Bastila Shan.
Wielder of the rare Force technique known as Battle Meditation — and one of the Old Republic's most formidable Jedi Knights. Her double-bladed silver hilt is as distinctive as the woman who carried it.
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Conviction, Conflict, and the Weight of the Force
Born on Talravin and given to the Jedi Order as a child, Bastila Shan showed an aptitude for the Force that few of her generation could match. Where other Padawans mastered the fundamentals, she pressed further — drawn instinctively toward Battle Meditation, a technique so rare that the Order itself had almost forgotten it.
That promise broke during the Jedi Civil War. Captured, turned by Malak's hand, she spent time on the wrong side of the Force — serving the very darkness she had trained to oppose. The fall was not clean, and neither was the return. Bastila Shan fought her way back not through certainty but through choice, again and again, against the pull of a power that had never felt entirely foreign.
What remained after the return was something harder to name than redemption. Bastila Shan carried the weight of both sides — the discipline of the Order and the memory of the dark. The design held on this page reflects that duality: a double-bladed silver hilt drawn from her story in Knights of the Old Republic, built to be held or displayed.
Her legacy endures in every Force-sensitive who chose conviction over certainty — and paid the cost.
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From Bastila Shan's Galaxy
Revan, whom she pursued across the galaxy; Malak, who broke her; and Satele Shan, a fellow bearer of the Shan name from a later age of the Old Republic.