Flesh Raider uprising

The Flesh Raiders' uprising can be traced back to the Great Galactic War, a prolonged conflict between the resurgent Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic. This war concluded in 3653 BBY when the Empire utilized deceptive peace negotiations on the Core World of Alderaan to orchestrate an assault on the Republic capital of Coruscant, an event known as the Sacking of Coruscant. To compel the Republic's surrender and end the conflict between these two galactic powers, the Empire held the planet hostage while the Treaty of Coruscant was signed on Alderaan. As the opening move of the Sith offensive, a strike team devastated the Jedi Temple, killing its defenders and destroying it with explosives.

Bengel Morr, the Nautolan apprentice of the Human Jedi Master Orgus Din, was present at the Temple during the attack. However, he fled into the ruins when the Sith destroyed the Jedi Order's headquarters. His gentle nature shattered, the Nautolan retreated into the depths of the city-planet and was presumed dead when his body was not found. Morr blamed the Jedi Order for the Temple's destruction, believing their weakness had allowed the Sith to prevail. He concluded that to defeat the Sith, the Order must be destroyed and rebuilt. Embracing the dark side and becoming a Dark Jedi, Morr spent the next decade plotting the Order's downfall. During this period, he recruited the Force-sensitive Human Callef as his apprentice, instructing him in the ways of the dark side.

Following the Treaty's signing, the devastation of Coruscant and the Empire's victory turned public sentiment against the Jedi. The Galactic Senate, seeking a scapegoat, indefinitely delayed the Jedi Temple's reconstruction. Recognizing that the capital was no longer suitable for their headquarters, the Order relocated to their ancestral homeworld of Tython, discovered just a year earlier by Jedi Knight Satele Shan. There, they established a new Jedi Temple and began exploring the ancient ruins left by their predecessors, the Je'daii Order. Construction of the new Temple commenced approximately three years after the fall of the Temple on Coruscant, just over a year after the Order rediscovered Tython and established a permanent settlement. The construction took nearly three years to complete.

Over the next decade, the Jedi recovered from their wartime losses and gradually rebuilt their numbers. Shortly after the Order's arrival, a group of Pilgrims petitioned the Senate for permission to settle on Tython, having fled religious persecution on their homeworld of Ryloth. However, due to Tython's largely unexplored nature, the Senate denied their request. Defying this decree, the Pilgrims established a small settlement in a valley above the Jedi Temple, on the edge of the Tythos Ridge mountain range. This camp evolved into Kalikori Village, led by Sumari as Matriarch during the war with the Flesh Raiders.

By 3643 BBY, Callef and Morr followed the Order to Tython. Hidden in the planet's unexplored regions, the two Dark Jedi began to organize the Flesh Raiders, Tython's native sentient species, into a military army. Discovering that some of the violent species were Force-sensitive, Morr trained them as Force Adepts and eventually commanded a significant fighting force under the leadership of the Flesh Raiders' Grand Chieftain Keshk. Before Morr's arrival, the natives had been largely disorganized, launching periodic raids on both the Jedi and Kalikori Village with varying success over the past decade.

The Force-wielding Jedi Order easily repelled the natives' attacks, losing only young and inexperienced Jedi. However, the Twi'lek villagers fared far worse. Ill-prepared for the attacks and outmatched by the natives' ferocity, Kalikori suffered heavy losses. The Jedi Order's adherence to the Senate's refusal to aid them fostered intense resentment among the people of Kalikori. The situation worsened when the Flesh Raiders became more organized under Morr's leadership, attacking more frequently and in greater numbers.

One Flesh Raider attack resulted in the death of a village patrol, including Poronth Ghon. Poronth's son, Tazonthe, sought a Jedi's help to find his father. The Jedi located Ghon's remains and returned his datapad to Tazonthe, who was angered by the Jedi's refusal to retaliate against the Flesh Raiders. The villager Bahlea received aid from a Jedi who retrieved manka cat teeth for a medical remedy, completing her deceased husband's mission and saving her daughter Rusa. Vederiat Ayon, a village healer, learned from a wounded warrior that the Flesh Raiders were experimenting with elixirs, creating one that induced primal fury. She requested a Jedi to destroy the elixir, directing them to captain Odumis Mer for the elixir vats' location. Mer asked the Jedi to retrieve the elixir for the villagers' use, but the Jedi refused, destroying it in the Tythos Ridge before informing Ayon. The healer realized that the Captain's mind had been affected by encounters with the natives, so she relieved him of duty and appointed Bashenn in his place.

The Jedi Order's encounters with the natives were often more successful than those of the Twi'leks, as shown by the repeated attempts to destroy the Jedi outpost in the Tythonian Gnarls. A group of Padawans—Avitla, Mennaus, and [Jerridan](/article/jerridan]—were ambushed by Flesh Raiders in the Gnarls, injuring Jerridan and worrying Master Relnex when they did not return. Another Jedi rescued the Padawans, though Flesh Raiders continued to attack and kidnap inexperienced apprentices, imprisoning them in cages throughout the Gnarls. Another Jedi discovered a Flesh Raider infant in the mountains near the Temple, and delivered the child to Master Quilb, who often took in orphaned animals.

Through the efforts of various Order members, the Jedi gained insight into the natives' culture and even recruited the Flesh Raider Fashk into the Order. Masters Kalisa Gehnso and Meeb Wix enlisted a Jedi's help to investigate the Flesh Raiders' religious idols—the Bone Idol, Flesh Idol, and [Salvage Idol](/article/salvage_idol]—to understand the natives' aggressive behavior. The Twi'lek villager Trea Kobbeth asked a Jedi to rescue her son Viyo from the Tythos Ridge. The Jedi discovered that Fashk had captured Viyo to serve as a translator, and that the Force-sensitive Flesh Raider wished to be trained as a Jedi. Master Strayen, in charge of new recruits on Tython, approved Fashk's request, and Viyo was released. Strayen hoped to temper Fashk's violent nature and guide him to the light side, as without Jedi training the Flesh Raider would likely succumb to the dark side.

In the months preceding Morr's assault, a minor conflict arose over the mystical Fount of Rajivari, a lost repository of knowledge from the ancient Jedi. Nalen Raloch, a Force-sensitive Twi'lek villager, was seduced by the teachings of Rajivari, one of the first fallen Jedi who had played a major role in the Force Wars. Angered by the Order's refusal to aid his people against the Flesh Raiders, Raloch uncovered the Fount—Rajivari's Force ghost—and attempted to destroy the Forge, a device used by the Je'daii to construct lightsabers and used by the Jedi Order for Jedi Trials. However, the apprentice of Jedi Master Yuon Par stopped Raloch in a duel, and he was cured of his insanity. Raloch would be trained as a Jedi to improve relations with Kalikori, but the village still harbored resentment due to the Order's continued refusal of aid.

In 3643 BBY, the Flesh Raiders captured T7-O1, one of twenty reconnaissance droids deployed by the Jedi Order. They placed the droid with a restraining bolt in the Upper Hollows cave system in the Tythos Ridge. Around this time, Bengel Morr decided to implement his plans. Meeting with Callef in the Upper Hollows, he ordered his apprentice to take a detachment of Flesh Raiders and invade the Gnarls through a newly discovered cave connecting the region to the Tythos Ridge. T7-O1 witnessed the meeting and secretly recorded it, as the Flesh Raiders were unaware that the droid was still active.

By that point, Morr's army had established many small camps across Tython. He had begun sending Force-sensitive Flesh Raiders to study the Force from holocrons amidst the ancient ruins. The natives' main command base was located high in the Tythos Ridge, protected by a shield generator on a nearby mountain. From there, Morr's subordinates coordinated the Flesh Raider army. One smaller base was located in the Forsaken Den cave network near the ruins of Kaleth. Flesh Raiders had been learning from a holocron at a nearby shrine. Kaleth, an ancient temple-city of the Je'daii Order, had been the site of several battles during the Force Wars. The Jedi Order had been cautiously investigating the outer ruins since their return, making it a suitable place for Flesh Raiders to pass unnoticed.

As Callef led his forces through the tunnel into the Gnarls, a young Jedi initiate arrived on Tython to take the Jedi Trials. The apprentice arrived aboard a shuttle at the Masters' Retreat, a meditation enclave north of the Jedi Temple, and met with Jedi Master Derrin Weller. Weller intended to send the young Jedi to meet with the Masters at the Temple, but at that moment, Callef's forces reached the Gnarls Outpost and began to attack the Jedi there. Unaw Aharo, a Bith apprentice, saw the Flesh Raiders coming through the cave. By the time he contacted Weller via holocomm, the Flesh Raiders were already at the Jedi outpost.

Alarmed, Weller immediately ordered the Knights at the Masters' Retreat across the lake to defend the Gnarls Outpost. As the base was undermanned, Weller sent the newly arrived apprentice into the Gnarls, as the learner was remarkably skilled in combat. During the fight, Weller was injured and contacted the apprentice before taking a shuttle back to the Temple medcenter. Weller needed the apprentice, already deep in the Gnarls, to seal off the cave through which the Flesh Raiders were coming, as the other Jedi were needed to defend the outpost.

A short time after the Bith made contact with Weller, a band of Flesh Raiders stumbled upon Aharo. The apprentice was wounded by the natives, who then seized him and carried him into the caverns to Callef. As the other apprentice searched for the cave, battling through the Flesh Raiders he encountered, the Dark Jedi began to interrogate Aharo. The initiate arrived just as Callef was about to execute his captive, and the young Jedi's intervention ignited a duel between the two. Despite Callef's greater experience and lightsaber skills, he was defeated and killed during the confrontation.

Weller, en route to the Jedi Temple, had contacted the other Masters to report the battle in the Gnarls. Orgus Din was dispatched to assist the apprentice in sealing the cave. He arrived just as the initiate struck down Callef, relieved that both Aharo and the apprentice were still alive. Din was astonished that Callef had wielded a lightsaber—one that seemed strangely familiar—and used the Force to collapse the tunnel, sealing off the cavern. While Din escorted the injured Aharo to a medcenter, he instructed the other apprentice to proceed to the Jedi Temple.

At the Temple, the Jedi Council was surprised when Din took the young apprentice as his Padawan—his first since Bengel Morr's disappearance a decade prior. Believing that the Force had orchestrated their meeting, Din gave his new student their first task: to make contact with the Pilgrims in Kalikori Village and discover what they knew about the Flesh Raider attacks. However, Matriarch Sumari resented the Jedi's outreach only when their own safety was at risk. She agreed to share information only if the apprentice helped protect the village. Due to a recent illness, Sumari was forced to retire, but the Padawan continued discussions with Sumari's daughter, Ranna Tao'Ven, and the village's Scout Chief Moorint. In exchange for information about the Flesh Raiders' activities, the two Twi'leks requested that the young Jedi steal a weapons cache from a nearby group of Flesh Raiders.

The apprentice ventured into the mountains of the Tythos Ridge and fought through the Flesh Raider-infested area, eventually entering the camp within the Upper Hollows cave system. After defeating one of the natives' Warmasters, the Padawan used the Flesh Raider's key to open the cache and retrieve the weapons. During the apprentice's raid, a group of Flesh Raiders attacked Kalikori, killing several villagers before being repelled. However, the chamber held more than just weapons and supplies—the astromech T7-O1 was also held in the cache. The droid immediately recognized the young apprentice as a Jedi. Upon being freed, T7-O1 showed the Padawan a recording of Morr giving orders to Callef, though the apprentice only recognized Callef and not the hooded figure he called "Master."

Upon returning to Kalikori with the weapons and T7-O1, the young Jedi delivered the blasters and supplies to the villagers and learned about the Flesh Raider attack when a villager named Saylew confronted Tao'ven and Moorint in anger. The pair met with Din, who had arrived just minutes before, and showed him the recording. Din recognized the voice as Morr's, though he kept this information from his student. He then instructed the apprentice to speak with Moorint while he reviewed the recording. In fulfillment of their agreement, Moorint and Tao'Ven revealed that the Flesh Raiders had been gathering strength for months and that some of the natives had recently been seen near the ruins of Kaleth.

While Din returned to the Temple to discuss the recording with the other Masters, the apprentice journeyed to the ruins of Kaleth and explored the ancient shrine where the Flesh Raiders had been spotted. Moorint's reports were quickly confirmed: the Flesh Raiders were indeed using the shrine as a base, with some studying a holocron provided by Morr. The Padawan was alarmed to discover that some of the Flesh Raiders were Force-sensitive. After defeating the group's leader, the holocron was recovered from their bodies. Master Bela Kiwiiks and her Padawan Kira Carsen, who had been sent as reinforcements just before their departure for Coruscant, instructed the apprentice to set up security devices in the area to monitor activity after being shown the holocron.

During the apprentice's mission, Sumari passed away from her illness, leaving her daughter Tao'Ven as the new Matriarch. Upon returning to Kalikori Village, the apprentice met with Din and Tao'Ven at the Matriarch's compound. Din decided to reveal the identity of the hooded figure from the recording, information he had previously withheld. Din explained Morr's background and urged his apprentice to avoid engaging him if encountered on the next mission, as the Dark Jedi was likely extremely dangerous. Tao'Ven and Moorint then reported that scouts had located the natives' command base in the nearby mountains, but it was protected by a deflector shield. As Din and the other Masters prepared to raid the camp, Din's apprentice attacked the mountain where the shield generator was located.

The Padawan stormed the mountain cavern, battling through the Flesh Raiders guarding the generator and successfully deactivating it. Simultaneously, a group of Flesh Raiders attacked Kalikori, breaching the village's defenses and planting toxin mines in the settlement's agricultural fields as part of a scorched-earth strategy. Once the shield was down, Morr contacted the Padawan via hologram and expressed his displeasure, vowing to destroy the Jedi Order and warning the apprentice that the Jedi's efforts were futile. Concerned by Morr's threats, the Padawan returned to Kalikori to warn the Masters, only to find the village under attack. The villagers were unable to eliminate the Flesh Raider saboteurs in their fields, but the Padawan bravely faced the toxic gas and defeated the natives before they could cause significant damage. By risking their life and successfully disabling the mines, the Jedi trainee earned Tao'Ven's personal loyalty, a factor that would have major implications later.

Shortly after the Masters left for their raid, a Selkath Jedi Knight named Laotah detected Flesh Raider activity near Kaleth using the scanners set up by the apprentice. He decided to investigate alone. However, Laotah was unprepared for the Force-sensitive natives within the Forsaken Den and was quickly overwhelmed and fatally wounded. As Laotah crawled back to the cave's entrance, one of the Flesh Raiders stole the injured Jedi's lightsaber and claimed it as his own.

During their raid on the Flesh Raider command base, the Masters discovered the locations of other Flesh Raider camps across the planet. Upon their return, they began organizing the Knights at the Temple to eliminate these encampments. Din returned to Kalikori to send his apprentice on another mission. The Council allowed Din's student to destroy one of the camps alone, recognizing the Padawan's experience and skill. Since the Flesh Raider force that the apprentice had previously fought was based at the Forsaken Den near Kaleth, Din decided to send his student to destroy that base.

While Din targeted a camp in the nearby mountains, the Padawan battled through numerous ancient war droids—machines from the Force Wars that still guarded the ruins of Kaleth and attacked anyone entering the city. The Padawan then entered the Forsaken Den and found the mortally wounded Laotah. After learning what had happened to the Selkath and promising to retrieve Laotah's lightsaber, the Padawan stayed with the other Jedi until his death. The Padawan then raided the compound, defeating the Force-wielding natives and fighting the blade-wielding Flesh Raider to the death.

While the Jedi attacked Flesh Raider camps across the planet, Morr developed a new objective: capturing his former Master. He exploited the Order's preoccupation with his Flesh Raider army and approached Kalikori shortly after Din and his student departed. The Dark Jedi met with Moorint and other villagers, intentionally excluding Matriarch Tao'Ven, and offered them a deal: surrender Din, and their village would be spared from further Flesh Raider attacks. Seeing an opportunity to save themselves and retaliate against the Jedi for their lack of aid, the settlers agreed and informed Tao'Ven. Although she disliked the plan, she agreed on one condition: the life of Din's apprentice would be spared. Morr agreed, and the villagers broadcast a false distress call from the village.

When the apprentice contacted Din to report success, the Jedi Master ordered the apprentice to respond to the distress call and meet him at the village. Din and his apprentice were the only ones close enough to reach the village in time, as the rest of the Jedi were scattered across the planet. The two rushed back to the settlement. However, when Din arrived at the village first, the Nautolan's Flesh Raider bodyguards knocked the Jedi Master unconscious. As he left Kalikori, Morr briefly mentioned to Tao'Ven that he was heading to "the Forge."

Shortly after Morr's departure, the Padawan arrived and immediately questioned Tao'Ven about the distress signal. Tao'Ven lied, claiming ignorance and denying having seen the apprentice's Master. T7-O1, who had returned to the village after a scouting mission, could not detect Din in the village. At that moment, Morr contacted the villagers and changed his deal: he would only protect the village if they killed Morr's apprentice. Concerned for their safety, several villagers rushed into the Matriarch's building just as the Padawan turned to question the Matriarch further. They knocked out the Jedi from behind and attacked T7-O1 with an ion blast.

After delivering the message to the villagers, Morr and his Flesh Raider servants continued their journey through the Flesh Raider-controlled Tythos Ridge toward the ruins of an ancient city. The ruins were under the control of the Flesh Raider army, led by Grand Chieftain Keshk. Morr ordered his subordinate to mobilize his forces in preparation for an assault on the Jedi Order.

When several villagers—Moorint, Eseni, and Saylew—attempted to kill the unconscious apprentice, Tao'Ven intervened and pleaded with them to stop. The Padawan quickly awoke and learned the truth about the villagers' betrayal. However, before the situation escalated into bloodshed, the Jedi persuaded the villagers to leave peacefully. Begging for forgiveness, the Matriarch informed the apprentice that Morr was heading to the Forge and allowed the Padawan to leave with T7-O1. The duo immediately contacted A-4P0, a droid at the Temple Archives, and requested that the protocol droid send all available information about the Forge to T7-O1.

A-4P0 complied, warning that all of the Jedi Masters were still engaged in fighting the Flesh Raiders and would be unable to assist. Taking a different route to the Forge than Morr, the pair raced along the Elarian Trail and used a tunnel behind the Tythos River's waterfall to reach the ruins of the ancient city. Some of Morr's Flesh Raider soldiers had learned to reprogram the ancient war droids that littered the area, incorporating them into their army. Despite the heavy presence of Flesh Raiders and war droids, T7-O1 and the Padawan successfully fought their way through the ruins and reached the caverns beyond.

Emerging in the canyon where the Forge stood, the Padawan and T7-O1 battled through over a dozen of Morr's Flesh Raider Force Adepts and crossed the rocky bridge to the ancient machine. There, before the Forge, they confronted Morr and his two bodyguards, who stood next to the unconscious body of Din. Drawing his yellow lightsaber, Morr attacked the young Jedi and T7-O1 with his bodyguards. With T7-O1's assistance, the Padawan defeated the Flesh Raiders and engaged the Dark Jedi in a duel.

Despite the advantages of his lightsaber and greater experience, Morr—like his apprentice Callef before him—was unable to defeat the Jedi and lost the duel, his weapon knocked aside. Believing that the Force had guided him to his defeat for a reason, Morr offered to share his knowledge of the dark side and prepare the galaxy for the apprentice's arrival. Understanding that the young Jedi before him was the weapon he was meant to forge, the Nautolan expressed his belief that the Padawan was strong enough to destroy the Sith.

The younger apprentice refused, however, and punched Morr in the stomach when the latter reached for his blade. A second strike to the back of Morr's neck knocked him unconscious. Din's apprentice then turned to wake his Master. Praising his student for the successful battle and the decision to spare Morr's life, Din gave his apprentice the components needed to build a lightsaber and instructed the Jedi to use the Forge to craft the weapon. While Din took his former student back to the Temple, the Padawan ascended the steps and built a blue-bladed lightsaber, unintentionally awakening a sleeping jurgoran in the caves below. The enraged creature blocked the path back to the Temple, forcing the young Jedi to kill it to safely depart from the Forge.

The conflict on Tython, while relatively contained, had significant consequences that would shape the events of the Galactic War to come. Orgus Din's apprentice, whom Grand Master Satele Shan believed had more than passed the Trials during the uprising, was granted the rank of Jedi Knight and became a key figure in the conflict with the Sith Empire. The Knight's first mission on Coruscant saw the Knight and T7-O1 team up with Kira Carsen to stop the Sith Lord Tarnis from using the Planet Prison superweapon against Coruscant. Tarnis's death at the Knight's hands ignited the crisis surrounding the Desolator superweapon. During this crisis, Tarnis's father, Darth Angral, attempted to destroy the Republic and the Jedi Order using stolen Republic superweapons. At the end of the crisis, the Knight returned to Tython, dueling and defeating the Sith Lord aboard the latter's ship, the Oppressor, to stop Angral from devastating the planet with the Desolator weapon.

The events of the conflict significantly impacted Bengel Morr; the Jedi healers located in the Temple successfully restored the Nautolan's sanity. He spent an extended period on Tython, undergoing retraining in Jedi practices and grappling with the consequences of his actions during the insurrection. Throughout his time on Tython, Morr maintained communication with Din's former apprentice, expressing gratitude for saving him and lamenting Din's demise during the Knight's mission to Alderaan. Later, Morr participated in the battlefields of Corellia during a subsequent war, serving as a fully-fledged Jedi Knight under the command of the Knight—by then known as the "Hero of Tython"—after Grand Master Shan appointed the Hero as the Supreme Commander of all Jedi forces.

The Flesh Raider army's organization crumbled following the deaths of its leaders, Morr and Keshk, sometime during the aforementioned conflict. Lacking Morr's guiding hand, the natives reverted to their customary behavior of sporadic raids and internal disputes. Furthermore, as a direct consequence of the conflict, the Jedi Order, guided by Din and his apprentice's advice, initiated active support and collaboration with the residents of Kalikori. Matriarch Tao'Ven surrendered to the Council for judgment, but they permitted her to retain her position, affording her an opportunity to atone for her deeds. Subsequently, she communicated with the Knight, conveying her apologies for her involvement in the betrayal and highlighting the mutually beneficial alliance that had formed between the Order and Kalikori, which had effectively mitigated the perils of inhabiting Tython.

A highly respected Jedi Master and member of the Jedi Council, Orgus Din had served in the Great Galactic War and endured the Sacking of Coruscant. During the Sacking, Din personally engaged the Sith Lord Darth Angral in combat, igniting a feud that would extend to their respective apprentices. When Din's apprentice, Bengel Morr, vanished amidst the Jedi Temple's destruction, he refused to train another until he witnessed a young initiate's triumph over the Dark Jedi Callef within the Tythonian Gnarls. Interpreting this as the Force's will, Din accepted the initiate as his Padawan, and together they commenced an investigation into the recent activities of the native Flesh Raiders. As the uprising unfolded, he discovered that Morr was orchestrating the attacks and participated in numerous raids targeting the Flesh Raider command center and scattered camps across the planet. The Pilgrims of Kalikori Village betrayed Din, leading to his capture by Morr and imprisonment within the Forge; however, Din's new apprentice tracked them down and defeated the Dark Jedi. Consequently, Din instructed his student to construct a lightsaber, and upon their return to the Temple, he and Grand Master Satele Shan elevated the apprentice to the rank of Jedi Knight.

Possessing exceptional martial skills and combat experience, this young Jedi initiate underwent training under several Masters before being dispatched to Tython to undergo the Jedi Trials. The initiate's arrival was disrupted by the Flesh Raider invasion of the Tythonian Gnarls, but the young Jedi played a pivotal role in thwarting the attack by single-handedly defeating the Dark Jedi Callef. Master Orgus Din took the initiate on as a Padawan, sending the apprentice on numerous missions on behalf of both the Jedi Order and the Pilgrims of Kalikori Village during the uprising, all while gaining deeper insight into the natives' motivations. As the conflict progressed, Din discovered that his former apprentice, Morr, was leading the Flesh Raiders against the Jedi, and the Jedi Master was eventually captured when the Pilgrims betrayed him to Morr. Joining forces with T7-O1, the astromech droid whom the apprentice had rescued on an earlier mission, the Padawan tracked Morr to the ancient machine known as the Forge, rescuing Din and defeating the Dark Jedi in a duel. As a result of the apprentice's actions during the uprising, Din and Grand Master Satele Shan promoted the Padawan to Jedi Knight and dispatched the Jedi to Coruscant to investigate a dark presence—a darkness that was later revealed to be the Sith Lord Tarnis.

T7-O1, an astromech droid with an extensive history of adventures, served the Jedi Order as a reconnaissance droid after his previous partner, Jedi Master Ven Zallow, perished in combat with the Sith Lord Darth Malgus during the fall of the Jedi Temple. A quirky and intelligent droid, T7-O1 exhibited unwavering loyalty to his masters—whom he affectionately referred to as "partners"—and expressed confidence in his and his companions' ability to overcome any challenge. Early in the days of the uprising, the Flesh Raiders captured T7-O1 during a reconnaissance mission and stored him in a weapons cache located in the Tythos Ridge. There, he witnessed Bengel Morr issuing orders to Callef and the Flesh Raiders, and he promptly shared this recording with Orgus Din upon being rescued by Din's apprentice. T7-O1 later accompanied the Padawan on a rescue mission when Din was captured by Morr and the Flesh Raiders, and with the droid's assistance, the apprentice successfully defeated the Dark Jedi and his followers at the Forge. T7-O1 continued to accompany the Jedi, who was elevated to the rank of Jedi Knight, on missions across the galaxy during the conflict with Darth Angral and beyond.

Ranna Tao'Ven, daughter of Matriarch Sumari, arrived on Tython as a child with her mother and the rest of the Pilgrims. As her mother's health deteriorated, Tao'Ven gradually assumed her responsibilities as Matriarch, succeeding Sumari as leader upon her death from illness during the uprising. Despite her mother's resentment towards the Jedi for abandoning the Pilgrims to the Flesh Raiders, Tao'Ven developed a close bond with Orgus Din's young apprentice during the conflict after the Jedi assisted in recovering weapons for the villagers and preventing sabotage of the Twi'leks' crop fields. When Bengel Morr secretly approached the villagers with an offer of peace in exchange for Din, Tao'Ven only agreed to the deal on the condition that Din's apprentice would remain unharmed. When the villagers attempted to kill the young Jedi to comply with Morr's revised terms, she shielded the apprentice with her own life and pleaded for forgiveness. In an act of redemption, Tao'Ven provided the apprentice with information regarding Morr's location and presented herself to the Jedi Council for judgment.

As Scout Chief of Kalikori Village during the uprising, Moorint utilized the intelligence gathered by his scouts to assist Orgus Din and his apprentice in their fight against the Flesh Raiders. A pragmatic and serious individual, Moorint possessed extensive combat experience gained from battling the Flesh Raiders, and he prioritized weakening the enemy and neutralizing their technological advantages over bolstering the village's defenses. However, Moorint held deep affection for his village and was willing to make any sacrifice to protect his fellow colonists—even if it meant surrendering Din to Bengel Morr and killing the young Jedi who had helped the villagers defend themselves. When Moorint and several other villagers attempted to kill Din's apprentice to satisfy the Dark Jedi's demands, the apprentice successfully employed the Force to persuade them to depart peacefully without causing harm.

Bengel Morr, Orgus Din's apprentice during the Great Galactic War, was present during the attack on the Jedi Temple and narrowly escaped with his life. Forced into hiding, he succumbed to madness and turned against the Jedi Order, convinced that it lacked the strength to defeat the Sith. Morr embraced the dark side, becoming a Dark Jedi and taking on the Human Callef as his apprentice. Together, they began to consolidate the native Flesh Raiders of Tython into an army. Driven by a desire to raze the Jedi Order and rebuild it into a more formidable entity, Morr began training Force-sensitive Flesh Raiders as Force Adepts, and he targeted his former Master Orgus Din when the latter took on a new apprentice. Striking a bargain with Kalikori Village, Morr offered protection in exchange for Din's life, and he transported the captive Jedi Master to the Forge. However, Din's apprentice evaded Morr's trap and pursued the Dark Jedi, engaging him in a duel before the ancient machine and ultimately defeating him. Jedi healers restored the Nautolan's sanity, and he completed his training, serving as a Jedi Knight under the apprentice—who became renowned as a Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython—on the battlefields of Corellia.

Callef served as the Human apprentice of Bengel Morr. Arrogant and cruel, Callef received training as a Dark Jedi from Morr in the decade following the Treaty of Coruscant. As Morr prepared to launch his assault on the Jedi Order, he tasked Callef with leading an invasion force against the Jedi outpost in the region known as the Tythonian Gnarls. However, Callef overestimated his abilities and fell in combat with a young apprentice dispatched to prevent the Flesh Raiders from entering the Gnarls.

Keshk, a towering Flesh Raider who stood twice the height of a typical Human and wielded a massive bladed weapon, assumed the position of Grand Chieftain among his people at some point prior to the uprising. He served Morr as the leader of the Flesh Raider army. He was organizing his forces in the ruins of the ancient city when he and his bodyguards were slain by a Jedi.

The conflict with the Flesh Raiders is depicted in Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by BioWare and released by LucasArts on December 20, 2011. The uprising represents the in-universe events of the Jedi Knight class storyline during the first half of the Prelude, when the player arrives on Tython and is compelled to defend the Jedi outpost in the Gnarls from Flesh Raider attacks. The class storyline comprises six missions in total, each containing multiple objectives and several bonus missions. The six missions can be further divided into seven distinct events, with the mission "The Face of the Enemy" encompassing a raid on a shield generator and a battle in Kalikori's crop fields.

Given the uncertainty surrounding the precise timeframe of The Old Republic, the chronology of many of the class storylines remains imprecise. However, certain statements made throughout the game suggest that the Consular storyline on Tython transpires before the Jedi Knight storyline. Jedi Master Bela Kiwiiks is absent during the Consular storyline, as she and Kira Carsen are engaged in an off-world mission until the early stages of the Jedi Knight storyline. Furthermore, Ranna Tao'Ven is consistently referred to as the Matriarch's daughter throughout the Consular's storyline, as she only ascends to the position of Matriarch upon her mother Sumari's death during the Jedi Knight class storyline. Consequently, the Consular storyline must precede the Jedi Knight's storyline, and the Consular missions are not considered part of the uprising. The optional world missions, accessible to both classes, are presumed to precede the Knight's storyline because the Flesh Raider army dissolves after the battle with Bengel Morr, and Kalikori establishes an alliance with the Order against the Flesh Raiders. As the side missions are available to both Jedi Knight and Consular players, the identities of the individuals who completed the side missions remain ambiguous due to game mechanics.

Given that the Jedi Knight is a Republic character, this article assumes that only light side options are selected, and that the optional game mechanics aspects of the story are completed. The canonical species, gender, and names of the eight player characters remain unknown, so this article also refrains from mentioning anything about the Knight's identity or gender. Several missions present alignment options that may result in minor variations in events during the Prelude, but the overarching storyline remains consistent. The most significant alignment choice in the Prelude occurs in the final mission, "Weapon of the Jedi." Sparing Bengel Morr, whether by allowing him to depart or rendering him unconscious, results in the player encountering him on Corellia during Act III. If the player chooses the dark side option of allowing him to leave, he or she is forced to engage Morr in combat once more and potentially kill him, while rendering him unconscious leads to his redemption and assignment to Corellia under the Knight's command.