
From left to right: Sith acolyte, the Dark Lord Darth Revan, his Sith apprentice Darth Malak, Revan’s assassin droid HK-47, and a Sith trooper.
A long time ago, even by Star Wars standards, a thousand years before the Clone Wars the Old Republic and the Jedi knights were the the hammer of justice in the galaxy. At the same time the planet of Mandalore and its warrior clans of super commandos(ancestors of the great Jango and Boba Fett) were on a conquest of all the planets around theirs. Eventually the Mandalorians and their greedy conquering came to the eye of the Republic and the two societies went to war in a great bloody conflict known as the Mandalorian Wars. Many Jedi perished in the chaos and the control of the armies of the Republic fell to a young charismatic Jedi named Revan and his apprentice Malak. Angered by the toll the war was taking, Revan led a brutal campaign against the Mandalorians that many of the older Jedi thought skimmed too close to the Dark Side, yet Revan was increasingly popular among the younger Jedi and gathered many followers. Revan led the war to a sweeping finish and forced the Mandalorians to dismantle their fearsome basilisk war droid mounts. Hailed as a hero, Revan, Malak, and their following took off toward unknown space claiming to look for the rest of the Mandalorian fleet, when in reality they were questing for the legendary Star Forge, a giant automated factory designed to create the ultimate army. Revan and Malak found a map written by an ancient Sith lord on Dantooine that led them to the emperor of the Sith Empire thought destroyed in the Great Hyperspace War. There he corrupted the pair and told them to return to the Republic as a vanguard to a Sith invasion. They took the information the Sith lord gave them and went to the previously discovered Lehon system. There they crashed on the planet and were attacked by the the natives. After thoroughly cowing them, they had the primitives take them to their leader. In the aftermath of the conversation the leader told them to kill a rival clan if he wanted to know the secrets. Instead, Revan went to the rival clan and masqueraded as a servant of light trying to destroy the Star Forge. Trustingly, they gave him access to the Temple of the Ancients and the pair promised in turn to destroy the Star Forge. Instead, they named themselves as the new Dark Lords. Now Darth Revan used the Star Forge build him a Sith fleet, though he did not want to use it more than he had to. Revealing himself to the galaxy, he took the planet Korriban and established a new Sith academy and many of his followers became Sith acolytes. Then he started the master campaign that almost swept the galaxy into another Sith Empire, the Republic mostly being saved by the Battle Meditation of a Jedi named Bastila Shan. In a trap set for the Dark Lord, several Jedi invaded his flagship and fought him. During the melee’, Malak ordered his cruiser to open fire on his master’s. Betrayed, Revan was taken by the Jedi. Then he was brought before the Jedi counsel where by their combined efforts they erased his memory. With no idea about his dark past, the Jedi recruited him to go after his own apprentice, Darth Malak, who had dawned the title of Dark Lord of the Sith. After several encounters of the worst kind, with Revan picking his memories on the way. In his final duel over the Star Forge, Malak revealed everything and master and apprentice fought for the fate of the galaxy. In the end Revan overcame the Dark Lord and on his death bed Malak accused Revan of leading him to the Dark Side, but Revan reminded him that he did not turn from his evil ways when he had the chance and Malak died with no resentment to his master. The Star Forge plummeted into the sun it was orbiting and was destroyed. With all of his old memories back Revan was unwilling to stay in the Republic and jumped into the Unknown regions of space, never to be heard from again. From the ashes of Malak’s empire rose the three Sith that would become the Sith Triumvirate.