Orgus Din

"Warships! We were fools to trust the Sith!"

- Orgus, at the Sacking of Coruscant

Orgus Din was a male Human Jedi Master who served as a member of the Jedi High Council and fought against the Sith Empire during the Great Galactic War and the Cold War.

Great Galactic War
A Force-sensitive Human male, Orgus Din was trained as a Jedi by the Jedi Order, and he had achieved the rank of Jedi Master by the later years of the Great Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the resurgent Sith Empire. By the year 3,653 BBY, Din had trained many Padawans to the rank of Jedi Knight, including a Human named Fortris Gall, and he had taken on another apprentice in the Nautolan Bengel Morr. During the last months of the war, Din was stationed in the Minos Cluster of the Outer Rim, where he fought alongside the Republic Military and the Republic Special Forces against the Sith offensive in the star cluster. During the fighting, he became good friends with Sergeant Harron Tavus from the Special Forces unit Havoc Squad.

In 3,653 BBY, the Sith Empire approached the Republic with a surprising peace offer, and delegations from both sides held a peace conference on the Core World of Alderaan. As a gesture of goodwill, the Empire halted its offensive in the Minos Cluster, and Din and Tavus were recalled to the Republic capital of Coruscant to give a report before the Galactic Senate. Speaking with Supreme Chancellor Berooken, the two confirmed the news from the Minos Cluster, and they were departing the Senate Building when Tavus heard explosions. Outside, they discovered that a Sith armada under the command of Darth Angral was attacking the capital, and the pair immediately rushed to Coruscant's defense as a Sith battlecruiser landed in the Senate Plaza.

Angral himself emerged from the cruiser to lead the assault on the Senate Building, and Din engaged the Sith Lord in a duel after stopping him from killing a Republic soldier. As Tavus rallied the military nearby to drive back Angral's soldiers, the Jedi Master began to fight the Sith, but Angral quickly disarmed him with by slamming into the Jedi with his shoulder. Before Angral could kill his downed opponent, however, a damaged Sith cruiser crashed into a nearby building and blew the Sith Lord off of his feet. Tavus, who had just noticed that the Jedi Temple was under attack, called out for the Jedi Master, and Din escaped from Angral by leaping across a collapsing bridge. Angral and Din's duel would spark a rivalry between the two that would span a decade and involve both men's apprentices.

Din and Tavus were too late, however, when they reached the Temple&mdash;explosives planted deep within the structure were detonating and causing the grand edifice to collapse in on itself. Din's apprentice Morr had been present in the Temple during the attack, and a despondent Din believed his student to be among the dead.

Din was later sent by Grand Master Zym to deal with the trouble his former Padawan, Fortris Gall, had caused on Balmorra. En-route, he encountered and rescued Satele Shan from Mandalorian mercenaries. After being briefed on the situation by her, he decided to inform Zym. He finally met his padawan, Fortris, and decided to take over the evacuation of the planet. Soon later, after hearing the death of Grand Master Zym, Din tracked the bounty hunter responsible on Nar Shaddaa. After a brief but intense duel, Din was holding his lightsaber at Braden's neck demanding info. Braden promised to hand over the info, as soon as they reached Dantooine. Braden later escaped from Master Din's custody. After failing to recapture Braden, Din returned to the Republic base, where the Major in charge had finally agreed to pull out. He then met with Satele, Tavus and Gall. The three of them had recently put an end to the real culprit behind the treaty's disruption, but didn't give Din a full report on the matter.

A New Apprentice
During the Cold War, Din became a member of the Jedi High Council and began his teachings on Tython. When Flesh Raiders began invading the temple, Orgus Din led many Jedi to defend the area, and drive them out. When a young Jedi Padawan,who would become the Hero of Tython, defeated Callef who was responsible for leading the Flesh Raiders towards the temple, Orgus discovered that he wasn't a Jedi, but in fact a Dark Jedi. He believed that the Dark Jedi didn't do this alone, and so decided to send the Padawan to continue the search and find out who was really responsible while he returned to the temple to speak with the Council members; the young Padawan indeed discovered that he culprit was a more expert Dark Jedi, Bengel Morr, a former apprentice of Orgus Din, that was defeated. For his merits Din took the Padawan as his own and directed him on many missions, including saving Coruscant from the infiltrated Sith Lord Tarnis and his Planet Prison superweapon.

Hunting the Republic superweapons
With his new apprentice, Din headed for Coruscant where directed him on many missions, including saving Coruscant by the infiltrated Sith Lord Tarnis and his Planet Prison superweapon.

He later went on a mission to Alderaan to find the Death Mark. When his Padawan caught up with him, he left his former apprentice to deal with the Superweapon and went to track his old enemy Darth Angral, father of Tarnis.

In the meantime, however, Darth Angral created a more powerful superweapon, the Desolator, to achieve revenge and destroy Tython; in hopes of stopping him, Din infiltrated Angral's vessel but was defeated by Angral. The Dark Lord was disappointed that Din didn't bring his pupil. The Jedi Master urged Angral to do the right thing and surrender. Angral scoffed at the thought and killed Din and left his body floating in space.

Legacy
Din managed to leave a gift for his allies and friends before he died: he placed a tracking beacon on Angral's ship, meaning the Republic could now track the sith anywhere he went.

Despite his death, Din became a Force ghost. After his pupil, now known as the Hero of Tython, managed to defeat Angral and survived a confrontation with the Sith Emperor, Din made contact with the Knight and urged his former pupil to head to Tatooine to rescue Jedi Jomar Chul, who had part of the information needed to infiltrate the Emperor's Fortress. Unfortunately, the Knight and the strike team underestimated the Emperor's power and thus, succumbed to his influence, drowned in the dark side. Din was able to break the Emperor's control over his apprentice. He told the Knight to find "a dark ally" which would ultimately facilitate the alliance with Lord Scourge.

Personality and traits
Orgus was known as being very firm in his beliefs but among the wisest members of the Jedi Council. He cared about others and would blame himself for his mistakes, such as the fall of Bengel Morr and why he chose not to take on a Padawan for so many years following. But despite this, he was one for dry humor and would often have a sly one-liner at the ready in case he needed it, especially when talking with his former Padawan, the Hero of Tython.

Orgus was a warrior through and through. A man of action, he would find it grating how the Jedi Council would talk for hours on end when the solution to certain issues were right in front of them. Despite this, he did not wish to disrespect the other masters and would never flat out call them out. He was also concerned when he saw Jedi form attachments but was often the first to forgive those that did.

Powers and abilities
He was a skilled Lightsaber combatant, utilizing Form III: Soresu. He was also able to become a Force Ghost. He was also extremely strong in the light; indeed his mere prescence as a ghost was enough to shatter the Emperor's control over his former Padawan. However, it would seem that he wasn't very strong physically, as he was easily taken by his former apprentice, Morr, though his later apprentice defeated him. He was also killed by Darth Angral, though his final apprentice also defeated him. His weakness could be due to old age.

Behind the scenes
Orgus Din first appeared in the webcomic Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 1: Treaty of Coruscant, a prelude to the massively multiplayer role-playing game released by BioWare and LucasArts on December 20, 2011. The comic was initially only released online through Star Wars: The Old Republic official website, but was later released by Dark Horse as traditional comic book issues. In the comics, Din was drawn by Alex Sanchez, but as the appearances of many game characters had not been finalized at the time of the comic's release, Din was drawn lacking hair.

Din appeared as a major character in the storyline of the Jedi Knight class in The Old Republic, taking the role of the player's master and appearing throughout the Prologue, Act I, and Act II of the storyline.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 1: Treaty of Coruscant
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 2: New Galactic Order
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 3: Uncertain Surrender
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic