Star Wars Jedi: Survivor tells a brooding story about fighting against overwhelming odds, and it’s packed with shocking moments. Its predecessor, Jedi: Fallen Order, featured a compelling story with many surprises, but Jedi: Survivor takes the cake when it comes to plot twists and spectacle. The story features a plethora of breathtaking set pieces and heart-wrenching character beats that make for an impactful Star Wars tale.
[Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.]
Jedi: Survivor picks up five years after the events of Jedi: Fallen Order. Cal Kestis returns as the game’s protagonist, now a mature Jedi Knight taking on the Empire however he can. His fight in Jedi: Survivor leads him to dark places. He crosses paths with some less-than-honorable characters, but not everyone makes it out alive. Betrayal and heartbreak ensue, changing Cal’s outlook on the galaxy and himself.
10 Cal Kills The Ninth Sister
Jedi: Survivor opens with an intense heist on Coruscant. Cal and his crew, new teammates he picked up after the Mantis Crew from Jedi: Fallen Order split up between games, sabotage Pau'an Imperial Senator Sejan’s yacht to steal military intel from the ship. Unfortunately, things go awry, and nearly all of Cal’s crew perishes when the Inquisitorius arrives.
Cal faces off against the Ninth Sister, who survived her duals with Cal from the previous game. The fight is tense, and Cal tries to reason with the Ninth Sister, similar to how he approached Trilla in Jedi: Fallen Order. He calls her by her former name, Masana Tide, in an attempt to turn her back to the lightside. She doesn’t budge, however, and Cal ends the fight by killing her.
9 Dagan Gera Turns To The Dark Side
While investigating an old Jedi meditation chamber, Cal comes across a droid from the days of the High Republic. The droid, ZN-A4 or Zee, belonged to a Jedi named Santari Khri, who lived around two hundred years ago during the High Republic era. She points Cal to a facility that her master instructed her to go to after a memory wipe, but Zee was trapped and unable to reach her destination.
Cal arrives at the facility to find a Jedi trapped in a bacta tank. This Jedi, Dagan Gera, was a friend of Khri’s and sought to establish a new Jedi academy on a hidden planet called Tanalorr. However, the Jedi Council at the time denied his request, and he was subsequently imprisoned for attempting to betray the Republic. When Cal awakens him in Jedi: Survivor, he completes his fall to the dark side by turning his lightsaber crystal red.
8 Eno Cordova Is Alive
Cal goes to visit Cere in her new Jedi archive she’s established in the deserts of Jedha. He arrives to find Eno Cordova, the former master of BD-1 and Jedi who hid the Holocron containing a list of the galaxy’s force-sensitive children from Jedi: Fallen Order. Cordova has partnered with his former apprentice and helps her maintain the archive and assist the Hidden Path. He also provides support by repairing High Republic artifacts Cal brings to him.
7 Cal & Merrin’s Romance
Cal and Merrin reunite on Jedha. In the years between Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor, Merrin had been traveling the galaxy to learn more about herself and to rescue others who were in danger of being hunted by the Empire. Merrin assists Cere on Jedha from time to time, transporting those on the Hidden Path to safehouses.
The Empire receives a tip about the safehouse on Jedha and launches an assault. Cal and Merrin work together to recover secret communication codes before the Empire can retrieve them. They are corned by a Trident-class assault ship, and Merrin uses her Nightsister magic to save them, but not before sharing a kiss with Cal. Later, they discuss their complicated relationship and decide to figure things out together rather than apart.
6 Bode Akuna Was A Jedi
After Cal and the crew finally repair a compass that will lead them to Tanalorr, Jedi: Survivor's Bode Akuna, one of Cal’s newest friends, betrays the crew by killing Eno Cordova and stealing the compass. He also reported the location of Cere’s archive to the Imperials, as he was a secret operative for the Imperial Security Bureau.
When Cal confronts Bode, Bode uses the Force to push Cal away, revealing that he was a Jedi Knight during the Clone Wars; the Council having sent him to conduct spy missions to gather intelligence on the Separatists. When Order 66 happened, he used his skills to disappear. In the years after, he started a family and had a daughter named Kata, but the Empire eventually closed in on him. In order to save Kata, he cut a deal with the ISB.
5 Darth Vader Kills Cere
After a shocking betrayal from Bode in the latter half of Jedi: Survivor, Cere’s archive on Jedha is under heavy attack from Imperial forces. Cal is separated from the group, leaving Cere as the only Jedi to protect the temple. Merrin and Greez help where they can, evacuating the Anchorites, religious disciples attached to the light side of the Force and the Jedi.
Cere goes back into the archive to secure the Hidden Path communication codes but is met by Darth Vader in the main archive room. BD-1 escapes with the codes while Cere and Vader clash. Cere impressively holds her own against the Sith Lord but is ultimately cut down by Vader, who is no worse for wear, walking away from the fight wounded and staggering.
4 Cal Wins His Struggle With The Dark Side
Reeling from Bode’s betrayal, Cal launches an assault on the ISB base where Bode and Kata live. Then, he discovers that Bode lured him there to eliminate the Imperials so Bode could escape to Tanalorr with Kata. Cal taps into his anger and embraces the dark side of the Force, making quick work of the Imperial forces.
Cal nearly loses himself to the darkness, but Merrin is able to talk him out of it. Despite winning against the darkness at this moment, it still lingers within him, and he briefly taps into it later in the game with more control.
3 Cal Kills Bode On Tanalorr
Cal and the Mantis crew find an alternate route to Tanalorr and head there to intercept Bode. Cal is intent on eliminating Bode, but Merrin reminds him that they both had their families taken from them and that they should not do the same to Kata. They agree to give Bode a choice to redeem himself.
Cal and Merrin find Kata singing alone just outside an abandoned Jedi building. She takes them to Bode, who begins fighting them. They defeat him and give him the chance to surrender. However, he doubles down and ends up hurting Kata in the process, forcing Cal to kill him.
2 The Mantis Crew Adopts Kata
After Bode’s death, Cal and the Mantis crew determine that the best place for Kata is with them. Cal and Merrin, in particular, have been through something similar to what Kata is experiencing with losing her father. So, they decide to take their knowledge and give Kata the home and family they wanted to have when theirs was taken from them.
1 Tanaloor Truly Is A Safe Haven
Tanalorr, the planet hidden deep within the unnavigable Koboh Abyss, truly is a safe haven. It had been nearly two hundred years since the High Republic Jedi had visited the planet, and nothing had come out of it in the meantime, so it was feared that the planet might have been compromised. However, Tanalorr proves to be a safe planet that the Empire has no means of reaching.
Cal and the Mantis crew vow to inhabit the planet and make it a place free from Imperial control. They set out to gather survivors of the Jedha attack and members of the Hidden Path so that they can provide them with a home. Cal notes that it will take a while before everything is up and running but speculates that he could form a new order of Jedi here to help restore hope to the galaxy.
With so many twists and turns, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor tells a story that’ll be tough to forget. It leaves open so many possibilities for future adventures with Cal and the Mantis crew, which will hopefully be explored in sequels.
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