Jedi Exile
The Jedi Exile is a video game character who features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Meetra Surik was a female Force-sensitive Human who lived a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
At some point, she came to be inducted into the Jedi Order where she trained to be a Jedi Knight. In this time, she came to be deemed 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, 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. 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. 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.
During her adventures, Surik met many beings who became her companions. She found many of them to be Force-sensitive, and thus she trained them in the Jedi ways. During this time the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Nihilus had sent his Shadow Hand, the Miraluka Visas Marr, to assassinate Surik. However, after a brief lightsaber duel she was able to redeem Marr, accepting her into the ship's crew and retraining her in the ways of a Jedi Sentinel. With Marr gained as an ally, Surik knew she could not hide her presence for long, however she also knew that she had an inroad into finding at least one of the Sith Lords who hunted her. Surik also helped Bao-Dur overcome his guilt over the lives lost at the Battle of Malachor V, and trained him in the ways of a Jedi Guardian. When two Twi'leks on Nar Shaddaa warned Surik about Atton Rand - saying he was a killer and not just a soldier - she approached Rand about this. Initially upset about being asked about his past, Rand however revealed his past as a soldier under the Republic during the Mandalorian Wars, and as a Sith trooper during the Jedi Civil War. He told her that he decided to leave the Sith after he killed a female Jedi, with whom he fell in love, after she showed him the Force. After Surik forgave him for killing that Jedi and welcomed his honesty, Rand asked her if she would train him to be a Jedi. Surik agreed, and began training him as a Jedi Sentinel.
Surik endeavored to stabilize the political conditions on several planets: on Nar Shaddaa she helped the refugees who were being exploited by the Exchange criminal organization, destabilizing its operations on the moon by killing the Quarren crime lords Saquesh and Visquis. She also destroyed the crime lord G0-T0's flagship, the Visionary. G0-T0 himself went along with Surik in hopes of stabilizing the galaxy. He later admitted to her that he was the droid intended for the Telos Citadel Station. She then met with Jedi Master Zez-Kai Ell and convinced him to go to the ruins of the Dantooine Jedi Enclave. After Surik's exploits on Nar Shaddaa, she discovered that the bounty hunter Mira, who joined her party on Nar Shaddaa, was Force-sensitive, and she showed Mira how to harness the Force. When Surik and her crew traveled to Onderon, the Ebon Hawk was attacked by one of General Vaklu's commanders, Colonel Tobin. After destroying the Onderonian starfighters sent to intercept the Ebon Hawk, they were forced to land on Dxun, the moon of Onderon where she fought during the Mandalorian Wars. After completing various tasks, the Mandalorian leader on Dxun, Mandalore the Preserver, allowed Surik to take one of their shuttles to Iziz, the capital of Onderon. After gaining contact with Jedi Master Kavar in the Iziz Cantina, Tobin interrupted the meeting, forcing Kavar to flee, but not without promising to contact her when he was able. Surik and Mandalore killed Tobin's forces that attacked them in the cantina and the western square, and proceeded to leave the city. After they returned to Dxun, Mandalore joined Surik not only because he felt she need an ally against the Sith, but because he intended to look for Mandalorian clans on other worlds so that he could reunite them under "his" leadership. She then helped Mandalore in finding scattered clans on Nar Shaddaa and Dantooine.
When she travelled to Dantooine, she met with Terena Adare, who was the Khoonda outpost's administrator. Adare granted Surik permission to search for Vrook Lamar in the Jedi Enclave's ruins. Surik met a scientist and historian named Mical, who was Surik's prospective Padawan before she left to fight in the Mandalorian Wars; he joined her crew and she eventually re-trained him as a Jedi Consular. After rescuing Lamar from being shipped to Nar Shaddaa by a band of mercenaries in the Crystal Cave, she was confronted by the mercenary leader Azkul, a veteran of the Jedi Civil War who was trained at Darth Malak's academy. Azkul asked Surik to join him and take over Khoonda; however, she refused, and he left, ordering the mercenaries accompanying him to kill her. After defeating them, she returned to Khoonda, bolstered its defenses and finalized the battle plans with the local militia leader, Zherron. She and Lamar fought in the ensuing battle, killing Azkul and his mercenaries. Having successfully defending Khoonda, she spoke with Lamar, and convinced him to meet with the other Jedi Masters she would find at the Academy. Surik eventually received a message from the Mandalorian Kelborn, telling her that he had received a message from Kavar. She traveled to Dxun, where Kelborn told her that Vaklu met with the Council of Lords, and had them declare Queen Talia, who was his cousin, guilty of treason. Kreia sensed something stirring on Dxun, and asked Kelborn whether or not they picked up anything on their sensors. Kelborn confirmed that they had, and Surik sent three members of her crew to deal with the Sith forces at the tomb of the ancient Sith Lord Freedon Nadd. She then traveled with Kreia and one other crew member in a Basilisk war droid provided by Mandalore. After Surik and her companions landed in Iziz, they made their way to the Royal Palace, assisting Captain Bostuco in defeating Vaklu's exterior forces. When she made her way into the palace, Tobin locked the door that led to the Queen's throne room; after overriding the security codes, she killed the drexl larva that Tobin and the Sith forces used to breach the throne room. She then assisted Talia's forces in fighting Vaklu's soldiers, killing all but four. After Vaklu ordered the four remaining troops to kill Talia, Kavar and Surik intervened, killing them and defeating Vaklu. Kreia then tried to convince her to have Talia execute Vaklu, who was unarmed at the time, claiming he was too dangerous to be left alive. Surik, while respecting her counsel, said that the decision was the queen's to make, not hers. Talia then ordered her troops to execute Vaklu, ending the Onderon Civil War. After the battle, Surik spoke with Kavar, who said he would meet with her and the Council on Dantooine.
Overview
Personality and attributes
After being stripped of the Force, Surik came to lose her memories and was given the name of the Jedi Exile.
Throughout her life, Surik formed bonds with her comrades, even those who were supposedly her superiors or lesser in rank. It was said that during her training, many fellow Padawans were quick to do whatever she did, and that others disliked her intensely.
Powers and abilities
Meetra Surik was a female human born as a Force-sensitive.
The Exile was 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.
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.
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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