Second Battle of Onderon (Onderon Civil War)

"An old student is returning. I don't think the Sith are going to know what hit them."

- Master Kavar

The Second Battle of Onderon was a battle on the planet Onderon and its moon, Dxun, that occurred in 3,951 BBY and was one of the last major events of the First Jedi Purge. The battle concluded the Onderon Civil War and paved the way to the end of the Jedi purge, by acting as the catylist that goaded the Sith into revealing themselves so that they could be destroyed by the Jedi Exile.

The battle
Throughout the civil war, Jedi Master Kavar, Queen Talia's advisor, thought they would be able to win the war on their own, since most of the Onderon military remained loyal to the Queen, not her cousin General Vaklu. The Master realized that the true battle was not fought between two representatives of the Onderon royal dynasty, it was fought between the Galactic Republic, which struggled to retain Onderon as its world, and Vaklu's secret allies. He wanted these allies to reveal themselves, but they unexpectedly turned to be the Sith - a force too powerful for the Onderonians to handle.

Kavar then decided to summon another Jedi, who had recently visited Iziz and met him - the Jedi Exile. Having just finished the search for other Jedi Masters, the Exile saw this event as an opportunity to unite the three remaining Masters - Kavar, Vrook Lamar and Zez-Kai Ell - and answered the call.

The Exile's ship, the Ebon Hawk, landed in the jungles of Dxun, the primary moon of Onderon, near Canderous Ordo's Mandalorian camp. There she discovered that the Sith established base very close to the camp, near the ancient tomb of Sith Lord Freedon Nadd. Realizing she could not deal with the Sith herself, as Kavar and Talia urgently needed help in Iziz, the Exile dispatched three of her companions to aid the Mandalorians against the Sith. Then she set off to Iziz in a Basilisk war droid, modified to hold three people, together with Kreia and one more companion.

The Exile's companions succeeded in their mission. They dealt with the Sith guarding the entrance to the tomb and, inside the tomb itself, interrupted a ritual that three Sith Masters were performing near Freedon Nadd's sarcophagus, killed the three in turn, and took Nadd's short lightsaber from his sarcophagus.

Meanwhile, as the Basilisk landed in the ruined merchant quarter of Iziz, Vaklu's troops patrolling the sector fled, thinking (correctly) that the Mandalorians had sided with Talia. With the help of Captain Bostuco and his royalist soldiers, the Exile cut through Vaklu's defenses on the Sky Ramp, a long bridge that connected the merchant quarter with the royal palace.



Inside the palace, the Exile found Vaklu and Colonel Tobin attempting to use a drexl beast to cut through a force field - the last obstacle between them and the throne room. To make things worse, Tobin sealed the exit, and Kiph, a Twi'lek computer slicer hired by Vaklu, activated traps for the Exile and blocked Captain Kadron of the royalists from reopening the door.

Eventually, the Exile found Kiph and blocked him from accessing the security system. Kadron reopened the door, and the Exile reached it just as the drexl cut through the force field. However, the beast attacked Tobin, who barely survived. Vaklu's soldiers ran into the throne room, as the Exile killed the beast.

Inside the throne room Vaklu dueled Talia. At the critical point of the battle, Master Kavar arrived, and fought his way into the throne room. Vaklu's soldiers were quickly dealt with by Kavar and the Exile. Vaklu himself was severely wounded by the Exile.

End of the war
Talia ordered Vaklu to be promtly executed, but the Exile told her that would only make Vaklu a martyr and that the queen should concentrate on rebuilding her planet and win back the support of her people. Talia agreed and allowed her cousin to stand trial.

The civil war was over. However, the Sith threat still existed. Kreia developed a plan to deal with the Sith Lord, Darth Nihilus, whom she knew was Vaklu and Tobin's secret ally. Kreia lied to Tobin and told him that the Jedi were hiding in Atris' academy on Telos. This ultimately led to the even more dramatic Battle of Telos.

Afterward, Kavar left Onderon, seeking to meet two other Jedi Masters on Dantooine. The Exile boarded a shuttle back to Dxun. There she was congratulated by G0-T0 for stabilizing the political situation on the planet, before leaving on the Ebon Hawk.

Galactic Republic/Royalist/Mandalorian

 * Queen Talia
 * Kavar
 * Jedi Exile
 * Kreia
 * Captain Bostuco
 * Captain Gelesi
 * Captain Kadron
 * Captain Riiken
 * Canderous Ordo
 * Kelborn
 * Bralor
 * Xarga
 * Zuka
 * Kex
 * Davrel

Sith/Vakluists

 * General Vaklu
 * Colonel Tobin
 * Kiph

Behind the scenes

 * Alternatively, the Exile's weak protests are not heard by the Queen, and Vaklu is shot. Yet alternatively, the Exile can agree with Kreia that Vaklu is too dangerous to leave alive and personally give soldiers the order to shoot him.


 * If the player, as the Jedi Exile, chooses to follow the dark side path, it leads to an alternate universe ending where the Exile sides with Vaklu against Talia and, after reaching the throne room, has a tough battle with Kavar.


 * This is most likely the first time a Basilisk War Droid landed in Iziz since the end of the Mandalorian Neo Crusade, and probably the only time one landed to help defend Iziz.

Appearances

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