Darth Revan
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Revan was an enigmatic Jedi Knight and General once known as the Revanchist. A charismatic leader, renowned tactician and expert strategist, he was frequently credited with leading the Galactic Republic to victory in the Mandalorian Wars.
Following that conflict, he returned from the Unknown Regions as a Dark Lord of the Sith entitled Darth Revan and deployed his vast armada against the Republic, igniting the Jedi Civil War. Claiming victory after victory, Revan established a powerful new Sith Empire poised to conquer the Republic, yet, two and a half years into the war, he was betrayed by his apprentice, Darth Malak, and captured by the Jedi Order.
Though saved from death by the intervention of Bastila Shan, Revan’s mind was severely damaged. Unable – or perhaps unwilling – to restore his former self, the Jedi Council repaired the damage with a new identity: one loyal to the Republic. Despite eventually learning this truth as he battled against the Sith, Revan rejected the evil of his past, defeated Malak and ended the very war he had begun.
[edit] Into the Unknown
A year after the defeat of Malak, Revan left known space, having remembered the remnants of the ancient Sith Empire he had rediscovered as the Dark Lord, also known as the "True Sith." Hoping to put an end to the threat it posed before it could attack, Revan bade farewell to the nine comrades who had accompanied him on his quest, knowing that none whom he loved could safely accompany him in the places he had to walk. It is also believed by some that he sought exile after the Mandalorian and Jedi Civil Wars, thinking that because he brought the Sith upon the Republic, and then lost control of that power, that it was his own personal failure.
"It would have helped," Darth Traya would later remark about Revan leaving Bastila behind, "had he made her understand. But she was always strong-willed, that one, and did not understand war as Revan did." Then Revan disappeared, leaving the Ebon Hawk with T3-M4 and HK-47 on Malachor V, on the edge of known Space.
It has been shown in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords that T3 was programmed by Bastila to return to the Republic if something happened to Revan, and to contact Bastila if possible. T3 returned in the Ebon Hawk and found the Jedi Exile. What happened to Revan in order to activate T3's mission is unknown, although the navigational computer of the Ebon Hawk was locked by the time he found the Exile.
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