist Jedi joined the Republic Military in battling the Mandalorians openly. By that time, a Jedi named Meetra Surik had become one of Revan's most valuable lieutenants. Revan quickly won a string of military victories, proving himself to a capable military leader, and in 3962 BBY Revan and Malak prevented the Battle of Duro from becoming an even larger disaster by bringing a fleetof *Interdictor*-class cruisers into the system and preventing the Mandalorians from escaping with large amounts of war materiel from Duro's orbital shipyards. In light of their accomplishments, Supreme Chancellor Tol Cressa named him Supreme Commander and placed a third of the Republic Military under his direct command. Under his leadership, the Republic war effort began to push back the Mandalorians, but at a price—Revan and Malak began to adopt a policy of victory at all costs. While Revan was a military genius who knew that the Republic's industrial might was the key to victory, many of his victories were the result of his sacrificing resources and territory in order to gain an advantage. "Moral shortcuts" became common under Revan and Malak's leadership, and the two Jedi developed a cold and calculating disposition unlike that of a Jedi; they matched the Mandalorians' brutal tactics with tactics just as merciless.

Sometime during the next two years, Revan and Malak uncovered an ancient ruin of the Rakata species near the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine, and after undergoing a series of tests at the hands of the droid guardians, the two were given access to the inner chambers.

Moments before they crossed the threshold, Malak warned Revan of the consequences, believing that the Council would banish the two if they attempted to enter. However, Revan would not be dissuaded, and the two entered the chamber to discover a Star Map—a relic of the Rakata species that showed part of the location of the Rakatan space station known as the Star Forge. Around 3961 BBY, Revan discovered another Star Map in the depths of the Shadowlands, a region of the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, and the two Jedi also briefly visited the Sith tombworld of Korriban. Not long afterward, Revan traveled to the Sith world of Malachor V and discovered the Trayus Academy, a temple of Sith learning. There, he began to be seduced by the dark side of the Force, learning from the Sith knowledge contained within the Academy, and Revan introduced Malak to the dark side as well.

#### Showdown

> *"It was not your ships or your men or your vaunted 'fight for freedom' that won this, the final battle of the war. It was by the actions of one person–the Jedi Revan–that you prevailed. Revan's strategies and tactics defeated the best of us. Even Mandalore himself was taken aback by the ferocity, the tenacity, and the subtlety of Revan's plans."*
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Though under the thrall of the dark side, Revan did not renounce the Jedi ways initially, and he and Malak continued to battle the Mandalorians. When the Republic sought to drive the Mandalorians off of Taris, Revan himself led a group of Jedi into battle in Taris's Undercity. There, Revan freed a group of slaves who were about to be sold on the slave market—among them a young Force-sensitive Cathar named Juhani. Inspired by Revan's heroism, Juhani was encouraged by one of Revan's compatriots to join the Jedi Order. Not long afterward, Malak and Revan battled Cassus Fett at the star cluster Jaga's Cluster, and Revan then ordered a large part of his forces under now-General Meetra Surik to attack the Mandalorian strongholds on Onderon and Dxun. His battle plan called for hundreds of small-unit feints to probe the Mandalorian lines for weaknesses, and Surik carried out his orders despite her weakened forces. The battle on Dxun lasted for months and saw heavy Republic losses, with approximately ten Republic soldiers dying for every Mandalorian death.

In an effort to draw out the Mandalorians, Revan launched a campaign against the planet Althir III that destroyed much of the Mandalorian army. By 3960 BBY, Revan had begun to use a lightsaber of a blue color, and he had ordered the construction of a superweapon known as the Mass Shadow Generator, which had been designed by the Zabrak engineer Bao-Dur. The Mass Shadow Generator served as the centerpiece of an elaborate trap in the Malachor system, where he hoped to lure the Mandalorians into a final confrontation that would end the conflict. He placed General Surik in command of half of the Republic fleet to serve as bait to draw the Mandalorians into the range of the Mass Shadow Generator, while the rest of the fleet under Revan would launch an assault on Mandalore's flagship. Whether through happenstance or Revan's design, many of the soldiers and Jedi present at the battle were those who were not strong supporters of the Supreme Commander; some later believed that Revan purposely assigned his detractors to the battle in order to eliminate them.

However, Revan himself was delayed outside the system by a Mandalorian scouting party. When he finally arrived in the Malachor system, a massive naval battle was underway, and Mandalore—realizing that defeat was inevitable—decided to challenge Revan to single combat. Accepting Mandalore's challenge, Revan engaged the warrior in a duel to the death aboard Mandalore's flagship. Despite Mandalore's strength, he was eventually overcome by his Jedi opponent, and at the end of the duel, Mandalore lay dying at Revan's feet. Coughing up blood, Mandalore removed his mask and began to speak to his victorious opponent about how he had been betrayed. Puzzled, Revan questioned Mandalore as to what he meant, and the dying man explained that he had been manipulated by a red-skinned Sith into beginning the war. The Sith had convinced Mandalore to help him uncover a Sith tomb on the ice world of Rekkiad before he influenced the warrior into attacking the Republic, and Mandalore gave Revan Rekkiad's coordinates in order to prove he was telling the truth just before he died.

Revan took Mandalore's Mask, his symbol of leadership, as his spoils of war. With Revan's victory, the Republic forces began to press the Mandalorian forces closer and closer to Malachor V. It was then that Surik commanded Bao-Dur to activate the Mass Shadow Generator, and Revan's own vessel was outside of range of the superweapon as it activated. Revan and Surik both watched in horror as most of the Mandalorian fleet and a large number of Republic vessels were drawn toward the planet into a massive gravity vortex. Countless ships were pulled from orbit and slammed into Malachor V's crust, crushing them and fracturing the planet to its very core. Thousands died on both sides of the battle, though the Mandalorians suffered far more casualties than the Republic did. In the wake of the devastation, the Mandalorians who survived transmitted their unconditional surrender to the Republic forces.

Revan took Mandalore's Mask, his symbol of leadership, as his spoils of war. With Revan's victory, the Republic forces began to press the Mandalorian forces closer and closer to Malachor V. It was then that Surik commanded Bao-Dur to activate the Mass Shadow Generator, and Revan's own vessel was outside of range of the superweapon as it activated. Revan and Surik both watched in horror as most of the Mandalorian fleet and a large number of Republic vessels were drawn toward the planet into a massive gravity vortex. Countless ships were pulled from orbit and slammed into Malachor V's crust, crushing them and fracturing the planet to its very core. Thousands died on both sides of the battle, though the Mandalorians suffered far more casualties than the Republic did. In the wake of the devastation, the Mandalorians who survived transmitted their unconditional surrender to the Republic forces.

### Rise of the Sith

#### Searching for answers

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In the weeks that followed, Revan ordered that the remaining Mandalorians be stripped of their weapons and armor, and that they dismantle their basilisk war droids. Knowing that they would only resume the fight if a new leader took Mandalore the Ultimate's place, Revan refused to return the Mask to the Mandalorians, and many of the warriors soon became bounty hunters or mercenaries. Shortly after the Battle of Malachor V, Revan completed a new assassin droid named HK-47, which he based on the Czerka Corporation's HK-24 series assassin droid. Not wanting to repeat the devastation that occurred at Malachor, Revan decided to use HK-47 in order to assassinate selective opponents. When analyzing Revan's actions during the Mandalorian Wars and particularly at Malachor, HK-47 came to believe that Revan may have had an ulterior motive—the droid believed that the devastation was meant to "break" the Jedi and make them loyal to Revan alone.

After Malachor, Meetra Surik was left bereft of a connection to the Force, and she decided to answer the Jedi Council's demands for Revan, Malak, and Surik to answer for their actions. However, Revan and Malak refused and took the remainder of their forces into the Unknown Regions, claiming to be pursuing the remaining Mandalorians. Malak urged Revan to kill Surik, but Revan refused, claiming that the Jedi was "already dead." Revan took Malak alone to Rekkiad, where they followed Mandalore's directions to the twin ice structures known as the Twin Spears. There, they discovered the tomb of the Sith Lord Dramath the Second and a datacron within his sarcophagus that confirmed Mandalore's tale. The datacron spoke of a planet named Nathema, and the two Jedi decided to travel there in order to seek out the Sith who had manipulated Mandalore. Before departing, Revan left Mandalore's Mask in Dramath's sarcophagus to ensure that the Mandalorians did not rediscover it.

Revan and Malak traveled alone to Nathema, which was a world in the distant Chorlian sector, and they were astonished to discover that the planet was completely barren of the Force. There, the two Jedi learned the story of the Sith Lord Vitiate, who had lived around the time of the Great Hyperspace War between the Republic and the Sith Empire a thousand years earlier. In 4999 BBY, Vitiate had convinced many of the remaining Sith to join him in a ritual of Sith magic, but the Ritual of Nathema had resulted in the extinction of all life on the surface of Nathema and the immortality of Vitiate, who took on the name of Sith Emperor and gathered the younger generations of Sith before departing the remains of the shattered Sith Empire.

#### Dark Lord of the Sith

> *"When they left after the Mandalorian Wars ended, they were Jedi. When they returned… they were something else."*
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Departing Dromund Kaas as willing servants of the Emperor, Darth Revan and Darth Malak followed the Dantooine and Kashyyyk Star Maps to locate similar Star Maps on Manaan, Tatooine and Korriban. On Korriban, Revan delved further into the dark side while plundering the tomb of the ancient Sith Tulak Hord. Among the Sith relics he recovered from the tomb was Tulak Hord's mask, and the two Sith soon located the Star Map in the depths of the tomb of the ancient Sith Lord Naga Sadow. During this time, Revan created his own Sith Holocron, which contained Revan's thoughts on the nature of the relationship between a Sith Master and apprentice. By 3959 BBY, using information from the four Star Maps, Revan and Malak were able to triangulate the location of the Star Forge in the Lehon system. However, their ship crashed on the planet Lehon upon arrival, and the two were taken captive by the native Black Rakata. Unable to understand the primitives' language, Revan tore the knowledge from the One, the Rakatan leader.

Speaking with the One, Revan made a deal with the Rakata: in exchange for the theft of an ancient tome from the rival Elder tribe, the One would help Revan and Malak gain access to the Temple of the Ancients, a nearby structure that was the key to accessing the Star Forge but was sealed without a spoken ritual from the tome. However, when Revan and Malak met with the Elders, Revan instead allied himself with them. During his time among the Rakata, Revan spoke to Ll'awa, a Rakatan researcher who was attempting to restore the Force-sensitivity of his species, and Revan reached a compromise with the Elders: they would open the Temple of the Ancients for him and him alone if he would destroy the Star Forge and help the Elders free themselves from their dark past. However, once the Elders opened the Temple, Revan broke his word and entered the Temple with Malak, and the two used the knowledge they gleaned from the Temple to shut down the disruptor field around the planet and to access the Star Forge. Before departing, Revan left his holocron in the lowest level of the Temple.

The pair had broken free of the Emperor's control by the time they boarded the Star Forge in orbit above the star Abo, and the two former Jedi—their minds still twisted to the dark side—interpreted the Emperor's mental commands as their own desires. Darths Revan and Malak declared themselves leaders of a new Sith Empire, and Darth Revan took on Darth Malak as his Sith apprentice. Assuming command of the Republic ships and soldiers who had followed him into the Unknown Regions, Revan made them into the military of his new Empire, and he used the Star Forge to manufacture ships, weapons, and other war materiel to supply them. The Sith Lords quickly reclaimed Korriban, reestablishing the Sith Academy so as to supply their Empire with Sith.

Revan had continued to study the Star Forge, and he soon learned that it was capable of far more than just the creation of weapons. Taking a fragment of the Star Forge, no bigger than a fingertip, Revan experimented with it and discovered that the device fed on whatever it was given—whether it be the Force or simply basic mass—and returned the basic building blocks of the universe: water, air, carbon, and even life. He left the fragment in the depths of the moon Nar Shaddaa in the care of a number of alien slaves in a large complex. The slaves, whose descendants came to know Revan only as a godlike figure known as "the Revan", remained loyal to the Revan's instructions and cared for the "Infinite Engine."[35] However, Revan didn't know that the Star Forge itself could be a threat, as the Rakata's reliance on the station had caused it to feed on their negative emotions and nearly lead to their destruction. As a result, he merely saw the "enormous factory" as a means to an end. He unwittingly minimized his exposure to the Star Forge beyond taking a fragment and constructing his infinite fleet, which would overwhelm the Republic. It was a decision that Malak would later criticize.

For his first attack as part of a planned twenty-year campaign against the Republic,[36] Revan used his knowledge of the Republic Military's inner workings and attacked the shipyards of Foerost[33] in 3958 BBY.[8] In the Battle of Foerost, Revan's forces seized most of the Republic warships there and destroyed the rest, beginning the Jedi Civil War. When the Republic officer Saul Karath defected to Revan's forces, Revan eventually promoted Karath to commander of the entire Sith fleet. However, Malak ordered the Admiral to bombard the surface of the planet Telos IV with his flagship Leviathan, despite the fact that Revan had intended to conquer the planet. As the title of Darth was previously unknown to the Republic and the Jedi at that point in time, many scholars later believed that Revan and Malak were the first Sith to use it, and they speculated that the title was derived from the Rakatan language.

During the war, Revan ordered the assassination of a number of political figures, including an Echani Senator[ and Senators Mimas Yoon of Corellia and Lelin-Dor of Serroco. It was Revan's intention to leave the Republic economy and military functionally intact, so that he could rebuild a stronger Republic and confront the mysterious threat Revan remembered in the Unknown Regions. However, the Echani general Yusanis learned of Revan's role in the Echani Senator's death and challenged the Sith Lord to a duel, though the general was slain in combat with Revan. Not long after the Battle of Foerost, Revan entered into a partnership with Czerka Corporation, offering them a trade monopoly within the territory of his empire in return for logistical and economic support. With Revan's support, Czerka established their regional headquarters in the colony of Dreshdae on Korriban near the Sith Academy. A major part of Revan's battle strategy was the capture and corruption of Jedi; any captured Jedi would be tortured and converted into Dark Jedi and Sith, and Revan's specially-trained Sith assassins struck at targets across the galaxy, capturing enemy Jedi and killing those who would not turn.

By 3957 BBY, Malak had begun to resent his Master, and he openly expressed his opinion that Revan was too soft to be a Sith while the two were aboard Revan's flagship. Malak's comments sparked a duel between the two that ended when Revan delivered a lightsaber strike to his apprentice that removed Malak's jaw. Malak survived the fight, but was forced to wear a large metal prosthesis over his lower face and spoke through a vocabulator for the rest of his life.

Around that time, Malak asked HK-47 what he thought of him, and Revan was so amused by HK-47's description of Malak as a "meatbag" that he programmed the droid to refer to all organics as such. The success of HK-47 led Revan to decide that more droids like him would help maintain galactic stability, and HK-47 became the basis for the HK-50 series of droids which were constructed on Telos.

Later that year, the Jedi Council set a trap for Revan, sending a small fleet to the Outer Rim as bait. Revan attacked the fleet, but a small Jedi strike team led by the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan—who was capable of battle meditation, a Force ability that strengthened one's allies and weakened enemies through the Force—attacked Revan's flagship. Revan dispatched several Jedi and Republic soldiers when they attacked him on the command deck of his vessel, but Shan and three other Jedi arrived to confront the Sith Lord before he could leave the bridge. Malak, on his own vessel nearby, sensed that Revan was in danger and decided to take advantage of the situation to take his Master's place. Just as Revan prepared to duel Shan and the other Jedi, Malak's vessel opened fire upon the bridge of Revan's ship.

Amid the confusion, Shan rushed forward and delivered a Force push to the Sith Lord's chest, sending him flying, Revan was critically injured in the explosions and the fighting that followed. The only survivor of her strike team, Shan saved Revan's life with the Force and took him to safety—forming a powerful Force bond between them in the process. Shan brought the comatose Sith Lord with her to Dantooine, where the Jedi Order healed Revan's broken body, and the Jedi Council decided to take action against Revan: joining together, the members of the Council wiped Revan's mind clean, erasing his memories and giving him a new identity as a soldier from the planet Deralia. Shan also secretly kept Revan's mask, which she had recovered before fleeing Revan's doomed flagship.

### Revan reborn

#### Soldier of the Republic

> *"One of our primary duties is to guarantee her survival in the event of enemy attack! You swore an oath just like everyone else on this mission. Now it's time to make good on that oath!"*
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> ―Trask Ulgo, on Bastila Shan
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In order to learn the source of Revan's fleet and the key to defeating Darth Malak, the Council decided to rely upon Shan's bond with Revan and draw out his memories to find the answers. Shan was charged with keeping Revan's identity hidden, and she was placed in command of the Hammerhead-class cruiser Endar Spire. Now believing himself to be a Republic soldier, Revan was enlisted in the Republic Military under a false name and with a false background, and he was assigned to the Spire. Since Revan's defeat, Malak had declared himself the new Dark Lord, taken control of the Sith Empire, and kept the Republic on the defensive. In 3956 BBY, the Spire was ambushed above Taris by Darth Malak, who had been hunting Shan relentlessly the last few months after Revan's apparent death. Revan awoke in his quarters during the middle of the battle just before Trask Ulgo, his bunk mate rushed into the room and ordered him to get dressed. After Revan was ready, Ulgo unlocked the room's door and the two departed their bunk in order to locate Shan per their orders to ensure her safety. However, they were contacted by Captain Carth Onasi, who called for reinforcements at the Spire's bridge.

Upon entering the next hallway, the two soldiers discovered a pair of Sith troopers and opened fire on the boarders, killing them. Continuing through the ship, Ulgo and Revan fought off more troopers until they happened upon a Jedi and a Dark Jedi battling each other. At Ulgo's recommendation, the two soldiers hung back as the Jedi defeated the Dark Jedi, but an explosion from a nearby bulkhead killed the Jedi. When they were unable to find Shan at the bridge, the two rushed for the escape pods so that they would not be caught in the Spire's destruction. Ulgo activated a nearby door to find Darth Bandon, Darth Malak's apprentice, blocking the way, and the soldier shouted to Revan to get to the escape pods as he charged the Dark Jedi and sealed the door behind him.

As Revan headed toward the escape pods, he was contacted by Onasi, who was tracking the soldier through the Spire's life-support systems. Onasi reported that Shan's escape pod had just launched, and that the two of them were the only remaining crew members aboard. Warning Revan to hurry, Onasi suggested that he use his stealth gear to bypass a nearby Sith patrol, and Revan quickly made his way through the next few corridors before Onasi contacted him again. Onasi suggested using either the nearby assault droid or the ship's security systems against the large group of Sith in the next chamber. Taking Onasi's advice, Revan finally reached the escape pods and boarded the final pod with Onasi moments before the Spire exploded. The pair's escape pod crashed in Taris's Upper City, knocking Revan unconscious, and Onasi dragged Revan away from the crashed pod to an abandoned apartment in the nearby South Apartments. While he was unconscious, Revan was plagued by a nightmarish memory of Shan fighting Dark Jedi aboard Revan's flagship, and he did not regain consciousness for several days.

When Revan finally awoke, he was greeted by Onasi, who explained what had happened after the crash and informed Revan of their duty to find Shan, as he was certain that she had escaped the Spire before its destruction. With Onasi at his side, Revan left their apartment only to find a Sith soldier and two battle droids conducting a raid on the South Apartments. The soldier murdered a Duros named Ixgil when he protested the search, and the two Humans were forced to defend themselves when the soldier saw them and realized they were Republic fugitives. After killing the soldier and his droids, Revan spoke with Ixgil's friend, who promised to move the bodies to ensure that the Sith would not come investigating.

Continuing through the building, Revan received directions to the Upper City Cantina and Kebla Yurt's Equipment Emporium from the janitor Kadir. He also encountered a number of the building's inhabitants, such as the former waitress Dia, who told Revan about how she was hiding out to avoid a bounty set by a man named Holdan after she rejected his advances. Leaving the South Apartments, Revan and Onasi began exploring the Upper City, discussing Onasi's anger over the bombing of his homeworld Telos and the Sith aggression as they walked. They also encountered a Humanocentric man named Gorton Colu, who tried to convince the pair that aliens were filth infesting the planet.

Heading into the northern apartments, the pair came across an Aqualish and Human bounty hunters who were threatening an elderly merchant. Upon noticing the two witnesses, the bounty hunters attacked Revan and Onasi, forcing the pair to kill the hunters, and Revan decided to give the merchant 100 credits to pay off his debt. A group of drunken men also accosted the pair in the northern Upper City, but Revan defused the situation.

However, they were barred from entering the Lower City, which they needed to pass through in order to reach the Undercity where Shan's escape pod had likely crashed, by the Sith troopers at the elevator because they lacked the proper authorization papers.

Heading into the nearby North Apartments, the two happened upon a Sith commander and two soldiers interrogating an Aqualish about stolen Sith uniforms. One of the soldiers ordered Revan and Onasi to leave, but the two stayed where they were and decided to intervene when the commander threatened to kill the Aqualish if he failed to cooperate. After the three Sith were killed, Revan spoke with the Aqualish, who thanked him and revealed that he was supplying Sith uniforms to the Hidden Beks swoop gang in the Lower City, and the Aqualish recommended that the two soldiers speak with the Beks' leader Gadon Thek if they wanted to help in the fight against the Sith. The Aqualish also told Revan to take the fallen troopers' armor as disguises before he departed to go into hiding, and Revan and Onasi picked up the armor before continuing to explore the building. When he found a merchant named Largo hiding from a bounty in the building like Dia, Revan decided to give the man 200 credits to pay off his debt.

##### The Arena

Heading to the Upper City Cantina, Revan purchased a pazaak deck from a man named Garouk and used it to defeat a player named Niklos. While exploring the cantina, Revan interacted with a number of local patrons, such as Jergan, Christya, and a young noble named Gana Lavin. Revan also spoke with Ajuur the Hutt, who convinced the soldier to enter the Taris dueling ring under the nickname "Mysterious Stranger". In a series of duels, Revan fought and defeated the Humans Deadeye Duncan, Gerlon Two-Fingers, Ice, and Marl, and finally the Rodian dueling champion Twitch to become the planet's dueling champion. However, when the Mandalorian Bendak Starkiller challenged Revan to an illegal death match, the soldier turned down the man's request. Talking more with Onasi, Revan also learned of Onasi's extreme reluctance to trust anyone, even his allies, though the soldier did not explain why he was so suspicious of others. The duo also visited Droids by Janice, a droid shop run by Janice Nall, but the astromech droid T3-H8 that Revan purchased from her broke down upon leaving the shop.

Revan and Onasi also visited the Upper City's medical facility and spoke to the doctor Zelka Forn, learning of Forn's desire to acquire a sample of the Sith's rakghoul serum. which Sith patrols in the Undercity carried. The serum was an inoculation against the virulent rakghoul plague, which would turn victims into the mindless and infectious creatures known as rakghouls that inhabited the Undercity. Forn asked Revan to bring him a sample if he came across any; however, Forn's assistant Gurney attempted to convince Revan as the soldier left to bring him the serum instead so that he could sell it to the crime lord Davik Kang.

With their Sith uniforms, Revan and Onasi were able to access the elevator to the Lower City, where they arrived just in time to witness a fight between several Hidden Beks and members of the rival Black Vulkars gang. The victorious Vulkars immediately turned on Revan and Onasi, forcing the soldiers to kill the criminals in self-defense.

At the Hidden Beks' base in the Lower City, the two were stopped by a Bek guard, but Revan convinced the woman to allow them entry by claiming to be an ally of the Beks against their enemies. Entering the base, Revan and Onasi spoke to Gadon Thek, though his bodyguard Zaerdra blocked their path until Thek asked her to let them through.

Revan inquired about the *Spire*'s escape pods, only to learn that the Black Vulkars had stripped the pods clean of valuables hours after their crash and that they had Shan as a prisoner. The Vulkars and their leader Brejik, who believed Shan to be only a Republic officer, were planning to offer her as a prize at the annual swoop race, and Thek offered to help Revan win the race if Revan would help the Beks in return. Thek would sponsor Revan as the Beks' swoop rider if he recovered the Beks' stolen prototype accelerator from the Vulkar's base.

Thek told Revan to locate Mission Vao, who would be able to get him into the Vulkar base, and directed him to the elevator to the Undercity where Vao was currently. However, the Sith trooper would not allow access to the elevator without the proper papers, so Revan traded Thek his Sith uniform for papers and headed toward the Undercity elevator with Onasi, fighting several hostile Black Vulkars on the way. The two also witnessed a Mandalorian named Canderous Ordo, an enforcer for Davik Kang, intimidating several Vulkars into paying protection fees.

Heading down to the Undercity, Revan and Onasi were confronted by two of the Outcasts who lived there, and when the pair demanded five credits for using the elevator, Revan instead gave them twenty credits. Another Outcast named Shaleena came up to Revan and apologized for the others' behavior, and after a short conversation with her about the villager Rukil and the fabled Promised Land, Revan continued toward the village's gate. A shopkeeper named Igear called to Revan and asked if he wanted to buy something, but a commotion at the gate drew Revan's attention. A woman named Hester was arguing with the gatekeeper Trewin, begging him to let her husband Hendar back into the village, but Trewin refused because Hendar was pursued by a rakghoul and he could not risk the creature infecting the villagers. Revan intervened, choosing to exit the village and rescue Hendar from the attacking rakghoul before the man was infected.

Returning to the village, Revan met with the elderly Rukil, who was wary of Revan and refused to speak of the Promised Land, though he asked the soldier to locate his missing apprentice Malya. Igear intercepted Revan as he departed Rukil's living area and offered to buy Malya's journals if he found them, though Revan continued on his way to speak with the village's leader Gendar. Gendar directed Revan and Onasi to where he had last seen Vao and Zaalbar, and the two departed the village in search of the Twi'lek and Wookiee. However, they almost immediately encountered a frantic Vao, whom Revan managed to calm enough for her to explain that Zaalbar had been captured by Gamorrean slavers.

Vao promised to help Revan enter the Vulkar base if he helped free Zaalbar, and she joined Revan and Onasi as they explored the Undercity. When they encountered a Sith patrol, Revan showed the commander his authorization papers, and the Sith pointed him in the direction of where the most recent patrol had died. Fighting through the vicious rakghouls in the area, Revan and company located the body of a Sith soldier and recovered some of the rakghoul serum, and the trio also located the body of Malya and recovered her journals. Revan, Vao, and Onasi soon encountered a patrol of Exchange criminals led by Canderous Ordo, though the two groups were attacked by a number of rakghouls. After defeating the creatures, Ordo recommended that Revan abandon his search, as the Lower City gangs had already scavenged the escape pods.

At one of the nearby escape pods, an injured Republic soldier begged Revan for help, as he had been attacked by a rakghoul, and Revan used the serum to prevent the man's transformation, though the man was killed by a swarm of rakghouls that arrived only moments later. Returning to the village, Revan also used the serum to cure several infected villagers, though he was first forced to defeat several other villagers whose infection had progressed to the point where they transformed into rakghouls.

Returning to Rukil, Revan delivered the journals to the old man and listened as he explained the history of the Outcasts and the story of the Promised Land—a supposedly self-sufficient colony that he and his family had been seeking for years. Believing that Revan had a role to play in their history, Rukil asked him to recover the journals of his father and grandfather so that he could locate the Promised Land. The trio then headed into the sewers nearby in search of both the journals and Zaalbar. While exploring the sewers, the three of them fought off a number of rakghouls and patrolling Gamorreans, and Revan soon discovered the corpses of both Rukil's father and grandfather. Taking their journals, Revan then discovered a sealed door that Vao unlocked with her security spikes. Upon finding Zaalbar within, the trio explained how they had come looking for him, and Zaalbar decided to swear a life debt—a lifelong vow of loyalty in Wookiee culture—to Revan in thanks. Surprised, Vao nonetheless decided that she would also accompany Revan with her friend, and she then offered to take the soldiers into the Vulkar base as promised.

Before they headed down into the sewers, Revan and company returned to the Outcast village and delivered the journals to Rukil, ignoring Igear's attempts to buy the journals from him, and an overjoyed Rukil presented his research to Gendar. Swayed by the truth of the Promised Land's existence, Gendar decided to lead the Outcasts on the long journey to the Promised Land. Vao then led Revan and Onasi back down into the sewers, where she showed them an access tunnel they could use to access the Black Vulkar base—but she warned them that a rancor had made its nest in the tunnel several years earlier. Taking the tunnel, they continued to fight through Gamorreans, rakghouls, and malfunctioning droids, and they soon came across a severed arm that was holding a datapad and several bottles of a synthetic odor. Reading the datapad, Revan learned that the odor mimicked the scent of a rancor's favorite prey, and the trio used the odor to trick the rancor into eating a body with several active grenades. Passing the now-dead beast, the trio defeated the two Vulkar guards in the next passage and then took the elevator into the Vulkar base.

Fighting through the Vulkars and their sentry droids, the trio encountered a terrified waitress named Ada, who explained that her father had sold her into slavery to pay off a debt to Davik Kang. After questioning her briefly, Revan let her flee to safety, and the trio continued their search for the accelerator. Revan also fought and defeated a Twi'lek gang member who surrendered, explaining his disgust with Brejik's rule of the gang and his desire to defect back to the Hidden Beks if possible. Before Revan allowed him to leave, the Twi'lek told the trio about the security turrets guarding the garage where the accelerator was, and he recommended slicing the security systems or acquiring a passcode from one of Brejik's lieutenants.

Exploring the garage, Revan and company continued to defeat the hostile Vulkars, finally locating the prototype accelerator but finding a Twi'lek named Kandon Ark and several of his bodyguards protecting it. Ark tried to convince the soldier and his companions to come work for the Vulkars instead of the Beks, but when Revan refused his offer, battle broke out in the chamber and ended with the death of all of the Vulkars present. Having secured the accelerator, the three of them departed the Vulkar base through the front entrance, and Revan first returned to the Upper City in order to deliver the rakghoul serum to Forn. Forn immediately began the process of synthesizing it so that he could mass-produce and sell it at an affordable price.

Upon returning to the Hidden Bek base in the Lower City, Revan delivered the prototype accelerator to Thek, who revealed that he would allow Revan to pilot the Beks' swoop bike, as he did not wish to risk one of his own riders with the potentially explosive accelerator. Revan's companions returned to their apartment hideout in the Upper City while Revan spent a restless night in the Hidden Bek base before being taken to the swoop track in the morning. During the swoop races, Revan beat the top time and then outraced Redros, the Black Vulkar racer, when Redros beat Revan's first time. However, when Brejik came forward to deliver the prize, things went sour—knowing that Revan and the Beks had stolen the accelerator, Brejik accused them of cheating and claimed that he was withdrawing the Vulkars' share of the prize. Gadon Thek and several others immediately began to argue with Brejik, but Brejik's boasting was cut short when Shan—who had been imprisoned in a cage with a neural disruptor—overrode her restraints and defeated her guard, acquiring his double-bladed sword and preparing to fight alongside Revan as Brejik screamed for the Vulkars to kill the pair.

Revan and Shan emerged victorious, but the Jedi was ungrateful for his attempt at a rescue and arrogantly reprimanded Revan for his apparent foolishness. When the soldier explained that he was working with Onasi, Shan took a moment to apologize, as she trusted Onasi's judgment and admitted that she could act rashly sometimes. But as the two were leaving the swoop track to return to Revan's apartment hideout, the man was overcome by a strange vision of Shan fighting a Dark Jedi and then Revan, the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, aboard Revan's flagship. Unaware that the vision was in fact his own memories surfacing, Revan brushed it aside until they reached the apartment, where Onasi and Shan became embroiled in a fierce argument in which she criticized the group's inability to secure passage off planet and became angry when Onasi criticized her inexperience and lack of leadership in turn. Revan intervened, however, and brought the argument to an end before suggesting they get to work on their search for a way off planet.

##### Escaping Taris

Before leaving the apartment, Revan spoke with Shan and informed her of the vision, which she was wary to confirm as a sign of his being Force-sensitive. The two also discussed Revan's skills and his remarkable success in his attempts to rescue Shan, which led her to suggest that they visit Dantooine and meet with the Jedi Council after they left Taris. Revan, Shan, and Onasi then left the apartment only to be met by a Twi'lek messenger who informed Revan that Canderous Ordo wished to meet with him in the Upper City Cantina. When they met with the Mandalorian, he informed the group that he was seeking a way off planet, and that he would help them steal the Ebon Hawk—Davik Kang's personal freighter—if they acquired the passcodes to bypass the Sith blockade from the Tarisian military base. Ordo told the group to go to Janice Nall's droid shop and purchase the droid she was custom-making for Kang with the express purpose of acquiring the codes, and Ordo would meet them in Javyar's Cantina when they had the codes.

As the trio was passing the North Apartments on their way to Nall's shop, they encountered an Ithorian being bullied by two Human children. After convincing the children to leave, Revan gave the Ithorian a medpac to heal his injuries.

At Nall's shop, Revan then purchased the utility droid T3-M4 for 2,000 credits. Sending Onasi back to the apartment, Revan then set off for the nearby military base with T3-M4 and Shan, and the little droid easily sliced the facility's exterior door to give them access. However, the receptionist was immediately suspicious of their arrival, and it was only after Revan bribed her that she agreed to depart the facility without raising the alarm. As they proceeded into the facility, the three of them cut down all of the Sith troopers and droids who attempted to attack them on sight.

The trio soon came across a Duros whom Revan recognized as the one who offered to hide the bodies after his and Onasi's fight with the Sith patrol in the South Apartments. The Duros was trapped in a force cage, so Revan deactivated the cage and allowed the prisoner to escape.

##### The Final Battles

After destroying a large shielded battle droid that was guarding the elevator, the trio descended to the lower levels of the base to find the planet's Sith Governor in meditation. The governor expressed surprise that he would encounter a Jedi and a Force Adept on what he considered an insignificant planet, and the man attacked them in the hopes of killing them and thereby earning his lightsaber. However, Revan and his companions overcame the Sith, killing him and then taking the launch codes they needed from the man's body. Returning to Javyar's Cantina, the trio met with Ordo and learned his plan: he would get Revan and another companion into Davik Kang's estate, and they would sneak to the hangar and steal the *Ebon Hawk* at an opportune moment. Ordo, Revan, and another companion then boarded Ordo's speeder and traveled to Kang's estate, where they were greeted by Kang himself and Calo Nord; Kang was curious as to why Ordo had brought visitors, and Ordo covered by claiming he wanted to recruit them. Kang then led the trio on a tour of his estate before leaving them in one of the visitor's suites. Ignoring Kang's request to stay put, the three of them proceeded through the estate, eliminating the guards and bounty hunters who tried to attack them as they went.

Questioning some of the slaves, Revan learned that Kang's pilot Hudrow was locked up in the torture chambers, so the trio fought their way to the torture chamber and freed Hudrow in exchange for the launch codes for the *Ebon Hawk*. However, as they headed toward the hangar, Darth Malak began a bombardment of Taris, as he was tired of waiting for Shan to be found. Revan and his companions reached the hangar at the same time as Kang and Nord, who also sought to flee Malak's orbital bombardment in the *Ebon Hawk*. The two attacked Revan and his companions, and when Kang fell, Nord drew a thermal detonator and threatened to blow the entire hangar. However, Nord was promptly crushed by falling rubble, and the three of them rushed to the *Hawk* and then picked up Revan's other three companions from the apartment hideout. As turbolaser fire rained down around them, Onasi took the helm of the *Hawk* and Shan the copilot as they bypassed the Sith blockade, and Shan ordered Revan to man the gun turrets and take out the pursuing fighters while she and Onasi prepared the hyperdrive to jump to Dantooine. Revan successfully destroyed the Sith fighters just before the *Hawk* jumped to hyperspace, and the freighter soon arrived at the agrarian world.

Questioning some of the slaves, Revan learned that Kang's pilot Hudrow was locked up in the torture chambers, so the trio fought their way to the torture chamber and freed Hudrow in exchange for the launch codes for the *Ebon Hawk*. However, as they headed toward the hangar, Darth Malak began a bombardment of Taris, as he was tired of waiting for Shan to be found. Revan and his companions reached the hangar at the same time as Kang and Nord, who also sought to flee Malak's orbital bombardment in the *Ebon Hawk*. The two attacked Revan and his companions, and when Kang fell, Nord drew a thermal detonator and threatened to blow the entire hangar. However, Nord was promptly crushed by falling rubble, and the three of them rushed to the *Hawk* and then picked up Revan's other three companions from the apartment hideout.

As turbolaser fire rained down around them, Onasi took the helm of the *Hawk* and Shan the copilot as they bypassed the Sith blockade, and Shan ordered Revan to man the gun turrets and take out the pursuing fighters while she and Onasi prepared the hyperdrive to jump to Dantooine. Revan successfully destroyed the Sith fighters just before the *Hawk* jumped to hyperspace, and the freighter soon arrived at the agrarian world.

#### Becoming a Jedi

##### Learning on Dantooine

"*With Revan dead…*"
"*Are you certain Revan is truly dead? What if we undertake to train this one, and the Dark Lord should return?*"
―Vandar Tokare and Vrook Lamar argue about retraining Revan
Upon landing on Dantooine, Shan asked the others to remain aboard the *Hawk* while she left to speak with the Jedi Council. When she returned, she conveyed the Council's request for a private audience, and Revan followed her into the Jedi Enclave.

On the edge of the *Hawk*'s landing pad, Revan was hailed by a Twi'lek named Lur Arka Sulas, who explained that he worked for the rancher Rundil ot Sulem as an aide, and that he was in search of ot Sulem's kidnapped daughter named Sashawho had been taken by Mandalorians many years before.

Revan promised to tell him if he came across any information, and then continued on into the Enclave. Revan also encountered two salesmen, Crattis Yurkal and Karal Kaar, at the Aratech Mercantile at the landing pad.

On his way to his meeting with the Council, Revan was confronted by a Padawan named Belaya, who berated Revan for failing to wear the proper Padawan attire. Belaya was surprised and suspicious of Revan's claim of not being a Padawan, as she sensed he possessed great strength in the Force, but she apologized for her abruptness when she realized he was being truthful. Entering the Council chambers, Revan was greeted by Zhar Lestin, though the Council members concealed the fact that they recognized the soldier. Lestin announced that the Council was considering to train him as a Padawan, and Shan was irritated by Master Lamar's skepticism about Revan's abilities. However, the rest of the Council agreed with Lestin, despite Lamar's protests that the Dark Lord of the Sith might return if they retrained Revan. Confused, Revan was asked to leave the Council chambers with Shan, and he was led back to the *Hawk*. While sleeping, Revan received another strange vision; this time, it was of Revan and Malak investigating an ancient ruin and speaking of something called the Star Forge. When he awoke, Onasi informed Revan that an anxious Shan had already left for the Council chambers, and that she wanted Revan to come as well.

At the Council chambers, the Council informed Revan that he and Shan had shared the dream about Revan and Malak investigating the ruins, which they confirmed were nearby on Dantooine. Master Lestin explained that Shan and Revan had developed a Force bond, and Master Tokare expressed his belief that the two were linked by a shared destiny. At the Council's request, Revan then agreed to undergo Jedi training, and they informed him that he and Shan were to investigate the ruins once his training was complete. Over the next several weeks, Revan underwent an intense training regimen, sparring with Shan frequently and spending a great deal of time meditating and studying the Order's knowledge. At Lestin's suggestion, Revan also received aid from Shan in his training, relying on their bond to help the two grow stronger in the Force.

Lestin often expressed his astonishment at the rapid pace which Revan learned the ways of the Jedi, and it was with pride that he finally welcomed the soldier into the Order as an apprentice. However, before he could become a full Padawan, Revan had to undergo a series of three tests; the first of which tested Revan's knowledge of the Jedi Code. After successfully demonstrating his knowledge of the Code, Revan was sent to Master Dorak to select what path he would take: that of a Jedi Guardian, a Jedi Consular, or a Jedi Sentinel. He chose Consular. Revan was then sent to construct his lightsaber, crafting the weapon with the workbench in the Enclave's training weapon, and he then returned to Lestin with the completed lightsaber - a sturdy hilt with a long, powerful green blade. The Twi'lek Jedi then sent Revan on his third and final trial: to cleanse the nearby grove of the taint of the dark side, though Revan could tell that Lestin knew more than he would tell his student. Revan and two companions then made their way out of the Enclave, speaking briefly with a Jedi named Nemo, and Revan was confronted by an angry settler named Jon who was furious about the Jedi's lack of activity against the Mandalorian raiders who had killed his daughter Ilsa. Moved by the farmer's plight, Revan agreed to take care of any Mandalorians he came across, and he headed out away from the Enclave.

As they headed out into the wilderness, the trio were attacked by a group of the native kath hounds who leapt down from the nearby hills, and the three of them were forced to cut down even more of the animals as they traveled south toward the grove. While crossing the grounds of the Matale estate, they soon happened upon a Mandalorian and several Duros threatening a settler, and the settler tried to offer the lives of his wife and children before the Mandalorian shot him. Revan and his companions dispatched the Mandalorian and the Duros.

Heading further south, Revan encountered the Jedi Bolook during the Twi'lek's investigation into the death of a Dantooine colonist named Calder Nettic.

At Bolook's request, Revan conducted his own investigation, interrogating the two witnesses—Nettic's business partner Rickard Lusoff and a man named Handon Guld—and surveying the crime scene. In the process, Revan determined that Guld had been lying about being out running, as he was not carrying a weapon like most settlers did, and that he had in fact had personal knowledge of the victim, as he had rented a speeder with Nettic several times. Guld claimed that his blaster had been stolen but he had not reported it, though closer examination of the blaster found at the scene revealed that the blood on the weapon was Guld's. However, Lusoff was also lying about his role in the events: the man claimed that he had been hunting iriaz and was staring into the sun when he heard the shot, but it was a cloudy day. From his investigations, Revan determined that Guld had killed Nettic because Nettic had been having an affair with his wife, and Lusoff had *also* tried to kill Nettic but accidentally shot Guld instead. Both men were promptly arrested by Bolook, who was thankful for Revan's help in the investigation.

On the eastern edge of the grove, Revan finally located the source of the corruption—a young Cathar Jedi who used the Force to stun Revan's companions before she drew a red-bladed lightsaber and charged the Human Jedi. Forced to defend himself, Revan battled the Cathar and wounded her, driving her back and causing her stop attacking. Exhausted, the Cathar viciously lunged towards Jinn, forcing him to put her down. With a clean strike to the chest, the Cathar, named *Juhani,* was swiftly executed.

#### The Search for the Star Forge

##### A Jedi once more

> *"This… this must be what Revan and Malak found when they entered this temple. This must be where their journey down the dark side began."*
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Returning to the Enclave with his companions, and speaking to Zhar Lestin, Revan was congratulated and formally welcomed into the Order as a Padawan, and Lestin asked him to meet with the rest of the Council. There, the Council explained what Revan's next assignment was: to investigate the nearby ruins along with Shan and determine what Revan and Malak had been searching for. Masters Tokare and Lamar also informed Revan aware of another issue: the Sandral family and the Matale family were embroiled in a fierce feud, as Shen Matale had gone missing. While they did not want to distract Revan from his primary mission, the Council believed that the Order had a responsibility to discover the truth.

While heading south to the Sandral Estate, Revan happened on the body of Casus Sandral on the eastern side of the Matale estate's grounds, who had been killed by kath hounds while investigating the nearby ruins. Revan delivered Casus's datapad to the Sandral Estate, where he was let in by the Sandrals' droid and he informed Casus's father Nurik Sandral of his son's death. However, Nurik Sandral refused to reconsider the feud even in light of this revelation, leading his daughter Rahasia to speak with Revan and inform him that her father was holding Shen Matale in their estate. Handing Revan a spare key to the side door, she begged Revan to free Shen, as she had fallen in love with the youth. Revan, Shan, and his other companion used the key to access the building's side door and fought through the family's security droids to locate Shen, who refused to leave without Rahasia, and Revan convinced the girl to meet them outside of the estate.

However, when Revan and his companions brought Shen to Rahasia, the group was confronted by both Nurik Sandral and Ahlan Matale, who demanded that their children come back with their parents. Fortunately for the children, Revan, Shen, and Rahasia convinced Nurik and Ahlan to abandon their feud in light of their children's love for one another, and the two men agreed to live in peace. Heading east, Revan, Shan, and their companion fought and defeated another raiding party of Mandalorians and Duros, and they then found Montagne's droid C8-42-GE3 under attack from kath hounds. After rescuing the droid, Revan learned that Montagne had become too obsessed with the droid; she had begun treating him as her fallen husband, and so C8-42-GE3 had fled and tried to commit suicide via kath hound. At the droid's request, Revan agreed to destroy the droid so it's owner could live in peace.

Having learned of a cave where lightsaber crystals could be found, Revan braved the caverns, which were infested by kinrath spiders.

Revan then headed north toward the ruins—only to encounter the Mandalorian leader Sherruk. Sherruk was angry that the Jedi had been taking out his subordinates, and he proceeded to attack Revan so that he could claim Revan and Shan's lightsabers for his collection. However, Sherruk and his companions were defeated by Revan and his friends, and the trio headed north to the ruins.

Entering the ruins, Revan, Shan, and their companion were met by a droid that started cycling through a number of ancient languages in an effort to communicate. However, they also found Nemo, the Jedi Revan had spoken to earlier, lying dead on the floor. Shan and Revan were finally able to understand it when it began speaking in an archaic Selkath dialect, and the Overseer explained that the ruins were over 20,000 years old and a monument to the Builders that would lead the way to something called the Star Forge. To access the monument's secrets, the droid explained, Revan would have to defeat the building's tests—but if they failed, they would pay with their lives—just as Nemo had. Entering each of the building's side rooms, the trio defeated the guardian droids and accessed the archaic computer systems, inserting Revan's datapad so that the systems could assimilate Basic and communicate. Passing the building's tests, Revan successfully breached the two seals and entered the heart of the ruins, where a mysterious map activated upon his approach. Amazed and fearful of the artifact's powerful dark side aura, Shan realized that the map was what Revan and Malak had discovered years earlier. Analyzing the map, the group identified Manaan, Korriban, Kashyyyk, and Tatooine, but the map was incomplete, leading Revan to believe that there were similar maps on those other worlds, and the trio headed back to the Enclave to inform the Council.

## Source(s):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star\_Wars:\_Knights\_of\_the\_Old\_Republic
* https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Revan