Jasin

A Jedi Knight during the Old Republic, Jasin was a Prince of the planet Phaeda, along with his twin brother, Methic. His cousin, Gareb, a noble of the planet, was close to Jasin and the two often trained together in fencing practice. When the Sith Empire attacked Phaeda, Jasin and Gareb together defended the palace, not knowing they were using their latent Force abilities to do so. Jasin and Methic's father was killed in the attack, and it was later revealed that Methic himself had allowed the Empire into the system&mdash;believing they would've taken the system anyway, far more violently. Angered, Jasin left the planet with his cousin for Coruscant. There, they were discovered by a Jedi Master and taken to separate Jedi Academies&mdash;Jasin at Telos, and Gareb at a mobile academy. Eventually, they met again when they were summoned to Tython near the end of the Cold War.

Once on Tython, Jasin was trained by Jedi Master Orgus Din. Fighting against an alien species called the Flesh Raiders&mdash;Tythonian natives&mdash;Jasin discovered that their leader, Bengel Morr, was one of Orgus' former Padawans. Jasin hunted down and defeated Morr, and brought him back to the light side of the Force. Promoted to Jedi Knight, Jasin was sent to Coruscant with Gareb and the droid T7-O1 to meet with Jedi Master Bela Kiwiiks and Padawan Kira Carsen. On the trip to Coruscant, Jasin took a ship called the Esseles, where he met the leader of Havoc Squad, Prudii Bralor, and a smuggler named Dankin. While on Coruscant, both Din and Kiwiiks went missing, and Jasin and Kira teamed up to take down a Sith Lord named Tarnis. Tarnis's death at the hands of Jasin caused the Sith Lord's father, Darth Angral, to declare war against the Jedi Order and the Republic, which forced Jasin and his crew to travel the galaxy in order to stop the Sith's apprentices from unleashing stolen Republic superweapons. The trio halted the efforts of Imperial Intelligence to capture the Republic scientist Doctor Nasan Godera on the planet Taris, and worked with the Republic Strategic Information Service, the Republic's own intelligence agency, to destroy the Power Guard Project and defeat Angral's apprentice Lord Sadic on Nar Shaddaa, the moon of the planet Hutta. Jasin and his crew also hunted down and destroyed the Shock Drum weapon on the planet Tatooine, where he also convinced Angral's apprentice Praven to become a Jedi and rescued Carsen's former Master. Jasin's mission to Alderaan saw the destruction of the Death Mark laser and the death of Angral's apprentice Nefarid, but Angral killed Master Din and tested his new Desolator weapon on Uphrades with horrific results. However, the Knight foiled Angral's attempts to use the Desolator against Tython and defeated the Sith Lord in battle, and Grand Master Satele Shan granted the Knight the ceremonial title of Hero of Tython as a result.

Attack on Phaeda
Near the end of the Cold War, Jasin was a Prince of Phaeda. Despising his royal status and wishing to be amongst the people, Jasin did whatever he could to show kindness to the peasants living near the palace. He and his cousin Gareb, along with Jasin's twin, Methic, took fencing lessons, and discovered that all three had a talent for it.

When the Sith Empire launched an attack on the palace, Jasin was out amongst the peastants, giving leftover food from the palace to them. When the warships emerged from hyperspace, Jasin rushed back to the palace. In the grand hall, he found his cousin Gareb speaking to the security guards. The guards stubbornly refused to fight, though they would not say why. Accusing them of treason, Jasin went to the armory with Gareb and retrieved vibroswords. Together, they led the defense with the few soldiers who remained loyal to them. Jasin was the first line of defense, fighting off Imperial troopers outside the palace. While fighting, he discovered his hands moved as if by magic to cut down his enemies, and that he was not in control of his own actions. When the guards around him were cut down, Jasin retreated into the castle itself, where he witnessed Gareb performing incredible feats, throwing busts and statues at Imperials.

Though they fought valiantly, eventually the soldiers were cut down, and Jasin and Gareb captured. It was then that Methic entered the grand hall, and revealed that he had allowed the Empire access to the planet. Jasin, enraged, reached for a sword in a coat-of-arms on the wall, and was surprised when it came to him. Using the weapon to cut down the Imperials around him, Jasin attacked Methic. The two dueled to a standstill, Methic using two weapons, and eventually Jasin and Gareb were forced to flee Phaeda. Jasin later received word that his and Methic's father had been killed in the battle. There was no sign of Methic.

Joining the Jedi
With Gareb, Jasin went to Coruscant. There, they contacted the Phaedan delegation. The Senator of Phaeda said that his hands were tied; with the disappearance of Methic and the death of the king, the Empire had the right to set their own ruler in place. Despairing, Jasin and Gareb sought to find a way to serve the Republic. A Jedi Master named Ostar-Gal discovered their talent in the Force and told them of it. Jasin and Gareb accepted Ostar-Gal's offer to join the Jedi Order, but were disappointed when they were separated due to their different talents.

Jasin was sent to the Telos Academy, where he trained with Echani Jedi Masters to hone his combat skills. While there, he learned to use training lightsabers rather than vibroswords; though they were similarly weighted, the training sabers gave electric shocks rather than cutting like vibroblades. Jasin quickly rose to the top of his class, easily able to defeat the most powerful Jedi Knights at the Telos Academy.

Arrival
Jasin took a shuttle down to the planet's surface and arrived at the remote meditation temple known as the Masters' Retreat. There, he met with Jedi Knight Derrin Weller, who was about to send the Jedi to the Jedi Temple in order to meet with the other Masters when he received an emergency signal from a Bith apprentice named Unaw Aharo. Aharo reported that Tython's native Flesh Raiders had begun to swarm into the nearby Tythonian Gnarls region, armed with blasters and headed for the Jedi outpost in the area. As the Gnarls Outpost was relatively undefended, Weller decided to send the initiate to reinforce the Jedi in the Gnarls, and Jasin took an air taxi across the lake to the outpost. When he arrived at the Gnarls, he was met by his cousin, Gareb. Surprised to see Gareb, Jasin embraced his cousin warmly and the two fought the Flesh Raiders together.

After the Jedi fought off a number of attacks by the violent Flesh Raiders with a vibrosword, Jasin was contacted again by Weller, who had also joined the fight at the Outpost. Weller had received information that the Flesh Raiders had the area through a nearby cave, but as the other Jedi were busy holding back the attack and Weller had been wounded, the Jedi Master asked the apprentice to seal the cave. Jasin and Gareb split up; Jasin to the cave, and Gareb to continue his own mission. Jasin entered the cave and fought a path through the Flesh Raiders that were headed the other way until the student finally reached the end of the main cave.

There, Jasin found a wounded Aharo held captive by two Flesh Raiders and a Human in front of the entrance to a tunnel that branched off the main cave—the tunnel that the Flesh Raiders were using to enter the Gnarls. The Human, a Dark Jedi named Callef, prepared to execute Aharo with his lightsaber when the other apprentice reached the back of the cave, and informed the injured Bith that he would be the first of many Jedi to fall. However, when Jasin interrupted the conversation, Callef instead turned his blade on the stronger of the two apprentices and attacked the newly-arrived initiate. However, even with only a training lightsaber, Jasin was able to fend off Callef's attacks and kill both the Dark Jedi and his Flesh Raider guards. As Callef's weapon fell to the floor, another figure arrived: Jedi Master and Council member Orgus Din, who was relieved to find the two young Jedi alive. When the Master recovered Callef's saber from the fallen Human's body, Din was troubled by a strange sense of familiarity in the weapon's design, but used the Force to collapse the next part of tunnel and end the threat to the Gnarls. Before he escorted the wounded Aharo to safety, Din told the other apprentice to go to the Jedi Temple and wait to be contacted.

The Jedi Temple
At the Temple, Jasin was directed by a Mirialan apprentice named Aven to speak with Master Muheeda, a renowned Jedi Master and teacher, for advice and training. However, as the apprentice entered the temple, Grand Master Satele Shan herself contacted the learner and requested a meeting in her personal chambers. The Grand Master applauded the student's defeat of Callef, but questioned the young Jedi on the role of emotion and reminded the learner to look to the Jedi Code for guidance. Shan then escorted Jasin to the Council chamber, where the other members of the Council questioned the student on the events in the Gnarls. Master Din surprised the rest of the Council when he declared that he would take on Jasin as his own Padawan, his first student in a decade.

After the Council meeting, Din met with his new apprentice in the Master's private chambers, and gave Jasin full access to his personal supplies. Though Din expressed his preference of action over discussion, he also reminded his new student of the values of considering the consequences before acting, and then gave him a new assignment: speak with Sumari, the Matriarch of the nearby Twi'lek settlement Kalikori Village, and find out what the villagers knew of the Flesh Raiders' recent activity.

Outside the Temple, Jasin once again met with Gareb, who was also headed for Kalikori village. The two set off for the village on foot, telling each other about their various experiences across the galaxy as Jedi. On their way, a group of Flesh Raiders ambushed them, and Jasin and Gareb cut them down.

Kalikori Village
When the Padawans arrived at the village, the sick Matriarch was resentful that the Jedi had only approached the villagers because of an attack on the Order itself, and revealed that her scouts had witnessed the attack on the Gnarls Outpost. However, she agreed to reveal what her people knew of the Flesh Raiders' movements for a price: the apprentice had to relieve the Flesh Raiders of a nearby weapons cache so that the villagers could protect themselves. At that point, the Matriarch was forced to retire because of her illness, and her daughter Ranna Tao'Ven and the Scout Chief Moorint took over the negotiations. Moorint wanted Jasin to destroy the weapons and deny the Flesh Raiders a tactical advantage, but Tao'Ven believed that the village would be better off if the Jedi recovered the weapons instead of destroying them, so that the village could defend itself. After the Jedi thought over the matter, Jasin agreed with Tao'Ven and decided to recover the weapons. Gareb and Jasin went their separate ways again; Gareb on a mission to find Nalen Raloch, a Twi'lek who used the dark side.

When Jasin fought through the Flesh Raiders to the weapons cache high in the Upper Hollows region of the Tythos Ridge mountains, the apprentice discovered an old astromech droid named T7-O1 locked inside. After Teeseven's restraining bolt was removed, the Padawan learned that the droid was a reconnaissance droid for the Order, and the pair returned to Kalikori with the weapons. After the pair witnessed a villager named Saylew, whose wife had died in an attack while the Padawan was gone, angrily argue with Din and Tao'Ven, Jasin gave the weapons to the settlers. The Padawan then showed Din the recording that Teeseven had made of a mysterious figure that issued orders to Callef and the Flesh Raiders, and Din recognized the voice of the figure when shown the hologram. Din refused to elaborate further, however, and sent Jasin to investigate the recent sightings of Flesh Raiders in the ruins of the ancient temple of Kaleth while he discussed the figure with the rest of the Council.

Kaleth
Jasin fought a number of ancient defense droids that guarded the ruins of the Jedi's predecessors, the Je'daii Order, and followed the Flesh Raiders' trail into a cavern. After the Jedi fought through the Flesh Raiders within the tunnel, he emerged in a remote meditation shrine where several Flesh Raiders waited. Jasin was stunned when the Flesh Raiders' leader called the Padawan "Je'daii," that the natives could in fact speak, and showed that he could use the Force when he threw the Padawan backwards. Despite the natives' advantage of surprise, Jasin managed to defeat the Flesh Raiders in combat.

At that point Bela Kiwiiks, another member of the Council, arrived with her Padawan Kira Carsen, as they had been sent to reinforce Jasin if necessary. When the Togruta searched the body of the Flesh Raiders' leader after the Padawan told her of its use of the Force, she was disturbed to find an ancient holocron on the corpse. However, Kiwiiks and her apprentice were about to embark on another mission offworld, so she asked Jasin to plant surveillance monitors in the ruins so that the Order could monitor the area and ensure that the Flesh Raiders did not return. Despite the presence of the war droids in the area, Jasin was able to place the three devices across the ruins, and Master Din sent a holomessage that requested his student meet him at back Kalikori Village. In the Matriarch's complex, Din informed Jasin that the Order had begun preparations to stop the Flesh Raiders' newly coordinated attacks by striking at their recently-discovered command base in the Tythos Ridge. However, the base was protected by a shield generator on a nearby mountain, so Din had decided to send his apprentice to destroy the generator. The Jedi Master also revealed the identity of the hooded figure from before: it was the Nautolan Bengel Morr, Din's former Padawan who had disappeared ten years earlier during the Sacking of Coruscant, the Sith Empire's assault on the Republic capital planet of Coruscant at the end of the Great Galactic War. After he warned Jasin not to engage Morr if the Dark Jedi was nearby, Din left to join the Jedi forces in preparation for the upcoming assault.

First Meeting with Bengel Morr
Jasin headed up into the mountains and stormed the cave complex where the generator was located, where the apprentice shut down the shield despite the native resistance. However, when the shield was deactivated, Bengel Morr contacted the Jedi and told the Padawan of his goal: the destruction of the Jedi Order, whose weakness he believed had allowed the Sith to win the Great Galactic War. Jasin rushed back to Kalikori Village to warn Din, but Tao'Ven—who had been appointed Matriarch after her mother's death—had not yet received any news about Din's mission. Their conversation was interrupted when a villager named Eseni rushed into the building as she shouted that the village's crop fields were under attack by the Flesh Raiders. Tao'Ven begged the Padawan to stop the Flesh Raiders, and Jasin ventured into the village's agricultural fields to defeat the saboteurs and deactivate the toxin mines that the natives had deployed to destroy Kalikori's crops.

Second Venture into Kaleth
Master Din arrived after the fight, and informed Jasin that the Jedi had discovered the locations of many more Flesh Raider camps across Tython—too many for the Order to send only Masters. Therefore, the Council had authorized Din to send Jasin on a mission alone to destroy a Flesh Raider camp in the ruins of Kaleth. While Din embarked on his own assignment, the Padawan traveled to Kaleth. At the Jedi encampment just outside Kaleth, Jasin and Gareb once again reunited, and they headed into Kaleth together. Jasin told Gareb of the assault on the Flesh Raiders, and Gareb agreed to help before finding the data recordings his Master, Yuon Par had requested.

Jasin located the Flesh Raiders' base in the cave system known as the Forsaken Den. However, the apprentices found a mortally wounded Selkath Jedi Knight named Laotah just within the entrance, and the injured Jedi explained that he had been investigating Flesh Raider activity on the surveillance devices that the Padawan had installed previously. Laotah had been caught by surprise when the Flesh Raiders inside the cave attacked him and brutally beat him with the Force before they stole his lightsaber.

After the Jedi promised to recover the Selkath's weapon, Gareb attempted to use his Force abilitites to heal Laotah, but the Jedi Knight succumbed to his wounds. The two Padawans then attacked the camp within the Forsaken Den. After the Jedi defeated the Flesh Raider who had stolen Laotah's lightsaber and retrieved the weapon, which was broken in the battle, Jasin contacted Din to report success. However, the Jedi Master had detected an emergency alert from Kalikori, and he ordered his Padawan to meet him at the village immediately. Jasin and Gareb split up, Gareb continuing his search for Raloch.

Return to Kalikori
However, when Jasin arrived at Kalikori, his master was nowhere to be found. Jasin questioned Tao'Ven as to the source of the alert, but she claimed that they had not sent any messages and that Din had never arrived at the village. A scan by Teeseven, who had been left at the complex by Din, confirmed that the Jedi Master was not present in the area. While they talked, the Jedi was suddenly shot from behind with a stun bolt and Teeseven with an ion blast. Jasin awoke quickly, however, to find that Tao'Ven stood over the pair while she was in an argument with Saylew, Moorint, and Eseni. Tao'Ven sought to stop them from killing him, as she claimed that the Jedi was not part of the deal, and Saylew revealed to Jasin that Bengel Morr had made a pact with the villagers a few hours earlier—if they delivered Orgus Din to him, Morr's Flesh Raider forces would stop their attacks on the village. However, Morr had changed the terms and demanded the death of Din's Padawan as well. Fortunately, he was able to influence the villagers to put down their weapons and leave. When Jasin confronted Tao'Ven, she begged for the Jedi's forgiveness—her inexperience and her grief over her mother's recent death had allowed the others to convince her. When Tao'Ven asked what she should do, the Jedi told her to atone for her crimes and strive to make up for them for the rest of her life. After she thanked the Padawan, the young Twi'lek told the Jedi and the newly-reactivated Teeseven that Morr had taken Din to some place called the Forge, which was a machine used by the ancient Jedi to construct lightsabers.

Battle of the Forge
Jasin and Teeseven found Morr and two of his Flesh Raider Adepts at the base of the Forge's steps, where the unconscious body of Din lay at the Dark Jedi's feet. Disdainful of his former Master's new apprentice, Morr commanded his Adepts to kill Jasin and joined them in their attack upon the Padawan. However, the Dark Jedi greatly underestimated Jasin's skill and strength, a mistake that caused their duel to end in his defeat: despite Morr's experience and use of a lightsaber, the younger apprentice quickly defeated the two Flesh Raiders and engaged the Nautolan, a duel that saw Jasin force Morr back and ultimately disarm him. As he acknowledged the apprentice's power, Morr claimed that he understood his destiny now: he would be the Padawan's herald, and asked the Jedi to allow him to leave and prepare the galaxy for the apprentice's rise.

However, the Padawan refused and knocked out the Nautolan before the Jedi awoke Din, who congratulated his student on the recent battle and the decision to spare Morr's life. Din gave his Padawan the components necessary to build a lightsaber, and told the apprentice to enter the Forge and craft a weapon while Din himself took the unconscious Morr back to the Temple. The apprentice ascended the steps and activated the ancient machine, which the Jedi used to construct a lightsaber with the Force through deep meditation. However, the opening of the Forge awoke a sleeping jurgoran in one of the canyon's caves below, and the savage beast ascended the cliff to reach the narrow bridge that spanned the ravine. The jurgoran blocked Teeseven and the Padawan's path to the cave tunnel which the pair had come through, and the Jedi was forced to kill the beast with the newly-crafted lightsaber in order to reach safety.

While preparing to leave the Forge, Jasin sensed a disturbance and followed a different path, finding Gareb and Qyzen Fess battling Nalen Raloch. Jasin and Teeseven watched the fight and Jasin was impressed at his cousin's abilitiy. Gareb allowed Raloch to live and let the Twi'leks return him to Kalikori village. Then, after speaking briefly to Jasin, Gareb agreed that they should return to the Jedi Temple.

Once the Jedi returned to the Temple, Jasin met with the Council once more, and Grand Master Shan conferred the title of Jedi Knight upon Jasin in recognition for bravery and his role in the halting of Morr's invasion. After Shan requested the Jedi's advice on how to handle Tao'Ven, who had turned herself over to the Order for judgment, Jasin suggested that she be allowed to return to her people and that the Jedi form an alliance with the villagers. As she acknowledged Jasin's words as the right course of action, Shan then ordered the new Knight to take a shuttle to Coruscant to help Master Kiwiiks and her Padawan locate a dark threat that they had detected on the planet.

Assault on the Esseles
On the Republic Fleet, Jasin rendezvoused with Gareb on Carrick Station. The two of them, along with Teeseven and Qyzen Fess, went to the docking bay where their shuttle for Coruscant was waiting. However, a Republic officer told them that they had been granted transport on a Republic ship called the Esseles. Jasin agreed to board the ship, as did Gareb, and they left Teeseven and Qyzen to take the shuttle to Coruscant. Aboard the Esseles, they met a pair of new arrivals from Ord Mantell, a Republic soldier named Prudii and a smuggler named Dankin.

The Esseles left Carrick Station shortly thereafter, and the foursome spoke to a Twi'lek passenger who expressed concern about the possibility of an Imperial assault. No sooner had she made her concerns known than the ship rocked with an explosion. The Twi'lek insisted that the four of them help, and Jasin agreed, taking command and leading the group to the bridge. On the way, they battled several Imperial sabotage droids and boarding parties.

Upon reaching the bridge, they found the ship's captain, Tyrus, was dead, and his second officer, Haken had taken command. The Esseles was contacted by the commander of the Imperial forces, Grand Moff Kilran, who asked them to turn over Ambassador Vyn Asara. The crew stated they did not have a passenger by that name. Kilran sent a boarding party to take the ship, and Jasin and the others defended the ship from the boarders with the help of the ship's marines led by Commander Narlock. The Imperial party, led by an Imperial lieutenant named Isric, attacked the main airlock. Jasin and the others struck down Isric and defeated the boarding party, but were informed by the Twi'lek passenger, who revealed herself to be Vyn Asara, that the boarding party had been a ruse, and a Mandalorian warrior named Ironfist had attacked the bridge and put it in lockdown.

Jasin led the others to the engineering deck to end the lockdown. Ambassador Asara insisted they simply vent the engineering section, but the Chief Engineer, Salen, insisted that they could reroute power to end the lockdown. The team, except for Asara, unanimously agreed to save Salen and the engineers, and reroute power instead. With the lockdown ended, Commander Narlock led a distraction force while Jasin and the others attacked the bridge. During the attack, Ironfist was killed by Prudii. However, the Imperial ship still had a tractor lock on the Esseles, so Jasin, Gareb, Prudii, and Dankin boarded the Imperial vessel to deactivate it. Haken insisted that they take Asara with them, and privately asked them to leave her on the ship.

Once aboard the Imperial vessel, the Emperor's Glory, the team quickly deactivated the tractor beam and escaped through a trash compactor. Returning to the hangar, the team found Asara and the marines under attack by a Sith Warrior named Vokk. Jasin attempted to redeem Vokk, but the Sith merely expressed amusement and attacked the group. Though he was powerful, Vokk was eventually struck down when Jasin ran him through the back. The team quickly returned to the Esseles, deciding to allow Asara to return with them. The ship then made it to Coruscant without further incident, though Haken believed that the four of them had earned Moff Kilran's ire, and that he would be back.

Arrival on Coruscant
Upon reaching the capital, Jasin and Teeseven registered their arrival at a customs station in the Coruscant Spaceport, and when the astromech remarked on how much Coruscant had changed, the droid then told Jasin about the Sith's Sacking of Coruscant and the death of Teeseven's previous master, Jedi Master Ven Zallow, during the fall of the Jedi Temple. The pair then reported to Conference Room 2-Aurek in the Senate Tower, where Master Din, Master Kiwiiks, and Kira Carsen were in conversation with the Mon Calamari General Var Suthra.

Din introduced Jasin to the general and the Human Doctor Eli Tarnis, who was involved in an argument with the two Jedi Masters about his invention, the Planet Prison superweapon. Tarnis explained to the new arrivals how the superweapon ionized a planet's atmosphere, a proces which disabled any ships that tried to leave and safely blockaded the planet without loss of life. He stated that it was one of the most humane weapons ever created, and was annoyed that the Jedi had objections to both the weapon's existence and the fact that they had not been told of its creation. However, Kiwiiks had a more pressing objection&mdash;the design files had been stolen, and Tarnis was seemingly unconcerned about the security risks. Tarnis brushed off her protest as he stated that the files were too encrypted for anyone to understand, but Var Suthra informed the Jedi that his agents had been searching tirelessly for the files.

Galactic Market
While Din, Kiwiiks, and Suthra met with Supreme Chancellor, Din ordered his former apprentice to aid the Republic agents in the recovery of the files. Kiwiiks also left her Padawan with Jasin and Tarnis, and she suggested that Carsen's security expertise might be useful. As the Masters departed, Agent Galen of the Strategic Information Service, the Republic's primary intelligence agency, rushed in to report a lead on the search. The agent informed the two young Jedi and the scientist that his analysts had identified one of the thieves from a security recording as the Rodian Vistis Garn&mdash;a slicer who was known to work for the Migrant Merchants' Guild, a criminal organization that controlled the Old Galactic Market region. While Carsen worked with Galen to distract the gangsters with the Coruscant security network, Jasin and Teeseven took an air taxi to the Old Galactic Market to find the thief and recover the files.

Jasin and Teeseven headed to the Market, where found Garn's crew deep within Guild territory and raided the warehouse where the group had been unloading their goods. After the two defeated the surprised criminals and recovered the stolen munitions, rockets, and weapons, the pair cornered Garn in a section of the warehouse. Despite the criminal's use of autoturrets against the duo, Jasin defeated Garn and demanded the data files. Garn complied, but also told him that he had already sent on a decrypted copy to his employers in the Black Sun criminal syndicate. Jasin then contacted Agent Galen, who told him to come back to the Senate Tower immediately&mdash;they had a problem. Jasin decided to spare the thief and allowed Garn to flee from both the Republic and the employers he had betrayed.

Rescuing Kira
When Teeseven and Jasin returned to Galen in the Senate Tower, the agent revealed the problem: Black Sun had kidnapped Tarnis from right under their noses while they had been in the Market. Carsen had led a security team to the spaceport to stop the kidnappers, but as they were embroiled in a firefight with the gang members, Galen sent Jasin to aid the security forces. Upon their arrival at Docking Bay 84, Jasin and Teeseven found Carsen and her team locked in a stalemate with the Black Sun kidnappers. Carsen then proposed a plan: she would use a stealth field generator that she had "borrowed" from Galen's office to sneak past the kidnappers, while Jasin and Teeseven cleared a path through the criminals. After they broke through Black Sun's lines, Jasin and Teeseven searched the hangar but found no sign of Tarnis—and after they defeated Zeer, the leader of the kidnappers, Carsen tricked the criminal into revealing that the whole operation had been a farce: Tarnis had been smuggled away to Black Sun Territory while Zeer and his men distracted the security team.

Black Sun territory
Teeseven and Jasin returned to the Senate Tower and located Galen in Strategic Command, where they found that General Suthra, Din, and Kiwiiks had returned from their meeting with the Supreme Chancellor, and Suthra was both furious and worried. An SIS analyst had decrypted the stolen files and learned that they contained information on not only the Planet Prison, but every Republic superweapon project in existence. Din and Kiwiiks agreed to secure two of the three weapons facilities, while Galen would handle the third, and the two Masters departed Coruscant for the installations. Before he left, Galen placed all of his resources at Jasin's disposal and told him and Teeseven to contact Sergeant Nidaljo of the Coruscant Security Force, the leader of a special tactical unit of CSF officers. Nidaljo and his men had been in Black Sun Territory for months, and would be a great advantage in the Jedi's rescue mission. However, when the duo fought their way through the gang-controlled region and finally found Nidaljo's team, they discovered that the CSF was under assault by Black Sun members with advanced armor and weaponry. After the two defeated the attackers and secured the CSF barricade, Jasin met with Nidaljo and learned the full story. The unit had been in the process of securing a perimeter around the syndicate's headquarters, but they had lost seven men with over a half a dozen wounded, and were also surrounded by hostile Black Sun forces. Nidaljo had given up hope, but Jasin was able to inspire the sergeant and his men to finish their job: assisting Jasin and rescuing the doctor.

Jasin and Teeseven then knocked out the security network for the gang's headquarters and attacked the front entrance, while the CSF team assaulted the back entrance. Jasin and his droid reached the command center first, where they were surprised to find Salarr—the leader of Black Sun—in conversation with Tarnis via holocomm. Salarr raged against the doctor for his failure to help them stop Jasin, which revealed that the entire kidnapping plot had been a sham. Tarnis was in fact a Sith Lord who had manipulated both the Republic and Black Sun to his own ends: he had hired Garn to steal the files, and also had Black Sun stage his "kidnapping" so that he could escape from the Senate Tower without suspicion and then acquire the Planet Prison for himself. Before he terminated the call, Tarnis informed Jasin that Coruscant was doomed and ordered Salarr to kill him. Nidaljo and his men arrived at that moment, and a blaster bolt from one of the officers took down one of Salarr's men who was about to shoot the Jedi in the back. The CSF and Jasin defeated Salarr in the fight that followed. Carsen then contacted them via holocomm as she infomred Jasin that the SIS had intercepted Tarnis' transmission. The engineering team for the Planet Prison had disappeared, and the prototype in the lab was a fake—Tarnis had the real weapon. Jasin ordered Carsen to trace Tarnis' transmission before they returned to the Senate Tower while Nidaljo and his men pulled out of the area.

Justicar Sector, the Works, and the Jedi Temple
In a meeting with Var Suthra, Galen, and Carsen, Jasin learned that the SIS and Carsen had traced Tarnis' location to a military vault in the Justicars' Sector. Carsen accompanied him into the area, which was controlled by the militant vigilante group known as the Justicars' Brigade, and the pair fought their way through toward the group's main detention facility where the signal had originated. While fighting through the sector, they found that Dankin, the freighter captain from the Esseles, and his ally Corso Riggs, were also headed for the detention facility. Jasin agreed to work with the men in order to reach their respective objectives more quickly.

In the detention facility, they discovered the dead bodies of the engineering team, and found the only person still alive: a technician named Jonkan, who told the team what had happened. Tarnis had tricked the members of the project, telling them that the Jedi intended to shut it down and asked them to steal the prototype for him. However, when the researchers arrived with the weapon, Tarnis killed them all. Before he died, Jonkan told Jasin that the Planet Prison needed time to charge up, and it generated an enormous amount of heat in the process. Thanks to the scientist's help, Carsen and Jasin were able to track Tarnis' location to the ruins of the old Jedi Temple. Leaving Dankin and Riggs to their own devices, Jasin and Carsen moved on to the Works.

Jasin and Kira raced to the Temple through The Works, and they were forced to fight their way through Imperial forces who had been searching the ruins for a navigation computer. Jasin and Kira found Tarnis deep within the Temple, where the traitor had set up the Planet Prison's main control systems in one of the ruined chambers. Tarnis was in the middle of a holocomm conversation with four other Sith Lords as he informed them that the Planet Prison was almost ready to fire. The oldest of the four, a Human male named Darth Angral, congratulated Tarnis and called him "son." However, Jasin and Carsen interrupted the conversation at that point, which caused Lord Sadic—one of Angral's apprentices, just like Praven and Nefarid, the other two figures in the hologram—to chide Tarnis about loose ends. Tarnis refused his opponent's request that he surrender before informing the Jedi that the Planet Prison was minutes away from firing. Tarnis drew his blood-red lightsaber at the urging of his father and then charged at Jasin and Carsen while unleashing a storm of violent lightning. The two Jedi and the Sith dueled in front of the holocomm, and Angral was forced to watch as Jasin struck down his son before his very eyes.

Angral declared undying hatred for Jasin in the minutes after the battle, and he swore to unleash untold devastation upon the galaxy to gain retribution. Lord Praven promised to kill Jasin personally, while Lord Nefarid gloated that they already controlled the Republic's superweapon projects. Furious, Angral gave Jasin a warning to deliver to the Jedi Council before he terminated the communication: he had returned, and—unlike Angral's last attack on the Republic during the Sacking of Coruscant—there would be no mercy this time. However, the Planet Prison had not yet completed its startup sequence, and the two Jedi were able to disable and destroy the weapon.

Upon returning to General Suthra at the Senate Tower and speaking with Grand Master Shan via holocomm, Jasin and Carsen learned from Suthra that Tarnis had sent the stolen superweapon files to his father before dying. Angral had declared war on the Jedi—Jasin in particular—in transmissions across all Republic channels, and since neither Din, Kiwiiks, or Galen had reported in, Var Suthra feared that the Republic's weapon projects were in danger. The Empire had declared that Angral was no longer under their protection and that his actions were unsanctioned, but the Mon Calamari strongly doubted that the Empire disapproved. Suthra asked Jasin to go to the planet Ord Mantell, where his agents had traced Tarnis's transmission, and gave them a Defender-class light corvette as a personal ship. At Shan's request, Jasin also took on Carsen as an official Padawan and assumed the role of Carsen's teacher in Kiwiiks' absence.

Hammer Station
Before continuing to Ord Mantell, Jasin docked at Carrick Station to gather supplies for their upcoming journey. While there, he received an urgent contact from Jedi Master Satele Shan and agreed to help with an urgent mission. The Advozsec Hegemony had stolen a Republic weapon from the first war called Hammer Station, which fired asteroids toward planets to take out strategic targets. However, the Advozse were threatening to use the weapon against cities full of innocents. Jasin&mdash;along with Prudii, Dankin, and Gareb&mdash;took a garbage scow aboard Hammer Station and disabled it, eventually killing the Advozse Warlord, Kreshan. Returning to Carrick Station, Jasin parted ways with the others&mdash;Prudii, Gareb, and Dankin headed for Taris, and Jasin for Ord Mantell.

Ord Mantell
Jasin, T7-O1, and Carsen took their new ship to Ord Mantell, which had been engulfed in a civil war for several years between the Republic-supported government and a separatist movement. General Suthra's agents had recently discovered that the Imperials had been aiding the movement by listening in on Republic transmissions from the Empire's secret listening post there. After they docked their ship aboard the Ord Mantell Orbital Station, the three contacted Suthra from the ship's holocomm. The Mon Calamari told Jasin to meet Agent Ottau on the surface and take Teeseven along so that the droid could hack into the Imperial facility's transmissions. Carsen was left behind to guard the ship while Jasin and Teeseven took a shuttle down to the Republic's Fort Garnik on the island of Avilatan, where they found Ottau on the outskirts of the base.

The SIS agent informed Jasin that his scout droids had been destroyed by the Imperial defenses, but he gave him the coordinates of the small island just north of Oradam village where the listening post was located. After they crossed the battle-scarred territory between Garnik and the island, Teeseven and Jasin forged a path through the Imperial defenses and descended into the facility's lower levels, where they eliminated all who opposed them. Finally, the two approached the post's hyperspace transceiver but found the last Imperial alive, a Lieutenant Marcovic, standing in their path. Jasin defeated the vibrosword-wielding Imperial officer, and Marcovic was disarmed and fatally wounded in their fight. As Marcovic stumbled backward, Teeseven approached the transceiver and began to slice into the listening post's records. The astromech found the record of Angral's transmission to Coruscant almost immediately and was able to trace the Sith Lord's signal back to the source, which allowed him to recover a copy of the files that Tarnis had sent to his father in the process. These files included plans for something called the "Desolator," and the Knight told Teeseven to copy everything. When he realized what the two were doing, Marcovic charged at the droid in a suicidal attempt to stop him. Jasin was not fast enough to cut him down before he destroyed the transciever.

Their mission completed, Jasin and Teeseven left the listening post and returned to Agent Ottau. After informing him of their success, they took a shuttle back up to the Orbital Station and returned to the docking tube to board their ship. However, their path was blocked by a surprising scene—a Sith Inqusitor was holding a lightsaber blade to Carsen's throat as several Imperial commandos trained their weapons on the Jedi. The Sith introduced himself as Ferav, an agent of Darth Angral—who had just departed from the station. Angral's forces had captured Carsen after Imperial spies aboard the station recognized her, and Angral himself had come to the station to interrogate her. Carsen had managed to trick the Sith Lord so that Angral believed that Jasin was on Corellia, and Ferav had remained behind as insurance while his superior departed. Ferav ordered Jasin to surrender or he would kill the Padawan, but Carsen called his bluff—Angral had told his subordinate that he wanted to kill Carsen and the Knight personally, and Ferav would not dare disobey. Furious, Ferav threw her aside and drew his lightsaber as he ordered his escorts to attack. Jasin engaged the Inquisitor in a duel, during which he struck down the Sith and defeated his commandos.

When the trio boarded their ship, the team contacted General Suthra to report their success. In the time since Jasin and Teeseven had left the Imperial base, Suthra's analysts had examined the data from Teeseven and determined several locations that were likely among Angral's targets. The "Desolator" files had revealed that Angral had sent agents to capture all of the Republic's weapon projects in an effort to construct the Desolator weapon, and Suthra asked Jasin to travel to both Taris and Nar Shaddaa in order to put a stop to some of Angral's plans. Around this time, Jasin was contacted by Flight Commander Judin of the Republic Navy, who recruited the Jedi into the elite fighter squadron known as the Coruscant Aegis—a new initiative by Fleet Admiral Numinn intended to break Imperial offensives quickly and quietly. Given the call sign "Shield," the Knight would fly missions for the Aegis across the galaxy throughout the next few years, along with Prudii, Gareb, and Dankin.

Taris
As the Jedi sensed that Suthra was more concerned over the situation on Taris, the Knight ordered Teeseven to set a course for the world. Taris had been a thriving city-planet until the Sith Lord Darth Malak ordered an orbital bombardment over 300 years before in an attempt to kill the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan. Over the last three centuries, the wreckage of the city had become overgrown, and the world was now a tangle of jungle and metal, haunted by wild beasts, including vicious creatures known as rakghouls. Recently, the Republic had started a resettlement initiative supported by the Republic Military, and the reconstruction efforts had seen progress under the leadership of the Twi'lek Governor Leontyne Saresh.

After they landed their ship at Olaris, the headquarters of the Republic resettlement initiative, the Jedi team contacted Suthra. The Mon Calamari confirmed Jasin's suspicions—he was concerned that the Sith had learned the location of one Doctor Nasan Godera. A brilliant weapons scientist with a deep-seated hatred of the Empire, Godera was the original creator of the different technologies that the Republic superweapon initiative later weaponized during the Cold War under Suthra's leadership, including the Planet Prison. However, Godera had left in disgust after the Republic bowed to the Empire when they submitted to the Treaty of Coruscant, and SIS agents had eventually tracked him to Taris. Godera maintained a series of secret laboratories in the ruins of the city-planet, manned by droid assistants, and the SIS had been content to allow the scientist to remain there in peace.

However, Suthra suspected that Tarnis had learned of Godera's location and leaked it to his father Angral, as the files recovered on Ord Mantell mentioned Taris too often for the general's liking. Jasin's assignment was to find and retrieve Godera for his own safety and investigate whether the Imperials had learned of his location. Setting out from their ship, Jasin, Kira, and Teeseven met Gareb and Prudii in Olaris. Prudii requested the help of Jasin's astromech to track down several missing scout teams. Jasin agreed, and Teeseven worked with Sergeant Elara Dorne at the Republic garrison while Jasin and Kira set out together into the swamps.

Suthra's suspicions were correct—upon their arrival at one of Godera's labs, Jasin and Kira found the facility overrun with Imperial forces. After they fought through the enemy forces, the pair encountered a holofeed of a man who identified himself as Watcher One of Imperial Intelligence. Watcher One was a high-ranking intelligence officer, and attempted to undermine the Jedi's confidence by revealing his knowledge of Jasin's exploits on Tython. Kira expressed worry that there could be a spy on Tython due to this. Watcher One further informed his opponent that duty required him to capture Godera before the Jedi could find him. The agent ended the conversation just as several Imperial soldiers decloaked themselves and opened fire, which forced the pair to defend themselves. Jasin and Kira defeated the attackers, but were surprised when one of Godera's droid assistants emerged from the wreckage of the lab and introduced himself as RE-M0.

When he learned that Jasin was a Jedi, RE-M0 confirmed that Godera's programming allowed the droid to override his main directive to only interact with the scientist and, as the current situation qualified as a crisis, interact with a member of the Jedi Order. RE-M0 revealed that he had been instructed to spy on the Imperials, and that he had witnessed Watcher One use the facility's computers to track Godera's biosignature. After he had done so, however, the agent had disabled the computers in an attempt to prevent pursuit by Jasin. RE-M0 then suggested that Jasin reset several of the exterior tracking relays while he repaired the computers, which would allow them to locate the doctor. Jasin therefore departed the lab and ventured deeper into the wilderness, where he and Kira located each of the three tracking relays. Despite the heavy pirate presence in the area—the ruined buildings and crashed ships had drawn many scavengers—they were able to reset the relays, while RE-M0 contacted Teeseven and Dorne to acquire their assistance.

RE-M0 then tracked Godera to one of his laboratories near Lake Brell to the south, and since the droid was not suited for combat, Jasin told the droid to remain where he was. Meanwhile, the pair headed south past the Republic's Waypoint Station Draay and to their target—a laboratory in the Brell Sediment region.

Upon the pair's arrival at the facility, Jasin was surprised to encounter a Rodian named Kulaa and his injured friend. Kulaa claimed that he and his companion had been Godera's assistants, and they had escaped when the Empire had attacked. After Jasin told the Rodian to carry his friend into hiding, he stormed the Imperial-held facility, where the pair cut a path through the enemy forces—but Jasin was dismayed to find Godera dead on the floor at Watcher One's feet. Watcher One announced that Godera had killed himself rather than face interrogation, and the agent was prepared to agree to a cessation of hostilities and leave Taris—but the operative was interrupted when RE-M0 rushed into the room. The droid managed to warn Jasin that Godera was not dead—he had run a second scan and located the doctor's bioscan in a different location just a few minutes ago—before the agent shot Godera's mechanical assistant. Cursing, "Watcher One" then activated a device on his wrist and disappeared as a heavily armored Imperial commando captain appeared in his place. The Imperial and his now-decloaked commandos opened fire upon Jasin and Kira, which forced the pair to eliminate their hostile enemies.

Watcher One contacted Jasin immediately after the skirmish and revealed that "Kulaa" and his "friend" had in fact been Watcher One himself and the unconscious Godera—the entire affair had been a farce. However, before Jasin could respond, the Imperial proposed a deal: a Sith assassin was on the way to eliminate a Republic colony nearby, and Watcher One would give Jasin the location of the colony in exchange for time to interrogate the scientist; the operative would then give Godera to Jasin once he had acquired what he needed. Forced to choose between the lives of the colonists and the mission, Jasin begrudgingly accepted the Imperial's offer and raced to the colony bunker on the shores of Lake Brell&mdash;contacting Gareb and telling him to meet them there. As the three Jedi and Qyzen Fess burst into the bunker, Jasin warned the colonists' leader Yelzrin of the coming threat and told him to evacuate the colony, but it was too late—with a crash, the assassin and her two jurgoran pets barreled through the door. The assassin, a Sith Pureblood by the name of Rora Seake, warned the colonists that they should not have returned to Taris just before she ordered her jurgorans to attack Jasin. Despite the beasts' massive size, Qyzen and Kira were able to defeat the two creatures, while Seake drew her orange-bladed lightsaber and engaged Jasin in battle. Seake was skilled, but in the end she was no match for Jasin's own innate power and fell to the Jedi's blade.

With the colonists now safe, Jasin parted ways with Gareb and rushed with Kira to the Imperial Intelligence Outpost in the depths of the partially-collapsed Transport Station 5. The two proceeded to fight through the rakghoul-infested tunnel system and cut a path through the Imperial forces that protected Watcher One's base, but Jasin found that the operative had already extracted the information he needed from Godera and was already beginning to transmit it to Darth Angral. Angral was furious to learn that Watcher One had compromised with his son's killer, and he ordered the agent to take Jasin alive and bring him before him. As he ended the transmission, Watcher One apologized for breaking their deal as he had to follow his duty, and then opened fire on Jasin. Jasin was able to defeat the agent, however, and the Imperial asked what the Jedi planned to do with him. When Jasin realized that Watcher One was an individual who valued honor, and that he worked with the Empire only out of a sense of duty, Jasin allowed the man to leave in peace. While Watcher One fled from the planet, Jasin freed Godera from his restraints and escorted him back to the spaceport in Olaris. There, he placed Godera in the custody of SIS agent Fau-Kes, who returned the doctor, now willing to resume his work for the Republic, back to the capital.

Nar Shaddaa
After they departed Taris, Jasin and his crew traveled to the heart of Hutt Space, where they arrived at Nar Shaddaa, the moon of the Hutt homeworld of Nal Hutta. The Smuggler's Moon, as it was often called, was considered neutral territory in the Cold War, so both the Empire and the Republic had official and unofficial presences on the world. Once they approached the moon in orbit, the crew contacted General Suthra and learned that Agent Galen still had not reported in, which left the Mon Calamari deeply concerned. Suthra then warned Jasin about the Nar Shaddaa weapons project, which he believed should have ended years earlier: the Power Guard project. After the Treaty of Coruscant, the Senate authorized the military to begin research into the tranmsformation of ordinary men into living weapons, and Nar Shaddaa's black market for both adrenal implants and cybernetics made it the perfect location for the project.

The project's goal was to create soldiers strong enough to take on a Sith single-handedly, something that Jasin objected to—the Republic already had Jedi for that. As Suthra pointed out, the Order had been severely wounded after the Sacking, and Nar Shaddaa's neutral status and lack of law enforcement allowed the project to progress in secret. That brought the general to the situation on the moon: after the Planet Prison files had disappeared, Galen had sought out the operative in charge of the Power Guard project, but the agent still had not reported back in. Jasin's assignment was to contact the SIS unit and then locate Galen and the project, so he and his crew landed at Deucalon Spaceport and took a taxi to the Promenade, a shopping and entertainment center located nearby. There, Jasin and Teeseven entered Gudnem's Gadget Emporium on the Lower Promenade and accessed the secret turbolift in the back of the store, which delivered the pair to the SIS safe house located beneath the shop. There, Jasin met with Bureau Chief Rieekan, who brought the Jedi up to date on the situation.

Galen and the SIS operative had disappeared in an area of Nar Shaddaa known as the Nikto Sector, and all that Rieekan knew about Galen's actual assignment was that he had been working directly for Suthra. Galen had left coded reports at SIS dead drops across the Nikto Sector, which could be used to track the SIS agent, but the whole area had become hostile to outsiders in the last few days as the Nikto gang known as the Kintan Kings seized control of the region. Rieekan had subsequently been forced to extract all of his agents from the area. Their conversation was interrupted by Special Agent Korol Tander, who was concerned that the Imperials had compromised them: only half of the SIS field agents had responded to the omega alert signal that he had just issued. Tander demanded that they abandon shop, which the chief shot down immediately—the unit had a responsibility to aid Jasin in the mission. Jasin and Teeseven took an air taxi to the Nikto Sector, where the pair made their way through the Kintan Kings to locate Galen's three dead drops. After Jasin collected the reports, he transmitted them back to Rieekan, who was able to decode the reports and a recorded message. In the holo, Galen reported that the operative whom he had been tracking turned up dead, and that there was clear evidence of torture—furthermore, the files on the Power Guard project were nowhere to be found. Galen had been unable to locate the main facility, but had managed to find a recruitment center in the area, where the project had recruited refugees as test subjects.

Rieekan transmitted the coordinates of the center to the pair, who followed the trail and found that the facility was under the control of a group of Imperial shock troopers. Jasin and Teeseven caught the shock troopers by surprise and quickly eliminated them before they freed their prisoners. One of the captives, an Anomid named Vell Narroc, revealed that he worked for the project and told the Jedi that Galen had been captured by the Imperials when he had stumbled upon the recruitment center. The Imperials' leader had wanted Galen alive, and the agent had been taken to the main lab in the Red Light Sector. When Jasin arrived in the Red Light Sector, Rieekan contacted him again and revealed his plan to locate the lab. The sector was one of the busiest on Nar Shaddaa, so if he knocked out several power conduits in the sector, the SIS would be able to sort through the remaining power readings and hopefully locate the project lab. The Knight and a companion therefore fought through the Bleeder gangs—groups of organ harvesters—who controlled the area and damaged several conduits. The SIS's plan was successful, as they were able to detect only one building that maintained a constant power reading when the conduits were sabotaged, and Rieekan sent Jasin the lab's coordinates immediately.

Upon arrival at the lab, Jasin found the facility under the control of Imperial forces and quickly cut a path through the soldiers to reach the main chamber, where he found an Imperial officer by the name of Graul in conversation with a masked figure via holotransmission. The figure, whom Jasin recognized as one of the men Tarnis had spoken to in the Jedi Temple, introduced himself as Lord Sadic. An apprentice of Angral, he congratulated Jasin on the defeat of Ferav and Watcher One, and informed his enemy that he had expected his arrival—once his men in the Nikto Sector failed to report in, Sadic knew that it was Jasin's doing. Commander Graul angrily accused Jasin of the murder of good and loyal men at the recruitment center, something which he apologized for, but Graul refused to accept it.

Their conversation was interrupted when Sadic activated a trio of Mark I Power Guards, heavily armored and armed with both blaster rifles and vibrostaves. Astounded by Sadic's cruelty and callous disregard for the lives of refugees, Jasin failed to get answers about Galen's whereabouts from Sadic before he was forced to fight Graul and the Power Guards. The Imperial and his mind-controlled soldiers quickly fell to Jasin's blade, and he recovered a datapad from the commander's body, which Rieekan asked to see when contacted. Jasin and Teeseven made their way back to the Promenade, but were alarmed to find the storefront that hid the SIS base under attack by Mark II Power Guards. After the two defeated the soldiers in the shop, they descended the turbolift to the safehouse and found that more Power Guards were holding the remainder of the SIS unit hostage. After the agents were freed, Jasin found Rieekan dead, but Special Agent Tander and Agent Diyaz were still alive. Tander began to panic and decided to abandon the Jedi, so he ordered Diyaz to pack up and leave, but Jasin thought quickly and gently persuaded the Twi'lek agent to stay, an action that did not pass unnoticed by Diyaz.

Diyaz agreed to aid Jasin and began to decode the datapad, which revealed that the Sith had taken the Power Guard research to a fallback position in the Lower Industrial Sector. More specifically, the coordinates pointed to an Imperial-controlled weapons factory in the region, and he departed for the new target with a companion after instructing Diyaz and Tander to contact General Suthra for reinforcements. After they traveled to the Lower Industrial Sector, the pair stormed the factory and eliminated all opposition within the outer chambers. The duo then unsealed the security door to the main room, but were surprised to find a hulking and familiar figure within: Galen, transformed into a Power Guard. Their ally warned the pair that they should not have come—Sadic had complete control of the agent, and had already forced him to reveal the location of the SIS safehouse. Almost two-thirds of the agent's biological mass had been replaced with cybernetics, and Galen explained that resisting Sadic's commands caused unbearable pain.

When Jasin tried to offer help, a holotransmission of Sadic interrupted him and derisively mocked the suggestion. Sadic's control of the agent was complete, and Galen's resistance was a minor obstacle—something he demonstrated by forcing the SIS operative to attack his allies against his will through the use of Galen's implants. A pair of Mark III Power Guards dropped down into the room as Galen opened fire, which forced Jasin to bat aside the blaster bolts and charge at the agent. Despite Galen's advantages in size and cybernetic enhancements, Jasin was able to disarm and defeat the Power Guard, and the SIS agent collapsed to his knees. As he fought Sadic's commands, Galen suddenly relaxed as Jasin's damage overloaded the neural implants that kept him controlled. However, the effects were only temporary, and his systems had already begun repairs, so he asked Jasin to kill him—the process was irreversible, and he'd rather die than continue to be a pawn of the Sith. Sadic intended to build thousands of Power Guards out of the Imperial prisoners of war in the prison district of Shadow Town, and Galen begged Jasin to eliminate him just as his systems came back online. However, Jasin refused to give up hope and denied Galen his request; he urged the agent to hold on and reminded him of his duty. Jasin's words inspired the operative and gave him the strength to fight his programming, and he agreed to aid in the fight against Sadic. However, to be safe, he decided to travel alone to Shadow Town and departed from the factory by himself. Leaving Teeseven to download what he could from the weapons factory's computers, Jasin contacted Kira and told her to meet him in Shadow Town.

After they took an air taxi to Shadow Town, Jasin and Kira cut a path through the Imperial guards and the district's defenses to reach Sadic's lab deep in the region. There, Jasin defeated the Mark III Power Guards that guarded the facility, and entered the lab to find something horrifying—in the pursuit of greater power, Sadic had undergone the perfected Power Guard process himself, which had transformed him from a man of average size and height to a hulking behemoth of cybernetics and armor. Disgusted by the Sith's willingness to cast aside his humanity so easily just for greater power, Jasin warned Sadic to surrender: his new strength would not save him from the power of the Force. Amused, Sadic began to muse about adding Jasin to his army before he was interrupted by the arrival of Galen, who warned the Sith that his time was over. Upon seeing that Galen was still functional, Sadic used a voice command to trigger the agent's implants at maximum and demanded that he obey or die. As Galen began to convulse in pain, Jasin urged him to fight back—Sadic only had power over the man if he allowed the Sith to control him. A laughing Sadic declared that he was power, but Galen spun around and leveled his blaster at the Sith Lord. Galen and Kira charged alongside Jasin, and in the fight that followed they defeated Sadic's Mark III Power Guard bodyguards and engaged the armored Sith Lord himself. The cyborg's size and power allowed him to bat aside his opponents like insects, but despite Sadic's might the trio stood strong against the Sith's attacks and wore him down. Together, the three were able to overcome the Sith and sent Sadic's armored form sprawling lifeless to the floor.

As they put away their weapons, the group was surprised to see Agents Diyaz and Tander enter the room along with several Republic commandos. Diyaz had planted a tracker on Jasin when they last met, and he had convinced his superior to come to the Jedi's aid. Tander introduced the commandos as members of Blackstar Squad, a unit from the Republic Special Forces Division, who had been called to Nar Shaddaa as part of a favor that Suthra had called in from General Elin Garza, the head of SpecForce Divison. The squad's assignment was to destroy Sadic's lab and recover any useful information, but Galen asked to remain and die with the facility. Tander and Jasin were able to convince Galen otherwise, reminding the agent that Sadic had no power over him anymore and that the SIS would help him.

As some of the commandos escorted the wounded Galen out of the lab, Diyaz announced that he had located the Power Guard files and asked about what to do with them. Over Tander's protests, Jasin ordered Diyaz to delete everything—the project was too heinous to use, even against the Sith. Upon returning to the spaceport, Jasin contacted Suthra via holocomm and was thanked for the decision to destroy the project. The Mon Calamari was relieved to hear that Galen was alive, but was also saddened at the loss of Rieekan and his agents. When Suthra informed Jasin that he was sealing the files on what happened on Nar Shaddaa, he objected—keeping secrets was what had gotten Rieekan and his men killed and Galen captured by the Sith. Realizing the truth of Jasin's words, the general promised to file a full report with his superiors.

Unknown Regions
However, Suthra had another matter to discuss: he had just received a potentially important message from Admiral Hacklin, one of Darth Angral's closest advisors. The admiral wanted to defect, but he would only speak with Carsen: she had encountered Hacklin back on Ord Mantell, as the admiral had been present with Angral during her interrogation. The Republic had heard rumors that Hacklin had earned a death mark, or bounty, and Suthra believed the offer was legitimate. Therefore, he was asking Carsen and the Knight to meet with him—the admiral's tactical knowledge and insight into Angral's operations could prove invaluable in the current crisis. Suthra had told Hacklin to meet the two at an abandoned mining facility out in the Unknown Regions, and he needed Jasin to head there immediately. Departing Nar Shaddaa, the crew soon reached the facility and docked aboard the abandoned station.

Leaving Teeseven aboard the ship, Jasin and Carsen disembarked and cautiously crossed the dark hangar to the only other ship there, one of Imperial design. The sole light from the Imperial ship spilled from the boarding ramp, which the two Jedi ascended to find the ship itself sealed. Uneasy, the two were about to begin searching the hangar when a young sandy-haired Human stepped out from behind a cargo container. The man, who was garbed in Imperial colors and carried a lightsaber at his hip, introduced himself as Valis and thanked them for their quick response. Apologizing for the deception, Valis explained that Hacklin was still loyal to Angral—the young man had simply used the admiral's name to lend credibility to his message. Carsen suddenly declared that the man was a Sith and told Jasin to kill him, drawing her lightsaber, but Valis simply smiled and asked her why she was acting that way—he was family. Surprised, Jasin asked Carsen to explain, but she claimed that Valis was lying. The Sith explained that Carsen was a Child of the Emperor, like him, and that he had been sent by their "father" to retrieve her. The Emperor's Children, he explained, were extensions of their "father"'s will and eternally favored servants of the Sith Emperor. Claiming he had no fight with Jasin, Valis asked him to stand aside and allow him to take Carsen home, but Jasin bluntly refused.

Carsen charged the Sith and attempted to strike him down, but Valis drew his purple-bladed saber in time to block the blow and threw her backward with the Force. Together, Jasin and Carsen engaged Valis in a duel, fighting through the arcs of violet lightning he cast at the two Jedi and his use of the Force to throw his opponents across the room and slam them into the floor. Despite Valis' power and brutal use of the dark side, the combined power of Carsen and Jasin was enough to defeat the Sith, and he soon fell dead to the hangar floor. Shocked and relieved, the two did not speak until after they had boarded their ship. There, Carsen gathered her resolve and spoke to Jasin in the ship's conference room. She had been born to Sith parents on the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas, but she was not a biological child of the Emperor—it was a title. Taken from her parents as a child like all other Force-sensitive youth in the Empire, she was placed in the Sith Academy on Korriban and trained there with Valis and other children. However, some of the trainees were occasionally taken to see the Emperor, and they could not remember anything of the meeting—something had happened to them. So, when a ten-year-old Carsen realized that she could not remember the events of the past week, she stowed away on a freighter heading for Nar Shaddaa.

There, Carsen lived among the refugees until she met Master Kiwiiks, who took her on as a Padawan. The Togruta did not suspect her past, and Jasin was the first person whom Carsen had told—but he immediately suggested telling the Council. Jasin believed that Master Shan and the others needed to know the truth, and Carsen agreed, ready to face the consequences no matter how harsh. Before departing for Tython, the crew contacted General Suthra and informed him of the events that had transpired. Disappointed, Suthra apologized for his mistake and delivered more bad news: Masters Kiwiiks and Din had missed their last two comm checks. Suthra asked Jasin to follow the Masters to the planets Tatooine and Alderaan, but first Jasin informed him of Carsen's secret and their plans to speak with the Council. At first suspicious that she was a potential spy, the Mon Calamari took Jasin's word that she was trustworthy. Ordering Teeseven to set a course for the Deep Core and Tython, Jasin and Carsen spent the journey meditating in their quarters.

On Tython, the two met with Grand Master Shan so that Carsen could explain the truth of her past. Shan summoned the Council so that Carsen could tell the other Masters, although only Masters Syo Bakarn, Jaric Kaedan, and Tol Braga could attend—Braga by holotransmission, Bakarn and Kaedan in person. Carsen's past intrigued Bakarn, as it gave the Council concrete evidence that the Children existed—though Bakarn did not know that he himself was the First Son of the Emperor, the Child who protected his fellows from detection by the Jedi. Kaedan, however, wanted to banish Carsen from the Order as she was now a threat, but Jasin spoke up and reaffirmed the trust that he had in the Padawan: Carsen would never betray the Jedi Order. Believing Jasin, Shan granted her blessing for Carsen to continue as jis Padawan, and the pair returned to their ship.

Assault on the Allusis
Before contacting Suthra, Jasin, Kira, and Teeseven stopped at Carrick Station. There, at the request of Master Shan, Jasin once again teamed up with Gareb, Prudii, and Dankin to liberate a Republic warship called the Allusis from a team of Mandalorian raiders called Clan Varad. Outcast from the main Mandalorian society, the clan Varad, and their leader Mavrix, had stolen the ship and were using it on pirating raids. Jasin agreed to lead the team, and they set out for the Allusis. Upon boarding the freighter, they were met by squads of Mandalorian warriors and their attack dogs&mdash;salky hounds. Fighting through the warriors, Jasin led the squad through the Allusis. After getting through the medical ward, they were intercepted by Braxx, the Mandalorian beastmaster, and a pair of specially-trained salky hounds.

After defeating Braxx and his bloodhounds, Jasin led the team through the ship until they were intercepted by an Imperial strike team sent by Darth Malgus&mdash;an Imperial-aligned Mandalorian named Kyrenic, a Sith Warrior named Rotham, a Sith Inquisitor named Vincine, and an Imperial operative named Andan&mdash;and was forced to engage the team before continuing their mission. Eventually, they reached the engineering bay, and found an opportunity to disable the security locks; however, doing so would vent an airlock full of unsuspecting Mandalorian warriors. Unwilling to sacrifice lives, even those of pirates, in such a way, Jasin merely locked the Mandalorians inside the bay and continued on. Finally, the team reached the launch control deck, where Mavrix Varad waited for them. Using Allusis's turrets, Varad attacked the team, but he was eventually struck down when Prudii shot him in a weak spot, and Jasin slashed open the blaster hole. Returning to Carrick Station, the four members of the strike team again went their separate ways.