| My hypothesis is that the device somehow enhanced the gravitation of Malachor V, meaning that all the ships in the orbit were instantly pulled down to the surface; some of them the Remote discovers in the game. The Exile and Bao-Dur kept their ship out of harm's reach as they knew what would be coming. Now as far as I now it's physically impossible to create additional gravitation without additional mass, but 1. I am not a physicist, so I'm not sure; 2. it happens in a different universe anyway; and 3. we are told that the exceptional gravitational "tides" of Malachor V made the effect possible, so the device wouldn't have worked anywhere else. "Mass shadows" probably refers to the zone of artificial gravity around the planet (Kreia tells Bao-Dur "There is a planet surrounded by mass shadows"; Tobin says that Darth Nihilus "pulled the ships [of his fleet] out of the mass shadows of Malachor", i.e. saved them from crashing onto the surface).
It seemed to me that when Bao-Dur's holo spoke to his Remote, he varied between ordering it to de-activate and re-activate the MSG. I guess he meant that the re-activation would reverse the gravity effects it had created the first time. When you leave Malachor V in the light side ending, you see the planet's components drifting apart, so the gravity which had kept them together for millennia at least seemed to have lessened considerably. By "undoing the damage" he was probably referring on the one hand to exactly this reversal of the physical effects, but also to the destruction of the planet and the whole Trayus complex with it, which would be his atonement for the mass murder he had executed.
And by the way: I'm sure Revan himself arranged to be "delayed" at the battle of Malachor V. He would not have wanted to personally experience the MSG, knowing what the killing would do to all those Jedi present.  |