Moorint

"Personally, I don't care why you've come&mdash;as long as you destroy the Flesh Raiders."

- Moorint

Moorint was a male Twi'lek who served as the Scout Chief for the Pilgrims of Kalikori Village during the Cold War between the Republic and the Sith Empire. A skilled tracker, Moorint served as the lieutenant of Matriarch Sumari during the conflict with the native Flesh Raiders of Tython. When Sumari died from illness, he served Sumari's daughter Ranna Tao'Ven faithfully until approached by the Dark Jedi Bengel Morr with an offer of peace. After betraying the Jedi Master Orgus Din and delivering the human to Morr's clutches, Moorint and the villagers failed in their attempt to capture Din's apprentice, but were forgiven by the Jedi and continued to live on Tython alongside the Jedi Order throughout the Second Great Galactic War.

Biography
"For months, we begged the Council to send help! And no matter how many you kill, the Flesh Raider numbers keep growing. You can't win."

- Moorint

A male Twi'lek, Moorint was one of many Pilgrims who lived on their homeworld during the Great Galactic War between the Republic and the Sith Empire. When the planet's rulers began to discriminate against the group for their adherence to the ways of the Matriarchs, their leader&mdash;Matriarch Kolovish&mdash;led her people off of the planet and approached the Senate for permission to settle on the planet of Tython in the Deep Core. However, as the Jedi had only recently rediscovered the world the year before, the Senate refused the group settlement rights, sparking Kolovish's group to travel there in direct defiance of the decree. Landing in the Tythos Ridge mountains near the location where the new Jedi Temple was being built in 3,650 BBY, the group established the village of Kalikori in the small valley where they had arrived.

There, the Pilgrims spent the next seven This forum post from Star Wars: The Old Republic lead writer, Daniel Erickson, indicates that the game takes place about ten to twelve years after the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant. According to The Essential Atlas, the Treaty is signed in 3,653 BBY, placing the Jedi Knight storyline between 3,643 BBY and 3,641 BBY. The Prologue of the Jedi Knight class storyline is directly followed by Act I, and an indeterminate amount of time passes between Acts I and II. Both storylines take place over the course of several months each, and the date of Act I is confirmed in the The Lost Suns comic series. Master Ngani Zho's comments place Star Wars: The Old Republic 8: The Lost Suns, Part 2 ten years after the Treaty of Coruscant, in the year 3,643 BBY. In the same issue, SIS Director Marcus Trant confirms that the events of the comic&mdash;and the subsequent Mission to the Vesla system&mdash;occurs a week after the Hero of Tython's mission to Nar Shaddaa, meaning that Act I of the Jedi Knight class occurs in 3,643 BBY. Comments made in the intermission between Acts II and III confirm that the Knight is under the Emperor's control for a significant period of time, and the short story The Last Battle of Colonel Jace Malcom places the Battle of Corellia and its concurrent conflicts (including the Mission to the Dark Temple) in 3,641 BBY. As there are significant gaps between the three Acts and the game occurs between 3,643 and 3,641 BBY, this article assumes that the events of the Prologue and Act III occur in 3,643 BBY, the events of Act II in 3,642 BBY, and the events of Act III in 3,641 BBY. years during the Cold War fending off attacks by the Flesh Raiders, the vicious natives of the planet, and Moorint became the village's Scout Chief. His scouts would gather information on the natives' movements, working with the militia captain Bashenn to prepare the village's defenses accordingly, and Moorint quickly gained experience and knowledge of the Flesh Raiders' tactics and movements. Kolovish retired at some point during the Cold War, and Moorint served her successor Sumari as the Matriarch's lieutenant alongside Sumari's daughter, Ranna Tao'Ven. The Jedi Order were forbidden by their Council to actively aid the villagers out of respect for the Senate's wishes, fostering a deep resentment of the Order amongst the villagers.

Around the year 3,643 BBY, the Flesh Raiders began to move in greater numbers against both the Jedi Order and the villagers, and Moorint's scouts heard sounds of conflict from the nearby Tythonian Gnarls region. There, they witnessed a Flesh Raider invasion force be turned back by Jedi after their commander, the Dark Jedi Callef, was killed by a young apprentice and the passageway they were using to enter the Gnarls was sealed. Not long afterwards, the Jedi Master Orgus Din sent the apprentice&mdash;now his official Padawan&mdash;to meet with the Matriarch and learn what the villagers knew of the Flesh Raiders.

However, Sumari had recently fallen ill, her daughter took over more and more of her mother's duties to help the woman cope. The Matriarch was forced to retire early into the conversation, causing Moorint and Tao'Ven to take over and explain Sumari's offer: if the apprentice would deal with the Flesh Raiders' weapons, the villagers would give the Jedi their knowledge of the natives' movements. Tao'Ven wished for the Padawan to recover the weapons for the villagers, but Moorint believed that it would be more effective to sabotage the weaponry and inflict casualties amongst the enemy. The apprentice ventured into the cave system known as the Upper Hollows in the Tythos Ridge to retrieve the weapons, and managed to rescue an astromech droid named T7-O1 in the process. In exchange, Moorint revealed that his scouts had witnessed a great deal of activity near the ancient Jedi temple Kaleth.

Using the Scout Chief's information, the apprentice investigated and battled Force-sensitive Flesh Raiders. As the Jedi Order learned that Orgus Din's former student, Bengel Morr, had become a Dark Jedi and was leading the natives, they began to make war upon the Flesh Raiders with help from Moorint's scouts. Using information gathered by the scouts to locate one of the Flesh Raiders' command bases, a team of Jedi Masters and Knights attacked the compound after Din's apprentice disabled the base's shield generator. However, even after the Padawan saved the village from a surprise attack, Moorint and the other villagers remained resentful of the Jedi and leapt at a chance to save themselves at the expense of the Order when Morr approached them with an offer: give him Orgus Din, and they would be safe from harm.

Broadcasting a fake distress signal, the villagers lured Master Din and his student back to the village, where Din was subdued by Morr's forces. However, Morr changed the terms of their agreement and demanded the life of Din's new apprentice as well, forcing the villagers to capture the Padawan when the young Jedi arrived. Tao'Ven, whose mother had passed away during the conflict and made her Matriarch, attempted to stop Moorint, Eseni, and Saylew from killing the apprentice, giving the Jedi time to persuade the villagers with the Force to depart in peace. The Padawan would go on to defeat Morr and rescue Master Din, ending the conflict with the Flesh Raiders by depriving the natives of thier leader. At the apprentice's behest, the Order did not seek any disagreement with the village over their betrayal and instead began to work together more closely, loosening the restrictions placed by the Council after the Senate decree.

Personality and traits
"We need to strike fear into the Flesh Raiders. Sabotage their weapons. Fix it so they blow up in their ugly faces&hellip;"

- Moorint

A yellow-skinned Twi'lek male with gray eyes, Moorint was fiercely protective of his people and loyal to the Matriarch. However, years of fighting the Flesh Raiders gave him a deep hatred of the natives, and he believed that it was better to strike against one's enemy than to strengthen oneself. Resentment of the Jedi drove Moorint and the villagers to sacrifice Din and his apprentice, but the Scout Chief did not enjoy betraying the Jedi who had aided his people.

Behind the scenes
"Sabotage would thin the Flesh Raider numbers and eliminate their technological advantage."

- Moorint proposes the dark side option in the quest "High-Tech Savages"

Moorint first appeared in Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released by BioWare and LucasArts on December 20, 2011. He appears in the Prologue of the Jedi Knight storyline on Tython, during several of the cutscenes in various missions. In the mission "High-Tech Savages", Moorint suggests that the player destroy the weapons cache, a dark side option, while Tao'Ven asks the player to recover the weapons for the villagers (the light side option). Moorint can later be killed in "Dark Temptations" along with Eseni and Saylew for dark side points, while the light side option is to Force persuade the villagers to leave in peace.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic