Order of Revan

The Order of Revan, whose followers were known as Revanites, was a secret society that developed into a military conspiracy and was defeated during the Revanite crisis. It began within the Sith Empire, where adherents studied Revan’s example and concealed beliefs that challenged accepted loyalties. Under Revan’s personal leadership, the movement later infiltrated both Imperial and Galactic Republic institutions to support his campaign against the Sith Emperor.

These stages offered substantially different experiences of membership. An early initiate might have studied alongside people maintaining ordinary Imperial lives; a later operative might have served a conspiracy working against both governments. The timing of an affiliation matters to what a character believed, whom they served, and which consequences they inherited.

The Early Society

The early Order was believed to number several hundred followers. Its membership crossed substantial differences in Imperial status: influential Sith, officers, and enslaved aliens could belong to the same society. Some dedicated their lives to its teachings; others attended secret meetings while maintaining public careers and households.

Admission did not depend solely on social standing, although personal power and fervent commitment mattered. Prospective members faced demanding tests of loyalty and sincerity. Recruitment therefore involved entry into a concealed community with obligations to its members.

Beliefs & Initiation

Revanites admired a figure whose life crossed Jedi and Sith allegiances. They sought to emulate his use of passion and tranquility and his willingness to accept allies of different species and strengths.

Their admiration did not guarantee an accurate understanding of his history. Darkspanner correctly believed that Revan had survived for centuries, but mistakenly concluded that he had overthrown the Emperor before being imprisoned by the Dark Council. Her conviction illustrates how devotion could coexist with a fundamentally mistaken account of events.

Membership did not itself confer Force sensitivity, mastery, or access to Revan’s private knowledge.

Leadership & the Later Movement

Darkspanner founded the society and served as its self-appointed Master. After Revan summoned her, she helped expand its membership and purpose and became one of his trusted commanders.

Study, Recruitment & Concealment

The early community preserved sacred texts and relics, studied Revan’s teachings, and tested prospective recruits. Supporters within the Sith establishment and Imperial military helped conceal its jungle sanctuary from most scans.

Recruitment could also serve practical intelligence needs. An account by the Shroud describes a Revanite approach to an estate caretaker whose position offered useful information. Access through an ordinary occupation could matter as much as an imposing title.

Infiltration & Military Action

Under Revan, the Order combined concealed allegiance with armed force. Its operatives exploited positions inside both governments, while its wider campaign sought to provoke catastrophic fighting between their forces.

A Revanite’s practical reach depended on their position, contacts, and assignment. The early Order benefited from concealed meeting places, preserved teachings, and sympathetic insiders. Its later operations drew on infiltrators and military resources, but those assets were not equally available to every follower.

Public office and secret allegiance were separate sources of influence. An officer could misuse access obtained through military service; joining the Order did not grant another member that officer’s command, credentials, or institutional protection.

The Republic & Empire

The Order’s Imperial origins did not make its later campaign an instrument of Imperial policy. Its conspiracy compromised both governments and ultimately brought particular Republic and Imperial forces together against Revan.

Lana Beniko and Theron Shan cooperated to expose the threat. Their investigation depended on crossing factional boundaries, while the coalition that followed answered a specific danger rather than ending the wider conflict.

The Nova Blades

The Nova Blades helped the Revanites draw hostile attention toward Rishi. Operations against the pirates reached their headquarters in the grounded corvette Aggressor and uncovered information about the conspiracy.

Raider’s Cove preserves the local context of that relationship: a settled community with its own residents, livelihoods, and changing authorities. Association with the port or employment around its docks did not establish Revanite membership. The Nova Blades’ later survival likewise does not demonstrate the survival of Revan’s command.

Sith Intelligence

Lana Beniko’s success in exposing Revanite agents helped support her appointment to lead Sith Intelligence. The crisis consequently forms part of the successor service’s institutional history.

From Kaas City to the Jungle Sanctuary

The first followers met in Kaas City. Suspicions about their loyalty to the Emperor and Dark Council forced them to conceal their activities.

A prominent Sith Lord initially sheltered them. After that patron’s assassination, the Order relocated its texts and relics to a sanctuary in the jungle. The account of the compound suggests that support for the Revanites motivated the killing, but does not establish that explanation conclusively.

The sanctuary supported study and initiation while protecting the society from outside scrutiny. Its secrecy also had a threatening aspect: contemporary accounts describe explorers disappearing after discovering it.

Revan’s Return & the Expansion of the Order

Revan had spent more than three centuries imprisoned by the Sith Emperor. After his escape, his determination to destroy the Emperor led him to the Foundry, where an Imperial strike force defeated him and he was believed dead.

Darkspanner subsequently received a vision calling her to seek him. Revan’s personal intervention changed the Order from a society interpreting an absent teacher into a movement serving his campaign.

The Shroud’s investigation recorded growing concern about that transformation. He had previously dismissed the Order as poorly organized and poorly supplied. Secret contacts and the deaths of his assets led him to suspect a wider conspiracy, although his report explicitly distinguished suspicion from proof.

The Revanite Crisis

The Rishi trap failed, and the confrontation continued on Yavin 4. Revan intended to restore the Sith Emperor to a physical form that could be destroyed. Darth Marr and Jedi Grand Master Satele Shan brought their forces into temporary cooperation to prevent the attempt.

Revanite forces occupied important temple positions, including the Temple of Sacrifice. The coalition defeated Revan’s campaign, but the effort to destroy the Emperor instead helped restore him to activity. Victory over the Order therefore left a further crisis unresolved.

The Order is a defeated historical organization in StarForgeRP’s shared present. Its former influence does not establish an intact contemporary command, functioning military network, or renewed galactic campaign.

Later testimony illustrates how individual lives could continue beyond its downfall. In The Epic of the Exiled Knight, a former adherent recalls finding sympathetic company among the Revanites on Rishi and subsequently joining the Corellian Run Scoundrels. This is a personal account of changing affiliation, not evidence that the Order survived as an organized power.

Former sites also require individual assessment. The present occupancy of the Dromund Kaas sanctuary remains uncertain, while historical Revanite occupation on Yavin 4 does not determine current ownership or access.

Begin with the period and circumstances of involvement. A character may have joined a secret religious community, served the later conspiracy, investigated its activities, or inherited a problem left behind. Each connection brings different relationships and responsibilities.

Give that history a present consequence that other characters can engage with. Decide together what is established, what a witness merely claims, and what remains open to discovery.

• Recruitment — Who introduced the character, and which promise or conviction persuaded them to join?

• Everyday service — What task occupied their time, who depended on it, and what happened when they failed or refused?

• Divided loyalties — Which public duty became difficult to reconcile with a private commitment?

• Knowledge — What did they personally witness, and which beliefs came from a recruiter, superior, or later account?

• Evidence — A recovered duty record places two former associates at the same location. What does it establish, and why do their explanations differ?

• Inheritance — Someone returns an object entrusted to them before the defeat. Who now claims it, and what obligation accompanied it?

• Afterward — Which relationship survived the Order, and what unresolved disagreement could bring those people together again?