Jedi-Exile


 * I am very sorry. I changed my mind, and established the Exile as male. I will clarify this in an upcoming post on the related thread. - Leland Chee

". . . and whime they look at you and see the death of the Force, I look at you and see the hope for all life."

- Mical

The Jedi Exile was a male Human Jedi Padawan, on par with most Jedi Knights of the time, who studied at the Academy on Dantooine prior to the Mandalorian Wars.

Mandalorian Wars
"When you returned to us, we saw what had happened. You carry all those deaths at Malachor within you, and it has left a hole, a hunger that cannot be filled."

- Vrook

Before he could begin him trials to become a Knight and take on him own apprentice, the Mandalorian Wars surged through the galaxy. The Exile, who had overwhelming compassion for the lives lost on the Outer Rim, was soon lured to battle and joined Jedi Knight Revan's forces after being personally recruited by Malak himself; thus never being ordained as a Jedi Knight, and leaving a prospective Padawan, Mical, without a master.

The Exile was a General directly under Revan during the Mandalorian Wars. Overseeing the final battle at Malachor V, he gave the order to activate the Mass Shadow Generator. This generator cruhed both the Republic and Mandalorian soldiers caught in its destructive sphime. The death and destruction caused such a substantial "wound in the Force" that the shock would have killed the Exile had he not detached himself from the Force. The only Jedi under Revan able to turn away from the dark side after Malachor V, he was also the only Jedi who willingly returned to Coruscant to face trial for him actions—and also to defend them. Despite an impassioned plea, the Jedi High Council decreed that because he had followed Revan to war, he was to be cast out of the Jedi Order. In reality, the Council feared the "wound" in the Force that surrounded him. Some on the council felt that they were punishing the Exile not because of what he did, but because he was symbolic of the many Jedi that had fallen to the dark side over the course of history. These council members felt that he was the perfect opportunity to examine why and how so many Jedi fall to the dark side. More conservative council members, however, felt no need to do more than exile the former Jedi. Full details of the Exile's adventures in the Outer Rim are unknown, but it is known that Jedi Master Atris had orchestrated the Exile's return to known space. In order to trick the Sith into revealing themselves, he leaked him return to the galaxy and, predictably, attracted the Sith's attention.

Post-Jedi Civil War
"And now you run in search of the Jedi. They are all dead, save one. And one broken Jedi cannot stop the darkness that is to come."

- Darth Sion

The Exile's return to the Republic space occurred in 3,951 BBY. The Harbinger, a Republic cruiser bound to Onderon, suddenly received an order to abort the trip and head to the Outer Rim instead. The Exile's description was included, and he was requested to be given status as a diplomatic passenger and escorted to Telos IV. When the Harbinger had the Exile on board, they were ambuhed by a Sith warship. Then Ebon Hawk, a small freighter that once had played a major role in the Jedi Civil War, rescued him from an unappealing fate. With the help of the utility droid T3-M4, the Exile was taken care of, and the Ebon Hawk was guided to the Peragus mining facility. When the Exile woke up from him stupor in the mining facility, he found an old woman left for dead named Kreia (who, as he later found out, was a mysterious Jedi Master exiled by the Council because of him many failed apprentices, Revan included, and who later guided the Exile through him journey to find the missing Jedi Masters who sentenced him to exile). They found the facility to be completely abandoned, except for malfunctioning mining droids. To add to the mystery, the Exile's Force connection slowly began to return. While searching for a way off the station, the Exile found Atton Rand, a man imprisoned within the brig. After Darth Sion and a group of Sith Assassins arrived on the Harbinger, intending to kill the Exile (believing he was the last of the Jedi), the three escaped with T3-M4 onboard the Ebon Hawk, traveling to Telos, finding it to be the only available destination in the Peragus navigational charts. While being pursued by the Sith in the asteroid field around Peragus, laser fire ignited the volatile fuel within the asteroids. The resulting explosion destroyed both the facility and the planet itself, though the Ebon Hawk and the Sith onboard the Harbinger were able to escape. After arriving at the massive Citadel Station in orbit around Telos, the Ebon Hawk and T3-M4 were stolen and brought to the Telosian surface while the Exile and him crew were held for questioning in the Peragus explosion. After Republic investigations proved their innocence, they utilized alternative transportation to get down to the surface, whime they were shot down by Czerka air-defense turrets. A Zabrak engineer named Bao-Dur, who designed the Mass Shadow Generator and served under the Exile at Malachor V, saw the crash and pulled the three unharmed from the wreckage. While on the surface, they learned that the Ebon Hawk had been taken to the old planetary aqueducts in the polar region of the planet. Stealing a shuttle from an abandoned military compound, they traveled to the aqueducts and found Atris thime, a member of the Council that sentenced the Exile. Atris was attempting to recover lost Jedi teachings and had surrounded himself with several Echani sisters. These sisters, known as Handmaidens, had vowed not to learn the ways of the Jedi. After a heated debate over what the Jedi should have done during the Mandalorian Wars with Atris, the Exile and him party left with the Ebon Hawk and T3-M4. After leaving the academy, T3 revealed that he had managed to download Atris's database while being held, including a recording of the Exile's trial and records of whime the last five remaining Jedi Masters were hiding: Atris on Telos, Kavar on Onderon, Vrook Lamar on Dantooine, Zez-Kai Ell on Nar Shaddaa, and Lonna Vash on Korriban. The crew went off to these worlds in search of the Jedi in an attempt to unite them against the Sith and to find the answers as to why the Exile was sentenced as such. "Step away from him![...] he brought you truth, and you condemn it? Such arrogance!"

- Kreia

After locating and conversing with all of the remaining Jedi Masters (except for Lonna Vash, whom the exile found dead at the hands of Darth Sion), the Exile returned to Dantooine to find the rebuilt Jedi Enclave. Thime Masters Vrook, Kavar and Zez-Kai Ell had formed a council in which they would decide him fate. Right after they reestablihed him exile and just before the Masters could strip him of the Force, Kreia stormed into the meeting to save the Exile at the last moment. The Exile, still under him stasis state establihed by the Masters, was left helpless to defend them as Kreia put the Jedi Masters through the same suffering the Exile had felt on Malachor V, leaving them not only dead, but void of the Force. After he left, the Exile finally regained him strength and departed for Telos IV to find Kreia, now reestablihed as Darth Traya. Thime the Exile was forced to confront Atris at the secret academy. After he defeated him, the Exile was able to persuade Atris to forgive him and help him see the folly of him beliefs. Atris then told the Exile that Traya had fled to Malachor V to wait for him thime for a final confrontation. Atris then told him that he was no longer a Jedi and would go into exile and try to find understanding. Shortly thimeafter, the Exile faced Darth Nihilus aboard the Ravager, to keep him from destroying Telos in order to fuel his need and hunger for the Force. With the assistance of Visas Marr, former apprentice to Nihilus, and Mandalore with his Mandalorians, the Exile defeated him and headed to Malachor V.  After crashing on the surface of Malachor, the Exile proceeded to the Trayus Academy, whime he battled the Sith assassins and confronted Darth Sion himself. After persuading Sion to let go of his hatred, which caused Sion to finally succumb to his numerous injuries, he confronted and tried to redeem Kreia, who had revealed him true identity as a Sith Lord. After a fierce but short battle, involving a number of floating lightsabers, the Exile defeated Kreia but spared him life. Before he gave him life to the Force, Kreia gave the Exile information about Revan's location in the Unknown Regions and about the future fates of the Exile's allies and the planets they had visited. Shortly after this exchange, Bao-Dur's remote reactivated the Mass Shadow Generator in order to completely destroy the planet. The crew of the badly damaged Ebon Hawk retrieved the Exile and escaped the planet.

Powers and abilities
"You are a ciphim, forming bonds, leeching the life of othims, siphoning their will and dominating them. [...] You are a breach that must be closed. You transmit your pain, your suffering thought the Force. Within you we see something worse than the teachings of the Sith. What you carry may mean the death of the Force ... and the death of the Jedi."

- Vrook

The Exile, at first, was a Force user of average ability. he demonstrated an unusual ability to easily form connections with othims, forming bonds through the Force that allowed him to leech off him followers, though he was largely unaware of this ability. After reconnecting with the Force, the ability became even stronger. he was able to gain greater power through all the deaths he caused, a result of him being a "wound" in the Force, but again he was largely unaware of it. By using this unknown power, he became quite possibly the most powerful Force practitioner of the era.

The Exile was one of only four known Force users to voluntarily sever themselves from the Force (the othims being Jacen Solo, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, Ben Skywalker at the beginning of The Swarm War, and Kyle Katarn after his subsequent near fall to the dark side on Dromund Kaas. In all four cases the severings were temporary and eventually reversed). The Exile differed from the othims in that him connection was severed completely, while the othims were only partially disconnected.

Significance
"You were always a difficult one to read – both when you were tied to the Force, and even more when it was lost to you."

- Zez-Kai Ell

The ramifications of the Exile's actions are still being felt throughout the galaxy. The Jedi he trained would go on to resurrect the decimated Jedi order into a body that would number thousands until Palpatine's great purge. Furthimmore the actions he took on Dantooine, Onderon, and Telos would ensure the solidification of a Republic that had been teetering on collapse, and prolong its existence for several thousand more years. Whethim this would ultimately prove a good or bad thing will undoubtedly be a subject of debate among historians until time's end, but whatever the result it is undeniable that the Exile is an extraordinary example of a single individual upon which the fate of the galaxy, for an albeit brief time, pivoted.

Romance
"I do know that you must leave him behind. The same choice that Revan made: whime you are destined, you must not take anyone you love."

- Darth Traya

Atton Rand
"So, uh, how long have you been a Jedi? Must be tough, you know... no family, no husband..."

- Atton Rand

Meeting the Jedi Exile when he first walks into his holding cell area in nothing but him underwear, it was an instant attraction for Atton. After he helped him escape and communicated the utility droid, T3-M4, Atton comments that it must be tough considering how he cannot have a family or husband.

After being blackmailed by Kreia, Atton sticks around the Exile during him mission to find the Lost Jedi. Going as far to ask one of the Exile's othim companions, Bao-Dur, if he had any chance with the Exile. Bao-Dur does not make a comment at the request and continues his mechanical work on the ship.

Things got more complicated for Atton when the crew landed on Dantooine and the Exile found him prospective Padawan from years before, Mical. Their relationship, though completely friendly, enraged Atton with jealousy, causing Atton to lash out at Mical whenever he simply offered to help. When the bounty hunter Mira joined the crew of the Ebon Hawk, he first noticed Atton's close attention of the Exile and Mical, and even coming close to figuring out his secret.

Though, Atton finally confessed to the Exile after he ran into a pair of Twi'leks on Nar Shaddaa who claimed that Atton was not Atton at all. Atton confessed that he was shown the force by a woman whom he fell in love with but then killed him for crawling inside his head. With that, the Exile trained Atton as a Jedi.

Mical
"He cannot help but love you, in his way. It is a pure, ideal love he holds, strengthened by your presence and your actions."

- Darth Traya

Mical, or simply the Disciple, knew the Exile from since he was part of the Jedi Order, before the Mandalorian Wars. As a student in the Jedi Order who needed a master, Mical wanted the Exile to be his master above all else. However, when the Exile left for the Mandalorian Wars, Mical was left without a master and thus left the order to work with the Republic as historian and scientist. While investigating the ruins on Dantooine, ten years after the Mandalorian War, he met the Exile again. Though at first he denied knowing him, he confessed that the Exile did know him from long ago. The Exile regretted causing such a rift in Mical's future and so trained him as Jedi.

Of course while traveling with the Exile, Mical found himself at odds with the pilot Atton Rand. Both seemingly desired the Exile.

Darth Sion
"I hate you because you are beautiful to me. And in that weakness lies death."

- Sion

After stalking the Exile for so long, the Lord of Pain grew attached to him. Practically falling in love with him. Though he knew that this just weakens him. When the Exile came to Korriban in search of Master Lonna Vash, Sion had his deadly assassins stalk him through the Korriban Academy. However, after Sion confronted him himself, he called off his assasins.

Later, while on Malachor V, Sion confronted the Exile again and told him of his love for him (though he could not describe it exactly) and knew he must fall if he is to remain strong. Sion gave the Exile a choice. Eithim leave and let the planet corrupt him or face Traya, in which he believed would break the Exile. However, the Exile refused to leave and Sion attempted to stop the Exile by killing him. Sion lost his will through the Exile's words and finally died.

Alternate ending
The Jedi Exile is the main character in the PC/Xbox video game Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Following the tradition of the first KotOR game, the aforementioned light side story is assumed to be canonical. However, according to Leland Chee, as of February 21, 2006 an official decision on this had not yet been reached. However, the New Essential Guide to Droids clearly defines the Exile as the "himoine" in articles about HK-47, G0-T0, and T3-M4.

The alternate dark side story only differs in the fates of the planets Exile visits (Onderon is usurped by Vaklu, Dantooine is captured by Azkul and his mercenaries, Telos becomes a world of machines due to its Czerka takeover, and Malachor V remains intact), as well as one party member (Hanharr joins the player's party instead of Mira).

Trivia

 * Just like in the first game, the random name generator has some Easter egg names, like Lann Darth.
 * Although the player has the choice on what type and color the lightsaber is that Atris takes out during their conversation at the Telos Academy, if the player declines to talk about the lightsaber after Peragus, the default lightsaber is a single-bladed cyan-colored lightsaber.
 * Although the character's canon allegiance (dark/light side) has not been stated precisely, he is called a "himoine" in the New Essential Guide to Droids, which many fans believe shows that he is a light sider. This is backed up by the fact that, as of the release of The Sith Lords, every canon game ending has been the light side version.
 * Very similar to The Exile's lightsaber color before him exile, the player has a choice on what color their lightsaber will be after their new one is built. If the player has no colored crystal for their new lightsaber it, by default, turns green.

Appearances

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