The Sith Lords Restoration Project



The Sith Lords Restoration Project, commonly abbreviated as TSLRP, is a modding project for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords in development by a group called Team Gizka. It was named after the in-universe Telosian Restoration Project.

Goals
The modmakers aim to make the game closer to Obsidian Entertainment's original vision, which they were forced to deviate from due to time constraints. This includes restoring missing content, such as the Cut Ending to Knights of the Old Republic II, the HK Manufacturing Plant, and other removed subplots, as well as fixing bugs (including broken quests) present in the retail version.

Cut content that will not be restored includes the planet M4-78 and a cutscene involving confrontation between Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion (who believes he killed the Jedi Exile). However, the Team Gizka forums spawned a separate modding effort, the M4-78 Restoration Project, focused on bringing the droid planet (along with the original subplot for Jedi Master Lonna Vash) back into the game. The M4-78 restoration project has discontinued as of announced by one of the Gizka team leaders Owen "Dashus" Christensen on Jan 21, 2007.

Despite being given no recognition by LucasArts or Obsidian, the Restoration Project sparked a lot of interest in the KotOR community. The thread dedicated to the project was made sticky on the official Obsidian forum, and a number of Obsidian and Holowan Labs visitors have said they are looking forward to playing KotOR II the way it was meant to be played.

Progress
As of September 29, 2007, the current closed beta build is 0.8b5. The developers refuse to reveal any projected release date to prevent any fallout should it not be met. However, they have said that the version 0.7b1 includes all the content which they were certain of and deemed necessary to restore which leaves only new cut-content that might be found and necessary to restore during the course of the project and bugs to be fixed.

On July 12, 2006, Owen "Dashus" Christensen, one of the team leaders, gave an interview, in which he said that the project was about 80% complete.



Roadmap
According to the bug statistics page, there will be three major milestones after 0.8b1: 0.9b1, 1.0b1 and 1.0c1. Translations began with the release of 0.8b1. Builds are made on approximately a weekly basis and tested; if they do not meet the criteria for the next milestone, only the revision number will be increased.

Trailers

 * On December 26, 2006, a trailer of the mod was posted on YouTube. It was confirmed on the Team Gizka website that the trailer was indeed their production. It showcases a wide variety of restored content, including the HK Manufacturing Plant; the prison in the Trayus Academy; Darth Traya after defeating the Exile's companions, who came to challenge her on Malachor V; HK-47 and HK-51s stopping G0-T0's plot on Malachor; Brianna engaging her sisters in gameplay in her return to the Telos Academy, along with many other items.


 * On February 14th, 2007, a second trailer was released. It depicted the player character's party discussing how to take down Kreia.


 * On April 3, 2007 a third was released, it showed HK-47 watching the HK-51 schematics in holographic form.


 * On July 2, 2007, a fourth trailer was released. It showed Kreia teaching a refresher course on Lightsaber combat to the Jedi Exile.