Trayus Academy

The Trayus Academy was an ancient Sith academy located on Malachor V. It served as the headquarter of the Sith Triumvirate, and the training ground of the rising Sith Assassins around 3,951 BBY, five years after the War of the Star Forge.

History
The Mandalorians had long held a taboo about the planet (possibly due to the dark side energy found there) which Revan used to his advantage. During the Mandalorian Wars, Revan visited the planet and discovered the academy. The academy appeared to have a remnant of the ancient True Sith Empire, long believed to have fallen tens of thousands of years ago. More importantly, however, it is from the Trayus Academy that Revan discovered the location of Korriban and other worlds once visited by the Rakata.



Revan remained in the academy whilst the final battle raged overhead. Eventually the Mass Shadow Generator was triggered by the Jedi Exile, leaving the Mandalorian fleet (and much of the Republic fleet) obliterated and the planet badly damaged. Within the core of the now-dead rock, the academy remained in perfect condition.

Information revealed by the Jedi Master Kreia suggested that Revan began his new Sith here to fight the old True Sith Empire that he had discovered to still exist beyond the borders of known space, deep in the Unknown Regions. He recruited Jedi to his cause, using the power of the academy to corrupt them. Eventually Revan left by himself to take the fight to the old empire.

Years later, Kreia discovered the academy, giving into the call of darkness and becoming Darth Traya. She discovered many of the things that Revan had about the Sith, and she continued Revan's Sith legacy by training two other apprentices. It was in this place where the apprentices known as Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion obtained their powers and techniques. On Trayus Academy, Nihilus learned hunger, Sion learned pain, whereas Traya learned betrayal.

Soon there was discord between the three Sith Lords, and Darth Traya was rendered powerless and exiled, sent into darkness. Afterwards, the Academy was used by Sion and Nihilus to train assassins, which also were taught Nihilus's forbidden techniques to feed upon the Force.

After the Battle of Telos IV, Traya returned to Malachor, once again taking Sion as an apprentice. The Jedi Exile followed her, braving both the planet's surface full of Storm beasts, and the academy halls with Sith troopers and Dark Jedi.

The Trayus Academy along with Malachor V was destroyed when the Mass Shadow Generator was reactivated by the Jedi Exile.

Layout
The Academy was apparently only part of a larger network of Sith necropolises constructed on and under the surface of Malachor. These crypts reportedly contained numerous Sith holocrons and other ancient dark side artifacts; Revan's fall allegedly occurred as he raided the tombs and assumed the power of their contents. Unfortunately, these structures must have been destroyed in the cataclysm of Malachor, which only the Academy survived.

As an Academy, the Trayus complex contained numerous structures for tutelage, but its most important content was knowledge. First of all, the Academy contained some manner of religious Sith knowledge, such that Kreia, Sion and Nihilus 'learned' their defining ideals and assumed their new roles as Dark Lords based on this teaching. It also contained material on basic Sith philosophy and how to evangelize with it.

The innermost sanctum of the Trayus Academy was known as the Trayus Core.

Behind the scenes

 * If the player (as the Jedi Exile) takes the dark side path, both Malachor and the Academy would remain intact.

Appearances

 * Chronicles of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords