Hero of Tython

"You embody what every Jedi strives to become."

- Grand Master Satele Shan, to the Jedi During the Cold War, a Jedi Knight trained on the planet Tython, in service to the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic against the resurgent Sith Empire. The Jedi became a Knight under the tutelage of Jedi Master Orgus Din.

Training on Tython
"The Jedi Council will assign you a new Master to oversee your final trials. You'll be tested in ways you can't imagine. But when you leave Tython, you'll know what it means to be a Jedi Knight."

- Derrin Weller, to the Jedi

Trained under several masters, this Jedi was eventually sent to Tython to learn from an official master during the time of the Cold War. Shortly after arriving on Tython, this Jedi was thrust into combat with the Flesh Raiders, the hostile natives of that world. After fighting off a number of attacks by the savages and defeating the Dark Jedi Callef, the Jedi was taken on officially by Council member Orgus Din as a Padawan.

Not long after, the Padawan discovered a rogue Jedi named Bengel Morr, once Master Din's apprentice but presumed killed during the sacking of Coruscant, was leading the Flesh Raiders against the Jedi. Teaming up with an old astromech droid named T7-O1, the Padawan was able to defeat the Dark Jedi before he could do any true harm. Master Orgus congratulated the Jedi and instructed the Jedi to the Tythonian Forge in order to craft a lightsaber. After creating a lightsaber the Jedi returned to the Jedi Temple and in recognition for stopping the Flesh Raiders and defeating Bengel, the Jedi Council granted this individual the rank of Jedi Knight.

The Planet Prison
"Your return to me as a hero of the Empire my son. Our victory is complete.''" "''I wouldn't count on that."

- Darth Angral interrupted by the Jedi Knight

The newly christened Knight went with Master Orgus to the Republic capital of Coruscant. There they met with Master Bela Kiwiiks and her apprentice Kira Carsen as well as General Var Suthra. While there the Jedi learned of the Planet Prison, a Republic superweapon designed by Doctor Tarnis. After they believed Tarnis was kidnapped, the Jedi worked with Kira to rescue him.

Over the course of their mission they learned that Tarnis was actually a Sith Lord and was building the superweapon in the ruins of the Jedi Temple. After fighting through Rogue droids and Imperial Agents in The Works, the Jedi made it to the Jedi Temple ruins. Within it the Jedi found Lord Tarnis with the Planet Prison communicating with several Sith Lords. The Jedi dueled Lord Tarnis, who refused to surrender, and killed the Sith Lord. One of the Sith overseeing the duel was Darth Angral, who happened to be Tarnis' father. Angral swore vengeance on the Knight and revealed that he had all the Republic's superweapons plans, and that he would kill the Knight. After returning to the Senate Building the Jedi was contacted by Grand Master Satele Shan, who told the Jedi to go to Ord Mantell in relation to Darth Angral's work, and to take Kira Carsen on as an apprentice.

Strike of the Desolator
"You have no idea what you've unleashed Jedi. There's no place in the Galaxy to hide from my wrath."

- Darth Angral to the Jedi Knight

Ord Mantell
After arriving on Ord Mantell, the Jedi was ordered by Var Suthra to take T7 and contact Agent Ottau. T7 was needed to slice into Angral's systems, so the Knight asked Kira to watch the ship and prevent any scavengers from damaging it.

The Jedi made contact with Agent Ottau in Fort Garnik, who directed them to a secret island base that was known to be one of Angral's bases. The Knight infiltrated the base with the help of T7, and the two defeated the base's defenders and its commander, Lieutenant Marcovic. From the facility's databanks, T7 recovered information on a project called the "Desolator". According to the files, Angral appeared to be combining technology from the Republic weapons projects into a single superweapon. . The Jedi and T7 returned to Ottau, who immediately began to gather a team to capture the base for the Republic permanently.

When the Knight returned to the planet's orbital station to return to their ship, they encountered Inquisitor Ferav, who had captured Kira. The Padawan's presence aboard the station had been noticed by Angral's agents, and Angral himself had arrived with Ferav to interrogate her. She was able to convince the Sith that the Knight was on Corellia, but Ferav remained behind when Angral departed. The Inquisitor threatened to kill Carsen if the Knight did not surrender, but she revealed that the Sith was bluffing&mdash;Angral wanted to kill the Knight himself, and he had ordered Ferav not to kill Carsen. The Jedi was able to free their Padawan, but Ferav and his accompanying Sith Acolytes and Imperial commandos were killed in the fight.

The Knight was then ordered by Suthra to head to Taris and Nar Shaddaa, though the order in which they visited the planets is unknown.

The hunt for Doctor Godera
On Taris, the Knight searched for Doctor Godera, a genius former Republic weapons designer who had left the Republic in disgust after the Treaty of Coruscant. Godera hated the Empire passionately, and had retreated to a series of secret facilities on Taris manned only by droids of his own creation. Unfortunately, Imperial Intelligence had also been sent to the planet by Darth Angral to recover Godera for the Empire.

When the Knight investigated one of Doctor Godera's bases, they found it overrun with Imperial troops. The Knight fought their way through the infiltrators, finally finding a hologram of the Imperial agent Watcher One. Watcher One attempted to unnerve the Jedi with his knowledge of the Knight's exploits on Tython, and informed them that he could not allow them to find Godera first. The Jedi chased the agent across the planet in search of the doctor, but the Imperial managed to stay one step ahead of them the whole time.

The Power Guard project
On Nar Shaddaa, the Jedi searched for Agent Galen, whom they had worked with previously on Coruscant and who had gone missing while investigating the Power Guard Project.

The Knight was able to shut down the project, killing Angral's apprentice Lord Sadic in the process.

The Shock Drum
On the planet Tatooine, the Jedi stopped the Shock Drum weapon from destroying the planet, saved Kira's former master Bela Kiwiiks, and redeemed Angral's mentor Lord Praven.

The Death Mark
On the planet Alderaan, the Knight destroyed the Death Mark superweapon and killed Angral's apprentice Lord Nefarid. During the fight with Nefarid, Darth Angral murdered the Knight's master Orgus Din.

Showdown on the Desolator
Angral destroyed the Republic agricultural world of Euphrades to issue a challenge to the knight and launched an attack on Tython. The Knight and Kira entered the Desolator and confronted Angral after disabling it. The Emperor possessed Kira and ordered Angral to finish off the Knight. Ultimately the Knight was able to defeat Angral, but the fight was not over. The Emperor finished off his wounded servant and revealed that he had seen visions in which the Knight would rise and defeat him. Determined to keep that from happening, he was willing to possess Kira in order to undermine their resolve, and if that failed he was willing to keep them both on Desolator, which was set to explode in the next several minutes. Fortunately Kira refused to be the Emperor's pawn and was able to shatter the link. They were able to flee the Desolator before it exploded, taking Angral's corpse with it.

Search for the Emperor
"You stand there because I allow it. Because I do not fear."

- The Sith Emperor to the "Hero of Tython"

Following their victory over Darth Angral, renewed hostilities with the Sith seemed inevitable. While resting on their ship they received a visitation from the Force ghost of Master Orgus Din. He directed them to Tatooine where they found and rescued Jedi, Jomar Chul who had been dispatched by the Jedi Council to recover information on the Sith Emperor's space station in orbit of Dromund Kaas.

Fearing a new war, Master Tol Braga, a member of the Jedi Council, hatched a daring and some would say, insane plan to capture the Emperor, bring him back to Tython and redeem him to the light side. With the Hero of Tython's recovery of the data and rescue of Jomar Chul, Master Braga decided to recruit them to his plan. He dispatched the Jedi Knight to Balmorra to assist Braga's friend and student Warren Sedoru in recovering the schematics for the cloaking device used to conceal the Emperor's fortress space station.

After successfully recovering the schematics as well as acquiring a new ally in Doc Master Braga dispatched them to Quesh to recover Master Braga's padawan, Sajar. Sajar was formally Darth Sajar, a member of the Dark Council until Braga redeemed him to the light and he became a padawan to Master Braga. Unfortunately, while on mission to Quesh he had suddenly broken contact with Master Braga and Braga was concerned that something had happened.

On Quesh, the Knight succeeded in tracking down Sajar and learned that, while interrogating Imperial prisoners for the Republic he lost his temper and tortured them to death before flinging their corpses at the Imperial army. Realizing that he had returned to his old ways, he withdrew and refused to take up arms against anyone again out of fear of falling to the dark side again. The Knight succeeded in protecting Sajar as his base came under attack from Imperial troops seeking to kill him. While doing so they encountered Lord Scourge, the Emperor's Wrath, for the first time and learned that the Sith Emperor was deeply concerned about them and considered them a grave threat.

Sajar subsequently returned to Tython and the Knight was dispatched next to Hoth where he met up with another of Tol Braga's allies, Leeha Narezz. Leeha had learned that amongst the fallen ships on Hoth, one contained an entire schematic of the Emperor's fortress.

After successfully recovering the data on Hoth they were at last ready to strike at the Emperor. Upon returning to Tython however the Knight found that the Jedi Council was not completely in agreement to Tol Braga's plans. In particular Master Jaric Kaedan and the Jedi, Jomar Chul were deeply worried by the plan. Chul had received a vision of the future in which the Knight had been corrupted by the dark side and become a Sith Lord. Despite these worries, Master Satele Shan agreed to allow the mission.

With Master Shan's support, Tol Braga, Leeha Narezz, Warren Sedoru and the Hero of Tython set off for Dromund Kaas. After successfully boarding the space station, the Knight successfully defeated Lord Scourge and the four Jedi challenged the Emperor. Unfortunately they sorely underestimated the Emperor who dispatched the four Jedi with ease. He then used his powers to corrupt them all to the dark side, twisting their minds and forcing them to bow before him.

The Knight spent many weeks on the Emperor's space station being trained as a Sith to serve the Emperor. Fortunately, the Knight was finally able to free themselves from the Emperor's control with help from the ghost of Orgus Din. Free of the Emperor's control he rescued Kira Carsen and and went to the Hanger bay to try and escape. Fortunately, Lord Scourge betrayed his master and helped the Knight and their friends escape on condition they take him to Tython to talk with the Jedi Council about what he knew of the Emperor's true plans for the galaxy.

The Knight returned to Tython and brought Scourge before the Jedi Council. The Sith explained to the Councillors that renewed war is merely a diversion to conceal the Emperor's true plan: performing a powerful dark side ritual that would consume all life in the galaxy, making him more powerful than all the Jedi and Sith combined. The shatterpoint of his plan involves Belsavis and advised haste in saving the planet. Masters Kaedan and Kiwiiks were wary of Scourge's intentions, feeling that it's safer to imprison Scourge, the Sith insisted that his knowledge of the Emperor is more useful out in the galaxy. Satele sensed the truth in his words and consented to an alliance, though she did advise the Knight not to be too dependent on Scourge.

The team journeyed to Belsavis, and learned that one of the Emperor's Acolytes, Executor Krannus, was planning to detonate the prison's core to create a shockwave in hyperspace that would consume the entire system and several others. They were able stop Krannus from detonating the charges and successfully defeated him.

Powers and abilities
"It's easy to excel when you're trained by the best."

- The "Hero of Coruscant" This Jedi was described by many Jedi Masters as a near expert duelist while still an apprentice. On Tython, the Jedi was able to defeat numerous Flesh Raiders and the Dark Jedi Callef wielding only a training lightsaber. The Jedi also triumphed over the Dark Jedi Bengel Morr, despite Morr's experience over the Jedi.

This Jedi later showed significant talent in combat when fighting the Sith Empire. The Jedi was able to defeat the Sith Lord Tarnis and all of Darth Angral's apprentices, as well as countless mercenaries, pirates, criminals, animals, and Sith and Imperial forces across many different planets throughout the Cold War.

During the Cold War, the Knight became a master duelist. Being able to defeat Darth Angral, despite the Sith Lord besting the Jedi's own Master, Orgus Din; as well as the powerful Sith sorcerer Lord Fulminiss. The Jedi was so skilled in combat and so powerful in the Force that the Jedi was able to defeat one of the avatars of the Sith Emperor Lord Vitiate&mdash;one of the most powerful Force-users in all of history&mdash;in single combat.

Behind the scenes
This article represents the character story of the Jedi Knight player class in Star Wars: The Old Republic, a video game from LucasArts and BioWare. As a result of being player determined, no canonical description of this individual is currently available; therefore, the article presents the subject's gender as neutral. The title "The Hero of Tython" is awarded to the player after their defeat of Darth Angral, and is subsequently referred to as such by in game characters.

The male Knight is voiced by David Hayter and the female Knight is voiced by Kari Wahlgren.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic