The Revan

Once upon a starship dreary, the Republic, weak and weary,

Had a Jedi and a reason that they might complete the war

While I slumbered, so enticing, suddenly there came a dicing,

As of some one gently slicing, slicing at my barracks door.

"'Tis an enemy," I muttered, "slicing at my barracks door-

Only this and nothing more."

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So distinctly I was learning from a man who was returning;

It was Ulgo, he was yearning that we might escape and more

Eagerly he wished for Taris; vainly I was much embarassed

For I didn't know that name, or how to navigate the floor

Oh, the rare and helpful Ulgo who conferred on me the lore -

Exposition evermore.

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And the soldier, Carth Onasi, met within that starship chassis

Said our lowly soldier nature was the kind that Sith ignore

And we worked upon that basis on a planet full of racists

We were visitors, inquisitive of anyone we saw:

(With a very useful astromech we purchased at a store)

"Did a Jedi pass, before?"

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We descended to the Under, where the gangs and Rakghouls plunder

And a teenager and Wookie rent asunder fat Gamorr'

They helped quicken up our pacing, and they entered us in racing

Racing speederbikes to win the prize that we were searching for

Racing speederbikes to save the Jedi who could end the war

Bastila, and no-one more.

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She was less than keen to meet us, though her captors could not beat us,

Even Sith could not defeat us as we gave them fights galore,

But although our hopes had faded with the planet so blockaded,

We were saved by intervention of a son of Mandalore,

Took a crimelord to the cleaners with a son of Mandalore,

And the Ebon Hawk did soar.

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With a wave of swift inciters came a hurricane of fighters

And I shot down all the blighters (though I do not know what for)

But at night, when I was sleeping, I beheld a Sith Lord creeping

Dressed in armour meant for reaping souls and soldiers, still and sore

And I witnessed all the Sith Lord did on every planet's shore,

It was Revan that I saw.

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Onto Dantooine we landed, and my knowledge swift expanded

Of the Force and all its mysteries I wanted to explore

Though my time was hardly idle, I began to deeply bridle

At the mass of kath and kinrath and the sons of Mandalore

Then in sight of verdant meadows, I beheld an ancient door,

And proceeded to the core.

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Obligated to bewilder by the temple's ancient builder,

Robots filled a questionnaire to test awareness of before,

With a careful estimation of the Sith Lord's situation

I expertly navigated all their queries of the war,

With dilemmas and high towers and equations by the score,

Brutal answers to abhor.

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With a sudden brilliant lustre, I beheld the local cluster,

And the stars of all the galaxy projected from the floor

It was Bastila's position that the system's recognition

And the Sith Lord's base sedition meant a map we could restore

To a factory of ancient make, a stellar carnivore

Endless armies, evermore.

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And the Revan, never speaking, still is hidden, still is sneaking

Still is plotting for the end of the Republic I adore

And the mask beneath the curving of the hood is deep unnerving

And the Dark Side in the distance marches closer to our shore,

And the soul beneath that armour must be dark as darkest core

So the Revan - evermore!