Revan/Legends

"Who I am is not important, my message is."

- Revan

Revan&mdash;renowned as the Revanchist, honored as the Revan, reviled as Revan the Butcher, dreaded as the Sith Lord Darth Revan, and praised as the Prodigal Knight&mdash;was a Human male who played a pivotal role in the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil War. Believed to have born in the Outer Rim Territories, the man later known as Revan was born under a different name around the year 3,994 BBY, and he was found to have great strength in the Force at a young age. Accepted into the Jedi Order, the youth studied on the planets Dantooine and Coruscant under a variety of Jedi Masters, including Kreia, Zhar Lestin, Dorak, and Arren Kae, and he became fast friends with a fellow student named Alek. He achieved the rank of Jedi Knight by the time he was thirty, and as one of the Order's most promising members he became a vocal and charismatic critic of the Jedi's inactivity in the ongoing Mandalorian Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order. Developing a following of like-minded Jedi who were known as the Revanchists, the "Jedi's own crusader" argued with the Jedi High Council about the Order's role in the galactic conflict, and his words were finally heeded in 3,963 BBY when he uncovered the truth behind the Battle of Cathar and the death of the Cathar species.

Taking on the name of Revan and donning the mask of a Mandalorian who had died trying to prevent the massacre, the Revanchist and his followers joined the Republic Military's struggles against the Mandalorians, and Revan was soon appointed Supreme Commander of the military. Driving the Mandalorians back over the course of the next three years, Revan and his best friend&mdash;now known as Malak&mdash;slowly slipped towards the dark side, and Revan brought the Mandalorian Wars to an end in 3,960 BBY when he defeated the enemy leader Mandalore the Ultimate in single combat at the Battle of Malachor V, though the activation of the Mass Shadow Generator superweapon caused massive casualties on both sides. However, Revan had learned the truth of the war from a dying Mandalore: the entire affair had been the result of manipulation by a mysterious Sith faction, and Revan and Malak followed the trail of their shadowy enemy to the planet Dromund Kaas, the capital of a reconstituted Sith Empire. Revan and Malak's attempt to eliminate the powerful Sith Emperor ended in disaster; the Emperor led them into a trap and broke their wills, completing their fall to the dark side and anointing them as Darth Revan and Darth Malak, the Dark Lords of the Sith.

Sent back as advance agents of the Emperor, the two Sith Lords embarked on a mission to locate the Star Forge, a powerful factory constructed by the long-vanished Rakata species, but their wills proved stronger than the Emperor expected&mdash;Revan and Malak broke free of his control, adopting his instructions as their own desires and declaring a new Sith Empire with the Star Forge at its heart and the loyal fleets of Republic Military that had followed Revan into the Unknown Regions as its new military. Rebuilding the Sith Academy on Korriban, in 3,959 BBY Revan embarked upon a protracted military campaign against the Republic in what would become known as the Jedi Civil War in order to conquer the Republic and protect it from the shadowy threat that he believed to be lurking in the Unknown Regions. However, Revan was betrayed by his Sith apprentice two years into the war when Malak chose to attack Revan's flagship while Revan was battling a Jedi strike team sent to capture him. Grievously injured, a comatose Revan was rescued by the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan, who used the Force to stablize the fallen Sith Lord and in the process formed a Force bond between them.

Brought to the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine, Revan was healed by the Jedi before his unconscious mind was wiped clean by the Jedi Council, who hoped to use the bond between him and Shan to uncover what led to his and Malak's fall and the source behind the Sith's near-infinite fleet. Reprogrammed with a new name and an identity as a Republic soldier from Deralia, Revan was placed under Shan's command on the Republic warship Endar Spire, but the Spire was attacked by Malak in 3,956 BBY above the planet Taris, and Revan and a soldier named Carth Onasi were two of the few survivors who made it to the escape pods. The two soldiers searched the planet for Shan's escape pod, gaining allies in the Twi'lek girl Mission Vao, her Wookiee companion Zaalbar, and the utility droid T3-M4, and after rescuing Shan from the Black Vulkars swoop gang, the group teamed up with the Mandalorian mercenary Canderous Ordo to escape Taris in the freighter Ebon Hawk only minutes before Malak decided to bombard the planet to dust.

Travelling to Dantooine, Revan was retrained as a Jedi Padawan by the Jedi Council, and he and his allies were sent on a galaxy-wide mission to locate the Star Maps, Rakatan artifacts that pointed the way to the Star Forge. Joined by the Jedi Juhani and Jolee Bindo, Revan and company discovered Star Maps on the planets Tatooine, Manaan, and Kashyyyk, and Revan's relationship with Bastila Shan slowly developed into a romance over their travels. However, the Ebon Hawk and its crew were captured by Malak and his cruiser Leviathan, and Shan remained behind to battle Malak so the others could escape&mdash;but Malak revealed the truth of Revan's identity to his former Master. Determined to rescue Shan and stop Malak, Revan located the final Star Map on Korriban and traveled to the lost world of Lehon, home of the Rakata, and battled Shan in a duel atop the Rakatan Temple of the Ancients before she fled. Revan and his friends pursued her to the Star Forge itself above the star system's star Abo, and after using his love for Shan to bring her back to the light side, Revan confronted Malak in a final battle on the Star Forge's command deck as the Republic Military fought the Sith fleet around them. Striking down his former apprentice in their duel, Revan was granted the title of Prodigal Knight by the Order, and he and his companions received the Cross of Glory&mdash;the Republic's highest honor&mdash;for their actions.

Settling on Coruscant, Revan married Shan but was rebuffed by the Order when he offered to share his views on the Force with them, and he sank into obscurity over the next two years&mdash;but when he began to be plagued by nightmares of a storm-covered world and darkness, Revan enlisted Canderous Ordo's aid and retraced the journey he and Malak had taken into the Unknown Regions six years prior. Uncovering the mask of Mandalore on the ice world of Rekkiad, Revan convinced Ordo to become Mandalore the Preserver, but Revan was captured by the Sith Lords Scourge and Darth Nyriss when he traveled to the planet Nathema, and he spent the next three years in captivity on Dromund Kaas. When Revan was finally freed by Scourge and Meetra Surik, one of his lieutenants from the Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi Master and his allies decided to strike at the Sith Emperor to ensure that he could never complete his plans of conducting a ritual to consume all life in the galaxy. However, Revan and Surik were betrayed by Scourge during their battle when the Sith realized it was not their destiny to defeat the Emperor, and Revan was placed in stasis as the Emperor fed off of his strength for the next three centuries.

Resisting the Emperor's attempts to steal his knowledge, Revan tempered the Sith ruler's desire for war for the sake of his and Bastila's son Vaner and his descendants, and when the Great Galactic War began three centuries later, Revan influenced the Emperor towards seeking a peace treaty with the battered Republic. When Revan was finally freed from his imprisonment a decade later, the Jedi Master decided to make use of the Rakatan Foundry to produce an army of battle droids that would wipe out the Empire. Revan's plans failed when a Sith strike team boarded the Foundry and defeated him, and though he vanished at the end of their battle, Revan was not seen again in the greater galaxy. His legacy, however, would live on; the Sith Lord Darth Rivan, who began the thousand-year-conflict known as the New Sith Wars, named himself after Revan after reading a damaged manuscript about the Sith Lord, and the Sith Lord Darth Bane discovered Revan's Sith holocron on Lehon and used Revan's teachings to develop the Rule of Two philosophy.

Early life and Jedi training
"Revan had many Masters, Zhar, Dorak, Master Kae before Kae left for the Wars. Towards the end of his training, he sought out many to learn techniques. It is said that he returned to his first Master at the end of his training, in order to learn how he might best leave the Order."

- Mical

A Human male, the individual later known as Revan was born in approximately 3,994 BBY, and some believed that he had been born in the Outer Rim Territories. In 3,993 BBY, the dying Jedi Duron Qel-Droma had a Force vision of Revan standing victorious over a Sith Lord while wearing Qel-Droma's robes, and the man died a peaceful death knowing that the future was secure. The child who would be remembered as Revan was eventually discovered to be Force-sensitive and was accepted into the Jedi Order. The Jedi Master Kreia claimed to have been his first teacher in the ways of the Force. Regardless of the truth of her statement, the Human was trained along with a fellow student named Alek on both the planet Coruscant and the Jedi Enclave on the planet Dantooine. Both Humans received further training from the Twi'lek Jedi Master Zhar Lestin, who noted that the young Jedi possessed what he described as an insatiable desire for knowledge. Lestin believed that it was simply youthful exuberance and eagerness, and he expected the young man to become a champion of the Order&mdash;a sentiment shared by Master Vandar Tokare, though Master Vrook Lamar was wary of the student's desire for knowledge.

The Jedi studied under a number of Jedi Masters after leaving the tutelage of his first teacher, learning from Master Lesting, the Jedi Enclave's chronicler Master Dorak, and Arren Kae. The former Jedi hopeful Mical later claimed that Revan had undertaken a thorough study of Force bonds and other uncommon Force powers during his time as a Padawan. Alongside Alek, he achieved the rank of Jedi Knight sometime before the year 3,964 BBY, and the two were widely acknowledged as being among the most promising members of the Jedi Order. However, Alek's friend was commonly recognized as the more powerful and intelligent of the pair, and he was seen as the leader among the two. By 3,964 BBY, Alek's friend was a well-known, charismatic, and powerful Jedi Knight.

The Revanchist
"When the Mandalorian threat first arose, Revan and Malak were eager to defeat the enemy of the Republic. But the council thought it best if we moved with care and caution. The true threat, the council feared, had not yet revealed itself. But Revan would not be dissuaded. Charismatic and powerful, it was inevitable many of the Order would flock to Revan's seemingly noble cause. Malak was the first to join his closest friend. Others followed, many of our youngest and brightest, intent on saving the galaxy from the Mandalorian threat."

- Zhar Lestin

That year, the Mandalorian warrior culture began an invasion of the Galactic Republic's territories in the Outer Rim, bringing the Mandalorian Wars to the larger galaxy. Outraged at the Jedi Council's refusal to involve the Order in the conflict, the young Jedi began to move among the Order, arguing that the Jedi should actively aid the Republic Military in its fight against the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders. The Republic media branded him as the "Jedi's own crusader," and the "crusader" gradually gathered a following of like-minded Jedi as the number of military and civilian casualties continued to rise. Alek was the first to join the cause, and his friend soon became considered to be the honorary "Master" of those who followed him.

With the backing of Alek and his other followers, the Jedi decided to journey to the war front against the wishes of the Jedi High Council so that he could scout the enemy lines. On the way, he and his followers stopped on the planet Taris in the Ojoster sector in order to meet with the Jedi Master Lucien Draay. The "crusader" hoped to recruit more Jedi to his cause from the Jedi Tower on Taris, but neither Draay nor any of the other Jedi were willing to oblige. Not long after departing Taris, the Knight left Alek and the majority of his followers on the planet Suurja while he himself investigated Mandalorian activity on Onderon and its moon Dxun. However, many of his followers were captured by Mandalorians in the fourth of a series of battles at Suurja. Considering his findings to be "disturbing," the Knight reported his findings to the Jedi Council shortly after the Republic officially entered into the Mandalorian Wars, though the Council once again told him that the Order had no place in the war. In response, the Council dispatched the Human on a mission to rescue those Jedi who had been captured. As he departed the Council chambers on Coruscant, the Knight encountered Master Draay and, after a brief conversation about their views on the war, he departed to complete his assignment.

The Jedi's followers, including Alek, were eventually rescued from the Mandalorian scientist Demagol on the planet known as Flashpoint by the fugitive Jedi Padawan Zayne Carrick, who had been framed by his former Master Lucien Draay for the Padawan Massacre of Taris. Once reunited with Alek and his followers, the Knight continued his campaign for Jedi intervention in the Mandalorian Wars, but in a different fashion. Finding himself to be a celebrity to the larger Republic as the head of the Revanchist movment&mdash;as his faction became known&mdash;he was cast by the Republic media in the role of a crusading savior who was wrongfully ignored by the Jedi Council. Though he was first referred to as "the Revanchist Leader" in news reports, the young Jedi Knight soon became known simply as "the Revanchist."

Over the course of the year 3,963 BBY, the Revanchist continued to travel the galaxy and bring his message of Jedi intervention to all who would listen. A Cathar Jedi named Ferroh, one of the Revanchist's followers, brought the planet Cathar to the Revanchist's attention. Ferroh's entire species had vanished from their homeworld ten years prior, and the Revanchist&mdash;believing that the Mandalorians were responsible&mdash;began showing other Jedi the abandoned world in order to convince them that the Mandalorians needed to be stopped. He and Alek were on Cathar when Mandalorian forces under the command of their leader Mandalore the Ultimate attacked the planet Serroco. In the Battle of Serroco, the Mandalorians bombed the planet's surface with nuclear warheads, and both the Revanchist and Alek felt the death of thousands of innocents from several sectors away. Not long afterwards, The Revanchist was invited by Lord Arkoh Adasca, the head of Adascorp, to bid on weaponized exogorths that the businessman sought to sell to any faction in the Mandalorian Wars. The Knight was unable to attend the auction due to pressing business elsewhere, so he sent Alek in his place. Several Jedi had visions that Adasca's exogorths could change the course of the war, so the Revanchist instructed his friend to ensure that the danger the weapons posed was eliminated.

Shortly after the Adasca affair, the siege of Taris, and the bombardment of Jebble, Lucien Draay was appointed to the Jedi Council. He reported to the Council that Republic intelligence reports indicated that there was a blow to the Mandalorian's plans of conquest, reportedly by an insurrection within their own ranks, and stated that the "interventionist path" sought by the Revanchist was wrong for both the Republic and the Jedi. The Council approved his motion, which ordered the recall, or if necessary, detention, of the "prowar renegades." The Jedi Council sent Alek back to the Revanchist and his followers with a final warning after Alek, now going under the guise of "Captain Malak", testified to the Jedi Council against the secret cabal known as the Jedi Covenant.

Fighting the Mandalorians
"I don't know your name&mdash;but I take up your cause. I will not remove your mask until there is justice&mdash;until the Mandalorians have been defeated once and for all. So swears&hellip; Revan!"

- Revan

The Revanchist was on Cathar again when Malak returned from Coruscant, but Master Dorak and several other Jedi Masters followed him there. The Masters confronted the Revanchist and his followers, informing the young Jedi that the Mandalorians were nothing special and and demanding that the Revanchist movement disband. However, in the midst of the discussion, the Revanchist discovered a Mandalorian mask underfoot. When he picked it up, the entire group of Jedi was enveloped in a Force vision of the past: hundreds of Cathar were storming towards the nearby beach, pursued by a swarm of Mandalorians led by Cassus Fett. The Jedi tried to defend the Cathar, but their lightsabers were unable to harm the phantom Mandalorians. The Jedi watched helplessly as the Cathar were herded into the ocean, and Fett's forces prepared to massacre the Cathar.

One Mandalorian, however, flew in front of the Cathar and pleaded with Fett on their behalf, arguing that they were defeated and genocide was unnecessary. Fett declared that the Cathar had to be annihilated for dishonoring the Mandalorians during the Sith Wars, and that if the warrior wished to stand with the Cathar in their final moments, then she could perish alongside them as well. Fett saluted her efforts before authorizing his warships to fire away, thus killing the female Mandalorian and all of the Cathar. It was that woman's mask that the Revanchist had found, and after being inspired by her sacrifice, he placed the mask on his face. Drawing his purple-bladed lightsaber and adopting the simpler name of Revan, he vowed to wear the mask until all of the Mandalorians were brought to justice for their atrocities.

Even the Jedi Council was affected by the details that were discovered behind the massacre of the Cathar. Although they were still unwilling to lead the entire Jedi Order into the war, the Mandalorians' war crimes were sufficient enough for the Council to begrudgingly sanction the intervention of Revan and his faction on behalf of the Republic. Officially, they still denounced Revan's actions as unwise and too hasty, and continued to dissuade the rest of the Order from joining Revan's cause. But in reality, the Mandalorians' own actions made it impossible for them to stand in the way of Revan's cause. However, Revan came up with a solution that would appease the Council and allow him to respond to the growing public clamoring for the Jedi to take action. Inspired by an initiative from the days of the Great Sith War thirty years earlier that had allowed civilian healers to work with the military, he proposed that the Revanchists be deputized into the Republic Military as a Mercy Corps. The Council grudgingly agreed to Revan's request, and the newly-formed Mercy Corps was placed directly under his command.

In the following weeks, the Revanchist Jedi joined the Republic Military in battling the Mandalorians openly. By that time, a Jedi named Meetra Surik had become one of Revan's most valuable lieutenants. Revan quickly won a string of military victories, proving himself to a capable military leader, and Revan and Malak prevented the Battle of Duro from becoming an even larger disaster by bringing a fleet of Interdictor-class cruisers into the system and prevented the Mandalorians from escaping with large amounts of war materiel from Duro's orbital shipyards. In light of their accomplishments, Supreme Chancellor Tol Cressa named him Supreme Commander soon placed a third of the Republic Military under his direct command. Under his leadership, the Republic war effort began to push back the Mandalorians, but at a cost&mdash;Revan and Malak began to adopt a policy of victory at all costs. While Revan was a military genius who knew that the Republic's industrial might was the key to victory, many of his victories were the result of his sacrificing resources and territory in order to gain an advantage. "Moral shortcuts" became common under Revan and Malak's leadership, and the two Jedi developed a cold and calculating disposition unlike that of a Jedi; they matched the Mandalorian's brutal tactics with tactics just as merciless.

Sometime during the next two years, Revan and Malak uncovered an ancient ruin of the Rakata species near the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine, and after undergoing a series of tests at the hands of the droid guardians, the two were given access to the inner chambers. Moments before they crossed the threshold, Malak warned Revan of the consequences, believing that the Council would banish the two if they attempted to enter. However, Revan would not be dissuaded, and the two entered the chamber to discover a Star Map&mdash;a relic of the Rakata species that showed part of the location of the Rakatan space station known as the Star Forge. Around 3,961 BBY, Revan discovered another Star Map in the depths of the Shadowlands, a region of the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, and the two Jedi also briefly visited the Sith tombworld of Korriban. Not long afterwards, Revan traveled to the Sith world of Malachor V and discovered the Trayus Academy, a temple of Sith learning. There, he began to be seduced by the dark side of the Force, learning from the Sith knowledge contained within the Academy, and Revan introduced Malak to the dark side as well.

Showdown
"It was not your ships or your men or your vaunted 'fight for freedom' that won this, the final battle of the war. It was by the actions of one person–the Jedi Revan–that you prevailed. Revan's strategies and tactics defeated the best of us. Even Mandalore himself was taken aback by the ferocity, the tenacity, and the subtlety of Revan's plans."

- Canderous Ordo

Though under the thrall of the dark side, Revan did not renounce the Jedi ways initially, and he and Malak continued to battle the Mandalorians. When the Republic sought to drive the Mandalorians off of Taris, Revan himself led a group of Jedi into battle in Taris's Undercity. There, Revan freed a group of slaves who were about to be sold on the slave market&mdash;among them a young Force-sensitive Cathar named Juhani. Inspired by Revan's heroism, Juhani was encouraged by one of Revan's compatriots to join the Jedi Order. Not long afterwards, Malak and Revan battled Cassus Fett at Jaga's Cluster, and Revan then ordered a large part of his forces under now-General Meetra Surik to attack the Mandalorian strongholds on Onderon and Dxun. His battle plan called for hundreds of small-unit feints to probe the Mandalorian lines for weaknesses, and Surik carried out his orders despite her weakened forces. The battle on Dxun lasted for months and saw heavy Republic losses, with approximately ten Republic soldiers casualties for every Mandalorian death.

In an effort to draw out the Mandalorians, Revan launched a campaign against the planet Althir III that destroyed much of the Mandalorian army. By 3,960 BBY, Revan had begun to use a lightsaber of a blue color, and he had ordered the construction of a superweapon known as the Mass Shadow Generator, which had been designed by the Zabrak engineer Bao-Dur. The Mass Shadow Generator served as the centerpiece of an elaborate trap in the Malachor system, where he hoped to lure the Mandalorians into a final confrontation that would end the conflict. He placed General Surik in command of half of the Republic fleet to serve as bait to lure the Mandalorians into the range of the Mass Shadow Generator, while the rest of the fleet under Revan would launch an assault on Mandalore's flagship.

However, Revan himself was delayed outside the system by a Mandalorian scouting party. When he finally arrived in the Malachor system, a massive naval battle was underway, and Mandalore&mdash;realizing that defeat was inevitable&mdash;decided to challenge Mandalore to single combat. Accepting Mandalore's challenge, Revan engaged the warrior in a duel to the death aboard Mandalore's flagship. Despite Mandalore's strength, he was eventually overcome by his Jedi opponent, and at the end of the duel, Mandalore lay dying at Revan's feet. Coughing up blood, Mandalore removed his mask and began to speak to his victorious opponent about how he had been betrayed. Puzzled, Revan questioned Mandalore as to what he meant, and the dying man explained that he had been manipulated by a red-skinned Sith into beginning the war. The Sith had convinced Mandalore to help him uncover a Sith tomb on the ice world of Rekkiad before he influenced the warrior into attacking the Republic, and Mandalore gave Revan Rekkiad's coordinates in order to prove he was telling the truth just before he died.

Revan took Mandalore's Mask, his symbol of leadership, as his spoils of war. With Revan's victory, the Republic forces began to press the Mandalorian forces closer and closer to Malachor V. It was then that Surik commanded Bao-Dur to activate the Mass Shadow Generator, and Revan's own vessel was outside of range of the superweapon as it activated. Revan and Surik both watched in horror as most of the Mandalorian fleet and a large number of Republic vessels were drawn towards the planet into a massive gravity vortex. Countless ships were pulled from orbit and slammed into Malachor V's crust, crushing them and fracturing the planet to its very core. Thousands died on both sides of the battle, though the Mandalorians suffered far more casualties than the Republic did. In the wake of the devastation, the Mandalorians who survived transmitted their unconditional surrender to the Republic forces.

Searching for answers
"So Mandalore was telling the truth.''" "Did you really think his last words would be a lie?" "Now what?" "We have our proof. The Sith are not extinct. They have to be stopped." "What about the Mandalorians?" "''Without the Mask, they are nothing."

- Malak and Revan

In the weeks that followed, Revan ordered that the remaining Mandalorians be stripped of their weapons and armor, and that they dismantle their basilisk war droids. Knowing that they would only resume the fight if a new leader took Mandalore the Ultimate's place, Revan refused to return the Mask to the Mandalorians, and many of the warriors soon became bounty hunters or mercenaries. Shortly after the Battle of Malachor V, Revan completed a new assassin droid named HK-47, which he based off of the Czerka Corporation's HK-24 series assassin droid. Not wanting to repeat the devastation that occurred at Malachor, Revan decided to use HK-47 in order to assassinate selective opponents.

After Malachor, Meetra Surik was left bereft of a connection to the Force, and she decided to answer the Jedi Council's demands for Revan, Malak, and Surik to answer for their actions. However, Revan and Malak refused and took the remainder of their forces into the Unknown Regions, claiming to be pursuing the remaining Mandalorians. Revan took Malak alone to Rekkiad, where they followed Mandalore's directions to the twin ice structures known as the Twin Spears. There, they discovered the tomb of the Sith Lord Dramath the Second and a datacron within his sarcophagus that confirmed Mandalore's tale. The datacron spoke of a planet named Nathema, and the two Jedi decided to travel there in order to seek out the Sith who had manipulated Mandalore. Before departing, Revan left Mandalore's Mask in Dramath's sarcophagus to ensure that the Mandalorians did not rediscover it.

Revan and Malak traveled alone to Nathema, which was a world in the distant Chorlian sector, and they were astonished to discover that the planet was completely barren of the Force. There, the two Jedi learned the story of the Sith Lord Vitiate, who had lived around the time of the Great Hyperspace War between the Republic and the Sith Empire a thousand years earlier. In 4,999 BBY, Vitiate had convinced many of the remaining Sith to join him in a ritual of Sith magic, but the Ritual of Nathema had resulted in the extinction of all life on the surface of Nathema and the immortality of Vitiate, who took on the name of Sith Emperor and gathered the younger generations of Sith before departing the remains of the shattered Sith Empire.

Determined to locate the Sith threat, Revan and Malak followed the Sith survivors' trail to the storm-covered world of Dromund Kaas, which they discovered to be the capital of a new Sith Empire. Posing as mercenaries, the pair spent months learning everything they could about the Empire and its ruler, and they soon uncovered the Emepror's plans for an invasion of the Republic. But instead of warning the Republic, the two Jedi&mdash;proud and overconfident&mdash;believed that they could defeat the Emperor alone, and they looked for a way to infiltrate the Imperial Citadel in the Empire's capital city of Kaas City so that they could confront the Sith ruler. The pair received aid from Yarri, a member of the Imperial Guard who protected the Emperor, but the Jedi were unaware that all Guardsmen were bound to the Emperor's will and that she was leading them into a trap.

When Revan and Malak arrived at the Emperor's throne room, the Sith ruler was ready for them&mdash;instead of fighting them, the Emperor reached out and dominated their minds, twisting the pair into willing servants and completing their fall to the dark side before he scoured their minds for useful information. Anointing his new servants as Darth Revan and Darth Malak, the Dark Lords of the Sith, the Emperor sent them back to the Republic as a vanguard to his own invasion, ordering them to make use of the Rakatan Star Forge and to report back when they had crushed the Republic's resistance. Publicly, the Emperor announced that Revan and Malak had been Republic spies, showing images of the pair to his people and proclaiming that they had been executed in the depths of the Citadel.

Dark Lord of the Sith
"When they left after the Mandalorian Wars ended, they were Jedi. When they returned&hellip; they were something else."

- Carth Onasi, regarding Revan and Malak

Departing Dromund Kaas as willing servants of the Emperor, Darth Revan and Darth Malak followed the Dantooine and Kashyyyk Star Maps to locate similar Star Maps on Manaan and Korriban. On Korriban, Revan delved further into the dark side while plundering the tomb of the ancient Sith Tulak Hord. Among the Sith relics he recovered from the tomb was Tulak Hord's mask, and the two Sith soon located the Star Map in the depths of the tomb of the ancient Sith Lord Naga Sadow. During this time, Revan created his own Sith Holocron, which contained Revan's thoughts on the nature of the relationship between a Sith Master and apprentice. By 3,959 BBY, using information from the four Star Maps, Revan and Malak were able to triangulate the location of the Star Forge in the Lehon system. However, their ship crashed on Lehon upon arrival, and the two were taken captive by the native Black Rakata. Unable to understand the primitives' language, Revan tore the knowledge from the One, the Rakatan leader.

Speaking with the One, Revan made a deal with the Rakata: in exchange for the theft of an ancient tome from the rival Elder tribe, the One would help Revan and Malak gain access to the Temple of the Ancients, a nearby structure that was the key to accessing the Star Forge but was sealed without a spoken ritual from the tome. However, when Revan and Malak met with the Elders, Revan instead allied himself with them. During his time among the Rakata, Revan spoke to Ll'awa, a Rakatan researcher who was attempting to restore the Force-sensitivity of his species, and Revan reached a compromise with the Elders: they would open the Temple of the Ancients for him and him alone if he would destroy the Star Forge and help the Elders free themselves from their dark past. However, once the Elders opened the Temple, Revan broke his word and entered the Temple with Malak, and the two used the knowledge they gleaned from the Temple to shut down the disruptor field around the planet and to access the Star Forge. Before departing, Revan left his holocron in the lowest level of the Temple.

However, the pair had broken free of the Emperor's control by the time they boarded the Star Forge in orbit above the star Abo, and the two former Jedi&mdash;their minds still twisted to the dark side&mdash;interpreted the Emperor's mental commands as their own desires. Darths Revan and Malak declared themselves Dark Lords of the Sith and leaders of a new Sith Empire, and Darth Revan took on Darth Malak as his Sith apprentice. Assuming command of the Republic ships and soldiers who had followed him into the Unknown Regions, Revan made them into the military of his new Empire, and he used the Star Forge to manufacture ships, weapons, and other war materiel to supply them. The Sith Lords quickly reclaimed Korriban, reestablishing the Sith Academy so as to supply their Empire with Sith.

Revan had continued to study the Star Forge, and he came to the realization that it was capable of far more than just the creation of weapons. Taking a fragment of the Star Forge, no bigger than a fingertip, Revan experimented with it and discovered that the device fed on whatever it was given&mdash;whether it be the Force or simply basic mass&mdash;and returned the basic building blocks of life: water, air, carbon, and even life. He left the fragment in the depths of the moon Nar Shaddaa in the care of a number of alien slaves in a large complex. The slaves, whose descendants came to know Revan only as a godlike figure known as "the Revan", remained loyal to the Revan's instructions and cared for the "Infinite Engine." However, Revan also acknowledged that the Star Forge itself was a threat, as the Rakata's reliance on the station had led to their destruction. As a result, Revan minimized his exposure to the Star Forge beyond taking a fragment and constructing his fleet, a decision that Malak saw as weakness.

For his first attack as part of a planned twenty-year campaign against the Republic, Revan used his knowledge of the Republic Military's inner workings and attacked the shipyards of Foerost in 3,958 BBY. In the Battle of Foerost, Revan's forces seized most of the Republic warships there and destroyed the rest, beginning the Jedi Civil War. When the Republic officer Saul Karath defected to Revan's forces, Revan eventually promoted Karath to commander of the entire Sith fleet. However, Malak ordered the Admiral to bombard the surface of the planet Telos IV with his flagship Leviathan, despite the fact that Revan had intended to conquer the planet. As the title of Darth was previously unknown to the Republic and the Jedi, many scholars believed that Revan and Malak were the first Sith to use it, and they speculated that the title was derived from the Rakatan language.

During the war, Revan ordered the assassination of a number of political figures, including the Echani general Yusanis and Senators Mimas Yoon of Corellia and Lelin-Dor of Serroco. It was Revan's intention to leave the Republic economy and military functionally intact, so that he could rebuild a stronger Republic and confront the mysterious threat Revan remembered in the Unknown Regions. Not long after the Battle of Foerost, Revan entered into a partnership with Czerka Corporation, offering them a trade monopoly within the territory of his Empire in return for logistical and economic support. With Revan's support, Czerka established their headquarters in the colony of Dreshdae on Korriban near the Sith Academy. A major part of Revan's battle strategy was the capture and corruption of Jedi; any captured Jedi would be tortured and converted into Dark Jedi and Sith, and Revan's Sith assassins struck at targets across the galaxy.

By 3,957 BBY, Malak had begun to resent his Master, and he openly expressed his opinion that Revan was too soft to be a Sith while the two were aboard Revan's flagship. Malak's comments sparked a duel between the two that ended when Revan delivered a lightsaber strike to his apprentice that removed Malak's jaw. Malak survived the fight, but was forced to wear a large metal prosthesis over his lower face and spoke through a vocabulator for the rest of his life. Around that time, Malak asked HK-47 what he thought of him, and Revan was so amused by HK-47's description of Malak as a "meatbag" that he programmed the droid to refer to all organics as such. The success of HK-47 led Revan to decide that more droids like him would help maintain galactic stability, and HK-47 became the basis for the HK-50 series of droids which were constructed on Telos.

Later that year, the Jedi Council set a trap for Revan, sending a small fleet to the Outer Rim as bait. Revan attacked the fleet, but a small Jedi strike team led by the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan&mdash;who was capable of battle meditation, a Force ability that strengthened one's allies and weakened enemies through the Force&mdash;attacked Revan's flagship. Revan dispatched several Jedi and Republic soldiers when they attacked him on the command deck of his vessel, but Shan and three other Jedi arrived to confront the Sith Lord before he could leave the bridge. Malak, on his own vessel nearby, sensed that Revan was in danger and decided to take advantage of the situation to take his Master's place. Just as Revan prepared to duel Shan and the other Jedi, Malak's vessel opened fire upon the bridge of Revan's ship. Amid the confusion, Shan rushed forward and delivered a Force push to the Sith Lord's chest, sending him flying, but Revan was critically injured in the explosions and the fighting that followed. The only survivor of her strike team, Shan saved Revan's life with the Force and took him to safety&mdash;forming a powerful Force bond between them in the process. Shan brought the comatose Sith Lord with her to Dantooine, where the Jedi Order healed Revan's broken body, and the Jedi Council decided to take action against Revan: joining together, the members of the Council wiped Revan's mind clean, erasing his memories and giving him a new identity as a soldier from the planet Deralia.

Aboard the Endar Spire
"One of our primary duties is to guarantee her survival in the event of enemy attack! You swore an oath just like everyone else on this mission. Now it's time to make good on that oath!"

- Trask Ulgo, on Bastila Shan

In order to learn the source of Revan's fleet and the key to defeating Darth Malak, the Council decided to rely upon Shan's bond with Revan and draw out his memories to find the answers. Shan was charged with keeping Revan's identity hidden, and she was placed in command of the Hammerhead-class cruiser Endar Spire. Now believing himself to be a Republic soldier, Revan was enlisted in the Republic Military under a false name and with a false background, and he was assigned to the Spire. In 3,956 BBY, the Spire was ambushed above Taris by Darth Malak, who had been hunting Shan relentlessly the last few months after Revan's apparent death. Revan awoke in his quarters during the middle of the battle just before Trask Ulgo, his bunk mate rushed into the room and ordered him to get dressed. After Revan was ready, Ulgo unlocked the room's door and the two departed their bunk in order to locate Shan per their orders to ensure her safety. However, they were contacted by Captain Carth Onasi, who called for reinforcements at the Spire bridge.

Upon entering the next hallway, the two soldiers discovered a pair a Sith troopers and opened fire on the boarders. Continuing through the ship, Ulgo and Revan fought off more troopers until they happened upon a Jedi and a Dark Jedi battling each other. At Ulgo's recommendation, the two soldiers hung back as the Jedi defeated the Dark Jedi, but an explosion from a nearby bulkhead killed the Jedi. Continuing through the ship, Revan heeded Ulgo's recommendation to draw a vibrosword as they stormed the Sith-held bridge. When they were unable to find Shan, the two rushed for the escape pods so that they would not be caught in the Spire destruction. Ulgo activated a nearby door to find Darth Bandon, Darth Malak's apprentice, blocking the way, and the soldier shouted to Revan to get to the escape pods as he charged the Dark Jedi and sealed the door behind him.

As Revan headed towards the escape pods, he was contacted by Onasi, who was tracking the soldier through the Spire life-support systems. Onasi reported that Shan's escape pod had just launched, and that the two of them were the only remaining crew members aboard. Warning Revan to hurry, Onasi suggested that he use his stealth gear to bypass a nearby Sith patrol, and Revan quickly made his way through the next few corridors before Onasi contacted him again. Onasi suggested using either the nearby assault droid or the ship's security systems against the large group of Sith in the next chamber. Taking Onasi's advice, Revan finally reached the escape pods and boarded the final pod with Onasi moments before the Spire exploded. The pair's escape pod crashed in Taris's Upper City, knocking Revan unconscious, and Onasi dragged Revan away from the crashed pod to an abandoned apartment in the nearby South Apartments. While he was unconscious, Revan was plagued by a nightmarish memory of Shan fighting Dark Jedi aboard Revan's flagship, and he did not regain consciousness for several days.

Searching for Bastila
"I'm afraid your friend has become a pawn in Brejik's game to take over the Lower City. He's offered her up as the Vulkar's share of the prize in the annual swoop gang race."

- Gadon Thek

When Revan finally awoke, he was greeted by Onasi, who explained what had happened after the crash and informed Revan of their duty to find Shan, as he was certain that she had escaped the Spire before its destruction. With Onasi at his side, Revan left their apartment only to find a Sith soldier and two battle droids conducting a raid on the South Apartments. The soldier murdered a Duros named Ixgil when he protested the search, and the two Humans were forced to defend themselves when the soldier saw them and realized they were Republic fugitives. After killing the soldier and his droids, Revan spoke with Ixgil's friend, who promised to move the bodies to ensure that the Sith would not come investigating.

Continuing through the building, Revan spoke with the Twi'lek merchant Larrim, who offered to sell him an energy shield, and also recieved directions to the Upper City Cantina and Kebla Yurt's Equipment Emporium from the janitor Kadir. Revan also encountered the Human Dia, whom Revan convinced to explain her story: she was also hiding out from a bounty, as a man named Holdan had tried to make a move on her while she was working as a waitress at Javyar's Cantina. Dia had cut him with a vibroblade, and an infuriated Holdan had issued a bounty on her head. Leaving the South Apartments, Revan and Onasi began exploring the Upper City, discussing Onasi's anger over the bombing of his homeworld Telos and the Sith aggression as they walked. However, they were barred from entering the Lower City, where Shan's escape pod had likely crashed, by the Sith troopers at the elevator because they lacked the proper authorization papers.

Heading into the nearby North Apartments, the two happened upon a Sith commander and two soldiers interrogating an Aqualish about stolen Sith uniforms. One of the soldiers ordered Revan and Onasi to leave, but the two stayed where they were and decided to intervene when the commander threatened to kill the Aqualish if he failed to cooperate. After the three Sith were killed, Revan spoke with the Aqualish, who thanked him and revealed that he was supplying Sith uniforms to the Hidden Beks swoop gang in the Lower City, and the Aqualish recommended that the two soldiers speak with the Beks' leader Gadon Thek if they wanted to help in the fight against the Sith. The Aqualish also told Revan to take the fallen troopers' armor as disguises before he departed to go into hiding, and Revan and Carth picked up the armor before continuing to explore the building. When he found a merchant named Largo hiding from a bounty in the building like Dia, Revan decided to give the man 200 credits to pay off his debt. Upon leaving the building, the pair came across an Aqualish and Human bounty hunters who were threatening an elderly merchant. Upon noticing the two witnesses, the bounty hunters attacked Revan and Onasi, forcing the pair to kill the hunters, and Revan decided to give the merchant 100 credits to pay off his debt.

Heading to the Upper City Cantina, Revan purchased a pazaak deck from a man named Garouk and used it to defeat a player named Niklos. Revan's victory impressed a local woman named Christya who offered to buy the soldier drinks, but the woman encountered a Tarisian noble at the bar and decided to leave the cantina with him instead. A young noble named Gana Lavin mistook Revan for a waiter and began to argue with the soldier about how her order had been delayed, but a waiter's arrival allowed Revan and Onasi to extricate themselves from the situation. A man named Jergan brushed off Revan's attempts at conversation, as he was far more interested in the cantina's female patrons. While in the cantina, Revan spoke with Ajuur the Hutt, who convinced the soldier to enter the Taris dueling ring under the nickname "Mysterious Stranger". In a series of duels, Revan fought and defeated the Humans Deadeye Duncan, Gerlon Two-Fingers, Ice, and Marl, and finally the Rodian dueling champion Twitch to become the planet's dueling champion. Talking more with Onasi, Revan also learned of Onasi's extreme reluctance to trust anyone, even his allies, though the soldier did not explain why he was so suspicious of others.

Revan and Onasi also visited the Upper City's medical facility and spoke to the doctor Zelka Forn, learning of Forn's desire to acquire a sample of the Sith's rakghoul serum, which Sith patrols in the Undercity carried so as to ensure that they did not fall victim to the virulent rakghoul plague if they were attacked by rakghouls. Forn asked Revan to bring him a sample if he came across any; however, Forn's assistant Gurney attempted to convince Revan as the soldier left to bring him the serum instead so that he could sell it to the crime lord Davik Kang. With their Sith uniforms, Revan and Onasi were able to access the elevator to the Lower City, where they arrived just in time to witness a fight between several Hidden Beks and members of the rival Black Vulkars gang. The victorious Vulkars immediately turned on Revan and Onasi, forcing the soldiers to kill the criminals in self-defense.

Onasi and Revan entered the Lower City Apartments, where they witnessed Nord's murder of the wanted Rodian Luugro and his friend so that he could claim their bounty. Exploring the various apartments, Revan came across a Twi'lek named Matrik who was a former employee of the Exchange criminal syndicate. Matrik explained that he had turned state's evidence against the Exchange, causing Davik Kang to put out a bounty on his head, but Matrik had a plan to fake his death with a permacrete detonator and asked Revan to bring him one in exchange for being able to claim the bounty on Matrik. Returning to the Upper City and purchasing a detonator from Kebla Yurt at the Equipment Emporium, Revan then returned to the South Apartments and helped Matrik set up the detonator to destroy his apartment, faking his death and allowing him to escape.

The two then entered the nearby Javyar's Cantina, where they witnessed the bounty hunter Calo Nord kill three Black Vulkars who had not heeded his warning to leave him alone. They also witnessed several people threatening a young Twi'lek girl named Mission Vao&mdash;but the arrival of Vao's Wookiee companion Zaalbar sent the others on their way. The two Humans spoke briefly with Zaalbar and Vao before the two companions departed. In the cantina, Revan encountered Holdan and confronted him about the bounty on Dia, convincing him to drop his grudge and withdraw the bounty.

Revan also helped a Twi'lek woman named Lyn Sekla by serving as her partner for a dance audition before Bib Surool, the manager for the Starlight Entertainers troupe. Speaking with Zax, the man who ran the bounty office in the cantina, Revan claimed to have killed Matrik and recieved a sum of credits for his supposed kill. The soldier also ecnountered a Paaerduag named Ja'Gatcha, whose species was significantly different than other humanoids&mdash;the hunchbacked creature possessed two heads and sets of arms, with an upper torso, arms, and a head protruding from his back. Revan spoke briefly with Ja'Gatcha, who told the soldier a little about his species and homeworld.

At the Hidden Beks' base in the Lower City, the two were stopped by a Bek guard, but Revan convinced the woman to allow them entry by claiming to be an ally of the Beks against their enemies. Entering the base, Revan and Onasi spoke to Gadon Thek, though his bodyguard Zaerdra blocked their path until Thek asked her to let them through. Revan inquired about the Spire escape pods, only to learn that the Black Vulkars had stripped the pods clean of valuables hours after their crash and that they had Shan as a prisoner. The Vulkars and their leader Brejik, who believed Shan to be only a Republic officer, were planning to offer her as a prize at the annual swoop race, and Thek offered to help Revan win the race if Revan would help the Beks in return. Thek would sponsor Revan as the Beks' swoop rider if he recovered the Beks' stolen prototype accelerator from the Vulkar's base.

Thek told Revan to locate Mission Vao, who would be able to get him into the Vulkar base, and directed him to the elevator to the Undercity where Vao was currently. However, the Sith trooper would not allow access to the elevator without the proper papers, so Revan traded Thek his Sith uniform for papers and headed towards the Undercity elevator with Onasi, fighting several hostile Black Vulkars on the way. The two also witnessed a Mandalorian named Canderous Ordo, an enforcer for Davik Kang, intimidate several Vulkars into paying protection fees.

Heading down to the Undercity, Revan and Onasi were confronted by two of the Outcasts who lived there, and when the pair demanded five credits for using the elevator, Revan instead gave them twenty credits. Another Outcast named Shaleena came up to Revan and apologized for the others' behavior, and after a short conversation with her about the villager Rukil and the fabled Promised Land, Revan continued towards the village's gate. A shopkeeper named Igear called to Revan and asked if he wanted to buy something, but a commotion at the gate drew Revan's attention. A woman named Hester was arguing with the gatekeeper Trewin, begging him to let her husband Hendar back into the village, but Trewin refused because Trewin was pursued by a rakghoul and he could not risk the creature infecting the villagers. Revan intervened, choosing to exit the village and rescue Hendar from the attacking rakghoul before the man was infected.

Returning to the village, Revan met with the elderly Rukil, who was wary of Revan and refused to speak of the Promised Land, though he asked the soldier to locate his missing apprentice Malya. Igear intercepted Revan as he departed Rukil's living area and offered to buy Malya's journals if he found them, though Revan continued on his way to speak with the village's leader Gendar. Gendar directed Revan and Onasi to where he had last seen Vao and Zaalbar, and the two departed the village in search of the Twi'lek and Wookiee. However, they almost immediately encountered a frantic Vao, whom Revan managed to calm enough for her to explain that Zaalbar had been captured by Gamorrean slavers. Vao promised to help Revan enter the Vulkar base if he helped free Zaalbar, and she joined Revan and Onasi as they explored the Undercity. When they encountered a Sith patrol, Revan showed the commander his authorization papers, and the Sith pointed him in the direction of where the most recent patrol had died. Fighting through the vicious rakghouls in the area, Revan and company located the body of a Sith soldier and recovered some of the rakghoul serum, and the trio also located the body of Malya and recovered her journals. Revan, Vao, and Onasi soon encountered a patrol of Exchange criminals led by Canderous Ordo, though the two groups were attacked by a number of rakghouls. After defeating the creatures, Ordo recommended that Revan abandon his search, as the Lower City gangs had already scavenged the escape pods.

At one of the nearby escape pods, an injured Republic soldier begged Revan for help, as he had been attacked by a rakghoul, and Revan used the serum to prevent the man's transformation, though the man was killed by a swarm of rakghouls that arrived only moments later. Returning to the village, Revan also used the serum to cure several infected villagers, though he was first forced to defeat several other villagers whose infection had progressed to the point where they transformed into rakghouls..

Returning to Rukil, Revan delivered the journals to the old man and listened as he explained the history of the Outcasts and the story of the Promised Land&mdash;a supposedly self-sufficient colony that he and his family had been seeking for years. Believing that Revan had a role to play in their history, Rukil asked him to recover the journals of his father and grandfather so that he could locate the Promised Land. The trio then headed into the sewers nearby in search of both the journals and Zaalbar. While exploring the sewers, the three of them fought off a number of rakghouls and patrolling Gamorreans, and Revan soon discovered the corpses of both Rukil's father and grandfather. Taking their journals, Revan then discovered a sealed door that Vao unlockedwith her security spikes. Upon finding Zaalbar within, the trio explained how they had come looking for him, and Zaalbar decided to swear a life debt&mdash;a life-long vow of loyalty in Wookiee culture&mdash;to Revan in thanks. Surprised, Vao nonetheless decided that she would also accompany Revan with her friend, and she then offered to take the soldiers into the Vulkar base as promised.

Before they headed down into the sewers, Revan and company returned to the Outcast village and delivered the journals to Rukil, ignoring Igear's attempts to buy the journals from him, and an overjoyed Rukil presented his research to Gendar. Swayed by the truth of the Promised Land's existence, Gendar decided to lead the Outcasts on the long journey to the Promised Land. Vao then led Revan and Onasi back down into the sewers, where she showed them an access tunnel they could use to access the Black Vulkar base&mdash;but she warned them that a rancor had made its nest in the tunnel several years earlier. Taking the tunnel, they continued to fight through Gamorreans, rakghouls, and malfunctioning droids, and they soon came across a severed arm that was holding a datapad and several bottles of a synthetic odor. Reading the datapad, Revan learned that the odor mimicked the scent of a rancor's favorite prey, and the trio used the odor to trick the rancor into eating a body with several active grenades. Passing the now-dead beast, the trio defeated the two Vulkar guards in the next passage and then took the elevator into the Vulkar base.

Fighting through the Vulkars and their sentry droids, the trio encountered a terrified waitress named Ada, who explained that her father had sold her into slavery to pay off a debt to Davik Kang. After questioning her briefly, Revan let her flee to safety, and the trio continued their search for the accelerator. Revan also fought and defeated a Twi'lek gang member who surrendered, explaining his disgust with Brejik's rule of the gang and his desire to defect back to the Hidden Beks if possible. Before Revan allowed him to leave, the Twi'lek told the trio about the security turrets guarding the garage where the accelerator was, and he recommended slicing the security systems or acquiring a passcode from one of Brejik's lieutenants.

Exploring the garage, Revan and company continued to defeat the hostile Vulkars, finally locating the prototype accelerator but finding a Twi'lek named Kandon Ark and several of his bodyguards protecting it. Ark tried to convince the soldier and his companions to come work for the Vulkars instead of the Beks, but when Revan refused his offer, battle broke out in the chamber and ended with the death of all of the Vulkars present. Having secured the accelerator, the three of them departed the Vulkar base through the front entrance, and Revan first returned to the Upper City in order to deliver the rakghoul serum to Forn. Forn immediately began the process of synthesizing it so that he could mass produce and sell it at an affordable price.

Upon returning to the Hidden Bek base in the Lower City, Revan delivered the prototype accelerator to Thek, who revealed that he would allow Revan to pilot the Beks' swoop bike as he did not wish to risk one of his own riders with the potentially explosive accelerator. Revan's companions returned to their apartment hideout in the Upper City while Revan spent a restless night in the Hidden Bek base before being taken to the swoop track in the morning. During the swoop races, Revan beat the top time and then outraced Redros, the Black Vulkar racer, when Redros beat Revan's first time. However, when Brejik came forward to deliver the prize, things went sour&mdash;knowing that Revan and the Beks had stolen the accelerator, Brejik accused them of cheating and claimed that he was withdrawing the Vulkars' share of the prize. Gadon Thek and several others immediately began to argue with Brejik, but Brejik's boasting was cut short when Shan&mdash;who had been imprisoned in a cage with a neural disruptor&mdash;overrode her restraints and defeated her guard, acquiring his quarterstaff and preparing to fight alongside Revan as Brejik screamed for the Vulkars to kill the pair.

Revan and Shan emerged victorious, but the Jedi was ungrateful for his attempt at a rescue and arrogantly reprimanded Revan for his apparent foolishness. When the soldier explained that he was working with Onasi, Shan took a moment to apologize, as she trusted Onasi's judgement and admitted that she could act rashly sometimes. But as the two were leaving the swoop track to return to Revan's apartment hideout, the man was overcome by a strange vision of Shan fighting a Dark Jedi and then Revan, the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, aboard Revan's flagship. Unaware that the vision was in fact his own memories surfacing, Revan brushed it aside until they reached the apartment, where Onasi and Shan became embroiled in a fierece argument in which she criticized the group's inability to secure passage off planet and became angry when Onasi criticized her inexperience and lack of leadership in turn. Revan intervened, however, and brough the argument to an end before suggesting they get to work on their search for a way off planet.

Escaping Taris
"I've got a plan to escape Taris, but I can't do it alone. I need someone I know can get the job done to help me. That's where you come in.I saw you win that swoop race, and I started thinking. Anyone crazy enough to race like that is probably crazy enough to break into the Sith military base. I need someone to steal the Sith launch codes from the base. Without those codes any ship leaving the atmosphere will be disintegrated by the Sith fleet's automated defense guns. Here's the deal: you bring me those launch codes and I can provide the vehicle to get off the planet&mdash;Davik's flagship, the Ebon Hawk!"

- Canderous Ordo

Before leaving the apartment, Revan spoke with Shan and informed her of the vision, which she was wary to confirm as a sign of his being Force-sensitive. The two also discussed Revan's skills and his remarkable success in his attempts to rescue Shan, which led her to suggest that they visit Dantooine and meet with the Jedi Council after they left Taris. Revan, Shan, and Onasi then left the apartment only to be met by a Twi'lek messenger who informed Revan that Canderous Ordo wished to meet with him in the Upper City Cantina. When they met with the Mandalorian, he informed the group that he was seeking a way off planet, and that he would help them steal the Ebon Hawk&mdash;Davik Kang's personal freighter&mdash;if they acquired the passcodes to bypass the Sith blockade from the Tarisian military base. Ordo told the group to go to Janice Nall's droid shop and purchase the droid she was custom-making for Kang with the express purpose of acquiring the codes, and Ordo would meet them in Javyar's Cantina when they had the codes.

The three of them headed to Droids by Janice, Janice Nall's shop, and Revan then purchased the utility droid T3-M4 for 2,000 credits. Sending Onasi back to the apartment, Revan then set off for the nearby military base with T3-M4 and Shan, and the little droid easily sliced the facility's exterior door to give them access. However, the receptionist was immediately suspicious of their arrival, and it was only after Revan bribed her that she agreed to depart the facility without raising the alarm. As they proceeded into the facility, the three of them cut down all of the Sith troopers and droids who attempted to attack them on sight.

The trio soon came across a Duros whom Revan recognized as the one who offered to hide the bodies after his and Onasi's fight with the Sith patrol in the South Apartments. The Duros was trapped in a force cage, so Revan deactivated the cage and allowed the prisoner to escape.

After destroying a large shielded battle droid that was guarding the elevator, the trio descended to the lower levels of the base to find the planet's Sith Governor in meditation. The governor expressed surprise that he would encounter a Jedi and a Force Adept on what he considered an insignificant planet, and the man attacked them in the hopes of killing them and thereby earning his lightsaber. However, Revan and his companions overcame the Sith, killing him and then taking the launch codes they needed from the man's body. Returning to Javyar's Cantina, the trio met with Ordo and learned his plan: he would get Revan and another companion into Davik Kang's estate, and they would sneak to the hangar and steal the Ebon Hawk at an opportune moment. Ordo, Revan, and another companion then boarded Ordo's speeder and traveled to Kang's estate, where they were greeted by Kang himself and Calo Nord; Kang was curious as to why Ordo had brought visitors, and Ordo covered by claiming he wanted to recruit them. Kang then led the trio on a tour of his estate before leaving them in one of the visitor's suites. Ignoring Kang's request to stay put, the three of them proceeded through the estate, eliminating the guards and bounty hunters who tried to attack them as they went.

Questioning some of the slaves, Revan learned that Kang's pilot Hudrow was locked up in the torture chambers, so the trio fought their way to the torture chamber and freed Hudrow in exchange for the launch codes for the Ebon Hawk. However, when they finally reached the hangar, they were met by Kang and Nord, who were attempting to flee Darth Malak's orbital bombardment of Taris in the Ebon Hawk. The two attacked Revan and his companions, though when Kang fell, Nord drew a thermal detonator and threatened to blow the entire hangar. However, Nord was promptly crushed by falling rubble, and the three of them rushed to the Hawk and then picked up Revan's other three companions from the apartment hideout. As turbolaser fire rained down around them, Onasi took the helm of the Hawk and Shan the copilot as they bypassed the Sith blockade, and Shan ordered Revan to man the gun turrets and take out the pursuing fighters while she and Onasi prepared the hyperdrive to jump to Dantooine. Revan successfully destroyed the Sith fighters just before the Hawk jumped to hyperspace, and the freighter soon arrived at the agrarian world.

Learning on Dantooine
"With Revan dead&hellip;''" "''Are you certain Revan is truly dead? What if we undertake to train this one, and the Dark Lord should return?"

- Vandar Tokare and Vrook Lamar argue about retraining Revan

Upon landing on Dantooine, Shan asked the others to remain onboard the Hawk while she left to speak with the Jedi Council. When she returned, she conveyed the Council's request for a private audience, and Revan followed her into the Jedi Enclave.

On the edge of the Hawk landing pad, Revan was hailed by a Twi'lek named Lur Arka Sulas, who explained that he worked for the rancher Rundil ot Sulem as an aide, and that he was in search of ot Sulem's kidnapped daughter named Sasha who had been taken by Mandalorians many years ago. Revan promised to tell him if he came across any information, and then continued on into the Enclave.

However, Revan was confronted by a Padawan named Belaya, who berated Revan for failing to wear the proper Padawan attire. Belaya was surprised and suspicious of Revan's claim of not being a Padawan, as she sensed he possessed great strengh in the Force, but she apologized for her abruptness when she realized he was being truthful. Entering the Council chambers, Revan was greeted by Zhar Lestin, though the Council members concealed the fact that they recognized the soldier. Lestin announced that the Council was considering to train him as a Padawan, and Shan was irritated by Master Lamar's skepticism about Revan's abilities. However, the rest of the Council agreed with Lestin, despite Lamar's protests that the Dark Lord of the Sith might return if they retrained Revan. Confused, Revan was asked to leave the Council chambers with Shan, and he was led back to the Hawk. While sleeping, Revan recieved another strange vision; this time, it was of Revan and Malak investigating an ancient ruin and speaking of something called the Star Forge. When he awoke, Onasi informed Revan that an anxious Shan had already left for the Council chambers, and that she wanted Revan to come as well.

While at the landing pad, Vao and Revan encountered Lena, the old girlfriend of Mission's brother Griff, and Mission was dismayed to learn from Lena that Griff was the one who had convinced Lena to abandon Mission on Taris, not the other way around. Lena told Mission that Griff was on Tatooine working as a miner, though she recommended that she stay away from Griff for her own sake.

At the Council chambers, the Council informed Revan that he and Shan had shared the dream about Revan and Malak investigating the ruins, which they confirmed were nearby on Dantooine. Master Lestin explained that Shan and Revan had developed a Force bond, and Master Tokare expressed his belief that the two were linked by a shared destiny. At the Council's request, Revan then agreed to undergo Jedi training, and they informed him that he and Shan were to investigate the ruins once his training was complete. Over the next several weeks, Revan underwent an intense training regimen, sparring with Shan frequently and spending a great deal of time meditating and studying the Order's knowledge. At Lestin's suggestion, Revan also recieved aid from Shan in his training, relying on their bond to help the two grow stronger in the Force.

Lestin often expressed his astonishment at the rapid pace which Revan learned the ways of the Jedi, and it was with pride that he finally welcomed the soldier into the Order as an apprentice. However, before he could become a full Padawan, Revan had to undergo a series of three tests; the first of which tested Revan's knowledge of the Jedi Code. After successfully demonstrating his knowledge of the Code, Revan was sent to Master Dorak to select what path he would take: that of a Jedi Guardian, a Jedi Consular, or a Jedi Sentinel. Revan was then sent to construct his lightsaber, crafting the weapon with the workbench in the Enclave's training weapon, and he then returned to Lestin with the completed lightsaber. The Twi'lek Jedi then sent Revan on his third and final trial: to cleanse the nearby grove of the taint of the dark side, though Revan could tell that Lestin knew more than he would tell his student. Revan and two companions then made their way out of the Enclave, speaking briefly with a Jedi named Nemo, and Revan was confronted by an angry settler named Jon who was furious about the Jedi's lack of activity against the Mandalorian raiders who had killed his daughter Ilsa. Moved by the farmer's plight, Revan agreed to take care of any Mandalorians he came across, and he headed out away from the Enclave.

He also encountered a woman named Elise Montagne, who begged Revan to bring back her precious droid companion C8-42-GE3.

As they headed out into the wilderness, the trio were attacked by a group of the native kath hounds who leapt down from the nearby hills, and the three of them were forced to cut down even more of the animals as they traveled south towards the grove. While crossing the grounds of the Matale estate, they soon happened upon a Mandalorian and several Duros threatening a settler, and the settler tried to offer the lives of his wife and children before the Mandalorian shot him. Revan and his companions dispatched the Mandalorian and the Duros.

Heading further south, Revan encountered the Jedi Bolook during the Twi'lek's investigation into the death of a Dantooine colonist named Calder Nettic. At Bolook's request, Revan conducted his own investigation, interrogating the two witnesses&mdash;Nettic's business partner Rickard Lusoff and a man named Handon Guld&mdash;and surveying the crime scene. In the process, Revan determined that Guld had been lying about being out running, as he was not carrying a weapon like most settlers did, and that he had in fact had personal knowledge of the victim, as he had rented a speeder with Nettic several times. Guld claimed that his blaster had been stolen but he had not reported it, though closer examination of the blaster found at the scene revealed that the blood on the weapon was Guld's. However, Lusoff was also lying about his role in the events: the man claimed that he had been hunting iriaz and was staring into the sun when he heard the shot, but it was a cloudy day. From his investigations, Revan determined that Guld had killed Nettic because Nettic had been having an affair with his wife, and Lusoff had also tried to kill Nettic but accidentally shot Guld instead. Both men were promptly arrested by Bolook, who was thankful for Revan's help in the investigation.

On the eastern edge of the grove, Revan finally located the source of the corruption&mdash;a young Cathar Jedi who used the Force to stun Revan's companions before she drew a red-bladed lightsaber and charged the Human Jedi. Forced to defend himself, Revan battled the Cathar and wounded her, driving her back and causing her stop attacking. Exhausted, the Cathar introduced herself as Juhani and explained that she had fled the Enclave after slaying her master Quatra. As his companions recovered from Juhani's Force powers, Revan conversed with Juhani, discussing her actions and urging her to let go of her anger to seek redemption. After a great deal of discussion, Revan finally convinced Juhani to seek forgiveness from the Jedi Council, and the Cathar Jedi departed the grove to return to the Enclave.

A Jedi once more
"This... this must be what Revan and Malak found when they entered this temple. This must be where their journey down the dark side began."

- Bastila Shan

Returning to the Enclave with his companions, Revan encountered Juhani and learned from the Cathar that the Council had accepted her upon her return. Juhani had not, in fact, slain her Master Quatra; the entire affair had been a test for Juhani, and her self-redemption had ensured that she passed. Speaking to Zhar Lestin, Revan was congratulated and formally welcomed into the Order as a Padawan, and Lestin asked him to meet with the rest of the Council. There, the Council explained what Revan's next assignment was: to investigate the nearby ruins along with Shan and determine what Revan and Malak had been searching for. Masters Tokare and Lamar also informed Revan aware of another issue: the Sandral family and the Matale family were embroiled in a fierce feud, as Shen Matale had gone missing. While they did not want to distract Revan from his primary mission, the Council believed that the Order had a responsibility to discovere the truth.

While heading south to the Sandral Estate, Revan happened on the body of Casus Sandral on the eastern side of the Matale estate's grounds, who had been killed by kath hounds while investigating the nearby ruins. Revan delivered Casus's datapad to the Sandral Estate, where he was let in by the Sandrals' droid and he informed Casus's father Nurik Sandral of his son's death. However, Nurik Sandral refused to reconsider the feud even in light of this revelation, leading his daughter Rahasia to speak with Revan and inform him that her father was holding Shen Matale in their estate. Handing Revan a spare key to the side door, she begged Revan to free Shen, as she had fallen in love with the youth. Revan, Shan, and his other companion used the key to access the building's side door and fought through the family's security droids to locate Shen, who refused to leave without Rahasia, and Revan convinced the girl to meet them outside of the estate. However, when Revan and his companions brought Shen to Rahasia, the group was confronted by both Nurik Sandral and Ahlan Matale, who demanded that their children come back with their parents. Fortunately for the children, Revan, Shen, and Rahasia convinced Nurik and Ahlan to abandon their feud in light of their children's love for one another, and the two men agreed to purchase a house for their children to live together.

Heading east, Revan, Shan, and their companion fought and defeated another raiding party of Mandalorians and Duros, and they then found Montagne's droid C8-42-GE3 under attack from kath hounds. After rescuing the droid, Revan learned that it had run away because Montagne had become too obsessed with the droid. At the droid's request, Revan agreed to destroy the droid so that Montagne could move on from her fallen husband, and Revan then headed north towards the ruins&mdash;only to encounter the Mandalorian leader Sherruk. Sherruk was angry that the Jedi had been taking out his subordinates, and he proceeded to attack Revan so that he could claim Revan and Shan's lightsabers for his collection. However, Sherruk and his companions were defeated by Revan and his friends, and the trio headed north to the ruins.

Entering the ruins, Revan, Shan, and their companion were met by a droid that started cycling through a number of ancient languages in an effort to communicate. Shan and Revan were finally able to understand it when it began speaking in an archaic Selkath dialect, and the Overseer explained that the ruins were over 20,0000 years old and a monument to the Builders that would lead the way to something called the Star Forge. To access the monument's secrets, the droid explained, Revan would have to defeat the building's tests&mdash;but if they failed, they would pay with their lives like Nemo did when the Council sent the Jedi to investigate. Entering each of the building's side rooms, the trio defeated the guardian droids and accessed the archaic computer systems, inserting Revan's datapad so that the systems could assimilate Basic and communicate. Passing the building's tests, Revan successfully breached the two seals and entered the heart of the ruins, wherea mysterious map activated upon his approach. Amazed and fearful of the artifact's powerful dark side aura, Shan realized that the map was what Revan and Malak had discovered years earlier. Analyzing the map, the group identified Manaan, Korriban, Kashyyyk, and Tatooine, but the map was incomplete, leading Revan to believe that there were similar maps on those other worlds, and the trio headed back to the Enclave to inform the Council.

Near the Enclave, Revan informed Elise Montagne of her droid's destruction, causing her to run off towards the Enclave in desperate grief. Revan also informed the farmer Jon of Sherruk's death, and the grateful man forced Revan to take his reward of 1,000 credits.

In the Enclave, Revan and Shan told the Council of their findings, and Master Lamar sent the two Jedi and their companion back to the Ebon Hawk for the night while they discussed the matter. Upon returning the next morning, Revan and Shan were appointed a mission by the Council: in order to stop Darth Malak and determine the source of his fleet, Revan and Shan were to seek out the Star Maps on Kashyyyk, Tatooine, Manaan, and Korriban in hopes of locating the Star Forge. Juhani had also requested to accompany the two Jedi, and Revan's request to bring his companions from Taris was also granted by the Council. On their way back to the Ebon Hawk, Revan was stopped by Deesra Luur Jada, a Twi'lek who was being trained by Master Dorak to succeed him as Chronicler. Luur Jada warned Revan to beware of the fierce terentatek, a creature that hunted Force-sensitives and feasted on their blood.

The sands of Tatooine
"You're a neophyte Padawan who's been saddled with the responsibility of tracking down these Star Maps. Why? That's not normal!"

- Carth Onasi

On board the Ebon Hawk, Revan spoke further with Canderous about his war stories from his days as a Mandalorian, and also spoke with Juhani. The Cathar Jedi was grateful that Revan did not hold her fall to the dark side against her, and she also opened up to her companion by telling him he story of how she became a Jedi. While on the Hawk, Revan was informed by Zaalbar that their emergency food stores were strangely running low. Obliging Zaalbar, Revan investigated the Ebon Hawk cargo hold&mdash;only to find a young girl hiding behind one of the access panels. The girl, who was Sasha ot Sulem, spoke a strange mixture of a Mandalorian dialect and a made-up language, but after a long conversation with the girl, Revan was able to figure out what she was saying. Sasha had stowed away on the Ebon Hawk after escaping from Mandalorians on Dantooine, and Revan was able to take the girl back to Lur Arka.

However, when Revan spoke with Onasi, he learned that the soldier was angry about the way he had been left out of the loop lately, and the two became embroiled in an argument about how Onasi viewed everyone just like his traitorious old mentor Saul Karath. Leaving Onasi alone, Revan talked more with Shan, who was interested to learn more about the man with which she was bonded. Shan questioned Revan in order to study his character, and she was impressed by his honesty and the way he treated their bond as a serious manner, because if Revan fell to the dark side, then she would also likely fall. Further discussion with Shan turned to the subject of emotions and family, and Shan explained about how she had been taken from her family like other Jedi prospects. Shan also explained about her negative relationship with her mother, though their conversation soon ended.

Revan and company first traveled to the desert world of Tatooine, landing at the spaceport in the city of Anchorhead, and Revan and Shan experienced yet another vision of a Star Map in a cave surrounding broken relics. However, when Revan, Ordo, and Shan exited their vessel, they were confronted by the Czerka Corp docking bay manager, who attempted to force them into paying a 100 credit docking fee before Revan convinced him otherwise. As they approached the exit to the docking bay, an Aqualish approached Revan and informed him that a shipment of gizka, a small creature, had been delivered to the Ebon Hawk. The Aqualish refused to take the shipment back, leaving Revan to deal with the pests himself. Shortly after arriving in Anchorhead, Ordo, Revan, and Shan were confronted by a Mandalorian man named Jagi, whom Ordo explained had fought with him at the first battle at Althir. Jagi had sworn vengeance on Ordo after he abandoned Jagi and his comrades in order to bring the conflict to a quick end, and Jagi demanded that Ordo face him in the Dune Sea for a final duel.

As the trio left the spaceport, they encountered a Twi'lek woman named Malare, who informed Shan that her mother Helena was ill and attempting to locate Bastila. Shan's question as to her mother's location was answered almost immediately afterward when they left the spaceport, as a Duros named Maana Demknot shoved past them angrily and informed the group about an arrogant and rude woman named Helena whom he had met in the Anchorhead Cantina. The trio encountered a woman named Sharina Fizark outside of Anchorhead's Hunting Lodge who struck up a conversation with Revan and proceeded to beg him to buy a desert hulak wraid plate from her. Nar explained that her husband had been killed recently, and that his last hunt had resulted in the wraid plate&mdash;but she lacked a hunter's license and therefore could not sell the plate. Revan obliged Nar, buying the plate from her, and he later sold the plate himself.

Entering Anchorhead's Czerka office, Revan witnessed an angry Duros named Dayso Cooh storm out after a heated conversation with the Czerka representative. Speaking to the representative, Revan acquired a hunting license that would allow him to leave the city after he agreed to deal with the recent string of attacks by the native Sand People. Revan also inquired about Vao's brother, and after some persuading, the officer told Revan that Griff had been captured by the same group of the Sand People. However, when Revan left the building, Cooh came up to him and asked him to find a peaceful solution to the Sand People problem. Cooh suggested that he use a protocol droid to communicate, and he informed Revan that an Ithorian salesman named Yuka Laka was offering a unique droid at his nearby shop.



Entering Fazza Utral's Hunting Lodge, Revan sold the wraid plate to Utral for 500 credits, and also spoke with several of the hunters there, including Komad Fortuna. Revan's encounter with the Gamorrean Gurke and his compatriots led Gurke to hint that Revan should watch his back in the dunes, and Revan and his allies departed the lodge not long afterwards.

As the trio headed further into the city of Anchorhead, they rounded a corner to find three Dark Jedi waiting for them. The Dark Jedi attacked Revan and his companions, forcing Shan, Ordo, and Revan to battle the three Force-users and kill them.

Revan and his friends also stopped in Motta the Hutt's swoop registration building, and Revan used the swoop bike aboard the Ebon Hawk to prove his worth on the track. After rising through the ranks, Revan agreed to help Motta sign a promising racer named Nico Senvi but helped the racer get a better contract from the Hutt. When they arrived at the cantina, Bastila spoke to her mother and soon got into an argument about their relationship, though the Jedi was dismayed to learn that her father had did while searching for krayt dragon pearls in the Eastern Dune Sea. Doubting that her mother was truly ill, Bastila reluctantly agreed to recover her father's holocron if they came across it during their search for the Star Map.

Entering Yuka Laka's shop, Revan learned that the Ithorian salesman was offering a HK-47 protocol droid, though Laka was unaware of most of the droid's functions and the droid itself was rather uncooperative. Upon learning that it could speak the Sand People's language, Revan purchased the droid for 4,000 credits, and Shan returned to the ship as Revan, Ordo, and his new droid headed out towards the city gates. The trio were stoped, however, by a Jawa named Iziz, who begged Revan to free his clan from the Sand People, and Revan agreed to aid the diminutive Jawa. Revan then showed his hunting license to the gate guard Billan, who allowed Revan and his companions to leave the city and head out to the Dune Sea.

Not far out from Anchorhead, Revan, Ordo, and HK-47 met a woman named Marlena Venn, who informed the group that she had set up a trap for her husband in the desert before she returned to the city. Further out, they came across the wraid hunter Tanis Venn who was unable to move, as he was surrounded by his four hunting droids&mdash;droids which had been sabotaged by Marlena who had grown disgusted with her husband's womanizing ways. Revan either chose to repair Venn's K-X12 probe droids or simply left the man to his fate and continued into the Dune Sea. Approaching a downed sandcrawler, Revan and compamny encountered a mining team who was suddenly attacked by several successive waves of Sand People, whom Revan, Ordo, and HK-47 helped fight off before the miners returned to Anchorhead. Nearby, the trio met with Jagi and two Rodian thugs. but before the duel began, Ordo explained to Jagi his reasons for leaving the others behind on Althir; his actions had saved the lives of many Mandalorians and had complied with Mandalore the Ultimate's philosophy of flexiblity and opportunism in combat. An aggrieved Jagi decided to commit suicide after realizing that he had called Ordo's honor into question falsely. Jagi's death greatly affected Ordo, who returned to the Hawk in order to think over the recent events, and Mission joined Revan and HK-47 on their way out to the Sand People camp in hopes of locating her brother.



However, when the trio came across a group of crashed landspeeders, Revan heard a call for help only to find that it was a trap&mdash;the call was a recording linked to an explosive. Avoiding the grenade, Revan's companions were suddenly surrouded by Gurke and his Gamorrean compatriots. Gurke demanded that Revan hand over his valuables, but the Jedi was able to defuse the situation and convince them to leave. Defeating the various parties of Sand People that attacked them as they headed into the desert, Vao and Revan acquired two sets of Sand People robes and donned them in order to approach the nearby Sand People enclave without being attacked. However, when they entered the enclave, the Sand People guard easily saw through their disguise and prepared to attack before Revan ordered HK-47 to communicate with him. Through HK-47, Revan explained that he came in peace, and the confused Sand Person took the trio to his Chieftain. Revan asked the Chieftain if they could come to a peaceful solution about the recent attacks on the miners, and the Chieftain begrudginly informed Revan that he needed a show of good faith. He planned to move his tribe farther away from Anchorhead, but he needed to build up the tribe's stores of water, and so he asked Revan to bring him a pair of moisture vaporators in exchange for the reduction in attacks.

Revan, Vao, and HK-47 were then escorted out of the enclave, and the trio returned to Anchorhead and purchased two vaporators from Greeta Holda at the Czerka office at a cost of 400 credits. Returning to the enclave, they handed the vaporators to the surprised chieftain, who had not expected them to return. Despite his surprise, the chieftain agreed to honor his bargain about the attacks, giving Revan both his personal gaderffii weapon as a sign of his favor and a map to the Star Map in the cave of a krayt dragon in the Eastern Dune Sea. The chieftain also permitted Revan to take both Iziz's kinsmen and Griff, and speaking with the Jawas, Revan informed them that they were free to go. Mission, Revan, and HK-47 also encountered Griff, and Mission was dismayed to learn that Girff had in fact been the one to leave her behind on Taris, not Lena. She was further disgusted when her brother tried to hit her up for credits, and though Revan gave him a few, she stormed away in disgust. Before fleeing back to Anchorhead, Griff asked Revan to come see him at the Czerka office if he wanted to discuss another job.

Departing the enclave, Revan and two of his companions headed towards the Eastern Dune Sea, and when they approached the krayt dragon's cave, the trio encountered Komad Fortuna and witnessed another hunter be eaten by the enormous krayt dragon within the cave. Speaking with the Twi'lek, Revan learned that Fortuna wanted to kill the dragon because it was moving too close to Anchorhead, and the Twi'lek hunter asked Revan to help him use mines and a herd of banthas&mdash;the food source of krayt dragons&mdash;to slay the great beast. Warning the Jedi that a tribe of Sand People in the area would likely attack if Revan approached their herd of banthas that was grazing nearby, Fortuna watched as Revan and his companions lured the banthas towards the cave mouth, fighting off several Sand People, and the trio then rushed back towards Fortuna and his speeder when the krayt dragon emerged. The enormous creature was killed by the mines that Fortuna had placed, and the hunter insisted that Revan take the krayt dragon pearl as a spoil.

After Fortuna departed, Revan and his compatriots headed deep into the cave where Revan had seen the Star Map in his vision. As the Padawan approached the ancient device, it activated. Revan and his friends recorded the map's contents on a datapad and emerged from the cave, only to find Calo Nord and a number of thugs waiting for them. Nord had been hired by Darth Malak to hunt down Revan, Shan, and their allies, and Revan and the others were forced to battle the bounty hunter and his mercenaries until Nord and the thugs were all dead. Victorious, the three allies made their way back to Anchorhead.



Before they returned however, they acquired Shan's father's holocron from one of the bodies in the cave, and before the group left Tatooine, Revan and Bastila returned to the Anchohread Cantina and spoke with Helena. With some convincing from Revan, Bastila reconciled with her mother, learning that Helena's disapproval of her husband's treasure hunting was had been out of a desire to protect her daughter, and Bastila gave both the holocron and 500 credits to her mother so that she could get treatment for her illness. Revan also met with Griff, who asked the Jedi to help him acquire tach glands from the planet Kashyyyk so that he could recreate Tarisian ale and then sell for huge profits.

Searching the oceans
Revan, Shan, and their companions journeyed to these worlds, tracing the steps Malak and his Master had taken years before. During these travels they gained two new companions; on Tatooine, Revan purchased the assassin droid that he created as a Sith Lord, HK-47, and on Kashyyyk, the self-exiled Jedi named Jolee Bindo joined his party on the search for the Star Forge. On each planet, the powerful dark side aura of the Star Maps created perilous conditions that made accessing the Maps difficult.

Additionally, the crew of the Ebon Hawk found themselves hunted by Sith and bounty hunters, such as Calo Nord on his last stand on Tatooine, and confronted with the problems of the local populace at every turn. One of their greatest challenges was Darth Bandon, Malak's apprentice, who met his end in a duel at the hands of Revan after he had found the fourth Star Map on Manaan. Throughout their journey, Revan and Bastila grew closer due to the feelings created by their Force bond. However, Bastila feared their love, thinking it would only lead to the dark side. In truth, she was afraid to face her feelings, out of fear of who Revan once was. She attempted to resist these feelings, yet their love for each other was undeniably strong.

Captured by the Leviathan
"You cannot hide from what you once were, Revan! Recognize that you were once the Dark Lord - and know that I have taken your place!"

- Darth Malak to his old Master

As the crew was searching for the fifth and final Star Map, Revan and his allies were captured by the Sith flagship Leviathan which was under the command of Admiral Saul Karath, Onasi's former mentor. As the Ebon Hawk was being brought in via tractor beam, its crew discussed their escape, and Revan chose a member of his party to escape the Sith and save them from capture.

Revan, Shan, and Onasi were put into Force cages and interrogated by Admiral Karath. After Onasi argued with him about the deaths on Telos and vowed revenge against him for his wife's death, Saul dismissed his threats and said that he was an insignificant part of the events anyway, and that Darth Malak was far more interested in the two Jedi, who both said that they would never turn to the dark side. From Revan's words, Saul found, unexpectedly, that he did not know of his former identity. He, however, said that he would not be the one to deprive Malak of the pleasure of telling Revan himself. Karath suspected that he would not succeed in the interrogation, and said that the Dark Lord would no doubt torture them for information and for his own twisted pleasure. He knew, however, that at the time Malak was in another sector and that it may be some time before he would arrive, and so he began torturing them himself.

Knowing that Revan cared for Shan, Karath made her suffer each time when Revan refused to answer his questions. He used this to test Revan's loyalty when he asked him where the Jedi Academy was. Revan's will weakened, but he still gave no answer to the former Republic Admiral. Karath revealed that the question about the planet on which Revan was trained was only a test, for Malak, of course, being a former Jedi, knew the location of the Jedi Enclave and had destroyed it. Karath then left the three alone until Malak would arrive, leaving Shan greatly upset by the Academy's destruction, and hoping that the Jedi had managed to escape. Both Jedi soon felt a disturbance in the Force, and they knew that Karath had sent a message to the Dark Lord of their current location. Meanwhile, the party member Revan had chosen to free them found them and deactivated their force cages. Feeling Malak's dark presence approaching, the Jedi devised a plan to escape; go to the bridge, in secrecy, and disable the tractor beam. Onasi was also included in the plan, for he wanted to kill Karath, who would be on the bridge, in revenge. Revan also sent Canderous Ordo and the rest of his crew to the docking bay so that they could deal with the guards.

They fought their way to the bridge and confronted Karath and his guards. The Admiral said that if they laid down their weapons, he would ask Darth Malak to be merciful when he arrived, but Onasi said that he had seen enough of Sith mercy, and a firefight erupted. Revan, Shan, and Onasi slew the Sith troopers and Dark Jedi, and left Karath mortally wounded. His dying words to Onasi were the revelation of Revan's identity. Furious, Onasi accused Shan of keeping the secret from him, and Shan pleaded with Onasi to not let Revan know at the time, and said that she would explain everything to both of them when they had escaped the flagship. Just before they would be able to arrive in the docking bay which held the Ebon Hawk, they were confronted by Darth Malak, the Dark Lord of the Sith. After discovering that Revan still had no knowledge of his time as the Dark Lord, Malak was amused and revealed to him his true identity, which had been wiped by the Jedi. Stunned and bewildered, Revan refused to believe that he was the former Dark Lord of the Sith, the infamous Darth Revan, until Malak's assertion was reluctantly confirmed by Shan, who explained that she was part of the Jedi strike team sent to capture him, and could not let him die after Malak's betrayal because she wanted to give him a chance to redeem himself. Malak took advantage of Revan's shock and made every effort to sow discord between his former Master and the Jedi who had manipulated him, yet Revan refused to turn against his allies.

Following the intense debate, Malak created a stasis field around both Shan and Onasi, and prepared to end his former Master's life. Malak had always regretted betraying his Master from afar, for because of it, others claimed that he was afraid to personally face Revan for the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith, but now he had been given a second chance to prove himself. Revan fought valiantly, proving himself a capable swordsman. Malak, however, caught Revan off guard by using Force stasis on him, but before Malak could finish his former Master, Shan ultimately sacrificed herself so that Revan and Onasi could escape. Reluctantly, Revan and Onasi left, and upon reaching the Ebon Hawk, escaped the ship. Revan was forced to deal not only with Malak's revelation but also the loss of the woman he loved. When Onasi told the crew of her sacrifice, Jolee Bindo suspected that Malak was planning to turn her to the dark side and use her Battle Meditation against the Republic. Revan then revealed the shocking revelation to his companions. Onasi, who had been told by Karath on the bridge of the Leviathan, was furious but said he would try to accept it. This made no difference to Mission Vao, who said that he was a different person than he was before, and Zaalbar agreed with her, stating that he had sworn a life debt to the redeemed man Revan had become, not the Dark Lord. Bindo claimed that he had known his identity all along but felt that it was not his place to tell him, and that he would still follow him. Canderous Ordo was simply glad to fight alongside his people's conqueror. HK-47's deleted memory core was restored, and he revealed that Revan was his creator. He also recalled once calling Malak a meatbag, which Revan had found humorous, and programmed the droid refer to all organics as such.

Trapped on Lehon
After finding the final Star Map, Revan and the crew discovered the Star Forge in the home system of the ancient Rakata. Upon arriving, the Ebon Hawk was forced to crash on the unknown planet because of its disruptor field. Revan was assaulted by warriors of the Rakatan tribe, but after seeing Revan's power, he and his crew were granted an audience with the One. The One told Revan about his original promise to kill the Elders and gain their secrets to enter the Temple of the Ancients, so Revan sought out the Elder tribe. When the Elder Council revealed how brutal and warlike the One and his tribe were, Revan and his crew decided to help the Elders. The Elder Council was very reluctant to trust Revan again due to his betrayal the last time they had met.

They tasked Revan with rescuing an Elder scout from the One's enclave in order to regain their trust. Upon arriving at the One's enclave, the One and his tribe turned on Revan and his crew. The entire tribe fell under Revan's strength, and Revan freed the scout. After gaining the support of the Elders, Revan, Jolee Bindo, and Juhani entered the Temple of the Ancients and defeated the hordes of Dark Jedi that Malak had left in the temple. At the top of the temple, Revan was forced to confront a fallen Shan. Following a week of torture at Malak's hand, she had at last given in to her hate and had embraced the dark side. She was now, she claimed, the Dark Lord's new apprentice, replacing the slain Bandon. After a short duel, Shan realized Revan was still powerful in the Force, despite what the Council had done. She attempted to entice Revan to reclaim his former identity as the Dark Lord of the Sith with her as his apprentice. Revan was faced with a decision that could alter the course of the galaxy.

A final confrontation
"Once again, we shall face each other in single combat, and the victor will decide the fate of the galaxy."

- Malak to Revan

Revan chose the path of a Jedi, and rejected Shan's temptation and ultimately chose the light side. Enraged, she retreated to the Star Forge. Revan and the crew repaired the Ebon Hawk and pursued Shan as a Republic fleet that had arrived commenced an assault on the Star Forge. Surviving Jedi from Dantooine's destroyed enclave boarded the Star Forge in hopes of disrupting Bastila's battle meditation so the Republic capital ships could close in to destroy the Star Forge. Aboard the Star Forge, Revan displayed his restored affinity for the Force and mastery of lightsaber combat by nearly single-handedly confronting and defeating Malak's army of Star Forge battle droids and Dark Jedi. In the Star Forge's war room, Revan faced off against Shan once again, this time, alone. Though Shan was able to draw on the Star Forge to renew her strength, Revan still bested her. She begged Revan to kill her after all she had done, but Revan attempted to convince her to return to the light side by drawing on the powerful bond of love they shared. He succeeded, and Shan used her battle meditation to aid the Republic, turning the tide of the climactic battle.

Revan then confronted Malak who, upon his arrival, used the Force to choke two Jedi prisoners, and threw his lightsaber into one and blasted the other with Force lightning, killing both. The former Dark Lord told Malak that if he surrendered the Jedi might show him mercy, but Malak replied that the wiping one of one's identity was no act of mercy, and that he would rather die. He then unleashed the unlimited army of Star Forge battle droids upon Revan and escaped to the Star Forge's observation tower. Revan, however, managed to stop the droids from attacking and followed Malak to the observation tower. Realizing that Revan had become stronger than he ever was as the Dark Lord, Darth Malak said that he could break his former Master's will and bind him to him as his apprentice, but he continued that perhaps Revan was too powerful to be his apprentice, and perhaps that when, or if, Revan became stronger than him, he would betray him, as he himself had betrayed Revan. The former Dark Lord said that he would never turn to the dark side again, which Malak said were "foolish words."

They then began a lightsaber duel, whose victor, unlike in their previous duels, would decide the fate of the galaxy. During the epic duel between the two, Malak withdrew from battle, explaining to Revan that he could not be defeated. He told Revan that he had brought the bodies of Jedi from the Jedi Academy on Dantooine to the Star Forge, but instead of letting them become one with the Force, he drained the life from them, transferring it to himself. Revan, instead, freed as many of the Jedi as he could and allowed them to become one with the Force, successfully shortening Malak's supply of energy and delivering a fatal blow. At last, Malak was brought to his knees, mortally wounded.

Before he died, Malak wondered and asked Revan what would have happened had their roles been reversed, or if Revan had never led him down the dark path. Revan apologized for starting him down the dark path, but reminded Malak that he had continued down it willingly. Malak accepted his apology, realizing that he had no one to blame for his fate save himself. Thus, the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Malak's life ended in darkness and regret immediately prior to the Star Forge's destruction. Revan and his crew were given a hero's escort back to Lehon. There, they were each rewarded with the Cross of Glory, the Republic's highest award. Vandar also thanked Revan, re-bestowed his rank of Jedi Knight, and proclaiming him the Prodigal Knight, and both he and his friends as the heroes of the era and the galaxy. This ceremony was broadcasted across the HoloNet.

A New Journey Begins
"He left a lot of people who cared about him behind. But I think he did it because he thought it was the right thing to do. But whatever he set out to do, I&hellip; I don't think he succeeded."

- Admiral Carth Onasi

Following the Battle of Rakata Prime, it was rumored that Revan intended to return to the warring Korriban so as to subdue the threat of any potential Sith insurgents. Thousands of years later, Revan was indeed credited with having "driven the Sith from Korriban".

After the Jedi Civil War, Revan settled on Coruscant and married Bastila Shan. By this time, Revan had almost fully recovered from his amnesia, although he was aware of certain gapes in his fragile mind. He experienced numerous visions of a great darkness in the form of a planet covered in never-ending storms. But without the full recovery of his mind, he was unable to recognize the dark world in his dreams. Beyond his troubled personal life, Revan became a household name throughout the Galactic Republic. But despite his galaxy-wide reputation, Revan preferred anonymity, and thus chose to avoid the attention that resulted because of his celebrity status. His decision to reside on Coruscant was influenced by the planet's enormous population, which made it even easier to disappear within the common masses.

At this point, relations between Revan and the Jedi Council became increasingly strained.

As time wore on, Revan became even more troubled by his vision of the stormy planet. As a result, he was determined to uncover the mystery behind his forgotten past. He visited the Galactic Market where he rendezvoused with Canderous Ordo in the Dealer's Den cantina. He hoped that his former Mandalorian ally would be able to provide clues that could help uncover more details regarding his checkered past. On the subject of the Mandalorian Wars, all that Ordo knew was that the attack on the Republic was the idea of Mandalore the Ultimate, though no one apparently knew what his exact reasons were for doing so. Revan asked Ordo to investigate the matter, to which Ordo agreed, albeit reluctantly since he had avoided contact with other Mandalorians for over five years.

The search for the truth about the Jedi Exile
"Still trying to recapture your lost memories?"

- Atris to Revan

After meeting with Ordo, Revan traveled to the Jedi Temple, hoping to find information on Meetra Surik. One of Revan's most trusted generals during the Mandalorian Wars, Surik was the only Jedi who returned to Coruscant after the war in order to face the judgement of the Jedi High Council. Though aware of the fact that Surik had been exiled from the Jedi Order, Revan knew nothing else of her fate, nor even her whereabouts. According to rumors, she left Republic space and simply disappeared into obscurity. Yet Revan believed that there was more to her story than what was generally known. He even tried to reach out to her through the Force. Due to his own ability to sense beings across the breadth of the galaxy, Revan believed that he should have felt a vague sense of Surik's presence. Instead, he felt nothing, but still believed Surik to be alive

The files on Surik within the Temple Archives offered no information as to her whereabouts, but Revan encountered the Jedi historian Atris, who revealed that Surik had disconnected herself from the Force because of the guilt she carried over her actions during the Mandalorian Wars, which explained why Revan could not sense her presence. Although Revan could not recall specific memories of Surik, he still felt a strong connection to her, as well as some guilt for the part he played in her exile.

Departure to Rekkiad
"I have to do this. It's the only way I'm ever going to find out what that vision actually means."

- Revan to Bastila Shan

Not long afterwards, Revan returned to the Dealer's Den to meet with Ordo, who insisted upon meeting Revan in person. Despite this, it took a good deal of persuasion for Ordo to reveal his news. Eventually, he said that the Mandalorians were gathering again on the planet Rekkiad, where they believe the Mandalore's Mask to be hidden. Revan experienced a sudden vision of himself and Malak standing on top of a mountain in a pair of mountains on a snow-covered planet resembling Rekkiad, examining a hidden door buried in the peak. He told Ordo that he thought the Mandalorians were right, and asked if it would be possible for Ordo to head to Rekkiad with him and join the hunt for the mask.

After some thought, Ordo decided to accompany him, and they discussed who else should go with them out of Revan's previous companions. Juhani and Jolee Bindo were rejected for being too close to the Jedi Order, which was likely to oppose a united Mandalorian nation again, Zaalbar and Mission Vao were left out due to Revan not wishing to disrupt their lives, Carth Onasi was occupied serving the Republic, and HK-47 was dismissed for being too unsuited for diplomacy and likely to start an incident. This left Revan, Ordo, T3-M4 and Bastila Shan available for the mission. With plans to start the next morning, Revan took his leave of Ordo and the Dealer's Den and headed for home.

Later that night, Revan returned home to Bastila Shan to announce his future plans, only to be met with Shan's own news that she was pregnant. Revan sensed the presence of their child through the Force. After some discussion, Revan decided that it wasn't safe for Shan or their child to travel with him to Rekkiad or the Unknown Regions, and determined that the best choice would be for Shan to remain on Coruscant. The next morning, Revan, Ordo, and T3-M4 departed in the Ebon Hawk for Rekkiad, leaving a reluctant Shan behind.

Upon arriving on Rekkiad Ordo advised Revan to travel under an alias and refrain from using his lightsaber due to some of the residual animosity Mandalorians might feel towards him. After arriving at his clan's encampment, Ordo received a warm welcome from his clan mates, although his wife Veela still bore some resentment for what she perceived as his abandonment of her and the clan after the war. With the information from Revan's recently returned memories, Clan Ordo was able to pinpoint the location where Mandalore's Mask was hidden, and Ordo slowly began to reconcile with his wife. However, Revan was forced to use his lightsaber during a battle with a rival Mandalorian clan and Veela was able to discover his true identity.

When the clan finally succeeded in recovering Mandalore's Mask, Veela and a few other members of the clan insisted on killing Revan for what he did to the Mandalorian people and begged Ordo to side with them. Ordo refused to turn on his friend and was forced to kill his wife in the ensuing firefight. Before parting ways with Ordo to continue his search for the Sith Empire, Revan revealed to him the truth about Mandalore the Ultimate and his Sith allies; the Sith had been behind the Mandalorian Wars all along, and had tricked the Mandalorians into invading as a test of the Republic's strength to help them plan for their own eventual invasion. And if the Sith were to return, they would either destroy the Mandalorians or manipulate them into aiding their long blood feud with the Jedi. With this revelation, Ordo then claimed the mask and took on the title of Mandalore the Preserver, promising to reunite the Mandalorian clans and stand with the Republic against the Sith should they return.

Imprisonment on Nathema
"Watch him closely. He is powerful and extremely dangerous."

- Nyriss to Scourge on Revan

Now having entrusted Carth Onasi with the Republic's safety and leaving instructions to Canderous Ordo to unite the scattered clans of the Neo-Crusaders, Revan and T3-M4 traveled to the world of Nathema, whose coordinates had been hidden alongside Mandalore's Mask. Revan found the planet was totally devoid of life and even Force, but as he approached the planet, his ship was noticed by Darth Nyriss and Lord Scourge, whom had just left the planet at the same time, and Nyriss fired the ion cannon of her ship at the Ebon Hawk. The shot disabled the ship, leading the Ebon Hawk to crash on the planet. Scourge and Nyriss captured Revan and left the remains of the Hawk, including T3-M4. They proceeded to torture him for several months until, after much pressure, he revealed all that he knew. Nyriss had little interest in Revan's knowledge, though Scourge became intrigued. Being placed in solitary confinement for the next three years, Revan spoke to only Scourge, and the Sith slowly began to confide in Revan. Revan's decision to leave behind everyone he cared about haunted his wife, Bastila Shan, who never truly understood why he left, even as she gave birth to and cared for their child. Revan's first Jedi Master Kreia would later state her opinion that Shan would have been better off if Revan had made her understand his reasons, especially since she was strong-willed and did not comprehend war as Revan did.

Unknown to Revan, however, T3-M4 was ordered by Shan, who had learned how to sense Revan's mind to a certain extent through their bond, to return to the Republic and contact her, or anyone else who could help, in case anything happened to Revan. Alone on Nathema the small astromech droid slowly repaired the starship and after set out to find assistance aboard the Ebon Hawk, and found one of the last known Jedi Knights in 3,951 BBY, Meetra Surik, who also happened to be sought by another of Revan's acquaintances, Kreia. Surik came under Kreia's tutelage and took ownership of T3-M4 and the freighter.

Mandalore the Preserver later joined her against the remnants of Revan's former Sith Empire. She also met Admiral Carth Onasi following the Battle of Telos IV and eventually learned of Revan's ties to her companions. When the former Jedi General asked T3-M4 if he had acquired the Ebon Hawk with Kreia, the droid had little to say on the matter, and since T3 had the only means of accessing the ship's voice-locked navicomputer, Surik had no way of knowing where the ship came from either. Following the destruction of Malachor V and the Sith Triumvirate, including Darth Traya, Kreia's true identity, Surik left to seek out Revan. Like Revan, she also left behind her companions, except for T3-M4, knowing that such attachments would be a weakness and that her new journey would be a solitary one.

Prison Break
"I am Revan reborn, And before me you are nothing."

- Revan to Nyriss

Along with T3-M4, Surik headed to the home of Bastila Shan, where the part-time Jedi was taking care of her young son and laying low in the aftermath of the recent battle with the Sith Triumvirate for her son's sake. After conferring with Shan for a while on the last known status of Revan, Surik took off for the planet Nathema as Revan had done before her. Upon arriving she found it precisely as T3 had left it, including the remains of the crash of the Ebon Hawk had made into a skyscraper. T3 had shown her a holographic video of Revan being taken by two red-skinned Sith earlier, but she found no trace of the Sith or Revan in the Force, as it was as non-existent in the Force for her as for anyone else. She did locate information on the planet Dromund Kaas via archives in a governmental building in a major city, and decided it was likely that that was where Revan had been taken, or that it would at least lead her to the current Sith Empire. She and T3 returned to the Ebon Hawk and flew to Dromund Kaas.

After much searching and information brokering with the Sith Sechel, Surik was able to find the Sith Lord Scourge, who had been keeping Revan captive the past three years under the orders of the Dark Council member Darth Nyriss. Seeing an opportunity no one else in the Sith Empire would take, Scourge personally demanded to speak to the Sith Emperor, even at the cost of his life. Pleased with his boldness, the Emperor allowed an audience with Scourge, and accepted his (modified) evidence of the dealings of Nyriss and her conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor as valid, declaring that he would have Nyriss and her followers destroyed. Scourge, expecting an assault soon, returned to Surik and led her into the palace under the guise of his slave, only to realize that the Emperor's Guards were moving far faster than he expected, and already attacking not just Nyriss, but the entire Sith Council.

In his cell, where Revan had spent much time conferring on the matters of Jedi philosophy with Scourge, Revan was speaking with two guards who were nervous about the incoming invaders, and planned to kill Revan, but feared his power. Revan convinced them that if they did not attack him and would instead free them, he would spare their lives, and they let him out. At that moment, Scourge, Surik and T3 rushed in, and Scourge prepared to slay the guards, but Revan halted him, saying he had sworn to protect them. Scourge relented. Surik, recalling something Shan had given to her shortly before leaving, returned to Revan his mask, and upon seeing it, Revan had a sudden rush of memories, every last one returning to him. In his weakened state (after three years in the cell) he couldn't stand them all, and fainted.

Revan's release had alerted Darth Nyriss, who soon arrived at the cell. Upon seeing Scourge accompanied by a Jedi and that Revan's cell had been opened she realized Scourge had betrayed her and immediately engaged them in combat. After easily dispatching the guards who released Revan, Nyriss was able to overwhelm Surik and Scourge and was preparing to execute them when Revan regained consciousness. Now wearing his mask and with the full knowledge of formerly lost memories, Revan was effortlessly able to absorb the lightning unleashed by Nyriss and turn it back on her, disintegrating her in the process. Scourge then returned to Revan his lightsaber as the group made their escape.

Revan and his companions exited Nyriss's compound via Scourge's landspeeder, The escaped the city and took refuge in the caves where Surik and Scourge had met earlier. Scourge decide to leave again for Kaas City soon after, in order to check on the situation and retrieve supplies. Revan thanked Surik for her role in rescuing him before turning to T3-M7 and spending a great deal of time watching a holorecording the droid possessed of his wife and son. Scourge soon returned with the news that the Emperor had declared martial law and eliminated the entire Dark Council. Revan then explained that during his imprisonment he had been able to look into the Emperor's mind and found that despite his power, he greatly feared death, with his ultimate goal being the complete destruction of every possible threat to his life in the galaxy. In order to prevent a repeat of the events which devastated Nathema the three decided to attempt to assassinate the Emperor

During his imprisonment, Revan was subjected to continuous telepathic assault by the Sith Emperor, who attempted to probe his mind and gain useful information, regarding the Republic, to plan his invasion accordingly. He also fed on Revan's Force energy to satiate his hunger. Unbeknownst to the Sith Emperor, Revan used the Dark Lord's telepathic assault against him by probing his mind, and manipulate it by planting seeds of doubt in it in an attempt to delay his plans as long as possible. In addition, Revan was replenishing his Force energy by feeding on the powerful presence near him (i.e. the Force ghost of Meetra Surik) to remain strong in his struggle against the Sith Emperor. He also used the Force to instill comfort and hope in the minds of his family members across the span of the galaxy. Apparently, he was able to hold Lord Vitiate off for centuries, as the Sith Emperor didn't attack the Republic for at least 300 years, more than long enough for Revan's son Vaner to grow up and never face the fear of total annihilation.

300 Years Later
"Only I have been both Jedi and Sith and found clarity in the Force. Only I understand him and his death is my responsibility."

- Revan, regarding the Sith Emperor

After 300 years, the Sith finally invaded the Republic, resulting in the Great Galactic War. Revan, however, managed to stop the war by manipulating the Emperor into believing that peace was in his best interest, resulting in the Treaty of Coruscant. However, the peace was fragile, and broke down after a decade. During this time, Meetra appeared to a Jedi named Oteg and informed him of Revan's imprisonment. The Jedi Master assembled a strike force that raided the planet Taral V before attacking the prison itself. A strike team infiltrated the prison and managed to bring down the defenses, which included Grand Moff Rycus Kilran, and finally freed Revan.

When he was freed, Revan was horrified at first, believing that the Emperor could now continue his plans without any hindrance. However, after Meetra appeared to him and explained that the peace was already broken, Revan decided to go with the Republic forces. Revan traveled to Tython, where he told the Jedi Council everything he knew about the Emperor and the Empire. After this, Revan made his way to a place known as the Foundry. Here, he started to build an army of battle droids, whom he placed under HK-47's command, to destroy the Emperor and the Sith once and for all.

Revan's Second Disappearance
"And in the end, as the darkness takes me, I am nothing. Now I know how you felt, my friend."

- Revan reciting Darth Malak's final words

However, the Emperor knew how great a threat Revan posed, and assembled a team of his own to destroy him. This team came to the Foundry and, after fighting their way through the defenses (including HK-47), managed to reach Revan. Revan tried to persuade the members of the strike team to fight the Emperor and the strike team tried to make him back down, neither side listened and a fight ensued. Revan's powers proved formidable, but in the end, the strike team managed to weaken him. As they closed in, Revan quoted the last words of Malak, saying that he now understood how he had felt back on the Star Forge. Before the final blow struck, Revan's body disappeared in a flash of light.

Legacy
"My time here is ended. Take what I have taught you and use it well."

- Darth Revan to Darth Bane

Three hundred years after his second disappearance from known space, Revan was regarded as a legend and a great hero of the Jedi Order. Despite his betrayal of the Jedi and the near conquest of the Republic, the death of Darth Malak at the hands of Revan single-handedly redeemed his reputation in the eyes of many within the Jedi and the Republic, both of which welcomed him back with open arms. Although he left to confront the ancient Sith Empire on a solitary quest, Revan's victory over Malak provided the Republic with three centuries of relative peace and prosperity. However, the Emperor used that time to simultaneously strengthen his armed forces while weakening the Republic and its Jedi protectors from within.

Even though Revan ultimately rejected the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith and returned to the light side, his legacy as a powerful Sith Lord endured long after his victory over Malak. By the time when the Republic and the Empire were locked in a Cold War, Revan had become the central figure within a cult known as the Order of Revan. The cult's followers, known as Revanites, greatly admired Revan and sought to emulate his ways. The Master of the Revanites, Tari Darkspanner, believed that upon Revan's return to Dromund Kaas after his redemption, he had in fact killed the Sith Emperor and assumed the throne. The Master claimed that this was the explanation for the Emperor's seclusion, a "secret" known only to the Revanites and to the Dark Council.

Revan's influence had an even greater impact on the future thousands of years later on two Sith Lords in particular: Darth Rivan and Darth Bane. During the New Sith Wars, long after the events of the Cold War, the Zelosian Sith Lord known as Darth Rivan chose his name from a corrupted Sith manuscript that misidentified Revan as "Darth Rivan, the most powerful Dark Lord of the Jedi Civil War." But it was ultimately Darth Bane who made the most efficient use of Revan's legacy.

Bane discovered the ancient Dark Lord's holocron on Lehon, a device that Revan fashioned during his life as a Sith. The holocron, hidden deep within the Temple of the Ancients, had remained undisturbed for nearly three thousand years. When Bane unearthed his precursor's legacy, he not only developed a new understanding of the Sith and the dark side, but also came to fiercely admire the Sith Lord who Revan had once been. Although Revan was redeemed in the light as a Jedi, Bane idolized Darth Revan as one of the greatest Sith Lords in history.

The knowledge that Darth Revan offered through his holocron was well received by Darth Bane, who felt that the holocron's information alone surpassed the entirety of the Korriban Academy's archives. After Bane obtained all he needed to learn from Revan, he destroyed the holocron in accordance with the way of the Sith&mdash;the destruction of all things that no longer yielded any value. Soon afterward, Bane destroyed the Brotherhood of Darkness and recreated the Sith with a new tenet that he developed through Revan's philosophy&mdash;the Rule of Two. From then on, the new Sith Order consisted of just two members; a master and an Sith apprentice one embodied power while the other craved it. Hence, Revan was indirectly responsible through Bane and his "descendants" for the rebirth of Sith domination, which was marked by the near destruction of the Jedi Order and the Republic's transformation into the Galactic Empire.

Personality and traits
"Savior, conqueror, hero, villain&hellip; You are all things, Revan, and yet, you are nothing."

- Malak to Revan on the Star Forge

Before his fall to the dark side of the Force, Revan was a very gifted Jedi who possessed the potential to become a champion of the Jedi Order, as believed by Jedi Master Vandar. In addition to his exceptional skills, Revan was also noted for having a charismatic personality and insatiable desire for knowledge. His abilities in charisma and persuasion were more than powerful enough to win the personal loyalty of countless Republic soldiers, including thousands of Jedi who willingly stood with him against the wishes of the Jedi Council. As a general, Revan was acknowledged as the greatest military tactician of his time, especially due to the fact that his entry into the Mandalorian Wars was a pivotal turning point for the all but defeated Republic. Intelligent and decisive, Revan won the devotion and admiration of not only his followers, but also the Mandalorians, many of whom were humbled after being defeated by Revan's tactics. As a military strategist, his exploits were legendary throughout the Galactic Republic.

Revan's involvement in the Mandalorian Wars, including his descent into darkness, was ironically facilitated by his compassion for the crumbling Republic. From the beginning of the conflict, he was defiant towards the Jedi Council's decision to keep the Order out of the fighting while Republic civilians and soldiers died by the millions. As the Mandalorians grew increasingly aggressive, Revan reached his breaking point when he learned of the genocidal massacre on Cathar. Ultimately, it was his strong sympathy for the victims of the war and the desire to bring the Mandalorians to justice that compelled Revan to lead a significant portion of the Jedi Order against the aggressors.

As time went on, however, Revan grew more ruthless to the point where he despised weakness and indecisiveness, thus becoming very similar to the Mandalorians he was fighting. Canderous Ordo noted the drastic change in Revan's approach to the war, most notably in his willingness to leave entire worlds defenseless in order to fortify key strategic planets that were vital to the Republic's defense. HK-47, Revan's personal assassin droid, recalled his master's cold and calculating nature by the end of the Mandalorian Wars&mdash;Revan not only destroyed Malachor V, but also used the planet's destruction to simultaneously annihilate the Mandalorians and to purge his growing army of the Jedi and Republic soldiers whose loyalties were not completely with him.

Ultimately he turned to the dark side by becoming the feared Sith Lord Darth Revan, determined to conquer the Republic that he originally tried to protect. It was believed by some, including his first Jedi Master Kreia, that he may have turned because he knew about the "true" Sith and sought to prevent a greater evil from being unleashed by willingly submitting himself to the dark side. Yet despite his turn to the dark side, Revan remained focused on his original goal to consolidate the galaxy into a stronger force better capable at defending itself. G0-T0 observed how Revan's strategy was based on a more complex plan than simply destroying all opposition in his path; Revan purposely spared planets that were essential to the Republic's economic and military infrastructure. In order to build a long-lasting Empire in a short span of time, Revan understood that he needed the Republic's overall structure to remain intact so as to avoid building an galactic-spanning empire from total scratch.

At the height of his reign as the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Revan had given himself fully to the dark side. Honor and glory meant nothing to him any longer. The feelings of compassion, mercy and loyalty no longer held any relevance to him as they once did during his time as a Jedi; he had embraced the Sith philosophy for the sake of power and control through the dark side of the Force. As far as Revan was concerned, it was all or nothing&mdash;to walk the path of moderation was to be dragged down into failure by one's own conceits. By immersing himself in darkness, Revan understood that the nature of the dark side could be both the greatest strength and weakness of the Sith&mdash;to cull the weak from the ranks of the strong, yet also being forced to remain eternally vigilant for signs of treachery. To that end, Revan concluded that the strong had to be careful to avoid being overwhelmed by those serving beneath him. Hence, he believed that every master should train only one apprentice, or else risk falling to the combined might of multiple disciples.

Ultimately, Darth Revan became an uncompromising believer in rule of the strong. From Revan's point of view, there could be only one Dark Lord who would rule until he was overthrown by a more powerful opponent, thus insuring that his Empire would always be ruled by the strong. The strong rule and the weak serve was the underlying philosophy of the Sith that formed the core of Revan's beliefs, which he in turn made sure to pass on to all of his followers.

One of his greatest traits as the Dark Lord, however, was his ability as a manipulator. The combination of his charismatic personality and the allure of the dark side was more than enough to cause thousands of Jedi and countless Republic soldiers to break their former allegiances and flock to Revan's cause. The greatest testament to his skill in manipulation was in the person of his first follower and best friend Darth Malak, formerly the Jedi Alek who once possessed a strong affinity for the Jedi and the Republic. In training Malak, Revan turned a once prominent Jedi Knight, who staunchly upheld the values of the Jedi Order, into a brutish Sith Lord with a bloodlust for extreme violence and carnage.

But even while immersed in the dark side, Revan apparently retained a slight sense of humor. HK-47's reference to Malak as a "meatbag", including Malak's furious reaction, amused Revan enough to cause him to reprogram the assassin droid to refer to all organics as meatbags. HK-47's multiple use of the term in regards to Malak drove Dark Lord's apprentice to extreme lengths of frustration, much to Revan's amusement. Even under his programmed personality, Revan was still just as amused at the thought of Malak being the "original meatbag."

After being saved from a near-death experience by Bastila Shan in the aftermath of Malak's treachery, Darth Revan's identity was virtually wiped out by the Jedi Council out of fear of being unable to control the Dark Lord, essentially leaving Revan's mind as a blank slate. The Council then used the Force to insert an artificial persona with false memories into Revan's damaged mind, thereby causing the former Sith to initially forget about his past. Under the Jedi-created persona, Revan believed himself to be a native of the planet Deralia who enlisted into the Republic military as a raw recruit. As a result of the Jedi's tampering, the "new" Revan was fiercely loyal to the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order, constantly upholding their ideals and determined to end the threat of the Sith for good. Kreia, however, did not believe that the Jedi changed Revan as they later took credit for. She believed that the Jedi merely reversed the effects that war and the dark side had on Revan, thus allowing his true self to reemerge from the depths of his mind&mdash;a person who was willing to go to war to protect others.

Over time, however, Revan came to gradually piece back together the damaged memories of his former life. The revelation of his true identity shocked Revan to the core. In comparison between his original self and the artificial personality forged by the Jedi Council, some of his companions noted a few similarities and differences. HK-47 observed that his master was ultimately different from the man he once was, mainly regarding the fact that "Revan's" compassion for others contrasted sharply with Darth Revan's ruthlessness and cruelty. HK-47, suspecting that Revan's concern for life may have been an inherent trait rather than a side effect of memory loss, reluctantly concluded that Revan's new persona was an improvement on the person he once was. Canderous Ordo recognized that Revan was no longer the same person who defeated the Mandalorians in the war. Despite this, Revan had still managed to earn Ordo's respect a second time due to his prowess as a warrior and a leader. Darth Malak even commented that in spite of Revan's loss of his old personality, the former Dark Lord remained as charismatic as ever, inspiring loyalty in those who followed him just as he had done in his past life.

But unlike the first time, Revan avoided a second fall to the dark side of the Force, even when his lover Bastila Shan attempted to seduce him and instigate a rebirth of Darth Revan. He had become firmly entrenched behind his loyalty to the Jedi and the Republic, his devotion to the light side of the Force, and remained dedicated to saving Bastila and defeating Darth Malak. When Revan and Malak faced each other for the final time, he expressed regret at leading his former friend to the dark side, but also reminded Malak that it was his own choice to continue down the dark path. But as more of Revan's memories returned to him shortly after the death of Malak, his former persona subtly reasserted itself, mainly in his pragmatism and understanding of war. Realizing that his attachments to Bastila and their companions would only put them in danger, Revan made the choice to leave behind all those that he cared about in order to take on a solitary quest to destroy the true Sith just as he originally intended to do so.

After his reawakening during the end of the Cold War, Revan believed that the Sith Emperor must be stopped at any cost, and was more than willing to kill billions of people with the Foundry to do so. Ironically, this is similar to how he thought during the Mandalorian Wars, when he believed that the Mandalorians must be stopped at all costs.

Physical appearance
Revan was an unprepossessing man, with fair skin, dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. Revan described his own features as "unremarkable" and "average". During the Mandalorian Wars Revan took to wearing his hair long, sometimes tied back and sometimes flowing freely past his shoulders. At some point before or after his conscription aboard the Endar Spire, Revan had grown a beard, which he wore throughout the Jedi Civil War, and after. This beard eventually became a trademark part of his appearance. So much so, that after being awarded the Hero's Cross Revan shaved it off and ceased wearing Jedi robes in public, seeking to disassociate himself from the celebrity he had become.

Canderous Ordo
"I had a feeling you were going to get mixed up in something interesting, and I wanted to be around for the fun. Guess this is it.''" "''I knew I could count on you, Canderous."

- Canderous Ordo and Revan

While Revan and Ordo never met in battle during the Mandalorian Wars, Ordo ultimately developed a great deal of respect for the Republic military leader. He recognized Revan's strategic talents in turning the Mandalorians' tactics back upon themselves, and respected his decisions at the Battle of Malachor V as doing what was necessary to win the war.

The pair would not end up meeting until some time later, during the Jedi Civil War. By this time, Revan had been captured and mind-wiped by the Jedi, and had no idea that he had been the dreaded Darth Revan. After encountering one-another in a chance meeting at a cantina in the Taris undercity, Revan and Ordo escaped the destruction of the ecumenopolis by stealing Davik Kang's freighter, the Ebon Hawk.

Both Ordo and Revan himself were unaware of his newly-programmed personality, and forged a relationship of mutual respect. They traveled together with Revan's other companions in the second quest for the Star Forge, along the way laying the foundations for a friendship of deep respect as Revan's authority and strategic-mindedness once more manifested itself. When the true past of Revan was finally revealed to the crew of the Ebon Hawk, Ordo was unphased. It was irrelevant to Ordo that Revan had killed most of the Mandalorians. What mattered was the strength of his character both before and after the mind-wipe.

Following the Battle of the Star Forge, Ordo remained close to Revan. Two years after the battle, Ordo learned that his people were close to locating the mask of Mandalore, which had been hidden away by Revan prior to his mind-wipe. Revan readily accepted Ordo's request for assistance, and they were able to recover the mask on Rekkiad. Years after defeating Mandalore the Ultimate, Revan had effectively chosen the new Mandalore.

By this time Revan had recovered enough of his memories to know that a great threat lay in the Unknown Regions, preparing for an assault on the Republic. Despite Ordo's protests, Revan set out alone to find the hidden danger to try to stop it before it could invade. However, he left his friend with one final request. As Mandalore, he requested that Ordo gather and rebuild the Mandalorian clans into a galactic fighting force once again–to act as a bulwark against the mysterious threat in case Revan failed.

As Mandalore the Preserver, Ordo dutifully set about his new mission. He marshaled the Mandalorian clans and established a base on Dxun, where eventually he crossed paths with another of Revan's friends, Meetra Surik. Ordo left Dxun to aid in her mission to find and defeat the Sith Triumvirate, which had emerged with the defeat of Darth Malak years earlier. At various stops along the way, Ordo used their stops as opportunities to recruit more Mandalorians to his–and Revan's–cause.

Bastila Shan
"I love you too, with all my heart.''" "You aren't afraid to love anymore?" "''After this? No. Nothing could make me feel safer than to be loved by you."

- Bastila Shan and Revan

The first known interaction that took place between Revan and Bastila happened on the bridge of his flagship when he was still the Dark Lord of the Sith. Bastila had been part of a strike team that was assigned to capture him. But before they could engage in combat, Malak betrayed Revan by firing on the bridge the ship. Revan was seriously wounded by the attack and on the verge of death. When Bastila realized there was still a chance to save Revan, she used the Force to save his life, and in doing so forged a Force Bond between them. Bastila would later tell Revan that she saved him because as a Jedi, she held all life sacred, even the life of a Sith Lord.

Bastila brought Revan to the Jedi Council, who decided to erase his memory and create a new identity for him. They did this because the bond between him and Bastila allowed her to see Revan's past memories, which they thought might lead to finding a way to stop the Sith. Revan became a soldier under Bastila's command and went on to rescue her on Taris. After returning to Dantooine, the Council there decided to retrain Revan in the Jedi arts. Revan was eventually deemed worthy of being a full fledged member of the Order again, and he and Bastila were assigned to track down the Star Forge.

During their search for the Star Forge, Revan and Bastila started to grow closer, and eventually fell in love. Although Revan believed they could be together, Bastila was reluctant since the Jedi forbade love. However, after resisting for a period of time, she opened up to Revan and they shared a kiss. But after that, she insisted that it was for the best that they stay focused on their mission and ignore the feelings they shared. Saul Karath would later attempt to exploit their feelings by torturing Bastila to gain information from Revan. But, although seeing his love in pain was torture to him, Revan refused to tell Karath anything.

During the escape from the Leviathan, Revan learned his true identity and the truth behind his memory loss from Malak. Very soon after this, Bastila was captured by Malak and Revan was forced to leave her behind to continue the quest for the Star Forge. Revan and Bastila would meet again atop the Temple of the Ancients on Lehon. There, Revan found Bastila had fallen to the dark side and become Malak's apprentice. A devastated Revan tried to persuade Bastila back to the light, but Bastila attacked him, Jolee and Juhani. After beating her back, Bastila attempted to persuade Revan to reclaim the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith, even trying to manipulate his feelings for her to do so. After a struggle with his inner darkness, Revan refused Bastila's offer, and the fallen Jedi fled to the Star Forge.

Revan and Bastila's love would face its ultimate test when they confronted each other on the Star Forge. Bastila, under orders from Malak, attempted to kill Revan. But after several rounds, Bastila saw she wasn't strong enough to defeat Revan. She begged Revan to kill her, but Revan refused and once again implored her to return to the light. Although Bastila didn't believe she could be redeemed, she was proven wrong when Revan confessed that he loved her. This knowledge ultimately led to Bastila rejecting the dark side and declaring her love for Revan. After the confrontation, Bastila used her battle meditation to aid the Republic fleet in the battle against the Sith armada while Revan went off to confront Malak for the last time. Both escaped the Star Forge before it was destroyed, and along with their companions, they were proclaimed the heroes of the Republic. Within two years of the Jedi Civil War's conclusion, Revan and Bastila were married.

His relationship with Bastila Shan had a significant effect on his personal views regarding love and attachment. In opposition to the Jedi Council and the orthodox way of the Jedi Order, Revan asserted that the Jedi could embrace love without being undermined by passion. He disregarded past Jedi who had been corrupted by the dark side through attachment, believing that they had been overwhelmed by the emotions that they were ill-equipped to handle. But in the Council's eyes, love and passion were indivisible, and thus they would have none of his heresy. Although Revan refused to leave Bastila, he ultimately agreed to stop challenging the doctrine of the Jedi Order. In return for respecting the Order's traditions, Revan and Bastila were allowed to remain as its members, though in a low-profile capacity.

Their union was short-lived, however, and Revan was ultimately forced by circumstances to part ways with Bastila. In the years following the end of the war, Revan continued to remember more of his past, and he eventually remembered the Sith Empire, ruled by the Emperor who corrupted him into Darth Revan. Although he originally planned to have her accompany him, Revan was forced to alter his plan when Bastila revealed that she was pregnant with his child. He became even more convinced that he had to prevent the return of the Sith. Hence, Revan left his wife behind as he journeyed beyond known space in his hunt for the Emperor. Once he was gone, Bastila never saw Revan again.

Bastila eventually gave birth to Revan's son, whom she named Vaner Shan. The Shan bloodline continued on through a line of direct descendants of Revan and Bastila for three hundred more years. Revan's attempt on the Emperor's life failed and resulted in his capture. Thus, he never personally met his own son. However, his love for both Bastila and Vaner enabled him to not only resist the Emperor, but to influence him as well. Through Revan's efforts, Bastila and Vaner lived in peace for the rest of their lives while the Emperor's plans were stalled for three centuries.

Meetra Surik
Revan's relationship with Meetra Surik spanned many years, and can best be described as that of a mentor-protégé respect. Surik, in particular, came to love Revan, not as a romantic interest, but as a fraternal figure for whom she had tremendous respect.

When the Mandalorian Neo Crusaders invaded the Republic's Outer Rim systems, Surik was struck by deep compassion for the countless lives lost in Mandalore the Ultimate's crusade. She did not hesitate to join the disobedient Revanchist faction of Jedi, joining the war at the behest of Revan's closest friend, Malak.

Surik distinguished herself as Revan's most trusted and capable general for the duration of the war, being second only to Malak. She led the Republic campaigns at some of the most deadly battles of the war, including the Second Battle of Dxun and the Battle of Malachor V. At Malachor V, she was personally responsible for relaying Revan's order to activate the Mass Shadow Generator, effectively ending the Mandalorian Wars.

After the conflict was ended, the two went their separate ways. Revan had not revealed to her the nature of the threat waiting in the Unknown Regions, and Surik felt it was time to take responsibility for defying the Jedi Council in following him. She also had the mixed blessing of having cut herself off from the Force as a result of the death and destruction at Malachor V, enabling her to be the only Jedi to avoid falling to the dark side.

The Jedi Council stripped Surik of her Jedi rank and branded her the Exile. She spent the next several years living somewhere in the Outer Rim engaged in adventures unknown. Unbeknownst to her during this time, Jedi-turned-Sith Darth Malak urged his master, now-Darth Revan to use HK-47 to terminate her. It appears that the request was denied by Revan, for reasons which remain unknown.

Surik's years in exile came to an end in the midst of the Dark Wars, when she returned to battle the Sith remnants of the Jedi Civil War. She found a willing companion in utility droid T3-M4, who conveniently provided the Ebon Hawk as a means of travel. T3 did not reveal to Surik that he had just returned from Nathema, where Revan had been captured by agents of the hidden Sith Empire.

The dark side remnants of the Jedi Civil War had been reorganized by the Sith Triumvirate, which had emerged in the vacuum left by the redemption of Revan and the defeat of Darth Malak. One of Surik's recruits along the way was Kreia, who had been Jedi Master to Revan when he was a Padawan. Surik was unaware, however, that Kreia was secretly the Sith Lord Darth Traya, one of the founding members of the Sith Triumvirate. This serpent in her midst, taken on in part due to a common relationship with Revan, actively worked to twist Surik into an instrument of the dark side. Kreia, having been betrayed by the other members of the Triumvirate, hoped to use Surik to destroy her treacherous former allies.

Ultimately Surik prevailed, Kreia's true identity was revealed, and the Sith Triumvirate defeated. Prior to her death, Kreia revealed some of the truth of where Revan had disappeared to after the Battle of the Star Forge; that he had gone into the Unknown Regions in search of a darkness that threatened to destroy the Republic.

It was not long before T3-M4 revealed that he had a holorecording of Revan's fate, but insisted that he would only share it with Revan's wife, Bastila Shan. The pair traveled to Coruscant to meet with her and view the recording, which revealed that Revan had been captured on Nathema by a Sith pureblood individual.

Seeing the Sith, a member of a race thought extinct for over a thousand years Surik resolved anew to go find and rescue her old friend. Surik took T3 and the Ebon Hawk into the Unknown Regions, following Revan's trail. After a stop on Nathema, they proceeded to the heart of the hidden Sith Empire and landed on Dromund Kaas. Entering into an alliance of convenience with the Sith from T3's recording, Scourge, Surik rescued Revan from the prison of Darth Nyriss.

Now aware of the threat facing the Republic, and joined by a Sith who did not want to see his civilization destroyed, the trio resolved to infiltrate the Emperor's Citadel to destroy the Sith Emperor. With him dead, all three reasoned, plans to attack the Republic would halt and the hopes of all would be realized.

The infiltration quickly went awry, however, and a battle broke out between the unlikely alliance, the highly-trained citadel guard, and the Sith Emperor himself. Despite all his strength and unique talents, Revan was easily defeated by the Sith Emperor, who had only been using his dark Force talents and not even raised a weapon of his own. Surik rushed to Revan's aid when the Emperor seized Revan's lightsaber and prepared to kill him with his own weapon.

In that moment, she made a decision which would have galactic consequences in the centuries to come. Rather than slay the distracted Emperor, Surik hurled her lightsaber to deflect the Emperor's killing blow. She saved Revan's life, but lost the element of surprise. At precisely the same time, their Sith ally experienced a Force vision prophesying the coming of a different Jedi who would kill the Emperor. Scourge then betrayed his Jedi allies, stabbing Surik in the back.

With the battle won and the incursion defeated, the Sith Emperor had Revan imprisoned in a form of stasis which preserved his body but allowed his mind to continue functioning as normal. The Emperor would feed on the mind and Force power of Revan for the next three centuries, while Revan himself manipulated the Emperor's mind to try to prevent the invasion of the Republic.

But Revan would not be alone. Surik, though not quite one with the Force, remained as a spirit to uplift and maintain Revan. As the Emperor consumed her old friend, she would provide spiritual nourishment to him so that he wouldn't be lost.

"The peace is lost. The Emperor makes his final war. Stop him. Flee this place while you can. Use the enemy's vessels.''" "Thank you, old friend. I will'' finish what we started."

- The spirit of Meetra Surik and Revan

Three hundred years later, the Emperor's will finally prevailed over Revan's and the Great Galactic War began. The war raged for nearly three decades before the Sacking of Coruscant forced the Republic to accept a humiliating peace treaty. During the Cold War that followed, Surik's spirit reached out to Jedi Master Oteg to ask him to retrieve an important Jedi from captivity on Taral V. The Master agreed and dispatched a rescue team to retrieve the individual.

The team infiltrated the prison complex and defeated the garrison stationed there and were able to free the Jedi in question&mdash;none other than Revan himself. Though initially displeased that he was no longer able to influence the Emperor's mind, Revan's resolve to destroy the Emperor and defeat the Sith were restored by one final visit from the spirit of his friend, Meetra Surik.

Combat skills
"You, Revan, are the single greatest warrior of this age, and any battle we fight will bring me honor."

- Canderous Ordo

Revan was a highly skilled combatant when it came to lightsaber combat, and his abilities were bolstered by his gift of precognition. He often made use of acrobatic maneuvers in combat, bolstering his body's natural abilities with the Force in order to increase his effectiveness. He defeated Mandalore the Ultimate, the leader of the Mandalorian warrior culture and a famed warrior in his own right, in single combat at the end of the Mandalorian Wars, and could hold his own against Sith, Mandalorians, and regular soldiers in combat. On Korriban, Revan single-handedly defeated a pair of massive terentateks, and he was also skilled at deflecting and redirecting enemy fire with his lightsaber.

While he normally wielded a lightsaber, Revan was also proficient in the use of firearms, as he made use of blaster weaponry during his time as a Republic soldier and while fighting in the Taris dueling ring. He also retained these skills later in his life, making use of a blaster while posing as "Avner" on Rekkiad. Revan utilized a variety of lightsabers during his lifetime; when he first adopted the name of Revan, he carried a saber with a violet blade, but he utilized a cyan-colored lightsaber during most of the Mandalorian Wars. As a Sith Lord, Revan wielded a red-bladed lightsaber that he crafted himself, and also utilized a set of armor that had been created by the Star Forge and provided more protection than standard armor. The redeemed Revan made use of a blue lightsaber once again in his battle against Darth Malak and the Sith, though he had changed either the crystal or the entire lightsaber by the year 3,954 BBY so that the blade was green. After being freed from stasis, Revan once again utilized a violet lightsaber until the time of his disappearance at the Foundry.

Force powers
"Revan was power. It was like staring into the heart of the Force."

- Kreia

Revan was extraordinarily powerful in the Force, even as a young Jedi Knight. After becoming a Sith Lord, Revan's power grew as he studied the dark side of the Force, and after his forced redemption, the man quickly retrained himself in the ways of the light side at a rate beyond that of a normal Padawan. At the height of his powers after he had recovered his lost memories, Revan was able to channel both the light and dark sides simultaneously, and as a result Revan could unleash the Force in its purest form by opening himself to both sides of the Force in battle. By drawing on the Force, Revan could bolster his natural physical abilities, increasing his speed and strength and allowing him to perform acrobatic feats impossible for normal Humans.

Revan was a master at telekinesis, utilizing the Force to manipulate the environment and his opponents by pushing or gripping objects of beings with the Force. His skill with telekinesis was such that he could hurl a heavy stone object at a moment's notice, and on Dromund Kaas the Jedi Master destroyed a large stone archway from a great distance with just the power of the Force. As a Sith Lord, Revan also utilized the Force to choke opponents, as well as the ability to violently crush their internal organs or bodies with the dark side. In battle, Revan often threw his lightsaber and guided its path with telekinesis. Revan's strong will allowed him to mentally influence the minds of others with the Force, force his will upon them, and even steal their knowledge. Despite the immense strength of the Sith Emperor's will, Revan and Malak's own mental strength enabled them to partially free themselves from his mental control, and Revan spent several centuries influencing the Emperor and pacifying his desire to attack the Republic.

One of Revan's greatest strengths was his skill with Force sense&mdash;the ability to sense other beings, their feelings, impending danger, or even the future. By 3,954 BBY, Revan believed that he should have been able to sense the presence of Meetra Surik, one of his most trusted generals, from even across the galaxy, though Surik's severed connection to the Force prevented this. Farsight and Force visions were a common occurrence for Revan, and even in a heavily drugged state, the Jedi was able to glimpse the future and see that Surik was coming to rescue him from imprisonment. Revan was proficient at using the Force to directly heal his wounds without seeking medical attention. He also possessed the ability to use the Force to resist the effects of poisons and drugs, though he was not always able to overcome their effects completely. Some of Revan's additional talents included the ability to use the Force to slow the minds and bodies of his targets, and replenish his energies by feeding on them.

After becoming a Sith Lord, Revan became a practitioner of Force lightning, and he continued to be proficient in its use throughout the rest of his life, using it against his opponents in his final battle aboard the Foundry. His skill with the destructive applications of the dark side was such that he could summon Force storms, and Revan also became proficient in the use of defensive techniques in order to counter both physical attacks and the Force powers of his opponents. Revan was capable of absorbing and redirecting energy, as he did when he absorbed Darth Nyriss's storm of Force lightning with his bare hands and channeled it through his own body before redirecting it against her and burning her to ash.

Other abilities
"You've got the skills of an elite commando, and you've saved my butt more than once. Between that and your facility with languages, I'm lucky you're here."

- Carth Onasi

Revan was an exceptionally capable strategist and tactician, and some believed that he was single-handedly responsible for the Republic's victory during the Mandalorian Wars. Revan's skill as a battlefield commander earned him the undying respect of both the Mandalorian and Echani warrior cultures; the Mandalorians saw as a supremely worthy foe&mdash;one that both embodied their philosophies and showed them their weaknesses. The Echani, on the other hand, believed that Revan represented the epitome of what one could achieve in the arts of war, and that his skill was born out of a highly advanced battle precognition.

Revan spoke and comprehended a variety of languages beyond his native Basic: Mando'a, Binary, Huttese, Shyriiwook, and the languages of the Selkath and the ancient Sith. Revan also tore the Rakatan language from the minds of the Black Rakata, allowing him to comprehend their speech.

Revan was also a skilled mechanic, exhibiting a natural talent and interest in machinery and droids as a young Padawan. Revan's preference for droids confounded his teacher Kreia, who came to believe that it was a result of Revan's desire for subordinates who followed orders unquestioningly. Revan constructed the sophisticated assassin droid HK-47 on his own after the Mandalorian Wars, and even after losing his memories, he was able to repair the droid and restore HK-47's access to most of his memories and combat protocols. A skilled pilot, Revan could draw on the Force to aid his situational awareness, and he proved adept at racing swoop bikes after defeating the veteran racer Redros on Taris. He later won both the Arkanis sector and Manan swoop championships during the search for the Star Forge.

Behind the scenes
"Revan. It isn't my real name&mdash;never was&mdash;but it will do."

- Revan

Revan was first introduced in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which was released by BioWare and LucasArts in 2003. As the player character, Revan's gender and physical appearance are customizable by the player, and the game reveals that the player-chosed name is part of the cover identity established by the Jedi Council. While none of the player's dialogue features voice-overs, the male player character's cries of pain and shouts during combat are voiced by Rino Romano. The canonical gender of Revan was established by The New Essential Chronology and the Chronicles of the Old Republic as male, and all further material has referred to the character as male with the exception of Knights of the Old Republic sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, in which the player can choose Revan's gender and alignment. Revan also appears in a vision to the player character, the Jedi Exile Meetra Surik, in the depths of Korriban's tombs.

Revan appears in the 2011 video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, also by BioWare and LucasArts, where he was voiced by Jeff Bennett. Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan, a tie-in novel to The Old Republic by Drew Karpyshyn explains what happened to Revan and the Exile after the events of the two games. While creating the initial story of Revan, BioWare's game designers realized they needed a good antagonist, and they developed the character of Darth Malak to explain how and why Revan lost his powers and memories. With the release of The Old Republic, Lucasfilm Ltd. executive Leland Chee confirmed at Celebration VI that Revan's appearance in The Old Republic established the character's canonical appearance in Knights of the Old Republic as the character model with a mullet hairstyle.

While the variable nature of Knights of the Old Republic, the canonical storyline of the game was originally unknown. The The New Essential Chronology, which established Revan as male, also established that the light-side ending of the game and the destruction of the Star Forge was canon. Various other sources have established parts of the game to be canon, such as the comic Shadows and Light, the Galactic Timeline, The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, and Star Wars: The Old Republic. This article incorporates all source material that relates to the game, while those events and missions that have not yet been confirmed in canon are assumed to have been fulfilled to their fullest extent and with the maximum light-side alignment options. This article follows the order set forth in the Knights of the Old Republic: Prima's Official Strategy Guide for the order in which the four planets with Star Maps are visited. Revan's final fate in The Old Republic is canonically uncertain, as some fans believe Revan teleported away; Drew Karpyshyn stated that the writers of The Old Republic may bring back Revan in the future.

As second place runner-up in the ToyFare magazine Fan's Choice Figure Poll, an action figure of Darth Revan was released in the third quarter of 2007 in the 30th Anniversary Collection: Expanded Universe Wave 5. In 2011, Revan was slated to appear in Ghosts of Mortis, an episode of the third season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. Revan would have appeared as a Sith Lord alongside Darth Bane as advisors to the Son, but they were cut from the episode in late production. He later appeared in a deleted scene from the episode on the Blu-ray version of Season Three.

Continuity issues
"When Malak fired on the ship you were badly injured. We thought you were dead. Your mind was destroyed."

- Bastila Shan's recollection of Revan's memory loss; one of several continuity issues surrounding Revan

Because of the interactive nature of Knights of the Old Republic, Revan's canonical biography often conflicts with player choice, such as the order in which the Star Maps are found, whether the character pursues a romance, or their appearance and weapons. Revan's choice of lightsaber has varied between sources; in the Knights of the Old Republic comic series, Revan wields a purple lightsaber, while the Galactic Timeline videos depict Revan as utilizing a blue lightsaber during the Mandalorian Wars, a traditional red saber as a Sith Lord, and a blue saber once again as a redeemed Jedi. In The Old Republic: Revan, he utilizes a green lightsaber, but in The Old Republic, Revan makes use of a violet-colored blade. The Galactic Timeline series also depicts Revan as being the same height as or slightly taller than Malak, which conflicts with all other sources.

Revan's fall to the dark side has been a point of contention between various sources. In Knights of the Old Republic, the Enclave Council and Bastila Shan claim that Revan and Malak began their fall when they started exploring the ruins on Dantooine, and Vrook Lamar believes the pair fell even before the Mandalorian Wars. Chronicles of the Old Republic claims that Revan was heavily influenced by the dark side during the Mandalorian Wars and put in motion his plans to become Sith even then, though the Chronicles are plagued with a number of continuity errors and have been largely overridden by later sources. Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, a reference guide released in 2007, stated that Revan became Dark Lord of the Sith in 3,961 BBY, though the Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide stated that Revan assumed the title of Dark Lord in 3,960 BBY after discovering the Star Forge. The Old Republic: Revan and The Old Republic clarify much of Revan's history, as the novel reveals that Revan and Malak were corrupted by the Sith Emperor and sent back as advance agents. In The Old Republic, Revan himself states that he was close to the dark side during the Mandalorian Wars, having explored Malachor and Korriban, and The Old Republic: Revan establishes that the two were searching for the Star Forge on the Emperor's behalf but broke free of his control and set out on their own.

Another issue surrounding Revan has been whether or not "Revan" is in fact the character's birth name. Star Wars author Abel G. Peña stated his belief that Revan and Malak used their real names, thus making them the first Sith to take on the Darth title without adopting a Sith moniker. However, Jedi vs. Sith established that the character of Alek Squinquargesimus from the Knights of the Old Republic comic series was in fact Darth Malak, and the guide also linked the character of "the Revanchist" with Revan. John Jackson Miller, the writer for the Knights of the Old Republic comic series, hinted that "Revan" was not the character's original name, and the forty-second issue of the comic established that he took up the name of Revan and donned his signature mask on Cathar in 3,963 BBY. In The Old Republic, Revan himself settles the issue once and for all, stating that Revan was not his real name. In Knights of the Old Republic, Bastila claims that the explosions aboard Revan's flagship resulted in his memory loss, though all other sources&mdash;including other characters in the game itself&mdash;state that Revan was mind-wiped by the Council. The game's introduction also refers to Malak as Revan's last surviving apprentice, though all subsequent sources state that Malak was Revan's only apprentice.

Alternate storylines
As Knights of the Old Republic is a RPG with a great deal of variability when it comes to player decisions, there are a number of alternate storylines and endings available.

Dark side ending
"Malak is dead&mdash;all hail the return of Darth Revan, the true Lord of the Sith!"

- Bastila Shan

Should the player make the dark side decision to accept Bastila Shan's offer atop the Temple of the Ancients, Revan proceeds to kill his Jedi companions and returns to the Ebon Hawk, where he reveals his companions' fates to the remaining members of his party. Shocked by Revan's return to the dark side, Carth Onasi flees into the wilds of Lehon before Revan kills Mission Vao, though he can also force Zaalbar to kill Vao with the Force. Flying to the Star Forge, Shan uses her battle meditation to thwart the Republic fleet, allowing Revan to storm the station and reach Darth Malak for a confrontation in which he emerges victorious. With Shan at his side, Revan is proclaimed the Dark Lord of the Sith from atop the Temple of the Ancients as he surveys his army. Using the Star Forge, Revan creates an infinite fleet with which he crushes the Republic, though he mysteriously disappears not long afterwards, leaving Shan on Korriban and telling her to wait for him. Bereft of Revan's guidance, the Star Forge sinks into disrepair and is destroyed by the Republic.

Other alternate endings
"No, it's too late for that. And it's too late for you to turn back&hellip; but you can end this here. There's still time for one final act of redemption."

- Carth Onasi

Should the player be a female dark sider who has completed the romance sub-plot with Carth Onasi, Onasi will flee if Revan chooses to accept Shan's offer on Lehon. However, he declares that he will not give up on Revan and that she could still be saved, and he confronts Revan and Shan after Revan defeats Darth Malak. The player must then choose to either kill him or allow Shan to kill him. Five years later, Meetra Surik would discover a message from Onasi within T3-M4, where Onasi has a backup plan in case the increasingly dark-sided Revan betrayed him and the crew. Though it was eventually cut from the final game, the dialogue files for an alternate ending to the female Revan's story can be found in which they can choose to betray Shan after defeating Darth Malak, siding with Onasi and then dying as the Star Forge is destroyed by the Republic.

Non-canon romances
"I love you. Even now. Even after&hellip; after&hellip; after all you have done. I love you like I haven't loved anyone or anything since my wife died. And I didn't even think that was possible."

- Carth Onasi

Although not considered canon, if the player chooses to make a female Revan, she and Carth Onasi could flirt and tease each other through the entire game. Because of Onasi's growing affection for Revan, he began to think less about the death of his wife and his desire to kill Saul Karath, the man responsible for her death and the loss of his son, Dustil Onasi. Onasi eventually promised to protect Revan from what was to come. When he discovered that the woman he is falling in love with was Darth Revan, he remained isolated from her, unsure what to do with this information since he believed that Revan's betrayal of the Republic destroyed his life. Onasi eventually came around and confessed that he couldn't hate her no matter how hard he tried. When Revan declined Shan's request to join the dark side, Onasi confessed that he loved Revan in front of the rest of the party members on the beach of Lehon.

Onasi and Revan remained together as he advanced through the Republic military up to the rank of admiral. But Revan began to remember things she had done as the Dark Lord and used it as a wall between them. She eventually told him that she had to go beyond the Outer Rim to find the other threat beyond the Mandalorians, the True Sith and their empire, though she did not specify exactly what the threat was to Onasi and she left without warning. However, he had anticipated this, at least to some extent, and left hidden programming in T3-M4. Onasi was desperate to find some sign of her, and eventually met up with Meetra Surik and hoped to hear some word of Revan. Unfortunately for him, Surik had no news to offer him, but he asked Surik that if she ever found Revan, to tell her that he was still waiting for her.

A second non-canon romance was available to female players. If a female Revan turned Juhani back to the light side and continued to build her trust and friendship along their journey, Juhani slowly developed feelings towards Revan. After Revan rejects the dark side and former identity on the Rakatan temple, Juhani will shyly admit her feelings.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 0: Crossroads
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 9: Flashpoint Interlude: Homecoming
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 15: Days of Fear, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 18: Nights of Anger, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 19: Daze of Hate, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 21: Daze of Hate, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 23: Knights of Suffering, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 29: Exalted, Part 1
 * Galactic Republic Defense Ministry Daily Brief KD0092
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 42: Masks
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 49: Demon, Part 3
 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Sentinel
 * The Betrayal of Darth Revan
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 3: Uncertain Surrender
 * Timeline 8: The Jedi Civil War
 * Timeline 9: The Mandalorian Wars
 * Timeline 10: The Exar Kun War
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic
 * Knight Errant
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
 * Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
 * Star Wars: The Wrath of Darth Maul
 * Scoundrels
 * Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
 * Star Wars: The Wrath of Darth Maul
 * Scoundrels
 * Scoundrels
 * Scoundrels
 * Scoundrels
 * Scoundrels