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

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (KOTOR II) is an RPG video game for the PC and the Microsoft Xbox. The Xbox version was released on December 6, 2004, while the PC version was released on February 8, 2005. It was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by LucasArts.

Overview
The game is the sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which was widely regarded as a major commercial and critical success. The original game, however, was developed by a different company, BioWare. According to the game's producers, the change of developers was primarily due to BioWare's occupation with other titles, such as Jade Empire and Dragon Age. BioWare is understood to have recommended Obsidian as an alternative developer, having worked with many of Obsidian's key members when they were part of the now-defunct Black Isle Studios. The Sith Lords was constructed using an updated version of the original Knights of the Old Republic game engine, which Obsidian obtained from BioWare.

The game takes place approximately five years after the conclusion of the first game, and focuses on a different set of characters. The conclusion of the first game varied depending on the choices of the player, with either the light side or dark side of the force emerging triumphant - at the beginning of The Sith Lords, players specify which of these outcomes they wish the sequel to follow. Regardless of how the original game ended, however, the beginning of The Sith Lords sees the Sith having almost completely destroyed the Jedi Order. The character whom the player takes control of is a Jedi Knight banished from the Order, and is thought to be one of the last remaining Jedi, known simply as the Exile or Jedi Exile.

Among the new characters who may join the main character are Kreia (who acts as a mentor to the main character), Mira (a bounty hunter), and Atton Rand. Several characters featured in the first game are also brought into this sequel, and a few can join the main character's party. Enemies include Darth Sion (a Sith Lord whose shattered body is held together only by "his hatred and the power of the Dark Side"). The new planets which the character may visit include Telos IV (the near-destroyed home of Carth Onasi, a character in the first game), the planet of Onderon, its jungle moon Dxun, and Peragus II. Korriban and Dantooine, which also appeared in the original KOTOR, are also revisited. The Ebon Hawk, the ship used by the main character in the first game, once again makes an appearance.

Many players were disappointed by the ending of the game; however, on the PC version, intrepid fans could find several data files that collectively, constitute the Cut Ending to Knights of the Old Republic II. While many questions are still left unanswered, this does help clarify what happened to many of the members of your party.



Opening crawl
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

THE SITH LORDS

It is a perilous time for the

galaxy. A brutal civil war has

all but destroyed the Jedi

Order, leaving the ailing

Republic on the verge of

collapse.

Amid the turmoil, the evil

Sith have spread across the

galaxy, hunting down and

destroying the remaining

Jedi Knights.

Narrowly escaping a deadly

Sith ambush, the last known

Jedi clings to life aboard a

battered freighter near the

ravaged world of Peragus....

Plot summary


It is the year 3,951 BBY, five years after the Jedi Civil War and four years after former Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Revan's departure to the Unknown Regions. Revan's ship, the Ebon Hawk, badly damaged, emerges in the Peragus system, with six passengers onboard: two droids that formerly belonged to Revan, T3-M4 and disassembled HK-47, two other droids, 3C-FD and an HK-50, and two humans, the Jedi Exile and an old woman named Kreia, both unconscious. T3-M4 manages to dock the ship into the Peragus Mining Facility, where the Exile is put into the medical bay and Kreia, mistaken for dead, into the morgue.

After awakening, the Exile finds Kreia and a smuggler by the name of Atton Rand, locked in a prison cell. The three of them seem to be the only beings alive in the entire facility, which is covered with dead miners and crawling with crazy mining droids, which apparently started "mining" humans. Eventually, the Exile discovers that the HK-50 was responsible for the damage done to the facility and destroys the droid.



Meanwhile, one more ship arrives to Peragus: the Harbinger, a Republic capital ship that was transporting the Exile to Telos before a series of events that resulted in him ending up in the facility. When the Exile, Kreia and Atton, in an attempt to escape Peragus, board the Harbinger, they discover that the ship has been overrun by the Sith, led by Darth Sion. As Kreia approaches Sion, apparently in an attempt to distract him, the Exile and Atton escape through the ship's fuel pipe, meeting T3-M4 in the process, and, after reaching the hangar bay, board the Ebon Hawk. While they are trying to stop the Sith from boarding it as well, Kreia catches up with them—for some reason spared by Sion, who only cut her hand. As they try to escape the Peragus system, flying through an asterond field surrounding the planet Peragus II, the Harbinger fires at one of the asteroids, which causes a sequence of explosions that completely destroys the mining facility.

With the Peragus astrogation charts contraining only the planet Telos, which is slowly recovering after Saul Karath's bombardment during the Jedi Civil War, the three have no choice but to board Citadel Station. There, they are immediately disarmed and detained by the Telos Security Force for the duration of the investigation of the destruction of the Peragus Mining Facility—the main fuel supplier for Citadel Station, which would not be able to maintain its orbit without fuel. During the investigation, a mysterious woman steals the Ebon Hawk, with T3-M4 locked onboard, and Chodo Habat, the leader of the Ithorian team responsible for the restoration efforts on Telos, offers the Exile to restore some of his lost connection with the Force and provide a shuttle off Citadel Station in exchange for eliminating their rivals, Czerka Corporation. Despite Kreia's protests, the Exile accepts his offer, uncovers some details about Czerka's illegal business—certainly enough for the Telosian Council to drive them off—and, together with his companions, flies to the surface of Telos.

On Telos, the shuttle is hit by a Czerka air defense turret and crash-lands in a restoration zone—miraculously, just near Bao-Dur, a former lieutenant of the Mandalorian Wars who served under the Exile (whom he refuses to call anything but "General"), designed the Mass Shadow Generator, which played a significant role in the Mandalorians' ultimate defeat in the Battle of Malachor V, and now works for the Ithorians. Fighting their way through Czerka mercenaries, the Exile and his companions reach an abandoned Republic military base, where Bao-Dur pinpoints a breach in the planetary defense system in the polar region as the most likely location of the Ebon Hawk. Having boarded a yet another shuttle (in the process discovering that the base is swarming with hostile droids), the Exile, Kreia, Atton and Bao-Dur head to the polar region of Telos.

Upon arrival, the shuttle once again crash-lands on a polar plateau as a result of being hit by three HK-50 droids. After dealing with them, the Exile discovers what looks to be a Jedi Praxeum hidden within the plateau. When he enters it, his companions are locked in prison cells, and he is brought before Atris, one of the Jedi Masters (and, in fact, the only Jedi in the academy) who previously banished him from the Jedi Order for fighting in the Mandalorian Wars. The Exile offers his help against the new Sith threat, which revealed itself on Peragus, by finding any Jedi who may have survived the purge after the Jedi Civil War. Impressed that he holds no evil against her, Atris allows him to take back his ship (the Exile learns it was stolen by one of Atris' handmaidens) and frees his companions.

When the party assembles once again on the Ebon Hawk, T3-M4 "tells" the Exile that he downloaded a holorecord of his trial from Atris' archives. It turns out that the Jedi Masters in hiding are the Jedi Council members that exiled him, namely Zez-Kai Ell, Kavar, Vrook Lamar and Lonna Vash. This makes the Exile somewhat suspicious, but he nevertheless decides to find them, believing they may help him further restore his connection to the Force and know something about the new Sith threat.



During his subsequent adventures, the Exile finds the Jedi Masters: Zez-Kai Ell on Nar Shaddaa, Kavar on Onderon, Vrook Lamar on Dantooine, and Lonna Vash (killed by Darth Sion by the time he arrives) on Korriban. However, although the Masters seem to be compassionate for him, they refuse to answer his questions until the Jedi Council is reassembled on Dantooine, in the ruins of the Jedi Enclave. While they know each other's location, they are apparently ignorant about Atris being on Telos and surprised to learn it from the Exile.

In the process, the Exile is joined by other resourceful allies, such as Visas Marr, a Sith Apprentice and former servant of Sith Lord Darth Nihilus, Brianna, one of Atris' handmaidens, Mical, a historian and a Jedi student on Dantooine prior to the Mandalorian Wars, Mira, a bounty hunter, G0-T0, a droid and one of the Exchange leaders on Nar Shaddaa, and Canderous Ordo, the new Mandalore, who is regrouping the scattered Mandalorian clans on Dxun.





He also delves into his companions' past, learning that many of them were Force-sensitive (and training them in the ways of the Jedi), discovering that Kreia was Revan's first teacher, exiled by the Jedi and later the Sith, and that Revan himself left the known space to fight the original Sith Empire, which, presumed to be defeated by the Republic, continued its existence beyond the Outer Rim.

When visiting Dantooine and Onderon, the Exile is caught in the middle of conflicts between the weakened Republic and two powers aiming to weaken it further—the Exchange and Onderon separatists, respectively. By G0-T0's request (and having no other choice if he needed to contact the Jedi Masters), he stabilizes the political situation on these planets, preventing them from being lost for the Republic, even though the resolution led to two bloody conflicts known as the First Battle of Dantooine and the Onderon Civil War.

Finally, the three surviving Masters—Kavar, Vrook and Zez-Kai Ell—gather on Dantooine, in the rebuilt Jedi Enclave, thus restoring the Council. This is where the reason for the Exile being deafened to the Force is himself, not the Council, as he presumed (in no small part due to Kreia's influence). He finds out that he previously cut himself off from the Force after activating the Mass Shadow Generator on Malachor V, unable to withstand such a wound in the Force that he created by doing this.

However, the Exile fails to persuade the Jedi Masters to unite with him against the Sith. The Jedi Masters explain that this new Sith threat, which caught them unprepared, fed on Force users, so that whenever Jedi gathered, they inevitably died, and all around them shared the same fate. This was what happened on Katarr, Visas Marr's homeworld and the location of the previous Jedi Council. Moreover, they fear that the Exile, pursued by the Sith, would lead them to the Enclave, so they refuse to accept him back into the Order and decide to separate him from the Force—this time, irrevocably.

The Exile submits to the punishment; but as they started, Kreia enters and, finally revealing that she was also a Sith Lord, kills them&mdash;not because they are Jedi, but because of their attempt to harm the Exile after he was so benevolent to them. The Exile retains his connection to the Force, but is lying on the ground, lifeless, as Atris' handmaidens run into the Enclave and took Kreia to her mistress as a prisoner. So the Exile has no choice but to return to the Telosian academy, as he believes that the Force bond between him and Kreia is fatal and, should Atris execute Kreia, he would die as well.

Atris does not execute Kreia. Even though Kreia reveals her Sith name, Darth Traya, she shows how much she and Atris have in common—in fact, Atris has already, not realizing that, fallen to the dark side, studying the knowledge of Sith holocrons. After that, Kreia departs to Malachor V; when the Exile arrives, he finds only Atris, who reveals that Darth Nihilus is about to attack Telos (an event also orchestrated by Kreia) and believes that she is strong enough to face him. Realizing that Atris has been corrupted, the Exile fights and defeats her, but spares her life.



After that, the Exile arrives on Citadel Station to discover that the Battle of Telos has begun. By the collaborate efforts of him and his companions (especially Visas Marr), Canderous Ordo's Mandalorians and the Republic fleet led by Admiral Carth Onasi, Nihilus is vanquished and the future of Telos and the Republic secured. Carth Onasi arranges an appointment for the Exile, retells his story—the story of a Republic officer who met Revan by accident on the Endar Spire—and asks him to find Revan and tell him that Carth is following his orders to keep the Republic safe. After meeting the Exile, Bastila Shan, who followed Carth to Telos, is convinced that there are worse things than Revan to lose in the galaxy.

The Exile leaves Telos, heading to Malachor V, where he finds the Trayus Academy and the two remaining Sith Lords—Darth Traya and Darth Sion, with his will broken and himself being manipulated by Traya. Although Sion, sustained by the Force, is nearly invincible, the Exile convinces him to give up fighting and die peacefully. Then he confronts Darth Traya, who explains her motivation—she tried to use him to create another wound in the Force, so powerful that it would destroy the Force itself, rendering the Jedi and the Sith alike powerless.



Nevertheless, even though the Exile refuses to do what she wants, she remains benevolent to the Exile, answers his questions—most notably about the future of the Republic, the planets he visited, and his followers—and dies, mortally wounded by the Exile, in the Trayus Core, where her path down the dark side began. She also reveals that Revan came to Malachor earlier, after the Jedi Civil War, and left the Ebon Hawk and the droids before departing into the Unknown Regions to fight the old Sith Empire.

At the same time, Bao-Dur's remote powers up and reactivates the Mass Shadow Generator, despite G0-T0's attempts to stop him. As Malachor V collapses upon itself, the Ebon Hawk rescues the Exile and, leaving behind the remains of the planet, mixed with remains of ships crushed by the Generator in the final battle of the Mandalorian Wars, escapes, finally disappearing into space.

New characters

 * 3C-FD
 * Aaida
 * Adana
 * Terena Adare
 * Akkere
 * Anda
 * Atris
 * Azkul
 * B-4D4
 * Bahima
 * Bao-Dur
 * Bao-Dur's remote
 * Batono
 * Benok
 * Bheeda
 * Bostuco
 * Bralor
 * Brianna
 * Cahhmakht
 * Cede
 * The Champ
 * Opo Chano
 * Dergar Chester
 * Coorta
 * Daraala
 * Davrel
 * Dessicus (cut)
 * Dillan
 * Dendis Dobo
 * Samhan Dobo
 * Dopak
 * Zez-Kai Ell
 * Talvon Esan
 * Esok
 * Jedi Exile
 * Corrun Falt
 * Fassa
 * G0-T0
 * Geeda
 * Gelesi
 * Dhagon Ghent
 * Geriel
 * Gerevick
 * Dvakvar Grahrk (cut)
 * Dol Grenn
 * Chodo Habat
 * Hanharr
 * Hussef
 * IT-31
 * Jorran
 * Kadron
 * Arren Kae
 * Kaevee (cut)
 * Kavar
 * Kelborn
 * Kex
 * Kiph
 * Kodin
 * Kreia
 * Kumus
 * Lasavvou
 * Lootra
 * Luxa
 * Maban
 * Visas Marr
 * Matu
 * Mical
 * Mira
 * Modo
 * Berun Modrul
 * Moza
 * Nadaa
 * Nahata
 * Darth Nihilus
 * Nikko
 * Nisotsa
 * Odis
 * Kaah Ohtok (cut)
 * Oondar
 * Panar
 * Ponlar
 * Qimtiq
 * Quello
 * Atton Rand
 * Batu Rem
 * Riiken
 * Sakarie
 * Saquesh
 * Cariaga Sin
 * Darth Sion
 * Loppak Slusk
 * Sullio
 * Suulru
 * T1-N1
 * Taepalae
 * Talia
 * Tagren
 * Xaset Terep
 * Terlyn
 * Tobin
 * TT-32
 * Tienn Tubb
 * Tweigar
 * Twin Suns
 * Vaklu
 * Lonna Vash
 * Ratrin Vhek
 * Visquis
 * Vogga
 * Xaart
 * Xarga
 * Zherron
 * Zhug brothers
 * Zuka

New creatures

 * Cannok
 * Laigrek
 * Maalraas
 * Zakkeg

New droid models

 * automated fire extinguisher
 * cleaning droid
 * construction droid foreman
 * construction droid Mark I
 * construction droid Mark II
 * environmental droid Mark I
 * environmental droid Mark II
 * excavator droid Mark I
 * fire suppression droid Mark I
 * Goto guard droid
 * HK-50 protocol/assassin droid
 * HK-51 protocol/assassin droid (cut)
 * mining droid Mark I
 * mining droid Mark II
 * tank droid Mark IV

New organizations

 * Jal Shey
 * Serroco
 * Red Eclipse
 * Zhug brothers

New planets

 * Althir
 * Dagary Minor
 * Eres III
 * Katarr
 * M4-78 (cut)
 * Peragus II
 * Serroco

New vehiches and vessels

 * Citadel Station
 * droid yacht
 * forklift vehicle
 * military droid carrier
 * Ravager-class battleship
 * Telosian orbital shuttle

Trivia

 * In the Onderon throne room scene, if the player (as the Exile) sides with the Royalists (light side choice), General Vaklu is amused to see the Exile alive. One of the possible responses is, "You'll find that I'm full of surprises," a reference to Luke Skywalker saying the same line during his duel with Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Kreia's line "He is too dangerous to leave alive" is simliar to Mace Windu's line as he's about to kill Palpatine in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (although it should be noted that the video game was released earlier than the film).
 * Atton Rand says the recurring line "I have a bad feeling about this," featured in all six Star Wars movies and the first Knights of the Old Republic game.
 * Another reference to the movies (more specifically, to Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace) is Atton's line on Peragus said to a female Exile, "Are you an angel? Aw, I'm just kidding. That's the worst line I've ever used. Hope some poor kid doesn't start using it." While it is not normally encountered in the game and is apparently cut content in the PC version (a note to this line in dialog.tlk says "X-Box Live"), there is a rumor that it can be unlocked by beating the game with both a light side and a dark side character.