Trial of Meetra Surik

"The day we judged her, I stood in the chamber, and she was&hellip; she was so right. She was so certain of it, I doubted myself."

- Atris

The trial of the Jedi Exile took place, according to Jedi Master Kavar, soon after the Jedi High Council learned that Revan had betrayed them and was returning from the Mandalorian Wars with a Sith armada. In this trial it was decreed that the Jedi Exile was part of the Jedi Order no longer, and that she had to wander the galaxy far from the battlegrounds where she fought in order to achieve true understanding of what she had wrought at Malachor V. Kavar, Vrook Lamar, Lonna Vash, Atris and Zez-Kai Ell were all part of the Council who judged the Exile in this trial, with Lamar, Vash and Atris being the most unsympathetic, especially Atris. The Exile was the only Jedi to face the Council's judgement after the wars, and with all the others being dead or fallen to the dark side of the Force, many thought her to be a spy or, like Vrook and Atris, they thought the only reason she did not follow Revan against the Jedi lay in her lost tie to the Force. Vash was among the Masters who convicted her the most, but she felt the Exile had changed since the events on Malachor, and she stood up to Atris after the Exile had left the Council chamber, when she said the dark side was behind the emptiness they felt in the Exile. As she was sentenced to exile, the former Jedi General was asked to surrender her lightsaber, which she defiantly stabbed into the center stone. Atris would recover the weapon and keep it as a reminder of what can happen when passions dictate one's actions, which is how she thought it was with the Exile when she went to war.

Almost a decade later, the Exile would return to Republic space and speak with each and everyone of the Masters who exiled her, with the exception of Lonna Vash who had perished, and inquire of them the real motivations for her exile, as she felt her going to war was not the only reason. The true reason was in fact that they were afraid of her, of her innate ability to change people through Force bonding. Kavar and Zez-Kai Ell would even admit as much, that to see what she had become after losing her Force-sensitivity was terrifying. The assassin droid HK-47, who counted among his masters both Revan and the Exile, once speculated that Revan allowed her to return to the Council because he felt that it would serve to erode their will, like parading defeated leaders before their people.

Appearances

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