Prelude

The Sith Lord Darth Nihilus was informed by his former Master, the Sith Lord Darth Traya, that the Jedi Master Atris and a reforming Jedi Order was in a secret academy on the planet of Telos. Master Atris was a former Council member of the Jedi Council before it was annihilated by Nihilus several years earlier on the Mid Rim world of Katarr.

Nihilus immediately set out to finish the mission he'd done incompletely on Katarr, gathering his whole fleet for a strike on Telos to eradicate the last hopes of reestablishing the fragmented Jedi Order.

However, the Lord of Hunger had been deliberately misinformed by Traya, who was also known as the Master of Deception amongst both the Jedi and the Sith. Firstly, Atris was no longer a Jedi Master. She had collected Sith holocrons in order to learn about her enemy, but overestimated her resistive powers, and fell to the dark side. Secondly, there was no "reforming Jedi Order". When Nihilus arrived at Telos and killed Atris, he would be searching for more nonexistent Jedi. In fact, there were only three Jedi left in the galaxy, and none of them were even near Telos.

The Lord of Hunger would remain on Telos, searching for the Jedi that never existed. He would starve himself of life, and die, ending the reign of Darth Nihilus.

Nihilus launched his fleet from beyond the Outer Rim, with a proto-Star Destroyer named Ravager and two Sith Interdictor cruisers, and many highly manueverable Sith Interceptors, and set course for Telos.






















Battle

The Ravager Fleet descended on the undefended Citadel Station, a massive space station up to an eighth of the surface area of Telos orbiting over the devastated planet. Nihilus launched his Sith interceptors, sending them shooting through the urban terrain of Citadel Station: attacking buildings, destroying property, etc... The Ravager and her two Interdictor escorts began to fire on the station, destabilizing it and slowly making it fall out of orbit.

Waves of Sith assault shuttles landed, bringing hundreds of Sith infantrymen and Dark Jedi onto the station. Their objective was to sabotage the fuel pods located in the Telosian Security Force station in Entertainment Module 081. With the supply of limited fuel cut off, the engines wouldn't be able to keep the station in geosynchronous orbit, making the massive station crash into the uninhabited planet below. With Citadel Station out of the way, Nihilus would then descend to the planetary surface, kill Atris and find the "new Jedi".

The Telosian Security Force tried valiantly to hold off the Sith ground group, but their security office in Entertainment 081 was overrun by teams of Sith troopers and Dark Jedi apprentices. When Lieutenant Dol Grenn tried to counterattack to retake the fuel supply, the Sith defeated the peacekeeping squads and charged through other parts of the station: spearing through Residential 082 East and then its sister building, Residential 082 West.

The T.S.F. transmitted a distress signal to the Galactic Republic, and resolutely dug in at the Ithorian compound at Residential 082 West, forming lines of infantrymen to hold off the advancing Sith waves of soldiers, assassins, and turrets.

Luckily, the modified freighter Ebon Hawk (the transportation vehicle for the Jedi Exile and his team) docked near the Ithorian compound and dropped off the Exile and two of his allies. The Republic also arrived in the nick of time, coming in with a fleet of a medium cruiser (Sojourn) and five light cruisers. Ground forces from all over the Republic also came: Dantooine militiamen, Mandalorians from Dxun, and Queen Talia's Onderon Loyalists. Those troopers, combined with the Exile's team, rallied the failing T.S.F. forces and broke through the Sith cordon at 082 West, sliced through the Sith of 082 East, and finally advanced to Entertainment 081. The Sith at the T.S.F. station realized that they were in danger of being overrun by the rampaging Jedi before they could complete their fuel sabotage, and desperately locked the door.

The Jedi Exile and his two companions broke in, slaughtered the 4 Dark Jedi apprentices and their Sith trooper escorts, and saved the fuel pods before Citadel Station spiraled into the planet below.

After the Exile defeated the Sith at the T.S.F. station, it was time for the Republic to go on the offensive. The two Sith Interdictors had stopped firing at the station, instead attacking the newly arrived Republic space fleet, but the Ravager continued to assault the station with turbolasers. Even with the fuel sabotage foiled, Citadel Station would still crash unless more Republic reinforcements arrived to divert the attention of the Ravager or someone destroyed it somehow.

Reinforcements were out of the question. Therefore, Admiral Carth Onasi, commander of Fleet Sojourn, formulated a daring plan. The Jedi Exile would lead a strike team onboard the Ravager, plant 4 proton cores (high-power explosive devices) at critical weakpoints of the structure of the Sith warship, kill the marauding Darth Nihilus and eliminate him forever, and quickly leave.

The Exile, Mandalore, Visas Marr, and a Dxun Mandalorian commando team boarded a Telosian orbital shuttle, and took off. They managed to dodge the worst of the fighting and get into a small hangar bay on the main deck of the Ravager. After a few Mandalorian commandoes secured a compartment from Sith commandoes, their leader deemed that the area was secure, and that the team would enter.

Fending off Sith troops, the Exile's team positioned its first proton core at a ruined turbolaser bay on the starboard side of the warship. Pushing through squads of Sith commandoes and Dark Jedi apprentices, a second explosive was placed at a wrecked dead-end passage on the starboard side. A third proton core was put on yet another dead end passage. The last was going to be placeed on an exposed firing bay on the portside side of the Ravager. However, before the strike force could set and prime the fourth, a Sith counterattack managed to prematurely detonate the first proton core near the hangar bay.

After the Exile set the fourth proton core, he and his team broke into the maintanace bay, delicately removed a proton core from a proton missile in storage, and re-placed it.

The first objective was complete. It was now time to kill the first of the three remaining Sith Lords.

The team marched onto the command deck of the 1767-meter long proto-Star Destroyer. After brushing through heavier resistance than the one found on the main deck, the Exile's team managed to reach the vast cavernous command bridge, whose forward viewport offered a panoramic view of Telos IV and the gray block which was the recently-saved Citadel Station.

The Exile, accompanied by Visas and Mandalore, approach Darth Nihilus, who has his back turned on them and was observing the space battle. As the Exile crept nearer, with the rest of his team in a staggered formation, it turned out that they didn't manage to achieve surprise on the omniscient Sith Lord. Nihilus stunned them with a wave of his gloved hand, and drew a single blazing crimson lightsaber.

The Exile told Nihilus that Traya had lied, and that there was no Jedi Order, and attacked. After the heavily outnumbered Darth Nihilus had lost about half of his vitality, Visas Marr, his former apprentice, reached into the Force and disconnected the stream of Force that the Sith Lord drew from his flagship. This stunned Nihilus. After the Exile had landed a few "free" lightsaber blows on the mighty master of the soon-to-be-annihilated Ravager, Nihilus recovered and desperately fought to the end with his three enemies, using the Force power of "Drain Life" repeatedly to restore his vitality. However, at the end, the Exile defeated Nihilus.

With the Sith Lord dead, Visas removed her fallen former master's mask, and saw what laid within using the Force. She said she felt the shattered planet of Malachor V, and then gave the Exile the mask, increasing his connection to the Force.

Finally, the three party members and the Mandalorian squad boarded the Telosian shuttle they'd arrived in, and left the Ravager as the Sith flagship fragmented behind them.

Epilogue

After the loss of the Ravager, the Sith fleet fell into disarray and splintered, making them easy pickings for the formerly outgunned Republic fleet lead by Admiral Onasi on his flagship, the Sojourn.

The admiral and the Jedi Bastila Shan, who had both served with the great Jedi named Revan (the player character in the original Knights of the Old Republic), then questioned the Exile if she knew the current whereabouts of their former leader. Revan had disappeared into the Unknown Regions to stop a menace that was threatening to destroy the galaxy. He was never heard from again.

The Exile admitted she'd not seen anything of her own former friend, and promised to Carth and Bastila that if she found something about Revan, she'd pass it on. She then travelled on to Malachor V to stop Kreia.