Lonna Vash

Lonna Vash was a Jedi Master and member of the Jedi High Council during the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil War. She was one of the Masters who banished the Jedi Exile from the Jedi Order.

Biography
When the Order was disbanded during the First Jedi Purge, the surviving Masters went into self-imposed exile. Lonna Vash chose to hide on Korriban in the abandoned Sith Academy.

The Jedi Exile eventually arrived on Korriban during her search for the Jedi Masters. However, unbeknownst to her, the Sith Lord Darth Sion reached the planet before her; when the Exile entered the academy, the front door closed, trapping her inside. She found Master Vash lying dead in a pool of blood in the interrogation chamber&mdash;Sion had used Vash as bait for the Exile.

Fortunately, the Exile found out that Vash, when still alive, had created a user account under her name in the academy's security system. This account would make it possible for her to open the front door and escape in case of danger. Using this account, the Exile fled from the academy after a short battle with Sion, whom she proved to be unable to kill.

Coincidentally, Vash was tortured in the same room where Revan rescued a Mandalorian prisoner nearly five years before.

Behind the scenes
Lonna Vash's role was bigger in the original vision of the developers, Obsidian Entertainment, but like many other incomplete things it had to be cut because of the forced premature release of the game.

She was planned to be found by the player on M4-78, a planet populated by droids, where she came searching for the Exile with her Padawan, Kaah Ohtok. The corresponding conversation the Exile has with Vash was even recorded and put in the game file, but, like the incomplete planet, was never used in the actual game. However, as Vash was a Council member shown in an important cut scene, the developers placed her dead body on also-incomplete Korriban to explain what happened to her.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 9: Flashpoint Interlude: Homecoming
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords