Talk:Revan/Legends

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Proposal for new Introduction

Hey guys, I spent a bit of time writing, and then a lot (read: stupid amount) of time tweaking, the following proposal for a new introduction to the article.

For your consideration:

Revan, renowned as "the Revanchist" and dreaded as Darth Revan, was an eminent Jedi Knight turned conquering Dark Lord of the Sith until, berift of his true persona, he returned to the crumbling Jedi Order and saw the Sith Empire defeated. Trained as a Padawan by Kreia and a number of other Jedi Masters, both on Coruscant and at the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine, Revan became a Jedi who was by 3,964 BBY respected enough to amass a notable following that argued for Jedi intervention in the Mandalorian Wars. The Jedi Council, though opposed to this course of action, ultimately sanctioned Revan and his movement when the details of the Mandalorians' genocide of the Cathar came to light, allowing the charismatic Jedi and his closest friend, Malak, to recruit and lead a faction of the Jedi Order to war without fear of reprisal. A talented military tactician and strategist, Revan directed the Galactic Republic to victory after assuming command of its forces, finally ending the conflict in 3,960 BBY with the defeat and execution of Mandalore, the destruction of Malachor V and the disarmament of the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders. Yet in the wake of this triumph, Revan, his loyal Jedi followers, and the third of the Republic fleet under his direct control ventured into the Unknown Regions and ceased all communications with the known galaxy. Having embraced the seductive Sith teachings he encountered at the Trayus Academy on Malachor V, the enigmatic war hero tracked down ancient Rakatan Star Maps in pursuit of the Star Forge, a superweapon of the Infinite Empire. Succeeding in this, he returned to the civilization he had left behind openly as Darth Revan, Dark Lord of the Sith. Commanding the continued obedience of many veterans of the Mandalorian Wars, and alongside the man who was now his Sith apprentice Darth Malak, Revan betrayed the Jedi, turned against the Republic and plunged the known galaxy into the Jedi Civil War. Utilizing the Star Forge to spawn an immense armada, Revan cut a carefully calculated path of conquest through the Outer Rim and established a powerful new Sith Empire to which new converts regularly flocked. Though the Republic staved off defeat for two years, thanks to the extraordinary Battle meditation of the gifted Padawan Bastila Shan, Revan's ultimate triumph seemed inevitable until he and his apprentice were ensnared by a Jedi trap. As a Republic fleet engaged that of the two ruling Sith, a Jedi strike team—including Shan—boarded Revan's flagship and battled its way to the Dark Lord. Mere moments before the Jedi engaged Revan in combat, however, Malak—sensing an opportunity to be rid of both the Jedi and the Master whose power he coveted—had his own ships open fire on the distracted Sith Lord's bridge. Caught by surprise, Revan was incapacitated by Malak's attack and then captured by the strike team while his traitorous apprentice, believing Revan destroyed, seized control of the Sith Empire. His mind shattered, his memories scattered, and soon thought dead by the galaxy-at-large, Revan's life was preserved by none other than Shan, an act that forged a Force bond between them. Unable or unwilling to restore his true persona, but requiring the knowledge buried deep within his mind, the Jedi Council used the Force to rebuild Revan with a new identity loyal to the Republic. Nearly a year later, after Revan—still oblivious to his true past—rescued the captive Shan alongside Carth Onasi and a band of allies on Taris, the Jedi Council on Dantooine retrained Revan and bid him discover the source of Malak's colossal fleet. Revan and his loyal comrades thwarted all obstacles and adversaries during their search for the Star Maps on Tatooine, Kashyyyk, Manaan, and Korriban as Revan regained his talents and fragments of his memories. In the midst of this odyssey, the group was ensnared by Admiral Saul Karath, commander of the Sith fleet, aboard the Leviathan. Though he and his friends escaped, killing Karath along the way, Darth Malak confronted Revan, revealed his former Master's true identity, and captured Shan, the woman Revan had come to love. Continuing in the face of this loss, Revan and his allies successfully discovered the final Star Map and the location of the Star Forge. There, in the Lehon system, Revan rejected the darkness of his past, turned Shan—whom Malak had broken to his will—back to the light, vanquished the reigning Dark Lord, and aided in the Star Forge's destruction, thereby defeating the Sith Empire and bringing the civil war he had instigated to a close. A year later, having driven the warring Sith factions from Korriban, Revan—memories of his former life returning—left the known galaxy and all his friends behind on a solitary quest against the "true" Sith. As of 3,623 BBY he was not known to have returned.

Thoughts? I think that this one is better, as it's the more comprehensive and up to date of the two. Still, I'm obviously biased and not to be trusted ;) Uli Talk 03:19, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

P.S. It references the Odyssey engine, too. Just a little geeky aside. XD ( Uli Talk 03:20, September 8, 2009 (UTC))

• Very nice work, I'm all for it. I made a few minor spelling/format changes, I hope you don't mind. Xicer9^(Combadge) 03:39, September 8, 2009 (UTC)
  • Thanks, for both your comment and the spelling corrections -- I don't mind at all, I'm just annoyed they slipped by me. ( Uli Talk 04:14, September 8, 2009 (UTC))

So, it's been three days and I've seen no objections. I'm going to put it in. :) Uli Talk 16:44, September 11, 2009 (UTC) he killed a jedi with a purple lightsaber not mace windu but some one else andhten he kept the lightsaber and had 2 light saber

Revan and Malak were turned to the Dark Side by the Sith Emperor

"Well, back before he was dark, Revan and Malak went out into space, and something bad happened, and they both turned. And they came back and declared themselves Sith and said there starting a new Sith empire, and they were supposed to, except Malak - as we know - betrayed Revan, and he took over. And he basically built his own Sith empire and started calling everything Sith. So we had Sith troopers, Sith ships, Sith peanutbutter, and Sith everything. But they weren't actually culturally Sith. They were all people who had come back with them, who were Republic people that had gone into deep space. So, what it turns out is, what they found in deep space that changed them and sent them back was the emperor. And... the emperor of the old Sith from the Hyperspace War that the jedi thought they had killed off. They were turned and they were sent back to supposedly be the vanguard for a Sith invasion. They did a very poor job of it because they're Sith. So they betrayed each other and tried to take over themselves and did not in fact make a great thing for the Empire. But the Empire shows up anyway, quite a few years later." This is all said by Daniel Erickson, Lead Writer at BioWare, here: http://gameinformer.com/games/star_wars_the_old_republic/m/star_wars_the_old_republic_media/108340.aspx - A revision of Revan's history seems to be in order. I've revised Revan's page accordingly. Jediphile 03:57, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad that someone here is taking notice of these new developments. -MPK 01:40, December 12, 2009 (UTC)