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milarly-named Darth Rivan.
Revan
Biographical information
Born
c. 3994 BBY,[1] believed to be somewhere in the Outer Rim[2]
Died
3642 BBY,[3] the Foundry[4] (temporary)[5]
c. 3638 BBY,[6] Yavin 4[7]
Physical description
Species
Human[8]
Gender
Male[8][9][10]
Hair color
Dark brown[11]
Eye color
Dark brown[1]
Skin color
Fair[11]
Chronological and political information
Era(s)
Old Republic era[12]
Affiliation(s)
Jedi Order[12]
Revanchists[8]
Galactic Republic[12]
Republic Mercy Corps[13]
Republic Military[12]
Resurgent Sith Empire (briefly)[1]
Revan's Sith Empire[12]
Order of Revan[14]
Masters
Kreia[2]
Zhar Lestin[12]
Dorak[12]
Arren Kae[2]
Apprentices
Meetra Surik (informal)[1]
Darth Malak (Sith apprentice)[12]
Scourge (informal)[1]
[Source]
"Savior, conqueror, hero, villain. You are all things, Revan and yet you are
nothing. In the end, you belong to neither the light nor the darkness. You will
forever stand alone."
?Darth Malak[src]
Revan renowned as the Revanchist, honored as the Revan, reviled as Revan the Butch
er, dreaded as the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Revan, and praised as the Prodiga
l Knight was a Human male who played pivotal roles as both Jedi and Sith in the Ma
ndalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil War. Believed to have been born in the Outer R
im Territories, the man later known as Revan was born around the year 3994 BBY a
nd studied under a number of different Jedi Masters as a Padawan of the Jedi Ord
er. Becoming fast friends with a fellow student named Alek, the young man became
a Jedi Knight and was a vocal and charismatic critic of the Order's inactivity
in the ongoing Mandalorian Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Mandaloria
n warrior clans. Leading the Revanchist movement in defiance of the Jedi Council
's wishes and taking on the name of Revan, the Knight donned the mask of a falle
n Mandalorian as he joined the Republic Military's fight and was appointed Supre
me Commander.
However, when Revan defeated the Mandalorian leader Mandalore the Ultimate at th
e Battle of Malachor V in 3960 BBY, Revan and his friend Alek, now known as Mala
k, followed the trail of a mysterious Sith influence on the Mandalorian Wars to
the Unknown Regions, where the two discovered a reconstituted Sith Empire and we
re turned to the dark side of the Force by the Sith Emperor. Sent back to the Re
public as advance agents, the newly anointed Dark Lords of the Sith Darth Revan
and Darth Malak broke free of the Emperor's mental control and established their
own empire with the Star Forge, an ancient space station of great power that ha
d been built by the Rakata species. Using the Star Forge to construct a military
fleet and weapons, Revan and Malak waged war against the Republic in the result
ant Jedi Civil War. However, Revan was betrayed by his Sith apprentice Malak and
captured by the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan, who saved Revan and formed a Force bo
nd with her captive.
With his mind wiped, Revan was given a new identity as a Republic soldier by the
Jedi Council and stationed aboard the Republic warship Endar Spire. However, wh
en Malak attacked the Spire above the planet Taris in a failed attempt to captur
e Bastila Shan, Revan joined forces with the Republic officer Carth Onasi and a
number of other individuals on Taris to locate Shan and escape the world before
Malak destroyed the planet's surface. Revan and his friends traveled to the plan
et Dantooine's Jedi Enclave, where he was retrained as a Jedi Padawan. Sent on a
mission to locate the Star Maps, Rakatan artifacts that would lead the way to t
he Star Forge, Revan gained new allies and grew close with Shan during their tra
vels. However, when the group was captured by Malak, Revan's true identity was r
evealed and Shan was captured, forcing Revan and his crew to find the final Map
and locate the Star Forge on their own. Aboard the Star Forge, Revan brought a f
allen Shan back to the light side of the Force with his love and defeated Malak,
earning the Cross of Glory and the title of Prodigal Knight.
Revan married Shan and sank into obscurity for several years until his resurfaci
ng memories led him to leave his wife and unborn child behind in a search for an
swers in the Unknown Regions. Captured by the Sith, he was imprisoned for three
years until a former lieutenant of his named Meetra Surik rescued him with the h
elp of the Sith Lord Scourge. The trio's attempt to eliminate the Sith Emperor f
ailed, and Revan was held captive by the Emperor for three hundred years until h
e was finally freed by Republic forces. Taking control of the Rakatan Foundry, R
evan attempted to construct an army of extermination droids to destroy the Empir
e, but the Jedi Master died when he was defeated by an Imperial strike team.
However, the torture that he experienced at the hands of the Emperor had splinte
red Revan's mind, and though part of him attempted to become one with the Force,
the rest rejected death and clung to life, embracing the dark side. Taking cont
rol of the fanatical Order of Revan, he sought to destroy the Sith Emperor once
and for all by bringing the Sith ruler back to a physical form and killing him,
but both the Empire and the Republic joined together in an effort to stop him. R
evan's light side was unable to pass on and aided the coalition in defeating the
dark Revan, and though the Emperor was able to regain his strength, the two hal
ves of Revan merged and were able to die a final death. His legacy, however, wou
ld live on; the Sith Lord Darth Rivan, who lived during the thousand-year-confli
ct known as the New Sith Wars, chose his Sith name after reading a damaged manus
cript about Revan, and the Sith Lord Darth Bane discovered Revan's Sith holocron
on the planet Lehon and used Revan's teachings to develop the Rule of Two philo
sophy.
Contents[show]
Biography
Early life and Jedi training
"Revan had many Masters, Zhar, Dorak, Master Kae before Kae left for the War
s. 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."
?Mical[src]
Hooded jedi
The man later known as Revan
A Human male,[1] the individual later known as Revan[15] was born in approximate
ly 3994 BBY,[1] and some believed that he had been born in the Outer Rim Territo
ries.[2] The child who would be remembered as Revan was eventually discovered to
be Force-sensitive and was accepted into the Jedi Order.[12] The Jedi Master Kr
eia claimed to have been his first teacher in the ways of the Force.[2] Regardle
ss of the truth of her statement, the Human was trained along with a fellow stud
ent named Alek on both the planet Coruscant[12] and at the Jedi Enclave on the p
lanet Dantooine.[16] 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 youth
ful 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 Lama
r was wary of the student's desire for knowledge.[12]
The Jedi studied under a number of Jedi Masters after leaving the tutelage of hi
s first teacher, learning from Master Lestin, the Enclave's chronicler Master Do
rak,[12] and Arren Kae. The former Jedi hopeful Mical later claimed that Revan h
ad undertaken a thorough study of Force bonds and other uncommon Force powers du
ring his time as a Padawan.[2] Alongside Alek, the future Revan achieved the ran
k of Jedi Knight sometime before the year 3964 BBY,[17] and the two were widely
acknowledged as being among the most promising members of the Jedi Order. Howeve
r, 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.[12] By 3964 BBY, the man
was a well-known, charismatic, and powerful Jedi Knight.[17] According to Mical
, Revan returned to his first teacher in order to learn how to best leave the Je
di Order, though he did not follow through.[2]
The Mandalorian Wars
The Revanchist
"When the Mandalorian threat first arose, Revan and Malak were eager to defe
at the enemy of the Republic. But the council thought it best if we moved with c
are and caution. The true threat, the council feared, had not yet revealed itsel
f. 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 f
irst to join his closest friend. Others followed, many of our youngest and brigh
test, intent on saving the galaxy from the Mandalorian threat."
?Zhar Lestin[src]
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 l
arger 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 Mandalo
rian Neo-Crusaders. The Republic media branded him as the "Jedi's own crusader,"
[17] and the "crusader" gradually gathered a following of like-minded Jedi as th
e number of military and civilian casualties continued to rise.[2] Alek was the
first to join the cause, and his friend soon became considered to be the honorar
y "Master" of those who followed him.[17]
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The Revanchist meets with the Jedi Council.
With the backing of Alek and his other followers, the Jedi Knight decided to jou
rney to the war front against the wishes of the Jedi High Council so that he cou
ld 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 T
aris, but neither Draay nor any of the other Jedi there were willing to oblige.[
18] Not long after departing Taris, the Knight left Alek and the majority of his
followers on the planet Suurja while he himself investigated Mandalorian activi
ty 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 aft
er 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 Co
uncil 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 encounte
red Master Draay and, after a brief conversation about their views on the war, h
e departed to complete his assignment.[19]
The Jedi's followers, including Alek, were eventually rescued from the Mandalori
an scientist Demagol on the planet known as Flashpoint by the fugitive Jedi Pada
wan Zayne Carrick, who had been framed by his former Master Lucien Draay for mur
dering his classmates on Taris.[20] Once reunited with Alek and his followers, t
he 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 Reva
nchist 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. Thou
gh he was first referred to as "the Revanchist Leader" in news reports, the youn
g Jedi Knight soon became known simply as "the Revanchist."[17]
Over the course of the year 3963 BBY, the Revanchist continued to travel the gal
axy and bring his message of Jedi intervention to all who would listen.[21] A Ca
thar Jedi named Ferroh, one of the Revanchist's followers, brought the planet Ca
thar to the Revanchist's attention. Ferroh's entire species had vanished from th
eir homeworld[22] ten years prior,[8] and the Revanchist believing that the Mandal
orians were responsible began showing other Jedi the abandoned world in order to c
onvince them that the Mandalorians needed to be stopped.[22] 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.[21] Not long afterwar
d, The Revanchist was invited by Lord Arkoh Adasca, the head of the Adasca BioMe
chanical Corporation of Arkania, to bid on weaponized exogorths that the busines
sman sought to sell to any faction in the Mandalorian Wars. The Knight was unabl
e to attend the auction due to pressing business elsewhere, so he sent Alek in h
is place. Several Jedi had visions that Adasca's exogorths could change the cour
se of the war, so the Revanchist instructed his friend to ensure that the danger
the weapons posed was eliminated.[23] In the aftermath of the Adasca affair, th
e Revanchist was rumored to be arranging a meeting between several Jedi opinion-
makers.[24]
Hoodedjediandalek
The Revanchist senses the Battle of Serroco.
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 Mandaloria
ns' plans of conquest, reportedly by an insurrection within their own ranks, and
stated that the "interventionist path" sought by the Revanchist was wrong for b
oth the Republic and the Jedi. The Council approved his motion, which ordered th
e recall, or if necessary, detention, of the Revanchists.[25] The Jedi Council s
ent Alek back to the Revanchist and his followers with a final warning[26] after
Alek, now going under the guise of "Captain Malak,"[27] testified to the Jedi C
ouncil against the secret cabal known as the Jedi Covenant.[26]
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!"
?Revan[src]
The Revanchist was on Cathar again when Malak returned from Coruscant, but Maste
r Lamar and several other Jedi Masters followed him there. The Masters confronte
d the Revanchist and his followers, informing the young Jedi that the Mandaloria
ns were nothing special and demanding that the Revanchist movement disband. Howe
ver, in the midst of the discussion, the Revanchist discovered a Mandalorian mas
k underfoot. When he picked it up, the entire group of Jedi was enveloped in a F
orce vision of the past: hundreds of Cathar were storming toward the nearby beac
h, 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.[22]
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Revan dons the Mandalorian's mask and vows to avenge the Cathar.
One Mandalorian, however, flew in front of the Cathar and pleaded with Fett on t
heir 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 Cath
ar in their final moments, then she could perish alongside them as well. Fett sa
luted 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 Rev
anchist 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.[22]
Even the Jedi Council was affected by the details that were discovered behind th
e 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.[22] Officially, they still denounced Revan's actions
as unwise and too hasty, and continued to dissuade the rest of the Order from jo
ining Revan's cause. In reality, the Mandalorians' own actions made it impossibl
e for them to stand in the way of Revan's cause.[12] However, Revan came up with
a solution that would appease the Council and allow him to respond to the growi
ng 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 he
alers to work with the military, he proposed that the Revanchists be deputized i
nto the Republic Military as a Mercy Corps. The Council grudgingly agreed to Rev
an's request, and the newly formed Mercy Corps was placed directly under his com
mand.[13]
Revan Malak EGTW
Revan and Malak during the war
In the following weeks, the Revanchist Jedi joined the Republic Military in batt
ling the Mandalorians openly.[8] By that time, a Jedi named Meetra Surik had bec
ome one of Revan's most valuable lieutenants.[1] Revan quickly won a string of m
ilitary victories, proving himself to a capable military leader,[12] and in 3962
BBY Revan and Malak prevented the Battle of Duro from becoming an even larger d
isaster by bringing a fleet of Interdictor-class cruisers into the system and pr
eventing 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[28] and placed a third of the Republic Mi
litary under his direct command.[12] Under his leadership, the Republic war effo
rt began to push back the Mandalorians, but at a price Revan and Malak began to ad
opt a policy of victory at all costs.[12] While Revan was a military genius who
knew that the Republic's industrial might was the key to victory,[28] many of hi
s 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 le
adership, and the two Jedi developed a cold and calculating disposition unlike t
hat of a Jedi; they matched the Mandalorians' brutal tactics with tactics just a
s merciless.[12]
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 s
eries 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 Rev
an 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 t
he chamber to discover a Star Map a relic of the Rakata species that showed part o
f the location of the Rakatan space station known as the Star Forge.[12] Around
3961 BBY, Revan discovered another Star Map in the depths of the Shadowlands,[8]
a region of the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, and the two Jedi also briefly vi
sited the Sith tombworld of Korriban.[4] Not long afterward, Revan traveled to t
he 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.[8]
Showdown
Malak revan JMGD
Revan and Malak command Republic forces during the war.
"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 Jed
i 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."
?Canderous Ordo[src]
Though under the thrall of the dark side, Revan did not renounce the Jedi ways i
nitially, and he and Malak continued to battle the Mandalorians. When the Republ
ic sought to drive the Mandalorians off of Taris, Revan himself led a group of J
edi into battle in Taris's Undercity. There, Revan freed a group of slaves who w
ere 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 Reva
n's compatriots to join the Jedi Order. Not long afterward, Malak and Revan batt
led Cassus Fett at the star cluster Jaga's Cluster,[12] and Revan then ordered a
large part of his forces under now-General Meetra Surik to attack the Mandalori
an 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 ou
t his orders despite her weakened forces. The battle on Dxun lasted for months a
nd saw heavy Republic losses, with approximately ten Republic soldiers dying for
every Mandalorian death.[2]
In an effort to draw out the Mandalorians, Revan launched a campaign against the
planet Althir III that destroyed much of the Mandalorian army.[29] By 3960 BBY,
Revan had begun to use a lightsaber of a blue color,[30] and he had ordered the
construction of a superweapon known as the Mass Shadow Generator, which had bee
n designed by the Zabrak engineer Bao-Dur. The Mass Shadow Generator served as t
he centerpiece of an elaborate trap in the Malachor system, where he hoped to lu
re the Mandalorians into a final confrontation that would end the conflict.[2] H
e 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.[
1] 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 t
he battle in order to eliminate them.[2]
MtheUvsRevan
Mandalore and Revan engage in a battle to the death.
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 wa
s underway, and Mandalore realizing that defeat was inevitable decided to challenge
Revan to single combat. Accepting Mandalore's challenge, Revan engaged the warri
or in a duel to the death aboard Mandalore's flagship. Despite Mandalore's stren
gth, 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 betraye
d. Puzzled, Revan questioned Mandalore as to what he meant, and the dying man ex
plained that he had been manipulated by a red-skinned Sith into beginning the wa
r. The Sith had convinced Mandalore to help him uncover a Sith tomb on the ice w
orld of Rekkiad before he influenced the warrior into attacking the Republic, an
d Mandalore gave Revan Rekkiad's coordinates in order to prove he was telling th
e truth just before he died.[1]
Revan took Mandalore's Mask, his symbol of leadership, as his spoils of war.[1]
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 act
ivate 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 towar
d the planet into a massive gravity vortex. Countless ships were pulled from orb
it 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 Mandalo
rians suffered far more casualties than the Republic did. In the wake of the dev
astation, the Mandalorians who survived transmitted their unconditional surrende
r to the Republic forces.[2]
Rise of the Sith
Searching for answers
"So Mandalore was telling the truth."
"Did you really think his last words would be a lie?"
"Now what?"
"We have our proof. The Sith are not extinct. They have to be stopped."
"What about the Mandalorians?"
"Without the Mask, they are nothing."
?Malak and Revan[src]
Birth Darth Revan Darth Malak
Revan and Malak, shortly after the Mandalorian Wars
In the weeks that followed, Revan ordered that the remaining Mandalorians be str
ipped of their weapons and armor, and that they dismantle their basilisk war dro
ids. Knowing that they would only resume the fight if a new leader took Mandalor
e the Ultimate's place, Revan refused to return the Mask to the Mandalorians, an
d many of the warriors soon became bounty hunters or mercenaries.[1] Shortly aft
er the Battle of Malachor V,[12] Revan completed a new assassin droid named HK-4
7, which he based on the Czerka Corporation's HK-24 series assassin droid.[8] No
t wanting to repeat the devastation that occurred at Malachor, Revan decided to
use HK-47 in order to assassinate selective opponents.[12] When analyzing Revan'
s actions during the Mandalorian Wars and particularly at Malachor, HK-47 came t
o believe that Revan may have had an ulterior motive the droid believed that the d
evastation was meant to "break" the Jedi and make them loyal to Revan alone.[12]
After Malachor, Meetra Surik was left bereft of a connection to the Force, and s
he decided to answer the Jedi Council's demands for Revan, Malak, and Surik to a
nswer 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.[12] Malak urged Revan to kill Surik, but Revan refused, claiming
that the Jedi was "already dead."[2] Revan took Malak alone to Rekkiad, where th
ey 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 ord
er to seek out the Sith who had manipulated Mandalore. Before departing, Revan l
eft Mandalore's Mask in Dramath's sarcophagus to ensure that the Mandalorians di
d not rediscover it.[1]
Revan and Malak traveled alone to Nathema,[1] which was a world in the distant C
horlian sector,[31] and they were astonished to discover that the planet was com
pletely barren of the Force. There, the two Jedi learned the story of the Sith L
ord Vitiate, who had lived around the time of the Great Hyperspace War between t
he Republic and the Sith Empire a thousand years earlier. In 4999 BBY,[32] Vitia
te had convinced many of the remaining Sith to join him in a ritual of Sith magi
c, but the Ritual of Nathema had resulted in the extinction of all life on the s
urface of Nathema and the immortality of Vitiate, who took on the name of Sith E
mperor and gathered the younger generations of Sith before departing the remains
of the shattered Sith Empire.[1]
Revan Malak Sith Emperor
Revan and Malak confront the Sith Emperor.
Determined to locate the Sith threat, Revan and Malak followed the Sith survivor
s' trail to the storm-covered world of Dromund Kaas, which they discovered to be
the capital of a new Sith Empire. Posing as mercenaries, the pair spent months
learning everything they could about the Empire and its ruler, and they soon unc
overed the Emperor's plans for an invasion of the Republic. But instead of warni
ng the Republic, the two Jedi proud and overconfident believed that they could defea
t the Emperor alone, and they looked for a way to infiltrate the Imperial Citade
l in the Empire's capital city of Kaas City so that they could confront the Sith
ruler. The pair received aid from Yarri, a member of the Imperial Guard who pro
tected the Emperor, but the Jedi were unaware that all Guardsmen were bound to t
he Emperor's will and that she was leading them into a trap.[1]
When Revan and Malak arrived at the Emperor's throne room, the Sith ruler was re
ady for them instead of fighting them, the Emperor reached out and dominated their
minds, twisting the pair into willing servants and completing their fall to the
dark side before he scoured their minds for useful information. Anointing his n
ew servants as Darth Revan and Darth Malak, the Dark Lords of the Sith, the Empe
ror sent them back to the Republic as a vanguard to his own invasion, ordering t
hem to make use of the Rakatan Star Forge and to report back when they had crush
ed the Republic's resistance. Publicly, the Emperor announced that Revan and Mal
ak had been Republic spies, showing images of the pair to his people and proclai
ming that they had been executed in the depths of the Citadel.[1]
Dark Lord of the Sith
DarthRevan DarthMalak EGF
Darth Revan and Darth Malak as newly anointed Sith Lords
"When they left after the Mandalorian Wars ended, they were Jedi. When they
returned they were something else."
?Carth Onasi, regarding Revan and Malak[src]
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 da
rk side while plundering[29] the tomb of the ancient Sith Tulak Hord.[32] Among
the Sith relics he recovered from the tomb was Tulak Hord's mask,[33] and the tw
o Sith soon located the Star Map in the depths of the tomb of the ancient Sith L
ord Naga Sadow.[12] During this time, Revan created his own Sith Holocron, which
contained Revan's thoughts on the nature of the relationship between a Sith Mas
ter and apprentice.[16] 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 L
ehon system. However, their ship crashed on the planet Lehon upon arrival, and t
he two were taken captive by the native Black Rakata. Unable to understand the p
rimitives' language, Revan tore the knowledge from the One, the Rakatan leader.[
12]
Speaking with the One, Revan made a deal with the Rakata: in exchange for the th
eft 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 h
imself with them. During his time among the Rakata, Revan spoke to Ll'awa, a Rak
atan researcher who was attempting to restore the Force-sensitivity of his speci
es, and Revan reached a compromise with the Elders: they would open the Temple o
f 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 opene
d the Temple, Revan broke his word and entered the Temple with Malak, and the tw
o used the knowledge they gleaned from the Temple to shut down the disruptor fie
ld around the planet and to access the Star Forge.[12] Before departing, Revan l
eft his holocron in the lowest level of the Temple.[16]
The pair had broken free of the Emperor's control by the time they boarded the S
tar Forge[32] in orbit above the star Abo,[12] and the two former Jedi their minds
still twisted to the dark side interpreted the Emperor's mental commands as their
own desires.[1] Darths Revan and Malak declared themselves leaders of a new Sit
h Empire, and Darth Revan took on Darth Malak as his Sith apprentice.[32] Assumi
ng command of the Republic ships and soldiers who had followed him into the Unkn
own Regions, Revan made them into the military of his new Empire, and he used th
e Star Forge to manufacture ships, weapons, and other war materiel to supply the
m.[32] The Sith Lords quickly reclaimed Korriban, reestablishing the Sith Academ
y so as to supply their Empire with Sith.[8]
MalakRevanSithtroops-Timeline8
Darth Revan and Darth Malak lead their troops.
Revan had continued to study the Star Forge, and he soon learned that it was cap
able of far more than just the creation of weapons. Taking a fragment of the Sta
r Forge, no bigger than a fingertip, Revan experimented with it and discovered t
hat the device fed on whatever it was given whether it be the Force or simply basi
c 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 th
e care of a number of alien slaves in a large complex. The slaves, whose descend
ants 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."[34] Howev
er, Revan didn't know that the Star Forge itself could be a threat, as the Rakat
a'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 fact
ory" as a means to an end. He unwittingly minimized his exposure to the Star For
ge beyond taking a fragment and constructing his infinite fleet, which would ove
rwhelm the Republic. It was a decision that Malak would later criticize.[12]
For his first attack as part of a planned twenty-year campaign against the Repub
lic,[35] Revan used his knowledge of the Republic Military's inner workings and
attacked the shipyards of Foerost[32] 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.[32] When the Republic officer Saul Karath defect
ed to Revan's forces, Revan eventually promoted Karath to commander of the entir
e Sith fleet.[29] However, Malak ordered the Admiral to bombard the surface of t
he planet Telos IV with his flagship Leviathan, despite the fact that Revan had
intended to conquer the planet.[12] As the title of Darth was previously unknown
to the Republic and the Jedi at that point in time, many scholars later believe
d that Revan and Malak were the first Sith to use it, and they speculated that t
he title was derived from the Rakatan language.[16]
During the war, Revan ordered the assassination of a number of political figures
, including an Echani Senator[12] and Senators Mimas Yoon of Corellia and Lelin-
Dor of Serroco. It was Revan's intention to leave the Republic economy and milit
ary functionally intact, so that he could rebuild a stronger Republic[2] and con
front the mysterious threat Revan remembered in the Unknown Regions.[1] However,
the Echani general Yusanis learned of Revan's role in the Echani Senator's deat
h 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 partners
hip with Czerka Corporation, offering them a trade monopoly within the territory
of his empire in return for logistical and economic support. With Revan's suppo
rt, Czerka established their regional headquarters in the colony of Dreshdae on
Korriban near the Sith Academy.[12] A major part of Revan's battle strategy was
the capture and corruption of Jedi; any captured Jedi would be tortured and conv
erted into Dark Jedi and Sith, and Revan's specially-trained Sith assassins stru
ck at targets across the galaxy, capturing enemy Jedi and killing those who woul
d not turn.[2]
By 3957 BBY, Malak had begun to resent his Master, and he openly expressed his o
pinion that Revan was too soft to be a Sith while the two were aboard Revan's fl
agship. Malak's comments sparked a duel between the two that ended when Revan de
livered a lightsaber strike to his apprentice that removed Malak's jaw. Malak su
rvived 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.[8] Around that t
ime, 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 a
ll organics as such. The success of HK-47 led Revan to decide that more droids l
ike him would help maintain galactic stability,[12] and HK-47 became the basis f
or the HK-50 series of droids which were constructed on Telos.[2]
RevanVSBastila
Revan and Bastila battle aboard his flagship.
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 l
ed by the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan who was capable of battle meditation, a Force a
bility that strengthened one's allies and weakened enemies through the Force attac
ked Revan's flagship. Revan dispatched several Jedi and Republic soldiers when t
hey attacked him on the command deck of his vessel, but Shan and three other Jed
i arrived to confront the Sith Lord before he could leave the bridge.[12] Malak,
on his own vessel nearby, sensed that Revan was in danger and decided to take a
dvantage 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 Reva
n's ship.[12] Amid the confusion, Shan rushed forward and delivered a Force push
to the Sith Lord's chest, sending him flying,[16] Revan was critically injured
in the explosions and the fighting that followed. The only survivor of her strik
e team, Shan saved Revan's life with the Force and took him to safety forming a po
werful Force bond between them in the process. Shan brought the comatose Sith Lo
rd with her to Dantooine, where the Jedi Order healed Revan's broken body, and t
he Jedi Council decided to take action against Revan: joining together, the memb
ers of the Council wiped Revan's mind clean, erasing his memories and giving him
a new identity[12] as a soldier[32] from the planet Deralia.[12] Shan also secr
etly kept Revan's mask, which she had recovered before fleeing Revan's doomed fl
agship.[1]
Revan reborn
Soldier of the Republic
Aboard the Endar Spire
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Revan awakens
Revan awakens aboard the Endar Spire.
"One of our primary duties is to guarantee her survival in the event of enem
y attack! You swore an oath just like everyone else on this mission. Now it's ti
me to make good on that oath!"
?Trask Ulgo, on Bastila Shan[src]
In order to learn the source of Revan's fleet and the key to defeating Darth Mal
ak, the Council decided to rely upon Shan's bond with Revan and draw out his mem
ories 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.[12]
Now believing himself to be a Republic soldier,[32] Revan was enlisted in the R
epublic Military under a false name and with a false background, and he was assi
gned 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 hu
nting 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, hi
s 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 t
o locate Shan per their orders to ensure her safety. However, they were contacte
d by Captain Carth Onasi, who called for reinforcements at the Spire's bridge.[1
2]
Upon entering the next hallway, the two soldiers discovered a pair of Sith troop
ers 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 Da
rk Jedi battling each other. At Ulgo's recommendation, the two soldiers hung bac
k as the Jedi defeated the Dark Jedi, but an explosion from a nearby bulkhead ki
lled 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, bl
ocking 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.[12]
Escapepodkotor
Onasi and Revan's escape pod
As Revan headed toward the escape pods, he was contacted by Onasi, who was track
ing the soldier through the Spire's life-support systems. Onasi reported that Sh
an's escape pod had just launched, and that the two of them were the only remain
ing 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 thr
ough the next few corridors before Onasi contacted him again. Onasi suggested us
ing either the nearby assault droid or the ship's security systems against the l
arge group of Sith in the next chamber. Taking Onasi's advice, Revan finally rea
ched the escape pods and boarded the final pod with Onasi moments before the Spi
re 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 pl
agued by a nightmarish memory of Shan fighting Dark Jedi aboard Revan's flagship
, and he did not regain consciousness for several days.[12]
Searching for Bastila
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"I'm afraid your friend has become a pawn in Brejik's game to take over the
Lower City. He's offered her up as the Vulkar's share of the prize in the annual
swoop gang race."
?Gadon Thek[src]
Sith patrol
Revan and Onasi encounter a Sith patrol.
When Revan finally awoke, he was greeted by Onasi, who explained what had happen
ed after the crash and informed Revan of their duty to find Shan, as he was cert
ain that she had escaped the Spire before its destruction. With Onasi at his sid
e, 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 Ix
gil when he protested the search, and the two Humans were forced to defend thems
elves 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 promis
ed to move the bodies to ensure that the Sith would not come investigating.[12]
Continuing through the building, Revan received directions to the Upper City Can
tina and Kebla Yurt's Equipment Emporium from the janitor Kadir.[12] He also enc
ountered a number of the building's inhabitants, such as the former waitress Dia
,[36] 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, Rev
an and Onasi began exploring the Upper City, discussing Onasi's anger over the b
ombing 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 pai
r that aliens were filth infesting the planet.[12]
This section of the article assumes that the player chooses only "light side" op
tions in the course of the game. Alternate stories are noted in the "Behind the
scenes" section. Note: The events in this section may or may not have been confi
rmed as canon within the Star Wars Legends continuity.
Unidentified Aqualish (North Apartments)2
The Sith commander interrogates the Aqualish.
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.[12]
Assumption ends here.
However, they were barred from entering the Lower City, which they needed to pas
s through in order to reach the Undercity where Shan's escape pod had likely cra
shed, by the Sith troopers at the elevator because they lacked the proper author
ization papers.[12]
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 t
he 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 A
qualish, 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 t
he fight against the Sith. The Aqualish also told Revan to take the fallen troop
ers' armor as disguises before he departed to go into hiding, and Revan and Onas
i 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 decid
ed to give the man 200 credits to pay off his debt.[12]
This section of the article assumes 100% game completion of Star Wars: Knights o
f the Old Republic. Alternate stories are noted in the "Behind the scenes" secti
on. Note: The events in this section may or may not have been confirmed as canon
within the Star Wars Legends continuity.
Twitch-duel
Revan defeated Twitch, the current dueling champion.
Heading to the Upper City Cantina, Revan purchased a pazaak deck from a man name
d Garouk and used it to defeat a player named Niklos. While exploring the cantin
a, Revan interacted with a number of local patrons, such as Jergan, Christya, an
d a young noble named Gana Lavin. Revan also spoke with Ajuur the Hutt, who conv
inced 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 D
uncan, Gerlon Two-Fingers, Ice, and Marl, and finally the Rodian dueling champio
n 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 Janic
e, a droid ship run by Janice Nall, but the astromech droid T3-H8 that Revan pur
chased from her broke down upon leaving the shop.[12]
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 r
akghoul serum. which Sith patrols in the Undercity carried. The serum was an ino
culation against the virulent rakghoul plague, which would turn victims into the
mindless and infectious creatures known as rakghouls that inhabited the Underci
ty. 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.[12]
This section of the article assumes 100% game completion and that the player cho
oses only "light side" options when available during the course of the game. Alt
ernate stories are noted in the "Behind the scenes" section. Note: The events in
this section may or may not have been confirmed as canon within the Star Wars L
egends continuity.
While at Forn's facility, Revan discovered that the doctor had several injured R
epublic soldiers hidden in a back room. Forn had placed them in tanks of the hea
ling kolto substance, and Revan promised to keep Forn's actions secret from the
Sith.[12]
With their Sith uniforms, Revan and Onasi were able to access the elevator to th
e 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 crimina
ls in self-defense.[12]
Matrik and Revan
Revan agrees to help Matrik fake his death.
Onasi and Revan entered the Lower City Apartments, where they witnessed the boun
ty hunter Calo Nord's murder of the wanted Rodian Luugro and his friend so that
he could claim their bounty. Exploring the various apartments, Revan came across
a Twi'lek named Matrik who was a former employee of the Exchange criminal syndi
cate. Matrik explained that he had turned state's evidence against the Exchange,
causing Davik Kang to put out a bounty on his head, but Matrik had a plan to fa
ke his death with a permacrete detonator and asked Revan to bring him one in exc
hange for being able to claim the bounty on Matrik. Returning to the Upper City
and purchasing a detonator from Kebla Yurt at the Equipment Emporium, Revan then
returned to the South Apartments and helped Matrik set up the detonator to dest
roy his apartment, faking his death and allowing him to escape. While in the apa
rtments, the pair also encountered the assassin Selven, who attacked them upon t
heir entering her apartment, and the two killed the woman in battle.[12]
The two then entered the nearby Javyar's Cantina, where they witnessed Calo Nord
kill three Black Vulkars who had not heeded his warning to leave him alone. The
y also witnessed several people threatening a young Twi'lek girl named Mission V
ao but the arrival of Vao's Wookiee companion Zaalbar sent the others on their way
. The two Humans spoke briefly with Zaalbar and Vao before the two companions de
parted.[12] In the cantina, Revan encountered Holdan and confronted him about th
e bounty on Dia, convincing him to drop his grudge and withdraw the bounty.[36]
Revan also helped a Twi'lek woman named Lyn Sekla by serving as her partner for
a dance audition before Bib Surool, the manager for the Starlight Entertainers t
roupe. Speaking with Zax, the Hutt who ran the bounty office in the cantina, Rev
an claimed to have killed Matrik and received a sum of credits for his supposed
kill. While at the cantina, the soldier also encountered a Paaerduag named Ja'Ga
tcha, and also played a man named Gelrood at pazaak.[12]
Meeting Gadon
Revan makes a deal with Gadon Thek, leader of the Hidden Beks
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 Gado
n 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 th
at 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' swoo
p rider if he recovered the Beks' stolen prototype accelerator from the Vulkar's
base.[12]
Thek told Revan to locate Mission Vao, who would be able to get him into the Vul
kar base, and directed him to the elevator to the Undercity where Vao was curren
tly. However, the Sith trooper would not allow access to the elevator without th
e proper papers, so Revan traded Thek his Sith uniform for papers and headed tow
ard 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.[12]
Heading down to the Undercity, Revan and Onasi were confronted by two of the Out
casts who lived there, and when the pair demanded five credits for using the ele
vator, Revan instead gave them twenty credits. Another Outcast named Shaleena ca
me up to Revan and apologized for the others' behavior, and after a short conver
sation with her about the villager Rukil and the fabled Promised Land, Revan con
tinued toward the village's gate. A shopkeeper named Igear called to Revan and a
sked if he wanted to buy something, but a commotion at the gate drew Revan's att
ention. 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 Hen
dar was pursued by a rakghoul and he could not risk the creature infecting the v
illagers. Revan intervened, choosing to exit the village and rescue Hendar from
the attacking rakghoul before the man was infected.[12]
Mission needs help
Mission Vao begged Revan to help her rescue her friend Zaalbar.
Returning to the village, Revan met with the elderly Rukil, who was wary of Reva
n and refused to speak of the Promised Land, though he asked the soldier to loca
te 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 c
ontinued on his way to speak with the village's leader Gendar. Gendar directed R
evan and Onasi to where he had last seen Vao and Zaalbar, and the two departed t
he village in search of the Twi'lek and Wookiee. However, they almost immediatel
y encountered a frantic Vao, whom Revan managed to calm enough for her to explai
n that Zaalbar had been captured by Gamorrean slavers. Vao promised to help Reva
n enter the Vulkar base if he helped free Zaalbar, and she joined Revan and Onas
i as they explored the Undercity. When they encountered a Sith patrol, Revan sho
wed the commander his authorization papers, and the Sith pointed him in the dire
ction of where the most recent patrol had died. Fighting through the vicious rak
ghouls in the area, Revan and company located the body of a Sith soldier and rec
overed some of the rakghoul serum, and the trio also located the body of Malya a
nd recovered her journals. Revan, Vao, and Onasi soon encountered a patrol of Ex
change 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 po
ds.[12]
At one of the nearby escape pods, an injured Republic soldier begged Revan for h
elp, 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 severa
l other villagers whose infection had progressed to the point where they transfo
rmed into rakghouls.[12]
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 supp
osedly 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 re
cover the journals of his father and grandfather so that he could locate the Pro
mised Land. The trio then headed into the sewers nearby in search of both the jo
urnals and Zaalbar. While exploring the sewers, the three of them fought off a n
umber of rakghouls and patrolling Gamorreans, and Revan soon discovered the corp
ses of both Rukil's father and grandfather. Taking their journals, Revan then di
scovered 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 Zaalba
r 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 Rev
an with her friend, and she then offered to take the soldiers into the Vulkar ba
se as promised.[12]
Sewerrancor
The rancor in the sewers
Before they headed down into the sewers, Revan and company returned to the Outca
st 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 th
e Outcasts on the long journey to the Promised Land. Vao then led Revan and Onas
i back down into the sewers, where she showed them an access tunnel they could u
se 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 f
ight through Gamorreans, rakghouls, and malfunctioning droids, and they soon cam
e across a severed arm that was holding a datapad and several bottles of a synth
etic odor. Reading the datapad, Revan learned that the odor mimicked the scent o
f 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 i
nto the Vulkar base.[12]
Fighting through the Vulkars and their sentry droids, the trio encountered a ter
rified waitress named Ada, who explained that her father had sold her into slave
ry 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 d
isgust with Brejik's rule of the gang and his desire to defect back to the Hidde
n 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 h
e recommended slicing the security systems or acquiring a passcode from one of B
rejik's lieutenants.[12]
Meeting Kandon Ark
Revan and company encounter Kandon Ark.
Exploring the garage, Revan and company continued to defeat the hostile Vulkars,
finally locating the prototype accelerator but finding a Twi'lek named Kandon A
rk and several of his bodyguards protecting it. Ark tried to convince the soldie
r 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 deat
h of all of the Vulkars present. Having secured the accelerator, the three of th
em departed the Vulkar base through the front entrance,[12] and Revan first retu
rned to the Upper City in order to deliver the rakghoul serum to Forn. Forn imme
diately began the process of synthesizing it so that he could mass-produce and s
ell it at an affordable price.[37]
Upon returning to the Hidden Bek base in the Lower City, Revan delivered the pro
totype 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 pote
ntially explosive accelerator. Revan's companions returned to their apartment hi
deout in the Upper City while Revan spent a restless night in the Hidden Bek bas
e 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 R
edros 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 Vulkar
s' 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 quarterstaff and preparing to fight alongside Revan as Brejik scr
eamed for the Vulkars to kill the pair.[12]
Meeting Bastila
Revan and Bastila Shan stand victorious.
Revan and Shan emerged victorious, but the Jedi was ungrateful for his attempt a
t a rescue and arrogantly reprimanded Revan for his apparent foolishness. When t
he soldier explained that he was working with Onasi, Shan took a moment to apolo
gize, as she trusted Onasi's judgment and admitted that she could act rashly som
etimes. But as the two were leaving the swoop track to return to Revan's apartme
nt hideout, the man was overcome by a strange vision of Shan fighting a Dark Jed
i and then Revan, the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, aboard Revan's flagship. Un
aware that the vision was in fact his own memories surfacing, Revan brushed it a
side 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 passag
e 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 e
nd before suggesting they get to work on their search for a way off planet.[12]
Escaping Taris
"I've got a plan to escape Taris, but I can't do it alone. I need someone I
know can get the job done to help me. That's where you come in. I saw you win th
at swoop race, and I started thinking. Anyone crazy enough to race like that is
probably crazy enough to break into the Sith military base. I need someone to st
eal the Sith launch codes from the base. Without those codes any ship leaving th
e atmosphere will be disintegrated by the Sith fleet's automated defense guns. H
ere's the deal: you bring me those launch codes and I can provide the vehicle to
get off the planet Davik's flagship, the Ebon Hawk!"
Lets see Canderous
Revan, Shan, and Onasi meet with the messenger.
Before leaving the apartment, Revan spoke with Shan and informed her of the visi
on, which she was wary to confirm as a sign of his being Force-sensitive. The tw
o also discussed Revan's skills and his remarkable success in his attempts to re
scue 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 apartme
nt 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 Mandal
orian, he informed the group that he was seeking a way off planet, and that he w
ould 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.[12]
As the trio was passing the North Apartments on their way to Nall's shop, they e
ncountered an Ithorian being bullied by two Human children. After convincing the
children to leave, Revan gave the Ithorian a medpac to heal his injuries.[12]
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 exte
rior door to give them access. However, the receptionist was immediately suspici
ous 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 facili
ty, the three of them cut down all of the Sith troopers and droids who attempted
to attack them on sight.[12]
The trio soon came across a Duros whom Revan recognized as the one who offered t
o 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.[12]
Sith governor fight
Revan battles the Sith Governor.
After destroying a large shielded battle droid that was guarding the elevator, t
he trio descended to the lower levels of the base to find the planet's Sith Gove
rnor in meditation. The governor expressed surprise that he would encounter a Je
di 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. H
owever, 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 com
panion into Davik Kang's estate, and they would sneak to the hangar and steal th
e Ebon Hawk at an opportune moment. Ordo, Revan, and another companion then boar
ded Ordo's speeder and traveled to Kang's estate, where they were greeted by Kan
g himself and Calo Nord; Kang was curious as to why Ordo had brought visitors, a
nd 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. Ignori
ng Kang's request to stay put, the three of them proceeded through the estate, e
liminating the guards and bounty hunters who tried to attack them as they went.[
12]
Questioning some of the slaves, Revan learned that Kang's pilot Hudrow was locke
d up in the torture chambers, so the trio fought their way to the torture chambe
r 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 h
e was tired of waiting for Shan to be found. Revan and his companions reached th
e hangar at the same time as Kang and Nord, who also sought to flee Malak's orbi
tal 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 t
he 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 S
han ordered Revan to man the gun turrets and take out the pursuing fighters whil
e 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.[12]
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[src]
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 Co
uncil's request for a private audience, and Revan followed her into the Jedi Enc
lave.[12]
TheEbonHawkDockingWithTheJediEnclave
The Ebon Hawk arrives at Dantooine.
On the edge of the Hawk's landing pad, Revan was hailed by a Twi'lek named Lur A
rka Sulas, who explained that he worked for the rancher Rundil ot Sulem as an ai
de, and that he was in search of ot Sulem's kidnapped daughter named Sasha who h
ad been taken by Mandalorians many years before. Revan promised to tell him if h
e came across any information, and then continued on into the Enclave. Revan als
o encountered two salesmen, Crattis Yurkal and Karal Kaar, at the Aratech Mercan
tile at the landing pad.[12]
On his way to his meeting with the Council, Revan was confronted by a Padawan na
med Belaya, who berated Revan for failing to wear the proper Padawan attire. Bel
aya 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 abr
uptness 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 consider
ing to train him as a Padawan, and Shan was irritated by Master Lamar's skeptici
sm 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 re
trained 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 strang
e 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 Reva
n that an anxious Shan had already left for the Council chambers, and that she w
anted Revan to come as well.[12]
While at the landing pad, Vao and Revan encountered Lena, the old girlfriend of
Mission's brother Griff, and Mission was dismayed to learn from Lena that Griff
was the one who had convinced Lena to abandon Mission on Taris, not the other wa
y around. Lena told Mission that Griff was on Tatooine working as a miner, thoug
h she recommended that she stay away from Griff for her own sake. Around that ti
me, Revan played pazaak against a man named Sol'aa who was staying at the Enclav
e.[12]
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 we
re nearby on Dantooine. Master Lestin explained that Shan and Revan had develope
d 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 dea
l 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 hel
p the two grow stronger in the Force.[12]
Revan becomes an apprentice
Revan is welcomed into the Jedi Order.
Lestin often expressed his astonishment at the rapid pace which Revan learned th
e ways of the Jedi, and it was with pride that he finally welcomed the soldier i
nto 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 th
e Code, Revan was sent to Master Dorak to select what path he would take: that o
f a Jedi Guardian, a Jedi Consular, or a Jedi Sentinel. Revan was then sent to c
onstruct his lightsaber, crafting the weapon with the workbench in the Enclave's
training weapon, and he then returned to Lestin with the completed lightsaber.
The Twi'lek Jedi then sent Revan on his third and final trial: to cleanse the ne
arby grove of the taint of the dark side, though Revan could tell that Lestin kn
ew 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 o
f activity against the Mandalorian raiders who had killed his daughter Ilsa. Mov
ed by the farmer's plight, Revan agreed to take care of any Mandalorians he came
across, and he headed out away from the Enclave.[12]
The farmer Gar and his wife Rilka, who had come to the Enclave to seek Jedi help
against the Mandalorians, spoke briefly with Revan as the Padawan's party depar
ted the Enclave.[12]
Revan also encountered a woman named Elise Montagne, who begged Revan to bring b
ack her precious droid companion C8-42-GE3, and the Rodian merchant Adum Larp tr
ied to sell his wares to the Padawan.[38] As they headed out into the wilderness
, the trio were attacked by a group of the native kath hounds who leapt down fro
m the nearby hills, and the three of them were forced to cut down even more of t
he animals as they traveled south toward the grove. While crossing the grounds o
f the Matale estate, they soon happened upon a Mandalorian and several Duros thr
eatening a settler, and the settler tried to offer the lives of his wife and chi
ldren before the Mandalorian shot him. Revan and his companions dispatched the M
andalorian and the Duros.[12]
Heading further south, Revan encountered the Jedi Bolook during the Twi'lek's in
vestigation into the death of a Dantooine colonist named Calder Nettic.[39] At B
olook's request, Revan conducted his own investigation, interrogating the two wi
tnesses Nettic's business partner Rickard Lusoff and a man named Handon Guld and sur
veying the crime scene. In the process, Revan determined that Guld had been lyin
g about being out running, as he was not carrying a weapon like most settlers di
d, and that he had in fact had personal knowledge of the victim, as he had rente
d a speeder with Nettic several times. Guld claimed that his blaster had been st
olen 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 w
as also lying about his role in the events: the man claimed that he had been hun
ting iriaz and was staring into the sun when he heard the shot, but it was a clo
udy day. From his investigations, Revan determined that Guld had killed Nettic b
ecause 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 arres
ted by Bolook, who was thankful for Revan's help in the investigation.[12]
On the eastern edge of the grove, Revan finally located the source of the corrup
tion 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 himsel
f, Revan battled the Cathar and wounded her, driving her back and causing her st
op attacking. Exhausted, the Cathar introduced herself as Juhani and explained t
hat she had fled the Enclave after slaying her master Quatra. As his companions
recovered from Juhani's Force powers, Revan conversed with Juhani, discussing he
r actions and urging her to let go of her anger to seek redemption. After a grea
t deal of discussion, Revan finally convinced Juhani to seek forgiveness from th
e Jedi Council, and the Cathar Jedi departed the grove to return to the Enclave.
[12]
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."
?Bastila Shan[src]
Returning to the Enclave with his companions, Revan encountered Juhani and learn
ed from the Cathar that the Council had accepted her upon her return. Juhani had
not, in fact, slain her Master Quatra; the entire affair had been a test for Ju
hani, and her self-redemption had ensured that she passed. Speaking to Zhar Lest
in, Revan was congratulated and formally welcomed into the Order as a Padawan, a
nd Lestin asked him to meet with the rest of the Council. There, the Council exp
lained what Revan's next assignment was: to investigate the nearby ruins along w
ith Shan and determine what Revan and Malak had been searching for. Masters Toka
re 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 missi
ng. While they did not want to distract Revan from his primary mission, the Coun
cil believed that the Order had a responsibility to discover the truth.[12]
Sandral feud
Revan and Shan speak with Nurik Sandral.
While heading south to the Sandral Estate, Revan happened on the body of Casus S
andral on the eastern side of the Matale estate's grounds, who had been killed b
y kath hounds while investigating the nearby ruins. Revan delivered Casus's data
pad to the Sandral Estate, where he was let in by the Sandrals' droid and he inf
ormed Casus's father Nurik Sandral of his son's death. However, Nurik Sandral re
fused to reconsider the feud even in light of this revelation, leading his daugh
ter 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 R
evan to free Shen, as she had fallen in love with the youth. Revan, Shan, and hi
s other companion used the key to access the building's side door and fought thr
ough the family's security droids to locate Shen, who refused to leave without R
ahasia, and Revan convinced the girl to meet them outside of the estate.[12]
However, when Revan and his companions brought Shen to Rahasia, the group was co
nfronted by both Nurik Sandral and Ahlan Matale, who demanded that their childre
n come back with their parents. Fortunately for the children, Revan, Shen, and R
ahasia convinced Nurik and Ahlan to abandon their feud in light of their childre
n's love for one another, and the two men agreed to purchase a house for their c
hildren to live together. Heading east, Revan, Shan, and their companion fought
and defeated another raiding party of Mandalorians and Duros,[12] and they then
found Montagne's droid C8-42-GE3 under attack from kath hounds. After rescuing t
he droid, Revan learned that Montagne had become too obsessed with the droid; sh
e had begun treating him as her fallen husband, and so C8-42-GE3 had fled and tr
ied to commit suicide via kath hound. At the droid's request, Revan agreed to de
stroy the droid so that Montagne could move on from her husband.[38]
Having learned of a cave where lightsaber crystals could be found, Revan braved
the caverns, which were infested by kinrath spiders.[12]
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, a
nd he proceeded to attack Revan so that he could claim Revan and Shan's lightsab
ers for his collection. However, Sherruk and his companions were defeated by Rev
an and his friends, and the trio headed north to the ruins.[40]
Starmap2
The Star Map on Dantooine
Entering the ruins, Revan, Shan, and their companion were met by a droid that st
arted 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 s
peaking 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 w
ay to something called the Star Forge. To access the monument's secrets, the dro
id 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 compu
ter systems, inserting Revan's datapad so that the systems could assimilate Basi
c 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 earlie
r. Analyzing the map, the group identified Manaan, Korriban, Kashyyyk, and Tatoo
ine, but the map was incomplete, leading Revan to believe that there were simila
r maps on those other worlds, and the trio headed back to the Enclave to inform
the Council.[12] Near the Enclave, Revan informed Elise Montagne of her droid's
destruction, causing her to run off toward the Enclave in desperate grief.[38]
oses only "light side" options when available during the course of Star Wars: Kn
ights of the Old Republic. Alternate stories are noted in the "Behind the scenes
" section. Note: The events in this section may or may not have been confirmed a
s canon within the Star Wars Legends continuity.
Revan also informed the farmer Jon of Sherruk's death, and the grateful man forc
ed Revan to take his reward of 1,000 credits.[12]
However, Revan later encountered Montagne in the Enclave, where she had met a ma
n named Samnt; having come to her senses, Montagne thanked Revan for his help.[3
8] In the Enclave, Revan and Shan told the Council of their findings, and Master
Lamar sent the two Jedi and their companion back to the Ebon Hawk for the night
while they discussed the matter. Upon returning the next morning, Revan and Sha
n were appointed a mission by the Council: in order to stop Darth Malak and dete
rmine the source of his fleet, Revan and Shan were to seek out the Star Maps on
Kashyyyk, Tatooine, Manaan, and Korriban in hopes of locating the Star Forge. Ju
hani had also requested to accompany the two Jedi, and Revan's request to bring
his companions from Taris was also granted by the Council. On their way back to
the Ebon Hawk, Revan was stopped by Deesra Luur Jada, a Twi'lek who was being tr
ained by Master Dorak to succeed him as Chronicler. Luur Jada warned Revan to be
ware of the fierce terentatek, a creature that hunted Force-sensitives and feast
ed on their blood.[12]
The sands of Tatooine
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e Knights of the Old Republic strategy guide.
"You're a neophyte Padawan who's been saddled with the responsibility of tra
cking down these Star Maps. Why? That's not normal!"
?Carth Onasi[src]
Aboard the Ebon Hawk, Revan spoke further with Ordo about his war stories from h
is days as a Mandalorian, and also spoke with Juhani. The Cathar Jedi was gratef
ul that Revan did not hold her fall to the dark side against her, and she also o
pened up to her companion by telling him he story of how she became a Jedi. Whil
e on the Hawk, Revan was informed by Zaalbar that their emergency food stores we
re strangely running low. Obliging Zaalbar, Revan investigated the Ebon Hawk's c
argo hold only to find a young girl hiding behind one of the access panels. The gi
rl was Sasha ot Sulem, who spoke a strange mixture of a Mandalorian dialect and
a made-up language, but after a long conversation with the girl, Revan was able
to figure out what she was saying. Sulem had stowed away on the Ebon Hawk after
escaping from Mandalorians on Dantooine, and Revan was able to take the girl bac
k to Lur Arka.[12]
However, when Revan spoke with Onasi, he learned that the soldier was angry abou
t the way he had been left out of the decision-making lately, and the two became
embroiled in an argument about how Onasi viewed everyone just like his traitoro
us mentor Saul Karath. Leaving Onasi alone, Revan talked more with Shan, who was
interested to learn more about the man with which she was bonded. Shan question
ed Revan in order to study his character, and she was impressed by his honesty a
nd the way he treated their bond as a serious manner, because if Revan fell to t
he dark side, then she would also likely fall. Further discussion with Shan turn
ed to the subject of emotions and family, and Shan explained about how she had b
een taken from her family like other Jedi prospects. Shan also explained about h
er negative relationship with her mother, though their conversation soon ended.[
12]
EbonHawk
The Ebon Hawk in Anchorhead
Revan and company first traveled to the desert world of Tatooine, landing at the
spaceport in the city of Anchorhead, and Revan and Shan experienced yet another
vision of a Star Map in a cave surrounding broken relics. However, when Revan,
Ordo, and Shan exited their vessel, they were confronted by the Czerka Corporati
on docking bay manager, who attempted to force them into paying a 100 credit doc
king fee before Revan convinced him otherwise. As they approached the exit to th
e docking bay, an Aqualish approached Revan and informed him that a shipment of
gizka, a small creature, had been delivered to the Ebon Hawk. The Aqualish refus
ed to take the shipment back, leaving Revan to deal with the pests himself. Shor
tly after arriving in Anchorhead, Ordo, Revan, and Shan were confronted by a Man
dalorian man named Jagi, whom Ordo explained had fought with him at the first ba
ttle at Althir. Jagi had sworn vengeance on Ordo after he abandoned Jagi and his
comrades in order to bring the conflict to a quick end, and Jagi demanded that
Ordo face him in the Dune Sea for a final duel.[12]
As the trio left the spaceport, they encountered a Twi'lek woman named Malare, w
ho informed Shan that her mother Helena was ill and attempting to locate Bastila
. Shan's question as to her mother's location was answered almost immediately af
terward when they left the spaceport, as a Duros named Maana Demknot shoved past
them angrily and informed the group about an arrogant and rude woman named Hele
na whom he had met in the Anchorhead Cantina. The trio encountered a woman named
Sharina Fizark outside of Anchorhead's Hunting Lodge who struck up a conversati
on with Revan and proceeded to beg him to buy a desert hulak wraid plate from he
r. Fizark explained that her husband had been killed recently, and that his last
hunt had resulted in the wraid plate but she lacked a hunter's license and theref
ore could not sell the plate. Revan obliged Fizark, buying the plate from her, a
nd he later sold the plate himself.[12]
Entering Anchorhead's Czerka office, Revan witnessed an angry Duros named Dayso
Cooh storm out after a heated conversation with the Czerka representative. Speak
ing to the representative, Revan acquired a hunting license that would allow him
to leave the city after he agreed to deal with the recent string of attacks by
the native Sand People. Revan also inquired about Vao's brother, and after some
persuading, the officer told Revan that Griff had been captured by the same grou
p of the Sand People. However, when Revan left the building, Cooh came up to him
and asked him to find a peaceful solution to the Sand People problem. Cooh sugg
ested that he use a protocol droid to communicate, and he informed Revan that an
Ithorian salesman named Yuka Laka was offering a unique droid at his nearby sho
p.[12]
Dark Jedi Tatooine
The Dark Jedi attack Revan and his companions.
Entering Fazza Utral's Hunting Lodge, Revan sold the wraid plate to Utral for 50
0 credits, and also spoke with several of the hunters there, including Komad For
tuna. He also played pazaak with a man named Kudos in the Lodge. Revan's encount
er with the Gamorrean Gurke and his compatriots led Gurke to hint that Revan sho
uld watch his back in the dunes, and Revan and his allies departed the lodge not
long afterward.[12]
As the trio headed further into the city of Anchorhead, they rounded a corner to
find three Dark Jedi waiting for them. The Dark Jedi attacked Revan and his com
panions, forcing Shan, Ordo, and Revan to battle the three Force-users and kill
them.[12]
Revan and his friends also stopped in Motta the Hutt's swoop registration buildi
ng, and Revan used the swoop bike aboard the Ebon Hawk to prove his worth on the
track. After rising through the ranks, Revan agreed to help Motta sign a promis
ing racer named Nico Senvi but helped the racer get a better contract from the H
utt. When they arrived at the cantina, Bastila spoke to her mother and soon got
into an argument about their relationship, though the Jedi was dismayed to learn
that her father had died while searching for krayt dragon pearls in the Eastern
Dune Sea. Doubting that her mother was truly ill, Bastila reluctantly agreed to
recover her father's holocron if they came across it during their search for th
e Star Map. Revan also encountered a vendor named Junix Nard in the cantina and
played pazaak against a local named Furko Nellis.[12]
HK and Revan
Revan purchased HK-47 to help him communicate with the Sand People.
Entering Yuka Laka's shop, Revan learned that the Ithorian salesman was offering
a HK-47 protocol droid, though Laka was unaware of most of the droid's function
s, and the droid itself was rather uncooperative. Upon learning that it could sp
eak the Sand People's language, Revan purchased the droid. After that, Shan retu
rned to the ship as Revan, Ordo, and his new droid headed out toward the city ga
tes.[12] The trio were stopped, however, by a Jawa named Iziz, who begged Revan
to free his clan from the Sand People, and Revan agreed to aid the diminutive Ja
wa.[41] Revan then showed his hunting license to the gate guard Billan, who allo
wed Revan and his companions to leave the city and head out to the Dune Sea.[12]
Not far out from Anchorhead, Revan, Ordo, and HK-47 met a woman named Marlena Ve
nn, who informed the group that she had set up a trap for her husband in the des
ert before she returned to the city. Further out, they came across the wraid hun
ter Tanis Venn who was unable to move, as he was surrounded by his four hunting
droids droids which had been sabotaged by Marlena who had grown disgusted with her
husband's womanizing ways. Revan had to choose whether to repair Venn's K-X12 p
robe droids, which would explode if Venn moved, or leave the man to his fate bef
ore he continued into the Dune Sea. Approaching a downed sandcrawler, Revan and
company encountered a mining team who was suddenly attacked by several successiv
e waves of Sand People, whom Revan, Ordo, and HK-47 helped fight off before the
miners returned to Anchorhead.[12] Nearby, the trio met with Jagi and two Rodian
thugs. but before the duel began, Ordo explained to Jagi his reasons for leavin
g the others behind on Althir; his actions had saved the lives of many Mandalori
ans and had complied with Mandalore the Ultimate's philosophy of flexibility and
opportunism in combat. An aggrieved Jagi decided to commit suicide after realiz
ing that he had called Ordo's honor into question falsely. Jagi's death greatly
affected Ordo,[42] who returned to the Hawk in order to think over the recent ev
ents, and Vao joined Revan and HK-47 on their way out to the Sand People camp in
hopes of locating her brother.[12]
Sand Chieftain Revan
Revan speaks with the Sand People Chieftain.
However, when the trio came across a group of crashed landspeeders, Revan heard
a call for help only to find that it was a trap the call was a recording linked to
an explosive. Avoiding the grenade, Revan's companions were suddenly surrounded
by Gurke and his Gamorrean compatriots. Gurke demanded that Revan hand over his
valuables, but the Jedi was able to defuse the situation and convince them to l
eave. Defeating the various parties of Sand People that attacked them as they he
aded into the desert, Vao and Revan acquired two sets of Sand People robes and d
onned them in order to approach the nearby Sand People enclave without being att
acked but when they entered the enclave, the Sand People guard easily saw through
their disguise and prepared to attack before Revan ordered HK-47 to communicate
with him. Through HK-47, Revan explained that he came in peace, and the confused
Sand Person took the trio to his Chieftain. Revan asked the Chieftain if they c
ould come to a peaceful solution about the recent attacks on the miners, and the
Chieftain begrudgingly informed Revan that he needed a show of good faith. He p
lanned to move his tribe farther away from Anchorhead, but he needed to build up
the tribe's stores of water, and so he asked Revan to bring him a pair of moist
ure vaporators in exchange for the reduction in attacks.[12]
Revan, Vao, and HK-47 were then escorted out of the enclave, and the trio return
ed to Anchorhead and purchased two vaporators from Greeta Holda at the Czerka of
fice. Returning to the enclave, they handed the vaporators to the surprised chie
ftain, who had not expected them to return. Despite his surprise, the chieftain
agreed to honor his bargain about the attacks, giving Revan both his personal ga
derffii weapon as a sign of his favor and a map to the Star Map in the cave of a
krayt dragon in the Eastern Dune Sea. The chieftain also permitted Revan to tak
e both Iziz's kinsmen and Griff, and speaking with the Jawas, Revan informed the
m that they were free to go. Vao, Revan, and HK-47 also encountered Griff, and M
ission was dismayed to learn that Griff had in fact been the one to leave her be
hind on Taris, not Lena. She was further disgusted when her brother tried to per
suade her for credits, and though Revan gave him a few, she stormed away in disg
ust. Before fleeing back to Anchorhead, Griff asked Revan to come see him at the
Czerka office if he wanted to discuss another job.[12]
Departing the enclave, Revan and two of his companions headed toward the Eastern
Dune Sea, and when they approached the krayt dragon's cave, the trio encountere
d Komad Fortuna and witnessed another hunter be eaten by the enormous krayt drag
on within the cave. Speaking with the Twi'lek, Revan learned that Fortuna wanted
to kill the dragon because it was moving too close to Anchorhead, and the Twi'l
ek hunter asked Revan to help him use mines and a herd of banthas the food source
of krayt dragons to slay the great beast. Warning the Jedi that a tribe of Sand Pe
ople in the area would likely attack if Revan approached their herd of banthas t
hat was grazing nearby, Fortuna watched as Revan and his companions lured the ba
nthas toward the cave mouth, fighting off several Sand People, and the trio then
rushed back toward Fortuna and his speeder when the krayt dragon emerged. The e
normous creature was killed by the mines that Fortuna had placed, and the hunter
insisted that Revan take the krayt dragon pearl as a spoil.[12]
After Fortuna departed, Revan and his compatriots headed deep into the cave wher
e Revan had seen the Star Map in his vision. As the Padawan approached the ancie
nt device, it activated. Revan and his friends recorded the map's contents on a
datapad and emerged from the cave, only to find Calo Nord and a number of thugs
waiting for them. Nord, who had survived Taris's destruction, had been hired by
Darth Malak to hunt down Revan, Shan, and their allies, and Revan and the others
were forced to battle the bounty hunter and his mercenaries until Nord and the
thugs were all dead. Victorious, the three allies made their way back to Anchorh
ead.[12]
Helena and Bastila
Revan and Bastila speak with Helena.
Before they returned however, they acquired Shan's father's holocron from one of
the bodies in the cave, and before the group left Tatooine, Revan and Bastila r
eturned to the Anchorhead Cantina and spoke with Helena. With some convincing fr
om Revan, Bastila reconciled with her mother, learning that Helena's disapproval
of her husband's treasure hunting was had been out of a desire to protect her d
aughter, and Bastila gave 500 credits to her mother so that she could get treatm
ent for her illness. Revan also met with Griff, who asked the Jedi to help him a
cquire tach glands from the planet Kashyyyk so that he could recreate Tarisian a
le and then sell the drink for huge profits.[12]
During his travels, Revan visited Yavin Station, an abandoned Republic station i
n the orbit of the gas giant Yavin Prime, as the coordinates of the station were
in the Ebon Hawk's navicomputer. Revan met Suvam Tan, the Rodian merchant and i
nventor who lived on the station, and during one of his visits, Revan convinced
a group of Trandoshan mercenaries who were threatening Tan to leave. On his next
visit, Revan and his friends were forced to fight the Trandoshans to save Tan,
defeating the mercenaries and rescuing the Rodian inventor.[12]
Into the Shadowlands
"Match found? What the ! It always muttered something about 'rejected patterns
' for me!"
?Jolee Bindo[src]
LandingJets-KOTOR
The Ebon Hawk lands on Kashyyyk.
Revan and his company took the Ebon Hawk to the next planet with a Star Map: Kas
hyyyk, homeworld of the Wookiees. Just as before, Shan and Revan received a visi
on of the Star Map deep on the forest floor. As Zaalbar was a Wookiee, Revan dec
ided to bring him along when he departed the Ebon Hawk after landing at Czerka's
only landing pad on the entire planet. There, the trio were met by the Ithorian
Janos Wertka, Czerka's administrator of the planet that the company called "Ede
an", and Revan payed the docking fee. However, as they left the landing pad, Zaa
lbar stopped Revan and asked to speak with him. Zaalbar explained that he had be
en exiled from Kashyyyk twenty years earlier; when he had discovered that his br
other Chuundar had been making deals with Czerka's slavers and helping them acqu
ire a foothold on Kashyyyk, Zaalbar had attacked Chuundar in a fierce rage and e
ven unsheathed his claws an act forbidden in Wookiee society and one that saw him
labeled as a madclaw. Zaalbar's father had refused to believe Zaalbar's accusati
ons after the fight, and Zaalbar was forced to depart his homeworld in disgrace.
[12]
While near the landing pad, Revan played pazaak against a player named Fodo Medo
o.[12]
Revan also encountered Komad Fortuna near the landing pad, as the hunter had com
e to test himself against the creatures of Kashyyyk. Heading further along the w
ooden bridges that were strung high in the wroshyr trees, Revan passed Eli Gand'
s kiosk and spoke with the merchant, learning that Gand was holding a man named
Matton Dasol as an indentured servant so that he could pay off his debt. Gand cl
aimed that Dasol's crew had left him on Kashyyyk after failing to pay his debt,
leaving behind Dasol to deal with Gand. Heading further along the walkways, Reva
n and his companions defeated several kinrath spiders when the insectoids attack
ed, and Zaalbar was briefly overcome by the sights and sounds of his homeworld.[
12]
They soon came across a Czerka patrol led by Captain Dehno standing over a dead
Wookiee, and Zaalbar became enraged when they learned that Dehno had killed the
Wookiee when it had refused to follow orders. However, before violence broke out
, Revan convinced Dehno to back down and request a transfer to another posting.[
12]
Fighting through more kinrath and several winged creatures named mykals, Revan a
nd his friends were stopped from heading down a side path by a Wookiee warrior.
The guard was outraged at Zaalbar's presence and refused to allow them access to
the Shadowlands, the forest floor, without permission from the chieftain Chuund
ar. Despite Zaalbar's apprehension, the trio made their way toward his home vill
age of Rwookrrorro, though they encountered a trio of Dark Jedi and defeated the
ir attackers. Approaching the gates of the village, the three were stopped by th
e Wookiee guards who were also disgusted with the presence of a madclaw, and the
guards took the group to see Chuundar. The Wookiee chieftain decided to take hi
s brother hostage in order to force Revan's cooperation: he wanted the Jedi and
his companions to eliminate a madclaw who was interfering with Czerka's operatio
ns in the Shadowlands. Without another option, Revan agreed to Chuundar's demand
s, and he left the chieftain's hall to explore Rwookrrorro.[12] While in the vil
lage, Revan encountered the Wookiee Woorwill, who told Revan about a missing Woo
kiee named Rorworr.[43]
Bindo talks
Revan and Jolee Bindo, the Jedi who lived in the Shadowlands
Departing the village, Revan and his companions headed to the elevator to the Sh
adowlands, though they witnessed the Wookiee Chorrawl and several others fightin
g kinrath on the walkway. Chorrawl refused to speak with the Jedi even after the
y helped defeat the kinrath, and Revan continued on his way to the elevator, whe
re the Wookiee Gorwooken operated the basket to take the trio down to the forest
floor. Fighting through several of the native katarn lizards in the Shadowlands
, Revan was surprised to come upon an older Jedi fighting off a quartet of katar
n. The Jedi, a man named Jolee Bindo, told Revan to follow him to his camp nearb
y when the Padawan started to question him. At Bindo's hut, Revan questioned the
elder Jedi about the Shadowlands, though Bindo's answers were cryptic: he calle
d the madclaw "crazed with grief," and Bindo told him that there were "walls" in
the way that would prevent Revan from finding the Star Map.[12]
However, Bindo offered a solution: if Revan ensured that the Czerka poachers nea
rby left the Shadowlands, he would join their group and remove the "walls" in th
eir path. Exploring the area, Revan came across the damaged droid D-A02 whose re
cords showed it was from Matton Dasol's crew and that Dasol's crew had been murder
ed by Eli Gand.[12] Revan also found the body of a Wookiee whose datapad identif
ied him as Rorworr and the bowcaster bolt in Rorworr's body signified that he had
been killed by a fellow Wookiee.[43] Before doing so, Revan returned to the land
ing pad and spoke with Matton Dasol, revealing the truth about his crew's fates
by giving him D-A02's head; exposed, Eli Gand fled into the Shadowlands, and Das
ol decided to take over Gand's business in order to gain enough credits for tran
sportation off-planet.[44]
Heading north, Revan encountered the Czerka poachers and their leader Commander
Dern, from whom he learned that they were using sonic emitters to hold off the n
ative wildlife. When he was unable to convince the commander to leave, Revan spo
ke with the other Czerka personnel around the camp and convinced them to give hi
m their passcodes so that he could shut off the emitters. Having succeeded doing
so, Revan and his companions withdrew as a terentatek stormed through the now-u
nprotected camp and sent the Czerka employees running. The Padawan also recovere
d several tach glands from the Czerka supplies before returning to Bindo, and Re
van sent one of his companions back to the Hawk as Bindo joined up with Revan.[1
2]
Bindo then led the others back through the Czerka camp and further into the Shad
owlands where they came upon a shimmering repulsor field one of the barriers that
he had spoken of. Bindo was able to shut off the field temporarily, allowing the
group to head even deeper into the Shadowlands. They soon came across three Man
dalorians attacking a Wookiee named Grrrwahrr, leading Revan and his allies to j
ump to the Wookiee's defense. After the battle was over, Revan learned from Grrr
wahrr that a group of Mandalorians were using stealth field generators to attack
Wookiee hunting parties, and the injured Wookiee begged Revan to find the Manda
lorians and avenge his fallen companions. Heading south, Revan, Bindo, and a com
panion came across another Wookiee one whom Bindo recognized as Freyyr, the madcla
w that Chuundar had sent Revan to kill. The enraged Wookiee attacked the others
with his powerful warblade, forcing them to defend themselves.[12]
After a short fight, Freyyr collapsed and came to his senses, apologizing to Bin
do for his actions. Revan further calmed Freyyr by mentioning Zaalbar's name, an
d the elder Wookiee explained that he was Zaalbar and Chuundar's father. Freyyr
had been attacked by Chuundar and ousted almost a year after Zaalbar's exile, an
d the former chieftain requested a boon of Revan: he sought the blade of the leg
endary warrior Bacca, which was a sign of leadership among his people and would
help him challenge Chuundar's rule. The blade had been broken many years before
when the chieftain Rothrrrawr had fought the terentatek known as the Great Beast
, and the blade was still stuck in the beast's hide. Revan agreed to retrieve th
e blade and followed Freyyr's instructions to kill a viper kinrath and hang the
body from a vine in the ritual area, and Bindo, Revan, and their third companion
engaged the enormous terentatek when it emerged in search of the kinrath bait.[
12]
Kashyyyk Star Map talks
The Star Map questions Revan.
Revan and the others fought and managed to kill the Great Beast, retrieving Bacc
a's blade from its hide as well as a headband named the Circlet of Saresh an heirl
oom of the Jedi Guun Han Saresh who had been killed decades earlier while fighti
ng the Great Beast. Deep in the Shadowlands, Revan discovered the Star Map, but
the device did not activate on his approach, forcing Revan to talk to the large
and ancient computer next to it. The computer's holographic interface showed a R
akata, though Revan was unaware of the species at the time, and the computer sur
prised Bindo by recognizing Revan's visual patterns. The computer explained that
it was a terraforming machine over 29,000 years old, and further questioning of
the device revealed that the Dark Lord had erased evidence of his previous visi
t but the device needed to confirm that Revan was the same individual.[12]
To do so, the computer posed a series of hypothetical questions, such as whether
or not he would sacrifice a city in order to gain an advantage over an enemy an
d whether or not he would trust one of his allies not to betray him. When Revan
answered as a Jedi would, the computer eventually determined the test to be a fa
ilure and activated two defense droids to eliminate the group. However, while Re
van and his companions fought and destroyed the two droids, the computer scanned
Revan's neural patterns during the fight and confirmed that his patterns were i
dentical to the results of almost five years earlier. Therefore, the computer al
lowed him access to the Star Map, and Revan recorded the map's data in his datap
ad.[12]
Before returning to Freyyr, Revan and the others lured out the Mandalorians by d
isarming themselves, though they dispatched their Mandalorian attackers when the
y deactivated their stealth fields; after repeating the process a second time, R
evan discovered one of their swoop bike signal devices and used it to lure out t
he Mandalorian leader by activating the device. After they defeated the last of
the Mandalorians, Revan and the others returned to Grrrwahrr and reported their
success.[45]
Upon returning to Freyyr, Revan delivered the blade to the former chieftain, who
thanked the Human for his help and asked him to aid in the fight to reclaim Rwo
okrrorro from Chuundar. Freyyr urged Revan to meet him in the chieftain's hall b
efore he climbed the trunks of the enormous wroshyr trees around them to return
to his village, and Revan and his companions made their way back to the elevator
. However, Gorwooken had been made aware of Freyyr's return and attacked the Jed
i with two of Chuundar's other followers in revenge for Revan's betrayal, forcin
g the Jedi and his companions to cut down the furious Wookiees and ascend in the
basket elevator themselves. On their way back to the village, the trio were sto
pped by Chorrawl, who led them on a back route directly to the chieftain's hall
where Chuundar and Freyyr were in a stand off.[12]
Fighting Chuundar
Revan and the others fight Chuundar.
Chuundar refused to back down despite his father's possession of Bacca's blade,
claiming that his position and his ownership of the blade's hilt meant that he w
as still chieftain. As the two began to argue, Zaalbar brought the conversation
to a halt with a roar and begged his family to stop fighting, but to his dismay
only Freyyr agreed and Chuundar ordered his Czerka allies to attack.[12] In the
battle that followed, Chuundar,[46] his Wookiee guards, and the Czerka guards pr
esent in the room were killed by Freyyr, Zaalbar, Revan, and the Jedi's companio
ns. In the silence that followed, a saddened Freyyr thanked Revan for his action
s and asked Zaalbar if he wished to stay on Kashyyyk. However, Zaalbar stated th
at he intended to follow his life-debt, and when his father asked what boon he c
ould grant in reward, Zaalbar requested Bacca's Sword. Surprised, Freyyr was swa
yed by Zaalbar's promise to return with the blade when the time was right, and h
e ordered the sword repaired.[12]
Before departing the village with Zaalbar, Revan spoke with Woorwill and asked h
im if he recognized the bowcaster bolt casing that he had found on Rorworr's bod
y. However, the elder Wookiee Jaarak interrupted Revan and begged him to speak o
nly to him, as Woorwill recognized the casing as Jaarak's. When Revan questioned
him as to whether or not he had killed Rorworr, Jaarak refused to speak further
and told Revan to talk to Worrroznor, the Holder of the Laws. Worrroznor summon
ed both Woorwill and Jaarak when Revan presented the evidence to the Holder of t
he Laws,[12] and Revan chose to reveal that Rorworr was a slaver, thereby sparin
g Jaarak punishment.[43] Returning to the landing pad, Revan and his companions
found a number of Wookiees fighting and defeating the Czerka employees there, dr
iving the company off of their homeworld.[47]
Searching the oceans
"It is strange that anyone would have built a Star Map here; the entire surf
ace of Manaan is covered by nothing but vast oceans."
?Bastila Shan[src]
Departing Kashyyyk, Revan and his crew then flew the Ebon Hawk to the water worl
d of Manaan, where they landed at Docking Bay 26-C on the floating metropolis of
Ahto City. Departing the Hawk with Bindo and another companion, Revan encounter
ed a Sith soldier arguing with a Republic soldier, though their conversation end
ed when the Sith reminded the Republic soldier that the Selkaths' laws prevented
any violence between the two governments on Manaan. Speaking with the Republic
soldier after the Sith soldier departed, Revan learned of the tense political ba
lance on Manaan. The Empire and the Republic were both forced to coexist peacefu
lly on Manaan in order to maintain good relations with the native Selkath and th
us continue to receive shipments of the healing kolto. Afterwards, the soldier g
ave Revan directions to the Republic Embassy.[12]
While in the spaceport, Revan encountered the Selkath Nubassa, who was a collect
or of exotic creatures. Despite Nubassa's reluctance, Revan convinced him to tak
e the gizka on the Hawk, thereby removing the creatures from his starship.[12]
Sunry and Revan
Revan speaks with Sunry in the Ahto jail.
Departing the spaceport, Revan paid the docking fee of 100 credits and began exp
loring the city, heading to the Ahto West district. There, Bindo and Revan were
stopped by a frantic woman named Elora, who recognized Bindo and begged him to h
elp her husband Sunry. An old friend of Bindo's, Sunry was under arrest and was
accused of murdering a woman named Elassa Huros.[12] Revan agreed to help Elora
and proceeded to the Ahto High Court nearby, where he witnessed a court trial ab
out a fight between Sith and Republic soldiers. Speaking to Judge Shelkar, Revan
was permitted to become the Arbiter of Sunry's trial.[48] Speaking with Sunry i
n the Ahto jail, Revan learned that the elderly man had been arrested after Huro
s was murdered in the Ahto City Visitor's Hotel, and Sunry told Revan that the p
olice had found his Hero's Cross in Huros's room in the hotel. Revan also spoke
with Elora, who tearfully admitted to her belief that Sunry had been having an a
ffair after Revan and Bindo pressed her.[12]
In the Ahto City cantina, Revan encountered the Selkath Nilko Bwaas, who express
ed his suspicion about the Republic's recent increase in their hiring of mercena
ries and asked Revan to investigate, and Canderous Ordo also encountered his for
mer comrade Ergeron. Revan also spoke with a pazaak player named Jolan Aphett an
d an elderly gambler named Gonto Yas, who dropped hints about Sunry and Elassa H
uros's relationship.[12]
The Selkath Shaelas stopped Revan in the cantina and told him about the recent s
tring of disappearances among the Selkath youth of Ahto City, and Revan agreed t
o investigate the situation.[49] From an Iridonian mercenary, Revan learned that
the Selkath youth, including Shaelas's daughter Shasa, that the Sith were respo
nsible and they had been lured to the Sith Embassy. Reporting the news to Shaela
s, Revan agreed to retrieve Shasa from the embassy if he could.[12]
Revan was approached by a Twi'lek named Senni Vek, who handed him a datapad and
claimed that Revan had dropped it. The datapad contained a cryptic message askin
g Revan to meet Hulas on Manaan. When Revan complied, he learned that the Rodian
Hulas was a member of the shadowy GenoHaradan assassin guild, and turned down H
ulas's offer of employment.[12]
In the Ahto East Central district, Revan witnessed a group of Republic and Sith
soldiers arguing about the war and the destruction of Taris, though the Selkath
laws of neutrality prevented any violence. At the Visitor's Hotel, Revan spoke w
ith the owner Ignus, who told the Jedi that Sunry had left after the shot had be
en fired and that he had been running remarkably fast for a cripple. Further que
stioning of Ignus led the hotel owner to reveal that Elassa had been renting a r
oom every week for meetings with Sunry, and Ignus believed that the two had been
having an affair. The pazaak player Firith Me was one of the hotel's residents,
and Revan persuaded him to reveal that he had seen a lightsaber on Elassa's bel
t she had been a Sith. Questioning the Rodian Gluupor, Revan learned that Gluupor
had been hired by a Sith to plant Sunry's Hero Cross in Elassa's room shortly af
ter her murder. When Revan was leaving the hotel, a mysterious man halted him an
d told the Jedi that Sunry and Elassa had been "proxies" for their governments;
he urged Revan to search the respective embassies to discover the truth.[12]
Talking with Wann
Roland Wann asked Revan to break into the Sith Embassy in order to retrieve a va
luable Republic droid.
Meeting up with Onasi and Shan,[50] Revan made his way to the Republic Embassy a
nd spoke with the Republic official Roland Wann. Wann hinted that he knew someth
ing about the Star Map, but before he would talk, he needed Revan to do somethin
g for him. The Sith had captured a damaged Republic submersible droid twelve hou
rs earlier, and the information in the droid's memory core was too valuable to a
llow the Sith to decrypt the core. When Revan agreed, Wann offered three ways of
gaining access to the Sith Embassy: interrogating a prisoner, reprogramming an
access card, or retrieving one from Sith personnel at the docking bay.[12] In th
e Ahto East district, Revan competed on the Ahto City swoop track. After helping
an Ithorian named Queedle Molto upgrade his swoop to become Sector Champion, Re
van outraced every other competitor, even Molto, taking the Ithorian's title.[51
]
Revan and his companions then used their card to access the embassy, but the rec
eptionist recognized that the access card was out of date and called in a Sith o
fficer and other guards.[12]
The trio were forced to fight the embassy's personnel, and they encountered and
defeated several Dark Jedi while exploring the complex. While in the building, R
evan met Shaelas's daughter Sasha and several other Selkath initiates who were t
raining to become Sith. Revan's attempts to convince the Selkath to leave failed
, as they had been brainwashed by the Sith teachings, and so Revan left them to
find actual proof of the Sith treachery. He found it in the form of a wounded Se
lkath named Galas, who gave the Jedi a token that he had given to Shasa when the
y were children, and before he died Galas begged Revan to show Shasa the truth.
When he did so, Shasa was dismayed to learn that Galas had been tortured for try
ing to leave, and she and her friends fled the embassy and abandoned the dark si
de teachings.[49] Revan and his companions also located the damaged droid in the
ir search of the embassy and recovered the data core, and while at the embassy,
Revan covertly accessed the embassy's systems and discovered a recording of Sunr
y killing Elassa Huros.[12]
Damaged droid
Revan managed to find the Republic droid before the Sith had taken its memory co
re.
While in the embassy, Revan and his companions confronted the Sith Master in cha
rge of all Sith activity on Manaan and defeated him and his apprentices, retriev
ing the Sith's datapad that described the Empire's plans to plans to corrupt the
Selkath youth with the dark side. However, when Revan and the others departed t
he embassy, they were confronted by a Selkath official and several security droi
ds. The Selkath proceeded to arrest the trio on account of the large number of w
eapon discharges and the lack of communications from the embassy, and they were
taken to the Ahto High Court in Ahto East. Revan chose to represent himself upon
realizing that his appointed Arbiter Bwa'lass was inexperienced,[12] and he pre
sented the Sith Master's datapad to the court as proof that the Sith were attemp
ting to conquer Manaan. In gratitude, the court released Revan and instituted he
avy sanctions against the Sith Empire.[52]
With the new evidence recovered from the embassy, Revan returned to Sunry and sh
owed him the recording on his datapad. Sunry admitted to be working with Republi
c Intelligence and claimed to have killed Huros, but Revan was unsure of Sunry's
reasons for doing so. The first witness in the trial was Ignus, who testified t
hat Sunry had left the hotel after the shot. Next up was Firith Me, and Revan ob
jected to the Sith prosecutor's attempts to slander Me's reputation as a witness
because he was a pazaak player. During his questioning of Me, Revan revealed th
at Me had seen Sunry leave but that he had not actually seen the murder, and Me
also admitted that he knew Huros was a Dark Jedi.[12]
The next witness was Gluupor, who Revan convinced to testify about planting the
medal despite the prosecutor's attempts to intimidate the Rodian. When Elora cam
e to the stand, Sunry's wife admitted that he was having an affair, but her husb
and had been about to end it when Huros was killed. Revan's closing arguments sa
w the Jedi remind the judges that no one had actually witnessed the murder, and
he posited that the Sith had killed Huros when Sunry had ended the affair.[12] W
ith the evidence presented to them, the judges found Sunry innocent, and they al
so ordered that the Sith Empire would have to pay for a portion of the Republic'
s kolto exports for a year.[48]
After the trial, Revan and his companions headed to the cantina, where they info
rmed Shaelas of what had happened to Shasa, and Revan refused Shaelas's reward o
f 100 credits.[12]
Hrakert station sub
The sub docks at Hrakert Station.
Returning to the Republic Embassy, Revan delivered the data to Roland Wann, who
fulfilled his promise and revealed the existence of a secret Republic research s
tation named Hrakert Station deep in the oceans, located at a place called the H
rakert Rift. The facility was in violation of the neutrality treaty on Manaan, b
ut construction of the facility had come to a halt when the workers came across
an artifact of an ancient species, and communications from the station had since
ceased. The Republic had been hiring a number of mercenaries in order to send t
hem down and investigate, but none of them had returned, and Wann had prepared a
submarine for Revan and his companions to take to the station. Descending to th
e facility, Revan docked the submersible in the damaged hangar bay, but he and h
is companions were confronted by a terrified Twi'lek mercenary who begged them t
o help him escape.[12]
The mercenary explained that the Selkath workers at the station had gone insane,
attacking everyone and going rabid. When Revan refused to be dissuaded from his
mission, the mercenary staunchly refused to help them any more and decided to s
tay in the hangar as Revan and his friends entered Hrakert Station. Fighting thr
ough the damaged security droids and the insane Selkath within the damaged hallw
ays of the station, Revan acquired both an environmental suit and several sonic
emitters that the now-dead scientists had developed to counter the firaxan shark
s that inhabited the waters outside the station. Revan also found a surviving so
ldier who had locked himself in a storage locker, but the Jedi was unable to con
vince the crazed man to come out. When he failed to find anything else in the st
ation, Revan donned the environmental suit and exited the station's airlock, lea
ving his companions behind as he headed out to the sea floor. Revan encountered
a surviving mercenary in the flooded part of the station, though when Revan acco
mpanied the mercenary on his attempt to access the station's kolto harvester and
therefore open the station's second hangar, the survivor was eaten by a firaxan
shark.[12]
Using a sonic emitter, Revan protected himself from the firaxan prowling the wat
ers nearby and made his way to the Kolto Control section of the facility. Fighti
ng through more insane Selkath, Revan encountered two terrified Human scientists
hiding behind a forcefield, and the fear-crazed researchers tried to starve Rev
an of oxygen by venting the chamber he was in before he convinced them to drop t
he forcefield. Speaking with the two, whom Revan learned were Kono Nolan and Sam
i, the Jedi listened as the scientists explained how the station was a joint eff
ort between the Republic and moderates in the Selkath government, and a giant fi
raxan shark had risen up out of the Hrakert Rift not long after the construction
crews uncovered an ancient ruin. The shark had unleashed a powerful mental scre
am that drove the Selkath in the station insane and nearly drove the others mad,
and Nolan urged Revan to use a recently developed toxic compound to kill the fi
raxa sharks and the giant shark.[12]
Man starmap
Revan locating a Star Map on the ocean bed of Manaan.
However, Sami convinced Revan to destroy the kolto harvester instead, as it woul
d make the giant firaxan leave, and Revan agreed to do so. Donning his environme
ntal suit once more, Revan headed out into the Hrakert Rift and activated the ha
rvester's controls, manipulating the pressure in order to destroy the machinery.
Once the harvester was destroyed, the giant firaxan moved aside and allowed Rev
an to access the Star Map,[8] and Revan then headed back into the research facil
ity in order to meet up with his companions. However, as they headed back to the
submersible, Revan and his friends encountered two Dark Jedi and Darth Bandon,
Malak's Sith apprentice and the same Sith who had killed Trask Ulgo on the Endar
Spire. Bandon and his allies proceeded to attack Revan and his companions, but
Bandon was unable to overcome his enemies and fell to Revan's blade.[12]
Returning to the Republic Embassy via the submersible, Revan and his companions
were met by Roland Wann, who was eager to learn of what had happened at Hrakert
Station. Wann was dismayed to learn that the harvester was destroyed, but he was
relieved to know that the kolto had not been damaged and he let the trio leave
without further questioning. However, when Revan and the others left the embassy
, they were confronted by several Selkath who ordered them to come in for questi
oning: the explosions in the Rift had not gone unnoticed. When questioned by the
High Court, Revan explained about Hrakert Station, the existence of which some
of the judges were aware of, and the way that the giant firaxan shark had driven
everyone insane. The Selkath were astonished to learn of the shark what they call
ed the Progenitor and were relieved to find out that Revan had chosen to destroy t
he harvester rather than kill the shark. Thanking the Jedi, the High Court allow
ed Revan and his companions to depart in peace.[12]
Before departing Manaan, Revan returned to Nilko Bwaas, as the Selkath had claim
ed to be a concerned friend of the Republic. Revan informed Bwaas of the need to
protect the Hrakert Rift facility, and a relieved Nilko promised to try and cov
er for the Republic if the issue came to light. During Revan's time on Manaan, h
e visited the merchants Tyvark Luowan and Yortal Ixlis, the latter of whom was b
eing mocked by a Sith soldier when Revan entered his shop.[12]
Captured by the Leviathan
"You cannot hide from what you once were, Revan! Recognize that you were onc
e the Dark Lord - and know that I have taken your place!"
?Darth Malak[src]
Their mission on Manaan concluded, Revan and his companions returned to the Ebon
Hawk and departed Manaan. However, as they set off for Korriban, the site of th
e fifth and final Star Map, the Ebon Hawk was pulled from hyperspace by a Sith I
nterdictor cruiser a cruiser that Onasi recognized as the Leviathan, Saul Karath's
vessel. Caught by the Leviathan's tractor beam, the crew gathered in the main c
abin and Revan urged Onasi to not do anything that would endanger the others. At
Shan's suggestion, one of the crew members other than herself, Onasi, and Revan
was tasked with freeing the crew once they got aboard the enemy vessel.[12]
CrewEbHwkTortured
Revan, Bastila, and Carth are tortured by Saul Karath.
The Hawk was quickly boarded and the crew captured, and Revan, Onasi, and Shan w
ere stripped of their equipment and placed in force cages. Admiral Karath soon a
rrived to oversee their torture, and he began by taunting Onasi when the Republi
c officer became furious at Karath's presence. Turning to Shan and Revan, Karath
began to question them, but his comments about Revan's questionable loyalty wer
e only met with confusion by the amnesiac Jedi, who refused to talk even when Ka
rath began torturing Shan. Despite the pain he felt at Shan's torture, Revan ref
used to give up the location of the Jedi Enclave or the purpose of their mission
, though both Jedi were dismayed to learn that the Dantooine Enclave had been de
stroyed by Malak only a few days earlier. Karath activated all three force cages
and sent his captives collapsing into unconsciousness before he departed to pre
pare for Darth Malak's arrival, as the Sith was in another sector.[12]
When Revan finally regained consciousness, Onasi and Shan were already awake and
discussing how they needed to escape. Shan thanked Revan for remaining strong,
though she admitted to her friend that part of her had wanted him to give in jus
t so that the pain would stop. Shan then informed the other two that she could s
ense Darth Malak's approaching presence, and the three waited anxiously for thei
r companion to rescue them. When their companion reached the brig and freed the
entire crew, Onasi informed the group where to find their gear and where the tra
ctor beam controls on the bridge would be. Onasi, Revan, and Shan decided to mak
e their way to the bridge and disable the tractor beam, and Revan instructed Ord
o to take the rest of the crew to the hangar and secure the Hawk.[12]
Heading to the command deck, Revan and the other two fought their way through Si
th soldiers and Dark Jedi and tried to access the bridge. However, that section
was sealed off as part of the emergency lockdown that had been instituted when t
he crew's escape was noticed, so the trio acquired space suits and accessed the
airlock so that they could walk along the Leviathan's exterior catwalks. Accessi
ng the bridge, Revan, Onasi, and Shan were confronted by Admiral Karath, two Dar
k Jedi, and a number of Sith troopers, whom they proceeded to battle and defeat.
However, Revan urged Onasi not to give in to his hatred as he stood over the fa
llen admiral, and Karath told Onasi with his dying breath about the true identit
y of his companion. Enraged, Onasi turned to Shan, and the Jedi admitted that it
was the truth but begged him to remain quiet until they returned to the Ebon Ha
wk. Confused as to what they were talking about, Revan nonetheless deactivated t
he hangar and the lockdown so that they could access the Hawk, and the three of
them fought their way through more Sith troopers and Dark Jedi on their way to t
he hangar.[12]
Fight aboard the Leviathan
Darth Malak reveals the truth to his former friend and Master aboard the Leviath
an.
However, after Ordo contacted Revan that the crew was ready, Revan and the other
s were confronted by Malak himself in the Leviathan's access passageways, and On
asi's attempts to shoot the Sith Lord only saw the officer go flying backward. M
alak was amused to finally have a "reunion" in such an unexpected fashion, and h
e revealed the truth of Revan's identity to his former master. A disbelieving Re
van learned from Shan that Malak was speaking the truth, and Malak used the Forc
e to freeze Shan and Onasi in place as he drew his red lightsaber. Drawing his o
wn, Revan engaged Malak and battled the Sith Lord back and forth across the pass
ageway, eventually weakening Malak to the point where he fled deep into the pass
ages and activated blast doors behind him. Pursuing his former student, Revan fi
nally caught up with Malak and continued to fight him, driving the Sith Lord bac
k. However, Malak managed to freeze Revan in place with the Force, and it was on
ly thanks to the quick arrival of Shan and Onasi that Revan was saved from death
.[12]
Charging Malak, Shan urged Revan and Onasi to hurry up and run, and despite Reva
n's protests she sealed the blast door with her and Malak on the other side. Rev
an wanted to help Shan, but he went with Onasi and the two raced to the Ebon Haw
k. Boarding the freighter, Revan took the guns while Onasi piloted the ship away
from the Leviathan. When they were safely on their way to Korriban, Revan and O
nasi met with the rest of the crew in the main cabin and explained what had happ
ened to Shan though Onasi demanded that Revan tell the others the truth. Vao was a
stonished to learn of Revan's true identity but didn't care, as she trusted the
friend she had made, and Zaalbar agreed with his Twi'lek friend. Bindo admitted
to being already aware of the truth, and Ordo swore that he would follow Revan the
greatest warrior of his age to the end, while HK-47 announced that his homing sys
tems had activated upon being returned to his original master: Revan. Convinced
by the others, Onasi came to realize that he could not hate Revan for what he ha
d done as a Sith Lord, and he agreed to continue on their mission with the other
s.[12]
The heart of the Sith
"We are in the sacred tomb of Naga Sadow, young one, the one discovered by D
arth Malak and Darth Revan years ago. You are to follow in their footsteps and r
each the ancient Star Map that lies deep within."
?Uthar Wynn sends Revan on his final test[src]
Arriving on Korriban, the group landed at the colony of Dreshdae, where the spac
eport manager recognized Revan as a Jedi and imposed a 25 credit docking fee bec
ause he was the owner of the Ebon Hawk. After paying the fee, Revan and his crew
headed into the colony, only to witness the Sith acolyte Shaardan toying with s
everal Sith hopefuls. When he became bored, he questioned Revan as to what he sh
ould do with them, and Revan convinced him to let them go instead of killing the
m. Heading further into the colony, Revan and his allies were confronted by the
Sith acolyte Lashowe and several of her friends who tried to intimidate the Jedi
but failed.[12]
While on Korriban, Revan stopped by the weapons merchant B'ree in Dreshadae. Als
o during his time in the settlement, the Rodian Lurze Kesh asked Revan to delive
r a shipment of spice that was already aboard the Ebon Hawk, which Revan complie
d to and got paid for. Kesh then offered Revan a chance to make more money and a
sked him to deliver a box to Motta the Hutt on Tatooine, but warned him not to o
pen it. Revan opened the box anyway and found that his mind had become trapped i
nside the container, which was in fact a Rakatan mind prison. Revan escaped the
prison by beating its Rakatan occupant in a game of riddles, and he proceeded to
deliver the prison to Motta.[12]
Questioning the Czerka representative at the Czerka office and others around the
colony, Revan learned of the existence of the Valley of the Dark Lords, and he
headed outside to the Sith Academy in order to try and gain entrance to the Vall
ey through there. However, the guard would not allow him access without a Sith m
edallion that was a symbol of his being an acolyte, and the guard told Revan to
seek out the Sith Master Yuthura Ban. Heading to the Drunk Side, the Dreshdae ca
ntina, Revan spoke with Ban and attempted to convince her of his sincerity in jo
ining the Sith, but Ban refused to grant him a medallion and Revan departed to s
earch for another way in.[12]
While at the cantina, Revan played the gambler Toll Apkar in pazaak, and spoke w
ith the cantina's manager, Mika Dorin. Earlier during his travels, Revan had bee
n approached by the Twi'lek Ziagrom, who knew of Revan's true identity and invit
ed Revan to visit his partner Dorin and peruse their collection of valuable weap
ons and armor.[12]
Outside at the gates of the Academy, Revan found a Sith student named Mekel torm
enting a trio of hopefuls, something that the Jedi put a stop to by telling off
the student. After an irritated Mekel's departure, Revan was able to convince th
e hopefuls to abandon their quest to join the Sith. Back in Dreshade, when he ca
me across a group of Sith apprentices whom wanted to attack Revan as "sport" whe
n they encountered him, Revan was able to persuade them otherwise. However, anot
her student who was threatening a woman attacked Revan when he intervened. Defea
ting the student, Revan took one of their medallions. On his way back to Ban, Re
van encountered another Sith hopeful near the Czerka office whom he was able to
persuade to leave Korriban and abandon the dark side.[12]
Uthar
Uthar Wynn, master of the Sith Academy.
With the medallion, Ban allowed Revan, Onasi, and Juhani into the Academy when h
e claimed that his companions were slaves.[12] In the academy, Revan was brought
before the Sith Master Uthar Wynn with four other acolytes, and Wynn spoke of t
he dark side and its powers to the students, but made it clear that only one of
the five would become Sith. His apprentice Ban then explained that each of the f
ive had to gain prestige in the eyes of the academy's superiors in order to adva
nce, and Wynn stated that the first to learn the Code of the Sith would gain pre
stige from him. Revan was taken to his quarters before he began exploring the Ac
ademy, and he soon came across Yuthura Ban, who told Revan that she viewed him a
s her favorite prospect for the year. Ban asked for Revan's help when Wynn took Re
van to the tomb of the ancient Sith Naga Sadow for the final test, which was rea
ching the Star Map deep within the tomb, she wanted his help killing Wynn. In or
der to gain favor, Revan agreed, and Ban told Revan the Sith Code so that he cou
ld gain prestige from Wynn as well as informing the student about a group of rog
ue Sith whom Wynn wanted killed in the Valley.[12]
Revan spoke with Lashowe, a fellow student, and she asked for Revan's help recov
ering a holocron from one of the tombs in the Valley of the Dark Lords.[53] Whil
e at the Academy, Revan encountered an acolyte by the name of Kel Algwinn who wa
s rather timid and unlike the other Sith hopefuls. Algwinn expressed his doubts
to Revan about whether or not the Academy was the right place for him,[12] thoug
h Revan kept the information to himself.[54]
Onasi and Revan also encountered Carth's son Dustil, who was training as a Sith.
Dustil refused to leave the Sith, forcing Carth and Revan to seek out evidence
of the Sith's true nature in order to convince Dustil otherwise. When they succe
eded, Dustil left the Academy like his father asked, and Revan's group continued
on their mission. Another way Revan gained prestige was by locating the weapons
cache a Mandalorian had hidden in the Valley, though instead of torturing the c
aptive, Revan helped him induce a coma and sneak him out of the Academy in excha
nge for the cache's location.[12]
Speaking with Uthar Wynn, Revan successfully recited the Sith Code to gain prest
ige, and Revan learned of the existence of Wynn's former master Jorak Uln from o
ther Academy staff as well as Wynn's desire to have Uln killed. Leaving the Academ
y, Revan and his group headed out in the Valley of the Dark Lords, cutting throu
gh the shyrack creatures that inhabited it, and they entered the nearby caves wh
ere the rogue Sith were supposedly hiding.[12]
Thalia may
Revan speaks with Thalia May.
Fighting through the shyrack-infested tunnels, Revan came across the Human stude
nt Thalia May and two Twi'lek students: the rogue students. When Revan did not k
ill them on sight, May explained that they had fled the Academy when they refuse
d to kill people like Wynn had ordered them too. Revan convinced May to let him
help her, and she asked him to kill the large terentatek that was blocking the o
ther passageway to the surface.[12]
Near the rear of the cave, Revan and his allies engaged the monstrous Sithspawn,
slaying the beast and locating the bodies of several of its victims.[12] Among
the corpses was the body of a Jedi wearing a set of robes, which Revan took. The
body was that of the Jedi Duron Qel-Droma, who had been killed by the terentate
k forty years earlier in 3993 BBY, and Revan's ownership of the robes had been f
oreseen years earlier. As he lay dying, Qel-Droma had a vision of Revan standing
victorious over a Sith Lord while wearing his robes, and the man died a peacefu
l death knowing that the future was secure.[55]
Returning to May and the others, Revan informed them of the terentatek's defeat,
and the grateful students fled the shyrack caves to freedom. Leaving the caves,
Revan, Juhani, and Onasi encountered a Sith hopeful named Dak Vesser in the Val
ley. Vesser had studied with Juhani on Dantooine but had left the Jedi after Juh
ani failed to reciprocate his romantic interest in her; after a brief argument b
etween the two, fled back up the Valley to the Academy.[12]
In the Valley proper, Revan encountered the Sith scholar Galon Lor, who told Rev
an about the tomb of Ajunta Pall and his blade that was rumored to lay within. E
ntering the tomb,[56] Revan and his companions made their way through the cataco
mbs, fighting off the Force-resistant hounds known as tuk'ata that inhabited the
tomb. They soon came across a series of droids in one chamber, and a datapad Re
van recovered from the arm of one of the corpses there recorded a Sith student's
attempt to activate the strange obelisk that was blocking the bridge to the nex
t chamber. The datapad of a fallen archaeologist named Veren Gal identified the
obelisk's substance as therangen, an unstable rock that reacted violently to fir
e, so Revan used a plasma grenade to destroy the obelisk.[12]
However, doing so activated the defense droids in the chamber, forcing Revan and
his friends to defend themselves against the droids and destroy them. Discoveri
ng the sarcophagus within the depths of the tomb, Revan opened it and recovered
three swords, but he was suddenly confronted by the spirit of Ajunta Pall himsel
f. The ancient Sith Lord's regret for his actions as a Sith was palpable, and he
asked Revan to take his sword the blade that had been filled with the pride that
led to his fall away from his tomb. However, Pall was unable to remember which of
the blades was his own, and he told Revan to determine the true blade and place
it upon his statue, though if he chose the wrong blade he would die. Listening t
o Pall's recollection of the blade, Revan chose the correct blade, and Pall aske
d Revan to take the blade and go. However, Revan questioned the spirit as to why
he remained there, and he convinced Pall that even in death he could still find
redemption. Thanking the Jedi, Pall returned to the light side of the Force and
faded away, becoming one with the Force.[12]
However, Revan and his companions were set upon by the hopeful Shaardan on their
way out of the tomb. Shaardan demanded that Revan hand over Pall's sword so tha
t he could gain the prestige, but Revan refused and the Sith fell in battle agai
nst Revan and his allies.[56] Heading north, Revan met up with Lashowe, who had
been telepathically summoning the mother of the tuk'ata herd that guarded the to
mb of Tulak Hord. She was successful just as Revan arrived, and the Jedi joined
Lashowe in fighting the beasts. However, when Lashowe recovered the holocron fro
m the body of the tuk'ata queen, she refused to share the prestige with Revan an
d attacked her fellow hopeful when he insisted they present it to Wynn together.
Revan and his companions fought and killed the Sith in self-defense, recovering
the holocron from her body.[53] Revan and crew then entered Hord's tomb, as Jor
ak Uln was taking refuge within the structure.[12]
Uln Revan Mekel
Jorak Uln "tests" Revan and Mekel.
However, the trio were soon incapacitated by a nerve toxin, and the last thing R
evan saw before blacking out was Jorak Uln, laughing that another student had fa
llen for his trap. When Revan awoke, he and Mekel, a fellow hopeful, were restra
ined and subjected to a "test" of sorts by Uln: Uln posed a series of questions
to Revan, and for each answer that was not that of a proper Sith, the Jedi was s
ubjected to a blast of Force lightning. To Uln's surprise, Revan was still stand
ing by the end of the test, and Mekel joined with Revan in attacking and defeati
ng the Sith.[57]
A grateful Mekel thanked Revan for his help, and Revan was able to convince the
student to abandon the Sith path. Though he felt that the light side was not for
him, Mekel agreed that he would not return to the Academy and instead set off t
o escape. Recovering an ancient Sith tablet from Uln's body as proof, Revan and
his group departed the tomb and headed to the tomb of Marka Ragnos, another anci
ent Sith, where a Sith student warned Revan of the rogue assassin droid that had
built itself an army of droids in the tomb. Fighting through the many war droid
s within, Revan found the body of a fallen Sith soldier and recovered the sound-
dampening stealth unit that the soldier's datapad suggested using, since the ass
assin droid's audio receptors were too sensitive and it would attack if targets
made too much noise. Heading deeper into the tomb, Revan encountered the assassi
n droid itself, who did not attack the Jedi the droid did not want to kill. It had
escaped from the Sith, and it wanted his help in deactivating its assassination
protocols. Revan was successful in doing so, and in thanks the droid gave him s
ome of its redundant systems before it fled the tomb.[12]
Returning to Uthar Wynn, Revan informed the Sith Master of Ban's duplicity and w
as congratulated. Wynn gave Revan a datapad to give to the Sith Adrenas that had
instructions to poison Ban, promising the hopeful that he would allow Revan to
kill Ban, but Revan instead gave the datapad to Ban and told her of Wynn's plott
ing. At Ban's instruction, Revan broke into Wynn's chambers and placed a small d
evice under his bed that would poison Wynn.[12]
RevanfindsStarMap
Revan locates the final Star Map.
Returning to Wynn, Revan informed the Sith Master of his accomplishments in the
Valley, and the impressed Wynn told Revan to rest for the night so that he could
take him on his final test the next day. Wynn then took Revan alone to the tomb
of Naga Sadow with Ban, where the two Sith instructed Revan to reach the Star M
ap in the tomb's depths and retrieve a lightsaber from that chamber. Making his
way through the wraids and terentateks that inhabited the tomb, Revan came acros
s two pillars: one containing a plasma grenade and one containing a cold grenade
. He later used the cold grenade to cross a pool of acid that blocked his path t
o the Star Map, and after fighting through several more wraids Revan finally rea
ched his goal and recorded the data from the ancient device. When he inputted hi
s own data into the Star Map, the device's hologram shifted and revealed a missi
ng planet, the location of which Revan recorded before claiming the ancient ligh
tsaber.[12]
Revan was met by Yuthura Ban and Uthar Wynn on his way out of the tomb, and Wynn
revealed the final part of his test: to strike down Ban. However, to Wynn's sur
prise, Revan sided with Ban and the Twi'lek and Jedi fought and defeated the eld
er Sith. When Wynn finally fell, Ban turned on Revan and tried to eliminate her
student, but Revan overwhelmed her and drove her to defeat. Ban surrendered and
told Revan to finish the job, but he refused urging her to remember her past as a
Jedi, Revan convinced her to abandon the ways of the Sith.[58] Revan then made h
is way out of the tomb and back to the Academy, but several Sith confronted the
Jedi, having realized that he was not a Sith. Revan and his companions then proc
eeded to fight their way out of the Academy, as the students and staff had learn
ed of what had happened in the tombs and attacked the interloper on sight. Fortu
nately for Revan and his crew, Dreshdae had not learned of the events in the Aca
demy, and they were able to get back to the Ebon Hawk without any problem.[12]
oses only "light side" options when available during the course of the game. Alt
ernate stories are noted in the "Behind the scenes" section. Note: The events in
this section may or may not have been confirmed as canon within the Star Wars L
egends continuity.
Before leaving Dreshdae, however, Revan and Juhani stopped at the Drunk Side and
spoke with Dak Vesser, who told them that he had decided to leave the Sith. How
ever, he made it clear that he wanted to be away from both the Jedi and Sith, an
d promised not to reveal Revan's identity to the Sith.[12]
The Battle of Rakata Prime
Trapped on Lehon
"The Dark Lord Revan is dead. I am a servant of the light now."
?Revan[src]
Unknown world
The Ebon Hawk comes in for a landing on Lehon.
At the Hawk, Revan gave Onasi the coordinates of the new system, and the soldier
lifted off from Dreshdae and jumped to hyperspace at Revan's instructions. The
first thing the crew noticed when they arrived was the Star Forge, an immense sp
ace station that hovered above the system's star. The Star Forge was drawing pow
er from the sun and was surrounded by the Sith fleet, and Revan was in the cockp
it with Onasi when the pilot sent the coordinates of the Star Forge to Admiral F
orn Dodonna of the Republic Navy. However, the Ebon Hawk was soon detected by th
e Sith, and Revan took the guns as Sith fighters pursued the freighter but despite
Revan's expert shooting, the Hawk became caught in the disruptor field, forcing
Onasi to land the Hawk on the surface of the planet which unbeknownst to the grou
p was actually Lehon. Meeting with the others in the cabin, Revan learned that t
he stabilizers had been fried, and Juhani and Ordo suggested scavenging the part
s from the nearby wrecked ships.[12]
The group also determined that the source of the disruptor field was a large tem
ple to the east, and Revan set out from the Hawk with several companions in orde
r to gather the parts and disable the disruptor field. Making their way up the b
each, Revan and the others were set upon by a group of black-robed Rakata, and a
fter defeating the savage natives Revan was greeted by two Duros. The two explai
ned that they had crashed several weeks earlier, but their companions had been k
illed by Rakata and Mandalorians a group of Mandalorians were using stealth techno
logy to attack survivors near the temple. Though Revan offered to let the Duros
stay aboard the Hawk, the two instead chose to flee to one of the nearby islands
and left after thanking Revan once more.[12]
Heading southeast, Revan and his group fought through more Rakata as they approa
ched the Temple of the Ancients, and the group were also forced to fight several
wild rancors that were in the area. They were soon set upon by a group of Manda
lorians who deactivated their stealth units, though Revan and his allies overcam
e their attackers and defeated them. When they made their way to the south beach
, the group witnessed a solitary gizka hopping through starship wreckage, but th
e gizka was killed by a land mine, alerting the trio to the fact that the area w
as unsafe. Bypassing the mines, Revan and his companions recovered the parts the
y needed from the wreckage, and they continued toward the beach and approached a
building nearby that was surrounded by a crackling defense field.[12]
Revan was greeted by a hologram of a Rakata, and after identifying himself,[12]
he was asked to come inside the settlement.[59] The Jedi and his companions were
greeted by the Elder Council, who expressed their belief that Revan had betraye
d them three years earlier when he had not destroyed the Star Forge as promised.
Explaining about his memory, Revan promised to succeed this time, and he asked
how he could earn the Elders' trust once again. The Elders told Revan about how
one of their scouts had been captured by the Black Rakata, and asked Revan to re
scue the scout.[12]
While in the Elder settlement, Revan also spoke to Ll'awa, who asked Revan to re
trieve any information he could find on the Rakata's genetic code while in the T
emple. The Jedi also talked to the tribe's Keeper of History, Orsaa, about the R
akata species' history.[12]
The One Attacks
The One orders his warriors to attack.
Heading back out to the beach, Revan and his companions made their way to the no
rth beach where the Black Rakata had made their settlement. However, a number of
Black Rakata and their pet rancors attacked Revan on sight, as they had seen th
e group leaving the Elder settlement. Revan and the others proceeded to fight th
eir way through the Black Rakata settlement, cutting down the hostile natives as
they headed deeper into the complex, and when they came across the One, the Bla
ck Rakata leader unleashed several rancors and attacked the invaders with a host
of Rakata warriors. Despite the enemy's superior numbers, Revan and his allies
emerged victorious, and Revan freed the Elder scout from his imprisonment.[12]
Revan then returned to the Elder settlement, where the Elders thanked him for hi
s actions and retired to deliberate their course of actions in privacy.[12] When
they returned, the Elders agreed to help the Jedi,[59] but informed him that th
ey would conduct the ritual that would lower the Temple's defenses Revan and the R
akata needed each other's help. However, they informed Revan that he would have
to enter alone, as he had broken their laws by entering with Malak the last time
, and the Elders warned the Jedi that Dark Jedi now inhabited the Temple.[12]
While his companions returned to the Ebon Hawk, Revan headed to the Temple exter
ior, where the Rakata began the ritual that would take several hours. However, t
hey were interrupted by the arrival of Bindo and Juhani, who had experienced a p
remonition that Revan needed their help in the Temple and had come to his aid. R
evan convinced the Rakatan guide to permit them to enter, and the Rakata continu
ed the ritual over the next several hours. When it was finally complete, Revan,
Bindo, and Juhani entered the Temple and began to explore, cutting down the Dark
Jedi and droids within the building. Revan was recognized by several of the Dar
k Jedi, though they viewed him as weak for having submitted to the Jedi Council,
and none of the Dark Jedi survived their encounters with the three Jedi. Descen
ding into the catacombs, Revan spoke with the Rakatan computer there, which reco
gnized him and altered the neural recognition patterns in its database so that t
he doors to the upper levels would now open.[12]
While in the catacombs, Revan also downloaded information on the Rakata's geneti
c code from the computer to his datapad.[12]
Revan Shan Temple
Revan briefly battled Shan atop the Temple of Ancients.
Bindo, Revan, and Juhani then headed up to the summit of the Temple, where they
were surprised to encounter a dark-robed Bastila Shan wielding a red-bladed ligh
tsaber. When Juhani urged her to come with them, Shan revealed that she had beco
me Darth Malak's apprentice and that she was no longer a "pawn" of the Jedi Coun
cil. Shan told Revan of how she had been tortured, and she mocked how the former
Sith Lord's power had fallen so far since Malak's betrayal. Shan then attacked
the three Jedi, forcing them to draw their own lightsabers and battle their form
er comrade. When she was driven back and wounded, Shan stopped and spoke of her
belief that Revan had drawn on the dark side to defeat her but when Revan told her
otherwise, she spoke contemptuously of their bond and how she could sense his d
arkness.[12]
Revan reminded her of that bond and claimed that he would use it to bring her ba
ck, and Shan was disgusted by Juhani's attempts to convince her to come back to
the light, as she saw Juhani's own corruption as pathetic. When Revan refused to
join her against Darth Malak, Shan fled to her fighter and lifted off from the
top of the Temple before Revan could reach her. Despite Shan's departure, Revan
and the other two Jedi deactivated the disruptor field and the shield around the
Temple, and then they made their way out of the structure.[12]
Returning to the Elder settlement, Revan told the Elders of his intention to boa
rd the Star Forge and defeat Malak, and he also delivered the research data to L
l'awa.[12]
A final confrontation
"Once again, we shall face each other in single combat, and the victor will
decide the fate of the galaxy."
?Malak to Revan[src]
Returning to the Ebon Hawk, Juhani, Bindo, and Revan were greeted by the rest of
their companions on the beach, and the others were dismayed to hear of Shan's c
orruption. However, Bindo urged Revan to remember their bond, because despite th
e way that the dark side on Lehon had corrupted Shan, the two were still linked
by the Force and their feelings for one another. The rest of the crew were more
than ready to follow Revan to the Star Forge, and the Ebon Hawk lifted off from
Lehon and headed toward the station. On the way, Onasi was contacted by Admiral
Dodonna and communicated the fact that Shan was directing the Sith fleet with he
r battle meditation, urging the admiral to destroy the Star Forge at all costs.
Dodonna and Master Tokare dispatched a team of Jedi Knights to board the Star Fo
rge and a squadron of[12] Aurek-class tactical strikefighters[60] to escort the
Hawk as it approached the Star Forge and docked in one of its hangars.[12]
Aboard the Star Forge, Revan and two companions departed the Hawk and were met b
y a number of Jedi Knights whom Tokare had sent to help Revan locate Shan. They
were soon set upon by a quartet of Dark Jedi, and after the battle, the injured
Knights remained behind to guard the Hawk as Revan's group headed on into the st
ation. However, the doors sealed behind Revan and his allies, cutting them off f
rom the hangar, and powerful battle droids produced by the Star Forge attacked t
he trio. Fighting through more of the assault droids, the group soon came across
several Jedi Knights in battle with Dark Jedi, though they were unable to reach
their allies before the other Jedi fell.[12]
Shan Revan Star Forge
Revan implores Shan to come back to the light.
As Revan and his allies headed deeper into the Star Forge, Malak continued to un
leash droids, Sith troopers, and Dark Jedi upon them in order to eliminate his f
ormer Master. When they finally reached the command center where Shan was coordi
nating the fleet, Shan immobilized Revan's companions and sealed the door, locki
ng the two in with each other. Shan attacked Revan, and though Revan overcame he
r, he would not strike her down. Believing Revan to be a fool, Shan swore that s
he would become more powerful than Malak and attacked again, forcing Revan to dr
ive her back once more. This time, Revan refused to attack her, allowing Shan to
attack in hopes that she would come to her senses before striking a defenseless
opponent. When Revan defeated her for a third and final time, she begged him to
end her suffering and to kill her.[12]
However, Revan refused. Reaching out to the woman he loved, Revan reminded her t
hat even the darkest of souls could be redeemed, just as he was, and he revealed
to Shan that he loved her. Sensing his feelings through their bond, Shan admitt
ed that she loved him as well, and Revan's support brought her back to the light
side of the Force. Unable to face Darth Malak in fear that she would be tempted
by the darkness, Shan instead chose to stay and reinforce the Republic fleet wi
th her battle meditation, and Revan headed to his final confrontation with his f
ormer student.[12]
As he approached the elevator to the upper levels, Revan encountered Malak and t
wo dying Jedi that he was torturing. Angered that Revan had returned, Malak murd
ered the Jedi and told Revan that he would not be able to escape, not with the S
tar Forge at his command. Revan tried to persuade his former friend and apprenti
ce to surrender and return to the Jedi; if he could be redeemed, so could Malak.
But Malak would rather die than be a "true slave of the Jedi code." He sealed R
evan inside the chamber and activating six droid replicators to see if that the
Star Forge itself would kill Revan. Revan was forced to disable the replicators'
computers while being attacked by a horde of droids, and when the final replica
tor was disabled, Revan followed Malak up the elevator to the factory's viewing
level.[12]
There, Revan approached his former student, who acknowledged the Jedi's triumph:
to Revan, it was because the light side was stronger than the dark. Malak wonde
red aloud whether it would be worth it to capture Revan alive and use him as a f
ar more powerful apprentice than Shan, but he ultimately decided against that ri
sk and attacked the Jedi, beginning their final duel.[12]
When Malak found himself on the defensive, he leapt back and mocked Revan's igno
rance of the Star Forge's capabilities: this space station was alive with the da
rk side, and unlike Revan, Malak had unlocked its full power. Using the Star For
ge, Malak drew strength from the bodies of Jedi who had been killed at Dantooine
, replenishing his own for the battle against Revan. However, Revan continued to
fight, wearing Malak down and destroying the machinery he used to draw energy f
rom the Jedi. As the Republic and Sith fleets battled all around them outside, t
he two fought back and forth across the platform, but ultimately Malak was drive
n to his knees, fatally wounded.[12]
Shadows and Light
Revan victorious
Coughing, Malak questioned Revan as to what might have happened if he had been c
aptured by the Jedi instead of his master, and Revan apologized for starting Mal
ak on the Sith path but reminded his student that he had chosen to continue down
it. As Malak fell to the floor, dead, Revan deactivated his lightsaber and depa
rted the viewing platform. returning to the Ebon Hawk. There, he was met by Shan
and Onasi, who congratulated their friend on his victory but warned Revan that
the Republic was about to target the Star Forge. Fleeing in the Ebon Hawk, Revan
and the others were given an honor guard escort by the Republic fleet to Lehon,
where they were asked to meet with Admiral Dodonna and Master Tokare at the Tem
ple of the Ancients.[12]
All nine of Revan's companions accompanied the Jedi to the steps of the temple,
where a crowd of Republic soldiers had gathered, and Admiral Dodonna recognized
the group's accomplishments and service, and awarded Revan the Cross of Glory, t
he Republic's highest military honor. Master Tokare himself stepped forward to r
ecognize Revan's accomplishments, granting him the title of Jedi Knight and decl
aring him to be the Jedi's Prodigal Knight. As Republic starfighters conducted v
ictory runs over the temple, Revan stood with his friends on the building's step
s as the crowd cheered and Tokare reminded him that the galaxy would still need
the Jedi.[12]
After the wars
Rediscovering the past
"You're getting more of your memories back, aren't you?"
"Only bits and pieces. I keep having visions of a world I don't recognize. T
he whole planet is covered in electrical storms, day and night."
"Doesn't sound familiar. What do you think it means?"
"I wish I knew. But I've got a bad feeling about it."
?Ordo and Revan[src]
Shortly after the Battle of Rakata Prime, Revan returned to Korriban and drove t
he remnants of his Empire from the Sith tombworld.[61] In the weeks afterward, t
he Jedi Council approached Revan and offered to find him a Master to retrain him
completely in the Jedi ways but Revan refused, as his knowledge of the Force and
both the light and dark sides was beyond that of a common Padawan. Shan also ref
used the Council when they gave her a similar offer, and the older members of th
e Order became further estranged with the two when Shan and Revan decided to be
married. On his wedding night, Revan drank so much that he woke up with a hangov
er that lasted for several days. Revan and Shan's emotional bond had brought the
m back from the edge of the dark side, and they saw their relationship as a sour
ce of strength that should not be denied. Revan even approached the Council with
an offer to share his new understanding of the Force his belief that positive emo
tions helped one strengthen a connection to the Force with the other Jedi. However
, the Council vehemently rejected him, with several Councilors arguing for his b
anishment from the Order.[1]
The rest of the Council realized that Revan's standing as a public hero was too
important for him to be banished, and they came to a compromise with Revan: the
Order would not object to his marriage and the two would remain as official Jedi
, but Revan was ordered not to spread his beliefs. Shan was outraged at the Coun
cil's demands, but Revan convinced his wife that it was not a war worth fighting
, and the two soon settled into an apartment on Coruscant. Awarded the rank of J
edi Master, Revan attempted to reach out to Meetra Surik with the Force, but was
dismayed to be unable to find any sense of her presence across the galaxy. Reva
n shaved his beard not long after the end of the Jedi Civil War, something that
allowed him to pass relatively unnoticed in public as he rarely wore his Jedi ro
bes. Shan and Revan kept T3-M4 and HK-47 as companions, though Revan did not oft
en take HK-47 on trips away from their apartment on account of the droid's viole
nt tendencies.[1]
However, Revan began to be plagued by nightmares in 3954 BBY, two years after Ma
lak's defeat. These nightmares took the form of a shadowy, storm-covered world t
hat Revan did not recognize, and the presence of an overwhelming and approaching
darkness. After he was awoken by his nightmares for the third night in a row, R
evan headed to his apartment's refresher to wash his face before he stepped out
onto the balcony, being careful not to wake the sleeping Shan. However, she was
woken anyway, and she joined him on the balcony for a discussion of his nightmar
es.[1]
DromundKaas-TOR
Dromund Kaas, the stormy world of Revan's nightmares
The next morning, Revan contacted Canderous Ordo and asked to meet him. Revan an
d T3-M4 visited the Galactic Market, though Revan refused HK-47's request to joi
n them as he knew the assassin droid would become frustrated by the number of "m
eatbags," and the pair made their way to the Dealer's Den cantina where Ordo was
waiting. Revan's arrival interrupted the private performance a dancer was givin
g Ordo, though the Mandalorian shooed the Twi'lek away so that he could speak wi
th Revan. Hoping to learn more about his missing past, Revan asked Ordo about th
e Mandalorian Wars as he had done several times previously, and the Jedi told hi
s friend about his nightmares and his belief that they were connected to Revan a
nd Malak's fall to the dark side.[1]
Revan was suspicious of Mandalore the Ultimate's decision to invade the Republic
, and he could not shake the feeling that Mandalore's reasons were linked with R
evan's nightmares. Explaining how he thought that his visions were a warning, Re
van asked Ordo to talk to other Mandalorians in order to find out more about Man
dalore. Despite Ordo's reluctance, he agreed to the request, and the two parted
ways. Revan's desire to remember his past led him to try and contact Meetra Suri
k, his lieutenant from the Mandalorian Wars, and when he was unable to contact h
er or even sense her presence in the Force he decided to visit the Jedi Temple.
Wearing his hooded robes to avoid being recognized by either the younger Jedi, w
ho idolized the Prodigal Knight, or the older Jedi, who despised Revan's philoso
phies and his marriage, Revan made his way to the Jedi Archives and searched for
information on Surik.[1]
Entering Surik's name into the search box, Revan started reading an official rep
ort compiled on the Battle of Malachor V, though nothing in the report was new t
o him. The report claimed that Revan and Surik had both been aware of the mass-s
hadow generator's effects and had willingly used the weapon anyway, and the auth
or speculated that Revan was already a dark-sider by that point. The author of t
he particular report was soon revealed when Atris, a Jedi Master and a former fr
iend of Surik's, arrived and mocked his attempts to recover his memories. Realiz
ing that Atris had tagged her report to alert her whenever it was referenced, Re
van confirmed his suspicions by insulting the report's accuracy, but he ignored
Atris's anger and questioned her about Surik.[1]
A disbelieving Atris was disgusted to realize that Revan did not remember what h
ad happened to their friend, and she told the Jedi that Surik had cut herself of
f from the Force after Malachor, and the Council had exiled her when she returne
d to face their judgement. Avoiding a philosophical argument when Atris and Reva
n began to argue about how losing the Force was worse than death, Revan brought
the conversation back to Surik and Atris admitted that she had not spoken to Sur
ik since the trial. Atris viciously told Revan to leave and go back to his wife,
but Revan sarcastically reminded her about her emotions and sent the silver-hai
red Jedi storming out of the Archives. However, despite his sarcasm, Revan was d
eeply saddened by Surik's fate, and he left the Archives and the Temple to retur
n home.[1]
Less than a month later, Ordo contacted Revan and asked to meet him back at the
Dealer's Den. T3-M4 and Revan answered Ordo's call and headed to the cantina, th
ough Revan's nightmares had been coming two or three times a week by that time,
allowing him to get more sleep. Ordo hadn't found anything about the storm world
, but he had found something else that he would not tell Revan until the Jedi pr
omised not to tell either the Council or the Senate: many of the Mandalorian cla
ns were gathering on Rekkiad, and they were searching for Mandalore's Mask. Reva
n experienced a brief flash of memory that confirmed the Mandalorians' suspicion
s, and he promised to abide by Ordo's terms, though he suggested that they shoul
d be there when the Mandalorians found the mask. Revan shot down Ordo's suggesti
ons that they round up the old gang, as Bindo and Juhani were still Jedi, Vao an
d Zaalbar were hard at work with their business, and HK-47 was too trigger-happy
.[1]
Revan could not help feeling guilty when Ordo suggested Surik as a possible opti
on, though he lied that Surik was still a Jedi and reminded Ordo that he was for
getting Shan. Returning to his apartment, Revan found his wife watching holovids
in their living room, and the two both told each other that they had news: Shan
announced that she was pregnant. Stunned, Revan was astonished to realize that
he hadn't sensed the Force signature of their child within his wife earlier, but
he was unable to shake the feeling that he had no choice but to go to Rekkiad i
n order to find out what his visions meant. Shan grew angry at Revan's insistenc
e at serving the galaxy at the cost of his own happiness, but Revan persuaded he
r to let him go by explaining he was doing it for their child. Despite Revan's r
efusal of her request to come with him, the two spent a final night in their apa
rtment before Shan accompanied Revan and T3-M4 to the spaceport and the Ebon Haw
k. Ordo was already loading the Ebon Hawk, and Shan gave her husband a final kis
s before he boarded the freighter and took off with Ordo and T3-M4.[1]
The hunt for the mask
Revan departure
Revan departs in the Ebon Hawk.
"I can help you achieve your destiny. I know where Revan hid the Mask. Liste
n to me, and I will help you find it."
?Revan, to Clan Ordo[src]
As the Ebon Hawk approached Rekkiad, Revan studied a topographic map of the ice
world. Ordo had told him to land within walking distance of Clan Ordo's base cam
p so that they would approach on foot, but as Revan brought the ship down to the
surface, the Ebon Hawk began to shudder under the force of Rekkiad's intense wi
nd and snowstorms. Revan needed to bring the Hawk within a few hundred meters of
the planet's surface to scan for the camp, and he ordered T3-M4 to bring Ordo t
o the cockpit to check his coordinates again. Revan's Force-enhanced reflexes al
lowed him to survive most of the wind, but a particularly strong wind sent the E
bon Hawk sliding toward a glacier that Revan barely avoided, clipping the ship's
underside.[1]
With the Hawk spiraling in a roll, Revan used the Force to anticipate the ship's
flight and kept it aloft until it stopped spinning, though when he brought it u
p to a safer altitude and put it on autopilot, Revan was alerted to the fact tha
t the Hawk's landing gear had been damaged. When Ordo arrived, the mercenary sug
gested that Clan Ordo might have shifted their camp, and as he settled into the
copilot chair, Revan noticed how his friend's underlying tension had eased now t
hat he was about to be among his own people again. Bringing the Hawk down toward
the surface again, Revan ordered T3-M4 to boost the ship's sensors as he conduc
ted a search pattern until they located the camp, and Revan was forced to land t
he Ebon Hawk in a giant snowdrift because of the damaged landing gear.[1]
While Ordo gathered supplies and gear for the five-kilometer trek to the camp, R
evan and T3-M4 ran diagnostics on the Ebon Hawk, and Revan asked the droid to st
ay behind and conduct repairs. Ordo offered Revan a repeating blaster carbine as
a weapon, but Revan chose to take along a pair of blasters as a replacement for
his now-hidden lightsaber. Wearing heavy layers of clothing and bringing along
a hoversled of supplies, the two then set out on the two-hour trek toward the ca
mp, and it was almost nighttime by the time they reached their destination.[1]
Revan was dismayed to see that the Mandalorians had not disassembled their Basil
isk war droids as he had ordered after Malachor, as Clan Ordo had six of them co
vered by tarps on the edge of their camp. When they were confronted by four sent
ries, Canderous announced himself to his kinsmen, and the two were brought into
the camp by Canderous's clan brother Edric Ordo. Canderous was swarmed by his cl
an members the moment he took off his hood in the camp's supply shack, and Revan
stood to the side as his friend reunited with his clan until a tall woman enter
ed the shack and confronted Canderous.[1]
Veela, as Canderous identified her, was the leader of Clan Ordo, and she questio
ned Canderous about Revan in Mando'a, but Revan surprised her with his knowledge
of the Mandalorian tongue. Despite Veela's apparent anger with Canderous, he ex
plained that he was there to help them search for the mask, and he identified Re
van as a fellow mercenary named "Avner." When Veela departed, Canderous admitted
to his friend that she was his wife. The rest of the night was filled by celebr
ations, stories of Canderous's youth, and a great deal of drinking of the Mandal
orian ale kri'gee. Revan matched the Mandalorians drink for drink, though he lat
er regretted it the next morning when he woke up with a severe hangover.[1]
During the night, Revan also dreamed about his past, remembering part of his and
Malak's time on Rekkiad when the two were atop the ice pillars known as the Twi
n Spears. Struggling to remember, Revan contacted T3-M4, who notified him that t
he Ebon Hawk was repaired, and he asked the droid to scan the topography map for
the ice pillars that he saw in his dream. The Jedi then woke up Canderous and t
old him to speak with Veela about moving the camp, as he believed they were in t
he wrong place.[1]
When the leaders of the clan had gathered, Canderous explained about moving the
camp, but an angry Veela soon got into an argument with Revan over the Mandalori
ans' belief that fate and destiny would determine who would find the Mask. Revan
pressed his case, making up stories to cover the real reason he knew about the
Mask's location, and with Canderous's help he convinced Veela to move the camp t
o the Twin Spears though because it was in Clan Jendri's territory, the clan had t
o be ready to fight.[1]
The clan covered thirty of the fifty kilometers to the Spears in the first day b
efore they made camp, but Revan was awoken in the middle of the night when Cande
rous returned to their tent after a rendezvous with his wife. They continued the
ir march at dawn, only stopping for lunch, and they reached the Spears by nightf
all that day. However, Clan Jendri attacked just before dawn the next morning, a
s Revan was awoken by his danger sense to find Canderous once again gone. Grabbi
ng his blasters, Revan charged into the fray to find Jendri and their four Basil
isks attacking the unprepared Ordo warriors and concentrating on preventing them
from reaching Ordo's Basilisks.[1]
Basilisk
Basilisk war droids, the same kind as Revan encountered on Rekkiad
Revan charged across the camp to the Basilisks, firing as he went, and he met up
with Veela and Canderous behind a rock. Veela told Revan that they needed only
a few seconds to get on the Basilisks, so Revan leaped over the rock and drew hi
s lightsaber, drawing the attention of the enemy Basilisks. Using his knowledge
of battling the Basilisks during the war, Revan took advantage of the droids' in
ability to change direction quickly to damage one and then slay the rider. Revan
's intervention was enough for Clan Ordo to mount their Basilisks and take to th
e sky, causing the three remaining Jendri Basilisks to flee and letting Clan Ord
o rout their ground forces in just under five minutes.[1]
At Canderous's suggestion, Revan put away his lightsaber, though both were aware
of the fact that Veela had seen the weapon. When Veela arrived to speak with th
em, she did not attack the Jedi but told him to go help with the wounded, though
Revan could tell that she was furious. Clan Ordo celebrated the rest of day and
much of the night, though Revan only drank a single mug of ale, as he was uncom
fortable sharing in the Mandalorian customs and wary of Veela's intentions. Thou
gh most of the warriors welcomed him, Veela and the other pilots remained suspic
ious of the Jedi, and Canderous was forced to sleep in his and Revan's tent that
night because of Veela's anger.[1]
The next morning, eight of them began the climb up the First Spear Revan, Canderou
s, Veela, and the other five pilots who knew that Revan was a Jedi. Revan, Cande
rous, and two pilots made up one team while Veela and the others made up the sec
ond and by the fifth hour of climbing they were more than halfway up the Spear a
nd beyond the worst of Rekkiad's storms. As Revan watched, one of Veela's climbe
rs nearly fell, though he caught himself and was rescued by his fellows, allowin
g Revan's team to catch up and then pass them on the way to the top, which took
them another two hours. Canderous reached the top first and pulled Revan up, and
the Jedi then pulled the woman pilot behind him up before she pulled the fourth
pilot up. Setting their backpacks down, the four began a grid search with which
they soon found a durasteel hatch leading down into the Spear.[1]
Canderous ordered the other two to remain behind while he and Revan descended th
e ladder down into the dark, but Revan began to experience numerous memory flash
es as his memory began to sporadically return the flashes got so bad at point that
he was forced to stop climbing for half a minute to dispel the vertigo. At the
bottom, Revan and Canderous made their way along a narrow passage, and Revan fel
t a long-dead whisper of the dark side from whatever lay at the end of the passa
ge. The passage ultimately led to a burial chamber, and Revan was surprised to k
now that it was the tomb of the exiled Sith Lord Dramath the Second, as his memo
ries were still returning. One of the memory flashes brought Revan back to the B
attle of Malachor and the dying Mandalore, and Revan was overwhelmed by memories
as he remembered how he and Malak had searched Rekkiad for proof of Mandalore's
story that he had been manipulated by the Sith.[1]
Ignoring Ordo's questions, Revan removed the lid of the sarcophagus with the For
ce to find two items: a small datacron, and the Mask of Mandalore. However, when
Revan picked up the Mask, Veela and the other pilots entered the room and order
ed him to put it down. Revealing that she knew who "Avner" really was, Veela beg
ged Canderous to side with her against Revan, and Canderous countered by trying
to convince her that Revan was their friend. Preparing to attack Revan, Veela de
manded that Canderous decide, but her husband refused and the Mandalorians attac
ked. Revan was already moving with his lightsaber by the time she finished talki
ng, deflecting the attackers' blaster bolts back at them and taking down one of
the Mandalorians before he and Canderous took cover behind the sarcophagus.[1]
Canderous took out another two Mandalorians before they hurled grenades at Revan
and Canderous, forcing Revan to use the sarcophagus lid as a shield with the Fo
rce. The pair were still blown off their feet, but as Veela and the other Mandal
orians tried to attack Revan, Canderous shot his wife through the heart. Taking
advantage of the others' confusion, Revan dispatched the remaining two with a si
dearm throw of his lightsaber. Revan slowly approached his friend, as Canderous
was still lying on the floor, and Revan watched as he got to his feet and closed
Veela's eyes. The two of them sat there in silence for several minutes as Cande
rous absorbed what had just happened, and when the Mandalorian finally turned ar
ound, Revan agreed to help him lay the bodies down in the proper respectful fash
ion.[1]
Canderousmandalorefull
Canderous Ordo, Mandalore the Preserver
When Ordo questioned him about what he would tell the others, Revan suggested th
e story that they had encountered another clan, and when his friend picked up th
e Mask and the datacron, Revan explained that the datacron was a history of Dram
ath the Second, and he told Ordo about Dramath's history. However, Revan asked O
rdo to wait until tomorrow, as he needed to finish piecing together his memories
. Both of them tried to sleep as they spent the night in the cave, but neither o
f them could sleep peacefully. When they awoke, Revan's memories had come togeth
er to the point where he could remember the entire story about Mandalore. Revan
then proceeded to tell Canderous about the Sith and how they had manipulated Man
dalore, as well as how he and Malak had followed Mandalore the Ultimate's instru
ctions to Rekkiad. Revan believed he would find more answers on Nathema, a plane
t mentioned in the datacron and his memories, and he told Ordo that he would be
going alone he believed Ordo should take up the Mask of Mandalore.[1]
Telling Ordo about how the Mandalorians needed to protect the Republic from the
unknown Sith threat and thereby regain the honor and cultural beliefs that the S
ith had twisted during the Mandalorian Wars, Revan convinced his friend to don t
he Mask and take on the name of Mandalore the Preserver. Revan and Ordo then des
cended the Spear and returned to the Ordo camp, though Revan departed and headed
back to the Ebon Hawk. There, he was greeted by T3-M4, and the two set off for
Nathema.[1]
Threat of the Sith
Captive
"What happened to your partner? Malak?"
"I killed him."
"Why?"
"It's complicated."
"Eventually you'll tell us everything we want to know."
"Maybe so. But I'm going to make you work for it."
?Scourge questions Revan[src]
However, when the Ebon Hawk arrived in the Nathema system, Revan was overwhelmed
by a rush of memories and his head felt like it was going to explode. He recove
red after several seconds, processing the new memories and regaining control of
his mind, and he knew instinctively that he had been to Nathema before the planet
was completely without the Force. T3-M4's warnings finally brought Revan's atten
tion to another ship in the system, but he was too groggy to recognize that they
meant him harm and the Ebon Hawk was hit with an ion blast. Without power, the
freighter was caught in Nathema's gravity and was sent crashing down to the plan
et's surface, despite Revan's attempts to steer. The Ebon Hawk collided with a b
uilding in one of Nathema's cities and slammed into the planet's surface, knocki
ng Revan into unconsciousness.[1]
The ship that fired on Revan held the Sith Lords Darth Nyriss and Scourge, both
of whom were part of the Sith Empire. The two landed on Nathema's surface and Sc
ourge was sent to investigate the crashed ship, where he realized Revan was a Je
di and took the unconscious man out of the wrecked Ebon Hawk and back to their o
wn ship. Darth Nyriss, one of the members of the Empire's ruling Dark Council, r
ecognized Revan, and she decided to bring him back to Dromund Kaas and imprison
him in hopes of learning how the Jedi overcame the Emperor's mental commands for s
he was part of a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor, and such knowledge would b
e useful in disabling the Emperor's servants.[1]
Revan was imprisoned in the dungeon of Darth Nyriss's stronghold and pumped full
of drugs to suppress his connection to the Force, and when he awoke, Nyriss and
Scourge entered his cell and began to interrogate him. When he failed to respon
d to their questions, their interrogation droid began to torture him, and Revan
was able to resist their efforts for four hours before Scourge was ordered to ta
ke a break. Scourge's expertise in interrogation led him to believe that Revan w
ould never be broken, so Nyriss began to lose interest over the weeks that follo
wed. Over the next three years, Revan remained a prisoner in his cell as Scourge
tortured him for information, and after the first few months Scourge had extrac
ted everything that Revan remembered. Revan was eventually freed from his chair,
and though his cell featured a sink, refresher, and bed, he was not given any o
ther clothes. Nyriss had lost interest after six months, but Scourge had become
obsessed with Revan he was fascinated by Revan's strength and connection to the Fo
rce, and Revan's philosophy intrigued Scourge.[1]
Lord Scourge
Lord Scourge, Revan's captor
In the first few months, Revan held out hope that he would be rescued by Ordo, T
3-M4, or even his wife, but he eventually realized that no help was coming. The
two of them gradually opened up to each other, as Revan was held in total seclus
ion, and they eventually regarded each other less as enemies as more as objects
of interest to each other. Revan also developed a minor immunity to the drugs, a
llowing him to sense the Force within the dungeon, but the drugs still restricte
d him beyond that meager extension of the Force. Revan fed his captor fragments
of his knowledge and wisdom in return for knowledge on Scourge himself, and thro
ugh their developing relationship Revan learned a great deal about the Empire. T
wo years after his capture, he learned the name of Darth Nyriss, and another pie
ce of information he gleaned was that the Emperor intended to invade the Republi
c, as well as the fact that Scourge and Nyriss were opposed to the Emperor's pla
ns.[1]
In 3951 BBY, Scourge was visiting Revan when the Jedi's attempts to lure the Sit
h Lord whose name Revan still had not learned to his side were exposed by a blunder
on Revan's part. Revan discussed the inactivity of Nyriss' conspiracy with Scour
ge, but Revan's attempt to insinuate himself as a possible ally were too obvious
for Scourge to miss, and the Sith Lord laughed openly at Revan's implication. H
owever, Revan pressed forward and bluffed the Sith by claiming to have been give
n a vision of his freedom by the Force. Revan's suspicions about Scourge's inexp
erience with visions was accurate, as the Sith Lord eagerly questioned his capti
ve about the nature of visions and the future. When questioned about his vision,
Revan responded with a cryptic "You will understand in time," piquing the Sith'
s interest despite an annoyed Scourge's departure. After Scourge left, Revan ope
ned himself up to the Force in meditation and reached out to Shan, but the Force
instead showed him the face of Meetra Surik and gave him the unshakable belief
that Surik was coming to rescue him.[1]
An unlikely rescue
"Gaze upon me and see your doom! I am Darth Nyriss, Lord of the Sith. I am t
he conqueror of Drezzi, the destroyer of Melldia, and a member of the Dark Counc
il!"
"I am Revan reborn. And before me you are nothing."
?Revan defeats Darth Nyriss[src]
Just as Revan had sensed, Surik had followed Revan's trail to Nathema in the Ebo
n Hawk with the help of T3-M4, who had repaired the ship and returned to the Rep
ublic over the last three years. Surik followed the trail to Dromund Kaas itself
, where she posed as a mercenary and investigated the identity of Scourge, whom
she had seen in T3-M4's recording of Revan's capture. Surik eventually made cont
act with Scourge, who was astonished to find that Revan's promise of freedom had
come true, and Scourge agreed to help Surik in freeing Revan. Scourge also reve
aled the existence of Nyriss's conspiracy to the Emperor in order to divert atte
ntion from him and to occupy Nyriss. Posing as Scourge's slave, Surik infiltrate
d Nyriss's stronghold with Scourge, and the two were heading to the dungeons whe
n the Emperor's Imperial Guard began to attack the stronghold.[1]
Revan heard the explosions in his cell, but initially believed them to be side-e
ffects of a new drug or something similar. However, when the alarms began, Revan
realized that Surik was on her way, and he struggled to his feet in an attempt
to battle the mind-numbing drugs. One of Revan's guards opened the door of his c
ell and pointed a blaster at the Jedi, egged on by his fellow guard, but Revan s
poke to the terrified man and warned him not to shoot. Reaching out with the For
ce, Revan tried to amplify the guards' fear and confusion as he ordered the guar
d to put down the weapon, and he promised as a Jedi to spare their lives. Revan
continued to apply pressure through the Force as he lied and claimed Nyriss was
already dead, warning the two that his allies were coming and again asking them
to surrender.[1]
When they did so, Revan departed his cell and told them to stay against the wall
until his friends arrived, and several minutes later Surik descended into the d
ungeons to embrace her former mentor. Their reunion was interrupted by the arriv
al of Scourge, though Surik told Revan he was an ally, and Revan stopped Scourge
from killing the two guards before he collapsed due to the drugs. Scourge quick
ly delivered the antidote to the drugs, but when Surik handed him his mask which h
is wife had kept hidden ever since she recovered it during the mission to captur
e him all of Revan's missing memories returned at once and he collapsed into senso
ry overload. When Surik and Scourge were alerted to an approaching presence by T
3-M4, they moved Revan into his cell just before Darth Nyriss arrived and killed
the two guards.[1]
Nyriss began to overpower both Scourge and Surik when they engaged her in battle
, and when she had them at a disadvantage, the Dark Councilor gathered an intens
e storm of Force lightning and prepared to unleash it upon the pair. Revan, mean
while, had recovered from his collapse and donned his mask, and he stepped out i
nto the corridor with his hood raised. Countering Nyriss's declaration of victor
y, Revan extended his hands and absorbed the bolts of lightning before unleashin
g them back upon their caster, reducing Nyriss to a pile of ash in a matter of s
econds. Saddened that the guards had been slain, Revan stopped and bowed his hea
d over their bodies, but Surik interrupted him and Scourge delivered his lightsa
ber to Revan before the four of them fled the stronghold.[1]
Revan and T3-M4 TERC
Revan watches the hologram of his family.
They rushed to Scourge's waiting speeder and sped away from the embattled struct
ure, returning to the cave where Surik and Scourge had first met. After he dropp
ed Revan, Surik, and T3-M4 off, Scourge returned to Kaas City in order to find o
ut the situation, and Revan asked him to bring back food, water, and soap so tha
t he could wash. At Surik's request, T3-M4 rolled forward and displayed a messag
e from Shan: a hologram of Revan's wife holding their three-year-old son. In the
message, Shan told Revan that it was their son's birthday, and Revan removed hi
s mask as his son waved to the camera. Shan's choice of the name Vaner amused Re
van, as it was an anagram of his own name, and Surik retreated as Revan watched
the rest of the message.[1]
When the video ended, Revan thanked Surik for rescuing him, and he praised her a
ccomplishments and strength before asking her if she would like to watch the mes
sage from Shan with him. Surik accepted, and the two were still watching it when
Scourge returned to the cave several hours later. T3-M4 shut off the hologram w
hen Scourge arrived, and Revan answered Scourge's questions as to the people's i
dentity, though the Sith Lord soon remembered that the two were not friends and
stopped asking. Revan and Surik then listened to Scourge's report: the Emperor h
ad killed all twelve members of the Dark Council, unleashing the Imperial Guard
upon three of them and killing the other nine himself. The Emperor had institute
d martial law and imposed a curfew, and Revan then explained what he had remembe
red of his past and how he and Malak had been lured into a trap and corrupted.[1
]
Their discussion soon turned to the possibility that the Emperor would attempt t
o repeat the ritual he performed on Nathema there on Dromund Kaas, though Revan
and Scourge concluded that the Emperor would not. Scourge, Surik, and Revan then
agreed that they would try and kill the Emperor, as now was their best chance a
t eliminating the threat he posed to the galaxy, and Revan suggested that they a
ll get some rest before dawn. While Surik settled into meditation, Revan resumed
watching his wife's message, but he was soon interrupted by a restless Scourge.
The Sith Lord sought to learn more of Revan's view of the Force and visions, an
d Revan admitted that he had been bluffing about his "vision" earlier despite th
e fact that he received a true vision shortly afterward.[1]
Revan and Scourge's discussion led Revan to admit that he was willing to die if
that was what the Force had ordained for him, and Revan recognized and embraced
the possibility that it was in fact another's responsibility to defeat the Emper
or. Revan also admitted the real reason he had left behind his family and the Re
public he wanted to protect his son's future, and he was more than willing to die
for that. Scourge was irritated by Revan's self-sacrificing mentality and left R
evan alone, and the Jedi once again continued to watch the recording over and ov
er until dawn.[1]
Confronting evil
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"I did not expect you to return."
?The Sith Emperor[src]
Revan, T3-M4, Surik, and Scourge departed the cave at dawn and took Scourge's la
ndspeeder into Kaas City, and as they traveled Revan contemplated the nature of
the Force and how he had learned to balance the light and dark sides. Stopping a
t the outskirts of the city, the four of them made their way toward the Imperial
Citadel on foot, avoiding the patrols so that they arrived at their destination
unnoticed. Scourge took the lead as they entered the Citadel, demanding to spea
k with the Emperor, and the Imperial Guard led the four of them into the heart o
f the Citadel to the Emperor's throne room. However, when they reached the doors
, Captain Yarri of the Guard stopped them and ordered Scourge's companions to wa
it outside. Yarri was the same Guard who had lured Malak and Revan into a trap n
ine years earlier, and she recognized Revan's mask when the Jedi Master was forc
ed to turn around.[1]
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Revan charges the Sith Emperor.
Exposed, Revan lashed out with his foot and sent the nearest Guardsman stumbling
back as T3-M4 began to fire his blaster. Surik and Scourge drew their lightsabe
rs and leaped to the offensive, with Surik engaging several Guardsmen and Scourg
e taking on Yarri. The skilled soldiers did not fall easily, but Revan's allies
bought him time to blast open the doors to the throne room with the Force and he
charged inside. Revan leapt over one of the Guards who attacked and slammed him
in the chest with the power of the Force, but the Guardsman drew on the Emperor
's power to resist the blow. Revan dispatched the man with his lightsaber noneth
eless and turned to find Surik and Scourge still locked in combat while retreati
ng, so he reached out with the Force and pulled down the stone archway in the ha
llway to cut off the Guards' reinforcements. After Surik and Scourge crossed the
threshold with their opponents, Revan slammed the room's doors shut and ordered
T3-M4 to seal the doors before he turned to face the Emperor.[1]
The Sith ruler had not risen from his throne the entire time, and Revan ignored
his enemy's words as he rushed forward to confront him. Standing perfectly still
after rising to his feet, the Emperor gathered his strength and unleashed a wav
e of energy that lifted Revan off his feet and threw him backward, but the Jedi
rolled to his feet and advanced again as the Emperor reached out with his mind.
This time, Revan opened himself to the Force and allowed both the light and dark
sides to flow through him before he released the Force in its purest form an acti
on that lit up the air between him and the Emperor and sent both of them flying.
Recovering, Revan raced toward his enemy and deflected the Emperor's first bolt
of lightning, though it stopped him in his tracks, and he proceed to knock the
next aside, dodge the following bolt, and he deflected the final attack straight
back at the Emperor. Angered, the Sith Lord gathered his strength and unleashed
a massive storm of lightning at Revan, and the Jedi Master's attempts to absorb
and contain the energy like before failed the power of the attack overwhelmed him
and sent electricity coursing through his body, boiling his skin and causing hi
s mask to superheat on his burning face.[1]
Collapsing to the floor, Revan cried out as T3-M4 distracted the Emperor with hi
s flamethrower and was destroyed as a result, sacrificing himself to rescue Reva
n from the Emperor's attack. Unable to rise, Revan called on the Force to heal h
is wounds, but he could do nothing as the Emperor approached him with Revan's ow
n lightsaber and prepared to kill the Jedi. Revan was saved from death by Surik,
who knocked the Emperor's weapon aside with a toss of her own lightsaber, and R
evan rose to his feet as Surik and Scourge rushed to his side. When the Emperor
expressed his disappointment with Scourge, Revan proclaimed that Scourge was the
Jedi's ally now, but Revan's "ally" was suddenly overcome by a vision of the fu
ture a future in which another Knight defeated the Emperor. Understanding what he
had to do, Scourge stepped behind Surik and slid his lightsaber between her shou
lders, and a horrified Revan was quickly struck with a blast of Force lightning
by the Emperor.[1]
Revan imprisoned
Revan imprisoned
As Revan lay unconscious on the floor, the Emperor tested Scourge's loyalty by h
aving him kill Revan, though the Emperor halted Scourge's blade before the deed
was done. On the Emperor's orders, Revan was placed in a specially-constructed p
rison[1] in a space station at the heart of the remote Maelstrom Nebula.[15] Loc
ked in stasis, hovering between life and death, Revan was unable to move as the
Emperor reached out across dozens of light years and fed off of the Jedi Master'
s strength, using Revan's power to fuel his own. The Emperor also linked his min
d to Revan's and tried to draw on his knowledge of the Republic and the Force so
that he could learn more about his enemies. However, Revan resisted the Emperor
's influence with his strength of will, and the Force ghost of Surik remained ne
xt to him, lending her friend the strength to fight the Emperor, preventing the
Sith from taking his knowledge.[1] The Emperor also utilized Revan's prowess in
both the light and the dark sides to use the Jedi as a conduit to the Force thro
ugh which the Emperor could see visions of the future, though Revan used their l
ink in reverse to temper the Emperor's aggression and slow the Sith's plans to w
age war on the Republic.[15] However, Revan was mentally tortured for centuries
by the Emperor and the fear-wielding Sith Lords known as the Dread Masters; the
Sith sought to twist him to the dark side and remake him as the Emperor's servan
t, and though he was able to resist, Revan's mind eventually fractured under the
strain. He was forced to separate himself from his pain, focusing solely on the
Force, though part of his mind still experienced the torture.[7]
During his imprisonment, the slaves that Revan left with the Infinite Engine con
tinued to worship the Revan as a god-like figure,[34] and Revan's legend also in
spired the philosophy of a group known as the Order of Revan on Dromund Kaas. Th
e Revanites believed in Revan's philosophy of balancing the light and dark sides
of the Force and in the power of rebirth Revan had been a warrior as a Jedi and a
teacher as a Sith, and he had been reborn when both turned on him.[62] The Reva
nites were aware of Revan's battle with the Emperor,[62] and the Masters of the
Revanite Order believed that the Emperor had in fact been defeated and replaced
by Revan.[63] The Revanites constructed a shrine to Revan in a cave on Dromund K
aas, and initiate Revanites were often overcome by visions of the Sith Lord in t
he cave when they were undergoing the initiation rites.[62]
Freedom and fall
"'And in the end, as the darkness takes me, I am nothing.' Now I know how yo
u felt, my friend."
?A defeated Revan musing on his dark turn[src]
Despite Revan's influence, however, the Sith Empire invaded the Republic in 3681
BBY, beginning the Great Galactic War. But as the war dragged on for almost thr
ee decades, Revan's influence made the Emperor decide to seek a false peace with
the Republic to bring the war to an end. In 3653 BBY, the Empire sacked Corusca
nt and forced the Republic to sign the Treaty of Coruscant to end the war.[32] T
he Cold War that followed began to collapse around 3642 BBY[3] when the Emperor
sought to start his dark ritual and thus eradicate all life in the galaxy, leadi
ng Surik's ghost to reach out and contact the Jedi Master Oteg. At Surik's instr
uction, Oteg gathered a strike team that attacked the prison in the Maelstrom wh
ile Oteg's fleet engaged the forces of the Imperial Grand Moff Rycus Kilran.[15]
After battling through the prison's personnel and defeating Kilran himself, the
strike team deactivated Revan's prison, freeing the Jedi Master from stasis. Rev
an was initially horrified that the Republic operatives had released him, as it
meant that he could no longer restrain the Emperor, but the ghost of Surik appea
red to him and calmed her friend, informing Revan that he had to be freed before
his strength failed. Saddened that Surik was not yet at peace, Revan explained
that the Emperor sought to make him a servant of the Sith once more, and Surik t
old Revan that the peace had already been broken the Emperor was waging war once m
ore. Thanking Surik, Revan took one of the Imperial vessels and rendezvoused wit
h the Republic fleet as it departed the Maelstrom.[15]
Revan battle
Revan, commander of the Foundry
Aboard the Telos, Master Oteg's flagship, Revan thanked his rescuers and told th
em of his intent to end the threat of the Emperor and the Sith once and for all.
Revan was then taken to the Order's homeworld of Tython, where he shared his kn
owledge of the Emperor with the Jedi Council, but Revan then left Tython to purs
ue his own plans.[15] Revan searched the galaxy and located HK-47, who had been
waiting loyally for his master's return for the last three centuries, and Revan
then located the Foundry a Rakatan space station that he had discovered long ago b
ut the location of which he had kept from the Emperor. Revan also managed to ret
rieve his mask from the Revanites, who had stolen it from Lord Grathan's collect
ion.[4] Seeing how he was worshiped by the Order of Revan, he decided that he wa
nted nothing to do with them, as he did not consider himself a prophet.[14]
Using the Foundry, Revan began to construct an army of extermination droids that
he planned to unleash upon the Empire with the assignment of exterminating ever
yone with Sith ancestry. Revan placed HK-47 in command of his rapidly growing ar
my, and the droid was more than happy to resume his assassination protocols. How
ever, the Empire soon became aware of Revan's plans and captured the Republic cr
uiser Dorin's Sky, using it to bypass the Republic blockade around the Foundry a
nd insert an Imperial strike team onto the Foundry. Revan contacted the strike t
eam periodically as they fought their way through the station's defenses to comm
unicate his belief that they were being manipulated by the Emperor, and he was d
ismayed to watch from the station's heart as the strike team fought and defeated
HK-47 in the Foundry's main generator.[4]
The strike team made their way to Revan's sanctum within the station, where the
Jedi Master revealed his identity and told them his story. Explaining that his k
nowledge of the Emperor made the Sith ruler's death his responsibility and his a
lone, Revan drew his violet-bladed lightsaber and donned his mask for the final
battle. Unleashing bursts of lightning and hurling chunks of asteroid harvested
by the Foundry at his opponents, Revan dueled the four strike team members throu
ghout the chamber, but Revan was ultimately driven to defeat. Stumbling back, Re
van quoted Malak's final words and remarked that he finally understood how his f
riend had felt so many years ago on the Star Forge, and before his opponents cou
ld finish the Jedi Master off, Revan vanished in a flash of violet energy.[4]
Dying, Revan attempted to become one with the Force, but he was only partially s
uccessful. While part of him moved on and joined the Force, the rest the part that
had embraced the darkness to escape the pain of the Emperor's torture refused to
do so, and was left in control of his body. Now insane and fully submerged in th
e dark side, the new "dark" Revan believed his mind to be "clearer" and his stre
ngth to have increased. Remembering the Revanites, he decided to make them his o
wn, and became determined to destroy the Emperor once and for all.[64] However,
he first needed to "clear the board" of the Republic and the Empire, both of whi
ch he believed would interfere in his plans.[14] By that time, Revan had discove
red that the Emperor had been driven to the brink of defeat by a Jedi Knight, an
d that the Emperor's spirit had retreated to the moon Yavin 4 in order to recupe
rate.[65]
Splintered
"You've carried on, dragging the remains of a body that should have long sin
ce faded to dust. Hatred fueled cunning, but burned out all wisdom. Without me,
you could not see."
?The light Revan speaks to the dark Revan[src]
Revan hologram
The "reborn" Revan
Taking control of the Order of Revan, he effectively wiped out the original Reva
nites and remade them into a group of fanatical devotees who were willing to fol
low his lead unquestionably. His new Revanites included members throughout the u
pper echelons of both the Republic and the Empire, such as Colonel Rian Darok of
the Republic Special Forces Division and Darth Arkous of the Dark Council. Daro
k and Arkous were tasked with creating an "Infinite Army" using Rakatan technolo
gy having stolen Rakatan artifacts from the Jedi Temple and Sith Academy, the pair
hired a Selkath scientist named Gorima to develop a way of fusing the Rakatan t
echnology with living beings. On Lehon, the Revanites embedded fragments of the
destroyed Star Forge in the bodies of their recruits, creating soldiers who coul
d heal rapidly and possessed great strength. However, the Infinite Army project
was destroyed by a small alliance of Republic and Imperial individuals who also
killed Darok and Arkous. Commanding the Revanite fleet from the deck of a Harrow
er-class dreadnought, Revan arrived in the Lehon system only minutes after the p
air's death; disappointed with the loss of his Infinite Army, he spoke briefly w
ith his opponents via a holographic projection before he bombarded the Temple of
the Ancients with his fleet in an unsuccessful attempt to kill his enemies.[14]
Despite the loss of the Infinite Army, Revan moved ahead with his efforts, and r
ecruited the Nova Blades pirate gang on the planet Rishi. At Revan's instruction
s, the Nova Blades preyed on Republic and Imperial patrols, forcing them to shif
t their hyperroutes with the intention of forcing a naval confrontation between
the Republic and the Empire.[66] The Revanites also gathered a fleet of warships
that they stationed on Rishi, where the battle would occur; the ships would ent
er the battle and wreak havoc along with Revanite saboteurs aboard the two oppos
ing fleets. The Revanites also constructed a signal jammer on Razorback Island t
o prevent the fleets from warning or contacting each other.[67] Revan's alliance
with Shae Vizla's Mandalorian clan did not last long,[68] and when the Nova Bla
des came under attack by a mysterious pirate group, Revan ended his agreement wi
th the pirates as they had served their purpose.[66] That mysterious group was s
oon discovered to be the same individuals responsible for the Lehon incident, in
cluding Revan's own descendant Theron Shan, who was captured investigating a Rev
anite outpost.[67]
Shan was brought to the Revanite stronghold on Sky Ridge Island, where Revan him
self spent quite some time interrogating his descendant and attempting to convin
ce Shan to join Revan's cause. Some time after Revan departed, a rescue team inf
iltrated the stronghold, and Revan spoke to them briefly via holocomm before the
group escaped with Shan.[67] To Revan's displeasure, that same group of allied
Imperial and Republic operatives successfully disabled the Revanites' jamming to
wer just as Revan's trap was sprung; the Republic and Imperial fleets were warne
d of the situation and alerted to the presence of the Revanite saboteurs before
too much damage had been done.[69]
His involvement exposed to the galaxy, Revan advanced his plans and invaded Yavi
n 4 in force; his Revanites overwhelmed the small number of Imperial Guardsmen w
ho were stationed at the Imperial Guard Academy on the moon, and secured the Tem
ple of Sacrifice. The Temple contained the mechanism required for a Sith ritual
that would restore the Emperor's strength by consuming all life on Yavin 4. Howe
ver, he was pursued by a coalition of Imperial and Republic forces that had join
ed together in the threat of a returned Emperor, and the coalition forces attack
ed the Revanites in order to prevent Revan from achieving his goal, as they beli
eved he would be unable to defeat the Emperor.[70] By that time, Revan had reacq
uired his longtime companion HK-47, who had been rebuilt after being destroyed i
n the service of the Sith Lord Darth Malgus.[7] Unbeknownst to the dark Revan, h
is other half was able to manifest as a Force spirit, and warned the coalition f
orces that their enemy was not the true Revan.[5] In the battle that followed, t
he coalition forces stormed the temple, and Revan was interrupted in his attempt
to complete the ritual. With the Temple machinery destroyed,[7] Revan fled the
Temple and retreated to a temple deeper in the jungle the Emperor's final sanctuar
y, and the site where his spirit was hidden.[64]
Revan reforms
Revan's two halves finally merge.
However, he was pursued by a number of the coalition's greatest heroes, includin
g his own descendants: Theron and his mother Satele Shan, the Jedi Grand Master.
Determined to confront the Emperor in spite of the disruption of his plans, Rev
an engaged in battle with the coalition forces, holding his own against a large
number of enemies, but he was ultimately defeated and he was horrified to hear the
mocking laugh of the Emperor only moments later. His strength restored by feedi
ng off of the deaths and chaos caused by the battle on the moon, the Emperor dec
lared his intention to retake the galaxy as his own, and his spirit then vanishe
d from Yavin 4 without taking a body. Devastated at his failure, the dark Revan
was enraged to be visited by his spectral half, but the spirit convinced his oth
er half to release his hold on their physical form and merge once more, making R
evan whole. His mind restored, Revan warned the coalition to remain vigilant in
the wake of the Emperor's return, and then the ancient Force-user finally became
one with the Force. Revan's physical body vanished as well, leaving only his sc
arred mask and his lightsaber.[64]
Legacy
"Revan and the Jedi Exile are legends. What were they like?"
"It should not have surprised anyone that Revan turned Sith. He knew you can
not fight the dark side without understanding it. The Exile was harder to read.
Even with all she had done, she never trusted herself. With Revan, she was his s
tudent again."
?The Hero of Tython and Scourge[src]
Revan's victory over Darth Malak, and his influence over the Sith Emperor, ensur
ed that the Republic received almost three hundred years of peace. Revan's son V
aner continued the Shan family line,[1] a line that produced many Jedi, includin
g the Jedi Knight Tasiele Shan and her daughter Satele a woman who went on to beco
me the youngest Grand Master of the Jedi Order in history. However, Revan's unor
thodoxy and the power of his bloodline led the Republic to demand that the Jedi
Order exile Tasiele Shan when she began to call for the Order to loosen their re
strictions on marriage.[32] Even after both of his disappearances, Revan's skill
s, both Forceful and otherwise, were of great renown among the galaxy's inhabita
nts.[71] The Jedi Ilia Orpin, who became the gatekeeper of a holocron, provided
an extensive account of Jedi history through the "Revan Mythologies" a series of f
ables and myths that recounted the Order's history. Some scholars considered Orp
in's works to be derivatives of the Qel-Droma Epics, a similar set of mythical s
tories that spoke of the Great Hyperspace War and the Great Sith War. Many of th
e Mythologies featured the Rakata, and spoke of Jedi heroes who found Rakatan de
vices and were forced to choose between destroying them or being corrupted by th
eir power.[72]
Despite Revan's redemption and the destruction of the Sith at his hands, Sith of
both the reconstituted Sith Empire[73] and later Sith such as Darth Bane held R
evan in high regard.[61] Though he sacrificed Revan to the Emperor so that he co
uld survive, Scourge remained loyal to his and the Jedi's cause of defeating the
Emperor, and he served the Sith ruler as his personal executioner for three hun
dred years before he allied himself with the Hero of Tython the Knight whom Scourg
e had foreseen would complete Revan's mission.[1] Like the slaves that Revan lef
t on Nar Shaddaa, the Rakata of Lehon worshiped "the Revan" as a god-like figure
, believing him to be both savior and destroyer, and believing that he would one
day come to their world for a third time.[14]
Revan's Cross of Glory was eventually placed in the Republic Foundation Museum,
a museum in Corellia's capital Coronet City.[73] Within the Leisure Garden secti
on of the city's Axial Park the holostatues of Revan and his companions during t
he quest for Star Forge were erected in memory of their deeds.[74] Revan's mask
was recovered from the Imperial Citadel, and it was passed to a number of differ
ent Sith Lords throughout the next three centuries until the Sith Lord Grathan a
cquired the mask as a trophy.[75] Revan was credited with having driven the warr
ing Sith from Korriban in the aftermath of the Jedi Civil War, and the Jedi Dees
ra Luur Jada focused on Revan while writing an account of the Jedi Civil War. Ja
da believed that the fact that the blank-slate Revan chose not to return to the
dark side said far more about Revan than any of his other actions, and Jada ofte
n found himself correcting younger Jedi who said that "the Sith Lords Revan and
Malak" were the ones who destroyed Dantooine in the years after the Jedi Civil W
ar.[16]
Over two thousand years after Revan's final disappearance, a Zelosian male durin
g the time of the New Sith Wars came across a Sith manuscript that discussed Dar
th Revan and the Jedi Civil War, and he decided to adopt Revan's Sith title as h
is own. However, the manuscript was corrupted, incorrectly identifying Revan as
"Darth Rivan," and the Zelosian accordingly adopted the title of Darth Rivan.[16
] In 1000 BBY, the Sith Lord Darth Bane discovered The Rakata and the Unknown Wo
rld, one of Darth Revan's writings from his time as a Sith, in the archives of t
he Sith Academy on Korriban, and his disgust with the current Sith philosophy of
sharing power led him to investigate Darth Revan further.[61]
Six Sith Lords
Darths Andeddu, Revan, Malak, Malgus, Ruin, and Bane
Traveling to Lehon, Bane entered the Temple of the Ancients and recovered Revan'
s Holocron, and Bane spent a great deal of time plumbing the secrets of the devi
ce, such as the thought bomb. However, because the crystal Revan had used to cre
ate the device was flawed, the artifact eventually began to fail and finally shu
t down permanently. Using Revan's knowledge and teachings, Bane decided to rebui
ld the Sith Order based on Revan's belief that a Sith Master should never train
more than one apprentice. Building upon Revan's philosophy, Bane developed the R
ule of Two, a doctrine that dictated there could only be two in Bane's Order of
the Sith Lords a master, and an apprentice.[61]
Revan also had a powerful influence on the Republic Military: his near-destructi
on of the Republic during his time as a Sith was stopped when he was redeemed, b
ut the military's failures became evident to the Republic leadership and it was
clear that the military needed to evolve in order to survive. The Republic Milit
ary underwent significant changes, developing into a far more capable fighting f
orce.[32] Until Revan's appointment as Supreme Commander, no single field marsha
l commanded all of the Republic's ground forces; the Ministry of Defense on Coru
scant directed all generals and admirals, and the Republic Navy ended up in actu
al command.[8]
Personality and traits
"Who I am is not important, my message is."
?Revan[src]
Revan was a Human male with fair skin and brown eyes, and he wore his dark brown
hair at shoulder-length for much of his life. In Revan's own opinion, his featu
res were unremarkable and average. Revan grew a beard during the search for the
Star Forge, though when he shaved it off shortly after the Battle of Rakata Prim
e, he was able to pass unrecognized through the throngs of people on Coruscant.[
1] Even as a young apprentice, Revan was known for his remarkable intelligence a
nd exceptional charisma, as well as an insatiable desire for knowledge. A milita
ry genius, Revan was renowned for his tactical thinking and decisive leadership
even as a Jedi Knight.[12] In his youth, Revan was outraged by the Jedi Council'
s indecision and refusal to act against the Mandalorians, and his desire to defe
nd the Republic led him to argue vociferously for his cause. His determination a
nd charisma gained him a following of like-minded Jedi, though his strength and
leadership led the others to accept him as their leader without question.[17]
Warrior and Sith
"The Sith must be ruled by a single leader: the very embodiment of the stren
gth and power of the dark side. If the leader grows weak, another must rise to s
eize the mantle. The strong rule; the weak are meant to serve. This is the way i
t must be."
?Darth Revan's holocron[src]
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Darth Revan, Dark Lord of the Sith
When he finally joined the Republic Military in the war against the Mandalorians
, Revan began to change. Over the course of the Mandalorian Wars, Revan became m
ore and more cold and calculating, adopting the militant mindset of his enemies
in order to win his battles. By the end of the war, Revan was more than willing
to sacrifice allies and his citizens in order to gain or preserve an advantage o
ver his opponent.[1] Exposed to the teachings of the Sith, Revan and Malak utili
zed an untested weapon like the mass-shadow generator even with the possibility
that the weapon might harm their own fleet.[2] Before each battle, Revan would s
tare at his reflection in a mirror while wearing his mask and recited the Jedi C
ode repeatedly until the words seemed to blur together.[1]
The devastation at Malachor disgusted Revan, and he decided that he would never
again use such tactics to destroy his enemy, so he constructed HK-47 so that he
could use a more surgical approach toward eliminating his enemies.[12] Revan und
erstood the powerful cultural influence that the mask of Mandalore had on the Ma
ndalorians, and therefore he decided to hide the mask in order to strike a power
ful blow to the defeated Mandalorians. While they were influenced by the dark si
de, Revan and Malak were still determined to protect the Republic against the my
sterious Sith threat that the dying Mandalore revealed to Revan, but the two Jed
i were arrogant and overconfident in their power when they infiltrated Dromund K
aas. As a result, their minds were twisted by the Sith Emperor and they were mad
e into his servants, and their fall to the dark side was completed.[1]
However, the Emperor underestimated the strength of Revan and Malak's wills the tw
o were the first ever to break free of the Sith Emperor's mental control, and th
eir instructions were twisted so that they believed it was their own desires tha
t drove them to conquer the Republic.[1] As a Sith Lord, Revan embraced the Sith
philosophy, developing his own methodology that was based on the rule of the st
rong. Revan believed that the power of the dark side was to be craved, and that
power must be sought above all else. Abandoning the emotions of mercy and compas
sion, as he believed that they were weaknesses, Revan also came to the conclusio
n that loyalty was a similar weakness to trust in allies was to introduce the poss
ibility of betrayal and therefore weakness. The dark side invited strife and riv
alry, as it culled the weak, but Revan recognized that that same strife was also
a weakness. He believed that the strong needed to be cautious in case that thei
r lessers banded together to overcome them, and as a result Revan was of the opi
nion that a Sith Master should have but one student and the same was true of the t
itle of Dark Lord: there should only be two.[61] Revan also understood the power
that manipulation could have, and he believed that the corruption and conversio
n of Jedi was one of the keys to winning the Jedi Civil War. His strategy in the
war against the Republic was aimed at preserving the Republic's infrastructure,
and he made strategic strikes that weakened his enemy's military power while pr
eserving the economy and government by sparing specific worlds that were essenti
al to the Republic infrastructure.[12]
Reborn
"I'm not doing this for the Republic. I'm not doing it for you. I'm not even
doing it for me. I'm doing it for our child. And our child's children. We might
never live to see the horrors that are coming, but they will. We have to protec
t the Republic for them. We have to risk our chance at happiness so they can hav
e a life we might never know."
?Revan[src]
Jedi Revan
Revan, a Jedi once more
When the Jedi Council erased Revan's mind, they wiped away his memories and left
him a blank slate onto which they added an artificial persona. His new identity
as a soldier was fiercely loyal to the Republic and fought to end the threat of
the Sith, and he adhered to the ideals and teachings of the Jedi Order when he
was retrained as a Jedi.[12] However, his former master Kreia believed that the
Jedi Council had not actually changed Revan's personality but had simply erased
the effects of the Mandalorian Wars and the dark side on Revan's psyche, allowin
g his original persona to reemerge a person who was willing to go to war to protec
t others.[2] Revan's droid HK-47 suspected that Revan's newfound concern for lif
e and willingness to protect others was in fact an inherent trait rather than th
e result of the mindwipe, and Revan earned Canderous Ordo's respect once more by
proving his prowess as both a warrior and a leader.[12]
The Rakatan computer on Kashyyyk conducted a test of Revan's personality when he
was seeking the Star Map, and it failed the Jedi when it concluded that he was
not the same individual who accessed the Star Map years earlier. However, during
Revan's fight with the defense droids, the computer scanned his neural patterns
and confirmed that Revan was in fact the same person as before. Unlike the Sith
Lord Darth Revan, the Jedi Revan trusted his allies, and his natural charisma g
ained him a number of loyal followers just as it had during the Mandalorian Wars
.[12] As his relationship with Bastila Shan developed during his travels, Revan
came to draw on his emotions as a source of strength, finding that he could bett
er connect to the light side of the Force by using positive emotions such as lov
e and happiness.[1]
Revan maintained his sense of humor as both a Sith and a Jedi, such as how he re
programmed HK-47 to designate organics as "meatbags,"[12] and he sometimes used
sarcasm as a shield to hide his own emotions. Even after the Jedi Civil War, Rev
an was determined to save the Republic from its enemies, and his nightmares of a
storm-covered world and a darkness in the Unknown Regions drove him to seek out
the unknown threat in order to protect his family's future even at the cost of
his own life.[1] When he confronted the Sith Emperor for a second time, Revan un
derstood the possibility that he would not survive, and he trusted in the Force
to ensure that the darkness would one day be countered by the light. Revan's str
ength of will was such that he was able to withstand torture for years, and he s
urvived centuries as the prisoner of the Emperor while also resisting the Sith's
attempts to steal his knowledge.[1]
Light and dark
"So many centuries. The Emperor and his Dread Masters, trying to wrench me a
part, to unleash my anger and hatred I detached myself from the pain. Focused on
the Force."
"You hid behind Jedi platitudes! You weren't strong enough to survive the to
rture, or the battle in the Foundry. I faced them! I survived them!"
"You carried on, dragging the remains of a body that should have long since
faded to dust."
?The two halves of Revan[src]
Dark Revan
The dark Revan
However, his long imprisonment had an adverse effect on Revan. Because of his li
nk to the Emperor's mind, he was able to temper the Sith ruler's hatred and desi
re for war,[15] but Revan was influenced in turn, and he underwent centuries of
torture at the hands of the Emperor and the Dread Masters. The Sith sought to tw
ist Revan to the dark side once more, and though he was able to resist their eff
orts, he was forced to separate himself from the pain and focus solely on the Fo
rce. This had the effect of splintering Revan's mind between its light and dark
halves, though the effect was not evident at first.[7] By the time he was releas
ed, he had come to view the Empire and the Emperor as a scourge on the galaxy th
at he would sacrifice his moral principles to destroy. Using the Foundry, Revan
intended to unleash an army of extermination droids upon the people of the Empir
e, and he was once again willing to sacrifice innocents in order to advance his
cause.[4]
When Revan was defeated in the Foundry, he died and attempted to became one with
the Force. However, his darker half the part driven by hatred and anger resisted an
d retained control over Revan's body, while the rest merged with the Force and b
ecame a spirit. The new "dark" Revan became obsessed with destroying the Emperor
permanently, and he readily accepted leadership of the fanatical Order of Revan
. He viewed both the Empire and the Republic as obstacles to his plans and so so
ught to remove them, and believed that he was strong enough to defeat the Empero
r despite having failed before. While the light Revan possessed the original's w
isdom and compassion, the dark half possessed the Revan's strength and focus but
clouded by hatred. It was not until the dark Revan's defeat on Yavin that the t
wo halves joined together once again, and the newly whole Revan was able to fade
away and become one with the Force.[7] After being freed from the Maelstrom Pri
son, Revan's face was permanently scarred with circular marks and lines,[4] and
his death in the Foundry left his face even more scarred.[7]
Companions
Revan was a naturally charismatic leader, and he gathered a strong following in
the Jedi Order during the Mandalorian Wars, though several Jedi in particular be
came his trusted lieutenants. Similarly, during the Jedi Civil War, the reprogra
mmed Revan gained a number of loyal companions and followers who fought alongsid
e him and became some of his greatest friends.[12]
Bastila Shan
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Bastila Shan
"I love you too, with all my heart."
"You aren't afraid to love anymore?"
"After this? No. Nothing could make me feel safer than to be loved by you."
?Bastila and Revan[src]
Bastila Shan was sent to capture the Sith Lord Darth Revan and was the only surv
ivor of her strike team, though she chose to rescue a comatose and heavily injur
ed Revan from the Sith flagship. Shan healed him with the Force, but doing so cr
eated a Force bond between the two that linked their emotions and thoughts toget
her. As a result, Shan was chosen to be the mind-wiped Revan's "chaperone" and t
o help discover the Star Forge. When Revan finally succeeded in rescuing the Jed
i on Taris, Shan was initially rather arrogant and brash, believing herself to b
e superior to Onasi and Revan because of her powers. However, she became more fr
iendly with Revan as time went on, and the two spent a great deal of time togeth
er when Revan was retraining as a Jedi, as he was encouraged to rely on their bo
nd as a means of support and strength.[12]
When the group was dispatched on their mission to discover the Star Forge, Shan
at first believed that it was her responsibility to guide Revan as a test to see
whether she was ready for Mastership, but as she became more experienced, Shan
came to realize her self-righteousness and arrogance. As Revan continued to rema
in true to the Jedi way, Shan came to resent him to a degree, but Revan offered
his own support in her struggle with the dark side when she confided in him abou
t her inner desires to destroy Darth Malak and save the galaxy on her own. Shan
respected how Revan viewed their mission as serious, but as she opened up to him
, the two began to develop feelings for each other.[12]
Revan and Bastila
Revan and Bastila during their travels
Shan feared these feelings, pushing them away out of fear and also out of recogn
ition of the fact that Revan was still the former Sith Lord. Bastila's encounter
with her mother Helena disrupted her attempts to control her emotions, though s
he continued to struggle to remain true to the light, and shortly before the gro
up discovered their fourth Star Map, Shan succumbed to her feelings for Revan. T
he two kissed briefly on the Ebon Hawk, but Shan withdrew out of fear and, belie
ving that she had betrayed the Jedi, fled from Revan. The two did not speak agai
n until they were captured by the Leviathan, where Revan was forced to watch Sha
n be tortured but refused to give information to Admiral Karath. Shan sacrificed
herself to save Revan from Darth Malak, though Revan learned of his true identi
ty in the process, and despite his feelings for her Revan honored her sacrifice
and continued their mission.[12]
When Revan next encountered Shan, she was Malak's apprentice, and the two battle
d each other atop the Temple of the Ancients. Revan refused Shan's offer of join
ing her and promised to save her from the dark side, and he engaged her again on
the Star Forge determined to do just that. Ultimately, Revan's love for Shan an
d her love for him brought Shan back from the dark, and the two admitted their l
ove for each other after Revan refused to kill Shan after defeating her in battl
e.[12] After the end of the war, Revan and Shan defied Jedi tradition and were m
arried, and Shan was outraged at the Jedi Council's treatment of Revan when he a
pproached them with his philosophy of emotional strength. Shan came to deeply re
gret the role in Revan's mindwipe, but her husband was grateful because it led t
o their being together.[1]
Shan was frustrated with Revan's desire to sacrifice himself for the sake of the
galaxy, but she found herself unable to counter Revan's argument that he was do
ing it for the sake of their son. To honor her husband after his disappearance,
she named their son Vaner, and after Revan departed for the Unknown Regions, eve
ry night Shan dreamed of Revan. Shan had in fact kept Revan's mask, but she hid
it from her husband in fear that it would bring back the darkness of his former
self. While held captive by the Emperor, Revan drew strength from the knowledge
that he was protecting Shan and his son, and his love for them enabled him to wi
thstand the Emperor's mental probing for three centuries.[1]
Darth Malak
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Darth Malak, once Revan's greatest friend
"I am sorry I started you on this path. But you chose to continue down it."
"I suppose I suppose you speak the truth. I alone must accept responsibility
for my fate. I wanted to be Master of the Sith and ruler of the galaxy. But that
destiny was not mine, Revan. [cough] It might have been yours, perhaps but never
mine."
?Revan and Malak's final conversation[src]
Revan and Alek first became friends in their youth while still Jedi Padawans, an
d Revan soon assumed the leadership role in their friendship it was the common bel
ief of others in the Order that Revan was the stronger of the pair, and Alek loy
ally followed Revan on his crusade for Jedi intervention in the Mandalorian Wars
.[12] By the time they were both Jedi Knights, Alek considered Revan to be his h
onorary master,[21] and he served ably as Revan's lieutenant in the Mandalorian
Wars.[12] However, Revan introduced his best friend to Sith teachings after disc
overing them on Malachor,[8] and the two's overconfidence led to their corruptio
n at the hands of the Sith Emperor.[1] As a Sith, Revan assumed the role of Mast
er while Malak became his apprentice, and Malak came to resent Revan and thought
him weak.[12] Their friendship dissolved, leaving only tension and mistrust tha
t sparked a fierce duel where Revan removed Malak's jaw with a lightsaber strike
,[8] and Malak took the opportunity to unseat his Master when the Jedi tried to
capture Revan. From that point on, Malak believed himself to be the stronger of
the pair, even after he learned of Revan's survival, and he took pleasure in rev
ealing his former Master's true identity to Revan aboard the Leviathan. In his f
inal moments, Malak admitted that a small part of him regretted attacking Revan
from afar when he unseated him, and Malak believed that he would have been unabl
e to stay true to the light as Revan did when the Jedi erased his memories. Reva
n apologized to his former student for starting him on the path of the Sith, but
reminded his friend that Malak had chosen to continue down it, and that he was
ultimately responsible for his own fate.[12]
Meetra Surik
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Meetra Surik. the lost lieutenant
"She was a great Jedi. My most trusted ally. History remembers her as the Ex
ile. To me, she was more."
?Revan[src]
Meetra Surik, the Jedi later known as the Jedi Exile, had been one of the first
to join the Revanchists, and she was one of Revan's most trusted lieutenants dur
ing the Mandalorian Wars. Recognizing Surik's potential as a tactician and milit
ary leader, Revan made her a general and granted her control over nearly half of
the Jedi and Republic troops that were under his command,[1] and he had given S
urik the responsibility of activating the mass-shadow generator. However, Surik'
s exposure to the weapon when it activated left her without a connection to the
Force, leading Revan to refuse Malak's request to kill her after Malachor, as Re
van claimed she was "already dead."[2] Revan was dismayed to learn of her condit
ion and the fact that the Order had exiled her after the Mandalorian Wars when h
e researched her fate in the years after the Jedi Civil War. The two had develop
ed a special bond during the war, as Surik had a powerful ability to form Force
bonds with her allies and friends, and before her loss of the Force he was able
to reach out and sense her presence even across the galaxy.[1]
Upon learning of her fate, Revan felt responsible for what had happened to Surik
, and he was deeply saddened to learn that one of his closest friends had suffer
ed so much. Revan's wife Bastila Shan could not help but feel jealous of Surik's
close relationship with Revan, though she knew that the two had actually shared
a bond of great respect similar to that of a Padawan and Master rather than a r
omantic relationship. Revan's droid T3-M4 knew of their history and chose to con
tact Surik as the next-best thing when he was unable to contact Shan after Revan
's disappearance, and Surik was willing to risk her life to save her mentor from
the Sith. Their friendship was so strong that Revan was willing to allow Surik
to watch a personal message from Revan's wife with him, and Surik's loyalty live
d on even after death she remained by Revan's side as a Force ghost for three hund
red years, lending him strength[1] and finally reaching out to the Jedi in order
to ensure Revan's freedom.[15]
Canderous Ordo
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Canderous Ordo, the Mandalorian mercenary
"I had a feeling you were going to get mixed up in something interesting, an
d I wanted to be around for the fun. Guess this is it."
"I knew I could count on you, Canderous."
?Canderous Ordo and Revan[src]
The Mandalorian mercenary Canderous Ordo respected Revan immensely during the Ma
ndalorian Wars, as Revan's strategies and the way he defeated the Mandalorians i
mpressed Ordo. Ordo saw Revan as the greatest warrior of the time, and though he
initially teamed up with the mind-wiped Revan so that he could escape Taris, he
came to respect the Jedi's prowess as a warrior as well. As Ordo told Revan mor
e of his old war stories, Ordo became increasingly dissatisfied with his current
status as a mercenary, and Jagi's suicide on Tatooine greatly affected Ordo. Wh
en Revan's true identity was revealed, Ordo pledged his loyalty to his friend in
respect.[12] When Revan was plagued by nightmares and asked Ordo to investigate
Mandalore the Ultimate, the trust between the two friends was strong enough tha
t Ordo was willing to reveal that the Mandalorians were seeking Mandalore's mask
, and Ordo overcame his reluctance toward encountering other Mandalorians in ord
er to go with Revan to Rekkiad. Even more than that, Ordo sided with Revan again
st his own wife and clan when Veela Ordo tried to kill Revan, and Revan trusted
Ordo enough to entrust him with the mask of Mandalore he asked Ordo to reclaim the
title of Mandalore and to rebuild the Mandalorians into a force that could prot
ect the Republic.[1]
Carth Onasi
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Carth Onasi, the haunted soldier
"I'm not a warrior, I'm a soldier. There's a difference. Warriors attack and
conquer, they prey on the weak. Soldiers defend and protect the innocent usually
from warriors."
?Carth Onasi to Canderous Ordo[src]
Carth Onasi's life during the Jedi Civil War was filled with betrayal and loss,
and as a result he was slow to trust Revan when they started working together to
find Shan on Taris. Admiral Karath's betrayal made Onasi paranoid and caused hi
m to believe that those he trusted would eventually betray him, so he resigned h
imself to watching Revan closely. The Jedi Council's mission struck Onasi as hig
hly suspicious, and his suspicions sparked friction between him and Revan during
their travels, though he eventually began to trust the Jedi despite his instinc
ts otherwise. When Karath revealed the truth of Revan's identity to Onasi in his
dying moments, the soldier was overcome with anger and dismay, as it seemed his
suspicions had been proven right and his trust had been broken once again. Howe
ver, Revan promised his friend that he was not the same person, and he understoo
d that the only way to prove it was through his actions. Revan's loyalty to his
comrades and the Republic eventually endeared himself with Onasi, who came to re
alize that he could not hate Revan for who he used to be Malak was the one who was
responsible for the bombing of Onasi's homeworld Telos, and Revan had proven to
Onasi that he had truly changed.[12] Onasi remained a loyal friend of Revan thr
oughout the rest of the war and in the years afterward, and after Revan's disapp
earance Onasi and Shan continued to search for any sign of their missing friend.
[2]
Jolee Bindo
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Jolee Bindo, the hermit Jedi
"Love doesn't lead to the dark side. Passion can lead to rage and fear, and
can be controlled but passion is not the same thing as love. Controlling your pas
sions while being in love that's what they should teach you to beware. But love i
tself will save you not condemn you."
?Jolee Bindo, to Revan[src]
Jolee Bindo was an eccentric hermit living in the Shadowlands when Revan first m
et him, but Bindo's cryptic words and crotchety attitude hid his wisdom and sadn
ess. Bindo was aware of Revan's true identity from the very start, and the Grey
Jedi's philosophy of drawing strength from positive emotions inspired Revan's ow
n philosophy of the Force. Bindo made it clear to the younger Jedi that he could
sense a powerful destiny in Revan's future, and even after Revan's identity was
revealed, Bindo did not waver in his decision to follow Revan and aid the young
er Jedi. Throughout their travels, Revan learned of Bindo's colorful past as a J
edi, smuggler, pilot, thief, and more, and the two became friends by the end of
the war,[12] though Revan did not want to involve Bindo in his mission to Rekkia
d in case it jeopardized Bindo's standing with the Order.[1]
Juhani
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Juhani, the troubled Padawan
"I feel I could count on any one of you, but it is you who saved me from the
dark side. It is you who I feel a debt to. And I shall make it up to you."
?Juhani, to Revan[src]
Revan first encountered the Cathar Juhani when she was a slave on the planet Tar
is, and after being was freed by the Revanchists, Juhani was in awe of the Jedi
and their leader in particular. It was years later that they encountered each ot
her once again when she was in the grips of the dark side on Dantooine, as she bel
ieved she had killed her own master Quatra in a training duel. Despite Juhani's
rage and despair, Revan was able to bring Juhani back to the light side by convi
ncing her to abandon her anger, and Juhani later requested that she accompany Re
van on his journey to find the Star Maps. When her request was granted, Revan co
ntinued to serve as a supportive friend for Juhani, allowing her to continue to
walk the path of the light side. Throughout their travels, Revan spoke with Juha
ni further about her past, only to learn that his Cathar companion was from Tari
s and that she blamed Revan and Shan for her homeworld's destruction, despite th
e fact that she had despised the city-world and its humanocentric society.[12]
Revan also learned of how her father had been killed and her mother had died aft
er accumulating enormous debts, and Juhani told her friend of how she had been f
reed from Taris's slave markets by a group of Jedi.[12] During their travels, Re
van and Juhani encountered the Twi'lek slaver Xor, whom Juhani recognized as the
slaver who had killed her father and also tried to sell her as a slave. Overcom
e by rage, Juhani was ready to attack Xor right then and there, but Revan remind
ed her of the Jedi Code and she was able to calm herself. However, Xor later con
fronted Juhani and Revan with two thugs and tried to kill the Jedi, forcing Reva
n, Juhani, and one of their companions to fight and kill the slaver and his thug
s.[8] By the end of their journeys, Juhani was steadfast in her devotion to the
light side and extremely grateful for Revan's aid.[76]
Mission Vao
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Mission Vao, the spirited orphan
"Hey, don't treat me like I'm a little girl. I ain't no kid I'm fourteen years
old."
?Mission Vao Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]
Revan first met Mission Vao on Taris, where he and Carth Onasi helped rescue her
friend Zaalbar from Gamorrean slavers. Despite her youth, Vao did not consider
herself a child, and she became fast friends with Revan during their travels. Wh
en Revan's true identity was revealed, Vao's first concern was whether her frien
d had felt any of his old persona resurfacing, and when Revan indicated otherwis
e, Vao accepted his word without any doubt. To Vao, Revan was not a terrifying S
ith Lord, but the friend who had been there for Vao and the others throughout al
l of their time together since Taris, and she could not understand Onasi's anger
and distrust of Revan when his identity was revealed. Mission was grateful for
Revan's help in rescuing her brother Griff from the Sand People, though she was
dismayed to learn that Griff had left her behind on Taris,[12] and she remained
good friends with Revan after the Jedi Civil War ended.[1]
Zaalbar
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Zaalbar, the fierce warrior
"Unless you want someone threatened or a door bashed in, you should ask some
one else."
?Zaalbar to Revan, on his abilities.[src]
The Wookiee Zaalbar swore a life-debt to Revan when he rescued Zaalbar from Gamo
rrean slavers, and Zaalbar honored that pledge by serving as one of Revan's comp
anions during the Star Forge. However, Zaalbar was rather private about his life
before he met up with Mission Vao, and it was not until Revan's journey to Kash
yyyk that he learned more about the Wookiee warrior. With Revan's help, Zaalbar
was able to overcome the shame that his brother Chuundar had placed upon Zaalbar
's shoulders, and the Jedi rescued Zaalbar's father Freyyr and helped both Freyy
r and Zaalbar overthrow Chuundar. Despite the promise of home, Zaalbar chose to
remain with Revan and honor his life-debt, and Zaalbar stayed true in his loyalt
y to the Jedi even after the truth of Revan's identity was revealed.[12]
T3-M4
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T3-M4, the loyal astromech
"You don't talk much, do you?"
?Revan[src]
T3-M4 was a Duwani Mechanical Products T3-series utility droid constructed by Ja
nice Nall on Taris. T3-M4 was originally built for Davik Kang as a slicer droid,
but Revan and his companions purchased the droid instead and used his skills to
break into the Taris military base. T3-M4 joined the soldier's crew in the afte
rmath of the mission, and traveled with Revan and his crew aboard the Ebon Hawk
as the former Jedi rediscovered his powers and searched for the Star Maps.[12] R
evan and Bastila Shan kept T3-M4 and HK-47 as companions in the years after Mala
k's defeat. Spirited and independent, T3-M4 was deeply loyal to Revan, and serve
d as his copilot on the mission to Rekkiad. The droid was the only companion tha
t Revan brought to Nathema, and when the Ebon Hawk crashed on the planet, T3-M4
spent the next three years rebuilding the damaged ship alone, and he sought out
Meetra Surik on Revan's orders once he had repaired the Hawk. When T3-M4 and Sur
ik finally rescued Revan from imprisonment a year later, T3-M4 delivered Shan's
final message to her husband, and the droid accompanied his friends in their att
ack on the Emperor but to Revan's horror, his droid friend sacrificed his life to
save the Jedi, attacking the Sith Emperor with his flamethrower in defense of a
wounded Revan. The Emperor annihilated the droid, exploding T3-M4 into millions
of pieces of shrapnel.[1]
HK-47
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HK-47
HK-47, the master assassin
"I am HK-47, the master's most faithful ally."
?HK-47[src]
The assassin droid HK-47 was built by Revan shortly after the Mandalorian Wars,
and he employed the droid against high-ranking political targets in hopes of ach
ieving goals without the kind of devastation that occurred at Malachor V. Revan
programmed HK-47 to be loyal and obedient to him, but the droid considered all o
ther life-forms to be "meatbags" and possessed a significant liking for violence
and combat; after hearing HK-47 refer to Malak as a meatbag, Revan programmed t
he droid to refer to all organics as meatbags. As the two became Sith Lords, Rev
an continued to employ HK-47 to assassinate Republic political figures, but when
Revan was betrayed by Malak, HK-47 fell into the hands of a string of various o
wners many of whom ended up dead. When Revan finally rediscovered the droid on Tat
ooine, HK-47's master was a different man, and because of a damaged memory core,
the droid did not recognize Revan as his creator. However, when Revan's identit
y was revealed by Malak, HK-47's programming unlocked his hidden memories, and h
e recognized Revan as his maker. When asked by Revan, HK-47 considered the Jedi'
s new personality to be different in some ways but largely the same as before Re
van's mindwipe, and the droid believed that Revan's concern for life and willing
ness to protect other beings was in fact an inherent trait that Revan had posses
sed all along.[12] HK-47 remained steadfastly loyal to Revan even after the Jedi
Civil War, and he set out on his own to locate his missing creator when Revan d
isappeared in 3954 BBY[1] and after traveling with Meetra Surik during the rise of
the Sith Triumvirate, HK-47 once again left his new companions and went in sear
ch of Revan. HK-47 searched for years until he finally deactivated, but three ce
nturies after his initial disappearance, Revan found HK-47 and reactivated him,
tasking his faithful ally with the defense of the Foundry and Revan was dismayed t
o witness the droid's destruction at the hands of Sith attackers.[4] Revan later
reacquired a rebuilt HK-47 while leading the Revanites, and the droid fought al
ongside Revan's forces on Yavin.[7]
Powers and abilities
Combat skills
"You, Revan, are the single greatest warrior of this age, and any battle we
fight will bring me honor."
Revan fights Sith
A redeemed Revan battles Sith troopers.
Revan was a highly skilled combatant, particularly with a lightsaber. He was ski
lled at deflecting and redirecting enemy fire with his lightsaber,[1] and his ab
ilities were bolstered by his gift of precognition.[2] He often made use of acro
batic maneuvers in combat, bolstering his body's natural abilities with the Forc
e in order to increase his effectiveness.[12] In his prime, Revan was considered
by many to be the greatest warrior of his time; both the Echani and the Mandalo
rians two of the galaxy's foremost warrior cultures greatly respected his prowess in
battle after he dealt them major defeats. While he normally wielded a lightsabe
r, Revan was also proficient in the use of firearms, as he made use of blaster w
eaponry during his time as a Republic soldier and while fighting in the Taris du
eling ring.[12] He also retained these skills later in his life, making use of a
blaster while posing as "Avner" on Rekkiad.[1]
As a Padawan, Revan studied under several teachers, and learned as much as he co
uld from all of them.[2] In the Mandalorian Wars that followed, Revan was such a
powerful force in combat, cutting down many Mandalorians and their Basilisk war
droids, that the Mandalorians gave him the name "Revan the Butcher." Among Reva
n's greatest victories was his defeat of Mandalore the Ultimate, the leader of t
he Mandalorians and a feared warrior in his own right, in single combat. In the
aftermath of the Mandalorian Wars, some Mandalorians believe that if Revan had b
een a Mandalorian, no force in the galaxy would have stopped their expansion.[1]
During the Jedi Civil War, it was said that Revan himself cut down many Jedi in
battle, as well as many warriors from the Echani culture. The Echani respected
Revan, but believed that the source of his power and skill in battle was his mas
tery of battle precognition. One of Revan's most legendary victories was his due
l against Yusanis, the Echani's greatest warrior and strategist; not only did Re
van slay Yusanis, but Yusanis's death saw the Echani thrown into disarray and de
stablized their government.[2]
After the Jedi Council wiped Revan's mind, he was placed in the Republic Militar
y as a normal soldier for a time, but he soon rediscovered his powers in the sea
rch for Bastila, and upon arriving on Dantooine, he was trained as a Jedi for a
second time. Revan's skill continued to grow as he fought his way across the gal
axy in search of the Star Maps, battling many Dark Jedi and the forces of Malak'
s Sith Empire, including the famous bounty hunter Calo Nord and Malak's apprenti
ce, Darth Bandon. On Korriban, Revan single-handedly defeated a pair of massive
terentateks, and then was forced to fight his way through the entire Sith Academ
y, cutting down the Academy's headmasters Yuthura Ban and Uthar Wynn as well as the
dozens of Sith acolytes and teachers. In the final battle aboard the Star Forge,
he slew even more Sith war droids, Dark Jedi, and Sith apprentices in a mad rus
h to reach Darth Malak; the battle saw him defeat both his lover Bastila Shan an
d his former student Malak, with Malak calling on the energy of captive Jedi to
fuel himself in battle with Revan.[12]
Force powers
"Revan was power. It was like staring into the heart of the Force."
?Kreia[src]
Revan was extraordinarily powerful in the Force,[1] even as a young Jedi Knight,
and many considered him the most powerful Jedi of his era.[12][1] After becomin
g a Sith Lord, Revan's power grew as he studied the dark side of the Force, and
after his forced redemption, the man quickly retrained himself in the ways of th
e light side at a rate beyond that of a normal Padawan.[12] At the height of his
powers after he had recovered his lost memories, Revan was able to channel both
the light and dark sides simultaneously, and as a result Revan could unleash th
e Force in its purest form by opening himself to both sides of the Force in batt
le. By drawing on the Force, Revan could bolster his natural physical abilities,
increasing his speed and strength and allowing him to perform acrobatic feats i
mpossible for normal Humans.[1]
Revan chokes officer
Revan chokes an officer with the Force.
Revan was a master at telekinesis, utilizing the Force to manipulate the environ
ment and his opponents by pushing or gripping objects of beings with the Force.
His skill with telekinesis was such that he could hurl a heavy stone object at a
moment's notice, and on Dromund Kaas the Jedi Master destroyed a large stone ar
chway from a great distance with just the power of the Force.[1] As a Sith Lord,
Revan also utilized the Force to choke opponents, as well as the ability to vio
lently crush their internal organs or bodies with the dark side.[8] While fighti
ng the forces of the Sith Empire at the Foundry, Revan used the Force to call do
wn chunks of nearby asteroids like they were meteors, hurling them at his oppone
nts.[4] In battle, Revan often threw his lightsaber and guided its path with tel
ekinesis.[1] During the fighting on Yavin 4, the dark Revan proved capable of wi
elding two additional lightsabers telekinetically, sending them spinning around
the battlefield.[7] In his final battle, he also used his prodigous strength to
telekinetically pin over a dozen combatants in place, holding them down with ene
rgies from the dark and light sides of the Force.[64]
One of Revan's greatest strengths was his skill with Force sense the ability to se
nse other beings, their feelings, impending danger, or even the future. By 3954
BBY, Revan believed that he should have been able to sense the presence of Meetr
a Surik, one of his most trusted generals, from even across the galaxy, though S
urik's severed connection to the Force prevented this. Farsight and Force vision
s were a common occurrence for Revan, and even in a heavily drugged state, the J
edi was able to glimpse the future and see that Surik was coming to rescue him f
rom imprisonment. Revan was proficient at using the Force to directly heal his w
ounds without seeking medical attention.[1] He also possessed the ability to use
the Force to resist the effects of poisons and drugs,[61] though he was not alw
ays able to overcome their effects completely.[1] Some of Revan's additional tal
ents included the ability to use the Force to slow the minds and bodies of his t
argets, and replenish his energies by feeding on them.[8]
After becoming a Sith Lord, Revan became a practitioner of Force lightning,[8] a
nd he continued to be proficient in its use throughout the rest of his life, usi
ng it against his opponents in his final battle aboard the Foundry.[4] His skill
with the destructive applications of the dark side was such that he could summo
n Force storms,[8] and Revan also became proficient in the use of defensive tech
niques in order to counter both physical attacks and the Force powers of his opp
onents. Revan was capable of absorbing and redirecting energy, as he did when he
absorbed Darth Nyriss's storm of Force lightning with his bare hands and channe
led it through his own body before redirecting it against her and burning her to
ash. However, his attempt to do the same with lightning from the Sith Emperor p
roved to be a nearly-fatal mistake, as the strength of the Emperor's power left
him severely burned his mask nearly melted onto his face. Even in his greviously-w
ounded state, he was able to call on the Force to heal his wounds, though not qu
ick enough to rejoin the fight.[1]
Revan's strong will[1] allowed him to mentally influence the minds of others wit
h the Force, force his will upon them,[12] and even steal their knowledge. Despi
te the immense strength of the Sith Emperor's will, Revan and Malak's own mental
strength enabled them to partially free themselves from his mental control, and
Revan spent several centuries influencing the Emperor and pacifying his desire
to attack the Republic.[1] During his three centuries of imprisonment, Revan als
o underwent mental torture by the Sith Emperor and the Dread Masters, who sought
to break him and turn him into their weapon once more.[64] Revan's strength of
will enabled him to overcome several other highly corruptive influences he was abl
e to master the dark energies of the Star Forge and bend it to his will,[12] and
Revan survived visits to the dark world of Malachor V[77] and the Force-barren
planet Nathema.[1]
Revan's mastery of both sides of the Force aided in the mental fracture that he
experienced in the Foundry; one half became one with the Force, but the other em
braced the dark side and was fueled solely by hatred. His strength of will was s
o powerful that he held himself back from death, and the dark Revan retained con
trol over a body that was centuries old. Once the two halves merged and Revan fu
lly became one with the Force, his physical form vanished, leaving behind his ma
sk, lightsaber, and robes. The dark Revan was also capable of telekinetically in
capacitating almost a dozen separate combatants with the light and dark sides of
the Force, and could hold his own against a large number of skilled opponents s
imultaneously.[7]
Other abilities
Unmasked Revan
Revan was a tactical and military genius.
"You've got the skills of an elite commando, and you've saved my butt more t
han once. Between that and your facility with languages, I'm lucky you're here."
?Carth Onasi[src]
Revan was an exceptionally capable strategist and tactician, and some believed t
hat he was single-handedly responsible for the Republic's victory during the Man
dalorian Wars. Revan's skill as a battlefield commander earned him the undying r
espect of both the Mandalorian and Echani warrior cultures; the Mandalorians saw
him as a supremely worthy foe one that both embodied their philosophies and showe
d them their weaknesses.[12] The Echani, on the other hand, believed that Revan
represented the epitome of what one could achieve in the arts of war, and that h
is skill was born out of a highly advanced battle precognition.[2]
Revan spoke and comprehended a variety of languages beyond his native Basic:[12]
Mando'a,[78] Binary, Huttese,[8] Shyriiwook, and the languages of the Selkath[1
2] and the ancient Sith.[78] Revan also tore the Rakatan language from the minds
of the Black Rakata, allowing him to comprehend their speech.[12]
Revan was a skilled mechanic, exhibiting a natural talent and interest in machin
ery and droids as a young Padawan. Revan's preference for droids confounded his
teacher Kreia, who came to believe that it was a result of Revan's desire for su
bordinates who followed orders unquestioningly.[2] Revan constructed the sophist
icated assassin droid HK-47 on his own after the Mandalorian Wars, and even afte
r losing his memories, he was able to repair the droid and restore HK-47's acces
s to most of his memories and combat protocols.[12] A skilled pilot, Revan could
draw on the Force to aid his situational awareness,[1] and he proved adept at r
acing swoop bikes after defeating the veteran racer Redros on Taris. He later wo
n both the Arkanis sector and Manaan swoop championships during the search for t
he Star Forge.[12]

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