Battle of Malachor V

"I still remember that final battle in the skies above Malachor V. The two fleets filling the space around it, outshining the stars..."

- Canderous Ordo

The Battle of Malachor V was the battle which concluded the Mandalorian Wars in 3,960 BBY. It transformed Malachor V into a "graveyard world" after Revan sacrificed his own forces to obliterate the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders.

The Battle
"It was not your ships or your men or your vaunted 'fight for freedom' that won this, the final battle of the war. It was by the actions of one person–the Jedi Revan–that you prevailed. Revan's strategies and tactics defeated the best of us. Even Mandalore himself was taken aback by the ferocity, the tenacity, and the subtlety of Revan's Plans. Revan fought us to a standstill and then began pushing us back. We didn't really have a chance."

- Canderous Ordo

Malachor was a taboo world in Mandalorian culture, something the fallen Jedi Revan used against them in order to win the war. Revan amassed an enormous fleet and army (composed, not coincidentally, of Jedi and Republic soldiers whose loyalty to Revan was in question) at the planet, providing the Mandalorians with a target too good to pass up.

The Jedi Exile gave the order to activate the Mass Shadow Generator, a weapon developed by Republic lieutenant and Zabrak engineer Bao-Dur, to literally crush his enemies &mdash; Mandalorian, Jedi, and Republic soldier alike. Malachor was nearly wiped out, as upon its surface countless beings died in a cataclysmic explosion that engulfed the planet. In the resulting destruction, virtually the entire Mandalorian fleet was obliterated &mdash; as well as many Republic vessels. Left orbiting the planet was the wreckage of countless Mandalorian and Republic warships. Bao-Dur himself lost his left arm in the destruction.

All that remained on the surface was a desolate graveyard echoing with the deaths of thousands of Jedi and Mandalorians, littered with destroyed ships and inhabited by vicious storm beasts. The survivors of the Battle of Malachor were few, but most were fated for no more than legendary status: Revan, his friend Malak, Saul Karath, Cede, Carth Onasi, Canderous Ordo, Bao-Dur, Atton Rand, and, most telling of the atrocities of the battle, Darth Nihilus and the Jedi Exile.

Aftermath
Following the victory at Malachor, Revan departed with a third of the remaining Republic fleet into the Unknown Regions, claiming that he was hunting down surviving remains of the Mandalorians. In reality, he was amassing his forces to prepare for a conquest of the Republic.

The concentrated deaths of so many Jedi, Mandalorians, and Republic soldiers all at once created a powerful Wound in the Force, resulting in the Jedi Exile purposely severing all ties with the Force. More sinisterly, it was Malachor that had marked Revan's final descent into a darkness, a journey that would at last be completed when the former Jedi hero declared himself Dark Lord of the Sith. His fall sent his Jedi Master, Kreia, in search of answers. She found them at the Trayus Academy.

From the ashes of Malachor V arose two powerful Sith Lords: Darth Sion the Lord of Pain and Darth Nihilus the Lord of Hunger. Trained by Kreia, now known as Darth Traya, they nearly brought about the complete and utter destruction of the Jedi Order.

Galactic Republic

 * Bao-Dur
 * Cede
 * Jedi Exile
 * Arren Kae
 * Saul Karath
 * Malak
 * Carth Onasi
 * Atton Rand
 * Revan
 * Xamar (possibly)
 * Yusanis

Mandalorian

 * Bralor
 * Ergeron
 * Cassus Fett
 * Mandalore the Ultimate
 * Canderous Ordo

Appearances

 * Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement