Satele Shan

"These are the moments we strive for, when the hope of victory becomes real. When we can see peace on the horizon."

- Satele Shan

Satele Shan was a Human female who served as the Jedi Order as Grand Master during the Cold War and the renewed conflict with the Sith Empire. The daughter of Jedi Knight Tasiele Shan, who was herself a descendant of the legendary Jedi Knights Revan and Bastila Shan who had played pivotal roles in the Jedi Civil War several centuries earlier, Shan was born on the planet Brentaal IV in the year 3,699 BBY. Inheriting her family's strength in the Force, she was inducted into the Jedi Order and became the Padawan of Jedi Master Ngani Zho, though she later traveled to Korriban to study under the Zabrak Battlemaster Kao Cen Darach. It was there that she witnessed the return of the Sith Empire in 3,681 BBY, and she escaped to warn the Republic with the help of the smuggler Nico Okarr and a Republic trooper named Jace Malcom at the cost of Darach's life.

Achieving the rank of Jedi Knight under the tutelage of Master Dar'Nala, Shan became a hero to the Republic as she led Jedi and the forces of the Republic Military to battle in the Great Galactic War, and she grew close with Malcom despite the Jedi Order's restrictions on attachments. Their bond drove her to rescue Malcom and his small band of Special Forces troopers on the Core World of Alderaan when the Empire invaded in 3,667 BBY, and her arrival turned the tide of the Battle of Alderaan in the Republic's favor. After defeating the Sith Lord Darth Malgus in combat with the help of Malcom, the two began an affair that lasted for six months before Shan broke it off in fear of the darkness in the soldier's heart. However, she was pregnant with Malcom's child, and Shan bore her son Theron in secret with the help of Master Zho before giving the child up to the Jedi Order and returning to the battlefield.

In 3,653 BBY, Shan was selected to be part of the delegation that was to attend peace talks with the Sith Empire on Alderaan. However, the Empire used the conference as a distraction while they attacked the Republic's capital of Coruscant, and they then forced the Republic to accept the terms of the Treaty of Coruscant. As the galaxy settled into an uneasy Cold War, Shan foiled a conspiracy to sabotage the new peace perpetrated by Dar'Nala herself, and afterwards embarked on an Force-induced odyssey across the galaxy. The journey led her to the Jedi's long-lost homeworld of Tython in the Deep Core, and for her rediscovery of the planet Shan was appointed to the position of Grand Master and given leadership of the entire Jedi Order.

Early life
"She does have the gift, Master Zym, just like Bastila did. I'm sure of it."

- Dar'Nala, regarding Shan's lineage

Satele Shan was born in the year 3,699 BBY to the Human Jedi Knight Tasiele Shan, who was the descendant of the legendary Jedi Revan and Bastila Shan. Born on Brentaal IV, Shan was recruited into the Jedi Order like her mother, though Tasiele was exiled by the Order not long after Satele's birth because of political pressure by the Republic on account of Tasiele's controversial stance on drawing strength from attachment. Satele's mother was exiled to an uninhabited planet in the Outer Rim Territories because the Republic feared the possibility of another Darth Revan, though when the political controversy eventually died down the Order attempted to retrieve the Jedi Knight. However, Tasiele was nowhere to be found, and the only thing the Order could locate in Tasiele's abandoned dwelling was a series of journals written to Satele that they delivered to the missing Jedi's daughter. Apprenticed to Jedi Master Ngani Zho, Satele studied the ways of the Force as a Padawan until 3,681 BBY, when she traveled to the Republic's space station in orbit of the Sith homeworld Korriban to study under the Order's Battlemaster Kao Cen Darach. Under Darach's tutelage, Shan learned how to wield and fight with the blue double-bladed lightsaber that she constructed for herself. He also guided her through some of the Jedi Trials, though her ascension to Knighthood was not completed by the time of Darach's death.

Not long into her stay, the two Jedi were alerted to the landing of an unknown freighter on the surface of Korriban by the station's crew. Darach and Shan traveled to the surface along with Corporal Jace Malcom of the Republic Special Forces Division and were able to capture a smuggler captain named Nico Okarr, though they failed to capture Farel Wickes, the infamous grave robber from whom Okarr was attempting to purchase Sith artifacts. Impounding Okarr's ship, an XS stock light freighter named Redshifter, the three brought the smuggler back up to the space station and were in the process of escorting Okarr to his cell when Shan was overcome with an incredibly intense feeling of pain and dread in the Force. Outside the station's viewport, an armada of over thirty Harrower-class dreadnoughts jumped out of hyperspace into the Horuset system. Darach immediately recognized that their attackers were Sith and that the outpost would not withstand the attack, so he quickly decided that their priority had to be warning the Republic of the returned Sith Empire. When Malcom warned the Zabrak Jedi that they would be unable to outrun the Sith's starfighters, Okarr surprised the Jedi and troopers by reminding them of his ship's capabilities. Darach, Shan, Okarr, Malcom, and another trooper immediately made their way to the hangar where the Redshifter was docked, fighting off attacks by Imperial boarding parties in the process.

Shan and Darach dealt with those Imperials in the hangar while Okarr, Malcom, and the other trooper defeated their pursuers, though the soldier was killed in the fighting. But as the remaining four prepared to take the Redshifter, a Imperial interceptor landed in the hangar and Darach ordered the smuggler to prep his ship. As Malcom and Okarr prepared the ship, Shan and her master engaged the two Sith arrivals&mdash;a masked Sith Inquisitor named Vindican and his Human apprentice Malgus. The two apprentices battled each other as their masters fought, but Shan's initial push against Malgus resulted in a knee to the stomach and she fell to the floor. However, Darach stopped Malgus from killing Shan with a toss of his lightsaber, giving her time to recover and deal her opponent a kick to the chest. Summoning her lightsaber back to her hands, Shan tried to jump to her Master's aid, but Vindican stopped her with a blast of lightning. Darach threw his opponent across the hangar with the Force and rushed to his apprentice's side, and the Redshifter attempt to lift off caused Vindican to blast the ship with lightning as well.

At Darach's urging, Shan left her Master behind and boarded the Redshifter so that she could warn the Republic of the Empire's return, and she gave the Battlemaster her lightsaber as a parting gift before leaping aboard the smuggler's vessel with Malcom's help. Okarr urged both Malcom and Shan to get on the Redshifter guns, and the Padawan took the lower emplacement as the smuggler began to weave through the Ashes of Korr asteroid belt to escape the pursuing Mark VI Supremacy-class starfighters. But as they were leaving the belt, Shan felt the death of her master at the hands of Malgus. Shan was able to push aside her grief as Okarr strafed the superstructure of a Harrower-class dreadnought, continuing to fire on the pursuing fighters until the Redshifter jumped to hyperspace.

Fighting the Empire
"This was the power of democracy at work, the validation of the principles we fight for, and the proof that, when cornered, the Republic can come together to make a courageous stand."

- Satele Shan, on the Republic's revitalization following successes in the Minos Cluster

Returning to the Republic, the trio brought word of the Sith Empire's return, though by the time the Jedi Council learned the news the Empire had already launched an invasion in the Minos Cluster, an attack on Sluis Van, and blockaded the Rimma Trade Route. The Council requested several debriefings of Shan, and the Padawan was even permitted to sit in on one of the Council's strategic discussions. She was present at the Jedi Temple when a contingent of Jedi, including the Kel Dor Gnost-Dural left the capital of Coruscant to the occupied Minos Cluster, and she witnessed the riots that broke out across Coruscant as a result. Shan then spent the next part of the war partnered with various Jedi Masters before she was apprenticed to the Togruta Jedi Master Dar'Nala, who helped her become a full-fledged Jedi Knight. The diplomat and political strategist Dar'Nala helped to temper her student's aggression and impatience, though Shan became one of the Republic's most famous champions in the years to come. In 3,671 BBY, Shan and Dar'Nala were stationed at the Temple when news arrived of the Republic's victory at the first Battle of Bothawui, and her meditation was interrupted by intense cheering that echoed across the planet from the Senate Plaza.

In 3,667 BBY, Shan traveled to the Core World of Alderaan to investigate rumors that one of the planet's royal houses was harboring Imperial spies. However, the Empire invaded Alderaan while she was there, and Shan raced to the royal palace in order to protect the Queen, though the structure was in ruins by the time she got there. It was then that Shan had a vision; a vision which showed her that Jace Malcom &mdash;whose unit Havoc Squad was training injured troopers on Alderaan at the time &mdash;would need reinforcements. Sending word to the Jedi Council, Shan rushed to the Juran Mountains to aid them in their guerilla war against the Imperial forces marching on Organa Castle. The Imperials were led by Darth Malgus, the Sith whom Shan had fought on Korriban fourteen years earlier, and by the time she arrived the members of Havoc Squad were fighting a losing battle against a disorganized but far larger Imperial force.

Just as Malcom was about to be executed by three Sith warriors, Shan leaped into the valley and landed behind the two holding Malcom. Unleashing a powerful Force blast into the ground before killing the three disoriented Sith, Shan located Darth Malgus nearby and drew her lightsaber as a challenge to her opponent. The Jedi then vaulted across the battlefield, destroying a Imperial war droid and eliminating four Sith in the process before engaging Malgus in a fierce duel. He blocked her initial blows before striking her across the face, though she responded with a kick before the Sith Lord sent her on the defensive. After a series of blows, Shan was forced to her knees as she tried to hold back Malgus' blade, though she reached out with the Force and brought down a nearby tree to grant herself a reprieve. The two then continued their duel atop the fallen tree branch before Malgus threw her against another tree trunk with the Force, and Shan was barely able to somersault over the Sith Lord's head before Malgus buried his lightsaber in the tree where she had been moments earlier. However, Malgus quickly spun and sliced her double-bladed saber into two before she could spin it and attack, and he immediately followed up with a stab directly at her chest&mdash;an attack that the Jedi blocked with her hand, holding it back through the power of the Force and sheer will.

Malgus's attack on her was interrupted when Malcom charged the Sith Lord with a ferocious yell, catching him about the waist and engaging in a short fistfight before revealing the primed thermal detonator in his hand. The explosion threw the commando backwards out of the clearing, though a scarred Malgus was able to withstand most of the explosion with the Force. But before the Sith Lord could pursue either Shan or Malcom, she gathered the Force and unleashed a powerful blast that sent Malgus flying into a nearby cliffside. The Sith Lord continued to fight against her power as she pinned him against the cliff, and Shan gathered her strength into a second and more powerful blast that tore the entire cliff to pieces. With her enemy buried under tons of rubble, Shan joined an injured Malcom in surveying the battlefield, and the commando sent up a flare to signal victory&mdash;one of many that began to light the surface of Alderaan as the reinforcements Shan had requested arrived in the system.

Malcom was given kolto treatments to deal with his injuries, the most prominent of which left him with a permanently scarred face. Shan visited him later while the Republic forces were celebrating their victory, and she informed Malcom of the vision that had brought her to his aid. In response to Malcom's questions about Malgus, Shan confided in her belief that the Sith Lord had survived the battle. Malcom then reminded Shan of his feelings for her, and her attempts to remind the soldier of her vows as a Jedi were not enough to suppress the feelings she had for him in return. Succumbing to her emotions, she and Malcom entered into a secret relationship&mdash;one that led to her becoming pregnant around six months after the Battle of Alderaan, not long after Malcom had been promoted to the rank of general. In addition to working with Colonel Elin Garza to develop the Special Forces Division, Malcom was conducting a campaign near the city of Gell Mattar on a planet with Shan, and she decided to speak with him about his desire for vengeance against the Empire before informing him of her pregnancy. Their conversation revealed that Malcom's hatred of the Empire was his driving force, and Shan was forced to confront the possibility that she would turn to the dark side if the Empire caused Malcom's death. That fear, and the fear of the darkness within Malcom's spirit, drove Shan to break off their relationship and make plans to give up her child&mdash;as she understood that having them in her life put the Republic at risk.

For the next few months, Shan continued to serve on the front lines as one of the Republic's greatest heroes, inspiring the rank and file of the Republic Military to victory on battlefields across the galaxy. However, as her pregnancy advanced and her Jedi robes were no longer able to conceal the signs, Shan went to her first Master, Ngani Zho, and told him of her pregnancy&mdash;but not of the father's name. Zho did not question her story and immediately agreed to help, approaching the Jedi Council and the military's leaders with the story that he had sent her on a vital and clandestine mission. Shan bore her son with Zho's help on a planet far from the war, and Zho took her child to raise on his own as per their agreement&mdash;but not before she named her son Theron.

Hero of the Republic
"We're not going to hold them off. We're going to push past them, and march to the black heart of our enemy! We fight for our homelands, and for our freedom&mdash;may the Force be with us!"

- Satele rallies the troops on Rhen Var

A year later, in 3,665 BBY, Shan was assigned to a Republic Navy contingent tasked with protecting a fleet of prototype warships that were being gathered for an attack on the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas. However, the fleet was ambushed in the Outer Rim Territories by the Imperial Navy, sparking a week-long battle that crossed several star systems before reaching its peak in the Hoth system. Hundreds of vessels on both sides met their end during the conflict, and Shan was aboard one of the few Republic ships that managed to escape destruction. In 3,661 BBY, Shan was recalled to Coruscant when the Mandalorians began a blockade of the Hydian Way trade route. Shan witnessed the riots that broke out across the capital in response to the supply shortage caused by the blockade, and she was dismayed to see the turmoil only worsen after the Jedi failed to break the blockade near Devaron.

As the war neared the end of its third decade, Shan joined Jaric Kaedan, Bela Kiwiiks, and Syo Bakarn&mdash;all former apprentices of Ngani Zho like her&mdash; in leading the men of the 45th Battalion and other Republic troopers in a counterattack on the icy planet of Rhen Var. Between the four of them, the Jedi had fought previously on battlefields such as a conflict with Gelpog the Tyrant and a battle on the Ash Plains of Lenico IV, and the four led the Republic forces in a charge that brought them within reach of the fortress of Darth Mekhis, a member of the Empire's Dark Council. Breaking open the door to Mekhis' chamber with the Force, she asked the Sith Lord to surrender and offered protection in exchange. However, Mekhis refused, and the two began a fierce duel that resulted in Mekhis being grievously injured before she escaped.

At some point after the Battle of Rhen Var, Shan exchanged her blue saberstaff for a single green blade. Not long afterwards, the Empire approached the Republic with a surprising offer of peace in 3,653 BBY. As a gesture of good faith, the Empire withdrew its forces from the Minos Cluster, and the Galactic Senate agreed to peace negotiations on Alderaan. A Republic delegation led by the Cerean Senator Paran Am-Ris traveled to Alderaan, accompanied by several Jedi: Shan, Dar'Nala, Syo Bakarn, and Aryn Leneer. Shan spent the first morning in meditation, though her efforts were not enough to conceal the tension she felt at the conference, and she confided in her former teacher that she believed there was something more to the conference than the Council believed. At that moment, Shan's suspicions were being proven correct&mdash;an Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Angral was approaching Coruscant, and it began attacking the Republic capital the moment that Darth Malgus and his strike force brought down the planet's defense grid within the Jedi Temple. Supreme Chancellor Berooken contacted Am-Ris and attempted to warn him of the Sith's treachery, but the entire conference room was forced to watch as Darth Angral stormed the Chancellor's office and executed the Mon Calamari.

Realizing that the Sith had resorted to treachery, Shan drew her saber and charged the Empire's emissary, Darth Baras. Baras blocked her strike with his own blade and cautioned her to restrain herself before explaining to Am-Ris that the peace talks would proceed as planned&mdash;only the Republic would have to agree to the Empire's terms while the Imperials held their capital hostage. At Dar'Nala's urging, Shan reluctantly disengaged and exited the room with the rest of the Republic delegation &mdash;only to find Leneer embroiled in a fight with the two Sith members of the Empire delegation who had been waiting outside. Dar'Nala's voice quickly brought the fight to a halt, but Shan was barely able to stop Senator Am-Ris from attacking Darth Baras when the Sith Lord goaded the Republic delegates with reminders that they were there to discuss peace. After departing the hall, Dar'Nala took command of the group and ordered Shan to set up a secure link communications to Grand Master Zym. While waiting for the Grnad Master to answer and wondering if he was still alive, the group discussed the unknown situation on Coruscant, and Leneer revealed that her empathic bond with her Master Ven Zallow had caused her to sense Zallow's death during the attack on the Temple. Later that night, Zym informed Dar'Nala and Am-Ris that the Republic had no choice but to accept Baras' terms until Coruscant was freed, and also warned Dar'Nala that Shan had to apologize to Baras if the negotiations were to proceed. Despite Dar'Nala's feelings on the matter, she complied with the Grand Master's request, and Shan begrudgingly apologized to the Sith Lord the following day.

A tense treaty
"One thing is sure&mdash;you will never defeat the Sith. You know that now.''" "I'' might not defeat you, but in time, there will be others&hellip;"

- Darth Baras and Satele

In the days following the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant, Republic forces were ordered to withdraw from every battlefield across the galaxy, and both Dar'Nala and Shan were sent by Zym in order to enforce the withdrawal on Dantooine. The two were aboard the Republic ship Envoy in the Kuat sector, conversing in their suite when Dar'Nala detected an eavesdropper outside in the hall. She discovered that it was the Imperial protocol droid SP-99, which had been assigned to the vessel in order to ensure the fulfillment of the Treaty's terms, and the Togruta departed for the bridge in anger. Shan explained to the droid that Dar'Nala was simply frustrated with the Treaty itself, and she settled down to sleep as the Envoy traveled out into the Outer Rim Territories. Shan was still in her room when Dar'Nala arranged for the Envoy to attack a passing Imperial transport, as part of a plan to dismantle the Treaty and restart the war. Shan was alerted to the Imperials' returning fire by SP-99, and her attempt to investigate led her straight into a pair of Imperial commandos who tried to kill her on sight. Quickly dispatching the attackers and ignoring SP-99's protests, the Jedi raced to find Dar'Nala only to witness her capture by several Imperials. The Togruta ordered her former student to run and warn the Council, and Shan raced to an escape pod with SP-99 before the Imperials could capture her as well.

The escape pod was eventually found in the Barma sector by a Mandalorian raider vessel bound for the Geonosis slave markets, but a Rendaran-class assault shuttle piloted by Jedi Master Orgus Din and Lieutenant Harron Tavus located the pod's distress signal and destroyed the slavers before they could capture Shan. The Jedi Knight told them her story immediately upon being rescued, and Din decided that Master Zym needed to be alerted right away. Shan's argument that they should also rescue Dar'Nala was laughed down by Tavus, but Din agreed that they did need more information on the attack before they could make a judgement. They contacted the Kel Dor Grand Master from their ship, but Shan was dismayed to learn that an intercepted Imperial transmission had reported that Dar'Nala was dead. Saddened by the loss of her former master, Shan accompanied the two on their original mission to enforce the ceasefire on the nearby planet Balmorra, where Din forced his former student Fortris Gall to withdraw from the battlefield. After completing their mission on Balmorra, they prepared to go to Dantooine, but Shan's request to lead the mission was turned down by Din, who was planning to remain on Balmorra while Gall and Tavvus went to Dantooine with Shan.

As they were traveling through the Raioballo sector, Tavus approached Shan with the possibility of starting a romantic relationship, but Shan reminded the lieutenant of her vows as a Jedi. Their conversation was interrupted by SP-99, who reported their arrival at Dantooine, and Tavus informed Shan that the offer still stood if she changed her mind. Meeting with Major Dael at Base D-55 on Dantooine, the two were dismayed to learn from Senator Am-Ris that Grand Master Zym had been killed&mdash;just as a bomb exploded in the the Senate Building. With the Treaty of Coruscant crumbling under the strain of recent events, Am-Ris reiterated his order to withdraw to Dael, and ended the holtransmission with the hope that Shan and Tavus would succeed in convincing the major to heed the orders. To Shan's surprise, Tavus did not object to Dael's refusal, and the lieutenant decided to return to their ship until Shan came to her senses and realized that the Treaty was not worth protecting. Despite Tavus' departure, Shan remained committed to the mission, and she remained behind to speak with Deal.

A little while later, Master Din arrived on Dantooine with the bounty hunter Braden, who he had captured on Nar Shaddaa. Upon learning Shan's name, Braden delivered the message that he had been tasked with by Dar'Nala before her death&mdash;Dar'Nala believed that the Treaty was being sabotaged by Darth Baras. This confused Shan, who had sensed that Baras was more committed to the Treaty than Dar'Nala had been on Alderaan, and she returned to the ship to find Tavus. But to her surprise, the Knight found only a heavily damaged SP-99, as Tavus had shot the droid after discovering it spying on him. The protocol droid was barely able to communicate that Tavus had gone to the ruins of the Jedi Enclave before it lost power, and Din called her just then to report that Braden had escaped. Din ordered her to remain there until he arrived, but Shan decided to pursue Tavus herself and set off for the Enclave. Following the Force, Shan entered the Crystal Cave near the Enclave to find a fierce firefight in progress. Darth Angral, Darth Baras, and several Sith troopers were battling Tavus, Fortris Gall, a Wookiee bounty hunter named Dalborra, and&mdash;to Shan's astonishment&mdash;Master Dar'Nala. Surprised to see her former teacher alive, Shan nonetheless joined the Togruta in her fight against Darth Baras.

Baras revealed that one of the Treaty's purposes was to show the Jedi their own hypocrisy and hate of the Sith, and Dar'Nala proved his point by admitting that she had been behind both the attack on the Envoy and the Senate bombing. The Sith then tried to convince Shan to join the Sith, claiming that she belonged on the other side of the war&mdash;but Shan broke away, realizing that the Sith were manipulating them. Calling out to Tavus, who had pinned an unarmed Darth Angral to the ground and was preparing to execute him, she warned him to stop. An enraged Dar'Nala leaped at the soldier when he refused to kill the Sith, and she knocked aside Gall when the confused Jedi blocked her attack. The fallen Jedi Master ordered Dalborra, who was under her mental control, to kill Gall, but the Wookiee instead broke free of her control and slew Dar'Nala with a single blow to the head. Shan rushed to Dar'Nala's side as Dalborra fled the cave, and Angral took advantage of his opponents' distraction to summon his lightsaber back to his hand and threw Tavus across the cave with the Force. The Sith prepared to continue their battle, but Shan held back her allies and informed Angral that their fight was ended. Baras agreed with Shan and departed with his fellow Sith, but not before warning the Jedi Knight that Sith was in her heritage&mdash;the dark side was the destiny of all of the heirs of Revan. Returning to the surface, the trio explained what had transpired in the caves to Master Din, though none of the three mentioned many details or explained Dar'Nala's role in the recent events. Din was suspicious but satisfied, and he accepted their story on account of their promise that the Treaty would not be disrupted any further.

Grand Master of the Order
Not long after the events on Dantooine, Shan embarked on a journey across the galaxy, exploring new worlds and making new allies as she followed the call of the Force that she felt through deep meditation. During this time, she ended the Eberon–Kashyyyk War, and she also made an enemy of an individual named Thresh-ahantu Azuloz. Finally, in 3,651 BBY, the Force revealed a previously lost hyperspace route that led Shan far into the Deep Core &mdash;where she discovered the Order's long-lost homeworld of Tython. For her achievement, Shan was granted the rank of Jedi Master and given a place on the Jedi Council, and it was not long after her appointment that the Order was informed that the Jedi Temple on Coruscant would not be rebuilt. In light of the news, the Council decided that the Order would move its headquarters to Tython. By 3,645 BBY, the Council had appointed Shan as the Order's Grand Master, and she guided the Order throughout the Cold War as they rebuilt their ranks and recovered from the war. Sometime during that period of time, she took on a young Kiffar named Shigar Konshi as her Padawan.

In 3,643 BBY, Shan and Konshi were on Coruscant to meet with the Supreme Commander and General Elin Garza when the Council deemed her Padawan unfit to take the Jedi Trials. Sensing her Padawan's disappointment and conflicted emotions, she told him to take a walk while she went to her meeting. However, during her meeting, Konshi found himself caught up in a firefight with an armored Mandalorian named Dao Stryver. Stryver escaped despite the efforts of Konshi and the Republic trooper Larin Moxla, but Moxla had learned that Stryver was seeking something called the Cinzia and a person named Lema Xandret. Konshi immediately reported these events to his master, who relayed them to the Supreme Commander before contacting Tython regarding her earlier meeting. She later met with Konshi near the Galactic Justice Center, where she gave her apprentice all of the information that the Republic Strategic Information Service had gathered on the Cinzia and Xandret&mdash;the Cinzia was a ship that the Hutt Tassaa Bareesh was offering for auction, and Xandret was somehow involved in the ship's history. Sensing that Konshi had set something in motion, the Grand Master decided to send her apprentice and Moxla to Nal Hutta to investigate the auction.

Konshi's mission uncovered the existence of droids known as hexes, combat droids that the Cinzia had been carrying, and Bareesh's auction collapsed when the droids were released and began to wreak havoc. The Padawan and Moxla were able to escape Hutta with the Republic envoy Ula Vii and the smuggler Jet Nebula aboard Nebula's ship Auriga Fire, and Konshi contacted his master to seek guidance on what to do next. Shan was troubled by two aspects of her apprentice's report: the droids were adaptable in combat, and a Sith apprentice named Eldon Ax had been present at Bareesh's palace during the fighting. As Konshi was planning to use his psychometry to track the source of the hexes, Shan gathered a Republic task force and traveled to a rendezvous at the planet Honoghr. Using his powers, Shan's apprentice tracked the hexes to a planet named Sebaddon&mdash;a planet located near a black hole, well above the galactic disk. Shan soon followed them to the Sebaddon system aboard the Corellia, a cruiser among the Republic flotilla under the command of Colonel Gurin. Shan attempted to contact Xandret's Sebaddon colonists three times before receiving a response&mdash;a woman's voice, saying they did not recognize the Republic's authority and that they wanted only to be left alone. As the conversation continued, Sebaddon launched eight missiles at the Republic fleet, and the Republic was only able to destroy seven of them before they hit the Corellia.

To the Republic's dismay, the missiles were actually composed of thousands of hexes, and the "destroyed" projectiles quickly took control of several Republic vessels. The section of the Corellia in which Shan had been in was largely intact, and the Grand Master was able to seal herself with in a pressurized section of the ship. She reached out to her Padawan to convey her situation, and Konshi used one of the Auriga Fire enviro-suits to reach her. While waiting for Konshi to find her, the Grand Master encountered almost a dozen hexes, but she was able to influence a biological component in the hexes to halt their aggression. However, she was unable to make the hexes leave, which forced her Padawan to walk carefully through the hexes and open the blocked door to let the Grand Master out. Shan used a Force shield to keep the air around her while Konshi cut them a path out of the ship wreckage so that the pair could reach the Auriga Fire. But while Konshi had been rescuing the Grand Master, and Imperial fleet had arrived in the system, and the Mandalorian Stryver contacted the Auriga Fire with instructions to meet him on a nearby moon.

Shan and Konshi met with Stryver on the First Blood, his personal ship, and they were surprised to encounter the Sith apprentice from Nal Hutta there as well. Stryver explained that the hexes' creator, Lema Xandret, had originally approached the Mandalorians with her droids in hopes of forming an alliance to bring down the Sith Empire. Xandret's droids had intrigued Mandalore the Vindicated, but the Mandalorians soon realized that the hexes were in fact a galactic plague&mdash;Xandret had lost control of her droids not long after she contacted the Mandalorians, and the droids' drive to consume and their incredible replication speed would allow them to destroy the entire galaxy within a matter of years. That was the reason that Stryver had called the Empire and the Republic to Sebaddon: only together could the two galactic powers destroy the scourge of the hexes and ensure the galaxy's safety. Though both sides initially objected to such an alliance, they eventually agreed to a temporary cessation of hostilities in order to eliminate the hexes. As part of the joint assault, Shan led a strike team to destroy the hexes' coordinating intelligence while another team led by Moxla took out the main factory. Despite her apprehensions, the Grand Master accepted the demands of Darth Chratis&mdash;the Sith Lord in command of the Imperial force&mdash;that Shan would take his apprentice with her while he took Konshi on his own mission.

As the battle began, Shan and the rest of the allied forces dropped onto Sebaddon's surface using jet-chutes, though she soon began to tail Eldon Ax in order to speak with Chratis' apprentice. Once the allied troopers found an entrance to the coordinating intelligence's complex, the Grand Master led the charge into the facility, destroying hundreds of hexes with both the Force and her lightsaber. But the joint task force soon realized that they were unable to penetrate the complex's main structure to reach their target, so Shan had them withdraw so that something else could do the work for them&mdash;a crippled transport was heading straight for the complex. The transport breached a subterranean mining complex beneath the facility, but an explosion of what seemed to be lava consumed both Shan and Ax before they could get out of the way. To their surprise, the two discovered that it was not lava; it was a lake of warm reddish fluid that concealed an Imperial vessel far beneath its surface. Shan and Ax boarded the ship to find a massive glass tank containing the same red fluid in one of the vessel's compartments, and they soon realized that the fluid was some kind of organic material that gave the hexes a semblance of life&mdash;and that the tank contained a clone of Eldon Ax.

The clone explained to the Grand Master that Eldon Ax was in fact Xandret's daughter, a fact that the Sith apprentice had concealed, and that the fluid she was submerged in was suppressing her Force powers. Further conversation with the clone revealed that Xandret had infused the droids with her own intelligence, but the remnant of Xandret within the fluid killed the clone when she tried to shut down the hex droids. With her dying words, the clone was able to instruct Ax on how to take control of the hexes, and the Grand Master and Ax returned to the surface to test whether or not it would work. Ax's control of the hexes allowed her to end the battle in a matter of minutes, and Shan retreated with the rest of the Republic forces as Ax used the hexes to destroy her master before destroying them and ending the threat they posed to the galaxy. In the aftermath of the conflict, which was labeled Independent Operation Sebaddon, Shan proudly stood by as her Padawan was deemed ready for the Jedi Trials and returned to Tython with her student so that he could become a Jedi Knight.

Mysteries of Tython
Sometime after returning to Tython, the Grand Master and the rest of the Council were involved in a recent conflict with the Twi'lek Pilgrims of Kalikori Village. The village was technically an illegal settlement, and the Order was restricted from aiding the villagers in their fight against the savage Flesh Raider natives that regularly raided the village. However, Kalikori's resentment of the Jedi reached a peak when the villager Nalen Raloch was seduced to the dark side and driven insane by the Force ghost of Rajivari, one of the founders of the Jedi Order and the instigator of the Force Wars that had ravaged Tython over twenty thousand years earlier. Fortunately for the Order, the apprentice of Council member Yuon Par defeated Raloch before he could destroy the Forge, the ancient machine used by the Order's Padawans to construct lightsabers as part of their trials, and the injured villager was brought to the Jedi Temple for healing. Shan oversaw the man's treatment herself, and she later attended a Council meeting with Par, Par's Padawan, Jaric Kaedan, and Syo Bakarn. Taking the Padawan's advice into account, Shan and the rest of the Council began making overtures to Kalikori in an attempt to heal the rift between the villagers and the Jedi, and Raloch was taken in for Jedi training. Par's student was also elevated to a full Jedi of the Order, but Par herself collapsed halfway through the meeting. The Council and the Temple's healers were able to discover that she was suffering from a kind of sickness, and they decided to send her and her former Padawan to Coruscant in hopes that Jedi artifacts from the ruined Temple could aid Par's seemingly untreatable illness.

Some time later, another conflict arose on Tython&mdash;this one involving the Flesh Raiders. When the Flesh Raiders invaded the Tythonian Gnarls region and attacked the Jedi outpost there, the Jedi were able to repel the natives' attack, but the assault was ended when a young initiate defeated the Dark Jedi Callef who was commanding the Flesh Raiders. Master Din sealed the cave that the Flesh Raiders were using to enter the Gnarls and ordered the apprentice to meet him at the Jedi Temple, but the Grand Master learned of what had transpired in the Gnarls and contacted the student as the young Jedi arrived at the Temple. She asked the learner to meet her within her private chambers before the Council meeting, and she discussed the Jedi Code and the dangers of emotions with the student briefly before going to the Council chambers. In the meeting, Shan and the few Masters present were surprised when Din announced his intention to take on the apprentice who defeated Callef as his own Padawan, the first he had taught since his previous student Bengel Morr had been killed in the Sacking of Coruscant a decade earlier. But over the next few days, Din and his new student uncovered the truth behind the Flesh Raiders' recent increase in attacks&mdash;they were in fact being commanded by Morr, who had survived the destruction of the Jedi Temple and turned to the dark side. After the Padawan defeated Morr in battle and rescued Din, who had been betrayed by the villagers of Kalikori and captured by Morr, Shan and the rest of the Council elevated the student to the rank of Jedi Knight. When the Grand Master asked for the newly-promoted Knight's opinion on what should be done about the villagers, the young Jedi believed that the Order needed to openly aid the Twi'lek villagers so that Kalikori would not turn on them again.

The meeting was interrupted by a priority call from Master Kiwiiks, who had been sent to Coruscant with her Padawan Kira Carsen to investigate a dark presence that the Council sensed on the planet. Kiwiiks confirmed their suspicions that something malevolent was working on the capital, and the Grand Master decided to send both Din and his former student to assist her. The Grand Master then accompanied a Republic military convoy that was ferrying a high-level Imperial defector, codenamed the General. However, the convoy was ambushed by the Imperial Navy, forcing Shan to send the General ahead aboard the Thranta-class corvette Brentaal Star, while her fleet fought off the attack. But Grand Moff Rycus Kilran learned of the Star location and sent the Gage-class transport Black Talon to attack the Star and recapture the defector. By the time Shan and the sixteen remaining vessels of her convoy were able to disengage from their attackers&mdash;crippling three Imperial dreadnaughts in the process&mdash;an Imperial strike team was preparing to board the damaged Star and capture the General, and the Grand Master's requests that the Imperials withdraw and respect the Treaty of Coruscant went unheeded. Shan's convoy raced to the Star aid, but by the time she arrived the Imperials had already captured or eliminated the General and the Black Talon was long gone.

During that time, the Jedi on Coruscant had uncovered the source of the dark presence&mdash;a Sith Lord named Tarnis who had been posing as a top Republic scientist on the Planet Prison superweapon project&mdash;and also learned that Tarnis had stolen files on all of the Republic's weapon projects to give to the Empire. Din, Kiwiiks, and Agent Galen had been dispatched to secure the Republic's offworld facilities, and Din's former student had joined forces with Carsen to defeat Tarnis in the depths of the Jedi Temple before he could turn the Planet Prison against the Republic capital. However, the Knight's defeat of Tarnis incurred the wrath of his father, Darth Angral, and the elder Sith Lord had promptly declared a personal war against the Republic and the Jedi in order to gain revenge for the death of his son. Shan was contacted by Din's old friend Var Suthra, the general in charge of the Republic weapon projects, and Shan authorized the young Knight to work with Suthra to stop Angral's crusade. The Grand Master also assigned Carsen as the Knight's own Padawan in the absence of Master Kiwiiks, and she wished the young Jedi luck as the two departed for Ord Mantell with their astromech ally T7-O1.

Guiding the Order's heroes
By that time, Shan had also begun working with the Republic Emergency Response Corps to deal with crises across the galaxy that threatened the fragile peace, and a situation in the Outer Rim was brought to her attention. The Advozse Hegemony, a xenophobic political faction of the Advozsec people, had acquired a prototype battle station code-named "Hammer" that used asteroids to bombard planetary surfaces. The station had been designed during the Great War but scuttled when the project's destructive potential was fully understood, and the prototype was set on autopilot to collide with a nearby white dwarf. However, a mechanical failure shut off the station's engines before it was destroyed, and the Hegemony had discovered it several months ago. The station was brought to the Republic's attention when the Hegemony bombarded the capital city of the planet Skine after it refused to surrender, and Shan put out a call to as many Jedi and Republic heroes as were available. Gathering a small strike team aboard the Republic's staging area of Carrick Station, the Grand Master briefed the team on the situation and dispatched them to infiltrate the Hammer above Saleucami. However, Darth Malgus, Shan's opposite number in the Empire, had gathered a strike team to destroy the station at the same time, and only one of the two teams survived the attack on the station.

A short time later, another crisis arose&mdash;but one that involved a powerful threat from the dark side. An archaeological survey team was excavating Sith ruins on the planet Athiss when the Order received a distress signal from the planet that coincided with the Council's sudden sensation of an intense disturbance in the Force. Summoning several powerful Jedi and other trusted allies, she dispatched a strike team to Athiss in order to investigate, where they competed with an Imperial strike force to recover the Sith artifacts and to contain the dark side threat. Between the two of them, the strike teams eliminated the primitive worshippers of the Sith Lord Vodal Kressh, who had been exiled to Athiss by the Emperor centuries ago, and the destruction of Kressh's servants ended the possibility of his influence spreading out in to the galaxy. The Grand Master was still on Tython when Din's former student and Carsen arrived and revealed that Carsen was a native of the Empire. The two had been pursuing Angral's agents across the galaxy when they were lured into a trap by a Sith named Valis in order to capture her, and Carsen had revealed her past to her master after they defeated the Sith. After Shan gathered the few Council members who were on Tython at the time, Carsen explained her tale in full: born on Dromund Kaas to Sith parents, she had been raised at the Sith Academy on Korriban and was a Child of the Emperor&mdash;a servant of the Sith Emperor who would have been bound to the Emperor's will if Carsen had not escaped before the process was completed. Master Kaedan immediately called for Carsen's imprisonment, but Tol Braga disagreed&mdash;the Council had first learned of the Children's existence from his own Padawan Sajar, a former Dark Councillor that Braga had turned to the light side of the Force. While the conversation was ongoing, Shan reached out and probed Carsen with the Force only to find no trace of the dark side within her, and the Grand Master was convinced by Carsen's teacher that the Padawan would never betray the Order and she decided to allow Carsen to remain a Jedi.

When the Jedi enclave on Rhinnal was attacked by an Imperial warship and the Republic frigate Toron Voq was destroyed trying to investigate, the Republic believed that the Empire had attacked and broken the Treaty. The Grand Master was deeply affected by the attack on the enclave, as she sensed the simultaneous deaths of many Jedi. However, a coded transmission from Darth Malgus to the Dark Council was intercepted that revealed the fortress of a Sith Lord named Senu and another fortress had suffered a similar fate and that the attacker was the Red Reaper, the flagship of the Sith Pureblood Darth Ikoral. Ikoral desired to purge the galaxy of all non-purebloods, and as the Red Reaper was detected near the agricultural world Chandrila, Shan immediately dispatched a Republic strike team to board the vessel and defeat Ikoral just as Malgus did the same. Between the two teams, Ikoral and his forces were defeated and the Red Reaper destroyed, and the Republic gained valuable astrogation and strategic data from the mission.

The Grand Master was alerted by the Republic to the theft of the Allusis, a highly-advanced Valor-class cruiser that had been undergoing refits at the Fondor Shipyards, and she gathered a strike team to reclaim the vessel from the Mandalorian Clan Varad who were now using it to pillage and raid the planets of the Tamarin sector. As the Empire was attempting to destroy the Allusis after Clan Varad attacked several Imperial planets, Shan led a Republic fleet to engage both the Imperial fleet while her strike team&mdash;a four-man group consisting of the Jedi Consular Magnus, the Jedi Knight Ezeraline, a smuggler named Taklan, and a Republic trooper named Keenor&mdash;boarded the Allusis and attempted to take control of the vessel. However, the team was opposed by an Imperial strike force which included the Sith Rotham and Vincine, a bounty hunter named Kyrenic, and an Imperial agent named Andan, and only one of the teams survived their battle and captured the Allusis for their side.

Yet another crisis arose on the planet Cademimu V, a missile depot that supplied Republic defenses on worlds along the Celanon Spur trade rout, when the planet's corrupt governor Chornarov declared his independence before the Republic could begin investigations into his actions. With the help of the Mantellian Separatist Movement, which had recently been forced off of Ord Mantell at the end of the Separatist War, Chornarov declared martial law and had the separatist General Ortol deploy his troops to seize control. The governor also took control of the planet's missile depots, ensuring that neither the Republic nor the Empire could launch an invasion, so both the Grand Master and Darth Malgus dispatched strike teams to infiltrate Cademimu and shut down the weapons. Both the Empire and the Republic sent fleets to the Cademimu system in order to ensure they could take control quickly, but only one galactic power was successful in taking the missile depots and conquering the planet.

The crisis with Darth Angral came to its peak when the Sith Lord, having killed his rival Orgus Din and constructed a superweapon known as the Desolator, tested the weapon on the Republic agriworld of Uphrades before launching an assault on Tython. Angral's warship Oppressor deployed mini-bursts of the Desolator technology that ionized the planet's atmosphere, preventing the Jedi from launching any fighters, and the Grand Master was unable to do anything more than send a distress signal. Fortunately for the Order, Din's former Padawan had discovered Uphrades not long after Angral's departure, and General Suthra relayed Shan's distress signal to the Jedi Knight. Along with Carsen and T7-O1, the Knight was able to board the Oppressor above Tython and disable the Desolator, allowing the Order to launch their fighters. By the time that the Knight and Carsen defeated Angral on the Oppressor bridge, Jedi starfighters were beginning bombing runs that tore apart the warship and permanently ended the threat of the Desolator. When the Knight and Carsen returned to Tython's surface, Shan learned that the Emperor himself had tried to take control of the former Child but Carsen had severed the link between them permanently, and the Grand Master promoted the Padawan to the rank of Jedi Knight as a result. She also granted Carsen's teacher the ceremonial title of "Hero of Tython" in recognition for the Jedi's service.

Personality and traits
"Patience just isn't my greatest strength."

- Satele Shan

The Human female Satele Shan typically wore a set of brown Jedi robes as well as another skintight outfit during combat on Alderaan. During her tenure as a Jedi Knight, Shan was known to be impulsive and quick to act, as demonstrated when she attacked Baras immediately after discovering the Sith's treachery in the peace talks. However, she was willing to admit that she was weak in certain character traits, such as her patience. When the ship transporting her and Dar'nala to the Outer Rim came under attack, Shan would make sarcastic comments to SD-99, who had been assigned by the Sith to watch over the two Jedi. Despite her flaws, Shan was firm in her beliefs and stood by them, as demonstrated when she refused to help Dar'nala sabotage the Treaty of Coruscant while refusing to join the Sith at the same time.

During the Battle of Alderaan, Shan demonstrated significant bravery and boldness over the course of the skirmish, leaping directly into combat despite being at a numerical disadvantage. Her initiative enabled her to take out multiple Sith combatants before challenging Darth Malgus himself, further displaying her courage in her willingness to duel a Sith Lord. She also exhibited a sense of awareness of her surroundings and utilized the environment to her advantage in combat, at one point felling a tree.

Shan later tempered her impatience and aggressive tendencies in her later years, and possessed a warm demeanor and an approachable personality. Even after reaching the rank of Grand Master, Shan preferred to be addressed by her first name rather than her surname and was always calm and respectful, regardless of who she was dealing with. In contrast with her earlier aggression towards Baras, Shan was later able to calmly speak to and even work with the Sith during the conflict on Sebaddon. However, this belied her real strength and determination. She was respected for her wisdom and her strong connection with the Force.

Powers and abilities
"The Grand Master possessed prodigious Force powers."

- Eldon Ax

As the descendant of Revan and Bastila Shan, two of their generation's most powerful Jedi, Satele Shan was incredibly strong in the Force. Shan was skilled with the use of telekinesis, and her strength with such abilities even as a Jedi Knight was enough for her to bring down an entire mountain on top of Darth Malgus during their battle. She was also able to dismantle the door to Darth Mekhis' fortress using the Force, and was skilled enough with tutaminis abilities to block a lightsaber blade with her bare hands without injuring herself. Shan's powers continued to grow over her lifetime, and during the incident on Sebaddon she was able to dismantle hex droids with a mere gesture&mdash;droids that were more than a match for other Jedi and Sith alone. Throughout her life, Shan was known for her affinity for foresight&mdash;she was able to predict the arrival of the Sith Empire at Korriban, and her ability to view the future grew stronger over the course of her life. By the time of the renewed war with the Sith, many Jedi believed that the Grand Master could change the future simply by predicting it. Shan was also an accomplished telepath to the point where she could both read the minds of others and communicate in full sentences with them. She was able to influence the biological components of more than half a dozen hexs to keep them at bay, though Shan could not influence the hexes and maintain a Force shield strong enough to seal in the air around her at the same time for long. Shan's master Dar'Nala suspected that she had inherited her ancestor Bastila's skill with battle meditation, though her suspicions were never confirmed. The Grand Master also developed a strong bond with her apprentice through the Force, allowing her to sense Konshi's emotions from halfway across the galaxy.

Trained by the Order's Battlemaster Kao Cen Darach, Shan was exceptionally skilled with the use of both a normal lightsaber and a double-bladed lightsaber. She utilized a green-bladed saberstaff in the years before the Great Galactic War, though it was destroyed when Darach utilized it and his own blade in battle with Vindican and Malgus. By the year 3,667 BBY, Shan was utilizing a blue-bladed saberstaff, though she again lost this weapon when Darth Malgus cut it in half during the Battle of Alderaan. She quickly constructed another blue double-bladed saber, though she eventually exchanged it for a single-blade green lightsaber by the end of the war in 3,653 BBY. She utilized this during the Sebaddon affair in 3,643 BBY, though she had exchanged it for another double-bladed saber by the time of the conflict with the Flesh Raiders not long afterwards.

Behind the scenes
Satele Shan first appeared in the 2009 webcomic Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace, a prelude to the BioWare–LucasArts video game Star Wars: The Old Republic. The comics, which were drawn by Alex Sanchez, hinted at the possibility of Satele being the descendant of Bastila Shan and Revan, both of whom were major characters in BioWare's 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, though it was not until the release of her entry in the official site's HoloNet section that her relation to Bastila was confirmed. The entry, which has since been taken offline along with the rest of the Biographies section, featured several messages in Aurebesh in the background. The first, "Jedi exiled her mother", was a reference to Tasiele Shan, though Tasiele and her history were not explained until the release of the Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia in 2012. The second, "a secret son", was a reference to Satele's son Theron, who was a main character in the comic story arc Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Lost Suns. Finally, the message "Blood of Revan" further hinted at Shan's relation to Revan, though it was not officially confirmed until the release of Drew Karpyshyn's tie-in novel Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan in 2011 that Revan and Bastila had a child, Vaner Shan.

Satele Shan features prominently in Star Wars: The Old Republic, appearing in both the Jedi Consular and Jedi Knight classes as well as many of the Flashpoint group missions. The game was originally believed to occur approximately three decades after the events of Threat of Peace, though it was eventually confirmed that the correct beginning date was actually ten years. Shan also appeared in Hope, the second cinematic trailer released for The Old Republic on June 14, 2010. Her appearance was drastically different than in Threat of Peace, leading many fans to dispute those who claimed that Shan was indeed the Jedi from the trailer. However, The Old Republic, The Lost Suns writer Alexander Freed confirmed in a post on the official site that it was indeed Shan, and explained that the character's appearance had not yet been finalized in-game at the time of the comic's release. She appeared again in the third trailer Return, released on June 6, 2011, which she also narrated.

Shan also made an appearance in Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, released on July 20, 2010, where she served as the archetype character for the Jedi Knight class. The novel introduced Shan's Padawan Shigar Konshi, though to date Konshi and many of the other characters in the novel have not appeared anywhere else in The Old Republic metaseries. The second book in the novel series, Deceived, takes place at the same time as Threat of Peace and featured appearances from Shan and other characters from the comic. The fourth book in the series, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation, was released on November 13, 2012 and greatly expanded on the backstories of Satele, her son Theron, and the Special Forces soldier Jace Malcom, who had appeared alongside Shan in both Hope and Return. The novel revealed that Malcom was in fact Theron's father, as he and Shan began a relationship after the events of Hope which resulted in her pregnancy. However, Annihilation contradicts the Encyclopedia and the game itself by stating that Shan was a Jedi Master in 3,666 BBY, when in fact she was granted the title of Master following her rediscovery of Tython.

In Star Wars: The Old Republic, Shan is voiced by Jennifer Hale, who also performed the voice of Bastila Shan in Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Shan's appearance in the game and its trailers is based on a 3-D rendering of a model named Sno E. Blac.

Appearances

 * Return
 * Hope
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic 7: The Lost Suns, Part 1
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic 8: The Lost Suns, Part 2
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic 10: The Lost Suns, Part 4
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic 11: The Lost Suns, Part 5
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation