A/N:

For my first story I wanted to choose something that was truly close to my heart, and Star Wars certainly fit the bill. This story is set in the old EU universe. Please read and review, all constructive criticism is appreciated. Flames will be ignored. I'll try to update at regular intervals, but as an engineering student...we'll see. If all goes well, the next chapter should be online in the next few days, a week at most...

Disclaimer:

I, The Revanite Lord, do not, in any way, own the Star Wars franchise. I wish I would, though.

Prologue

He'd waited so long now. And all of it in this one place too, even as a Force ghost he couldn't move more than a few yards from his physical anchors. He couldn't even interact with the ruined temple around him.

For quite a while, he'd thought his current state was caused by the Sith Emperor, Vitiate. He'd been both controlled and imprisoned by the man before, and it seemed just like the ancient Sith to torture the man that defied his mental manipulations for three centuries. But even as that monster was destroyed on Ziost, his confinement in the jungle persisted.

When he resigned himself to his current existence, and his inability to do anything about it, he knew he needed to do something, anything, to keep the mental stability he'd regained by merging his Light and Dark halves. And his only available tool was the Force.

In his prime, after he regained his lost memories, he should have been able to sense his friend, the former Jedi Exile Meetra Surik from across the Galaxy. He could not sense her at that time because, as he'd learn a while later, she was severed from the Force at the time. He would attempt something similar, to follow their familial connection and observe his descendant Theron.

It was difficult at first, the image in his mind's eye unfocused. And his descendant's lack of substantial connection to the Force certainly didn't help. But the Force flows through, connects everything, and over time, his senses sharpened, letting him follow Theron's life as an observer.

Over the years, he could see his many times great-grandson grow as a person, and find love. The fact that the woman in Theron's life was a Sith shouldn't have surprised him. The RSIS agent's flirtatious encounters with Lana Beniko over the years were a clear indication, and when they realized they'd actually fallen in love and decided to pursue it, they knew they couldn't remain on opposing sides in the conflict between the Galactic Republic and the resurgent Sith Empire. Together, slowly, carefully, they orchestrated a battle in which they were able to fake their deaths.

They decided to settle down on Taris, adopting the false surname of Braell and lead a quiet life after the horrors of war they'd both witnessed. When their first and only child was born like Theron himself, without Force Sensitivity, Beniko was initially heartbroken that she wouldn't be able to teach her son about the Force. After years of unsuccessfully trying to conceive again, and their son growing to resemble his father, Lana made peace with this situation.

When they felt that their son was mature enough, they revealed the true origins of their family, and with it, the true surname of the family – Shan. At this point, the Shan family was known Galaxy-wide to be descended from the legendary Revan, with the Grand Master of the Jedi Order as his last descendant.

The son took the revelation well, and grew up to be a man Revan was proud to count among his descendants. In his mid-twenties, the youngest member of the Shan family found love among the colonists of Taris, and eventually had a son as well. Eventually the first generation of Braells grew old, and Lana decided to make a holocron, containing all her knowledge of the Force, in order to teach an eventual Force sensitive descendant.

Years passed, and Taris was slowly rebuilt, with the Braell family becoming an important part of Tarisian society. Theron and Lana passed away in peace, and the knowledge of their family roots became a closely guarded secret, never shared with anyone not part of the Braells.

Revan's senses became sharper and sharper over the many years, and shortly before the end of the New Sith Wars, he was finally able to observe other individuals that were strong in the Force. He saw as Bane trained on Korriban, and later utilized the knowledge recorded in Revan's own, hastily constructed holocron, to decimate the Brotherhood of Darkness and create the Rule of Two and the Sith Grand Plan. He witnessed what he deemed as the Republic's betrayal of the Jedi Order, the Ruusan Reformation severely limiting the Order, even as the new Sith Order hid in the shadows, plotting the downfall of the Jedi.

He observed the future Grand Master of the Jedi, Yoda, in his youth, his rise in the ranks of the Order, and his eventual ascension to Grand Master. Revan felt that after the Ruusan Reformation, the quality of the Jedi produced by the Order slowly declined, and as the Republic entered its last decades only a few of them could have stood against the Jedi of old.

As he saw the Sith plan come to fruition, he desperately wanted to warn the Jedi, but over the millennia he'd come to realize that he was anchored to his helmet for a reason, and had to wait for someone worthy to come and claim his mantle. He witnessed the Invasion of Naboo and the training of Anakin Skywalker under Obi-Wan Kenobi. He could see the disaster that was Anakin's training over the course of years.

The Jedi Order was, with its current rules laid down after the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, simply put, ill-equipped to train a child like Skywalker. Too long had they denied and suppressed their emotion, and for someone not raised since infancy in that mindset, such a thing was impossible to achieve on the level required by the Order, and what could have been Skywalker's greatest source of strength, became his greatest weakness instead.

The stress caused by the Clone Wars, his apprentice's exile from the Order, and his wife's pregnancy made the Hero Without Fear easy to manipulate into falling to the Dark Side. The fallout after Anakin became Darth Vader was in a way awe inspiring, and the Republic betrayed the Jedi Order once again. Order 66, Operation: Knightfall and the Great Jedi Purge truly annihilated the Jedi, with only a few escaping certain death.

The Sith Emperor Palpatine ruled the Galaxy with an iron fist for more than two decades with his apprentice, Vader. When the Skywalker twins came to Yavin, Revan hoped that Luke would be the one to take his mantle, but he wasn't drawn to the ruins of Vitiate's temple.

Five years later, merely a year after Darth Sidious' apparent death at the hands of the newly redeemed Anakin Skywalker, the latest member of the Tarisian Braell family was born.

And Revan knew his long wait was almost over.

The child was the one that would free him of this wretched place. He could feel it in his metaphysical bones.

And after his more than three and a half millennia long confinement on Yavin 4, the decade or two until the child's inevitable trek to this Force-forsaken moon didn't seem long at all.

He would finally be free!