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Friday Update: Jedi Civil War Timeline

This week's Star Wars: The Old Republic update is the Jedi Civil War Timeline:

One of the greatest threats to the Republic preceding the Great War arose approximately three hundred years before when the Sith Lords Darth Revan and Darth Malak began the Jedi Civil War. Jedi Master Gnost-Durals historical investigation steps back to this era, and he examines new evidence which reshapes the Orders understanding of the events surrounding Revans fall and his ultimate fate.

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BTC 303 Three hundred years before the Sacking of Coruscant, two prominent Jedi Knights pursued enemy forces into Deep Space at the conclusion of the Mandalorian Wars. When the two Jedi, Revan and Malak, returned to Republic space, they had fallen to the dark side. As Sith Lords, Revan and Malak began searching the galaxy for a powerful ancient artifact known as the Star Forge. During their dark campaign, however, Malaks ambitions grew and eventually drove him to betray Revan, sparking the bloody Jedi Civil War. Though Revan was ultimately redeemed and restored peace to the galaxy, he disappeared afterward in search of a great darkness in Deep Space. Through his investigation, Master Gnost-Dural now confirms that this great darkness is the Sith Empire the Jedi Order battles today.

Watch the latest Timeline holorecord, The Jedi Civil War, narrated by actor Lance Henriksen.

You can also download a high resolution version of this video.

Highlights after the jump.



In the timeline there is the glimpse of Revan unmasked but in true game fashion, with his back to the camera. He is seen as a white male with black hair. If you have a chance to go back to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, then you will also notice that none of the characters you can create have the same hairstyle as the Revan in the timeline. Due to this and other obvious reasons, we cannot make any leaps to associate the hairstyle with a particular character portrait in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. The timeline offers a nice summary of the events in Knights of the Old Republic for those that haven't played it but for those that have, will find themselves longing for more information on the beloved character of Revan.

UPDATE: Rob Chestney on the timeline:

Hey Folks,

Just reading the responses to the Jedi Civil War Timeline, and I thought it would be worth commenting on a few things.

Firstly, the canon for Lucas is that Revan was male and that he followed the light-side ending for KotOR. That said, if you played KotOR, and experienced it differently, please use your imagination to make it work. We really didn't want to spoil anyone's KotOR memories and in fact, in any place we could, we tried to be inconclusive about these things. Ultimately, though, even for TOR it was necessary to come up with something firm about who Revan was and what he did.

Also, there is a glaring error in the timeline in describing the Rakatan technology as being developed 25 centuries ago. It was actually developed 25 millennia ago. We will try to go back and correct that at some point.

Keep in mind, as some other posters have referenced, the timelines are authored by a Jedi Master living 300 years after KotOR. Not all the facts were confirmed by the Jedi, and in some places, he may be wrong about what actually occurred. That goes for all the timelines.

Neantibi brought up a connection he noticed on the SWTOR Official Forum to one of the old timelines after seeing Revan's depiction in the latest video:

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