darth revan (revan) first appears in the video game "". a jedi hero who led the republic to victory in the mandalorian wars, he and his comrade, malak, later unwittingly discovered the sith empire, hidden in the unknown reaches of space. the sith emperor, using sith sorcery, turned revan and malak to the dark side, but the two broke free from their control and formed their own sith empire to wage war on the republic, with revan as the leader and malak as his sith apprentice. as a sith, revan prepared to battle with the jedi who boarded his flagship, and darth malak, in the hopes of destroying both revan and bastila shan, betrayed his master, ordering the ships under his command to fire on revan's flagship's bridge. revan was critically injured and taken by bastila shan to the jedi council enclave. the council chose to wipe revan's memory, and imprint him with a false identity. revan later awoke on a starship under attack and encountered malak, who eventually revealed the truth of his identity. following this, revan defeated malak in a final battle, claiming victory for the republic. revan later married bastila shan with the approval of the jedi council and eventually departed into the unknown regions to confront the sith emperor, but got imprisoned by the sith emperor for 300 years until his descendant satele shan rescued him.