Mission to Ord Mantell (Desolator crisis)

"SIS Agent Ottau followed the enemy transmissions to a specific location planetside. He'll give you the full details. Your T7 unit can interface with Darth Angral's hyperspace data transceiver and download his communications. Take the droid with you."

- General Var Suthra

During the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, a Jedi Knight and the astromech droid T7-O1 undertook a mission to the planet Ord Mantell in 3,643 BBY. Having learned that the Sith Lord Darth Angral was declaring war upon the Republic and seizing the Republic's superweapon projects in response to the death of his son Tarnis at the hands of the Knight, the former apprentice of Jedi Master Orgus Din, the Mon Calamari general Var Suthra sent the Knight, T7, and the Knight's Padawan Kira Carsen to Ord Mantell to investigate an Imperial listening post there. The Knight and T7 assaulted the facility and defeated several of its commanders, successfully recovering information on Angral's plans and something called the Desolator.

Prelude
During the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, a young Jedi Knight&mdash;the former apprentice of Jedi Master Orgus Din&mdash;was sent to the Republic capital of Coruscant on a mission to identify the dark presence that the Jedi Council had sensed on the world. There, the Knight and the astromech droid T7-O1 worked with General Var Suthra and the Republic Strategic Information Service to recover the design files for the Planet Prison superweapon, which had been stolen by the criminal Migrant Merchants' Guild. The pair were then joined by the Padawan Kira Carsen as they were led on a extended chase across the planet in an attempt to rescue and then capture the weapon's creator Doctor Eli Tarnis &mdash;who was revealed to be a Sith Lord &mdash;in an attempt to stop him from using the weapon against the capital and turning the planet's atmosphere into an enormous ion cannon.

During the mission, the SIS discovered that the Black Sun criminal syndicate, whom Tarnis had used in his deception to stage his kidnapping, had downloaded the files for all of the Republic's weapons projects. In an attempt to secure the projects, Suthra sent Orgus Din, Carsen's master Bela Kiwiiks, and Agent Galen of the SIS to secure the offworld facilities. Carsen and the Knight eventually caught up with Tarnis in the ruins of the Jedi Temple, where he was setting up the superweapon and communicating his success to his father, Darth Angral. When Tarnis refused to be reasoned with, the two Jedi were forced to fight and kill the Sith before the holograms of Angral and his apprentices. Furious at the death of his son, Angral declared war upon the Republic and the Jedi in order to gain revenge upon his son's killer, and began to make use of the superweapon projects that his apprentices had recently captured.

Returning to the Senate Tower, the two Jedi learned from General Var Suthra and Grand Master Satele Shan that Angral was broadcasting his threats across the entire HoloNet, with the Empire declaring that he was no longer operating under their authority. Suthra, who had started the Planet Prison and the other weapons projects as an way of honoring those Jedi who had died in the fall of the Temple during the Sacking of Coruscant, was worried that Angral already controlled their weapons facilities, as neither Galen nor the two Jedi Masters had contacted him. However, the SIS had traced Angral's transmissions to an Imperial listening post on the planet of Ord Mantell but lost the signal there, and Suthra decided to send the Knight to investigate. He also gave the young Jedi a Defender-class light corvette for personal use, while Grand Master Shan assigned Carsen to the Knight as an apprentice.

Reconnaissance
The two Jedi and T7 took their new ship to Ord Mantell, where they docked aboard the orbital space station. There, the Knight contacted Suthra from the ship's holoterminal, just as the general finished speaking with his SIS contacts. The Mon Calamari told the Jedi to locate Agent Ottau in the Republic outpost of Fort Garnik, and to take T7 along&mdash;the astromech would be able to hack into the Imperial facility's systems and retrieve the necessary data. At her new master's instruction, Carsen remained on the station to protect their ship from scavengers.

The Knight and T7 took a shuttle down to the planet's surface and met with Ottau on the outskirts of Garnik, on a taxi platform overlooking a hill scarred from years of battle against the Mantellian Separatist Movement. Ottau told the Jedi about the listening post, which was located on a remote island to the north,

SIS Agent Ottau followed the enemy transmissions to a specific location planetside. He'll give you the full details. Your T7 unit can interface with Darth Angral's hyperspace data transceiver and download his communications. Take the droid with you.

Hmph. Guess I'll be playing dejarik against myself while you have all the fun.

I've visited my share of seedy ports, but this one's the seediest. Just as well I'm staying behind. I'll make sure nobody steals our landing thrusters.

Behind the scenes
The mission to Ord Mantell was created for Star Wars: The Old Republic, a MMORPG released by BioWare and LucasArts on December 20, 2011. It appears in the Jedi Knight mission "New Intelligence", the first mission of the class' Act I storyline.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic