What happened at M 5 during the war?

[Quietus1]

Neither game goes into this much (or if it does I missed it).

 

All I have gathered (via the snippits of info given when saving game on Malachor in KOTOR2) is that Reven lured the mandalorians there, (something about a cultural taboo was mentioned as well), and the planet was somehow destroyed by a "mass shadow generator", which took out the mandalorians and much of the republic fleet as well.

 

Can anyone fill me in?

[Calax]

the search too is your friend.

[SteveThaiBinh]

As you posted in the right forum, I'll try to answer the question as best I can.

 

The problem is that the game doesn't explain clearly - instead, you have lots of little bits that you have to put together. As far as I understand it, it goes something like this:

 

Malachor was a secret Sith academy long before Kotor 1. It's a special place somehow strong in the Dark Side.

 

During the Mandalorian Wars there was a major battle at Malachor, the turning point of the war (though not the last battle) which led to Mandalore's defeat and Revan's victory. The conventional battle was won because a machine called the Mass Shadow Generator (created by Bao Dur) did something , though I'm not sure it was ever explained precisely what the machine did.

 

Secretly, Revan knew that a devastating battle at Malachor would 'corrupt' lots of Jedi, and this is what happened. There was a massive wave of evil as a result of so many deaths + Malachor's special Dark Side-ness. All the Jedi were either killed or turned to the Dark Side because of it, apart from the Exile. The Exile cut off his connection to the Force, saving her from either death or falling to the DS.

 

After the Mandalorian Wars Kreia found the old Sith Academy and fell to the Dark Side, becoming Darth Traya. She re-opened the academy and started training Sith Assassins. At some point, Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion joined her. They quarrelled, and Traya/Kreia was throw out. She left in search of the Exile.

 

Eventually the Exile returned to Malachor, but what happens next depends on whether you chose the LS or DS path in the game.

 

It's a while since I played or thought about this, so if anyone is willing to correct my mistakes, that'd be great. :D

[Calax]

During the Mandalorian Wars there was a major battle at Malachor, the turning point of the war (though not the last battle) which led to Mandalore's defeat and Revan's victory.  The conventional battle was won because a machine called the Mass Shadow Generator (created by Bao Dur) did something , though I'm not sure it was ever explained precisely what the machine did.

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I tried to explain that in another thread. go look there. it's under "On Star Wars" you have to look for it.

[11XHooah]

During the Mandalorian Wars there was a major battle at Malachor, the turning point of the war (though not the last battle) which led to Mandalore's defeat and Revan's victory.  The conventional battle was won because a machine called the Mass Shadow Generator (created by Bao Dur) did something , though I'm not sure it was ever explained precisely what the machine did.

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From what I could ascertain, the Mass Shadow Generator was a machine that served as a weapon of mass destruction. It was used to annhilate both army's fighting on the surface of Malachor V in a last ditch effort to win the war. Bao-Dur always seems to be saying that he wished he had never activated it. As a result, the thousands of deaths were too much for the exile which forced him/her to disconnect from the force to prevent death.

[darthrichard]

wait...aparently reven converted all the jedi with...THE STAR FORGE...from kotor1

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Has anyone bothered listening to the Jedi masters on the rebuilt enclave? Vrook says the armies were crushed by the planets gravity AND on the ravager it says that the ship escaped the gravity well (otherwise known as mass shadow generator). Also, Malachor looks all squeezed up. Which would conclude that th mass shadow generator worked like a gravity bomb. A BIG gravity bomb.

[Cassidy]

From what I have gathered, the MSG created a super strong gravity on Malachor. That super gravity twisted and warped the planet's shape, and aslo killed practically everyone on the planet's surface. Only those really strong in the force can walk on Malachor's surface without being crushed in the massive gravity. Nihilus' ship, forgetting the name ATM, it was torn from the intense gravity of Malachor's orbit as a way for Nihilus to escape the surface.

[GhostofAnakin]

Nihilus' ship, forgetting the name ATM, it was torn from the intense gravity of Malachor's orbit as a way for Nihilus to escape the surface.

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The Ravager, I believe.

[Invoker]

Bao-Dur always seems to be saying that he wished he had never activated it.

 

He wouldn't have. The Exile gave the order to Bao-Dur who then activated it resulting in a massive gravity well that literally crushed everyone on the planet, but somehow leaving the academy on it intact.

 

Hadn't the Exile given the order, I doubt Bao-Dur would've activated it.

 

Speculations only, peeps. Don't chew my head off

[KOTORFanactic]

Read this for answers.

 

Malachor V Before and during KOTOR2