

Nyriss explains that a thousand years ago, a Sith Lord impregnated a farmer's wife who gave birth to the Emperor. She takes Scourge to the Emperor's homeworld of Nathema, which he finds completely devoid of the Force. After earning Nyriss's trust, the Sith Master confides in Scourge her plan to overthrow the Emperor as she believes he is insane and will bring ruin to the Sith Empire. Scourge carries out his duties, despite growing concerns that Nyriss is trying to have him killed. A Sith Warrior named Scourge is caught up in a rivalry between members of the Sith's Dark Council and is eventually employed by Darth Nyriss to root out traitors and threats to her safety. On the planet Dromund Kaas and unbeknownst to the Republic, the Sith Empire has rebuilt itself after being driven away by the Republic thousands of years ago. Before leaving, he learns from Bastila that she is pregnant despite her protests Revan convinces her to stay as he doesn't know how long he will be gone. The mask was taken by Revan after defeating Mandalore and hidden away to prevent the Mandalorians from regrouping and to break their spirits. A meeting with his old friend Canderous Ordo provides Revan with another chance to regain his memories a group of Mandalorians are searching for the mask of Mandalore, the traditional leader of the Mandalorian peoples. Desperate for information on his past he tries to get in contact with a former subordinate of his from the Mandalorian Wars named Meetra Surik (The Exile, the main character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords) but finds out that she had been dismissed from the Jedi Order and has left Republic space. The novel begins two years after the events of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and begins with Revan living on Coruscant, now married to Bastila Shan, on the outs with the Jedi Order and experiencing horrible insomnia due to nightmare he believes are part of his forgotten past as the Sith Lord Darth Revan. With no idea what it is, or how to stop it, Revan may very well fail, for he's never faced a more powerful and diabolic enemy. Somehow he stumbled across a terrible secret that threatens the very existence of the Republic. What exactly happened beyond the Outer Rim? Revan can't quite remember, yet can't entirely forget. All that's left are nightmares-and deep, abiding fear. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was high. A Jedi who left Coruscant to defeat Mandalorians - and returned a disciple of the dark side, bent on destroying the Republic. Revan: hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior. Internal flap Ī storm is coming, and there is no escape. There's something out there: a juggernaut of evil bearing down to crush the Republic-unless one lone Jedi, shunned and reviled, can stop it.
