Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is the sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which was widely regarded as a major commercial and critical success. The original game, however, was developed by a different company, BioWare. According to the game's producers, the change of developers was primarily due to BioWare's occupation with other titles, such as Jade Empire and Dragon Age. BioWare is understood to have recommended Obsidian as an alternative developer, having worked with many of Obsidian's key members when they were part of the now-defunct Black Isle Studios. The Sith Lords was constructed using an updated version of the original Knights of the Old Republic Odyssey engine, which Obsidian obtained from BioWare.

Summary
The game takes place approximately five years after the conclusion of the first game, and focuses on a mostly different set of characters. The conclusion of the first game varied depending on the choices of the player, with either the light side or dark side of the Force emerging triumphant&mdash;at the beginning of The Sith Lords, players specify which of these outcomes they wish the sequel to follow. Regardless of how the original game ended, however, the beginning of The Sith Lords sees the Sith having almost completely destroyed the Jedi Order. The character whom the player takes control of is a Jedi Knight banished from the Order after she went to fight in the Mandalorian Wars. The Sith believe her to be the last remaining Jedi, though in the beginning known simply as the Exile or Jedi Exile by characters in the game due to a customizable name.

Among the characters who join the main character are Kreia, who acts as a mentor to the main character; Mira, a bounty hunter (she only joins if the player is light-side aligned on Nar Shaddaa); Hanharr, a wookiee bounty hunter (he joins only if the player is dark-side aligned on Nar Shaddaa); Atton Rand, an ex-Sith Assassin from the Jedi Civil War who turned to smuggling after leaving the Sith after finding out that he was Force-sensitive (Atton is the love interest of a female Exile); Brianna, an Echani Handmaiden (she only joins if the Exile is male and is one of the two love interests of a male Exile); Mical, a former Jedi Initiate turned historian; Visas Marr, a Miraluka Dark Jedi apprentice to Darth Nihilus (she is the other love interest of a male Exile); and GO-TO, an interrogation droid. Several characters featured in the first game are also brought into this sequel, and a few can join the main character's party: T3-M4, an astromech droid; HK-47, an assassin droid; and Canderous Ordo (as Mandalore), a Mandalorian. Enemies include Darth Sion, a Sith Lord with a shattered body, held together with the Force and Darth Nihilus, a being of hunger that fed on Force-sensitive energy. The new planets which the character may visit include Telos IV, the environmentally destroyed home of Carth Onasi; Nar Shaddaa, the "smuggler's moon"; the planet of Onderon; Onderon's jungle moon Dxun; and Peragus II. Korriban and Dantooine, which also appeared in the original KotOR, are also revisited. The Ebon Hawk, the ship used by the main character in the first game, once again is the main method of transportation.

Synopsis
(Note: This is based on the canonical female light side version of the game. Gender, Force alignment, order of planets visited and other variables can differ depending on the input of the player.)

Escape from Peragus
It is the year 3,951 BBY, five years after the Jedi Civil War, and four years after redeemed ex-Dark Lord of the Sith Revan's departure to the Unknown Regions. Revan's ship, the Ebon Hawk, badly damaged, emerged in the Peragus system, with six passengers on-board: two droids that formerly belonged to Revan, T3-M4 and disassembled HK-47, two other droids, 3C-FD and an HK-50, and two Humans, the Jedi Exile, and an old woman named Kreia, both unconscious. T3-M4 managed to dock the ship into the Peragus Mining Facility, where the Exile was put into the medical bay of the Administration level, and Kreia, mistaken for dead because she was in a deep trance to survive the flight, into the morgue.

After awakening, the Exile found Kreia, as well as a miner by the name of Atton Rand locked in a prison cell. The three of them seemed to be the only beings alive in the entire facility, which was covered with dead miners and crawling with assault-programmed mining droids, which started "mining" organics. Eventually, the Exile discovered that HK-50 was responsible for the damage done to the facility, and destroyed the droid.

Meanwhile, another ship arrived at Peragus: the Harbinger, the Galactic Republic capital ship that was transporting the Exile to Telos IV before a series of events that resulted in them ending up in the facility. When the Exile, Kreia, and Atton&mdash;in an attempt to escape Peragus&mdash;boarded the Harbinger, they discovered that the ship had been overrun by the Sith, led by Darth Sion. As Kreia approached Sion, in an attempt to distract him, the Exile and Atton escaped through one of the ship's fuel pipes. Meanwhile, Sion severed Kreia's hand with his lightsaber, and the Exile discovered her newly formed Force bond with Kreia when she unexpectedly felt her pain. The Exile and Atton continued and met up with T3-M4, and after reaching the hangar bay, boarded the Ebon Hawk. As they were trying to stop the Sith from boarding, Kreia caught up with them after escaping from Sion, despite the loss of her hand. As they tried to escape the Peragus system, flying through an asteroid field surrounding the planet Peragus II, the Harbinger fired at the Ebon Hawk and missed, hitting one of the asteroids, which caused a sequence of explosions that completely destroyed the mining facility, asteroid field, and the planet itself.

In an alternate scene, the Exile can shoot the asteroid but the movie and the later events remain the same.

Refuge on Telos


With the Peragus astrogation charts recovered from the Harbinger containing only the planet Telos, which is slowly recovering after Saul Karath's bombardment during the Jedi Civil War, the three had no choice but to board Citadel Station. There, they were immediately disarmed and detained by the Telos Security Force for the duration of the investigation on the destruction of the Peragus mining facility&mdash;not coincidentally, the main fuel supplier for Citadel Station, without which the station would not be able to maintain its orbit around Telos. During the investigation, a mysterious woman stole the Ebon Hawk with T3-M4 locked on-board. Chodo Habat, the leader of the Ithorian team responsible for the restoration efforts on Telos, offered the Exile to restore some of her lost connection with the Force, and provided a shuttle off Citadel Station in exchange for eliminating their rivals, Czerka Corporation. Despite Kreia's disapproval of an alliance with Chodo, the Exile accepted his offer, uncovered some details about Czerka's illegal business (certainly enough for the Telosian Council to drive them off the planet) and, together with her companions, flew to the surface of Telos.

The Exile can join Czerka and sabotage the Ithorians for extra credits, dark side points, and a shuttle to Telos' surface.



On Telos, the shuttle was attacked and damaged by a Czerka air defense turret and crash-landed in a restoration zone, miraculously near a Zabrak named Bao-Dur who was a former technician under the Exile in the Mandalorian Wars.He refused to call her anything but "General". He also designed the Mass Shadow Generator, which played a significant role in the Mandalorians' ultimate defeat in the Battle of Malachor V, and currently worked for the Ithorians. Fighting their way through Czerka mercenaries, the Exile and her companions reached an abandoned Republic military base, where Bao-Dur pinpointed a breach in the planetary defense system in the polar region as the most likely location of the Ebon Hawk. Having boarded a yet another shuttle (in the process discovering the base was swarming with hostile droids), the Exile, Kreia, Atton and Bao-Dur headed to the polar region of Telos.

Hidden Academy


Upon arrival, the shuttle once again crash-landed on a polar plateau as a result of being shot down by three HK-50 droids. After dealing with them, the Exile discovered a Jedi Academy hidden within the plateau. When they entered it, the Exile's companions were locked in prison cells, and she was brought before Atris, one of the Jedi Masters (and, in fact, the only Jedi in the academy) who previously banished the Exile from the Jedi Order for fighting in the Mandalorian Wars. The Exile offered her help against the new Sith threat that had revealed itself on Peragus by finding any Jedi who may have survived the purge after the Jedi Civil War. Impressed that the Exile held no evil against her, Atris allowed her to take back her ship (the Exile learned was stolen by one of Atris' handmaidens) and freed her companions.

When the party assembled once again on the Ebon Hawk, T3-M4 "told" the Exile that he downloaded a holorecord of her trial from Atris' archives. It turned out that there were Jedi Masters in hiding. The Jedi Council members that exiled her, namely Zez-Kai Ell, Kavar, Vrook Lamar and Lonna Vash. She decided to find them to discuss a plan of action against the new Sith and maybe even figure out why she lost her connection to the Force.

Search for the Jedi Masters


During their subsequent adventures, the Exile found the Jedi Masters: Zez-Kai Ell on Nar Shaddaa, Kavar on Onderon, Vrook Lamar on Dantooine, and Lonna Vash, tortured to death by Darth Sion by the time she arrives, on Korriban. However, although the Masters seemed to be compassionate for the Exile, they refused to answer her questions about why she was cast from the Order and why she lost the Force until the Jedi Council had reassembled on Dantooine, in the ruins of the Jedi Enclave. They did not know of each other's whereabouts and they were surprised to hear of Atris's being on Telos because they belived her to be on Katarr with the others when it was stripped of life.

In the process, the Exile was joined by other resourceful allies, such as Visas Marr, a Miraluka Sith apprentice and former servant of Sith Lord Darth Nihilus; Brianna, one of Atris' handmaidens (if the exile is male); Mical, a historian and a Jedi student on Dantooine prior to the Mandalorian Wars (if the exile is female); Mira, a bounty hunter (if the exile is on the light side while on Nar Shaddaa); Hanharr, a Wookiee (if the player is on the dark side while on Nar Shaddaa); G0-T0, a droid that was one of the Exchange leaders on Nar Shaddaa; Canderous Ordo, the new Mandalore, who was regrouping the scattered Mandalorian clans on Dxun; and HK-47, a damaged droid who was repaired by the Exile using parts from the HK-50 models that hunted her.

Rebuilding the Republic
The Exile learned much about her companions' past, learning that many of them were Force-sensitive, and trained them in the ways of the Jedi. The Exile's apprentices would later restore the Jedi Order known as the Lost Jedi. Furthermore, she discovered that Kreia was Revan's first teacher, exiled by the Jedi and later by the Sith, and that Revan himself left known space to fight an unknown threat from his Sith days that continued its existence beyond the Outer Rim.



When visiting Dantooine and Onderon, the Exile was caught in the middle of conflicts between the weakened Republic and two powers aiming to weaken it further—the Exchange and Onderon separatists, respectively. By G0-T0's request (and having no other choice if they needed to contact the Jedi Masters), she stabilized the political situations on these planets, preventing them from being lost for the Republic, even though the resolutions led to two bloody conflicts known as the First Battle of Dantooine and the Onderon Civil War.

Kreia's fall
Finally, the three surviving Masters&mdash;Kavar, Vrook and Zez-Kai Ell&mdash;gathered on Dantooine, in the rebuilt Jedi Enclave. The Exile learned from the Masters that the Council did not cut her off from the Force (as Kreia led her to believe). She instinctively caused herself to become deaf to the Force after activating the Mass Shadow Generator on Malachor V and being unable to withstand the Wound in the Force that she created by doing this.

If the Exile has followed the dark side in the game, all of the masters would have been killed on their own planets and there would be no one there.

However, the Exile failed to persuade the Jedi Masters to unite against the Sith. The Jedi Masters explained that this new Sith threat, which caught them unprepared, fed on Force users, so that whenever Jedi gathered, they inevitably died, and everyone and everything around them shared the same fate. This was what happened on Katarr, Visas Marr's home world and the location of the previous Jedi Conclave. The Jedi Masters explained to the Exile, that they believe she would eventually cause the death of the Force, and they feared that the Exile would lead the Sith to the Enclave. Therefore, the Jedi Masters refused to accept the Exile back into the Order and decided to separate the Exile from the Force; this time, forever.

The Exile submited to their decision; but before they could begin, Kreia entered and severed them from the Force using an incredibly powerful version of Force Drain&mdash; not because they were Jedi, but because of their attempt to harm the Exile after she was so benevolent to them. The shock was too much and they died. The Exile retained her connection to the Force, but was lying on the ground, unconscious, as Atris' handmaidens ran into the Enclave and took Kreia to her mistress as a prisoner (If the Exile is male, Brianna will take Kreia to the academy). This left the Exile no choice but to return to the secret Telosian academy, as she believed that the Force bond between her and Kreia was fatal and, should Atris execute Kreia, she would die as well.

However, Atris did not execute Kreia. Even though Kreia reveald her Sith name, Darth Traya, she showed how much she and Atris have in common&mdash;in fact, Atris had already, not realizing that fact, fallen to the dark side, studying the knowledge of Sith holocrons. When Atris let her go, Kreia departed to Malachor V; when the Exile arrived, she finds only Atris, who revealed that Darth Nihilus was about to attack Telos, an event also orchestrated by Kreia, and believed that she was strong enough to face Kreia. Realizing that Atris had been corrupted, the Exile fought and defeated her, but spared her life.

In an alternate ending, the Exile killed Atris if she had fallen to the dark side. Also, if the exile is male, then Brianna will also fight a scripted battle with Atris, losing and being bombarded with Force lightning.

Battle of Telos


The Exile arrived on Citadel Station to discover that the Battle of Telos IV had begun. By the collaborate efforts of the Exile and her companions, particularly Visas Marr, Canderous Ordo's Mandalorians, and the Republic fleet led by Admiral Carth Onasi, the Sith troopers attacking Telos, the Sith fleet, and Darth Nihilus are defeated by the Exile and her companions, securing the future of Telos and the Republic. Carth Onasi arranged an appointment with the Exile, retold the story of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and asked her to keep an eye out for Revan and to tell him that "Admiral Onasi is following his orders" to keep the Republic safe. After meeting the Exile, Carth met with Bastila Shan, who followed Carth to Telos. Bastila still longed for Revan's return, and Carth agreed with her.

If the Exile is dark-sided or the dark side ending is chosen for the first game, Carth will either not meet with the Exile or he will be dead, respectfully. And if Revan was specified as a woman, Carth would ask the Exile to tell her that, "Carth Onasi is waiting for her."

The final battle: Malachor V


The Exile left Telos, heading to Malachor V, where she found the Trayus Academy and the two remaining Sith Lords&mdash;Kreia, a.k.a. Darth Traya, the headmistress of the academy, and Darth Sion, with his will broken, manipulated by Traya. Although Sion is regenerative while in a place of such high amounts of Dark Side energies as the acadamy, the Exile convinced him to give up fighting and die peacefully. Then she confronted Darth Traya at the core. Kreia explained her motivation: she tried to use the Exile to create another wound in the Force, so powerful that it would destroy the Force itself, rendering the Jedi and the Sith alike powerless, thus eliminating the constant conflict and bringing peace to the galaxy. This plan failed, and the Exile defeated Kreia, cutting off her remaining hand in the process.

Upon her defeat, Kreia remained benevolent to the Exile and answered her questions&mdash;most notably about the future of the Republic, the planets they visit, and her followers&mdash;and dies, mortally wounded by the Exile, in the Trayus Core, where her path down the dark side began. She also revealed that Revan came to Malachor earlier, after the Jedi Civil War, and left the Ebon Hawk and the droids before departing into the Unknown Regions to fight the unknown threat. Meanwhile, Bao-Dur's remote powered up and reactivated the Mass Shadow Generator, despite G0-T0's attempts to stop him, destroying them both, as Malachor V collapsed upon itself, the Ebon Hawk arrived in time to rescue the Exile. The ship left behind the remains of the planet and the scattered debris from ships crushed by the Generator in the final battle of the Mandalorian Wars and disappeared into space to search for Revan.

If the Exile follows the dark side then she threw Kreia into the core of Malachor V and assumed the throne of headmistress of Trayus Acadamy. Meanwhile, G0-T0 destroyed Bao-Dur's remote and deactivated the Mass Shadow Generator so the planet remained intact.

Crew

 * Director&mdash;Chris Avellone
 * Writers&mdash;Ferret Baudoin, Michael Chu, Tony Evans, Scott Everts, John Morgan, Kevin Saunders, David Maldonado

Characters
Key: * (asterisk)=a character that is essential to the plot of the game.
 * 1B-8D
 * 3C-FD
 * Aaida
 * Adana
 * Terena Adare*
 * Pato Ado
 * Ahrnell
 * Akkere
 * Anda
 * Ap'Sareb
 * Atallo
 * Atris*
 * Ayjae
 * Azkul*
 * B-4D4*
 * B-4R5
 * B-5D8
 * Bahima
 * Bakkel
 * Bao-Dur*
 * Bao-Dur's remote*
 * Batono
 * Benok
 * Bik
 * Bostuco
 * Bralor
 * Brianna*
 * C6-E3
 * C7-E3
 * C9-T9
 * Cahhmakt
 * Cede
 * The Champ
 * Opo Chano*
 * Dergar Chester
 * Coorta
 * Dahnis
 * Daraala
 * Ov Darum
 * Dashel
 * Davrel
 * Derred
 * Dessicus
 * Dillan
 * Dendis Dobo
 * Samhan Dobo
 * Dopak
 * Lelin-Dor
 * Mebla Dule
 * Zez-Kai Ell*
 * Talvon Esan
 * Esok
 * Jedi Exile*
 * Corrun Falt
 * Jonra Far
 * Fassa
 * Feraa
 * G0-T0*
 * Geeda
 * Gegorran
 * Gelesi
 * Geredi
 * Gerevick
 * Geriel
 * Dhagon Ghent*
 * Gonlo
 * Gormo
 * Dvakvar Grahrk
 * Dol Grenn
 * Guron
 * Chodo Habat*
 * Mon Halan
 * Hanharr*
 * Harra
 * Doton Het
 * Hussef
 * Impostor Batu Rem
 * IT-31
 * Ithorian Jedi
 * Jorran
 * Jubei
 * Kaalah-Nah
 * Kadron
 * Arren Kae
 * Kaevee
 * Kahranna
 * Kaul
 * Kavar*
 * Kelborn*
 * Kex*
 * Kiph*
 * Talia*
 * Kodin
 * Koobis
 * Kreia*
 * Kumus
 * Laane
 * Vrook Lamar*
 * Lagra
 * Adum Larp
 * Lasavvou
 * Soka Linu
 * Lootra
 * Jana Lorso*
 * Luxa*
 * Borna Lys
 * M'sadaar
 * Maban
 * Margar
 * Marlo
 * Visas Marr*
 * Matu
 * Mical*
 * Mira*
 * Berun Modrul
 * Moza
 * Nadaa
 * Nahata
 * Nallek
 * Nebelish
 * Darth Nihilus*
 * Nikko*
 * Nikylitis
 * Nisotsa
 * Nodobo
 * Ossluk Noslee
 * Raxus Nuli
 * Odis
 * Kaah Ohtok
 * Carth Onasi
 * Dustil Onasi
 * Oondar
 * Canderous Ordo*
 * Panar
 * Planore
 * Ponlar
 * Qimtiq
 * Quello
 * Ralon
 * Ramana
 * Atton Rand*
 * Batu Rem
 * Riiken
 * Rutum
 * S-0D3
 * S4-C8
 * Saedhe
 * Sakarie
 * Saquesh
 * SC-21
 * Bastila Shan
 * Lupo Shar
 * Sien
 * Cariga Sin
 * Darth Sion*
 * Loppak Slusk*
 * Modo So
 * Requel Sorm
 * Squik
 * Sullio
 * Suulru
 * Suyin
 * T1-N1
 * Taepalae
 * Tagren
 * Tarn
 * Xaset Terep
 * Terlyn
 * Tobin
 * Tolas
 * TT-32
 * Tien Tubb
 * Twik'gar
 * Twin Suns*
 * Unidentified Devaronian bartender
 * Unidentified Twi'lek majordomo
 * Vaklu*
 * Lonna Vash*
 * Ratrin Vhek
 * Visquis*
 * Vix
 * Vogga*
 * Vossk
 * Vula
 * Xaart
 * Xarga
 * Yima
 * Mimas Yoon
 * Yusanis
 * Zherron
 * Azanti Zhug
 * Dezanti Zhug
 * Zuka

Creatures

 * Bantha
 * Boma
 * Brith
 * Cannok
 * Dekk fly
 * Drexl
 * Flipdarter
 * Hssiss
 * Kath hound
 * Kinrath
 * Krek beetle
 * Laigrek
 * Maalraas
 * Mynock
 * Shyrack
 * Storm Beast
 * Zakkeg

Droid models

 * Fire suppression droid Mark I
 * Cleaning droid
 * Construction droid foreman
 * Construction droid Mark I
 * Construction droid Mark II
 * Environment droid Mark II
 * Excavator droid Mark I


 * Excavator droid Mark II
 * Sentry droid Mark I
 * HK-50 protocol/assassin droid
 * HK-51 protocol/assassin droid (cut)
 * Mining droid Mark I
 * Mining droid Mark II
 * Tank droid Mark IV

Events

 * Battle of Telos IV
 * Destruction of Malachor V
 * First Battle of Dantooine
 * First Battle of Onderon (Onderon Civil War)
 * Second Battle of Onderon (Onderon Civil War)
 * Skirmish at Peragus II
 * Skirmish on Nar Shaddaa

Locations

 * Alderaan
 * Althir
 * Dagary Minor
 * Dantooine
 * Dersonn III
 * Duro
 * Dxun
 * Eres III
 * Hasaq
 * Ithor
 * Iti Cluster
 * Katarr
 * Korriban
 * M4-78
 * Malachor V
 * Nar Shaddaa
 * Onderon
 * Peragus II
 * Praven Prime
 * Serroco
 * Sleheyron
 * Taris
 * Telos IV
 * Kamino
 * Geonosis

Organizations and titles

 * Jal Shey
 * Zeison Sha
 * Serroco
 * Red Eclipse
 * Zhug brothers
 * True Sith
 * Lost Jedi

Sentient species

 * Aqualish
 * Bith
 * Chadra-Fan
 * Devaronian
 * Duros
 * Echani
 * Gamorrean
 * Gand
 * Gran
 * Human
 * Hutt
 * Ithorian
 * Miraluka
 * Mirialan
 * Nikto
 * Quarren
 * Rodian
 * Sullustan
 * Toydarian
 * Trandoshan
 * Twi'lek
 * Ubese
 * Weequay
 * Wookiee
 * Zabrak
 * Zeltron

Vehicles and vessels

 * Citadel Station
 * G0-T0's yacht
 * Forklift vehicle
 * Ravager
 * Republic freighter
 * Republic orbital shuttle
 * Ebon Hawk
 * Harbinger

Playable characters
A number of characters are available to join the Exile's party in Knights of the Old Republic II. They are:


 * B-4D4
 * Bao-Dur
 * Bao-Dur's remote
 * Brianna
 * 3C-FD
 * G0-T0
 * Hanharr
 * HK-47
 * Kreia
 * Visas Marr
 * Mical
 * Mira
 * Canderous Ordo
 * Atton Rand
 * T3-M4

Non-playable characters from the first game

 * Bastila Shan
 * Carth Onasi

Sequels
Obsidian has expressed desires to make another sequel, as has LucasArts. However, no plans have been made in making another Knights of the Old Republic game, although representatives from LucasArts have said that they will not abandon the "franchise."

In a March 2007 interview with the owners of LucasArts Fan network, conducted by a Knights of the Old Republic fansite, owner "Aristotle" commented to "stay tuned" for a third Knights of the Old Republic.

Electronic Gaming Monthly reports in the rumors section of its May 2007 issue that BioWare has hired an online team for work on a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Knights of the Old Republic.

In Febuary 2008, G4TV annocued that they had learned that Bioware was working on a third title from a EA analyst report.