User:Darth Nexus

''The force has no Light side The force has no Dark side The force is the force The force is my guide'' -Auron Katarn to Revan

Life at the Jedi Temple
''He is strong in the force, and learns things quickly, but I fear he does not fully comprehend the dangers of the dark side. I am afraid I must disagree, I feel a strong sense of balance in that one.'' Master Vrook and Master Vandar speaking about Auron becoming a Jedi Knight.



After being brought to the Jedi Council at the age of 5 Auron Katarn began learning the ways of the Jedi and mastering their techniques and abilities along side other padawans such as Atris and Kavar (who was also his closest friend) until the day he was given the title of Jedi Knight and Consular. Several years later he chose to train a padawan of his own the Jedi Exile.

Teaching the Exile
''If you truly believe that your path lies on the mandalorian battlefields then I wish you a safe return. Thank you Master Katarn I hope I will see you again.'' Auron and the Exile before she leaves for the war. Auron decided to teach the ways of the Grey Jedi unlike most of the other members of the order who often criticised him for this. But he believed that to truly understand the ways of the force the Jedi's mind must be a neutral one like the force itself.

Before the Exile's training was complete the mandalorian's began there conquest of the outer rim worlds and she went with Revan to fight them for the Republic.

Revan's teacher


Auron Katarn was one of Revan's lesser known masters. Revan sought him out not long before leaving to fight the mandalorians wanting to learn the deeper mysteries of the force because of Auron's extensive knowledge of both Jedi and Sith as well as his reputation as a powerful consular and renowned Jedi Weapons Master. He was Revan's last master before he returned to Kreia. Master Katarn not only taught Revan in the ways of the force but also an Echani technique known as Battle Precognition as well as Precognition which Revan used during the Mandalorian wars to predict his enemies tactics in the war as well as in close combat. Like the Jedi council Master Katarn believed there was a hidden threat behind the mandalorians and after speaking of his concerns to his trusted friend Kavar they devised a plan to bring out the Sith threat. Kavar would watch and wait for any sign of them while Auron decided to take a more practical approach and followed Revan to war in the hopes of finding them by any means necessary, before they had a chance to strike.

General of the Republic
You are an excellent leader general and I'm proud to fight by your side in this war. Carth Onasi to Auron Katarn

Because of his superior skills in battle Katarn was given conrol of a large of the Republic fleet under Revan and his own flagship the courageous, where he met Captain Saul Karath and Carth Onasi. He led his soldiers to many victories, most notably the battle on Dxun where he took a small group of Jedi and elite soldiers deep into the planets jungle and using the bulk of the ground troops as a distraction managed to get behind behind enemy lines and disabled the mandalorian camp's outer defences and heavy air turrets forcing the mandalorians to abandon the planet leaving behind a select few who soon met there end as the camp was stormed by the soldiers and the beasts of the jungle.

He later took part in the battle of Serroco it was on this planet that he found his old apprentice, the Jedi general who would later become known as the Jedi Exile. Here Auron gave the Exile the rank of Jedi Knight before they were separated once again by the Mandalorian's bombing of the planet.

It was Auron who discovered the planet of Malachor V and it's signifincance to the Mandalorian's. He passed on this valuable information to Revan who then used it to his advantage. He arrived at Malachor with Revan and cut down many mandalorians throughout the course of the battle. While fighting close to Revan and Mandalore the Ultimate he almost met his end as 100's of Mandalorian Neo Crusaders surrounded him, but at that moment Mandalore was vanquished and the Exlie gave the order to activate the Mass Shadow Generator ending the conflict and the war in a devastating gravity well that engulfed the planet crushing both mandalorian and republic soldiers alike.



After the battle Auron travelled to the planets surface with Revan where they discovered the Trayus Academy and were both bombarded by dark side energies. Revan chose to accept the energy rather than be consumed by it and Auron followed in his example beginning his journey down the dark path. Once inside the academy they split up and began searching its many halls, Auron then entered the Trayus Core, and sensing its power he began meditating he could feel as the core channeled his energy and made him stronger, he was now powerful enough in the force to sense things around him at huge distances, he could see the mandalorians being stripped of their armour and weapons back up on the surface. The knowledge of all the Sith holocrons in the Academy pouring into him. Revan had sensed this happen so he entered the core to enlist Auron's help in readying the Republic to face the True sith threat.



A Nexus of Darkness
Auron accepted Revans offer in order to protect the Republic. Revan gave him a new title, Darth Nexus, and entrusted him with the task of converting his Jedi followers into Sith in the Academy while Revan went in search of the Star Forge. By the time Revan had returned Nexus had not only converted all of the Jedi loyal to Revan but he had set traps for the others in the order by using his power in the Trayus core to send out force beacons (an ability he had learnt which made unsuspecting Jedi believe someone they cared for was in danger.) for them to sense which brought some of them to Malachor to investigate where they were captured and converted. Combined with Revan's newly formed army (a creation of the Star Forge) they began the Jedi Civil War.

At some point during the war Master Kavar was captured and brought before Darth Nexus aboard his new flagship the Ragnarok. Nexus gave his old friend a chance to join him so they could stop the sith threat together, but he refused stating that Auron had become the Sith threat and must be stopped. Nexus flew into a rage and attacked his former friend.

A fierce lightsaber duel ensued but Kavar realised he had no chance of winning because Nexus was using a rare dark side ability, force nexus which gave him a huge advantage. Kavar narrowly escaped the ship by force stunning Nexus after which he was persued by Darth Malaks fleet to Telos where he preceded to bombard the planets surface in an attempt to kill Kavar.

It seemed their victory was assured until Bastila Shan entered the fray with her rare ability battle meditation she managed to board Revan's flagship to confront him but the situation was made even worse by Malaks betrayal as he fired upon his masters bridge. Once Revan was assumed dead, Malak assumed the title of Dark Lord and ordered the entire fleet to attack Darth Nexus because Malak would not risk facing Nexus for his title. Utilizing his many force powers and formidable lightsaber skills Nexus fought his way through the ranks of soldiers and battle droids now arrayed against him until he escaped as Kavar had done months earlier in a small freighter. He landed on Sulon, a small agricultural moon in the outer rim where he decided to start a new quiet life where he could wait for the true sith threat to arise.

Revan is betrayed by Malak



A New Life
Auron had now renounced the dark side since he no longer had a use for it but he still had ties to the force he rarely ever used them. He became a farmer, eventually married and had a son who he taught in the ways of the force but never any aggressive powers he took apart his sith lightsaber and scattered the pieces around his farm which would be found by Kyle Katarn 100's of years later. But he always kept his old lightsaber with him if he ever needed it again.

The main way Auron used his force powers was to sense things in other parts of the galaxy. He felt Malaks fall but was unable to tell who was responsible for it. When he felt the Jedi order diminishing at the hands of the Sith Triumvirate. Believing this to be the True sith threat emerging at last he decided it was time he re-entered the events of the galaxy. He explained the situation to his wife, put on his grey Jedi robes once again and took a ship to Malachor V, he thought he would be able to sense where the threat was coming from once he used the Tayus cores power.

An Unexpected End
''Welcome back Darth Nexus. Thats not who I am anymore! We shall see.'' Darth Traya to Auron in the Trayus Core

He crash landed on the surface of Malachor and made his way into the Trayus Academy. He was attacked by a legion of Sith Assasins and Dark Jedi which he quickly defeated, trying not to let the dark side in him return. He entered the core to find Darth Traya, the threat he planned to look for already there. Though he had not expected her he told her he had come to stop her once and for all. She taunted him until he charged her with his lightsaber but she blocked it with her own and puched him back using the force. He attacked again and again but she just kept pushing him back until he dropped his lightsaber and in fell into the depths of Malachor. Auron became angered by her taunts and tactics so he gave in to the darkness and tried to use force lightning against her but Traya did the same. It became a battle of wills as bolts of lightning shot around between them, Auron weakened as he had not used the force like this in some time. He fell to his knees exhausted. Traya lifted him up in a grip and crushed his limbs with force, throwing him against one of the pillars. She told him he was only lying to himself about his mastery of the darkside, that he could never truly wield it while he clung to his Jedi morality so he never had a chance against her. She raised him up once more and threw him into the core to feed its power. As he fell he saw a vision of his descendant Kyle Katarn becoming a Jedi and all the things he would do in his lifetime. Auron closed his eyes and smiled before being consumed by the planet.

Auron Katarn confronts Darth Traya

Moments later Traya's apprentices Darth Sion and Nihilus betrayed the weakened Traya and exiled her.



Traya is betrayed by her apprentices

Lightsabers
Auron Katarn's Lightsaber as a Grey Jedi Master

Darth Nexus' Sith Lightsaber