Reborn

An accomplishment of the dream of artificially infusion of the Force into individuals, the Reborn were a deadly force of Dark Jedi.

Desann's Reborn
The creation of Dark Jedi and former student af Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum, Desann, and ome of the Imperial Remnant's many warlords, Galak Fyyar, the Reborn were an army of warriors artificially embued with the Force. Powered by the Valley of the Jedi (whose location Desann had tricked Kyle Katarn into revealing), wielding their own lightsabers, and wearing cloaked uniforms they were a military organization that would support Fyyar's army and posed a serious threat to both the New Republic and Skywalker's newly establish Jedi Order.

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

Desann teeming with hatred towards Luke Skywalker, the ultimate ultimate purpose of the Reborn was the destruction of him and his Jedi Academy, as Desann and Fyyar planned on unleashing their army of Reborn, the superior Shadowtroopers, and ordinary Iperial forces at the Skywalker's academy on Yavin IV. The invasion army was to be unleashed from the Imperial transport ship Doomgiver.

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

Tavion's New Reborn
After Desann's defeat, those Reborn who had survived rallied under Tavion and, Desann's apprentice whose life Katarn had spared on Bespin. Tavion had established a Sith cult called the Disciples of Ragnos (which had the support of the Imperial Remnant), whose aim was to resurrect the ancient Sith Lord Marka Ragnos and take over the galaxy. Fighting alongside Tavion's own Sith Cultists, the New Reborn, as they were now called, became core to Tavion's as they were more skilled and powerful than her newly recruited Cultists, who, like the Reborn, were artificially embued with the Force - this time with the aid of Ragnos' staff.





As with Desann, Tavion dipatched 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, who was now a Jedi Master and his highly talented apprentice, Jaden Korr. Especially Korr 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 - including Master Katarn and Skywalker himself - defeated them in an epic battle that took place among the ancient Sith temples and tombs in the Valley of the Dark Lords. The last of the New Reborn had fortified inside in the tomb of Marka Ragnos, where they and their mistress Tavion were slain by Jaden Korr.

Ranks
Under Desann, the Reborn were more of an organized military force than a massive war band of Dark Jedi. They had different colours 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 orange.
 * Acrobats: They wore blue, and specialized in using the Force to jump and be mobile.
 * Force Users: They wore red over their cream coloured vests. Their specialization was in pure Force abilities rather than saber skills or unarmed combat skills.
 * Fencers: Skilled and trained specially with their red sabers; they calso have reasonable skill with the Force. Their colour was green. The average Jedi could defeat a Reborn Fencer, but not without difficulty.
 * Bosses: Wore black and red robes. They were a combination of all the different Reborn divisions. They were the second highest level, an elite of the organization. [[Image:Reborntwin.jpg|100px|thumb|left|Reborn Twin]]Capable of using the Force strongly, and counter a Jedi's blade skills, they were Desann's best men along with Galak's Shadowtroopers.
 * Masters: The absolute elite, wore grey suits and carried lightsabers identical in style to those of their dead lord, Desann.

Under Tavion they were less organized and wore different uniforms; mostly grey and red, but some had blue.


 * Two prominent Reborn were the Reborn Twins, Vil and Dasariah Kathos. 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.

Reborn and Jedi


While able to use the Force and skilled in lightsaber combat, the Reborn, New Reborn, and Tavion's Sith Cultists lacked the training that Skywalker's Jedi had gone through as well as their discipline. Being artificially embued with the Force, many Reborn developed an arrogance and exaggerated self-confidence that trained Jedi would not have. In combat, the Reborn would often taunt their opponent with utterances like "Do you fear me?" or "I thought Jedi were powerful", but in the end the Jedi proved to be superior.

Whilst searching for Jan Ors, Kyle Katarn who had not even regained his full connection with the Force had several run-ins with Desann's Reborn and shadowtroopers, defeating them all nevertheless. During the crisis of the Disciples of Ragnos there were many cases of one single Jedi taking on several Sith Cultists and New Reborn simultaneously, still ending up victourious. The sheer number of Reborn, New Reborn, and Sith cultists dying by the hands of Kyle Katarn and Jaden Korr should be an indicator of the superiority of the Jedi over the Reborn.

Appearances

 * ''Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * ''Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy