KoTor story (SPOILERS)
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:54 am
I'm trying to piece together the full story of Knights of the Old Republic, from what I learned playing Sith Lords. This is what I've figured out; please fix any omissions or errors.
==CORE STORYLINE==
Some 20 years after Exar Kun's war upon the Republic, his former allies, the Mandalorians, makes a second attempt at conquering the Republic. The Jedi Council decides to bide for time to figure out plan, but many Jedi wanted to go to war right away. Revan, Malak and the Exile are among these. Revan's leadership allowed the Republic to turn the war in their favor, culminating in the cataclysmic final battle at Malachor V. There, Bao-Dur builds the Mass Shadow Generator, a gravity-based superweapon that destroys the Mandalorians and most of the Republic forces. The genocide at Malachor V creates a terrible disturbance in the Force. In order to survive this cataclysm, the Exile completely destroys his connection to the Force and becomes "a void in the Force".
Sometime after Malachor V the Exile returns to Coruscant to answer to the Council for his treason. The Council senses his absence in the Force and is so freaked they exile him, pretending it to be for his treason.
Whilst Revan was fighting the Mandalorians far out in space, he discovers the existence of the secret True Sith empire, and that it was they who manipulated the Mandalorians into attacking the Republic so as to weaken it ahead of their own planned invasion. Deciding that the Republic and the Jedi Order are too weak to deal with the looming True Sith threat, he plots a military takeover. He finds the Star Forge and uses it to build his armada and this leads us to KOTOR1 and the Jedi Civil War. After KOTOR1 ends, Revan remembers the True Sith empire and decides to head off into the Unknown Regions to deal with them in some manner, taking the Ebon Hawk, HK-47 and T3 with him. Revan's disappearance eventually causes the Sith to start fighting amongst each other. The Sith Academy on Korriban is destroyed in the process. Darth Sion, one of the Sith Lords, escapes the fighting and flees to Malachor V.
Kreia, a Jedi scholar, Revan's first teacher and something of a heretic, explores Malachor V as part of her search for Revan. There, she finds the Trayus Academy, an abandoned Sith Academy. There she becomes a Sith Lord and renames herself Darth Traya. She takes two apprentices: Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion. She teaches them that neither the light nor dark side is superior, and that indulging in negative feelings for their own sake is unwise. Frustrated with her teachings, the two rebel and cast her out, stripping her of her powers.
After her exile, Kreia comes to the conclusion that Force itself is a bad thing, an uncaring god that manipulates the galaxy into massively-destructive conflicts in it efforts to maintain balance. She comes to disdain both Jedi and Sith for being unwitting puppets of the Force. Then, she learns of the Exile and how he severed his connection to the Force. For her, the Exile is living proof that the Force isn't vital to life as the Jedi have always believed. Studying the Exile's life, she discovers that great tragedies - like Malachor V - can create wounds in the Force. Kreia realises that she has found a way to attack the Force itself, and decides to eventually make the Exile her apprentice.
Sion and Nihilus rally what's left of the Sith and start hunting Jedi so that they may feed upon them. Sion needs to feed because his body is too severely damaged to survive without constantly calling upon the Force; the root of Nihilus's hunger is less clear.
Revan, still in the Unknown Regions, sends T3 and the Ebon Hawk back to Republic space with instructions to find the Exile. Kreia has tracked him down first, and somehow secretly arranges for both of them to travel to Telos on board the Harbinger. The Ebon Hawk is attacked by a Sith warship, and the Harbinger salvages it. Later on, the Harbinger encounters and boards the Sith warship. They find take on board Sion's unconscious body, whilst the rest of the Sith crew sneaks on board the Harbinger using stealth generators so that they can quietly search the ship for the Exile. When they find him, they try to take over the ship. The HK unit, wanting the Exile for itself, moves him and Kreia back on board the Ebon Hawk, and they escape to Peragus. This leads us to KOTOR2.
==SIDEKICK BACKSTORIES==
G0-T0 - G0-T0 was the first advanced technical droid the Republic sent to help the Ithorians restore Telos. However, G0-T0 was also instructed to aid the reconstruction of the Republic at large in any way he could. Deciding that its current, legitimate assignment is too much of an obstacle, it abandons its duties and joins the Exchange, using the persona of Goto. "Goto" quickly rises in rank and uses the Exchange's influence to manipulate galactic commerce in the Republic's favor (eg he intercepts Vogga's fuel shipments because he fears Vogga will fleece the Republic).
Mandalore - Before leaving for the Unknown Region, Revan instructs (or manipulates?) Canderous Ordo to rebuild the Mandalorian clans so that they can eventually fight the True Sith. Canderous permanently dons a suit of armor so as to conceal his identity (and thus his association with Revan) from his fellow Mandalorians and declares himself the new Mandalore.
Atton - Atton was a Republic soldier who joined Revan's forces in fighting the Mandalorians. Out of respect for Revan and hatred for the placid Jedi Council, he stayed with Revan after the war and became a hunter of Jedi. Atton managed to capture numerous Jedi, until one Jedi he was hunting informed him of his Force sensitivity, and that the Sith would turn him into a Dark Jedi if they found out. Before Atton killed her, she offered him a vision of the Force. Greatly disturbed, Atton deserts the Sith and becomes a wanderer.
Hanharr - When Czerka arrived on Kashyyyk, they took Hanharr as a slave, but not before Hanharr slew his entire village to spare them from the indignity of slavery.
==CORE STORYLINE==
Some 20 years after Exar Kun's war upon the Republic, his former allies, the Mandalorians, makes a second attempt at conquering the Republic. The Jedi Council decides to bide for time to figure out plan, but many Jedi wanted to go to war right away. Revan, Malak and the Exile are among these. Revan's leadership allowed the Republic to turn the war in their favor, culminating in the cataclysmic final battle at Malachor V. There, Bao-Dur builds the Mass Shadow Generator, a gravity-based superweapon that destroys the Mandalorians and most of the Republic forces. The genocide at Malachor V creates a terrible disturbance in the Force. In order to survive this cataclysm, the Exile completely destroys his connection to the Force and becomes "a void in the Force".
Sometime after Malachor V the Exile returns to Coruscant to answer to the Council for his treason. The Council senses his absence in the Force and is so freaked they exile him, pretending it to be for his treason.
Whilst Revan was fighting the Mandalorians far out in space, he discovers the existence of the secret True Sith empire, and that it was they who manipulated the Mandalorians into attacking the Republic so as to weaken it ahead of their own planned invasion. Deciding that the Republic and the Jedi Order are too weak to deal with the looming True Sith threat, he plots a military takeover. He finds the Star Forge and uses it to build his armada and this leads us to KOTOR1 and the Jedi Civil War. After KOTOR1 ends, Revan remembers the True Sith empire and decides to head off into the Unknown Regions to deal with them in some manner, taking the Ebon Hawk, HK-47 and T3 with him. Revan's disappearance eventually causes the Sith to start fighting amongst each other. The Sith Academy on Korriban is destroyed in the process. Darth Sion, one of the Sith Lords, escapes the fighting and flees to Malachor V.
Kreia, a Jedi scholar, Revan's first teacher and something of a heretic, explores Malachor V as part of her search for Revan. There, she finds the Trayus Academy, an abandoned Sith Academy. There she becomes a Sith Lord and renames herself Darth Traya. She takes two apprentices: Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion. She teaches them that neither the light nor dark side is superior, and that indulging in negative feelings for their own sake is unwise. Frustrated with her teachings, the two rebel and cast her out, stripping her of her powers.
After her exile, Kreia comes to the conclusion that Force itself is a bad thing, an uncaring god that manipulates the galaxy into massively-destructive conflicts in it efforts to maintain balance. She comes to disdain both Jedi and Sith for being unwitting puppets of the Force. Then, she learns of the Exile and how he severed his connection to the Force. For her, the Exile is living proof that the Force isn't vital to life as the Jedi have always believed. Studying the Exile's life, she discovers that great tragedies - like Malachor V - can create wounds in the Force. Kreia realises that she has found a way to attack the Force itself, and decides to eventually make the Exile her apprentice.
Sion and Nihilus rally what's left of the Sith and start hunting Jedi so that they may feed upon them. Sion needs to feed because his body is too severely damaged to survive without constantly calling upon the Force; the root of Nihilus's hunger is less clear.
Revan, still in the Unknown Regions, sends T3 and the Ebon Hawk back to Republic space with instructions to find the Exile. Kreia has tracked him down first, and somehow secretly arranges for both of them to travel to Telos on board the Harbinger. The Ebon Hawk is attacked by a Sith warship, and the Harbinger salvages it. Later on, the Harbinger encounters and boards the Sith warship. They find take on board Sion's unconscious body, whilst the rest of the Sith crew sneaks on board the Harbinger using stealth generators so that they can quietly search the ship for the Exile. When they find him, they try to take over the ship. The HK unit, wanting the Exile for itself, moves him and Kreia back on board the Ebon Hawk, and they escape to Peragus. This leads us to KOTOR2.
==SIDEKICK BACKSTORIES==
G0-T0 - G0-T0 was the first advanced technical droid the Republic sent to help the Ithorians restore Telos. However, G0-T0 was also instructed to aid the reconstruction of the Republic at large in any way he could. Deciding that its current, legitimate assignment is too much of an obstacle, it abandons its duties and joins the Exchange, using the persona of Goto. "Goto" quickly rises in rank and uses the Exchange's influence to manipulate galactic commerce in the Republic's favor (eg he intercepts Vogga's fuel shipments because he fears Vogga will fleece the Republic).
Mandalore - Before leaving for the Unknown Region, Revan instructs (or manipulates?) Canderous Ordo to rebuild the Mandalorian clans so that they can eventually fight the True Sith. Canderous permanently dons a suit of armor so as to conceal his identity (and thus his association with Revan) from his fellow Mandalorians and declares himself the new Mandalore.
Atton - Atton was a Republic soldier who joined Revan's forces in fighting the Mandalorians. Out of respect for Revan and hatred for the placid Jedi Council, he stayed with Revan after the war and became a hunter of Jedi. Atton managed to capture numerous Jedi, until one Jedi he was hunting informed him of his Force sensitivity, and that the Sith would turn him into a Dark Jedi if they found out. Before Atton killed her, she offered him a vision of the Force. Greatly disturbed, Atton deserts the Sith and becomes a wanderer.
Hanharr - When Czerka arrived on Kashyyyk, they took Hanharr as a slave, but not before Hanharr slew his entire village to spare them from the indignity of slavery.
