Jedi Exile

The Jedi Exile is a video game character who features in Star Wars.

Biography

Meetra Surik was a Human Jedi Knight, on par with most Masters of the time, who studied - and taught - at the Academy on Dantooine as a Padawan. Master Kavar instructed her for a time. Before she could take her own apprentice, the Mandalorian Wars surged through the galaxy. Overwhelmed with compassion for the lives lost to the ravages of the Mandalorians on the Outer Rim, she joined the Republic forces led by Revan, who was the first Jedi Knight that had defied the Jedi Council to battle the Mandalorians. The Exile left a prospective Padawan, Mical (the Disciple), without a master. During the war, she came to serve as a General and oversaw the final, titanic battle at Malachor V, she gave the order to activate the mass shadow generator, which crushed both the Republic soldiers and Mandalorians caught in the weapon's destructive sphere. The amount of death and destruction caused such a substantial 'wound' in the Force that the Exile found herself suddenly and completely severed from it. The only Jedi under Revan able to turn away from the dark side after Malachor V, the Exile was also the only Jedi to return willingly to Coruscant, to face trial for her actions - and defend them. Although she passionately plead her case, the Jedi Council decreed she was to be exiled from the Jedi Order because she defied the Council's wishes and followed Revan to war (hence, why she was dubbed "the Exile"). In reality, the Council feared the 'wound' in the Force that surrounded the Exile. Some on the council felt that they were punishing the Exile not because of what she did, but because she was the only one the Council could avenge themselves on, and because she was symbolic of the many Jedi that had fallen to the dark side over the course of history. These council members felt that the Exile was the perfect opportunity to examine why and how so many Jedi fall to the dark side. However, the more conservative council members felt no need to do more than exile the former Jedi. At first, the Exile believes that the Jedi Council severed her from the Force or that the atrocities of war simply tore away her connection from the force. (The dialogues chosen does however suggest a different path, for example already knowing the Jedi Council had nothing to do with her condition, subtly.) Later, the Exile learned that she severed herself from the Force to save herself from the destructive Force wave that came from the death of all the beings at Malachor V and of the planet itself.

Atris orchestrated her return to known space; in order to attract the growing Sith threat, she leaked news of her return to the galaxy and, predictably, attracted the Sith's attention. However, the Ebon Hawk rescued her from an unappealing fate. The utility droid, T3-M4, helped guide the Ebon Hawk towards the mining facility at Peragus II. There she met with an old woman named Kreia. She was a mysterious Jedi Master - and the first, among many - who trained the eventual Sith Lord, Darth Revan. When he fell to the dark side, the Jedi Council exiled her from the Order, blaming her for his demise. She would eventually guide the Exile through her journey to find the missing Jedi Masters who sentenced her to exile, and reinstruct her in the ways of the Force. While searching for a way off the abandoned station, the Exile encountered Atton Rand, locked in the brig. After Darth Sion and a force of Sith Assassins arrived to kill the Exile (believing she was the last of the Jedi), the three escaped with T3-M4 onboard the Ebon Hawk and traveled to Telos. When the Sith pursued them in the asteroid field around Peragus, laser fire ignited the volatile fuel within the asteroids. This explosion destroyed both the facility and the entire asteroid belt, though the Ebon Hawk and the Sith were able to escape. After arriving at the massive Citadel Station in orbit around Telos, someone had stolen the Ebon Hawk and T3-M4 and brought them to the Telosian surface. Using alternative transportation to get down to the surface, Czerka air-defense turrets shot down the Exile's party. A Zabrak engineer named Bao-Dur, who designed the Mass Shadow Generator and served under the Exile at Malachor V, saw the crash and pulled the three unharmed from the wreckage. While on the surface, they learned that someone had taken the Ebon Hawk to the old planetary aqueducts in the polar region of the planet. Stealing a shuttle from an abandoned military compound, they traveled to the aqueducts and found Jedi Master Atris there, a member of the Council who sentenced the Exile. Atris was attempting to recover lost Jedi teachings and had surrounded herself with several Echani sisters. These sisters were Handmaidens, who had vowed not to learn the ways of the Jedi, and instead are trusted to watch them for traces of the dark side, and watch after them. After speaking with Atris, the Exile and her party left with the Ebon Hawk and T3-M4.

After leaving the academy, T3 revealed that he had managed to download Atris's database while being held, including a recording of the Exile's trial where the last five remaining Jedi Masters were hiding: Atris on Telos, Kavar on Onderon, Vrook Lamar on Dantooine, Zez-Kai Ell on Nar Shaddaa, and Lonna Vash on Korriban. The crew goes off to these worlds in search of the Jedi Masters in an attempt to unite them against the Sith and to find the answers as to why the Exile was sentenced as such. However, finding the Jedi Masters proves to be a difficult task for the Jedi Exile because the Jedi Civil War, which ended five years ago, had torn apart the galaxy. However, the damage that the Jedi Civil War caused takes a back seat to the Republic's ailing political and economical state and the assassinations of countless Jedi and Force Sensitive individuals at the hands of the Sith Lords Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus. In her quest to discover the truth behind the decision of the Jedi Council to exile her, the Jedi Exile stabilizes the key outer rim worlds of Telos, Onderon and Dantooine. Escaping the destruction of Peragus Mining Facility, the Telosian Restoration Effort faced an impeding crisis from the lack of cheap Peragian fuel. Telos represents a chance for rebuilding, to a Republic on the brink of collapse. The success of the Telosian Restoration Effort rests on the Jedi Exile, and the project's failure could result in a permanent economic downturn for the Republic.

In Onderon, the great city of Iziz is in turmoil over the political feuding between idealistic and young Queen Talia and her pragmatic and experienced cousin, General Vaklu. Whichever side the Exile chooses may or may not affect the Republic negatively. When General Vaklu's political ambitions for an independent Onderon threatened to cause Onderon to secede from the Republic, the Republic fears that Onderon's secession could trigger much other secession from Outer Rim and Mid Rim worlds, a situation that could spell doom for the weakened Republic. In her quest to find Kavar, the Jedi Exile either supports Vaklu and brings about Onderon's secession from the Republic (from a certain point of view, ending the political wrangling to bring stability) or aids Talia against Vaklu in the Civil war and secures Onderon's position as a member of the Republic. Supporting Vaklu forces a confrontation between the Exile and her former friend Kavar. Dantooine, which Darth Malak bombarded during the civil war, is where the Jedi Exile meets Vrook Lamar. On Dantooine, the Exile finds Mical, a former Padawan turned Republic soldier, and took him along (if the player is male, the Handmaiden would have joined the Exile after the player left Telos). While Dantooine has no Republic support, it remains an important defensive military tactical site for the Republic against outer rim invasions. Dantooine's problem with mercenaries escalates when a man named Azkul, representing Czerka Corporation, attempts a military take over of the colony world. Either the Jedi Exile supports the Azkul’s mercenaries or she lends a hand to Dantooine's Khoonda militia, repelling the mercenary attack. Supporting Azkul and his mercenaries will inevitably lead to a duel between the Exile and Master Vrook.

Master Zez-Kai Ell is found on Nar Shaddaa and can become either an ally or an opponent for the Exile to test herself against, based on the Exile's choices. In the canonical story arc, the Exile aids the refugee population of Nar Shaddaa in their struggle with the oppression and exploitation of the crime syndicate the Exchange, who have an interest in capturing Jedi. The Exile's interference with the refugees sets up a showdown between the Exile, her crew, and the Exchange with its mixed array of bounty hunters, thugs, and crime bosses. Alternatively, in the non-canon story, contributing to various downfalls in the Refugee Sector and elsewhere gains the Exile prestige in the eyes of the Exchange, until the Exchange boss meets with her. The Exile sets up a ploy to kill him with the mercenary Hanharr. In both storylines, the Exile is taken aboard the crime lord Goto's ship, where she is eventually rescued by the rest of her crew, and goes on to confront Zez-Kai Ell, for better or for worse. The Exile also visits Korriban in her journey, learning the history of some of the former Sith Lords, as well as having confrontations with her own past in a strange cave ruin. However, in the end, it came down to locating Master Lonna Vash, and after navigating the ruins of the Sith Academy, the Exile found the former Master freshly dead. Vash's resourceful thinking before death, however, allowed the Exile a chance to escape the Academy, but not until after a confrontation with Darth Sion.

Overview

Powers and abilities

The Exile is a skillful practitioner of the Force, with a unique strength. This unique strength is the unusually strong connection to the Force the Exile possessed, through her ability to easily form Force Bonds between herself and other people or even places.

Another facet of the Exile’s character was her leadership ability. The late Master Vandar described her as a natural leader; the Republic officers and soldiers under her authority were tremendously loyal to her. Coupled with her force bonding, the Exile’s leadership potential is unparalleled.

Revan counted on this loyalty when he sent the Exile down to the Dxun jungle to do the impossible: break a Mandalorian defensive that had developed a near impregnable siege defense in the jungle moon for close to four years. The Exile’s soldiers and officers were fewer than ideal, but the Exile’s unit pressed them on, defending them valiantly and inspiring them to fight against the odds.

With the Mandalorians littering their defensive perimeter with mines and droid placements, what started out as a battle became a slaughter as the Mandalorians frequently mowed down several of the Exile’s men as the Republic attempted to drive the Mandalorians to a retreat. The Jedi Exile, convinced that the war would end with a Republic victory, fought tirelessly and persistently to the awe of the Mandalorians. The Exile’s tattered unit held on long enough for Revan to launch the Republic’s critical attack. Although it was Revan’s victory that day, few knew that the Exile’s dogged insistence had provided Revan with his opportunity at victory.

Notes

• The Jedi Exile was created by Obsidian Entertainment where she featured in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords as part of the Star Wars Legends continuity.
• The New Essential Guide to Droids (2006) established that the character was female whilst The Old Republic: Revan (2012) provided her name as being Meetra Surik.
• Within the game, the Jedi Exile is fully customizable by the player, and thus can take several different appearances and either gender. The male and female storylines have minor differences, with the most notable one being one of the player's party members (Brianna, the Last Handmaiden, only joins a male Exile's party, and Mical, the Disciple, only joins a female Exile's party). In addition, there is a scene on Nar Shaddaa, where the Exile meets a Twilek named Domo, who hires her to dance for Vogga the Hutt. If the Exile is female, she gets dressed into a red bikini and they brought her to Vogga as a dancing girl. However, if the Exile is male, either the Handmaiden or Mira becomes the dancing girl instead.

Appearances

• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords:
• Star Wars: The Old Republic:

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