Second Battle of Onderon (Onderon Civil War)

The Second Battle of Onderon was a battle on the planet Onderon and its moon, Dxun, that occurred in 3,951 BBY. This battle concluded the Onderon Civil War.

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 Valku'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 he discovered that the Sith established base very close to the camp, near the ancient tomb of Sith Lord Freedon Nadd. Realizing he could not deal with the Sith himself, as Kavar and Talia urgently needed help in Iziz, the Exile dispatched three of his companions to aid the Mandalorians against the Sith. Then he 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 three Sith Masters were performing near Freedon Nadd's sarcophagus.

Meanwhile, as the Basilisk landed in the ruined merchant quarter of Iziz, Vaklu's troops patrolling the sector fled, thinking that the Mandalorians sided with Talia. With the help of Captain Bostucco 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 then turned on their masters and apparently killed Tobin; the others, ignoring the drexl, ran into the throne room.

While the Exile was busy fighting the drexl, in the throne room Vaklu clashed vibroblades with Talia. In the critical point of the battle, Master Kavar appeared, cutting his way to the throne room with his two lightsabers. Vaklu's soldiers were quickly dealt with, and Vaklu himself was severely wounded by the Exile. Talia ordered an immediate execution for Vaklu, but the Exile said that would only make Vaklu a martyr and the queen should use this time to rebuild her planet and win back the affections of her people. Talia allowed her cousin to stand trial fairly and started rebuilding Onderon.

The civil war was over; the battle was almost over, too, although some noise on the streets of Iziz was still to be taken care of. However, the Sith threat still existed, and they would undoubtedly try to take over the planet once again. Having her own plans for Sith Lord Darth Nihilus, Vaklu and Tobin's ally, Kreia lied to Tobin, who barely survived the drexl's attack, that the Jedi were hiding in Atris' academy on Telos. This event led to the even more dramatic Battle of Telos.

Kavar then left Onderon, seeking to meet two other Jedi Masters on Dantooine, and the Exile boarded a shuttle back to Dxun, to reunite with his party and receive congratulations from G0-T0 for stabilizing the political situation on the planet.

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

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.

Appearances

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