Katarn snuck aboard a freighter to the Lenico Belt, where Admiral Galak Fyyar had a mining operation.
Katarn bested her and threatened to kill her, but relented and let her go when Tavion told him that Jan was still alive. Katarn defeated the Reborn, along with many more of the Force sensitives throughout the city, until he reached Tavion Axmis, Desann's apprentice. Fighting through the underlevels of the city, Katarn encountered a Reborn-a Dark Jedi fueled with the power of the Valley of the Jedi. Katarn then traveled to Cloud City on Bespin, which Desann's forces were attempting to capture. Fighting through the scrap yard, Katarn rescued Lando Calrissian and defeated Baruk. He then spoke to the bartender again, who told him that Baruk was running a scrap yard. Using only his lightsaber, Katarn managed to defeat the mercenaries and retrieve his weapons-including his modified Bryar pistol. The bartender signaled the cantina's mercenaries, and they attacked Katarn. Katarn's lightsaber would continue to serve him on Nar Shaddaa, where he used it to intimidate a bartender into telling him where crime lord Reelo Baruk was. When Katarn succeeded, he set off to find Jan. Skywalker told him that to do so, he would have to go through the Praxeum's exercise course to retrieve it. However, when Dark Jedi Desann supposedly killed Jan during a mission to Artus Prime, Kyle became vengeful and returned the Praxeum to get his lightsaber back. Unwilling to risk turning again, Katarn gave his lightsaber to Luke Skywalker and left the Praxeum, becoming a mercenary again, alongside his partner, Jan Ors.Įmpire Reborn crisis Return to the Praxeum
Sometime after his fall to the dark side on Dromund Kaas, Katarn joined the Jedi Praxeum and built his own lightsaber to replace the one he had taken from the Dark Jedi Yun.ĭespite his attendance at the Praxeum-which he started due to fear of falling to the dark side again-Katarn became worried when both Gantoris and Kyp Durron turned to the dark side.