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Battle of Rakata Prime
 Battle of Rakata Prime  "Our order's greatest defeat."

- Kas'im



The Battle of Rakata Prime, was the final battle of the Jedi Civil War. Taking place around the primary star of the Lehon system, it was fought between the navies of the Galactic Republic and Darth Malak's Sith Empire, with each side bolstered by their own Force-users. While fleets of capital ships and starfighters engaged in heated battles around the massive space station and factory known as the Star Forge, the Jedi, led by the redeemed Revan, penetrated the station's defenses in order to confront and defeat the Sith, putting an end to the bloody conflict. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Bek-Vulkar War
 Bek-Vulkar War  "The Lower City was a great place to hang out until the Vulkars started that gang war. Now you can't even walk the streets without getting shot at!"

- Mission Vao



The Bek-Vulkar gang war was a swoop gang conflict waged throughout the Lower City of the Outer Rim world of Taris, between the Hidden Beks, led by Gadon Thek, and the Black Vulkars, led by former Bek Brejik. When Thek lost his sight in a swoop bike accident, many gang members assumed that the elder leader would step aside and appoint Brejik in his place. The war was sparked when Thek refused to do so; incensed, Brejik left the gang and took over the rival Vulkars. He began a protracted campaign of street fighting designed to whittle away at the Bek ranks, and initiated several attempts to kill Thek himself.

During the Jedi Civil War, the amnesiac former Dark Lord of the Sith, Revan, along with Republic officer and pilot Carth Onasi, became trapped on Taris after their ship, the Hammerhead-class cruiser Endar Spire, was destroyed in the space above Taris. While searching for the missing Jedi Padawan Bastila Shan, who had also been aboard the vessel and whose battle meditation was vital to the Republic war effort, they became caught up in the conflict. After learning that Shan was being offered up as the prize to the winner of the Tarisian Season Opener, Revan and Onasi sided with the Hidden Beks, and infiltrated the Black Vulkar Base in order to reacquire a swoop bike prototype accelerator that the Vulkars had earlier stolen from the Beks; the accelerator was considered crucial by both gangs for whoever made use of it would gain an advantage in the competition. After winning the race, Revan and Shan, who had freed herself from captivity through use of the Force, squared off against Brejik and the Black Vulkars at the track. This scuffle resulted in the death of Brejik. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Black Vulkars
 Black Vulkars  "The Lower City was a great place to hang out until the Vulkars started that gang war. Now you can't even walk the streets without getting shot at!"

- Mission Vao



The Black Vulkars were a swoop gang that had established itself within the Lower City of the Outer Rim world of Taris some time prior to 3,964 BBY. The gang, one of the most well known on that ecumenopolis, was known for the thuggish demeanor of its members. During the lead-up to the Mandalorian Wars, the gang was led by a sentient named Benno, a being who did not like being in the spotlight. In the wake of the planet's liberation by Revan and Malak, a former member of the Hidden Beks, Brejik, took control. Disgruntled with not having been made leader of the Beks following Gadon Thek's blindness, which had been caused by a swoop accident, Brejik left his former gang and took over the Vulkars.

This change in leadership brought about a drastic change from the gang's earlier reputation. Through the use of coercion, threats of force, and pure iron will, Brejik molded the group of petty thugs into a group of zealots, mobilizing them for a brutal street war against the Hidden Beks. As the Sith Empire under Darth Malak conquered Taris, the war continued, claiming the lives of anyone who got in the Vulkars' path. The Vulkars also refused to accept the Tarisian underworld's hierarchy, openly defying crime lord Davik Kang, who was in charge of Exchange operations on that world. When the reprogrammed former Dark Lord of the Sith, Revan, who had been trapped on Taris by the Sith quarantine, arrived in the Lower City, he sided with the Hidden Beks.He believed that they could help him to find and free the Jedi Padawan Bastila Shan. Unbeknown to him, she was captured by the Vulkars after crash landing in the Undercity of Taris. After Revan and Shan's actions at the Tarisian Season Opener, including killing Brejik, the gang became less intrusive in the Lower City. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Brianna
 Brianna  "When you risk pain or death for another, there is no truer test of your beliefs and strength."

- Brianna



Brianna, also known as The Last Handmaiden, or just Handmaiden, was a half-Echani fighter who was the daughter of the famous Echani General Yusanis and Jedi Master Arren Kae, who both fought in the Mandalorian Wars. She later served along with her five half-sisters as a handmaiden to Jedi Master Atris, and during her service Brianna met the Jedi Exile when the Exile visited the Jedi Academy on Telos IV and was subsequently ordered by Atris to accompany and aid the Exile in her mission to seek out the surviving Jedi Masters of First Jedi Purge. Brianna eventually received Jedi training from the Exile and become known as one of the Lost Jedi, resulting in a forced fight between Brianna, her sisters and former master. According to the final predictions of Darth Traya, Brianna became instrumental in the reconstruction of the Jedi Order and succeeded Atris as Jedi historian. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Cannok
 Cannok  "That's the problem with cannoks&hellip; if you turn your back on the pests, they'll eat anything they can get in their mouth."

- Zuka



Cannoks were small, aggressive predators native to the moon of Dxun. They were relatively harmless to groups of Humans, but they had a habit of eating anything that could fit in their mouths, which were quite large for an animal of its size. They were known as pests, due to their high reproduction rate and curiosity. They were also hardy, able to survive the rough environment of the forest moon of Dxun, and hold their own in large groups. Probably for this reason, a handful of cannok specimens were transported to Telos by the Ithorians of Citadel Station during the years following the Jedi Civil War to assist in the Telosian Restoration Project. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Dillan
 Dillan  "Jedi are nothing to joke about in these parts. Their secret Enclave caused a lot of hardship for us during the war."

- Dillan



Dillan was a Human female who lived on Dantooine prior to and during the Jedi Civil War and in the years following. It was she who first greeted the Jedi Exile and her companions upon their initial arrival on that world, informing the former Jedi of the planet's history since her departure for the Mandalorian Wars. She would later join the Khoonda Militia, defending the outpost there from the mercenaries working for the former Sith trooper, Azkul. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Samhan Dobo
 Samhan Dobo 



Samhan Dobo was a male Duros merchant who was living on Citadel Station over Telos IV as of 3,951 BBY. He co-owned the Dobo Brothers' Emporium along with his brother, Dendis; although the two established their shops in the same module, each brother held great resentment for the way the other conducted business. Much to the indignation of his brother, Samhan used the shop to run an illicit smuggling operation, selling illegally-modded items such as blasters to such organizations as the Exchange. While Dendis sold only medical supplies and pazaak cards, Samhan offered up a number of weapons, including vibroblades, blasters and grenades, as well as various kinds of armor and upgrades. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Gerevick
 <span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-family: times, cursive; font-size: 24px">Gerevick  "No good tidings for you, human."

- Gerevick, to the Jedi Exile



Gerevick was a male Human who earned a living as a salvager and bounty hunter. He was living on the world of Dantooine some five years after the end of the Jedi Civil War. A rough-and-tumble fellow who possessed a violent streak and aloof, superior attitude, he was involved in a number of disturbances around the sole remaining community of colonists, Khoonda. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Greeta Holda
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Greeta Holda was a male Rodian living in Anchorhead on Tatooine prior to and during the Jedi Civil War. An employee of the Czerka Corporation, he sold standard provisions and supplies at the settlement's general store. Despite the fact that he worked for Czerka, he disliked the company and held a dim view of their business practices. In 3,956 BBY, the amnesiac ex-Dark Lord Revan arrived at Anchorhead, seeking clues to the location of the Star Forge; in order to establish a truce with a local tribe of Sand People, which he needed in order to gain information to continue the quest, Holda sold him a set of moisture vaporators as part of the peace deal. Upon rescuing the con artist Griff Vao, elder brother of Mission Vao, from the same tribe of natives, Holda hired the Twi'lek on as a worker in his warehouse. However, after an unsuccessful attempt at brewing Tarisian ale for mass-synthesis by the Exchange, Vao fled the planet; Greeta, however, was pleased to see him go. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Iziz defense tower
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- Iziz trooper



The Iziz defense towers were a series of battlestations that were designed to protect the walled city of Iziz, the capital and only settlement on the Inner Rim world of Onderon. The towers were armed with ranged energy weapons, such as turbolasers and ion cannons, that were capable of repelling both land-based and aerial assaults.

The network of defense towers saw action in 4,000 BBY, during the Battle of Iziz, where they were employed against the Beast Riders from Onderon's wilderness. These emplacements were subsequently destroyed, when Iziz was virtually leveled after the battle. However, they would be replaced some fifty years later by a network of air defense towers. The new defensive network would see action during the Onderon Civil War, when the Jedi Exile returned to that world to help Queen Talia fend off the Sith-backed coup d'etat staged by her cousin, General Vaklu. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Ja'Gatcha
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Ja'Gatcha was a male Paaerduag from the planet known in Galactic Basic Standard as "Sorjus." The joined being left their homeworld of Sorjus to travel the galaxy. During these travels, Ja-Gatcha became stranded on Taris after the Sith Empire attacked the Galactic Republic cruiser Endar Spire and then initiated a planet-wide blockade in an attempt to capture the Jedi Bastila Shan. While stuck on Taris, they visited Javyar's Cantina located in the Lower City, where they would field questions and avoid mockery. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Kolto
<div style="float:center; border-style:solid; background: #F0FFF0; border-width:1px; text-align:center; padding:8px 10%" class="plainlinks toccolours"> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-family: times, cursive; font-size: 24px">Kolto  "Manaan's an unusual place. Not for its water, mind you&hellip; it's the kolto. Healing juice. Only place where it occurs in the galaxy."

- Jolee Bindo



Kolto was a liquid known for its healing abilities. It was found in the water oceanic planet Manaan, with a significant concentration near the Hrakert Rift along with other underwater chasms. It was considered a valuable commodity during the Jedi Civil War, but its significance was lost over time, being replaced in favor of bacta. During the Galactic Civil War, the effectiveness of kolto was considered to be less than bacta, but some historians have suggested that it may have been more powerful in the past. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Celeste Morne
<div style="float:center; border-style:solid; background: #F0FFF0; border-width:1px; text-align:center; padding:8px 10%" class="plainlinks toccolours"> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-family: times, cursive; font-size: 24px">Celeste Morne  "She's devoted, Zayne, not evil. Just like&mdash;" "Just like you."

- Celeste Morne and Zayne Carrick



Celeste Morne was a Human female Jedi serving the Jedi Covenant as a Shadow, an agency consisting of Jedi whose identities were erased from the Order's records. She dedicated herself to the Covenant's cause as a result of losing her home and family ties in the Great Sith War. In 3,963 BBY the Covenant assigned Morne a mission to retrieve an ancient Sith artifact known as the Muur Talisman; created by a Sith Lord of the old Sith Empire, Karness Muur, the relic gave the wearer the power to control the mutant rakghoul creatures. Furthermore, Morne was tasked with bringing fugitive Padawan Zayne Carrick to justice. However, over the course of her mission, she came to doubt Carrick's culpability in the Padawan Massacre of Taris, for which he had been blamed by the members of the First WatchCircle of the Covenant.

As she fought through the obstructions to her mission, including the unexpected outbreak of the Rakghoul Plague on the planet Jebble and her own doubts about Carrick, Morne fell under the possession of the Muur Talisman. In order to protect the galaxy from herself, Morne allowed Carrick to seal her in Dreypa's Oubliette. She would remain there in stasis until 19 BBY, when the Sith Lord Darth Vader obtained the oubliette and released Morne. She emerged haunted by the spirit of Karness Muur and discovered that the Sith ruled the galaxy in the new era she found herself in. Enraged at this discovery, Morne dueled Vader and used the Muur Talisman to force him into retreat. For about nineteen years afterwards she lived secluded on a desolate moon until Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa led a Rebel mission to recover what they thought to be a secret Imperial weapon, but was in fact, Morne. Suffering from temporary insanity, Morne transformed the rebels into rakghouls and attacked Skywalker and Organa, who managed to barely escape with their lives. Abandoned on the moon, Morne was again left with no one other than the spirit of Karness Muur to torment her.

After a hundred years, Morne took control of the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer Iron Sun and took it into the Deep Core, intending to hold Muur there forever. She then met bounty hunter Cade Skywalker, and after witnessing him cure himself of the rakghoul plague with the Force, Morne joined Skywalker in his plan to assassinate the current Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Krayt. Their quest took them to the planet Had Abbadon, where Morne allowed for Krayt to learn of Skywalker's presence in the Deep Core. Krayt arrived, and battle ensued, ultimately resulting in Morne mortally wounding Krayt. With the Dark Lord finally eliminated, Morne focused on her own dilemma&mdash;the fear that the Sith's spirit trapped inside her would soon dominate her completely. She asked Skywalker to free her of his influence, and he obliged, by running her through with his lightsaber. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Riiken
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- Riiken, to the Jedi Exile



Major Riiken was a Human male from Onderon who served as an officer in that world's military, prior to and during General Vaklu's secessionist rebellion in 3,951 BBY. He was one of the the captains placed in charge of maintaining order within the Merchant Quarter in the walled city of Iziz. A royalist, he was imprisoned during the attempted coup and later freed by the Jedi Exile. After the resolution of the brief war, he was promoted and sent to command reinforcements during a Sith attack on Telos IV's Citadel Station. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Rukil
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- Rukil, to Revan on Taris



Rukil was a male Human who lived in the Undercity of Taris, having lived there all his life until at least 3,956 BBY. Like his ancestors, who had been condemned to live forever in the bedrock levels of the ecumenopolis for crimes against the government, he had no chance of being able to access the higher levels of the global cities. He spent much of his life as an Outcast continuing the quest begun by his father and grandfather, seeking out the Promised Land in order to lead his people to a better life. His apprentice, Malya, continued his work when he became too old. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Rutu
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Rutu was a male Ho'Din from Moltok and an officer of the Republic Navy. Following the surprise assaults against the Galactic Republic by Mandalorian forces in 3,963 BBY, Rutu was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Sith trooper armor
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- Mission Vao to her captor



Sith trooper armor was the distinctive suit of armor worn by the Sith troopers of Darth Revan and Darth Malak's Sith Empire during the Jedi Civil War. With its reflective styling and black face mask, it proved an intimidating part of the Sith war effort against the Galactic Republic. When the war ended, the armor would continue to see use by remnants of the Sith Empire during the Dark Wars, commanded by the Sith Triumvirate of Darths Traya, Sion and Nihilus. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Taris dueling ring
<div style="float:center; border-style:solid; background: #F0FFF0; border-width:1px; text-align:center; padding:8px 10%" class="plainlinks toccolours"> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-family: times, cursive; font-size: 24px">Taris dueling ring  "Ladies and gentlemen, I draw your attention to the dueling ring. Here, two combatants will battle for your viewing and gambling enjoyment. Now, I hope all your bets are down, because we're ready to roll!"

- Dueling ring announcer



The Taris dueling ring was an arena that featured sanctioned duels on the planet Taris. Travelers and residents alike were able to fight using weapons of choice to earn credits and fame. The ring was a profitable business in the years leading up to and during the Jedi Civil War, offering spectating and gambling entertainment. During this time it was owned by Ajuur the Hutt and featured such famous duelists as Bendak Starkiller, Ice, a Rodian named Twitch and possibly Revan. Tickets to watch matches were sold to patrons and gambling provided a means of rewarding winning duelists and grossing additional profit for management. In 3,956 BBY, however, most of Taris was destroyed in by orbital bombardment. Regardless of the dueling ring's fate, an arena was was active on Taris during the Galactic Civil War. {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Trask Ulgo
<div style="float:center; border-style:solid; background: #F0FFF0; border-width:1px; text-align:center; padding:8px 10%" class="plainlinks toccolours"> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-family: times, cursive; font-size: 24px">Trask Ulgo  "Now hurry up, we have to find Bastila! We have to make sure she makes it off the ship alive!"

- Trask Ulgo



Trask Ulgo was a male Human who served as an ensign with the Galactic Republic Navy during the height of the Jedi Civil War. As an officer stationed aboard the Hammerhead-class cruiser Endar Spire, he was assigned as the bunkmate of the amnesiac former Sith Lord Revan, although the two worked opposite shifts during normal duty. As their vessel fell under attack from the Sith Empire, Ulgo helped him to get ready to find Bastila Shan, the mission's commander, and to fight their way off the ship. He eventually sacrificed himself so that Revan could escape the doomed warship, taking Darth Bandon on in single combat in order to hold the Sith apprentice at bay. Seizing the opportunity Ulgo created, Revan made it to the last remaining escape pod along with another Republic officer, Carth Onasi.
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