The Sith Were Playing Checkers While REVAN was Playing 4D Chess

revans choices were always his own it was not teaching or circumstance or example it was him and there is something that the council may never understand that perhaps revin never feel the difference between a fall and a sacrifice is sometimes difficult but I feel that revin understood that difference more than anyone knew there are few characters from the Star Wars Expanded Universe that are as prominent as revin it's a challenge to be a Star Wars fan and never have at least heard this name before or have seen his iconic mask revin is beloved for many reasons to start he is supposed to be a self-insert for the player in Knights of the Old Republic his first appearance and is also widely considered to have been one of the most powerful force users of all time among the greatest of both the Jedi and the Sith but more important is who revin was his story and the unusual choices that he made are what make his character great today we're going to be diving into both in three thousand 964 BBY the Mandalorians launched a massive assault on the Republic beginning the final and most well known stage of the Mandalorian Wars the situation was dire but to the surprise and anger of many the Jedi Council opted to stay out of the conflict but some Jedi objected to the council's decision a group of Jedi led by a knight the Hornet named the reven schist set off to prove to the council that the order had to act the council vehemently opposed the Rev insist and his Crusader followers and even attempted to have them apprehended the Rev insists are on Cathar when the Jedi Council found them a world that had been completely depopulated ten years earlier with no known explanation as the Jedi Masters tried to apprehend the Crusaders their leader discovered a Mandalorian mask in the sand of the beach in which they stood and the whole group experienced a force vision through the vision they watched as Mandalorians under cassis FET drove the Cathar into the sea and massacred them an indefensible act that left the representatives of the council shaken only one Mandalorian had tried to stand up for the Cathar the same Mandalorian whose mask the Jedi had found the leader of the revansch ists claimed the mask for himself bowing to never remove it until order had been restored it to the galaxy it was then that he finally took the name reven the Masters that were sent to Cathar refused to arrest the Revengers and the Jedi Council reluctantly granted them sanction the council still refused to go to war but didn't stop Malek revans right-hand men from recruiting large numbers of Jedi to join the cause including a gifted young knight named Mitra suruc revin and his revanchist became Jedi generals leading the Republic military in a counter-offensive against the Mandalorians after reven Malek and a fleet of the Republic's new interdictor warships pushed the Mandalorians back out of the core worlds at duro Supreme Chancellor told Kresser made him the Supreme Commander of the Republic military much to the our of the Jedi Council and placed a full third of the military under his direct command the Revengers began to turn the tide of the Mandalorian Wars with Raven Malik and Mitra szerik becoming particularly famous for their roles in the conflict but revin was a step above both of his contemporaries he was a strategic genius the likes of which the Mandalorians had never seen a man who understood how to wage a war he understood that the key to victory was the Industrial might of the Republic and he harnessed that might and wasn't afraid to sacrifice entire planets to ensure it remained intact as the wars dragged on he began to take moral shortcuts leaving populations to die in order to win crucial battles and matching the brutal tactics of the Mandalorians blow-for-blow and it works under evan the republic did the unthinkable they pushed the Mandalorians back and launched a counter-attack invading Mandalore in space under Evan the Republic retook worlds like Taurus that had fallen in the first wave of the Mandalorian crusade and then they brought the war home to the Mandalorians on boksoon and Altair 3 those two campaigns though extremely costly for the Republic broke the back of the Mandalorian war machine by 3960 BBY revin was ready to finish the Mandalorians off and so he began planning a trap at Malick or five Malick or five was a distant world on the edges of known space considered taboo by the Mandalorians unbeknownst to everyone except Malik revenue the planet well he knew that it had a secret Malachor was home to betrayus Academy an ancient Sith site that contained a forbidden teachings reven visited the world and discovered these teachings which he introduced to Malik as well and both of them began to be drawn toward the dark side of the force and there was more on Malik or Reverend Malik discovered hints of a greater threat lurking in the Unknown Regions above Malik or reven set in place a ragtag fleet under the command of Mitra suri a fleet that contained the mass shadow generator a super weapon reven had ordered to be built for the battle the Mandalorians couldn't resist the bait revin had laid out for them and under the leadership of Mandalore the ultimate himself they pounced on suruc sleet with all that remained of their own but a Revan and Malak joined the battle of Malek all five with another fleet catching the Mandalorians in a battle on two fronts Malick and the fleet held the Mandalorians in place as revin personally boarded their flagship there on the bridge revin fought Mandalore the ultimate in single combat and after a fierce battle he killed him he left the ship with Mandalore's mask in his possession preventing the Mandalorians from choosing a new leader and then he ordered Metro suruc to activate the mass shadow generator the super weapon created a gravitational anomaly that annihilated Malik awe and killed untold thousands in the process warships both Republic and Mandalorian were drawn in toward the planet and crushed the atrocity turned Malachor into a gaping wound in the force the remaining Mandalorian surrendered unconditionally revin had them disarmed and they scattered it splintering without Mandalore's masks in two warring clans the Republic was victorious in the Mandalorian Wars but revin had bigger concerns as he lay dying at Mandalore the ultimate had told him he had been manipulated by the Sith into going to war and revans worst fears were confirmed he and Malek vanished heading off into the unknown regions to seek answers what they found was the true Sith an empire that waited on the edges of known space to crush the Republic a threat so unfathomably terrifying that a revenant quickly concluded there was no way the Republic would be able to survive it and it wasn't just the Republic that was in danger mind you the truce if were a threat to life itself and that was where reven came into his own others would have lost all hope for the galaxy upon finding what he found while others would have rallied the Republic for a lost and in vain but revin did neither instead his was a choice that no other being in the history of the galaxy made the only way the galaxy would survive the truce if he believed was if it was transformed into a military empire of its own right a SIF Empire and so revenant became Darth Revan and Malak became Darth Malak and the true declared themselves the Dark Lords of the Sith but uniquely revin did not fall to the dark side he chose the dark side as one would choose a tool something that no other being in galactic history had even been able to do without being consumed he knew the true Sith had to be stopped and was determined to make whatever sacrifices were necessary to stop them together with newly built assassin droid HK 47 they traveled to Dantooine at Tatooine Kashyyyk Manan and Korriban and secret discovering Rakata new star maps on each planet they used these ancient artifacts to triangulate the location of weapon that they believed was their key to victory the star Forge the deep in the unknown regions in the system which had once been the heart of the Rakata infinite Empire Revan and Malak discovered the key to the ancient power of the Rakata a massive Space Station constructed 5000 years before the dawn of the Republic the star Forge was a super weapon that consumed stars and the raw power of the dark side to create nearly limitless fleets and armies revin used the star Forge to create a massive fleet of warships swarms of new sith fighters new and improved battle armor for his soldiers and legions of war droids the foundations of what would become his new Sith Empire Revan and Malak declared themselves openly in a surprise attack on their public shipyards at forest there are huge swath of Republic forces chose to join them as their allegiance to the heroes of the Mandalorian Wars proved stronger than their allegiance to the failing Senate reven made off with a huge portion of the Republic Navy which he put to use attacking key targets across the republic beginning a three-year long conflict that became known as the jedi civil war willing to use the star Forge only to a point reven tried to capture crucial manufacturing worlds and other key points cleanly and shifted brunt of his empires manufacturing demands on to them as much as he could but despite revans efforts to present the infrastructure of the republic he believed true war was against or rather over the Jedi reven opened a Sith Academy on Korriban to Train willing converts and put the star Forge and the Tres Academy which survived the destruction of Malachor five to use scrapping the Jedi that had been captured revin saw that scarred world as an asset as by drowning those who walked upon its surface in the horror of the atrocity that had taken place there Malachor quickly converted Jedi to the dark side now we claimed earlier that revin never truly fell to the dark side and so his use of Malachor may seem odd but he did what he did not out of desire for the supremacy of the darkness but rather because he understood the true Sith places like malloc or wounds and the force that corrupted and destroyed life were the strength of the true Sith reven having lived through the Mandalorian Wars saw that the Jedi were wholly unprepared for it and so instead of letting the true Sith corrupt and turn the Jedi to their side reven did it himself he believed that it was inevitable that the war that was to come would turn the July into the Sith and so he made sure that they became his sethe a Jedi fell to the dark side and joined reven Sith in large numbers and many of those who did not were killed meanwhile a reverence otter transforming the Republic into his empire he had beings that he considered destabilizing forces in the galaxy assassinated either by HK 47 his SIF assassins or his own hand on the battlefield his strategic genius was something that the Republic just couldn't match and indeed the only reason it survived at all was because of Bastila Shan a young Jedi who had the rare gift of battle meditation which won the Republic just enough battles to keep a revenue from total victory the Jedi Civil War at first went to plan but revin had failed to see one massive threat to his plans Malek his apprentice had come to resent him and he had even challenged revin for his rule of the Sith once sparking a jewel the left Malek without his lower jaw but Malek got his chance at in 3950 7bv uija Jedi set up a trap for Evan luring him into battle against a small Republic fleet during the battle a strike team led by Bastila Shan boarded Ravens flagship and attempted to capture the Dark Lord with reven distracted Malek ordered his ship to fire on the bridge of his master's flagship seemingly killing him but a raven wasn't killed in a battle he was severely wounded but his body was recovered by Bastila who secretly took him to the Jedi Council the council healed him and restored his shattered mind which they reprogrammed with new identity a soldier in the Republic fleet revin went on to be retrained as a Jedi and together with Bastila and the Kauravas he once more track down the star maps in a quest to defeat Malek who is now the Dark Lord of the Sith but that's another story one that we may yet tell in a future video so that was the story of Darth Revan this Sith Lord that never truly fell to the dark side but as usual what do you guys think would you be interested in hearing about the redeemed reven and how he saved the Republic let us know in the comments section below and just before you go make sure you check out all of those juicy links in the description below to join at the wider get C's community we have our discord our gates these gaming Network and the patron anyways guys as always thank you so much for watching and I hope to see you in the next video [Music] [Music]

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Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 21 2020

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Ah yes I loved this video

[u/DarthMatu52]

Ah I love this video hahaha saw it a couple weeks ago. Revan is the man for real. If anyone deserves the title of the Old Republic's Luke Skywalker, it's him.