The long search would span the galaxy and, along the way, Rand and Surik grew closer. There, they met Jedi Master Atris, who tasked Surik with locating other Jedi Masters that had survived a recent Jedi purge perpetrated by a resurgent Sith organization that had virtually wiped the Jedi from the galaxy. They fled to Telos IV, a planet undergoing restoration in the wake of a Sith attack from Revan's crusade. Through teamwork, the three commandeered a ship, the Ebon Hawk, and escaped the facility. Every organic inside was killed by murderous droids, with Rand, who had been imprisoned for a security violation the ship's would-be owner, Meetra Surik, also known as the Jedi Exile and an old woman named Kreia as the sole exceptions. Mere days after the crews brought aboard a starship with two women and a few droids aboard, the station was sabotaged. Several years later, Rand found work at the Peragus Mining Facility. However, when a female Jedi prisoner revealed that he was Force-sensitive and that he would likely be subjected to such treatment himself, he went into hiding on Nar Shaddaa, the moon of the planet Nal Hutta. While under Revan, he was put through intense combat training to make him an effective Jedi hunter, assigned the task of capturing Jedi so that Revan and his acolytes could attempt to convert them into loyal Sith.

He defected to Revan's side when the Jedi Knight became the Dark Lord of the Sith. He joined the Galactic Republic military and fought loyally under Revan in the Mandalorian Wars.

Me.' ―Atton, on the last Jedi he killed as a Sith Ītton Rand, nicknamed ' Jaq,' was a pilot native to the planet Alderaan and one of the Lost Jedi who helped Meetra Surik defeat the Sith Triumvirate.

' In the end, she sacrificed herself to keep my secret, to prevent the Sith from knowing about that touch of the Force inside me.

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