Reborn

"Strange. He looked like a Jedi and fought like a Jedi, but his power felt so warped."

- Kyle Katarn

The Reborn were a deadly force of Dark Jedi of the Empire Reborn faction. An accomplishment of the dream of artificial infusion of the Force into individuals, the Reborn warriors were the instrument of Lord Hethrir's master plan, bringing back the ideals of Emperor Palpatine, the ways of the Sith and the Galactic Empire itself.

Desann's Reborn
"The weakling Jedi who scorned me will soon be erased from history, replaced by a new race of warriors. Strong warriors. Warriors who know that the Force is not a shield to protect the useless, but is in reality a weapon to empower the worthy!"

- Desann

Desann, a former student at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum, was a Dark Jedi allied to one of the Imperial Remnant's many warlords, Admiral Galak Fyyar. Both were key to the creation of the Reborn&mdash;an army of warriors artificially imbued with the Force. They were working for the behalf of Lord Hethrir, a powerful Dark Jedi and founder of an Imperial splinter faction known as the Empire Reborn.

Hethrir had entrusted Desann with training a number of his loyal Empire Youths that were "purified" by a trans-dimensional being called Waru. The Dark Jedi used the Force nexus in the Valley of the Jedi, whose location Desann had tricked Kyle Katarn into revealing, quadrupling their powers with the residue of the ancient Jedi and Sith spirits. Wielding their own lightsabers, and wearing cloaked uniforms, they were a military organization that would support Hethrir's Empire Reborn and posed a serious threat to both the New Republic and Skywalker's newly established Jedi Order.



Agents of Desann and the Empire Reborn, the Reborn were dispatched on various missions to different locations in the galaxy along with regular Imperial Army units. One such place was the Cloud City on Bespin, which they briefly occupied, until defeated by the local militia, assisted by Kyle Katarn, who was now struggling to reconnect with the Force.

Desann, teeming with hatred towards Luke Skywalker, planned for the ultimate purpose of the Reborn to be the destruction of Skywalker and his Jedi Academy, as Desann and Fyyar planned on unleashing their army of Reborn, the superior Shadowtroopers (equipped with cortosis armor and cloaking device), and ordinary Imperial forces at Skywalker's academy on Yavin 4. The invasion army was to be unleashed from the Imperial transport ship Doomgiver, under the command of Fyyar.

However, Kyle Katarn, who had rediscovered his connection with the Force, managed to infiltrate the Doomgiver and transmit its coordinates to Rogue Squadron, who launched an attack, destroying the ship in orbit above Yavin 4 before the entire invasion army had reached the surface of the moon. Those forces that had already landed were defeated by New Republic forces and Skywalker's Jedi. Many Reborn and Shadowtroopers fell victim to Kyle Katarn, who eventually killed Desann inside the Jedi Academy.

The Reborn were quite powerful, though according to Katarn their power was "warped" as a result of being artificially infused with the Force. They primarily attacked using red-bladed lightsabers and possessed a good deal of skill with the weapon, being well-trained in the Fast and Medium styles of combat. They were able to employ a fairly strong Force push during combat; they were also able to wield the abilities of Force lightning and Force grip, though only to a minimal degree.

Tavion's New Reborn


"Some of Desann's leftover Reborn were with her."

- Kyle Katarn to Luke Skywalker upon returning from the mission to Vjun

After Desann's defeat, those Reborn who had survived rallied under Tavion Axmis, Desann's apprentice, whose life Katarn had spared on Bespin. Tavion, with the support of the Imperial Remnant, had established a Sith cult called the Disciples of Ragnos, and were now known as the New Reborn.

As with Desann, Tavion dispatched her Cultists and New Reborn on various missions to locations all over the galaxy, where they faced several Jedi Knights from Skywalker's academy, among others Kyle Katarn and his highly talented apprentice, Jaden Korr. Korr most of all proved to be a nemesis of the Cultists and New Reborn, as many of them met their end at the blade of Korr's lightsaber.

The New Reborn met their ultimate end on the planet Korriban, as an army of Jedi from Skywalker's academy defeated them in an epic battle that took place among the ancient Sith temples and tombs in the Valley of the Dark Lords.

Ranks
Under Desann, the Reborn were more of an organized military force than a massive war band of Dark Jedi. They had different colors for each rank and were organized and trained into different groups specialized for different tasks.


 * Reborn: The weakest division. Reborn had minimal strength in the Force; they carried a simple red lightsaber and their cloaks were yellow and orange. They were proficient in the use of their weapons but were not skilled enough to defeat a Jedi one-on-one.
 * Acrobats: They wore blue, and specialized in using the Force to jump and being mobile.
 * Force Users: They wore red over their cream colored vests. Their specialization was in pure Force abilities rather than saber skills or unarmed combat skills, much like the Force based Sith Cultists of Tavion's forces.
 * Fencers: Skilled and trained specially with their red sabers; they also had reasonable skill with the Force. Their clothes were green. The average Jedi could defeat a Reborn Fencer, but not without difficulty.
 * Bosses: Wore blue and red robes. They were a combination of all the different Reborn divisions. They were the second highest level, the elite of the organization. They were capable of using the Force strongly, and countering a Jedi's blade skills. They were Desann's best men along with Galak's Shadowtroopers.

Under Tavion the Reborn were less organized and more secretive, only taking part in missions of high importance. They also wore different uniforms; mostly gray and red, but some had blue. Also introduced were, Reborn Masters: The absolute elite, they wore gray suits and carried lightsabers identical in style to those of their dead lord, Desann. More than a match for any Jedi, it would take someone with special Force talent or saber skills to defeat them. Two prominent New Reborn were the Kothos Twins, Vil and Dasariah Kothos. They did not use lightsabers but were more powerful in the Force than other Reborn, using acrobatics and other abilities. They wore orange and were powerful adversaries.

Appearances

 * N.R.I. Reports
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast demo
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Abyss