Damien Knights




 * "Justice without a great cause begets nothing more than slaughter. However, that same slaughter in the name of a great cause is justice."
 * —Damien Knights, Grand Jedi Master

Damien Knights was a Human (Korun) male Jedi Master of legendary status, who served the Old Jedi Order during the Clone Wars and the final years of the Galactic Republic as a Jedi Knight and Senior Jedi General and served the New Republic and the New Jedi Order as a Grand Master and was also a member of the Jedi High Council.

A talented Force user, Damien possessed a midi-chlorian count of 19,800 which was the second highest under Anakin Skywalker who had a count of 20,000+. Due to his immense power in the Force, Damien was recognized as the strongest Jedi Knight of his era. Hailing from the world of Haruun Kal, Damien Knights is the 28th Monarch of the Knights Family. He was a senior member of the New Jedi High Council and served as the Master of the Order. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most powerful Jedi Masters in galactic history.

A descendant of the famed Knights Family who fought in numerous wars in the days of the Old Republic, Damien was always seen at the present continuing on their legacy, fighting against the dark side and all the while advancing Jedi knowledge. Damien is the grandson of the famed Jedi Master, Jūshirō Knights.

In addition to his advanced control of the Force, Damien was a master of all seven form of lightsaber combat and was widely considered one of the best swordsmen in the Jedi Order. He mastered Vaapad, the modern seventh form of lightsaber combat. Mace Windu and Damien are the only practitioners of the form who did not fall to the dark side.

It was Mace Windu and Damien Knights who led two hundred and twelve Jedi into combat at the Battle of Geonosis. He continued to serve the Republic throughout the Clone Wars, often on the front lines of fierce fighting, where he led Republic forces as a Senior Jedi General. He spent years commanding the 41st Elite Corps with Clone Commander CC-1004 (Gree), winning many battles that made him as legendary as he was. At the pinnacle of the war, he had earned a reputation that made him a constant target for the plans of General Grievous and Count Dooku alike. He would distinguish himself across many battlefronts, most notably Christophsis, Teth, Krant, Haruun Kal, Ryloth, Quell, Felucia, Onerdon, Null, Carlac, Brentaal IV, Iceberg III, Kamino, Umbara, The Rig, Foerost, Naboo, Alderaan, Cerea, Boz Pity, Saleucami, and Coruscant.

In some point in the year of 21 BBY, Damien met and saved Jedi Knight Korrah Naberrie. He would marry her and have a child with her.

Following the initiation of Order 66, Damien alongside Korrah Naberrie Knights, went into exile. Despite countless brushes with death, Damien survived both the Clone Wars and the Great Jedi Purge, living to see the demise of the Galactic Empire and the return of the Jedi, albeit while in hiding from the agents of Darth Vader. Damien joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic, where he helped several Rebellion fighters in restoring the Republic.

Years later, Damien alongside Luke Skywalker helped create the New Jedi Order as one of the founders, and a year later, trained Kyle Katarn. Continuing to be part of the New Jedi Order, Damien joined the High Council while becoming a Jedi Battlemaster and Grand Master.

During this tenure, and following the years of the first Galactic Civil War, Damien would once again thrust onto the front lines as one of the few Generals of the New Jedi Order, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, an invasion by the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong species. During the galaxy-wide war, Damien encountered many family problems, such as his wife and son both were under the infection of a serious disease, as his son would be left in a coma for a year. Damien eventually reunited with his former apprentice Kyle Katarn, who went missing during the War on Coruscant. Damien eventually lost many of his Padawans, and other Jedi Knights who were his friends and had trained under him. During the final years of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Damien and Luke Skywalker ended the war after saving the Solo Twins 28 ABY. Following the years after the war, was involved in the Swarm War, to which he was only a part of in it's final stages. Still, peace was not yet achieved, to which he would then fight in the Second Galactic Civil War a few years later. Following towards the end of the war, Damien was part of a mission where he was able to lure Darth Caedus towards his sister, which led to the Sith Lord's death, with the apparent aid of Luke as well.

Damien encountered the Lost Tribe of the Sith, where he met Luke Skywalker once more. Due to their presence in the Force, the tribe saw them as a threat, and not hoping to endanger anyone else, the two split ways, but were stalked by the Sith, where to which, would form an alliance between the two, that led for the two sides to fight Abeloth a dark side entity. Shortly after allying himself with the tribe, Damien kept his guard at all times, knowing that one day they would turn on them. After having a short alliance, Damien and his allies then repelled the Sith threat, and with the help of Darh Krayt, defeated Abeloth, preventing another disaster that could endanger the galaxy.

After having a short alliance, Damien continued to a Grand Master, participating in new missions, alliances and wars. During that time, Damien fought on a three decade long war to defend the planet from invaders, and did so. For the next six decades, Damien protected and served the New Jedi Order as Grand Master, while also fighting off new enemies. Unfortunately, they were drawn out during Darth Kryat's rule, forcing them to fight once more.

Damien efforts were integral in forging an alliance between the Jedi, the Galactic Alliance Remnant, and the Fel Empire. With the death of T'ra Saa at Taivas, Damien became the oldest and most experienced of the surviving Jedi, and participated in the alliance's final assault on the Sith-held Coruscant.

Following the deaths of Darth Krayt and Roan Fel, Damien became one of the three Triumvirs of the restored Galactic Alliance. During his tenure, Damien had to contend with both Empress Fel's ambitious G51 communications array project and the threat posed by an underground One Sith Order, whose members had infiltrated key government positions across the galaxy. Damien was also concerned by the emergence of the rogue Sith Darth Wredd, who wanted to destroy the One Sith and reinstate the Rule of Two. He was one of the first high-ranking Triumvirate officials to realize that Darth Wredd was pursuing his own independent agenda. In 140 ABY, Damien passed away and became one with the Force, joining his wife, mother, and father. Following his death, the leadership of the Knights Family was passed on to his son Matthew Knights.

Damien was one of the prophesied members in the Knights family lineage. It was said that he would wield the strongest power of all in both sides of the Force. Damien became the most powerful member in his family, topping of his ancestors and descendants. Damien, just like his later ancestors, possessed both the light side and dark side abilities. Damien's family began in 3,809 BBY. The first member was named Ashura, who was born in the year of 3,809 BBY, but the Sith lineage in his family didn't begin until 3,799 BBY. The Knights remained affiliated with the Sith and the dark side for more than two thousand years. The Sith heritage was ended in 1,852 BBY by Joseph Knights, a Dark Lord of the Sith who became a Jedi Master after the betrayal of the final Sith master for the family who was named Darth Riun. After this every single following member dedicated their lives to serving the light side of the Force and joining the Jedi Order. Later descendants, like their ancestors, embraced both sides of the Force, while very few embraced the dark side, once more fully recreating the Sith heritage in the family, however, they still kept ties to the Knights, still regarding the Jedi members as their family, an attribute rare among Sith families.

Early Life

 * "'This power is unlike no other Alath.'"
 * "'Indeed. He is the strongest one of this family.'"
 * "'His abilities in both the light side and dark side will be unmatched. The only one who can defeat him will be the Chosen One."
 * "—Derek and Alath reflect on the power of their son Damien"

Damien was born into the Knights Family, and grew up in the Knights Mansion on Haruun Kal. He and his grandfather would spend countless hours training, preparing Damien to take over the leadership of the Knights Family. Damien spent ten years on Haruun Kal, before he and his parents moved to Coruscant to begin official Jedi training in the Jedi Temple. Under the tutelage of Jedi Master Mace Windu, Damien exceedingly learned the ways of the Force. During this time, he made good friends with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Anakin Skywalker, Plo Koon, Shaak Ti and Jedi Battlemaster Cin Drallig who helped Damien develop his Lightsaber skills. When he had the chance, Damien would often go to the archives to read into his studies, including the history of the Order, weapons defense as well as piloting.

Jedi Training
"'Simple, yet efficient. A padawan is as strong as he or she looks. Some people are too ignorant to believe that.""—Damien Knights to his fellow padawans"Around a year later, when Damien was ten years old in the year of 28 BBY, he started to learn the Jedi ways by Mace Windu. Damien was taught all the aspects of the force which were Core, Control, Sense, and Alter by his Grandfather, Jūshirō Knights and Mace Windu. He then was first trained in the arts of the Jar'Kai by his mother, and the Makashi, by his father In time, certain forms of the Ataru, Niman, and Juyo were amplified to his skill. His father also trained him in martial arts. As time went by Damien, started to become a very powerful Jedi in 24 BBY, to which once he was fourteen, Damien showed complete mastery of the Jar'Kai and the Makashi forms. Damien also showed mastery in the Shien / Djem So form as time went by, but was finished by his grandfather Jūshirō Knights, because he had more experience with this form.

When Damien finished his lightsaber training, he took a blood test for the Council, determining how many Midi-chlorian counts were in him. Soon when the results arrived, the Council found out that Damien had approximately 19,800 Midi-chlorian counts per cell. The Council was amazed at how immense his Midi-chlorian counts were.

Mission to Barlok

 * "'Actually, it was an inspired suggestion. Master C'baoth is quite good at the sort of mediation the Barlok situation so sorely needs. I should have thought of it myself.'"
 * "―Palpatine"

When Jorus C'baoth and Damien Knights, met with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to discuss the Outbound Flight project, Palpatine told them that if C'baoth settled a dispute on the planet of Barlok, he would do all he could to make Outbound Flight possible.

After the first day of mediation, they met Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, who had been sent by Mace Windu, who was suspicious of C'baoth. C'baoth sent them away with Damien while he went to mediate. After Kenobi, Skywalker and Damien had discovered a terrorist threat, C'baoth had them stationed with Jerv Riske, a bodyguard hired by Passel Argente of the Corporate Alliance. They failed to stop the remote missile that targeted all the people involved in the meeting, but C'baoth caught the missile in a Force grip and convinced the assembly to resolve their differences for the people of Barlok.

Following that mission, much to his own surprise, C'baoth asked the Jedi High Council to promote Padawan Damien Knights.

Rank of Jedi Knight
In 22 BBY, by the age of 16, Damien received the title of Jedi Knight, becoming the youngest one of his family. Damien was one of the youngest Jedi Knights in history along with Anakin Skywalker, who preceded him.

As well as his incredible combat abilities, Damien also possessed a rare gift. He had a unique form of Force perception which allowed him to see the shatterpoint in situations, beings, and circumstances. These shatterpoints revealed points upon which other things were reliant. Shatterpoints could form links between beings, creatures, planets, or other vessels, and if destroyed or utilized, these shatterpoints could hold the key to averting disaster, sealing fate, winning battles, showing vulnerabilities of his opponents, and fulfilling the very will of the Force itself. With these unique abilities, he had glimpses of parts of his future

In addition to being a warrior and remarkably Force-sensitive, Damien possessed extensive knowledge of Jedi history and philosophy, and was known for his diplomatic abilities.

First Battle of Geonosis
"'Bring it!'"

"—Damien Knights, about to engage B2 Super Battle Droids and Geonosians"Damien Knights was in the Jedi Temple at the time of the First Battle of Geonosis and thus was a member of the 212 Jedi task force sent to Geonosis to rescue two Jedi and the Senator Padmé Amidala held captive.Damien was among the Jedi who infiltrated the galleries of the Petranaki arena, where Kenobi was to be executed alongside fellow Republic captives Padawan Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala.

On Windu's cue, Damien and his fellow Jedi revealed themselves in a show of force, but the Confederate Head of State and former Jedi Master Count Dooku deployed a force of battle droids against the Jedi. Damien battled fiercely, cutting his way onto the arena floor, but after several tense minutes of fighting, the majority of the Jedi were slain and Dooku's forces gained the upper hand, rounding Damien and about 21 other surviving Jedi into the center of the arena. Before he could kill them, however, the Jedi were rescued by the Republic's newly-acquired clone army, led into the arena by Yoda aboard Low Altitude Assault Transports. As the gunships opened fire on the droids, the Jedi resumed their lightsaber battle against the droids, with Damien deflecting blaster shots and fighting back-to-back with Amidala.

Damien and Windu got aboard the gunship with Yoda, and Ki-Adi-Mundi helped Kit Fisto get aboard before taking off and escaping the arena. As they flew away, Yoda insisted to Windu and Mundi that they must attempt to prevent Dooku's escape or he would rally more systems to his cause. Windu ordered the pilot to land in an assembly area in the desert where he, Damien, Mundi and Fisto met up with five clone commando units. Damien and Ki-Adi-Mundi took command of one of the clone units and led them into a fierce ground battle, where they engaged B2 super battle droids, W-series droidekas, DSD1 dwarf spider droids, OG-9 homing spider droids and other battle droids. Damien and Mundi continued to fight until the Separatists ordered a full retreat. Damien was one of the few Jedi to survive the battle at Geonosis, which formally marked the beginning of the Clone Wars. Damien took no comfort in surviving the battle, however, as he knew the conflict ahead would be brutal.

Mission to Corellia
Like almost every other fully trained Jedi in the Order, Damien Knights became a Jedi General. Eight standard days after the Battle of Geonosis, he along with Aayla Secura was sent on a mission to intercept Techno Union scientist Ratri Tane, who had fled to Corellia with the files and prototype of new droid circuitry, along with fellow Caamasi Jedi Ylenic It'kla.

The three Jedi arrived on Corellia and entered the Homestar cantina, where Aayla accidentally Force pushed an irritating Toydarian named Lorfo. This got the attention of three Gotals who were also looking for Tane.

A fight broke out between the Gotals and Jedi (leaving one of the Gotals dead), and the Jedi left the cantina, where Rostek Horn urged them to leave the planet. They were approached by Lorfo, who agreed to lead them to the Gotals' hideout for a few credits. When they arrived there however, they were ambushed by the two remaining Gotals and a Separatist under Count Dooku named Tendir Blue.

The Jedi dispatched Tendir and the Gotals, and soon discovered that Ratri Tane was actually Jedi Master Nejaa Halcyon. The Jedi then implanted a fake memory in the unconscious Tendir's mind that he had succeeded in getting the data, sending him on his way and successfully keeping the information from the Confederacy.

Battle of Christophsis

 * "'Damien Knights, reporting for duty.'"
 * "―Damien Knights to Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi"

When Christophsis was invaded by the Separatists, they put out a call for help to the Republic, and Damien, Anakin Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi were quickly dispatched to aid the planet, along with Commander Cody and Captain Rex. They set up defense in two towers and prepared as the droid forces advanced, seemingly unaware of the Jedi's presence. However, the droid army suddenly split up, and before Kenobi knew what was happening, droids arrived in his tower and started to attack. Skywalker called Hawk for an evacuation, and he and Rex proceeded to aid Kenobi. They managed to escape, and also managed to steal a tactical droid's head.

However, the tactical droid did nothing but confirm that the Separatists knew of the Jedi's location. Damien suspected that someone in their squad had turned suit and betrayed the Republic. Kenobi and Damien instructed Cody and Rex to find the traitor while they went on a secret mission behind enemy lines. On the way, they discovered that an increasing number of droids were watching them but not attempting to fire, and Damien concluded that they were being led into a trap. Upon arrival, they encountered Asajj Ventress, and the three engaged in a duel. The Jedi managed to knock Ventress down, but she merely used her lightsabers to cut through the floor, pushing the Jedi a floor down. Ventress taunted them before leading them to see a complete army of droids preparing to attack the city. The Jedi escaped on STAPs, and Ventress ordered General Whorm Loathsom to march on the city before leaving.

Upon returning to the Republic base, Damien, Skywalker, and Kenobi discovered that Rex and Cody had found Slick to be the traitor. Skywalker questioned why Slick would betray his brothers, and Slick replied that it was the Jedi who kept his brothers enslaved. Cody and Rex, however, said that if he loved his brothers, he wouldn't put them at risk, and Slick was taken away to lockup.

Damien and Skywalker managed to fend off the first wave of droids, and sent their shuttle back for reinforcements. A second wave of droids soon advanced, and while Kenobi and Cody drew the droids' attention, Damien, Skywalker, Rex and Torrent Company took out the advancing tri-droids. This, along with the Republic's use of heavy cannons, forced Loathsom to retreat.

Battle of Teth
'Asajj Ventress. Don't think this is gonna be an easy fight.'"
 * "'Damien Knights. I've heard a lot about you, but don't expect to get out of here alive.'
 * "―Damien Knights and Asajj Ventress"

Damien Knights arrived on Teth immediately, and found Rex and the army heavily outnumbered by battle droids. With his reinforcements, the battle was then even again while he went to search for Skywalker, R2-D2 and Tano. Unfortunately, he ran into Asajj Ventress whom he battled through the B'omarr Monastery. Eventually slicing through her saberstaff, throwing away one half, and offered her the chance to surrender. Ventress gave up the fight and called for a Vulture droid to rescue her.

Returning to his troops, he later learned that Skywalker had taken a B-Wing-like ship called the Twilight and had flown to Tatooine where he and Tano had battled Dooku and IG-100 Magna Guards, before giving Jabba's son back to him. After fending off the droids, he and Yoda took gunships to pick up the Jedi team, and Jabba confirmed passage through his routes.

Battle of Krant
Following the destruction of the Trade Federation operation on Aereen, Damien Knights, Echuu Shen-Jon, and Naat Reath moved on to invade the planet Krant.

Once on Krant, Echuu and Damien's men encountered a number of Wookiees who had escaped imprisonment by the Confederacy. They went on to destroy several factories producing Decimators, and even encountered a fully operational one, which proved very difficult to defeat. Soon afterwards, Naat was kidnapped by Sev'rance Tann. Allying themselves with the Wookiees, Damien, Echuu, and the Republic gathered their army at an old Wookiee base and wiped out the droid armies.

When Damien and Echuu found Naat, Tann appeared and Echuu and Naat fought a long and fierce duel. Echuu let his emotions control him, and eventually defeated her through the aid of the dark side of the Force. When the dying Tann continued to taunt him, Echuu attempted to strike the final blow, but Naat stopped him and helped him to regain control of his emotions. She urged him that they should return to the Jedi Temple. However, Echuu realized that it wasn't his Jedi training that defeated Tann, it was the strong presence of the dark side within him, and he knew that it would forever be part of his destiny.

Sending Damien and Naat back to Coruscant, Echuu began a self-imposed exile on Krant, an exile that would continue through the Great Jedi Purge and into the early years of the Galactic Civil War.

Battle of Haruun Kal

 * "'There's no need to win, we only have to fight.'"
 * "―Damien Knights"

The Haruun Kal Crisis began six months after the battle of Geonosis with the dispatching of Senior Jedi Councilman Mace Windu and Senior Jedi General Damien Knights to their home planet of Haruun Kal. A holovid recovered by the Republic had shown Master Depa Billaba, who had been dispatched by the Council to train the Korunnai natives against the Separatist-backed Balawai settlers, in a state of what appeared to be bloodthirsty insanity. Billaba had been sent to the planet because although its location was of strategic importance for trade, the Republic was not yet ready to commit to a full offensive against the world. After surviving an assassination attempt orchestrated by a treasonous Republic agent and journeying upcountry to confront Billaba, Damien and Mace led the Korunnai troops, in concert with clone reinforcements under the command of CRC-09/571from the Republic transport Halleck, against the Balawai militia.

They moved against the capital city of Pelek Baw and using an ingenious strategy that combined sneaking in transports down the path of a waterfall, eventually managed to corner Balawai militia Colonel Lorz Geptun. Despite a last-minute betrayal by a number of elite Korunnai soldiers led by the dark Korunnai Kar Vastor, Windu forced Geptun to surrender the system and shut down attacking droids. This victory came at a heavy cost, however, as Billaba fell into a possibly self-induced coma at the end of the battle from which it was believed she never recovered.

Battle of Felucia
The Republic forces on Felucia under Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi, Damien Knights, Anakin Skywalker, and Commander Ahsoka Tano were surrounded by Separatist battle droids that were overrunning their positions. During the battle, Skywalker sent Tano on patrol into the jungle. The Separatist also set up a blockade around the planet. Thus, the jedi and their troops knew they had to retreat.

Evacuation from Felucia

 * "'Come on, grunts! We are leaving!'"
 * "―Captain Rex ordering his men onto the gunships"

Jedi General Plo Koon and his forces then arrived. Koon's jedi cruisers were able to blow a hole in the Separatist's blockade. Koon, in his starfighter, along with Warthog accompanied the gunships to evacuate Kenobi's and Skywalker's forces. Koon then took on the Vulture droids while Warthog protected the gunships. The gunships were able to land and started to evacuate Kenobi's and Skywalker's forces.

However, Tano refused to be evacuated, now that her patrol had the battle droids on the run. She continued pushing the droids back, but Skywalker convinced her to retreat when he said the droids were regrouping and were about to overrun her position. Thus, Tano and her troops abandoned their vehicles and boarded the gunships.

Return to Geonosis

 * "Damien: 'Seventy-five, Anakin, my total kills are seventy-five.'"
 * "Skywalker: 'Hmmmm.....'"
 * "Damien: 'That was too easy if you ask me.'"
 * "Skywalker: '[pause] I'll beat you next time'"
 * "Damien: 'We'll see.'"

Although Geonosis had been captured by the Republic at the onset of the Clone Wars, resistance from the Geonosian natives and their loyalty to Count Dooku proved stronger than the Jedi Order anticipated, and the Jedi soon discovered Separatist leader Poggle the Lesser had established several battle droid foundries on the planet capable of creating thousands of weapons. The Jedi Council dispatched High Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ki-Adi-Mundi with Jedi Generals Damien Knights and Anakin Skywalker would lead the Grand Army's attack on the primary droid foundry.

Tasked with the challenge of landing on the planet and establishing a staging area, the Jedi mounted a four-pronged attack on the Geonosian defenses in what became known as the battle of Point Rain, with Jedi Generals Ki-Adi-Mundi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Damien Knights, and Anakin Skywalker each leading an assault force. After establishing a landing zone at Point Rain, a site close to the factories' Ray Shield Fortress generator, the Republic army regrouped and disabled the factories' ray shield, making way for the rest of the clone trooper forces to safely land.

While Poggle attempted to retake Point Rain and his Ray Shield Fortress, his main droid foundry was targeted by the Jedi. In order to eliminate the factory, Generals Damien, Skywalker, and Luminara Unduli battled the facility's droid defenses in open warfare while their respective Padawans,  Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee, sneaked into the facility via the catacombs beneath it. As their Masters battled Poggle's army—including several newly designed super tanks—on the bridge leading to the factory, the Padawans' infiltration of the foundry was cut short when they were intercepted by Poggle and his tactical droid, TX-21. With their explosive charges stolen, Tano and Offee used a supertank to blow up the facility's reactor and collapse the factory from the inside. Damien, Skywalker, and Unduli rescued their Padawans from the debris once the foundry had fallen. Despite the Republic's destruction of other key factories, Poggle remained at large, having escaped his primary foundry before its eradication.

As the Jedi undertook the cleanup of Geonosis, they launched a campaign to find and apprehend Poggle. Unduli spearheaded the search and followed Poggle to the abandoned Progate Temple, where she was captured by the archduke and taken to the lair of Geonosian Queen Karina the Great in the catacombs below. Tracking Unduli's last known location, Kenobi, Damien, and Skywalker set out with a clone platoon to rescue her. Battling hordes of "undead" Geonosian warriors who were being reanimated by the queen's brain worm parasites, the Jedi and their troops found Unduli in Karina's lair. Although Karina wished to induct Unduli and her comrades into her ranks of mind-controlled warriors, Kenobi, Damien, Skywalker, and their men were able to save Unduli and take Poggle into custody. The Jedi and their troops destroyed much of the queen's lair during their escape, killing Karina the Great and burying her warriors beneath the temple, and the Republic's recapture of Geonosis was secured.

Post-Geonosis Service
'Don't we always?'"
 * "'I'm afraid we have a complication.'
 * "―Ki-Adi-Mundi and Damien Knights"

As they prepared to take Poggle back to Coruscant, Damien and Ki-Adi-Mundi received a transmission from Windu on Dantooine. Although Windu's forces had fended off an attack there, they had suffered heavy casualties and were in immediate need of medical supplies from a medical station at Ord Cestus. Damien informed the others, who decided to send Tano and Barriss Offee to pick up the supplies while Damien, Mundi, Kenobi and Unduli took Poggle back to Coruscant to be interrogated. Later, on the Venator-class Star Destroyer making the voyage back to Coruscant, Skywalker informed Damien, Mundi, Kenobi, Unduli and Captain Rex that the ship carrying Tano and Offee has been infected by Geonosian brain worms. Skywalker later interrogated Poggle alone and learned the brain worms were susceptible to cold temperatures. When Damien asked Skywalker how he convinced Poggle to talk, the Jedi Knight declined to answer, and Damien was aware that Skywalker used violent methods to achieve his means. After that day Damien and Mundi developed a strong Friendship.

Corruption On Mandalore
After Duchess Satine Kryze made a request to Senator Amidala for a Jedi Knight, Master Yoda sent Damien Knights to aid Kryze on Mandalore in an undercover mission to expose government corruption. Damien arrived under the guise of being a teacher to Mandalorian students, of which included Kryze's nephew Korkie. After Korkie and his friends discovered that someone had been holding out the food supply in order to boost the black market trade on Mandalore, Damien soon discovered it was Prime Minister Almec, the second most powerful official behind the Duchess. After making that discovery, Damien and the students went to present it discovery to Kryze only to discover that she had been arrested by Almec and imprisoned under false charges of treason.

Damien then came up with the plan to present the students to Almec as prisoners in order to discover Kryze's location. Almec imprisoned the students, but would not reveal Kryze's location to Damien, forcing her to alter her plan. After conversing with the students under the ruse of an interrogation, Damien then used a mind trick to have a guard take him to the Duchess. Upon discovering Kryze, Damien attempted to free her, only to fall into a trap set by Almec. Almec captured Damien and attempted to force Kryze into signing a confession for committing treason. Kryze refused forcing Almec to torture her with a shock collar, followed by Korkie. Damien however managed to free himself and capture Almec using the same shock collar he used on Kryze. After his imprisonment, Kryze revealed that she had planned all along for Damien to discover the corruption in the Mandalorian government.

Thwarting an assassin
After the events on Mandalore, Damien returned to Coruscant to report to the High Council of his mission. During his stay, Damien started to become plagued by visions of Aurra Sing and a potential assassination attempt. Asking Master Yoda for advice on the subject, Yoda advised him to calm his mind and use his visions to try and see who was going to be assassinated. It was determined that Senator Padmé Amidala was the target of Aurra Sing. Damien went to Amidala to give her warning of the threat, finding out that Amidala was going to Alderaan at the request of Senator Bail Organa to speak on the war. Seeing Amidala was going to go despite the warning, Damirn insisted that he escort her to Alderaan as a part of her security detail, to which Amidala agreed. After arriving on Alderaan, Damien had another vision of Sing, leading him to believe that Amidala was in danger at that very moment. It was however a false alarm as Damien was inexperienced in interpreting dreams.

Damien would have another vision revealing the location of the assassination attempt to be the very room that Amidala was to speak in. Increasing the security, Amidala proceeds to speak at the gathering, during which time Aurra Sing attempts to shoot Amidala. Damien sensing Sing was there, intervened and prevented the shot from being deadly and causing damage only to Amidala's left arm. After a short battle and chase with Sing, Damien lost her and was forced to return to the security team to plan further action. Amidala was set to speak again later and refused to cancel her appearance. That prompted the plan to send a cloaked droid in her place while Amidala spoke remotely from a different location, thought to be secure.

During the speaking, Damien sensed that Amidala was still in danger and rushed to the room she was in, barely making it in time to deflect a blaster bolt shot by Sing. Sing would shoot the controls to the room's door to lock the three of them inside. Afterwards Sing would pull out her blasters and proceeded to shoot at Damien, who was desperately trying to keep up with the pace of the shots to protect Amidala. Shortly after Sing began firing, Damien was overwhelmed and hit in the arm, collapsing to reveal Amidala holding a blaster set on stun, shooting Sing with the blaster and stunning her. Amidala's security was able to pry open the door at that point and place Sing under arrest.

After returning to Coruscant with Aurra Sing in custody, Damieb revealed that the person who hired Sing was not found out. Yoda then told Damien to use the Force and his instincts to feel who the perpetrator was. After concentrating, Damieb could not figure out the identity of who hired Sing, but gave a few details about who it may be. After hearing the description, Amidala was able to deduce it was Ziro the Hutt. Damien and Skywalker then went to where Ziro was being held to confront him on the charges. Denying them at first, Damien managed to cleverly trick Ziro into confessing by telling him Sing had already told them about the job, to which Ziro furiously got angered at Sing then at Amidala, but unwittingly he confessed his crime to Damien and Skywalker, earning himself an extended stay in prison.

Battle of Kamino

 * "'These droids are everywhere. It's about time I go on the offensive!'"
 * "―Damien Knights"

After the Republic intercepted a message between General Grievous and Asajj Ventress discussing a planned attack on Kamino, Damien Knights, Shaak Ti, and Prime Minister Lama Su greeted Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Anakin Skywalker when they arrived in Tipoca City with reinforcements. A Separatist fleet soon arrived and engaged the Republic blockade that defended Kamino. Damien and Shaak Ti monitored the progress of the battle from Tipoca City's control room alongside Kenobi, Lama Su, Captain Rex and Commander Cody. They noted that the Separatist fleet was not large enough to defeat the blockade, and ordered Skywalker to lead the Republic's fighters in assaulting the enemy. Several Munificent-class star frigates were destroyed protecting Grievous' flagship, with their debris crashing in the ocean near Tipoca City. Kenobi became concerned that the battle was too easy, and left Damien and Ti and the others to investigate the wreckage. He discovered Aqua droids assembling Trident-class assault ships underwater, but was unable to warn the city before the droids began their assault, which was led personally by both Grievous and Ventress.

When the control room came under assault by several Aqua droids, Damien and Ti quickly dispatched them and contacted the other Jedi, noting the attacking droids were spread thin throughout the city and that the Republic needed to press their counterattack quickly. While Kenobi engaged Grievous and Skywalker hunted down Ventress, who attempted to steal a genetic sample of the clone's DNA, Damien and Ti led the clone troopers in pushing the droids back to Tipoca City's main hanger, contacting Cody to inform him on the progress of the battle. The remaining droids were soon destroyed and the Separatist fleet retreated, although both Grievous and Ventress managed to escape from Kamino.

The Zillo Beast
When Supreme Chancellor Palpatine discovered the Zillo Beast on Malastare and ordered it brought to Coruscant for research, it promptly escaped and made a beeline for the Senate building, necessitating the interference of Yoda and the Jedi Order. Dismissing Mace Windu's suggestion to shoot the beast down with stun rays, Damien Knights,Yoda, and Aayla Secura clambered atop the beast's back, distracting it with their lightsabers to buy Republic forces time to rescue the shuttle in the creature's grasp with Palpatine, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Amidala inside. When all the shuttle's occupants were brought to safety, Damien aided Yoda, Secura, and Skywalker in protecting the group from the toxin-bombs detonated to kill the beast.

Battle of Brentaal IV
'At the moment, young one. How many more moments is questionable.'"
 * "'Agen Kolar? Do you live?'
 * "―Damien Knights and Agen Kolar"

With the Clone Wars in full effect, Damien accompanied his Jedi friend Agen Kolar who was made a Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Ever a follower of the Council's will and a strong believer in the Jedi's duty to the Republic, he disdained those Jedi who opposed the decision to take an active role in the war. When Mace Windu discovered that the esteemed lightsaber instructor Sora Bulq had fallen to the dark side and joined Dooku's growing ranks of Separatist-allied Dark Acolytes, he warned Damien and Kolar of the betrayal and Bulq's history with Vaapad.

Five months into the war, Damien and Agen Kolar were assigned to retake Brentaal IV, a Core World located at a key hyperspace transit point, from an insurrection led by local clan leader Shogar Tok. Damien and Kolar, under the command of Jedi Council members Plo Koon and Shaak Ti, landed their clone troops on the planet, but the Republic's intelligence was faulty; Tok's ion cannons were operational and shielded, tearing the Republic landing force to pieces. A quarter of the overall forces, along with Jedi General Shon Kon Ray, were lost almost immediately. Damien and Kolar were hard-pressed, though they retained many of their soldiers.

Ti found sanctuary in a prison, where she recruited several prisoners to aid her in infiltrating Tok's fortress via a sewer connection between the two facilities. In order to help her accomplish that, she ordered Damien and Kolar to lead an assault on the north face of Tok's citadel. Once she was inside, Koon, commanding the Republic fleet in orbit of Brentaal IV, would retreat and return in four hours, by which time she hoped to have sabotaged the defenses or captured Tok. Damien and Kolar, on the surface, were given the option to retreat or surrender.

When that time came, Damien and Kolar surrendered, along with their troops. They were brought before Tok and the holographic presence of Dooku, who interrogated them as to Ti's whereabouts. Kolar briefly resisted, earning him a beating at Tok's hands, before he testified that he had felt her die in battle through the Force. Damien and Kolar were imprisoned while Tok's forces searched for her body. There they remained until Ti succeeded, at which point their troops were freed by two of her recruited prisoners: Kolar's old ally, Jedi Master Quinlan Vos; and the mercenary Sagoro Autem. Ti was badly wounded after a betrayal by one prisoner, though, and Damien and Kolar took command on the ground in the aftermath while Ti recuperated in a bacta tank.

Battle of Iceberg III
"'It matters not who you are or what manner of power you may possess. Before the power I wield, all beings are equal. Come. It is time that you too were reduced to scrap.'" "―Damien Knights and General Grievous before dueling" During the 2nd Battle of Orto Plutonia, General Grievous was making his advance in the Mon Calamari System in order to take over Mon Calamari. After the 2nd Battle of Orto Plutonia, Damien and his forces rushed back to Coruscant for the briefing. Anakin Skywalker and Plo Koon explained that The Mon Calamari provide a special type of ore that strengthens the Republic Cruiser's armor. If Mon Calamari was captured, The Separatists could use that for for themselves. King Yos Kolina who was on Coruscant via hologram explained that Grievous was on the advance and that only 1 planet was left before Grievous's fleet was at Mon Calamari. A frozen planet named Iceberg III. Damien and his forces went with Plo Koon and Commander Wolfe to Iceberg III top stop Grievous's fleet. Damien commanded a star-fighter squadron while Plo Koon's cruisers broke through the blockade.

The Republic forces then began landing on the planet. Commander Wolfe then tasked Damien to pilot a gunship and take some ARC Troopers to defend a Republic base that was established in the early days of The Clone Wars while Commander Wolfe and the rest of his forces marched to the base. After making it through the droid army, Damien and his ARC troopers made a defenses around the base. A few hours later, Commander Wolffe arrived with his forces with some refugees that needed to get off the planet. Plo Koon was space battling Grievous' fleet and provided a temporary opening. While Commander Wolfee, Ghost and Gun evacuated the refugees, Damien and some of his troops made some turrets and waited for Grievous's forces to come.

After several hours of fighting The refugees were evacuated and the droid army was repelled. Grievous then decided to face Damien himself. While Commander Wolfe was cleaning up the mess. Damien told them to stand back while he dealt with Grievous. Grievous and Damien dueled in a ferocious lightsaber duel, but in the end, Damien managed to defeat Grievous. Damien requested that he surrender and never return but Grievous replied saying he would never to surrender to anyone. He then managed to escape and retreat. Iceberg III was safe and Grievous's advance was halted. Damien then met with Plo Koon and Commander Wolfe in The Executive hanger. Plo Koon brought bad news with him, during the battle Grievous sent an agent, Riff Tamson to assassinate King Yos Kilina. There was now instability between The Mon Calamari and The Quarren due to the fact that only King Yos Kilina could manage to keep peace between them. Prince Lee Char was next in line for the throne, however, The Quaren stated that there should be a Quaren King until Lee Char was old enough to rule the throne.

Rescuing Master Piell
After Master Even Piell was captured due to his knowledge of the Nexus Route, Skywalker, along with Master Kenobi, Damien Knights, Captain Rex, Commander Cody, ARC Troopers Echo and Fives and three other clone troopers, was sent to rescue Master Piell from the "impenetrable" Separatist prison, the Citadel. Skywalker forbade his Padawan from coming on the mission, saying it would be too dangerous for her. When the rescue party reached the hangar of the Citadel, Skywalker devised a way to get past their scanners by being frozen in carbonite, thus stifling their life-readings. After the team was frozen, they were loaded up onto the transport ship by R2-D2's battle droid squadron. The shuttle was able to get through thanks to Skywalker's strategy. When Skywalker was thawed out, he found, to his surprise, that Tano had disobeyed orders and followed him. The team reluctantly took her along.

When they reached the Citadel, the team was successful in rescuing Master Piell just before he would have lost his good eye to an interrogator droid. Skywalker asked if Piell found the Nexus Route. Piell told him that he memorized half the information while his captain, Wilhuff Tarkin, memorized the other half as a precaution in case he cracked under the interrogation. Skywalker and the rest of the team went to free Tarkin. On their way, they were ambushed by commando droids. The team was successful in defeating the first of commando droids, but when the second squad of commando droids came, Osi Sobeck activated magnets in the ceiling, ripping the team's weapons away and trapping Skywalker by attracting his prosthetic arm. As the rest of the team scrambled to defeat the droids with telekinesis and their bare hands, Skywalker, despite being brutally electrocuted by Sobeck, was able to get his lightsaber and disable the magnet.

After the team defeated the commando droids, they rescued Tarkin and the rest of the officers. Skywalker and Kenobi then decided to split up to prevent the enemy from getting either half of the information. Kenobi took Piell and a couple of his officers with his group and Skywalker took Captain Tarkin and a couple of officer with him. Skywalker was then able to cut into an old tunnel. Skywalker was glad that things were going according to plan, though Tarkin expressed some skepticism about this plan and didn't seem grateful for rescuing him. Skywalker told Tarkin that he reserved his trust to those who understood the meaning of Gratitude. As Skywalker and his team made their way through the tunnels, Skywalker watched their rear, leaving his apprentice leading the team. When they reached a dead end, Skywalker destroyed a Recon Droid and then fought against Super battle droids and commando droids armed with shields. Skywalker, Tano and the team were able to destroy the commando droids and blast the dead end open. Skywalker and his team then went into a fuel line. Along the way, Skywalker found that he and Tarkin believed that the Jedi didn't take the initiative and did whatever it took. When they reached the exit of the fuel line they were ambushed by battle droids and Crab droids. Luckily, Skywalker was able to destroy them by throwing a grenade into the fuel line. Skywalker and his team then moved to Plan B, to meet up with Kenobi's team trying to reach the shuttle at the airfield. After the shuttle was destroyed, both teams fell back to some caves.

After Master Piell contacted the Jedi Temple, Skywalker, Damien and the rest of team moved onto to the rendezvous point. When Skywalker's and Kenobi's team reached the lava lake, they were attacked by a large battle droid force. While R2's droid team held off the enemy, Skywalker went down a cliff with the rest of the team down to the lake's shore and escapes into a set of gullies. As they move on, Skywalker warned Tarkin not to upset Master Piell if he wanted to keep his career. Tarkin stated that the Supreme Chancellor would support him, to which Anakin stated that he too knew the Chancellor well.

When Tano asked Skywalker why Piell would share half the information with Tarkin. Skywalker told Tano that Tarkin felt that the Jedi shouldn't be running the war, to which he replied that the Jedi were keepers of the peace, not soldiers. As Skywalker and Damien discussed Tarkin's haughty attitude towards the Jedi, they noticed the anooba trailing them, along with a squad of STAPs. Skywalker, Kenobi and R2 lured the creatures into an ambush, but the rest of the team itself was ambushed by crab droids and another group of STAPs. When Skywalker and Kenobi rejoined the team, Padawan Tano arrived carrying Master Piell's body, and told them that she had his half of the information. Skywalker, Kenobi and the rest of the team then took a brief moment to consign his body to the lava before moving on. When they reached the island, Skywalker and cody fired extension cables, but were then ambushed by Sobeck and his commando droids on STAPs. After Sobeck's death, Master Koon arrived and picked them up. When they returned to the Temple, Skywalker shook hands with Tarkin before he left. Skywalker then told Kenobi that they could use more men like him to help them win the war.

Mon Calamari

 * "'Those gungans are really something.'"
 * "―Damien to Yoda."

Yoda, Damien Knights, and Mace Windu then made contact with Anakin Skywalker, Gial Ackbar and Senator Amidala who were on Dac to cool down tensions between the Mon Calamari and the Separatist aligned Quarren. When Kit Fisto and Ahsoka Tano went to aid their forces on the planet, they soon lost contact after the Republic was almost decimated by Separatist commander Riff Tamson.

As a result of this, the Jedi held a special session to discuss how to proceed. Saesee Tiin suggested that they find an underwater race in close proximity with an army to aid their allies, and Obi-Wan Kenobi pointed out Naboo. Yoda then contacted the Gungan boss, Lyonie, who dispatched Jar Jar Binks to lead the army to Mon Cala.

Mission to Carlac

 * "'When Wolffe said that the Mandalorian Death Watch were known for their hospitality, he wasn't kidding. (Laughs) They sure pack quite a fight. I love 'em.'"
 * "—Damien reflecting on Wolffe's words toward the Death Watch while on Carlac"

Damien was sent on a mission by the Jedi Council to the winter planet of Carlac. In this mission, Damien would encounter the Death Watch group for the first time ever, whom he would quickly hate. After landing on Carlac, the only thing he could see was smoke, coming from homes that were burned to the ground at the hands of several Death Watch mercenaries. During the mission Damien led troopers in raiding the villages in order to free the Ming Po. Not much information is known about this mission due to it being so secret, but it is certain that Damien helped in liberating the villages.

Death of a Mentor

 * "'Adi Galla was a good Jedi Master and friend. It's a sad fact that this happened.'"
 * "—Damien reflecting on Adi Galla's death"

Some time after Carlac, Obi-Wan and Adi-Galla were sent on a mission, in an attempt to stop the brothers Maul and Savage, However only Obi-Wan survived out of the two Jedi. While he did not know Adi fully, Damien had respected her abilities, and ultimately stated that the Jedi were becoming less and less.

Trouble on Pantora and Meeting Senator Chuchi

 * "' I am Senator ChuChi of Pantora.'"
 * "'And I am Damien Knights, Jedi Knight of the Jedi Order.'"
 * "'I see you have both introduced each other to one another.'"
 * "—Damien and ChuChi introduce one another to each other"

Around two weeks and a half after the battle on Dathomir, Damien was sent to Pantora to speak with Senator Chuchi of Pantora, after she recieved another threatening message from the Separatists which planned to attack the planet, if they didn't join the Separatist Alliance. While on his way to the planet, Damien contacted her, and introduced himself. Commander Gree appeared and informed Damien that they were close to the planet. However, Damien didn't expect a fleet of Separatists, which arrived as soon as he arrived, thus surrounding him, and threatening to attack the planet. To prevent Damien from landing on the planet, he was pulled into the ships by a tractor beam into the blockade ship, where he would be cut of the transmission with Chuchi. Realizing it was a hostile situation, Damien sent a transmitter to the Senator by a communicator signal from his ship, before the attack, which she would instantly fly to Coruscant and hand it over to the Jedi. Damien was stripped of his lightsabers and cuffed with Force-restraint cuffs, preventing him from using the Force. He was then locked in a cage, and was held as ransom. Damien knew that in order for him to be "rescued by the Republic", they would have to surrender and give themselves to the Separatists, but they declined and said they would find another way to get Damien, but Chuchi said that there should be a way to save Damien, without using a strict act of violence.

Trouble in Separatists space and Senator captured

 * "'I think the Council underestimates my abilities, but I think I will master the ability of being captured on a side note.'"
 * "'Sir, your lightsabers.'"
 * "'Thank you trooper.'"
 * "—Damien to Chuchi after her capture"

Hoping to save Damien, Senator Chuchi was sent to negotiate with the Separatists to find a way to not surrender, but get Damien for a ransom number of credits. But while conversing, a droid put her to sleep after she landed, and was cuffed on her hands and legs, then put in the same cell with Damien. Waking up, she asked Damien how they would get out, but he simply replied he had already set a plan into motion. She decided not question it. A droid was guarding the cell, for which it did the dumbest mistake of standing by the side and front of the cell. Using his stealth ability, Damien sneaked up to the droid and ripped it's head of. Using the sharp points of the droids neck, Damien was able to clips the cuffs and use the Force to pull his lightsabers to him. Once in possession of one his two sabers, Damien ignited one and cut the cuffs off of Chuchi's hands and legs. Using the Force again, Damien forced the cell doors open, allowing them to escape, but Damien met with an unexpected surprise. A group of troopers who had successfully infiltrated the ship found the two, with one trooper handing Damien his other lightsaber.

Encounter with a Dark Jedi

 * "'I will not let you escape Damien nor you Senator.'"
 * "—Skorr to Damien and Chuchi"

Passing through several hallways and levels of the blockade ship, Damien encountered a fallen Jedi named Tol Skorr. Excited but frustrated, Damien said that if Tol hurts Chuchi, he would regret it. Tol laughed and simply said that they wouldn't escape. Igniting his lightsabers, Damien told the Senator to stand back, in which she did. Once the Senator was at a safe distance, Damien and Tol dueled. There was interference of B-1 and B-2 battle droids which were destroyed quickly, as also the ones surrounding Chuchi. Damien showed every effort to protect the Senator. Worried for Damien, Chuchi assisted the Damien, where unknown to them Ahsoka would arrive and help the two, with a few more clone troopers. This was unknown to Damien, since he was cut of from communication with the Jedi Council, including Pantora. Getting up, Damien subdued Tol with Force Lightning, as the droids were destroyed by the clones.

A Jedi's redemption

 * "'Tol redeem yourself, and become what you were meant to be, a Jedi.'"
 * "'How can I, after everything I've done. I killed innocents, I hurt your friend Senator Chuchi and did so much more.'"
 * "'I forgive you. You were twisted and only felt jealously, it was never your fault. Take your true side as a Jedi and fight along sides us, and we can defeat the Separatists and the Sith.'"
 * "—Damien telling Tol Skorr to convert to the Jedi way"

Seeing that he was now weak, Tol finally saw and felt Damien's true power. Damien walked up to Tol and calmly spoke to him. The two didn't engage in battle, due to the fact they were weakened by the duel. Damien told him to redeem himself and become what he was born to be, a Jedi. Tol asked why after all the bad he did to Damien, but Damien told him that it was never his fault, nor should be blame himself. He said "the dark side is seductive, but you can always redeem yourself". Tol asked if there was a chance he could redeem himself and Damien said that there always was a chance. Ahsoka repeated the same thing, to which Tol could see that Damien and Ahsoka were right. Listening to both of them, Clay embraced his Jedi heritage, and was redeemed under the beam of a light, which cleansed his body from the dark aura in him, especially the aura that corrupted both his abilities in the light side and dark side.

Unknown to the Jedi brothers, several Dark Acolytes surrounded the area, and came out angry and in rage, seeing now that their comrade had turned to the Jedi way. With the intent to kill them, the Jedi almost deteriorated of their body energy ignited the blades and prepared to duel the 12 acolytes. Ready, the Jedi charged on the Acolytes, as Damien order the troopers to take the Senator and get out of the ship, which would be done. As the Jedi engaged the dark siders, the troopers were able to escape with Chuchi and bring her to a warship, with Damien and Tol being at ease, knowing she was safe. The duel went through the corridors and upper levels of the ship where acolytes fell to the Jedi, until the three strongest of them remained. Now fully tired and agitated, Damien and Tol began to lose balance, who had gotten weak throughout the duel. After a long intense fight, the deadly acolytes were defeated and killed by a blast Force Lightning from each of the Jedi. Unable to move, and barely having the will to stand, the Jedi held each other close and forced themselves to walk, and made it to the boarding dock where they fainted and were picked up by the clones and then treated under medical attention.

Honored Jedi

 * "'Congratulations, now you are a Jedi Knight.'"
 * "—Damien to Tol Skorr"

After recieving treatment, the Jedi and Senator Chuchi returned to Coruscant, after a long and deadly mission. After arriving, Tol was welcomed by the Jedi for his defeat over the dark side. Shaak Ti spoke firmly to Tol, but was proud that he defeated the true enemy and was now reunited with the Jedi Order. A ceremony was held in place for Damien. The medals were handed to them by Ahsoka, and two unknown Jedi Masters. As the Jedi of the council watched, Ahsoka, Damien, Shaak Ti and everyone else welcomed Tol to the Jedi Order. Senator Chuchi also participated in the ceremony where she gave the clones recognition medals.

Deployed to Umbara

 * "'Never thought I would be called for a mission like this.'"
 * "—Damien upon his arrival on Umbara"

Damien was deployed to Umbara after the actual battle was over. A few weeks after General Pong Krellhad been killed, more Seperatist and Umbaran forces had been discovered by Republic spies. Damien was the leader of the task force sent to clear them out.The work started with the heavily fortified Umbaran Airfield. Damien, Commander Gree, and the Green Company cleared out the inside, while the rest wiped out the remaining forces on the surface. There were also heavy cannons that could not be destroyed with traditional blasters, but Gree had an idea. When they finished clearing out the inside, he and Damien stole two Umbaran Hover Tanks and took out the heavy cannons. They would then proceed to destroy the Hover Tanks. They then moved on to an area occupied by Trandoshan Pirates led by the infamous Captain Dheeb. They were not very skilled in combat so they were wiped out within a matter of minutes. But Gree had overheard a few of them talking about an escaped Rancor. So the hunt was on. The next day, after getting some rest, Damien sent out a search party for the Rancor. They found it after a few hours of looking. It looked nothing like they expected. It was ice white with touches of blue and silver. It took quite a while for the squad to take him out. But they finally got the job done and headed back to the base. Apparently the Separatists had found out about their presence, because they started sending in ships full of droids. They scattered across a large portion of Umbara. But they were taken care of in a couple days. Damien thought his work on Umbara was done, but he was just getting started.

Just a few days after taking out the Separatist forces, Damien was made aware of underground bunkers occupied by Separatist and Umbaran forces. This was apparently where some had retreated to during the initial assault. The code names for these bunkers were Grek, Usk, and Krill. The work would start with Bunker Grek. Clearing out Bunker Grek turned out to be easier than anticipated. Not many troops were lost and it didn't take too long either. At the end, the squad met up with the Umbaran General known as Ennodius. He was the toughest of them all and had a different strategy. But the work was over when he was finished off by a surprise attack from behind as Damien gave the final blow. The next day brought Bunker Usk. This turned out to be the shortest and easiest of all the bunkers, taking only about ten minutes. They were met at the end by General Farr-Neesbut they made short work of him. It was time to move on to the final bunker, the one known as Krill. This one was occupied by Umbarans, Separatists, and Trandoshans. The Trandoshans were still not very combat-ready and were taken care of quickly. Rather than an Umbaran General at the end, there were three Trandoshans. These seemed to be the only ones trained for combat. The first two were taken care of fairly easily, but the Commander was the toughest. He had some kind of weapon that would not be cut through by a lightsaber. So the battle was on. All of the Clone Troopers were moving out, and Damien and the Trandoshan Commander were the only beings in the bunker. As the fight went on, Damien noticed that this Trandoshan was very skilled in the arts of sword fighting. Damien started to worry for himself as he began to grow tired. But, the Trandoshan lost his concentration for one second, and this mistake would end the fight. He felt a painful blow to his arms, and as he looked down, he saw that his forearms were no longer attached to his body. He tried to get out of the fight but was impaled by Damien.

By this time Damien was ready to leave Umbara. He had been there for months. But then he sensed something through the Force. It was just the smallest tremor, but he knew it couldn't be ignored. So he went on yet another search. What he found stunned him and he could not believe he had not seen it before. It looked like an Ancient Sith Academy. The entry was surprisingly easy. There was a Holocron-shaped socket in the door. Luckily, he was carrying the Sith Holocron he had stolen from a Sith a while back. He inserted it and he was in.

He could not believe what was inside. There were hundreds of Sith Acolytes. However, he could tell they were not very well trained, because he made surprisingly quick work of them. He happened to venture onto a room where he met a training droid. Each time he would defeat one, another would come out. After defeating four, he continued on. Soon enough he met a Sith named Varad Zagg. He made fairly quick work of him as well. Around a couple more corners, he saw him. Darth Maulwas standing in a room not very far away. He could sense that Maul had sensed him. He started walking toward the room. He had a very bad feeling about this.

Duel in the Sith Temple

 * "'Both of you shut your mouths and come at together.'"
 * "—Damien to Darth Maul and Savage Opress"

Damien finally met with Darth Maul and exchanged a few brief words with him, declaring Maul a danger to galaxy and that he must be killed. Damien then pushed Maul and Savage Opress into a wall using the Force. After he released the brothers from his telekinetic grip, Damien summoned two of his lightsabers to combat them. Although the Sith brothers briefly managed to overwhelm Damien by having Savage push him into a wall, it was only temporary as Damien Force pushed them as well. Gaining the upper hand, Damien drove his opponents back, and the duel ended in the plaza outside the palace. After using the Force to temporarily incapacitate Maul, Damien dueled Opress alone, but in mere seconds Damien slashed Savage in the chest with his two lightsabers, nearly killing him. After Maul witnessed this, Damien explained to him that this is justice for Adi Gallia.

Maul angrily ignited his lightsaber and charged at Damien. After a brief, but vicious duel between the two, Damien disarmed Maul and brutally battered him against the floor and walls with telekinesis and escaped. Once he got out, he returned to the ship, but decided not fly off the planet yet, for he needed to rest. He went to sleep, but of course hid his ship, and cloaked it, so they wouldn't be sensed by the two Zabrak brothers. After sleeping for six hours, he started the ship, and then left the planet, returning to Coruscant. Once back on Coruscant, Damien reported on what happened and his failure to arrest Maul or Opress to the High Council.

Mission to Korriban

 * "'This planet is completely enveloped in the dark side of the Force. This is where Sith Lords dwells, as marks their burial ground.'"
 * "—Damien after landing on Korriban"

Sometime after Umbara, Damien was sent to Korriban under orders by Grand Master Yoda, and his master Mace Windu. Damien was sent to Korriban because of a threatening message Damien accepted the mission, and departed to the native Sith controlled world of Korriban, in which he would go alone, to which he demanded. Arriving at the planet, Damien expected that he would be attacked by the native Sith species, but he wasn't. However, Damien quickly sensed the dark power, in which was what the whole planet consisted of.

Standing firm and ready, Damien pulled out his blades for defense, in case he was attacked. He walked for miles and met no attack, but he saw only that the Sith were watching ever so menacingly and threateningly. As he continued, one of the local Sith was a magician that specialized in showing future visions. This Sith casted a spell on Damien, that would make him see the future, which showed him a Sith Lord, that would be alive during the New Republic and New Jedi Order who would go on an attempt to kill him, his future wife, and future daughter. The vision showed the Sith Lord killing him and his family. Seeing the vision, Damien started to tremble and hallucinate, to the point leading him to go in a rage. Seeing this, the Sith magician told the various Sith not to attack, for they could use him in their favor to attack and kill the Jedi. Surrounding him, the Sith magician moved closer to him, and using his magic, he forced Damien down to his feet.

Still trembling, the magician spoke and told him that these moments would never occur unless he joined for he could prevent this. Damien didn't accept the proposal, but the magician who revealed himself to be Shankun continued on insisting, as Damien continued not to accept it. After various failed attempts Shankun struck him with Force lightning, but Damien blocked it and shook his head. Remarking on the creation of such illusions, Damien lifted Shankun with his own force lightning and slammed them against a nearby pillar. Grabbing the magician's lightsaber, Damien ignited it and threw it at Shankun who stood up just as it impaled him, killing him on impact. Smiling at the dead body, Damien remarked on how the dark side would never grab ahold of him, for he was a Jedi, and then entered his ship and left.

Vaapad Training

 * "'Vaapad is more than a fighting style. It is a state of mind, a path that leads through the penumbra of the dark side.'"
 * "―Mace Windu"

Sometime after his mission to Korriban, Mace Windu told Damien he was going to teach him Vaapad. Jedi Master Mace Windu, who developed Vaapad along with Weequay Jedi Sora Bulq, stated that Vaapad was an answer for Damien's weakness, allowing him to channel his own internal darkness into something positive. Windu taught Damien for weeks the dangerous yet deadly perfection of the unfinished Juyo form. Damien frequently sparred with Windu, testing and finessing Windu's new form. Under Windu's instruction, Damien became a master of Vaapad, with Windu considering him virtually unbeatable in personal combat.

Vaapad was described as more than a fighting style; it was a state of mind that led through the penumbra of the dark side, requiring the user to enjoy the fight, and relish the satisfaction of winning. Damien had to accept the fury of his opponent, transform it into one half of a superconducting loop, with the other half being the power of darkness inherent in the opponent. The form was also mentioned with a cautionary warning by the Jedi that use of Vaapad led the user perilously close to the dark side due to its focus on physical combat. Vaapad required a constant and sizable stream of Force use from the user, with a barely contained explosion of Force power essential to all variations of Form VII as another prerequisite for its use. The form's attacks appeared to be unconnected, its motions seemingly unpolished to an untrained observer. Mace Windu taught Damien that a Vaapad user's attacks would flow into each other with liquid precision, creating the constant near-invisible weave of energy which was the ready-stance of Vaapad. It was also possible to apply Vaapad in unarmed combat, with the user's arms becoming too fast to see, as well as in the use of dual lightsabers which Damien preferred to do. Damien eventually mastered this form and was the first and only Jedi to have achieved this, as it had been formulated by Mace Windu and Sora Bulq, the latter of whom would go on to fall to the dark side of the Force.

Onderon Rebels
On Onderon, which was Separatist-controlled, a group of rebels had arisen to take back the planet. Damien, Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano went with Rex and some 501st men to aid the rebels and give them guidance. They taught the rebels sharpshooting, how to disable a droideka, and more tricks. A group of droids and AATs arrived to squash the rebels but were defeated, serving as the first test for the group. After this, Damien, Skywalker, Kenobi, and Rex with the 501st left for the war, but Tano stayed behind to lead the rebels, getting some guidance herself from Damien, Skywalker, and Kenobi. Tano and the rebels, led by Saw and Steela Gerra, eventually achieved victory with rocket launchers sent by Hondo Ohnaka and ordered by Skywalker. Tano returned to Coruscant following the funeral of Steela, who had perished during the battle.

Plot to kidnap the Chancellor
After a meeting of the Jedi Council, Kenobi was "shot" by Rako Hardeen—a bounty hunter and marksman from the planet Concord Dawn—while walking through the streets of Coruscant at night with Damien, Anakin Skywalker, and Ahsoka Tano. Hardeen was hired by an anonymous client to "kill" Kenobi with a sniper rifle.

After shooting the Jedi in the chest and completing the job, Hardeen was pursued by Damien and Skywalker, but escaped on a speeder bike and with the aid of smoke grenades. Damien, Tano, and Skywalker attend Kenobi's funeral, believing him dead, and Skywalker swears to bring the perpetrator to justice.

After celebrating his high-profile kill at Trueping's cantina, his employer called him to a back room for payment. To his surprise, a very much alive Master Kenobi—having assumed Hardeen's appearance—and Master Windu arrest and incapacitate Hardeen for secret transport.

Meanwhile, during their investigation of the presumed killer, Skywalker and Damien find a presumably drunk "Rako Hardeen" at Trueping's, not knowing that it was really Kenobi in disguise. Skywalker and Damien arrest him and have him transported to the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center, where the Jedi Council had been planning to insert Kenobi undercover in order to uncover a plot involving Moralo Eval to kidnap Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.

During his investigation, Kenobi discovered the involvement of Cad Bane in the plot and continued to assume his disguise to learn more. With difficulty in convincing Bane of his credibility, and to follow the enemy plot to its source, Kenobi assisted Bane and Eval in their escape from the detention center.

When Skywalker expressed his desire to track down the killer and return him to custody, Windu denied the request to pursue the fugitives. Not happy with the decision, Skywalker visited the Chancellor, who told him that the fugitives were on Nal Hutta. There, Skywalker and Damien harshly interrogated locals for information, which led them to Orondia, the fugitives last known location.

Skywalker and Damien had a brief skirmish with Cad Bane as well as the disguised Hardeen, but as the criminals fled the scene after incapacitating Skywalker, he informed Damien that Kenobi was indeed alive as Hardeen, acting as an undercover agent. Yoda later confirmed this when he summoned Skywalker to his quarters.

Sometime after that the Jedi Council planned the security for the Chancellor on Naboo. When Skywalker, Damien and Windu arrived in Theed with the Chancellor and Mas Amedda, Skywalker was greeted by his secret wife, Senator Amidala. At the festival itself, the attempt to abduct the Chancellor struck with Cad Bane and Moralo Eval ferrying Palpatine away while Skywalker and Windu captured Embo and Twazzi.

Damien, Windu, and Skywalker saved Palpatine with the aid of Kenobi, apprehending Eval and Bane. While walking down a corridor with Palpatine, the trio were greeted by Count Dooku, who wished to finish what he started. The duel commenced, with his guards defeated leaving him the chance to engage Dooku. With Kenobi's assistance, Dooku fled and Palpatine was saved once again.

Battle of Naboo

 * "'Such a pretty planet being devastated by this ridiculous war. I hate droids but I love fighting by the way.'"
 * "—Damien to Queen Neeyutnee"

Damien participated in the Battle by protecting the capital city of Theed from droid forces, with the 41st Elite Corps and Green Company. Damien was mainly in charge of protecting Oueen Neeyuntee of Naboo from several sniper droids droids. Damien was ultimately successful in defeating the droid army on the planet, but was then given another mission after the battle to find Korrah Naberrie, a fellow Jedi Knight that was in Damien's class at the Jedi Academy who presumably went missing during her confrontation with another droid army on the planet.

Helping a friend

 * "'Korrah! Korrah! KORRAH!'"
 * "—Damien shouts Korrah's name as he looks for her on Naboo"

While on the world of Naboo searching for any survivors after a small battle between Republic and Separatists forces, Damien journeyed to the planet under the Council's orders when they received no word on Korrah's last known location, along with her master. Worried for his friend Damien went to Naboo and started to search. After searching for several hours, Damien found her in a state of shock. Damien asked her what happened, but she refused to answer, no matter how much he tried. Damien sensed that she was having a troubled mind, and insisted, but she didn't say anything. Damien would tell her something, to which she understood, but had no will whatsoever in doing anything. Damien picked her up and carried her to a medical station, where he laid her on the bed, to which she would be attended. Damien felt pain for Korrah, knowing that she had lost two great friends. Damien knowing he couldn't do nothing else prepared to leave, until Korrah grabbed his arm and told him that she had to say something. Korrah told him of what happened, about the death of her master Adiara Endel and Commander Inferno at the hands of the Sith assassin. Saying how she killed the the Sith assassin, out of anger, Damien told her wasn't her fault, for she had done something he himself did when his late friends were killed by Sith Acolytes. Telling her everything would be alright, Damien was able to calm her. Damien gave Korrah a little hug and a kiss on the cheek, and told her he would await her return to the battlefield. Damien then left the planet with Korrah and returned to the Jedi Temple to get some rest.

Hidden love & confession

 * "'I love her Anakin. What am I gonna do?'"
 * "'Tell Korrah how you feel, don't hide it Damien.'"
 * "'But how can I? I get nervous when I'm around her.'"
 * "'I'll be there.'"
 * "—Anakin telling Damien to confess her feelings for Damien"

A few days after the Battle of Naboo, Damien spoke with Anakin Skywalker and told him that he was in love with Korrah, and had to find a way to tell her. Anakin told him that he shouldn't worry, for if he used the strength he has he could tell her, Korrah would be told the same thing. Setting a plan, Damien and Korrah met with each other in a private place. Nervous, the two took time to speak, until Korrah and Damien both spoke the first word. Letting Korrah speak, she told Damien what she felt for him, but started to cry, because she thought the confession would be all for nothing. Damien grabbed her and hugged her tightly, embracing her in a way that no one thought he would. Damien told her that the confession she made wasn't all for nothing, for he then confessed his feelings as well. Crying happily, the two shared their first passionate kiss, thus which would begin their relationship. In order for them to stay together, both Jedi kept their relationship a secret as Anakin also kept it a secret.

Quick encounter with Asajj Ventress
Some time after the second Battle of Naboo, Damien ventured to Chandrila because that's where his family officially resided, for reasons unknown. While on the planet he encountered Asajj Ventress, a rogue Dark Acolyte, who now was on the hunt for revenge against several Jedi. Immediately Damien was attacked by Asajj, where he would instantly pull out his lightsaber in defense. Unaware of her true intentions, Damien dueled Asajj and defeated her without much struggle. As he prepared to strike her down, Asajj unleashed a powerful Force Push which sent Damien flying towards a wall incapacitating him, thus knocking him out. Unconscious by the impact, Asajj prepared to kill him, but Damien instantly awoke and struck Asajj with Force Lightning and sent her flying in another direction, although she did survive the impact of the throw and left Chandrila instantly, vowing vengeance on the Jedi, including Damien himself. Damien then left the planet after handling his family business, but would not say a word of it to the Council, nor his fellow Jedi.

Mission to Felucia

 * "'This Separatist Commander General Grievous may be a tough one, but the droid army is just terrible. Shame they still use them to fight.'"
 * "—Damien warns Gree about Grievous"

After his fight with Ventress, Damien was sent to Felucia, because the system was under attack once more by the Separatists droid army under the command of General Greivous. Damien was disgusted by this, knowing that Grievous will never stop until he has control of a planet, in order to spread fear throughout the Republic. Damien, under orders of Grand Master Yoda, went to Felucia with a few clone troopers from his 41st Elite Corps in order to liberate the planet from Separatists control.

Damien would work once more with Commander Gree for the first time since saving Senator Chuchi aboard a blockade ship. Damien would meet Gree once he landed on Felucia in his cloaked Eagle ship. Damien was however opposed to even getting help from the Felucians to fight, for it wasn't their war, nor they should be involved in it. As Damien prepared his men and readied the plans, they were surprisingly attack by the droid army. Completely unaware of the ambush, Damien ordered his men to go and hide in the Felucian forest, where they easily hid, and lost few men. Damien held the droids back while the Gree and the 41st Elite Corps prepared an ambush of their own. Even though the he was outnumbered, he finished the entire droid army by himself. Rejoining his troops, Damien departed with his troops to continue their mission. As they advanced they met few resistance, but Damien knew that there was gonna be a bigger problem once they got closer to their rendezvous point. As Damien and his men went deeper they destroyed several droids, as Damien was able to destroy a whole battalion with a Force Push combined with Force Lightning that made a destructive wave.

As Damien ordered his men to scale the wall of the Separatists base, Damien confronted General Grievous. As Damien cleared his path by destroying droids, Grievous would appear by attacking from behind. Damien would only be able to defend from behind, as he ordered his troops to stay back, because he didn't want them to lose their lives. Damien would then charge his attacks onto Grievous, cutting of one of his arms, leaving him with three blades. After a long intense duel, Damien defeated the General who was able to escape the planet by throwing a smoke bomb. Since the Republic had recaptured Felucia from the Separatists once more, Damien was glad that the planet was freed from Grievous' control. He then left the planet, only to then receive further problems on his new home world of Chandrila.

Return to Chandrila
A week after Felucia, Damien received a message from an unidentified figure. The being in the holo-projector transmission revealed himself to be Darth Tyranus. Tyranus said that if Damien did not arrive on Chandrila at the exact time arrival he was gonna give, then he would lose someone close to him, to which unknown to Damien, Tyranus was referring to his mother Alath Knights. Damien agreed to his demands and told him he would meet him on Chandrila. Damien would strongly demand that he did not want to be accompanied by any of his clone troopers. Grand Master Yoda respected his decision, along with masters Shaak Ti, Plo Koon, Mace Windu, and Ki-Adi Mundi.

Damien took his ship to his planet to meet with the Sith Lord. He landed in the Crucible, which was the place arranged for his meeting with Tyranus. Although, Tyranus was preparing to attack Damien, he was unaware of Damien's enhanced sensing abilities. Damien sensing the Sith Lord, drew up his blades and moved a boulder with the Force, only to reveal Tyranus. Angered, the Sith Lord charged at Damien with his blades as the Jedi himself went in instant defense, due to the fact that he was caught off guard. Damien was still able to gain ground against his new adversary. Damien was however not amazed or amused and would talk to Tyranus in sarcastic expressions, as not even bothering to care to the threats thrown at him. Unbeknownst to him, his mother Alath had sneaked into his ship, and hid in plain sight. He would notice her, when having a blade lock, in which he forced Tyranus to defend on his knees. Frustrated, Damien overpowered the Sith Lord's defense and ran to Alath, in which he scolded her. Alath replied that she was worried for her son, and sensed that he was troubled, but she did not know that he would be in this situation. Damien then looked down, and told Alath that she did not need to worry for he was alright, and that she did good checking on him, but was not smart in following him to his ship. As she prepared to speak, Damien was attacked by a barrage of Force Lightning, which sent him flying across the arena. Having no blade to defend herself, she drew Damien's blade in defense, but quickly lost it by a strong blow from Tyranus. Seeing her in danger, Damien used a strong and powerful Force Push sending Tyranus flying. Recuperating his strength, Damien grabbed Alath and his dropped lightsaber and entered his ship, and quickly left the area. Damien eventually told Alath to stay out of sight and to stay in the Family Castle on Chandrila until he was officially back in Coruscant with the Jedi Masters, which she would do.

Battle of Mygeeto

 * "'Honestly, I don't get it. Why in the world would I get sent to a planet, already torn by war for only a few days. If the Republic's Chancellor Palpatine wants to give me orders, he should ask me. I just hope this war ends soon'"
 * "—Damien referring to Palpatine after his time on Mygeeto"

Around a one year anniversary after the start of the Battle of Mygeeto, Damien was dispatched to the planet in order to help the decimated troops of clones. Damien arrived in time to help the weak force of troops after setting up an ambush on the main frontal armies of the Separatists. Destroying several droids, Damien pressed on his attack in the hopes of keeping several enemy forces at bay. Damien would remain on the planet for two weeks, before being removed from duty, because he was being replaced by another Jedi Knight. This disappointed Damien, because he thought he was just used in order to batter his forces against the droid army. Damien discovered that he was dispatched to the planet by Chancellor Palpatine and not by the Jedi Council as he first thought. After leaving Mygeeto and leaving his remaining forces in charge of the young Jedi who had replaced him, Damien went back to Coruscant to address the Chancellor on his orders. Palpatine and Damien argued for a few minutes, but Damien then decided to stop the argument. Despite having hatred for Palpatine, Damien apologized for having questioned his order and authority. Palpatine forgave Damien and told him not to let his anger and passion for battles get the best of him, for it wasn't the Jedi way. Palpatine told Damien, that with his power, he himself, along with others could help stop the war. Damien agreed and then left. Damien, bowed in respect to Palpatine and left of. Once he left, Palpatine stated that Damien had grown a lot in a short time while smiling maliciously.

Battle of Null
"'Master Saa! Padawan Offee! Are you two okay?"

"'Yes. Slightly wounded however, but we'll live.'"

"—Damien Knights on finding Barris Offee and T'ra Saa"

As of the seventeenth month of the war, Null had become a battle zone between Republic and Separatist forces. A triage unit overseen by Jedi healers was set up behind Republic lines, though by this point, it was in danger of being overrun by enemy forces.

While attempting to heal wounded clone troopers and Jedi, Mace Windu's former teacher T'ra Saa and the young Barriss Offee were caught in an unexpected attack by bounty hunters working for the Crimson Nova chapter of the Bounty Hunters' Guild. The hunters, riding speeder bikes, opened fire on the Jedi, killing some and setting fire to the surrounding forest. During the fight, T'ra Saa's lightsaber was knocked from her hand and collected by one of the hunters, who ultimately fled the encroaching fires. Left with no alternative against the blaze, Saa used the Force to pull trees down over the survivors, effectively trapping them away from the flames.

A rainstorm soon doused the fires, and Damien Knights arrived on the scene to rescue the survivors. They uncovered Offee, the clones and an unconscious Saa, who had been wounded during her valiant attempt to save the group. Damien and Windu raced her to a waiting gunship along with Offee, even as Separatists were spotted approaching their location. The Jedi healer informed Damien of the details of the unexpected battle, and the Senior Jedi General resolved to put an end to the Crimson Nova's activities with a mission to the Rig, their base of operations.

Mission to the Rig
In the aftermath of the Battle of Null, the Jedi Council learned that a bounty had been posted on the Jedi, and that members of the Crimson Nova bounty hunters guild were attempting to collect. Rather than have his Jedi be targets on and off the battlefield, Mace Windu assembled a team of the most powerful Jedi available—Jedi Knight Damien Knights and Jedi Masters Kit Fisto, Saesee Tiin and Agen Kolar and infiltrated the Crimson Nova headquarters on The Rig space station.

Windu's team successfully breached The Rig's security. Damien and Windu remained fully visible to the bounty hunters, deflecting attention from the other Jedi. Kolar posed as Argent Kole, a bounty hunter looking to collect credits for his "captive", Kit Fisto. While Fisto incited riots among the prisoners, Tiin, in the guise of a smuggler, set off an explosion in the hangar bays.

With The Rig in turmoil, the Jedi executed their show of force, fighting their way into the command center and ensuring the deaths of the guild leaders. The bounties were rescinded, and the originator, Kh'aris Fenn, was later executed by Damien Knights.

Mission to the Leisure Satellite

 * "'Ventress has locked us onto a collision course with the Jedi Temple!'"
 * "―Damien Knights, to Padmé Amidala"

A squad of battle droids attempted to construct a laser cannon on a leisure satellite orbiting Coruscant, with which they were to destroy the Senate Building on the surface of the planet. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Ahsoka Tano were also present and prevented the battle droids from succeeding with their plan.

At the same time, Asajj Ventress infiltrated the satellite and locked it on a collision course with the Jedi Temple, aiming for the satellite to crash into the Jedi Temple, destroying it. Her efforts were thwarted thanks to Damien's intervention and help from Senator Padmé Amidala. Damien engaged Ventress in a short duel, but she escaped, her plan thwarted.

Second Battle of Haruun Kal
At some point after his encounter with Ventress, Damien's home planet of Haruun Kal was in peril after a Separatists fleet descended upon the planet. It would the second battle of the planet after the first Battle of Haruun Kal which concluded with the massacre of the Korunnai, which would be the whole clan. News of it were recieved when an old family friend contacted Damien. It was recieved through an old holo-transmission. After receiving it, Damien was deeply worried for his people. The name of the contactor was Nick Rotsu. He told Damien that his people were waiting for him to help them, for a few Korunnai had been killed in an attempt to fight back, that drastically failed. Damien told them he would arrive immediately, but before Nick could say anything, the communication was cut off, which ended with Nick screaming, and causing Damien to worry. Damien left angrily, thus shutting the doors using the Force, to which he used so much force, it caused the doors to be damaged. Under orders from Luminara Unduli, Commander Gree and a battalion of 20 clone troopers were to accompany Damien, to which were to first check out the situation.

Landing on the planet
Once orders were completed, Damien and his men landed on the planet away from Separatist ships thus weren't scanned due to the fact that Damien's ship was cloaked. It occurred to Damien that they had to land in an area where their ship wouldn't be seen a droids or a droid drop ship. They landed behind a stone wall that had a Korun carved face. Damien exited the ship with Commander Gree and the clone troopers, which they wandered around until they found a droid base, where Nick Rotsu was being held hostage with a few other Korunnai. To not injure or kill, Damien ordered his men to stay down, while he would take out the droids and the base. To lure the droids out, Damien used the Force to throw a rock at the B-1 Battle droid, who was the Commander. Luring it out, the droid walked out and met with him at a dead end. Damien sliced the droid in half, but it didn't alert the others. Using Force Shadow, Damien snuck to the base, turning into shadows of nearby objects. Once he reached the base, Damien cloaked himself, where he took control of the shadows, which gave the droids the inability to move. Stuck to the floor on their feet, Damien reverted back to his original form, and ignited his light sabers. Grabbing their weapons the droids fired at Damien, but were quickly destroyed. Damien then freed the Korunnai and brought them to where he and his clones were hiding. Healing the injured Korunnai, the clones each gave them a weapon to help fight the Separatists.The Korunnai took the weapons, but one said that they had to help free those who were being held as hostages. Damien said he would take care of it, and he would, after successful attacks on six bases, every Korunnai was freed.

After liberating them, Damien said that it was time to fight and drive out the Separatists, but unknown to him Dooku was the General once more for the planet, under orders from Sidious. However, the General prepared for battle.

Driving out the Separatists

 * "'This is my home and you will not destroy it Dooku.'"
 * "—Damien to Count Dooku"

After scanning the area, Damien waited for the droids to arrive in order to make the ambush successful. Walking through an area, Dooku commanded the droids to continue walking and to kill whatever came in their way. Once he heard this, Damien revealed himself from a hill and shouted "We fight now my Korunnai brothers, alongside my troopers, clones. We fight for our world of Haruun Kal." After it, Damien and his small army of troopers and Korunnai engaged the droids, thus destroying all of them in the process. Damien then engaged Dooku for the first time, but unknown to the General, Damien had destroyed the other droid armies, which he discovered at the start of duel. Fighting the Sith Lord, Damien would defeat him by disarming him, by destroying the Count's blades, but sadly Dooku escaped and left with his fleet.

A planet liberated

 * "'This is another day my people can live peacefully on Haruun Kal.'"
 * "—Damien to the Korunnai on their victory"

After the victorious battle, Damien ordered his troops to head back to Coruscant, for which he would follow. Damien stayed behind to help fixed the homes that were destroyed. The clones left, and would tell the Council on what had happened. The repairing took a week to complete. Once it was done, Damien told his people they were free from the Separatists and should hope that they never return again. Before he left Nick Rotsu gave Damien a necklace representing his Korunnai race, which he would wear, for it represented him and his whole kin. Accepting the gift, Damien left Haruun Kal, but said he would return soon. After returning to Coruscant, Damien wouldn't be able to rest much for almost a week later, Damien would be sent to Foerost on a mission, which involved Ki-Adi-Mundi and the Techno Union.

Battle of Foerost
Early in 20 BBY, The Techno Union had captured Foerost in order to use its vast shipyards to their advantage. However, The Victory Fleet blockaded the planet to ensure no Separatists weapons left the planet. However, The Techno Union planned to break the blockade with their newest weapon: The Bulwark Battle cruiser. The Techno Union sent 9 of there newest weapons to break the blockade. The Victory Fleet engaged the Bulwark cruisers and were taking heavy losses quickly due to the Bulwark's Superiority. Steve's fleet happened to be in the system and The Victory fleet requested help. Damien and Ki-Adi-Mundi set course for Foerost. Once they got there they immediately opened fire on The Bulwark Cruiser. Steve ordered The Executive Crew Men to activate all weapons and destroy the nearest Bulwark Cruiser. The Bulwark cruiser was destroyed in seconds. The Separatist Commander, Dua Ningo decided that his ships couldn't last to long so he ordered his ships to escape. What was left of The Bulwark fleet escaped. Foerost was safe and this was one of the most important battles during the year and it would fire up The Outer Rim Sieges.

Battle of Alderaan
Shortly after The Battle of Foerost, General Grievous massed his forces for an assault on Alderaan. Bail Organa pleaded to the Senate for a Republic fleet to help defend his planet. Damien and Ki-Adi-Mundi agreed to help defend Alderaan.

Damien was in charge of defending Alderaan on the surface incase any droidships got through. Grievous arrived and attacked Alderaan. Both sides took heavy losses. The Executive and The Invisible Hand boarded and Damien and Grievous dueled once again. But this battle was a standstill between the two. The droid fleet managed to send several landing craft down to the surface. Damien warned Ki-Adi-Mundi of the incoming attack and Mundi ordered the planetary batteries to open fire on the landing craft. Many landing craft were shot down.

However, a few managed to land the droids onto the surface but they were quickly destroyed by Mundi and his troops. Eventually Grievous decided his forces were taking too much damage and ordered a retreat. Bail Organa thanked Damien and Mundi and both gave them medals to honor their service as well as all the other clone troops that fought during the battle. Alderaan was safe and this was one of the most important battles during the year and it would fire up The Outer Rim Sieges.

Raid on the Republic Hypermatter Refinery

 * "Damien: 'Another assault on a hypermatter refinery... The man responsible is surely reckless.'"
 * "Kenobi: 'Reckless or not, we need to stop this attack. If the flow of hypermatter is stopped, the fate of the Republic fleet is a foregone conclusion...'"
 * "―Damien Knights and Obi-Wan Kenobi"

The Jedi council received a distress call from their Hypermatter Refinery in deep space, claiming they were being attacked and taken over by battle droids, under the commands of Volan Das, an Iktotchi bounty hunter. The council sent Damien Knights alongside his close ally Obi-Wan Kenobi to the refinery along with their clone troopers. The two Jedi destroyed all of the battle droids, then confronted Das. The bounty hunter fled in his starship, a modified droid Tri-fighter, and then shot at the refinery during his escape. Das unsuccessfully bombarded the refinery with gunfire, failing to destroy it and fleeing into space in his starship. None of the workers of the refinery were killed and only sustained minor injuries, before Damien and Kenobi left the refinery heading back to the Jedi Temple back on Coruscant.

Senator Assassination attempts
At some point during the Clone Wars, Damien ventured to the world of Pantora after receiving a message from Riyo Chuchi. The message spoke of an sniper assassin shooting down several clones, only to discover that the shots were meant for Senator Riyo Chuchi. In the mission, Damien thwarted Volta's assassination attempts and finally took her into custody, where she was put in jail on Coruscant.

Battle of Cerea
Cerea, being a paradise world, was invaded by the Confederacy. With many civilians being killed, the Republic launched a counter-attack to prevent more losses. Led by Jedi General's, Ki-Adi-Mundi and Damien Knights.

However, the battle lasted for a month, with Republic and Separatist forces firing back at one another. As the battle progressed, many civilians were killed, including the whole of Mundi's family. Mundi then ordered walkers of Cannon Company to destroy Separatist artillery so that the troops could breach the left flank and destroy the main Separatist supply depot. Damien and his forces managed to destroy several Droid Army outposts. The Republic fleet, meanwhile was able to destroy a large percentage of the enemy fleet, causing it to retreat. The battle ended when Bo-Ro-Tara was assassinated by Gossam Commandos, resulting in a Republic victory. Mundi, meanwhile, grieved for his family, knowing that it would haunt him as the war continued.

Battle of Boz Pity
After Obi-Wan Kenobi discovered a Separatist presence on the planet of Boz Pity the forces of the Republic engaged the Separatists on the planet's surface after a crash landing, led by Jedi Generals; Mace Windu and Damien Knights foremost among them. With Kit Fisto, Anakin Skywalker, Saesee Tiin, Kenobi and Senator Bail Organa, they targeted the Separatist's medical facility. Master Soon Bayts was in the first wave with his clones, and was killed by General Grievous, though Alpha-17was merely impaled and survived the injury. Damien and Windu witnessed this and then dropped a STAP on the General, disabling him for the duration of the battle.

Count Dooku left the medical center, but was attacked by Damien and Windu. After a brief bout of indecisive swordplay, Dooku had two of his MagnaGuards grapple the Jedi Master and drag him into a pit. Dooku himself headed for the evacuation point, rescuing the badly damaged Grievous and leaving Ventress for dead.

The blockade apparently retreated or was dispersed following the victory of the battle.

Assault on Vizsla Keep 09

 * "'Darth Maul is still alive... You can't even fathom the excitement that I'm feeling right now.'"
 * "―Damien Knights"

Following the Battle of Ord Mantell, Damien Knights and Obi-Wan Kenobi were sent to Ord Mantell to investigate who the Separatist forces had been fighting, alongside Jedi Masters Tiplee, Mace Windu and Aayla Secura. Though the Shadow Collective had managed to collect most traces of their presence in the city, Wolffe and his men uncovered a Mandalorian helmet outside the town, which led the five Jedi on the trail of Maul.

Aware of the Black Sun's presence on the system, and the location of a Mandalorian supply outpost suspected to be Maul's hideout, Damien, Kenobi, and Tiplee led an assault to lock the place down until reinforcements arrived. However, as they tried to reach the command center, Maul and Count Dooku appeared to duel the three Jedi, with Windu and Secura joining them soon afterwards. Despite their advantage over the Sith, Tiplee was killed by Dooku, and a Mandalorian assisted Maul by setting off an explosion that injured Windu and Secura. The Sith, then, managed to escape as Maul told Kenobi not to worry, as the would be seeing each other again soon; his alliance with Dooku leaving the Jedi perplexed as to what had just happened.

The Gathering on Ilum
Daming alogside Yoda then traveled to Ilum, where they awaited Ahsoka Tano and a clan of initiates who were deemed ready to construct their own lightsabers in the ancient ritual known as the Gathering. When Tano arrived with the younglings in the temple there, Damien and Yoda showed their own lightsabers and explained to them what they needed to do.

When the younglings went inside to find their own crystal, Petro was the first to come out, but Yoda was quick to point out his flaw for certainty and said that he found a crystal, but brought water to them—that is, a water crystal. He directed Petro back inside. The other younglings, Gungi, Byph, Ganodi, Katooni and Zatt, each came out later. The students then went on to make their personal lightsabers.

Attack on the Temple

 * "'You have to find who did this and bring them to justice.'"
 * "—Damien to Anakin after recovering from the attack on the Jedi Temple"

The attack on the Jedi Temple hangar left Damien injured, after he had docked his ship within the hangar. Damien was then visited by Anakin who received word on his injury, and thus was the only lucky Jedi who survived the blast, along with other clones and workers who were lucky enough to survive. When his Jedi friend arrived to talk, Damien had already gained consciousness. After a quick conversation, Anakin departed the infirmary. Damien later joined him, along with several other Jedi members of the Council, some members of the Senate, and Chancellor Palpatine. Among the dead Jedi, was one of Damien's closest friends, in which was a Jedi known by his parents, back when they were Jedi Knights years ago. After the funeral, Damien departed and started to walk the streets of Coruscant, wondering why someone would want to attack the temple, mostly that the attacker was the one who worked at the temple.

Following the bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar, the Jedi Council met to discuss who the culprit could be. Windu entertained the idea that the bomber could be a rogue Jedi, and assigned Damien Knights, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano to investigate. Their investigation led to the arrest of Letta Turmond, who had fed nano-droid explosives to her unwitting husband, a worker in the Temple. Damien later attended the funeral for the six Jedi killed in the bombing. Following the services, the Jedi Council met to listen to Kenobi's report on the Separatist activity on Saleucami. His report was cut short by Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin, who told those present of Turmond's request to speak to Tano. Tano met with the prisoner, and in a startling turn of events, Turmond was killed and Tano was on the run, blamed for her murder. The Jedi Council had another meeting in which Tarkin accused Tano of masterminding the attack.

Trial of Ahsoka Tano
After Tano's capture, Tarkin requested that the Council expel Tano from the Order so that a military trial could take place, free of what he believed to be a bias among the Jedi. Fearing that a refusal would be seen as an act of sedition, the Council reluctantly agreed. Damien was there to witness during Tano's trial in the Chamber of Judgment, where the young Padawan was expelled from the Jedi Order and stripped of her ranks within the Grand Army of the Republic. Anakin Skywalker ultimately proved Tano's innocence, revealing that it was Padawan Barriss Offee who had become disillusioned with the Order, gave Turmond the nano-droids, and framed Tano for it all. Damien witnessed from the Jedi Temple doors Ahsoka's departure from the Jedi Order. He knew enough to tell Anakin that due to the situation everyone was in, he couldn't say if his words were right or wrong. Unable to bid farewell, Damien wished Ahsoka luck in her future alone and stated that her return would be highly unlikely.

Mission to the Brink of the Celestial Wake

 * "'We're not going anywhere until we find the rest of your unit. Whatever attacked you could still be here.' 'You're not listening to me—the others are dead and we need to leave. Now.'"
 * "―Damien Knights and Serra Keto"

Some time during the Outer Rim Sieges in 19 BBY, the clone war's third year, a space station carrying Serra Keto, another Jedi, and a unit of clone troopers was attacked by a pink blob-like species able to combine and morph into machinery. Keto was the sole survivor of the assault and sent out a distress signal in the Outer Rim Territories that caught the attention of Jedi Knight Damien Knights. Leaving the Jedi Temple, the Jedi Knight traveled to the space station where he encountered Keto. She demanded immediate transport off the facility. Damien, however, refused in order to find out what happened to her unit. Because of his curiosity, the two Jedi were forced to fight the pink shape-shifting creatures, who had shaped themselves into two Separatist spider droids.

They were eventually defeated, but the Jedi were forced to break a bulkhead, exposing them to the vacuum of space. In order to prolong the station's existence, Damien wanted to activate the emergency ray shields. Keto, however, believed that the only way to destroy the blobs was to allow the station to destroy itself, and them along with it. Damien refused to give in to the prospect of death, so he and Keto quickly rushed to the hangar and barely escaped with their lives in his Jedi Interceptor.

Mission to Endor

 * "'Do you have any Jedi skills whatsoever?'"
 * "―A sarcastic battle droid, to Damien Knights"

Damien Knights and Commander Gree were sent to investigate a deserted Separatist outpost in the Endor system, after a clone trooper squad went missing. The group found evidence of a struggle, but no clone trooper bodies were there; only their armor.

Damien went searching for the missing squad of clones when a B1 battle droid ambushed him. Damien quickly subdued the droid by slicing both of its arms and legs with his lightsaber. While questioning the droid about the missing squad of clones, an Ewok shot a tranquilizer dart in his neck.

Damien awoke to find himself tied up. He asked the droid what was happening, and the droid replied sarcastically that the Ewoks were going to eat him. A few minutes later the Ewok leader pointed at a picture of the beast in the mouth of the mountain. The battle droid translated, saying that they thought he was a forest spirit and were asking him to slay the beast in the mountain.

As a spirit, the Ewoks said that it was his duty to vanquish the Beast in the Mouth of the Mountain that terrorized them. Damien, taking the opinionated battle droid along with him, complied to their wishes. While climbing the very tall mountain to the Beast's lair, Damien argued with the droid over his sympathy for his clone troopers, and became increasingly annoyed with it as their journey progressed up the huge mountain peak.

Upon reaching the cave of the Beast in the Mouth of the Mountain, the Jedi Knight tripped on a large pile of bones at the mouth of the cave, alerting the Beast to their presence in it's lair. The huge Beast quickly impaled the unarmed battle droid with its sharp claws, killing it, but this fortunately left the Korun Jedi Knight free to use the Force on the collapsing parts of the ceiling of the cave, forcing them down upon the monster, killing it instantly. Having fulfilled his duty as the Ewok's spirit, Damien then returned back to his Republic gunships at their rendezvous point, where Gree and his clone troopers were patiently waiting for him. Dismissing his commander's worries about where he had been, the pair, along with their squadron of clone troopers, headed back to Coruscant. The Ewoks would remember Damien's brave deeds forever, by immortalizing him in a large painting depicting his defeat of the huge Beast, which they would respect for many years to come.

Skirmish on Saleucami

 * "'Quinlan if you so much as appear to be dead weight... I'll personally kill you myself.'"
 * "—Damien, after arriving on Saleucami"

Damien was told by the Jedi High Council that Quinlan Vos and Aayla Secura have disappeared, and that the Jedi Watchmen are looking for them throughout Saleucami. Damien later arrived on Saleucami just in time to save Quinlan from the Sora Bulq.

Bulq prepared for a showdown, intent on driving Damien to the dark side. Damien's use of Vaapad did indeed open him to the dark side, and deep in Damien's inner spirit, he was facing against his most powerful opponent. Himself. However, this may have been a Force illusion projected by Bulq during the fight, as it was within the Weequay's power. Bulq proceeded to duel Damien using Vaapad, with the belief that the flow of light and dark in the lightsaber form would cause Damien to fall to the dark side.

Sora Bulq believed he had perfected the power of Vaapad through the direct application of the dark side. Damien, in order to combat Sora's furious technique, gave himself over completely to Vaapad, and in turn accepted and embraced the full fury of his opponent Sora, and transformed his anger into a superconducting loop, connecting Sora's hatred with his own inner darkness, which passed in and out and through him, which he then channeled back towards Bulq's. Damien finally mastered the flow of light and dark, he had a strange calmness as Bulq raised his saber for the killing. Suddenly, Damien turned around and struck Bulq down across his torso, showing his level of mastery of Vaapad over it's co-creator - Damien remained a Jedi while Sora Bulq and Depa Billaba fell.

They all then escaped the base just as the Republic fleet bombarded the place. As the Jedi Generals departed to other places, Damien agreed to keep Shaak Ti company on Kamino.

Clone conspiracy

 * "'I can't believe Fives would try to assassinate the Chancellor.' 'The Kaminoans feel a virus corrupted his inhibitor chip, which has led to this behavior. ARC Trooper Fives feels he is the victim of a plot, Separatist or otherwise.'"
 * "―Damien Knights and Shaak Ti discuss Five's breakdown"

Near the end of the war, Damien Knights and Master Shaak Ti oversaw the testing and investigation of the clone trooper known as "Tup," who had seemingly gone rogue and killed a Jedi. Master Ti attempted to assert the authority of the Jedi Council to analyze a tumor that had been found in Tup's brain, but was overruled by the Kaminoans. Instead, the body of the trooper, now dead, was sent to the Grand Republic Medical Facility on Coruscant.

Tup's actions were investigated independently by another clone trooper called "Fives." Fives, assisted by the droid AZ-345211896246498721347, discovered that the tumor had been bio-engineered and suspected a larger plot to be the cause of Tup's traitorous actions. They also discovered that Fives and all troopers had been implanted with the same biotechnology tumor and attempted to bring the revelations to Shaak Ti, despite interference from the Kaminoans. Ti however, invoking her authority, decided to take the data to the Jedi first—much to the protest of Se—and told Fives that one last test would be conducted on him before he could return to duty.

Before the two Jedi could leave, they were alerted that Fives and AZI-3 were attempting to escape. They gave chase, but were unable to catch them before they left in an escape pod. As they attempted to track him down, Damien felt that they were searching in the wrong place. Shaak Ti's suspicion turned out to be true when she learned that someone was accessing the Jango Fett template data. Damien and Ti, along with several troopers and Se, discovered that it was indeed Fives and AZI-3. They gave chase but, again, were unable to capture them. Ti realized that they were researching something and weren't planning to escape. She later saw Se quietly leaving the command center and followed her with a squad of clone troopers. She arrived in time to see Fives holding a blaster to Se and told him to surrender.

She learned that Fives, assisted by AZI-3, had discovered that the tumor had been bio-engineered and had suspected a larger plot to be the cause of Tup's actions. The duo had also discovered that all troopers, including Fives, had been implanted with the same organic inhibitor chip. Se claimed that the chip had been placed to inhibit aggressive behavior, while Fives pointed out to Ti that the chip's malfunction in Tup had caused him to lose his mind. When he told them that he had removed his chip, Se claimed that Fives was now a threat and should be terminated.

Ti again invoked Jedi authority, insisting that all evidence, along with Fives, be sent to the Supreme Chancellor for investigation, rather than let the soldier be terminated by the Kaminoans. Fives thanked her for trusting him, to which Ti replied that she was only doing what was right. Ti led Fives, as well as Se and Damien, to the Supreme Chancellor on Coruscant. Fives insisted to the Chancellor that the chips should be removed from the clones, while Se still claimed that he was a threat. The Chancellor then requested Damien, Ti, and Se to wait outside while he talked with Fives. As Ti and Damien was meditating outside, they heard blaster fire and opened the door to see Fives disarming the Chancellor and his security. Fives began to aim his weapon at the Chancellor, but Damien used the Force to stop him. The Chancellor claimed that Fives had tried to assassinate him. Fives ran out of the room and down a staircase. Ti chased after the fleeing clone, and jumped down the staircase to the medical bay. She ordered that the blast doors be closed, but Fives managed to make it through in time.

Ti and Damien met with Master Plo Koon, Yoda, Windu and Skywalker and told them about Fives' actions. Skywalker, whose legion Fives belonged to, expressed disbelief upon hearing that he had tried to assassinate the Chancellor. Damien told them that the Kaminoans believed that a virus had caused the clones' inhibitor chip to malfunction, resulting in this behavior, while Fives believed that he was the victim of a conspiracy. Windu then said that Fives should be captured alive to uncover if there was any conspiracy. Skywalker said that he would bring Fives in with the help of Rex. Damien warned him to be cautious, as the removal of the chip might have changed Fives. While trying to tell Skywalker and Rex about the truth behind the inhibitor chips, Fives was killed by Commander Fox.

Damien, along with Ti, Skywalker, Windu, and Yoda, met with the Chancellor later, where he gave his own explanation of the clones' breakdown. Palpatine told the Jedi that his investigation had led him to believe that a parasite native to Ringo Vinda had caused the chips to malfunction, and that an inoculation for it had been developed which would be administered to the clones. Damien, Ti, and Skywalker remained silent during the meeting, listening as Yoda and Windu accepted the words of the Chancellor, who ensured that nothing more would be made of the situation.

Argul
When fierce fighting broke out on the planet Argul, Yoda traveled to the world with Damien Knights and a number of other Jedi, to help evacuate refugees from Argul's cities. However, there were not enough transports for the Jedi to evacuate all of the Argullians, so Damien left the planet, promising to return with more ships.

Damien commandeered the Sullustan task force and returned to Argul with the fleet, using it to reinforce Republic forces on the planet. The task force quickly turned the tide of the battle in the favor of the Republic, and Damien landed with the reinforcements, via a gunship. Yoda then admired Damien for keeping his promise and he congratulated the surviving Jedi on the world, for their efforts during the battle.

Bpfasshi Dark Jedi crisis
Damien led a Jedi task force to confront the Dark Jedi crisis on the planet Bpfassh. A group of Bpfasshi Dark Jedi were responsible for a rampage of terror and destruction throughout the Bpfassh system and, indeed, the entire Sluis sector. The task force was able to stop the insurrection and quell the uprising. Damien then personally engaged the last of the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi, who survived the Jedi intervention and managed to escape, commandeering Jorj Car'das's smuggling ship, in a duel that lasted a day and a half, before finally defeating him—or so it seemed. Mortally wounded, the fallen Bpfasshi Jedi made it to the swamp planet Dagobah, where he died. At the site of the Dark Jedi's death, a dark-side nexus was formed, becoming the Dark Side Cave.

Battle of Coruscant

 * "'I'm really starting to get tired of seeing you.'"
 * "—Damien to General Grievous"

Towards the end of the Clone Wars General Grievous orchestrated a surprise attack on Coruscant itself. Damien largely remained on Coruscant and contributed to the war effort on behalf of the Jedi. During the battle Damien piloted his personal ship around the capital and destroyed huge numbers of the Separatist forces. However, he was eventually forced to abandon their craft and took control of a droid ship; using it to take down several of its fellows.

After this, Damien apparently dueled Grievous himself atop a moving train and defeated the notorious cyborg; knocking him from the train. Damien subsequently joined Yoda and aided him to hold the Republic's line against the masses of Separatist battle droids. He then began to question why Grievous had launched such an attack without trying to capture the Jedi Temple or the Senate. It soon became clear that he had orchestrated the attack as a ruse to hide his true objective; the capture of Chancellor Palpatine.

Grievous successfully captured Palpatine, though before he tried to take the captive Chancellor back to his ship, the Invisible Hand, he was confronted by Damien Knights. Using Force Crush, Damien devastated Grievous' armor and organs (the lungs in particular). This accounts for the coughing fits the cyborg would face during the end of his life. Force Crush is one of the darkest Force maneuvers known to the Jedi, and perhaps even the Sith, so Damien's use of such a dark mutilation was most unusual. However, the general survived and escaped with Palpatine; though Kenobi and Skywalker would ultimately rescue him, and kill Count Dooku himself.

Operation: Knightfall

 * "'You clones don't stand a chance against me.'"
 * "―Damien Knights, about to engage the 501st Legion"

Shortly after the Battle of Utapau, the Republic's Supreme Chancellor Palpatine managed to turn Skywalker to the dark side of the Force, and began the Great Jedi Purge. Skywalker, now known as Darth Vader, was sent to the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant to kill all the Jedi there.

Damien was at the Jedi Temple meditating outside the entry door to the hangars in the High Council Tower with Shaak Ti. Interrupting his trance, his close friend Anakin Skywalker walked past him with an odd glance. Within the next hour, Damien felt a terrible shudder in the Force and began to prepare for an assault by the Sith.

Defending the Jedi Temple

 * "'I've always wanted to fight you.'"
 * "―Damien Knights, preparing to fight Darth Vader"

Unknown to Damien, Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, Saesee Tiin and Agen Kolar had been killed by Darth Sidious. Also unknown to him was that Anakin had been seduced to the dark side of the force by Sidious and had become Darth Vader. As the 501st Legion of the Grand Army of the Republic, led by Darth Vader, descended on the Temple, Damien rallied Shaak Ti and his fellow Jedi in an attempt to repulse the Sith and his minions. Also, Damien's skills marked him as a priority target for elimination by the Sith Lord himself.

As the clones took a position to surround him, the Jedi Knight accused them all of being traitors before repelling them back with a powerful Force repulse. Damien activated both of his lightsabers and easily deflected their ranged attacks while cutting them down at the same time. He then jumped out of the High Council Tower and landed on the surface of the temple, only to be completely surrounded by the 501st. He charged the clones without hesitation, using his blades to protect himself from their blaster fire. After breaking through their lines and killing many clones in the process. Many of the clone troopers who pursued him were easily slain by the Jedi Knight.

As Vader was alerted to this, however, he went on a hunt for his former friend. Entering Damien’s territory, Vader discovered what carnage had been wrought there, with dead clones and the signs of battle being everywhere. Before Damien could move against the Dark Lord, however, Cin Drallig and Serra Keto confronted Vader on their own, and was slain.

When Damien and Vader finally come face to face Damien stated he just killed the troopers who were assigned to kill him. Vader plainly told him he had no intention of keeping any of them anyway. The two begin to battle, though Damien was very interested in doing so. When they crossed sabers, Vader threw a statue at Damien, though Damien effortlessly deflected it. Feeling disappointed, Damien, unleashed his Emerald Lightning and sent it at Vader, who, blocking it, proceeded to throw objects. Much to Vader's surprise, Damien effortlessly blocked the attacks, asking if Vader actually thought he could not follow his tactics. Vader countered, asking Damien if he thought his sluggish speed could catch him. As Damien goes on the offense, Vader used force speed to move out of the way, prompting Damien to state it looked like Vader's speed is only good enough to dodge him. When Vader appeared behind Damien, the latter can only react by placing his arm up, causing his forearm to be slashed by Vader's attack.

When Damien tells him he cannot be killed by Vader, he, taking the statement as a challenge, lunged at Damien, who, dodging the two attacks, is surprised when Damien caught his blade with his bare hands on the third attempt. Damien, stating he caught him, slashed him, but Vader moves enough so the wound is not fatal. When Damien asked why he had taken such a risk, Vader stated if he had not, he would not take the fight seriously. Damien, using his Emerald Lightning again, tired out Vader, who seemingly deflects it again. Vader tells Damien to leave him be, or, in his next attack, he will truly kill him. Damien, laughing at the notion, tells Vader to try, as Damien also always wanted to fight with him in a battle to the death. Once Damien resolves to continue the fight, the two face off. Before the two can continue their fight, they are interrupted by Clone Troopers. Them, filling the area, allowed Damien to escape.

Damien, then went to go assist Shaak Ti in Defending the Temple but quickly realized that he could not prevent the fall of the Temple. Rushing to the hangars, he began a mass evacuation. Aided by Temple employees and other Jedi, Damien ensured that many Initiates, Padawans, Knights, and Masters made their way into the bowels of Coruscant before he reluctantly made his own escape.

Exile and Journeys

 * "'How could this have happened Damien?'"
 * "'The sole purpose of the clones, under this order, was to destroy us under the orders of Darth Sidious, thus could not be prevented. The Jedi are but few, almost eradicated, but we survived, and so did others. Nevertheless, this purge is just the beginning.'"
 * "'We were all blinded by Palpatine.'"
 * "―Damien and Korrah talk about Order 66"

After the deaths of many Jedi Masters Damien along with his future wife Korrah Naberrie went into exile along with the Knights Family. Before going, Damien went to Felucia where he saw Shaak Ti, after feeling her presence. Damien was relieved to see one of his masters alive and well. Shaak Ti told Damien that he was already preparing to be a master and had the potential of one, thus didn't need anymore training. Accepting her words Damien departed, thanking her for the training she had given him. He would then leave, then to officially go into exile on the planet of Chandrila, where he reunited with his Grandfather. There he sparred with him in martial arts and lightsaber training and and surprisingly defeated him. The group of Jedi would all live peacefully on Chandrila, where Damien took the time in training his family. Using an ancient Force ability, Damien would cloak their presence to prevent them from being found by Imperial Forces and spies. However, Damien would be one of the most wanted Jedi in the Galactic Empire. Thousands of wanted posters were placed across the galaxy in order to find him, but he would never be found by Sidous or Vader. One reason was because Damien killed any Imperial Stormtrooper who came close to finding him and hid their bodies in many planets across the galaxy.

Marriage

 * "'Korrah Naberrie, will you marry me?'"
 * "'Yes, I will'"
 * "'I love you Korrah, more than anything'"
 * "'As do I Damien. From this moment on we plan ahead to help bring the Jedi back to the galaxy'"
 * "'Yes, we will' (both Damien and Korrah kiss)"
 * "―Damien and Korrah plan their marriage, and discuss what they will do about the future Jedi"

A year after settling on Chandrila in 17 BBY, Damien and Korrah would finally decide to get married. A week would pass in preparing for their marriage, which would turn out to be one of the biggest events of Chandrila in that year. They married a week later, in according to the Chandrilan way. Damien and Korrah were happily married, and thanked the fellow Chandrilans for helping make the ceremony. The Chandrilans decided to protect them for their bravery during the Clone Wars and after the marriage they resided on Chandrila for fifteen years before joining the Rebel Alliance, however during that time, both met with an unexpected surprise. While on Chandrila, both Korrah and Damien took the time teach the young Chandrilan children in the way of the Force. One thing they intended to do was seal the planet with a planetary coat sealing of the senses of detecting that there were Jedi or Force-potentials upon the planet.

Birth of Matthew Knights

 * "'He's very strong in the Force Damien.'"
 * "'Yes he is Korrah. Just like me when I was this age. Must be a family thing'"
 * "―Damien and Korrah discuss on their son's power in the Force"

In 16 BBY Korrah Naberrie would give birth to a Human (Korun) boy, after a two years of having arrived on the planet. Upon his birth it brought great emotion to Damien, Korrah, and the native people themselves. After being born Damien decided that he should be named after a great Jedi warrior that he read about in a book, as she also suggested that their newborn son should also carry the last name of his father. Agreeing upon it, the young baby boy was named Matthew Knights. A month after his birth, the young Human (Korun) began showing abilities in the Force, which were that of his father and mother. Amazed at his son, Damien called his wife in telling her that their son was already showing strength in the Force. Unknown to them at that time, their son would be the fourth strongest Force-sensitive in their family.

Hunted

 * "'My oh my, it seems I am pretty famous, according to the empire. They got everything about me right."
 * "'Damien, this is no time for jokes. This is serious. If the empire finds you, they will find our family and our prestigious castle'"
 * "'Nonsense, Korrah. They never will.'"
 * "'In the name of the Empire, you are both under arrest.'"
 * "'You were saying.'"
 * "'I hate it when I'm wrong.'"
 * "'What's that?"
 * "'Never to speak out loud.'"
 * "'Deal.' (blades ignite)"
 * "―Damien and Korrah talk about his wanted posters right before they are surrounded by Imperials"

Some time after going into exile and having a son, wanted posters were placed all over the galaxy, which were to find Jedi who had escaped the Empire. Some of the most known Jedi were Damien, Korrah, Shaak Ti, Rahm Kota and Kazdan Paratus. However, Damien was the main priority out of all of them, due to his power. Sidious by this time had wanted Damien to join the empire and fight for him, and help kill the last of all the Jedi.

To avoid any confrontation, since posters were all over the galaxy, Damien ventured to Tatooine, where he would lure several Imperial troops and the acolytes, since his ship was unregistered. Landing in the desert, Damien left his ship and began to walk, while several troops and acolytes followed him. Luring them to a far area, Damien was then surrounded and told to surrender. Not responding, one trooper ran up to Damien, insulting him and repeating to surrender, but Damien remained silent, as his hood concealed his face. The troops and acolytes were sure of themselves that it was Damien. Already infuriated by Damien's refusal to surrender and silence, the trooper grabbed his blades, but without moving his hands, Damien used telekinesis to switch on the blades, stabbing the trooper in the abdomen, killing him. Taking up his blades again, Damien stared at the troopers and acolytes, and told them that they would never catch him, for he would give them a chance to try, although they would be unsuccessful. Upon his words, the troopers instantly shot at Damien, to which he would easily deflect, and at the same time, duel the acolytes. Using what he was able to, Damien killed of all the imperials, and acolytes. Finishing off the final acolyte with a stab in the chest, Damien vowed to return one day to the galaxy and fight the empire.

Training
A few years into exile, Damien had a dream visit from his parents who told him to train his Jedi friends, for it was necessary. The next day, Damien gathered his friends and siblings outside his home, and told them that the time for real training was about to begin, which was for reasons unknown, that left them all questioning. Damien told them that he could not explain, for it was his parents choice, not his, to which he said he accepted to do. Accepting, Damien began to train his fellow Jedi companions, with tutelage from his parents, and his grandfather as well. Six years would pass in which Damien would successfully have advanced the Force abilities of Korrah and Matthew, making them stronger than before, as he and his padawans also advanced in certain ways that the others couldn't.

Damien knew that even like this, they would have to stay strong in case they ever met Vader or any other Imperial Saber Guards, who were trained in the dark side of the force as well, in which were all led by the Shadow Guard. After the training came to an end, Damien's parents gave the title of Jedi Master him and Korrah.

Unorthodox Jedi
"'Friends are a good thing, even if they tread a different path.'""—Damien Knights"Damien decided that his place was as a student. He did not want to remain among the his family, where he would be looked upon as a hero and feel pressured to live up to others' expectations. He also did not want to remain on Chandrila, feeling that he would be too tempted to grow complacent on the seeming paradise. He decided to seek out other Force-using groups and learn from them, expanding his understanding of the Force and discovering more about himself. The Jensaarai, Baran Do Sages, Aing-Tii Monks, and Fallanassi were all on his itinerary. He did not leave immediately, however. He spent some time instructing other Jedi, among them his wife, whom he trained in form seven lightsaber combat

Aing-Tii Monks
"'The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.'"

"―Damien Knights"

Damien set out on his travels in 7 BBY, taking a leave of absence from his family. Over the course of his long journeys, Damien sought out many different Force-using orders. Early in his journey, he penetrated the Kathol Rift to visit the Aing-Tii, experts in the manipulation of time and space who viewed the Force as a rainbow of many gradations rather than being divided into a light and dark side. Admitted to study among them, Damien learned from Tadar'Ro—one of their number who had previously interacted with Jorj Car'das, a reclusive information broker and the only prior Human student admitted among the Aing-Tii. Tadar'Ro, communicating through a device that translated the pheromones Aing-Tii used to express themselves, taught him Aing-Tii powers of teleportation, as well as flow-walking, a technique to experience the past or future by projecting oneself into it. The young Korun learned swiftly, easily understanding the Aing-Tii's complex approach to the Force. He hoped that he could use this power to alter the past and save all his Jedi companions from Oder 66, but he was devastated to learn that he could only experience the past, not change it. Damien admired the Aing-Tii's multifaceted understanding of the Force, and earned the Aing-Tii's respect. Over the ages, the Aing-Tii had accumulated many relics in a cave they called the Embrace. In accordance with their beliefs, they had to gather the Force-strong artifacts, but could not touch them. As an unbeliever, Damien was allowed to contact them, and spent some time in the Embrace exploring the various relics. When he touched a powerful artifact known as the Codex, he experienced a significant amplification of his powers and, in that state, sensed something amiss in the Maw. He spoke to Tadar'Ro, who warned him against traveling there, saying it was where Mind Drinkers dwelled. Damien felt he must investigate nonetheless, and so Tadar'Ro told him a riddle that explained how to find Sinkhole Station, home of the Mind Drinkers.

Damien found Sinkhole Station poised between two black holes. Within the ancient Celestial construct were the Mind Walkers, as they called themselves, a group of Force-sensitives who projected their consciousness into a mindscape called "beyond shadows" in which they professed to find a profound connection to the Force. They were under the influence of Abeloth, the dark presence Damien had felt. He learned to Mind Walk himself and was guided within the spirit world to the Font of Power, where his Mind Walker guides told him he could drink and find limitless power. Sensing the Font to be tainted with the dark side, he immediately rejected the temptation. Within the realm the Mind Walkers called "beyond shadows" Damien found the Pool of Knowledge, which offered visions of all that had passed and would come to be. Damien declined to bathe in it and experience all knowledge, knowing no mortal mind could comprehend the entirety of the universe. He merely gazed into the Pool and saw the Throne of Balance, on which sat the future. There he saw a green, robed figure sitting upon a chair surrounded by Jedi Masters who were also sitting on chair. His spirit would later tell Luke Skywalker it was not his former apprentice whose face he had seen, but Skywalker was not sure Damien was telling the truth. Driven to alter the light future he had seen, Damien ceased Mind Walking and left the Maw, determined to finish his training.

Jensaarai
'No, you're not, but you aren't good.'"
 * "'We are not evil.'
 * "―The Saarai-kaar and Damien Knights"

During the course of his journey in 6 BBY, Damien spoke with the Jensaarai, a light-side sect descended from a Sith cult, who were in amiable contact with the Jedi. He probed their understanding of the Force, questioning their doctrine in ways that offended them. Damien also spent time with the Witches of Dathomir, from whom he learned Force techniques but who, like the Aing-Tii and Jensaarai, criticized him for learning their ways but not their beliefs, not accepting their understanding of the Force. While among the Dathomiri witches, Damien also learned techniques of the dark side Nightsister witch clan. From the Theran Listeners of Nam Chorios, who communed with the sentient Tsil crystals of that world, he learned quieting and listening techniques that improved his abilities to communicate in the Force. Rumors later flew that during his search for knowledge Damien had penetrated the Unknown Regions, home to several Force sects unknown to the greater galaxy—the Blazing Chain raiders and the entropy-worshiping Sorcerers of Rhand among them.

Baran Do Sages

 * "'In the old days, the people only had the sages to warn them of storms. Today, there are weather stations and satellites, but a storm can still coalesce in moments. Sometimes, a sage will know in advance of the most modern instruments.'"
 * "―Damien Knights"

In 5 BBY, Damien began studying among the Baran Do Sages on Dorin. Master of the Baran Do Order Koro Ziil personally tutored Damien in their techniques, which specialized in the use of the Force to manipulate electricity, extend the senses, apprehend danger, Kel Dor Martial Arts, and keep oneself from detection. Damien began with weather-detection techniques, but wanted to move on to more esoteric abilities. Within only three days, he mastered the ayna-seff variation of the hassat-durr family of talents, which involved manipulation of the body's electromagnetic field. Damien, in turn, gave Ziil practice in lightsaber sparring. He finished his sojourn after completing his time with the Baran Do. He was considering finishing his sojourn after completing his time with the Baran Do when, studying documents he had brought along, he developed an interest in Force nexuses and decided to seek them out.

Fallanassi
Damien reached Pydyr to study with the Fallanassi in 4 BBY, who specialized in illusions and secrecy. There, he learned from Akanah Norand Goss Pell, a former lover of his future apprentice, Fallanassi techniques for manipulating the White Current, their understanding of the Force. Pell was wary of Damien, believing he carried a darkness within him, and sought to teach him to accept the galaxy's nature rather than place upon himself the burden of saving it. He did not agree, but continued to respect Pell. While training with Pell, Damien began feeling a sensation in the Force, a compulsion to come to the caller's assistance in the Unknown Regions. After several weeks, the call strengthened into a plea for help, and Damien felt that the time had come to leave his training and seek out the source of the compulsion. Pell counseled against it, feeling that Damien had to remain and complete his training, and did not truly understand the White Current. She also sensed that Damien lacked "light" in his views on the Force, and was determined that he could not leave without moral guidance. Therefore, Damien finished his training and departed to handle this matter.

Secret Apprentice
"'I can never forgive anyone who invades and causes havoc on my homeworld.'"

"―Damien Knights"

After completing all his journeys and fully understanding the force Damien went back to his homeworld, Haruun Kal to meditate and to prepare himself for returning to his family on Chandrila. One day while Damien was preparing to leave, he was attacked by Darth Vader's secret apprentice, Starkiller. He was the previous Jedi to be attacked before Shaak Ti was. During their duel, Damien's strength in power was greater than Starkiller's. He didn't know Damien had the skills and precision to dodge any of his attacks. Even though the secret apprentice was trained by the dangerous Darth Vader, He tried to persuade him that he could be used as Vader's weapon and be killed one day. Eventually it only made Starkiller's rage increase. In some part of the duel, Damien disarmed one of his hands from carrying a pair of lightsabers electrocuted him with a barrage of emerald lightning. As Damien's blade was about to end Starkiller's life, he retaliated with force lightning but Damien blocked it with his lightsaber and redirected the lightning back in a display of the "superconducting loop" of Vaapad. Damien's technique set Starkiller in surprise which gave him the advantage to decrease his strength and power with Starkiller's own force lightning. With the dangerous Jedi killer low in power, Starkiller quickly made a ran and escaped the planet.

Final Jedi Trials
Damien's Trial of the Spirit occurred in 3 BBY during his final visit to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Shortly after Damien fought Starkiller on Haruun Kal, he felt as though the Force had urged him to return to the fallen headquarters of the Jedi Order. Hence, he traveled back to the capital world of the Galactic Empire once more in order to discover why he felt drawn to the Temple.

Upon his return, however, Damien found the Jedi Temple guarded by many stormtroopers and several variations. Despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered, the Jedi Master single-handedly killed numerous Imperials as he infiltrated the ruins of the Temple. When he reached the chamber of the former Jedi High Council, he witnessed a Force-induced vision of his master, Mace Windu, engaged in combat with Palpatine. But just as Damien defeated Palpatine in defense of Windu, he realized that it was a vision of his dead master.

Out of a desire to learn more about his father and family background he had all but forgotten during the clone wars, Damien made his way to the Tower of First Knowledge where he hoped to discover more information about Derek Knight. After he fought his way past various Imperial soldiers that blocked his way, he came across a holocron that contained a gatekeeper in the person of his father. Damien then experienced a new vision, in which he was confronted by his own darkness; a manifest form of the Dark Lord he could become. After a lengthy and hard-fought duel, SDamien ultimately passed his final trial when he slew the Sith specter. But just as he regained consciousness, the Sith apparition warned Damien that there was no escape from the dark side of the Force.

Joining the Rebellion and training his son

 * "'Your training begins as of now my son.'"
 * "'Your time as a Jedi begins today. You understand?'"
 * "'Yes mom and dad, I do.'"
 * "―Damien and wife to their son"

When Damien finally returned home to his family from all his journeys his son Matthew Knights was thirteen and ready to be a Jedi Knight. They trained outside their home almost every day. However one thing noticeable was that he had many abilities that his father had. He inherited every ability from his father and mother. He was a powerful young boy, showing improvement and fast learning skills as time passed. At the age of fifteen, by the year of 1 BBY, Matthew Knights was promoted to Jedi Knight by Damien, who received the title of Jedi Master, by Yoda's force ghost. It was then at that time, when the three decided to join the Rebel Alliance. It was time for the Republic to be reformed. Knowing this could be a time, where finally every master, knight, padawan and youngling could have peace, they joined the Alliance formed by Galen Marek.

Battle of Yavin IV
"'Conflict is always such a bitter affair.'"

"–Damien Knights"

As the Battle of Yavin IV began Damien contributed to the battle by invading the first Death Star to fight Darth Vader. As he charged along the corridor towards the observation dome, he was spied by the security systems. Darth Vader emerged through the entrance to the dome, lightsaber ignited. Vader acknowledged that Damien had gotten stronger and was trained well by his late Master Mace Windu, but declared that Damien still had much to learn, though Damien countered that Vader is weaker than him and that if he remained a Jedi he could have chance of beating Damien. Vader, utterly confident that he would best Damien easily, opened the battle with a simple double strike. Damien was caught off-guard by the power of the blow, which jarred his wrists and shoulders and nearly disarmed him. Vader used Damien's momentary lack of composure to attack him telekinetically, though Damien managed to sweep aside the missiles. Ducking under two savage slashes, he stabbed at the Dark Lord's abdomen before flicking his blade up, trying to spear Vader through the throat. Vader only barely managed to block, and both combatants momentarily broke off.

Damien realized that until this duel, he and Vader had never truly fought as equals; during their training in the Jedi Order, either Vader would capitulate or Damien would hold back. They fought back and forth, with Damien taking a defensive stance against Vader's overwhelming offense. As he fended off Vader's series of attacks, he danced around the Dark Lord's defenses, testing their limits, all the while taunting Vader. He mocked his friend with the knowledge that, while Damien had broken free from the Dark Side's temptation, Vader himself lacked the wherewithal to free himself from Sidious. Realizing that there were better ways to kill than to call on his anger, Damien came to pity Vader, seeing the Dark Lord as a result of the same manipulations and abuse as himself, and thus desired to kill him as a way of "freeing" his former friend from the pain of being enslaved to the Sith. Damien's taunts, especially his professions of pity, enraged Vader, who ramped up the intensity of his attack. Damien continued to use his self-taught Soresu to great effect, wasting little energy and turning Vader's would-be death blows into superficial burns. As Vader continued to relentlessly attack, Damien suddenly counter-attacked with a blast of Emerald lightning, which broke Vader's momentum and forced him onto the defensive for the first time. Damien began to steadily gain ground while Vader fell back.

Eventually, Damien saw an opening in Vader's defenses and took advantage of it, slashing Vader across the throat. Surprised but elated, Damien scored two more hits on the Dark Lord in short order before telekinetically pummeling Vader with any and all objects he could find. The last such missile was an energy field generator, which detonated on impact with Vader. The blast severely damaged the Sith Lord's armor and respirator, and destroyed most of his mask and helmet. As Damien approached him, intending to finish him, he saw Vader's face uncovered for the first time. Vader, much to the shock and surprise of Damien, was a terribly scarred old man, in whose eyes Damien saw only pain and exhaustion. Before Damien could give the finishing blow to Vader, he received a message that the Rebels were about to blow up the Death Star so Damien left Vader for dead and escaped the Death Star one minute before its explosion.

Battle of Endor
"'This war ends now.'"

"―Damien Knights"

Damien fought alongside the Ewoks and the Rebel soldiers against stormtroopers. Damien was able to fend off AT-ST's troubling the Stormtroopers and giving an advantage to the Rebels. One took a shot at a group of Rebels and Ewoks, which failed since Damien used the Force to stop the blast and absorb it, only to release a powerful blast of Emerald Lightning straight to the AT-ST disintegrating it completely. He then Force crushed several AT-ST's and helped Chewbacca and an Ewok take control of one. Ambling to dismantle the door to the shield generator, three Rebel Soldiers guarded the place while Damien, Han Solo, and Leia Organa with several troopers entered the place. After a successful break in into the bunker, the bombs were set and the shield generator was destroyed. A few minutes later the second Death Star was destroyed. After the destruction of the Death Star, Coruscant went into cheers upon the death of Palpatine, as to leading the creation of the New Republic. Its creation became a great moment in galactic history, as to time where the Sith had been defeated, but peaceful times were not meant to last.

Years following the destruction of the Death Star II
"'The time of the Sith is now finally over, the Jedi have returned after years of battling, we have now returned to the galaxy.'"

"―Damien reflecting on the return of the Jedi"

Years later a time came, where it brought great joy to Damien, due to the fact that Luke Skywalker had now finally established the New Jedi Order. After receiving this news Damien and his family now knew that the Jedi had officially returned. Just like Obi-wan told Luke, he told Damien that they were no longer the old, they were now the new. Understanding this Damien would help Luke rebuild the Order, as to even making a Praxeum on Yavin 4. There Damien alongside his friend Luke Skywalker, took the role as the first Masters of the Order. As a Jedi who has been through many Battles in the Clone Wars Damien became the Jedi Battlemaster and Master of the Order.

Grand Master Trials (10-15 ABY)

 * "'A master, you are no longer Damien. Grand Jedi Master, you have become.'"
 * "―Yoda to Damien"

After the creation of the New Jedi Order in 10 ABY, in that same year, Yoda appeared to Damien. Yoda told him that he was on the verge of becoming a true Grand Master, but to achieve the title, he had to do a few trials. Doing so, Damien went to Dagobah and participated in the trials, which took five years. Then in 15 ABY, Damien was given the title of Grand Master. As Grand Master, Damien became the Leader of the Jedi High Council.

Yuuzhan Vong War (25 ABY-29 ABY)

 * "'I have fought in several wars. The biggest one I ever fought was the Clone Wars, and that was almost fifty-years ago. Incredible how long it's been. I have seen many things in my life, from the death of my parents, the redemption of Anakin Skywalker, balance restored to the Force which is what Luke Skywalker said. Peace doesn't last, nor does order. From the foundations of order.....chaos forms in the most unlikely of places.'"
 * "―Damien reflecting his views on the Yuuzhan Vong threats"

Prior to the beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Damien trained several Jedi alongside Luke Skywalker. Recovering from harsh training on Dagobah with Yoda, Damien was reunited with his family. Unknown to him, his son Matthew had grown strong in the Force and had even trained himself, although he was a Jedi Knight at the time of their separation. Matthew was glad upon seeing his father. Matthew joined the New Republic and Jedi Order, where Damien granted him the title of Jedi Master. A few weeks after his rank, unknown to the Jedi and Republic, the distant world of Rhommamool Nom Anor faked his own death after rebellions stirred up. He was able to then cause and escalate conflict, to then get the Republic's attention to a new target. Around the galaxy, the Yuuzhan Vong began to attack and invade several planets easily, without no one to stop them. Sadly, the Yuuzhan Vong attacked Haruun Kal and slayed the Korunnai. This hit Damien painfully, seeing that his entire race was decimated, only leaving him and his family as the primary survivors of the Korunnai genocide light years away. Many of the battles in which the Jedi fought in often benefited the Republic, but Damien felt that despite the help the Jedi gave, the Republic cared not, and only looked for victory. He also stated they they would not even thank the Jedi, due to the negative views enlisted upon them.

Time later, news came of other planets under attack. This just made the threat extend galaxy-wide, to then lead to a galaxy-wide war. This led to more invasions of the deadly Yuuzhan Vong, only seeing to re-create worlds in their image. Only a year settling into the war, on the moon Yavin 4, the Jedi Praxeum was assaulted by the Peace Brigade, resulting in retreat of the Jedi, as one of the Jedi there was Damien, Matthew, and Korrah, all escaping with barely their lives. This allowed the Yuuzhan Vong to consolidate their presence on the moon. Damien, Matthew, and Korrah were helped by Talon Karrde and Booster Terrik in escaping the Vong's clutches, along with other Knights and Padawans and were able to get into the Errant Venture and then the Shelter on the Maw the new home of the Jedi Academy. This battle resulted in the final destruction of Kol's ship the "Cloaked Eagle". During the war, Damien suffered many things, mostly when it began, due to the fact the the Yuuzhan Vong brought with them Coomb spore, which was a fatal disease to many, as it affected his son and wife. The cause of the war made Damien spent time away from his family, including cause the death of many of his Jedi apprentices, who were all executed. Damien's heart was put in a great weight, seeing his family suffer and dying, while his son fell into a coma after a crashing on Yuuzhan'tar, where he luckily survived. Damien grew a lot of hatred for the Vong, but chose not to take revenge. His views on life changed dramatically. Anti-Jediism in the Senate reached the peak that forced Chief of State Borsk Fey'lya to arrest warrants for Mara Jade Skywalker,Luke Skywalker, Kol himself, and his family as well. Eventually, the arrest warrants were made clear, but was never done for it was used to turn down extreme proposals. At this point, both Damien and Luke, who were going through the same problems, discovered that the New Republic would no longer welcome Jedi. Also the Jedi Council suffered many setbacks and problems.

Leading the war effort

 * "'This war seems far more dangerous than I expected.'"
 * "―Damien reflecting on the war"

Similar to Luke Skywalker, Damien served in the war as a General for the New Republic Navy. Despite his great tactics, Damien suffered heavy losses against the Vong who proved to be far more prepared, intelligent, and set. Damien was defeated several times in the war. His most notable loss was at the Battle of Krant, where he lost around four-fifths of his men and his Jedi companion went missing. Having heavy losses, Damien was close to death in almost every battle, even when aiding his fellow Jedi. Damien was however pretty much an isolator, therefore he did not know the Han Solo Jedi members who were Jania Solo, Jacen Solo, and Anakin Solo. Damien would fight alongside them, helping them. The first time he met Jania Solo, he was fighting during the Battle of Hapes. After this encounter, Damien became a close friend of the Solo family. During the war, Damien was injured several times, where one time he had to be pulled out of the wreckage by Jania Solo and his wife Korrah, while his son piloted the ship in order to take him to a medical station. Damien was always grateful for the help he had, and eventually knew that this war was most likely one that has tested him.

Rebuilding New Republic and New Jedi Order

 * "'Sith and Jedi councils, are both used for similar reasons, but have different views.'"
 * "―Damien Knights"

While Damien mostly focused on certain problems affecting the Jedi, Luke was faced with the attempt of rebuilding the Council to it's original standards.

Following the fall of Coruscant, now known as Yuuzhan'tar, under Yuuzhan Vong rule, Damien set out with Luke Skywalker to rebuild the Council. After discovering that Cal Omas was elected Chief of State of the New Republic, they formed High Council, which included both Jedi representatives and members of the New Republic government. Damien was part of the New Council. Damien eventually had strong views against politics where a problem occurred in which involved the Alpha Red, which was said that it could destroy the entire Yuuzhan Vong life form. Damien however believed even though they were an enemy, destroying an entire species would be genocide, thus would achieve victory, but to a reason that makes no sense. He was criticized often the New Republic representatives, to which he simply responded by Force Choking in anger, but was stopped by Luke who told him to control his feelings and not let the problems hurting his family, affect him in ways to hurt others. However, Alpha Red would never work because it was sabotaged by Vergere, an Old Republic Jedi, who had already allied himself with the Yuuzhan Vong.

After a failed attempt, Damien returned to Chandrila to check on his family, who were out for almost a year. Upon arriving, Damien saw that his wife and son were up and about, to the fact they had just recovered from the disease. Damien was greeted by his family saying their were all right, which he would only smile. Damien would inform them on what was happening and how dangerous the war was, to which left them all shocked.

Skirmish on Ebaq 9

 * "'Come to Ebaq 9! Come to the sacrifice of the Solo twins!'"
 * "―Warmaster Tsavong Lah"

Later that year, retired New Republic Supreme Commander Admiral Ackbar formulated a plan to lure the Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster, Tsavong Lah, into a trap. The Yuuzhan Vong were led to believe that Chief of State Cal Omas had taken refuge at Ebaq 9 in the Deep Core, under the protection of several Jedi. As anticipated, the Yuuzhan Vong saw this as an opportunity to kill both the Chief of State and his Jedi guardians; Lah assembled a fleet, comprising five battle groups and prepared for a major assault. While Kre'fey led the majority of his forces in a series of diversionary raids against the enemy, Damien was given command of a squadron of forty capital ships and sent straight to Ebaq 9 to begin preparations.

As the battle began, Damien and the other Twin Suns, including Tesar Sebatyne and Lowbacca, flew to the moon and waited inside. While the combined fleets of Kre'fey, Farlander, Han Solo, and Garm Bel Iblis pounded the Yuuzhan Vong in space, Tsavong Lah landed on the world with ten thousand warriors, intent on slaying or capturing all the Jedi. Damien and his pilots fought a delaying action, using mines, blasters, and the Force to whittle down the Yuuzhan Vong and their voxyn. Retreating up a mine shaft, Damien, Tesar, and Lowbacca were cornered, but determined to fight on. It was then that Vergere sacrificed her life to wipe out most of the Yuuzhan Vong forces on the barren moon, though Tsavong Lah survived to ambush them. With his companions and his feet pinned by blorash jelly, Damien fought Tsavong Lah in a one-on-one duel and slew him by stabbing his lightsaber through his throat.

Ending the war
The Recapture of Coruscant had begun. Damien, Luke, and the Solo twins fought through the Sacred Precinct, and the team entered the Citadel with Jacen's help. There, Damien and Luke led the assault to the top level, slaying warrior after warrior. The Jedi Masters became a calm maelstrom of Force energy, surrendering his individual personality to the Force and becoming the embodiment of its will. Neither Jaina nor Jacen were able to perceive their Masters as they moved faster than even their Jedi senses could follow, calmly ripping through scores of elite Yuuzhan Vong warriors as Damien Knights and Luke Skywalker's massive power was unleashed. In Shimrra's chamber, Damien, Luke, and the Solo twins killed several Slayers guarding the Supreme Overlord. Embracing the Unifying Force, Damien used his unique Emerald Lightning on a Slayer to save Jacen. While Jaina pursued the fleeing Onimi, Shimrra Jamaane knocked out Jacen and engaged the Damien. Struggling against the giant Shimrra, Damien failed to leap out of Shimrra's attacking range while Shimrra's Scepter of Power wrapped itself around Damien. As Damien held back the amphistaff, Shimrra deflected Jacen's saber throw and attempted to slay Damien with Anakin Solo's lightsaber. Damien released his hold on the Scepter to push away Shimrra's wrist and was bitten by the staff. When Shimrra prepared to strike the death blow, Damien Force pulled Anakin's lightsaber into his hand, slashed the amphistaff into pieces with his own blade, and beheaded Shimrra with the cross of the lightsabers.

Unable to fight anymore, Damien sent Jacen to rescue Jaina. Fortunately, after the battle, Jacen was able to concoct an antidote by manipulating his own tears. Luke then played a key role in the Sekot Accords, convincing Nas Choka and the Yuuzhan Vong to surrender and live a peaceful life on Zonama Sekot. Gathering all the Jedi that had survived the war, Skywalker explained to them a new path for the Order: their role was to embrace the Force completely and serve its will wherever it would guide them.

Acting on the advice of Kam Solusar, Luke Skywalker established a new Jedi Academy on Ossus, where he continued to train young Jedi in the ways of the Force. A few years later, more Jedi candidates, including his son, Ben Skywalker, would attend the Jedi Praxeum on Ossus.

Swarm War
For a year, after the Dark Nest Crisis the Killiks kept a low profile in the galaxy, but in actuality they were gathering for war. The nests were still under the sway of the Dark Nest, Lomi Plo having survived the Second Battle of Qoribu. UnuThul, under the influence of the Dark Nest, was enraged at a natural calamity, which he blamed on the Galactic Alliance. The "Fizz," a deadly white substance that ate anything not naturally occurring in the planets that the Killiks were given, was killing hundreds of Killiks each day. Because of this, the Killiks, under the influence of the Gorog, were again expanding their nests against the space of the Chiss Ascendancy.

Damien, Luke, Leia, and Han were again brought before UnuThul, this time as presumed enemies. Leia, now a Jedi Knight, was able to calm UnuThul, but he still did not trust them. This mistrust would eventually lead him to hold Damien Knights, Luke Skywalker, and Han Solo (along with C-3PO and R2-D2) captive in attempts to get them to join into the Killik nest, which would enable him to learn their secrets. A rescue mission was hatched by Organa Solo and several Jedi, but Damien, Luke, and Han had an escape plan of their own. With the assistance of Jae Juun and Tarfang, the trio escaped on the DR919a. However, they quickly discovered that the Killik nests were also fleeing the Utegetu Nebula, in massive nest ships. Some of these ships escaped a blockade set up by the Alliance, but the Gorog Hive ship was trapped. Damien and his companions landed on the Gorog ship in an attempt to destroy their dark influence. After fierce fighting, Damien was cornered by Lomi Plo herself and dueled her. Plo eventually managed to escape, after a fierce fight, despite her nearly successful attempt at killing Damien. The Killik fleets escaped, and engaged the Chiss. The Swarm War had begun.

Damien, Luke, Leia, and Han immediately returned to the Jedi Academy on Ossus. Damien and Luke granted themselves the title of Jedi Grand Master and assumed full control of the Jedi Order, in hopes of uniting the Masters to overcome their differences. They told their Jedi Order that if they did not place the Jedi first in their lives, they should leave the Order.

After their speech, Luke finally discovered how his mother died when he made R2-D2 show him the hologram of his father Force-choking her. Luke, shocked at that revelation, later went with Damien, Jacen, Mara, Kyle Katarn, and others to the Gorog nest ship in the Utegetu Nebula to find and kill Lomi Plo. He nearly succeeded in killing Lomi Plo, but Lomi got away just before they severely damaged the nest ship. During the aforementioned battle, Jacen Solo and Mara Jade Skywalker were severely injured by Lomi Plo and, during their recovery, Jacen made Luke confront his doubt about his mother's death, saying that only when Luke could remove all doubt from his mind could he defeat Lomi Plo. Later, Luke fought against Lomi Plo and Raynar alone, against the wishes of his wife and nephew. He killed Lomi Plo, taking back his original lightsaber that was confiscated by Raynar and brought Raynar back to the Galactic Alliance, albeit under heavy sedation, and proved Jacen wrong by rejecting the dark side of the Force completely. After the Swarm War ended, he dissolved the Jedi's role in the Galactic Alliance High Council on Coruscant, in favor of a new ruling Jedi Council, whose opinions and advice would be relayed to the Chief of State. In addition, the unorthodox view of the Force as adopted by the Jedi after the Yuuzhan Vong War seemed to be losing strength and the more orthodox view of light and dark started to take hold once more. After this, Damien continued to lead the Jedi Order, and, along with his wife Korrah, his son Matthew.

Second Galactic Civil War

 * "'A new war, another war. I'm serious, these wars are coming up to often.'"
 * "―Damien Knights to his family"

During the initial start of the year of 40 ABY, Damien started to have unusual visions which seemed to relate on an upcoming war, that would threaten the galaxy and the Jedi once more. This brought great joy to Damien since he hasn't fought in Battles since the Yuuzhan Vong War. After Saving Jaina Solo and Jacen Solo from Tsavong Lah during the Yuuzhan Vong War, Damien worried a lot for the Solo twins, especially for Jacen who Damien saw in a vision as a future Sith Lord. Damien also sensed future deaths of the most known Jedi in galaxy, as such were Mara Jade Skywalker. Damien had hoped that these visions would not occur, but he knew that it wasn't for him to decide, for it was the will of the Force, and choices others make. Nevertheless, Damien and his friends prepared themselves for the new war.

The Dark Shadow

 * "'I sense a disturbance in the Force. One I haven't sense since the time of Palpatine and Vader. This is a power unlike no other."
 * "―Damien to the Jedi High Council"

After Jacen fully embraced the dark side, Damien's visions of the shadow person became worse and he knew it had something to do with Jacen. Luke began to worry about Ben's safety and completely distrusted Jacen. As he continued to watch Jacen, Damien and Luke decided that Ben would have to be taken away from Jacen and be given a new master. Mara, however, believed that Jacen was perfect for Ben and that Luke should trust Jacen, because he opened Ben to the Force when they couldn't. To make matters worse, Ben joined the Galactic Alliance Guard, much to Luke's and the other Jedi Masters' dismay. As a test, Jacen brought Lumiya before Damien and Luke in order to find her true intentions. Unbeknownst to Jacen, Damien and Luke eventually did sense Lumiya and believed her to be the dark figure in his dreams. In a discussion between Damien, Luke, and his niece Jaina after her suspension from duty, it became painfully obvious to both of them that Jacen was falling to the dark side and Jaina suggested that Ben be removed from Jacen's tutelage.

Damien, Luke, and Mara then journeyed to Hapes, trying to retrieve Ben from the Anakin Solo to keep him away from Jacen. Finding him gone, Damien, Luke, and Mara did meet with Tenel Ka and Jacen, and were given a rendezvous point to meet with their son. After landing at the rendezvous point where Jacen had said Ben would meet them, Damien, Luke, and Mara were attacked by Lumiya and Alema Rar. While Damien dealt with Lumiya, Luke and Mara dueled Alema Rar when she nearly killed Mara with a dart. In the duel, Luke was severely injured while fighting Alema Rar, but Mara defeated Alema, knocking her unconscious, where she discovered the bomb attached to Alema. Returning to see Luke shoot Lumiya five times, Mara informed Damien and Luke of the bomb and pulled them to safety. Luke and Mara saw this as a trap orchestrated by Jacen and all became concerned about their and Ben's safety and seriously considered that Jacen was falling to the dark side and possibly becoming a Sith Lord. Their fear and suspicions deepened after Jacen opened fire with the Anakin Solo's turbolasers upon his own parents. Meeting up with the family, except Han and Leia, Jacen allowed Damien to take Ben away to be cautious. Damien, Luke, Mara, and Ben then returned to Coruscant.

Damien, Luke, and Mara eventually held a meeting with Jagged Fel at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Shortly before the meeting ended, Fel entrusted Luke with a special device which was essential to the capture of Alema Rar. During a Council meeting the possibility of exiling Leia from the Order, something Luke refused to do, also during the meeting Luke asked all the members of the Council to make a list of senior Jedi Knights they thought deserved to be elevated to the rank of Jedi Master, a request that all members of the Council agreed to. In addition, Damien continued to search for Lumiya's lair. Damien would later learn of Lumiya's survival from their duel on Roqoo Depot and confronted her again. Lumiya offered to surrender to him, but Luke was skeptical. Finally, Lumiya just deactivated her whip and offered to Luke that he could kill her at any time that he wanted, though he did not do so. Their confrontation was interrupted by the crashing of a freighter into the station they were on.

Lumiya
Luke suffered many losses over the years, but the greatest was surely the death of his wife, a death with grievances unmatched since Anakin Solo's heroic self-sacrifice. Believing Lumiya to be responsible, Damien fought the Sith Lady, decapitating her in one glorious final duel on Terephon. However, the true murderer was someone Luke would have never expected—his own nephew, Jacen Solo, now the Sith Lord Darth Caedus. Damien, however, was unaware of this and though the evidence absolved Lumiya, the Master of the Order turned toward Alema Rar as the likely culprit. Damien was present at the funeral of Mara Jade Skywalker, where Leia Organa Solo was to eulogize her fallen sister-in-law. However, Leia was delayed by a squad of GAG troopers that Jacen had sent to detain them. Instead, Saba Sebatyne delivered the eulogy, using points of Mara's history to verbally sting Jacen Solo, who had arrived late. Jacen tried to make up with Luke, and Luke was somewhat willing to reconcile with his errant nephew, even committing the Jedi to the Battle of Kuat in their StealthXs.

The Ending

 * "'War has it's benefits, to which belongs to the enemy. However at the same time, we benefit as much as the enemy. Both sides seek one major goal. Victory and control."
 * "—Damien during the Battle of Kashyyyk"

After the death of Jedi Master Mara Jade Skywalker, the Jedi Order suffered a big loss in its council with Luke's departure. Despite his actions, Luke remained with the Order and continued to fight in the war. With the rise of Jacen Solo as the new Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Caedus, the war only became more intense, as it led conflict within both the Jedi Coalition and the Galactic Alliance. Damien eventually made few appearances in this war, since he was consistently followed by several bounty hunters sent by Caedus to capture him and lure him to the dark side. Spending many months in the Jedi Temple, Damien reappeared during the Battle of Kashyyyk, where he killed the four bounty hunters who were sought out. After this Damien, was able to remain for the remainder of the war, however, little is known about what he did, after several records were destroyed when Darth Kryat took control of Coruscant during his One Sith reign. Although it is known he fought in several of the remaining battles, and helped lead a pathway to victory.

Damien himself was strongly disappointed at how the Jedi were now being treated by the Galactic Alliance who now seemed to think less of the Jedi's participation in the war, their role, and what they did to keep the innocent safe. As the war came to an end, following the death of Darth Caedus, Damien gained mass media attention, as so did his family. At this point anti-Jedi sentiment began to grow and expand. Damien began to wonder if the Jedi were no longer welcome or appreciated after thousands of years of aiding the Republic during several wars. Unknown to him at this time, the Jedi were now no longer welcome in what was the Republic.

Ascension to complete Grand Master
Following the death of Caedus and the rise of the new Chief of State Natasi Daala, relations between the Alliance and the Jedi Order reached a breaking point. Chief Daala began to doubt Master Skywalker's ability to lead the Jedi and resented their policy for self-policing; something she felt that Caedus' brief but destructive reign proved they were unable to do. As such, Daala had Skywalker arrested for dereliction of duty; in exchange for his freedom, Skywalker was forced into exile and forbidden to involve himself in Jedi affairs.

With Skywalker exiled, Damien was now the sole Grand Master of the Jedi Order and leader of the Jedi High Council. Damien proved somewhat willing to appease Chief Daala and agreed to her demands that each active Jedi be assigned an observer, handpicked by the Chief of State's office, who would accompany them on operational duty. However, this law was stopped thanks to legal action taken by the New Jedi Order's lawyer, Nawara Ven.

Encounter with the Lost Tribe of the Sith

 * "'This is true. The Sith are not always extinct, even in the most peaceful of times, although there is never a peaceful time.'"
 * "—Damien to Korrah"

Some time after arriving to Chandrila, Damien left with Korrah after receiving a weird signal. Telling Matthew he would be back, Matthew lent him his ship, which he took to the planet of Kesh. Arriving on the planet, Damien and Korrah were surrounded by several Sith warriors. Amongst the Sith warriors was Vestara Khai, a Sith apprentice and the daughter of Sith Swordmaster Gavar Khai. The two Sith warriors examined the two Jedi Masters, and questioned them on what they were doing on their planet. Korrah prepared to draw her blade, but Damien told her not to, for this was a mistake she had done on Korriban in 20 ABY. As even their son had done the same in 30 ABY. Korrah, following Damien's words put her lightsaber away. Despite this, a Sith warrior ran and attacked Damien, but he simply took down the warrior by disarming him, and unleashing a barrage of kicks and punches. As more warriors came to aid their "defeated brothers", Damien and Korrah had no choice but to draw their blades out in defense. Killing of a few of the tribe's warriors, the leader Gavar Khai told them to stop, which they did. Shutting off his blades, Damien told Korrah to stand firm, and to stay open in case anything happened, but Gavar just wanted to talk to Damien. Damien had no intention of talking to the Sith warrior, but seeing no other option, Damien conversed with Gavar, only to discover that a threat gloomed across the horizon, which threatened both sides of the force.

Abeloth

 * "'There is only one way to stop Abeloth…Jedi and Sith together.'"
 * "―Darth Krayt to Damien Knights"

At some point, Damien Knights became aware of the being known as Abeloth. He knew of her back history with the family of Force entities known as the Ones and feared that she could pose a great threat to his plans. Desperate to stop Abeloth, he left Chandrila and traveled to Coruscant which was secretly under the control of Abeloth and her minions, the Lost Tribe of Sith. He was alongside Luke Skywalker and noticed Darth Krayt during a skirmish at a spaceport as the Jedi returned to the capital to destroy the Sith. However, Damien believed him to be merely another member of the Lost Tribe.

Sometime later, after the battle in the Jedi Temple escalated to the rest of Coruscant, Krayt was seen several times by the Jedi as an observer until he was confronted on Fellowship Plaza by Jedi Knight Yaqeel Saav'etu. When she tried to take him into custody after sensing his dark side aura, he disarmed her before telling her: "Not yet, Jedi. Abeloth first."

Krayt traveled beyond shadows and met Damien Knights and Luke Skywalker. Krayt was identified by Jacen Solo as being the Dark Man of his and Luke's visions. However, Krayt convinced Luke that, with the Ones dead, only the Sith and Jedi together could defeat Abeloth. Krayt attempted to insinuate that he was part of the Lost Tribe of Sith but Damien saw through the deception, mentioning the Tribe's penchant for physical beauty. Nevertheless, he agreed, and together they managed to destroy Abeloth beyond shadows. Damien, Krayt, and Skywalker were left gravely injured, but still alive. As Krayt left, Skywalker was now aware of another Sith Order. In addition, when Luke explained that the Sith won't gain the Throne of Balance due to foreseeing a Jedi Queen, Krayt implied that the future of a Sith-dominated Throne of Balance was only delayed and not actually averted.

The Hidden Temple
Nearly a century later, Damien was still the leader of the High Council. Damien had served alongside Master T'ra Saa and K'Kruhk during the Clone Wars, well over a century beforehand.

Damien had an apprentice, Matthew Knights, who was his son. Matthew eventually achieved Mastery himself and took Kol Skywalker's son Cade as his own apprentice. Afterward, Skywalker took the Twi'lek Shado Vao, a friend of Cade's, as his Padawan learner, training Vao to a mastery of the lightsaber. With Matthew now his peer, the two became close friends as well as master and student.

In the year 123 ABY, Damien Knights reflected on his journals about Darth Sidious' master plan to eradicate the Jedi Order, from the Clone Wars to Order 66, summarizing the lengths Sidious took, to achieve such goal.

Massacre at Ossus
'I sense them too, Damien. We hold them here. There's no escape from the landing pad except with the shuttle—and no way to the shuttle but through us.'"
 * "'They're coming, Kol.'
 * "―Damien Knights and Kol Skywalker"

The forces of Darth Krayt, Dark Lord of the Sith, followed the Jedi withdrawal from Coruscant to Ossus. They claimed to seek a diplomatic meeting, but instead attacked during the night. Led by Darth Nihl and supported by Imperial troops commanded by Rulf Yage, the Sith assaulted the academy. Damien Knights, Wolf Sazen, and Kol Skywalker organized a defense while evacuating the young students. Damien, Wolf, and Kol made a stand at the landing platform on which the evacuation shuttle stood, holding off waves of stormtroopers while Matthew and Cade Skywalker, among the older apprentices present, shepherded the younger Jedi students into the shuttle. Skywalker and Damien could sense the Sith oncoming and ordered Cade and Matthew to take off when all the others were aboard, prepared to give their lives to save the younglings. Matthew refused to follow instructions, however, joining the battle with his father. Damien ordered his son to follow his master's instructions and leave with the children.

As Matthew departed for the shuttle, Nihl approached at the head of a column of Sith warriors. Damien, Wolf, and Kol engaged them, but Skywalker and Sazen quickly received grievous injuries. Damien drove Nihl back and stood over his former student's body, summoning Sazen's lightsaber and warning the Sith back. He stood alone against an army of Sith but successfully held them back despite being surrounded; however, upon seeing Sazen fall, Matthew and Cade once more left the shuttle and went to their master's aid. Kol SKywalker admonished his son for placing his emotions above his duties, and commanded him to take Sazen, not yet dead, from the field and evacuate. Tearfully, Matthew and Cade complied. Surprisingly Kol Told Damien to leave too because the Council will still need him as a leader. Kol continued battling, holding back the Sith and standing upon a heap of the dead. Nihl, however, was able to strike Skywalker with Force lightning, killing him as Cade watched from inside the shuttle. Skywalker sent a final message through the Force to Damien, ordering him to launch the shuttle.

Refuge
Having taken refuge at the Hidden Temple, Damien and T'ra Saa and the Council were present when Cade Skywalker and Emperor Roan Fel's Imperial delegation arrived seeking refuge. Damien, along with the rest of the Council, listened to Princess Marasiah Fel's offer for the Order to join forces with Roan Fel and the truth that Fel was not responsible for the war or the Massacre at Ossus. Saa saw the truth in her words but believed the Jedi needed to regroup and increase in numbers before confronting the Sith again. Master Saa refused to believe Skywalker when he said that Darth Krayt was really A'Sharad Hett, but K'Kruhk believed it, saying that there was always a darkness in Hett and that the Clone Wars had changed many Jedi.

At this point, Skywalker suggested assassinating Krayt. Master Saa was stunned by the suggestion, saying that the Jedi hold all life sacred, and that actively seek out and destroy life was not the Jedi way. Despite this, the Council agreed to discuss it. They spent the night discussing Skywalker's suggestion with Nat Skywalker. Saa said that they had to help the Mon Calamari fight against the genocide the Sith were wreaking on them, but was concerned because they didn't have enough Knights and Masters at the Temple, and was worried if the Galaxy would be given to the Sith if they acted now. After long deliberation and meditation, Masters Qua, K'Kruhk and Saa unanimously decreed that the Jedi would play no part in the assassination of Krayt; they felt it would be wiser to give the Order time to grow stronger, while the Sith undermined each other.

However, Skywalker continued with his plan to assassinate Krayt despite the Council's decision; the plan ending with the Dark Lord's death, though it was his most trust adviser Darth Wyyrlok III who ultimately murdered and replaced him as the new Dark Lord. Subsequently, Skywalker asked his companion Jedi Knight Shado Vao, who was returning to the Temple, to inform the Council that Krayt was dead.

Battles with the Sith

 * "'Jedi! We're going to fight!'"
 * "―Damien Knights"

Later, Damien was accompanied by Jedi Masters K'Kruhk, Rasi Tuum, Hira, and Shado Vao to Agamar for peace talks with Roan Fel and his Imperial Knights from the Empire-in-exile. On the night before they met with Fel, Damien and K'Kruhk had a discussion with their three companions about Fel and his Empire, with Damien insisting that the alliance was necessary for the moment.

The next day, Rasi Tuum, Hira, and Vao were present for the successful negotiations between Damien, K'Kruhk, and Fel for an alliance between the two organizations. Shortly thereafter, Moff Nyna Calixte, who served in Krayt's Empire, betrayed the organization by arriving and warning the Jedi and Fel's Imperial Knight bodyguards that the Sith knew of the meeting and were coming with a task force to capture or eliminate the Emperor.

Damien, his fellow Jedi, and the Imperial Knights prepared for battle as the Sith revealed themselves. The Korun Jedi Master instructed the other Jedi to defend the Emperor, believing that the galaxy's fate depended on Fel's survival. During the battle, Damien and K'Kruhk assisted Imperial Knight Treis Sinde in clearing a path to the Imperial delegation's shuttle, Defender One. Damien, K'Kruhk, Shado, the Emperor, and most of his Imperial Knights managed to board the shuttle, but an explosion from a TIE Predator attack run incapacitated Rasi Tuum, Azlyn Rae, and Marasiah Fel, the Emperor's daughter. However, as Roan Fel's safety was the top priority, the shuttle was forced to leave without them, allowing the Sith to capture Princess Fel.

The shuttle returned to Bastion. Damien and K'Kruhk eventually made their way back to the Hidden Temple, and remained there until news of a massive Sith attack there was imminent. Damien and K'Kruhk agreed, along with the rest of the Jedi Council, to allow the reborn Darth Krayt's forces to attack the Hidden Temple in order to allow Admiral Gar Stazi's fleet and Fel's fleet to ambush the Sith-Imperial fleet and deal a devastating blow to the Sith Empire. When Krayt's new fleet of dragon ships and Annihilator-class starfighters began ravaging the allied fleets, Damien, K'Kruhk, and Master Qua evacuated a section of the Hidden Temple in a vessel holding the Jedi younglings. As they took off, they wished good luck to their old friend, T'ra Saa, who had remained behind to perform battle meditation, and eventually sacrificed herself to create an escape route through the Sith fleet for the Jedi and their allies to escape.

With no where else to go, the allied fleets returned to Bastion, Damien and K'Kruhk included. There it was decided to launch an attack on the now vulnerable Coruscant in hope of killing Krayt. It was decided that a small strike team infiltrate the capital and disable the planet's orbital defenses. Damien and K'Kruhk decided to remain on Bastion as Cade Skywalker took a small strike team including Wolf Sazen, Shado Vao, Rasi Tuum, Morrigan Corde, and several Imperial Knights to Coruscant's defense systems and disable the computers there. They succeeded just as the Allied fleet emerged from hyperspace. The remaining Force-users then decided to head for the Temple of the Sith, where Cade would face Darth Krayt.

Damien and K'Kruhk accompanied the Allied fleet and served as commander onboard one of the capital ships, leading battle meditation with a group of senior Jedi. When Cade succeeding in killing Darth Krayt, Damien noted the change in behavior of Krayt's specially-bred Sith troopers and warned all ships in the fleet of possible suicide runs. With Krayt dead, the Sith forces flew into disarray, and Coruscant was reclaimed, albeit the loss of Emperor Roan Fel, who was killed by his own Imperial Knights for attempting to purge the planet of all life during the battle.

Triumvirate
Damien and K'Kruhk later attended the funeral of Roan Fel. With the fall of Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire, Master Damien and K'Kruhk became one of the three new Triumvirs of the Galactic Federation Triumvirate alongside Admiral Gar Stazi and Marasiah Fel. In 138 ABY, the young Empress Fel embarked on an ambitious project to construct a galactic-wide G51 communications array that would link the Outer Rim Territories with the rest of the galaxy. Empress Fel assigned several Imperial Knights including Master Yalta Val to supervise the construction of local communication array stations throughout the galaxy. While traveling to the remote Carreras system near the Surd Nebula, Damien, K'Kruhk along with Admiral Stazi and Empress Fel conversed with Master Val and wished him well for his mission. However, Master Val was ambushed and kidnapped by a rogue Sith named Darth Wredd, who impersonated the Imperial Knight and managed to take control of the Carreras G51 communications array.

Later, Damien and K'Kruhk went with Empress Fel and Admiral Stazi on a walk. During their walk, Empress Fel defended the G51 communications array by pointing out that she was investing in the future of the Galactic Triumvirate. However, Admiral Stazi regarded the entire project as "window dressing" rather than "solid statecraft." Fel responded that Stazi was a brilliant tactician but naive when it came to governing an empire. Fel's slip of the tongue led Damien to remind his Empress that the Galactic Triumvirate was not an Empire. After apologizing for her slip, Empress Fel reiterated that they could not hold the Empire together through brute froce and that the communications array project would help unite the galaxy by improving communications between the different regions. She then asked Master Damien whether he supported her project. After Empress Fel left to join her lover Master Draco, who had become the head of the Imperial Knights, Damien chatted with Stazi. When the former asked the latter whether he agreed with the Empress' project, Stazi replied that he believed that Fel had her heart in the right place but that he preferred to put his trust in a strong fleet that perceived strength and promises.

Later, Darth Wredd used the Carreras array to broadcast his manifesto to the galaxy, where he mocked the Galactic Triumvirate and described the Jedi as a former shadow of their strength. Wredd then attempted to execute Master Val before a live galactic audience but was stopped by the junk dealer Ania Solo, who managed to rescue Val before the Carreras array collided with the floating world of Mala. Following the "Carreras Incident", Damien and K'kruhk were present at a Triumvirate meeting when they received word that a young woman named Ania Solo had been involved in the destruction of the Carreras communications array. At a later meeting, the Triumvirate discussed the new threat posed by the rogue Sith Darth Wredd, who had embarked on a campaign to hunt down and kill One Sith infiltrators throughout the galaxy. Prior to the meeting, Damien ordered his stormtrooper bodyguards to wait outside. During the meeting, Damien and K'Kruhk reported that Wredd had already murdered a Snivvian Sith on Cadomai Prime and deduced that this was the same man behind the Carreras Incident.

Empress Marasiah Fel added that Darth Wredd had also killed the Sith infiltrator at the Triumvirate's legation on Ceitia Five. When Fel asked for advice on how to deal with this new threat, Master K'Kruhk commented that it was a troubling revelation that the Sith were systematically infiltrating governments across the galaxy. Antares Draco, the head of the Imperial Knights, argued that the authorities could not afford to lose focus on Wredd since he had publicly threatened them, destroyed the Carreras array, and tried to kill Master Val. Damien reasoned the rogue Sith had his own agenda. In the end, Admiral Gar Stazi successfully proposed that the Triumvirate leave Wredd alone and let him do the job of killing the Sith. Despite Draco's objections, Empress Fel concurred with Stazi's recommendation.

Later, Ania Solo and the young Imperial Knight Jao Assam left on a quest to hunt down Darth Wredd after receiving a Force vision that the rogue Sith intended to kill Empress Fel. Their quest led them to the lawless Calamari system where they discovered that another rogue Sith, Darth Luft, was enslaving Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees and forcing them to building a pirate fleet. Jao sent a distress signal to Master Val. Master Val received Jao's message and interrupted a Triumvirate meeting to bring news of the Sith presence in the Calamari system and the plight of the Mon Cal and Quarren slaves. During the meeting, Empress Fel opposed intervention on the grounds that Jao was an unreliable source and the Triumvirate was preoccupied with other more pressing issues. K'Kruhk likened the threat of the Sith to a hydra flower, which was capable of regenerating its heads. Despite the Empress' objections, Admiral Stazi and Master Val led a successful mission to liberate the Mon Calamari Shipyards which improved the credibility of the fledgling Truimvirate government.

Death

 * "'Dear K'Kruhk, I am sorry that I couldn't say good bye properly. My time has now come. Take good care and watch over the New Jedi Order and the Triumvirate. I depart now, and hope to see you again. Remember, I may join Master Saa now, but we will always watch over you, just like she promised. I wish you, the New Jedi Order, and the Triumvirate the best of luck. Also say goodbye to Marasiah for me.'"
 * "—Damien leaving a farewell note to K'Kruhk, minutes before his death"

After the fall of Darth Krayt's rule and dominance of his empire, Damien went into exile for the final time. Stationing himself back on Chandrila, Damien would take care of his family. Through his remaining years they fought against several enemies, and other Sith empires who sought to kill and destroy his family. These plans failed since Damien led his armies successfully. Years of peace and wars would mark Damien's legacy as one of the greatest Jedi in history. History remembered him as the greatest and one of the most renowned and powerful Jedi Masters in galactic history, which was said similarly to Yoda, which went on to be the same for his wife Korrah Naberrie Knights and his grandfather,  Jūshirō Knights, while his son, Matthew Knights was seen as one of the most renowned, powerful and legendary Jedi Guardians in history. Later on in 140 ABY, Damien passed away in his sleep. His death brought a big deal of sadness to  Matthew  and the Jedi living on the planet, which included the new headquarters of the Jedi Order and Jedi High Council. His last wish was to buried in an underground tomb in his family castle. Damien became one with  the Force, but denied it's will, and became a  Force ghost  and joined his friends and family in the  Netherworld of the Force. Many of his friends were from the Clone Wars, and time after it. Reuniting with his wife, Korrah remarked on how she prayed for the day they would reunite, as he said the same. Even after their death, they still visited their son, and Jedi friends. Following his death, Damien's rank as Monarch of the Knights Family was passed on to his son.
 * "'To my dear son, Matthew. I have lived my life as best I could, keeping myself strong within the light and that of the Jedi way. I know you will be a great leader to our family. Your Mother and I both leave you with great fondness in our hearts. I know you will continue take care of and lead our family. To you, I leave you my Dahgee lightsabers, the blades have been passed down in my family for generations. Lock them away in the deepest part of the Knights family castle in the chest I have given you. Time will come when they will be used again, and I trust you in that. Until now, lock them away and make sure you are the only one who knows it. Until we meet again, your father and watcher....Damien Knights.'"
 * "—A message left by Damien to Matthew shortly before his death."

Legacy

 * "'A great Jedi Master. There will never be another one like him. A good man, and honorable Jedi. That was the type of Jedi my father was, as was my mom.'"
 * "—Matthew Knights to several members of the Knights family, and several other Jedi"

Damien left a strong legacy following his death, to which he would be marked as a legend. Marked as one of the most powerful Jedi Masters in history, Damien became the most known and prominent Jedi in galactic history, alongside many members of his family, and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. Known for his legendary tactics on the field, and skills with both the lightsaber and the Force and in martial arts, he became a giant influence for later Jedi, even while he was living. Damien proved to be one who wasn't willing to give up, which many of his apprentices would adopt as a personality. In life, Damien began a legacy, prior to the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War, to which his reputation as a Jedi expanded to the Yuuzhan Vong species themselves, who hoped to lure him on their side.

By the year of 39 ABY, Damien was seen as one of the most legendary Jedi to have ever lived. As several years passed, and more people were born into the Knights family. Damien's family became his legacy as they sought to continue what he had left in the galaxy.

Damien's blades were wielded by his ancestor Asura Knights, who descended from his older ancestor Ashina Knights. Damien's twin Dahgee Jedi lightsabers were put in a safe, along with his wife Korrah's lightsabers, which was located deep within the castle walls of House of Knights. The blades were set as to never be used again, for over the years the energy life force of both Damien and Korrah became embedded into their blades, thus were the only one's who could initially use and wield them, besides other Knights family members. However, due to the immense power of the two Jedi, the blades became difficult to wield, which set the reason as to why the four blades of both Jedi Masters were to remain locked forever. Matthew, holds the blades in high regard as a memory to his parents.

Around one hundred years after his death, a statue was erected in his memory. Their son was still alive at this time and became the Grand Master of the New Jedi Order. Damien's legacy ended up making him a legend a century after his death. Also, Damien was remembered for having the most powerful legacy and family in history. Surprisingly, even Sith Lord's paid homage to Damien, one of which left the Jedi shocked. Several Sith Lords who succeeded Darth Kryat in the following years showed respect for the late Jedi Master, including Sith Acolytes who worshiped his Sith ancestors as deities, something that not only bothered the Jedi ancestors, but Knights family Sith ancestors as well. Even later family members who decided to serve the dark side held Damien in high regard, and showed respect towards their ancestor.

While Damien's family lived on, he frequently visits with the Sith spirits of his ancestors, and while the talks were never violent, Damien found himself at odds with them, yet eventually, he thanked them nevertheless for constructing his family.

Even after death, Damien frequently appeared to Matthew Knights, aiding him in time of need, such as providing advice, and war strategies. He even visited his descendants who had decided to embrace the dark side of the Force that dwell within their bodies, and while he neither pleaded, nor asked them to join the light side, Damien only demanded that they not tarnish the Knights family name, for if they did, their own family would hunt them down and kill them, and such Sith descendants listened to their ancestor, holding him in high regard and respect.

Powers and abilities
Damien was a natural prodigy, evidenced by his rapid rise through the Jedi ranks. His feats and renown caused him to be recognized on sight by people like Palpatine, Dooku and Sora Bulq, deemed a dangerous opponent by Darth Maul, and viewed by Darth Vader as a major threat to his plans. During the Great Jedi Purge, flee-on-sight orders were given to enemies should they ever see him. To his Jedi allies, Damien was valued highly for his combat prowess and leadership skills, such that many foresaw his rise to Grand Master status years before it happened. However, Yoda believed Damien's greatest strength was as a teacher, leader, and friend, all of which proved to be a vital factor in Abeloth's defeat.

In general, Damien was a very versatile man with high proficiency in countless areas; Mace Windu said Damien was smarter than Obi-Wan Kenobi, had better senses than Plo Koon, was more adept with Vaapad than Mace Windu, and had better healing abilities than Stass Allie and Barriss Offee combined.
 * Advanced Healer: One of Damien's most remarkable abilities was that he could rapidly regenerate and heal others proficiently. Furthermore, he was adamant he could heal the grievous injuries of several Korunnai whom other natives on Haruun Kal were unable to treat. In other words, he could recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs, and limbs. Because the cells and telomere lengths are constantly regenerating and rejuvenating, he aged very slowly, recovered damaged body parts. Even complex parts such as damaged brain cells and nerves could be repaired, effectively keeping his mind intact and making decapitation more difficult as he could simply reattach his heads to the neck, sealing the cut. Damien was practically immune to drugs, infections, diseases, and all harmful foreign substances, and was always in optimal health and physical prime. He was immune to telepathic attacks, since the regenerative power restores brain cells to its unaltered state, blocking his mind from any attacks or invasive attempts. His skills were enough that Darth Vader believed he could reverse his injuries that he sustained on Mustafar and fix the damage to Jaina Solo when she was deemed a helpless case. Even when it comes to more basic injuries he is notably superior, instantly healing those that other healers struggle to resuscitate.
 * Emerald Lightning Manipulation: Damien had a natural affinity for Lightning. He could produce and manipulate lightning and electricity at his will, having complete control over its manifestation. Through its use, Damien could not only generate lightning from his body, but also make it appear from almost anywhere to strike his opponents, taking them by surprise. By generating electricity on different parts of his body, he was capable of making his attacks in melee deadlier. He proved able to utilize Force lightning in many unique ways, able to target multiple foes with overwhelming barrages. He also used lightning in a more tactical manner, charging up or shorting out certain types of machinery. As with his telekinetic abilities, Damien's lightning even had the potential to disintegrate targets.
 * Emerald Storm Generation: By raising his lightsaber above his head, Damien could produce a bolt of lightning from the blade which extends and transforms into a dome of lightning, stationed far above his head and fastened to the ground by a large number of lightning pillars. A single pillar also reaches from the top of the dome toward the sky. It is capable of affecting weather with thunder and lightning storms, and it brings forth dark clouds to facilitate the use of its powers. Through the use of hand gestures, Damien could direct powerful lightning bolts to strike his opponents from the sky. The lightning was strong enough to annihilate a battalion.
 * Enhanced Agility: While normally laid-back, Damien was an immensely agile fighter. In battle, he could effectively use the battlefield to his advantage, flipping and jumping from wall to wall to keep his opponents unsure of his attack patterns. Offensively, his agility granted him great balance and dexterity in battle, attacking his opponent from various angles with great accuracy and force.
 * Enhanced Durability: Damien received considerable physical training from his days in the Jedi Order, and is well-conditioned for battle. He can take large amounts of punishment. His durability caused enemies to be more careful about how they would hit him if they did not want to hurt themselves instead. As resilient as Damien is, he was just as hard to damage.
 * Enhanced Endurance: Damien was a very resilient warrior. Both when out of breath from running Damien was still able to fight effectively while showing no signs of weakening. His physical strength and speed was matched by his resilience. Damien often ignored most of the injuries he sustained in battle, not suffering any debilitation despite having multiple slash wounds on his body.
 * Enhanced Sensory Perception: Damien possessed a unique talent which allowed him to sense any targets' energy signature. Damien was able to sense the structure and materials of solid substances, including the presence of caves, material changes, structural weaknesses, etc. Darth Vader stated that his sensory abilities were unlike any other. Using this ability, Damien, could detect the presence of others, easily discern how many and if a specific individual, even its species, is present from great distance, letting him easily track the target. He could determine the size of a target's energy reserve and potency, and even tell when someone was lying through the dishonest emotions causing energy fluctuations and he can tell if someone is trapped in an illusion, including himself. Similarly, he can conceal his own energy from others. Additionally, from a single glance at his opponent, Damien could immediately determine how powerful his opponent is. He could comprehend the flow and concentration of the person's energy. Also aiding him was his ability to pick up even the slightest vibrations through physical contact with the ground, enabling him to perceive their surroundings as precisely as normal sight.
 * Enhanced Speed: Damien was highly skilled in the use of Speed. Though this is by no means a unique skill, as most Jedi are capable of performing it to various degrees. Damien mastered this ability to the point where he could appear to be in several places at once and wipe out an entire squadron in seconds. He could easily close tremendous gaps of distance in the blink of an eye while remaining undetected, and could surprise Mace Windu, who was one of the most proficient masters in the art as well. He mastered all of the Jedi Order's speed-oriented techniques, and even created some of his own such as supplementing his abilities with Emerald Lightning to move swiftly.
 * Enhanced Strength: Damien possessed a very large degree of physical strength, simultaneously driving the heads of two Yuuzhan Vong Warriors through solid stone with just a single blow from either hand. He could punch and kick opponents with tremendous force and pick up and throw large objects with ease. On Coruscant, Damien took to tearing Yuuzhan Vong Warriors apart with his bare hands, showing incredible Force strength and resilience as he crushed armor with his fists. He was also able to send enemies that are bigger than him through several buildings with one strike, as well as send them flying hundreds of feet with heavy attacks.
 * Expert Archer: As a child Damien loved bows and arrows. As he got older he became more skilled using his bow & arrows, and gained more power and precision with his arrows. This is similar to how a marksman gains skill and hits the target more frequently.
 * Expert Marksman: Damien was quite skilled with a dual blasters. He could fire very precise blaster bolts while fighting more than one opponent, and can launch a continuous barrage of shots which even a Sith Swordmaster would have difficulty avoiding.
 * Force Powers: Damien's mastery of the force was exceedingly and immensely powerful. He was known for his resistance to the lures of the dark side, channeling his inner darkness into his attacks to help him serve the light side of the Force. This allowed him to utilize some of the darkest powers known to either Jedi or Sith without succumbing to his aggression, such as the terrible Force Crush. Damien was known to use the Force to enhance the capabilities of his body, and as such, was able to leap to great heights and across enormous distances. He proved to show a great immense power, utilization and control of Emerald Lightning in many ways. Aiding him was also his shatterpoint ability, a power he always had a natural affinity for. It allowed him to see weak points in opponents, events, and everyday life. This power also allowed a Jedi to shatter otherwise unbreakable objects by channeling the Force into the places of the object that bound it together. Damien's shatterpoint ability proved vital to his victory over Darth Vader, the Yuuzhan Vong War, and Lumiya. Damien was also incredibly skilled at predicting the future and was able to foresee the temporary alliance of Jedi and Sith to fight a great foe approximately seven years later, in a prophecy relating to the fate of the galaxy. The Jedi Master also demonstrated an affinity for using darker telekinetic powers, such as Force Grip and Force Crush, the later of which he used to severely injure the fearsome General Grievous. He could also vaporize vehicles and alike his enemies like droids. He was able to amplify his ability with Tutaminis, and redirect blaster attacks back to his enemies, as to absorb it and channel it to Force Lightning. One of his best Tutaminis abilities was absorbing lightsaber energy with his own hands and amplify it to his Force abilities unleashing a stronger wave or blast of Force Push or Force Lightning. Damien's Force Pushes were so strong, that he could send humans, or other species through walls with one push, either killing them, or causing moderate to severe injuries. He had a powerful offensive attack becoming one of the most powerful Force potentials in history possibly surpassing Galen Marek's clone Starkiller, and Galen Marek himself including the Dark Apprentice. He came to be one of the most powerful force users of all time. During his exile, Damien taught himself every Universal technique and they were, Art of the Small, Aing-Tii fighting-sight, Battle meditation, Breath control, Comprehend Speech, Dopplegänger, Force bellow, Force Body, Force Comprehension, Force Confusion, Force deflection, Force Listening, Force-flash, Force Flight, Force Immunity, Force Illusion, Force meld, Force Speed, Force Pull/Push, Force Jump/Leap, Force suppression, Force Breach , Force Throw, Force barrier, Force vision, Force Whirlwind , Force Wave , Force Repulse , Force weapon, Force Whisper, Phase, Precognition, Psychometry, Saber Barrier, Saber Throw, Sever Force, Shatterpoint, Tapas, and Telekinetic lightsaber combat. Damien also knows every ability known to the light side of the Force and they were Alter Environment, Animal friendship, Battlemind, Combustion, Crucitorn, Dark transfer , Droid Disable, Emerald Lightning, Force blinding, Force Enlightenment, Force healing, Force ghost, Force Light, Wall of light , Force Orb, Force projection, Force protection , Force defend , Force absorb , Protection bubble , Force Stun, Force Stasis , Force Stasis Field , Force valor, Hibernation trance, Levitation , Mind Trick , Force Persuasion , Malacia, Morichro, Plant Surge, Ray, and Revitalize. Although Damien carried light side powers he was also known to possess a few dark side powers, and uses them only in extreme circumstance such as, Deadly Sight, Force Destruction, Force drain, Force lightning , Chain lightning , Force shock , Force storm (lightning) , Force Maelstrom, Force scream, Force Slow, Force Affliction , Force Plague , Force Sphere, Force storm (wormhole), Force wound, Force grip , Force choke , Force crush , Kinetite, Mechu-Deru, and Mind Control. Even though he knew many Sith abilities, Damien used them to his advantage in affiliating it with the Jedi. He learned to corrupt his abilities and used it against the Sith. Knowing the abilities were close to the dark side, Damien cleansed them with meditating, showing it was now permanently a Jedi ability. He was one of the few Jedi using Sith abilities during a whole life as a Jedi. Damien became one of the few Jedi, besides his whole family, to possess powers and abilities from both the Dark side and Light side of the force. One of the few Jedi who matched Damien in certain Force abilities was Galen Marek and his clone Starkiller. Also, similar to several Sith Lords, including several in his family lineage, Damien was a highly skilled practitioner of the deadly art Sith alchemy. In his youth, Damien had problems controlling his sith abilities, since most times, many of the creatures he used the power on ended up dying due to the immense energy, or went completely insane. Despite this, Damien was able to fully master it during his journeys. With it, Damien taught his family on how to counter it and defeat the creatures, and Damien then continued to perfect it, and finally began using it to aid Republic troops or other Jedi in battles during the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War, and in several other wars in the following years.


 * Genius Intellect: Perhaps the most astonishing trait of Damien was his intellect and natural talent. He was one of the most gifted prodigies the Jedi Order ever had, entered the Jedi Academy on his first try despite his young age, graduated from the academy in a single year with the highest written and performance scores in each of his classes, joined the Galactic Republic shortly afterwards, and then became the youngest Jedi to ever reach the rank of Senior Jedi General. In addition to this he had remarkable combat prowess, was perceptive, and gifted with great insight and understanding of situations at hand. Much of his intellect was seen in deduction of situations and combat tactics. Obi-Wan Kenobi himself acknowledged Damien's intelligence surpasses his own immense intellect. He was very insightful of other people, allowing him to see through a person's demeanor and determine what they are thinking. Also able to read well into the situation, he could seemingly predict anything well in advance. Damien was also highly capable teacher. In only five days of unorthodox training, he conditioned Kyle Katarn into an experienced fighter on par with Jedi Masters.
 * Highly Perceptive Combatant: Damien was very detail-oriented when it came to fighting. He noticed his opponent's mannerisms, and discerns the reasons behind those actions and the weaknesses and strengths of his opponent. He could look at unfamiliar attacks and figure out how they work by just viewing them once. Even Dooku was impressed by Damien's ability to understand things he has no personal experience with. This was demonstrated when he was subdued by Dooku's Force Lightning, leaving him with only his blade and sense of touch, which prompted him to let Dooku strike him simply so he could catch his opponent. He possessed sharp intuition towards incoming danger, which allowed him to repeatedly dodge Dooku's assault while still affected by his lightning.
 * Martial Artist: Although he primarily relied on swordsmanship, Damien was highly proficient with martial arts as well. His fighting style was an offensive, brutal and straightforward one, relying on a great variety of punches and kicks, which are shown to be both strong and fast; such moves can also be combined with techniques from his Emerald Lightning with extreme fluency to great effect. Also, when Damien trained with Koro Ziil, he taught him how to see individuals' pressure points and everything that run along it. Using the Kel Dor's signature fighting style, he could attack an opponent's pressure points directly, constricting or cutting off their energy center flow from only minimal contact. Because the pressure points are closely intertwined with many of the body's major organs, debilitating and even fatal damage can be done just as easily. While his strikes are by default difficult to defend against, Damien's speed, precision, and general martial arts prowess made him especially formidable at close range, requiring opponents to keep their distance if they hoped to compete with him. During his days as a Jedi Knight, he effortlessly took down several Dark Jedi unarmed, and emerged unscathed afterwards. He has taken on deadly Sith with martial arts alone, such as when he brutally defeated Darth Maul and Darth Nihl. During his confrontation with the Yuuzhan Vong, he easily tore through hundreds of opponents, disarming many and dodging attacks from multiple directions. He fought against an entire academy of acolytes and defeated them single-handedly with his martial arts alone. He took down nearly fifty Imperial Troopers with only martial arts during the Battle of Endor. He fought three Jedi Masters and four Jedi Knights at the same time with martial arts without receiving any notable damage.
 * Master Assassin: As a former high-ranking member of the Jedi Order, Damien possessed considerable mastery in the art of stealth combat. He had repeatedly shown impressive skill in staying hidden and unseen while maneuvering towards his target. He could completely hide his presence, remaining undetected until he intentionally reveals himself. During his battle against the sith acolytes, he repeatedly caught them completely off guard and effectively took advantage of it. Even the perceptive and intuitive Darth Maul was caught by surprise. He was also able to launch a successful sneak attack on Tsavong Lah, sensing when he wasn't using his amphistaff for defense.
 * Master Strategist and Tactician: With his years of experience as a teacher and warrior, along with being the Master of the entire Jedi Order, Damien was a very intelligent man. He could quickly adjust to new developments and make quick decisions accordingly. He had great tactical acumen, proven by his preparations for the battle with the Yuuzhan Vong. As noted by Tsavong Lah, Damien was very cunning, setting up a trap to kill him while Lah was focused on the Solo Twins. He was a very perceptive man, easily deducing Mace Windu was hiding knowledge on the Korunnai. His skill at battle tactics were undeniable: as a Master of the Order, he commonly sent the Jedi Masters and Jedi Knights out to engage in battle, be it to relatively small or large threats, and has done so for a number of years.


 * Master Swordsman: Damien was a master of swordsmanship, possessing lethal precision and performing brutally aggressive attacks. He was considered one of the greatest swordsman of all time. He could infuse his lightsaber with electricity, releasing sudden arcs of dark energy and allowing him to manipulate his qualities and efficiency and use electricity in various ways to attack. He had an extremely aggressive dueling style and augmented his swordplay by using Force speed, which allowed him to defeat Darth Maul and Savage Opress at once with very little effort. His lethal swordsmanship was very versatile, using impressive speed and precision behind his attacks to leave little time for enemies to react such as: Battle Droids, Riot troopers, Imperial Saber Guardsman, Sith Swordmasters, Sith Lords, Yuuzhan Vong Warriors, even Count Dooku and Darth Vader and he proved that they were no match for him. Damien was a master of all seven forms of lightsaber combat: Form I: Shii-Cho · Form II: Makashi · Form III: Soresu · Form IV: Ataru · Form V: Shien / Djem So (including Shien-style reverse grip) · Form VI: Niman · Form VII: Juyo / Vaapad and was highly skilled in evasion, offense, defense, and counterattacks. He was impossible to to stop whenever he used Dun Möch, Sokan, Tràkata, and Trispzet. He mastered the deadly form of lightsaber combat known as Vaapad, the seventh form of lightsaber combat which completed (to the Jedi) the Juyo form. Personally he used Jar'Kai in a masterful two-bladed variant of Vaapad. Utilizing a ferocious yet fluid fighting style Damien's mastery of the lightsaber form was so great, he used it as his primary form of combat. A factor that played into Damien's fighting style was his admission that his greatest character flaw was his enjoyment of fighting, and given the nature of the dark side, this is a very dangerous trait for a Jedi to possess. In fact, Damien intentionally mastered Vaapad with Mace Windu to also help channel his inner darkness into something more positive. He defeated Sora Bulq during their duel on Saleucami and overpowered Asajj Ventress on Teth. Damien even managed to defeat Lumiya himself in a duel— a feat that no other Force Adept, including Grand Master Luke Skyalker, was ever able to accomplish unaided. Another notable example of Damien's fighting skills was that he was able to overwhelm the powerful cyborg General Grievous, though the latter did put up a considerable fight.
 * Multilingual: Damien was very gifted in the ability of being able to speak in many languages like Huttese, Ithorese, Genosian, Catharese, Kreva, Twi'leki, and his native language Korrunal. Damien was also able to speak the native language of his wife Korrah Naberrie Knights which was Naboo (language). He also spoke the Kel Dor language, which was Kel Dorian and the native Aing-Tii language.
 * Poison Immunity: In addition, due to Damien being a Korun he had a higher tolerance to poisons, due to living near the toxic cloudsea that covered the lowlands of the planet. 

Personality and traits

 * "'All of us have the same pride in our hearts. The pride of shouldering the weight of the Jedi Order.'"
 * "—Damien Knights to the Jedi High Council"

While appearing to be a laid-back individual, Damien loved fighting, and enjoyed a good battle more than anything. Much like Mace Windu, Damien was a peace loving individual who had a deep passion for fighting, loving the heat of battle and fighting strong opponents. He was also a very aggressive man, having promised to kill Quinlan Vos if he falls behind in battle and rushing forward to attack Sora Bulq almost immediately after being summoned to Saleucami. In battle, he had an upbeat demeanor, even while mercilessly slaughtering his opponents, whom he casually banters with at all times. Damien strongly believed fun comes before working. In every battle, he tried to get as much enjoyment out of it as possible. However, Damien has a code of honor and usually stops a fight if his opponent is too injured to fight back, and does not feel obligated to deal a death blow to anyone who cannot fight any longer.

Despite his aggression and obvious blood lust in battle, Damien was well-respected and highly honorable, and always treats those around him with respect, even those who were weaker or not as highly ranked as he is. As a result, he could be easily approached by other members of Jedi Order who seek favors or advice from the Jedi Master. Due to his high moral code, Damien would never let any harm come to either his younglings or those who attempt to protect them. He refused to give up when he believed something is wrong and will break a rule to do what is right. He was also quite perceptive, as seen when he analyzed the various disturbances caused in the New Republic, and had the ability to correctly judge people's character.

Due to his long-standing position with the Jedi Order, Damien was one of the most proficient combatants in the galaxy and always maintained a level of honor and integrity when engaging in battle. Damien also valued family and was proud of his Knights heritage, and he wanted himself and his son to live up to their ancestors' names. Damien had a significant talent for tactics, leading him to teach the discipline to his fellow Jedi. He believed that a mastery of the skills of warfare made the Jedi better suited to keep the galaxy peaceful. Focused on serving and protecting others instead of himself, he was willing to give his life to save another.

Quotes

 * "Never underestimate your opponent, no matter how small they may seem."
 * (To Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi) "Damien Knights, reporting for duty."
 * (To Anakin Skywalker) "You want a reason...for fighting? Why don't you just accept it already, Anakin?! You seek out fights. You desire power. Isn't that right, Anakin? Everyone who searches for power, without exception, searches for battle! Do you fight in order to become more powerful? Or do you want more power so you can fight? I can't tell you that. The only thing I know for sure is guys like us were born this way! We were born to fight, Anakin! Your instincts will keep leading you toward new battles. It's the only way you have. The only way to become stronger. Fight, Anakin! That's the road that continues in front of you and remains behind you, Anakin!"
 * (To Kyle Katarn) "There is nothing, but fear reflected in your sword. When you dodge, you're afraid of getting killed. When you attack, you're afraid of killing someone. Even when you try to protect someone, you're afraid of letting them die. Yes, your sword speaks to me only of absurd fear. What's necessary in a fight isn't fear. Nothing can be born of that. When you dodge, "I won't let them cut me." If you protect someone, "I won't let them die." If you attack, "I will kill them." Well, can't you see the resolve to kill you in my sword?"
 * (To Tsavong Lah) "Even if you rise up a thousand times, there will be no victory for any of you."
 * (To Yoda) "I want to get stronger. I've finally found a worthy opponent. I can get stronger. I want to fight. I want to get stronger. It sure has been a while. To feel this desire again. I want to get stronger."
 * (To Mace Windu) "As your padawan, I would only be able to imitate you. The role of a padawan should be to compensate for those areas which you cannot address!"
 * (To Gree) "This Power... Even though I don't know who it's from, they seem to be deep in the heat of battle. Not bad. It sure makes your blood boil, doesn't it?"
 * (To Sora Bulq) "You're being too lenient with an opponent you've only hit once. Haven't you ever heard of following through?"
 * (To Kyle Katarn) "Waiting patiently and believing in your padawan is all part of being a Jedi Master."
 * (To Yoda) "You're a man with a true skill… an example we should all follow. I can't think of a finer Jedi than you!"
 * (To Ahsoka Tano) “In any war, there are calms between storms. There will be days when we lose faith. Days when our allies turn against us...but the day will never come that we forsake this planet and its people.” 
 * (To Darth Maul and Savage Opress) "You are looking at the best Jedi Knight of this era. The name's Damien Knights. And I'm letting no Sith get past me without a fight. So shut up, buckle down, and give it your best shot. Because you're about to taste a real Jedi battle."
 * (To Darth Maul and Savage Opress) "You two are shameless to sneak around like that. Cowardly hiding yourselves and stalking others isn't something that Sith should do."
 * (To Galen Marek) "With your ability, you will find it impossible to make me fall on even one knee."
 * (To Galen Marek) "Be proud, as someone who, after being struck by this power, is still able to retain the form of his body."
 * (To Ahsoka Tano) "A warrior who has lost his strength will only get in the way."
 * (To Darth Vader) "As I told you before, there is no mercy for he who obstructs justice."
 * (To Tsavong Lah) "Since you were kind enough to lecture me, allow me to tell you something. You are in the greatest danger when you execute a flawless strategy. That, too, is the way of battle."
 * (To Lumiya) "My quarry never escapes. Come, you Sith. But you won't get off without a thrashing this time..."


 * (To Darth Caedus) "Wielding one's blade out of duty alone is what it means to be a Jedi. Wielding one's blade out of hatred is nothing more than petty violence. That is not what we would consider battle."
 * (To Matthew Knights) "There is nothing, but fear reflected in your sword. When you dodge, you're afraid of getting killed. When you attack, you're afraid of killing someone. Even when you try to protect someone, you're afraid of letting them die. Yes, your sword speaks to me only of absurd fear. What's necessary in a fight isn't fear. Nothing can be born of that. When you dodge, "I won't let them cut me." If you protect someone, "I won't let them die." If you attack, "I will kill them." Well, can't you see the resolve to kill you in my sword?"


 * (To Grievous) "Regardless of who or what they are, anyone who disturbs the allies of the Republic will be cut down."


 * (To Grievous) "I have already told you. You and I, our levels are as distant as the galaxy from the heavens. Must I spell it out for you? I have not nearly lowered myself to your level."
 * (To Dooku) "At what point did I ever claim that I was cutting you down in my capacity as a Jedi? To justify the actions I have taken I need but one reason. You raised your blade in contempt of my pride."
 * (To Sora Bulq) "Loyalty to someone is different from depending on them. It isn't even interesting fighting against someone who doesn't have his own goals."
 * (To Sora Bulq) "To sink all the way to the level of allying with the Sith. What are you trying to do?"
 * (To Shimrra Jamaane) "If it is for the sake of my pride, there is nothing I won't destroy."
 * (To Sora Bulq) "I can't believe you called your own subordinate a tool and attacked it. You don't deserve the blessing of life."
 * (To Sora Bulq) "I hate explaining the same thing twice."
 * (To Anakin Skywalker) "Do not overestimate yourself, Anakin. There is none among the Masters of the Jedi Order to whom the aid of one such as yourself could be considered significant."
 * (To Aanakin Skywalker) "And who exactly will you 'eliminate'? Are you saying you will eliminate Yoda and the others? Or that you will eliminate all of us? Depending upon your response, I may eliminate you right now. Although, even if you do not respond, I will still eliminate you."
 * (To Lumiya) "Do not allow yourself to be shaken. Do not weaken your stance. Open your senses. And do not let your guard down for an instant."
 * (To Tsavong Lah) "I have nothing but contempt for the way you do battle. Rather than face your opponent in fair combat, you prefer to toy with your enemy, stealing away the things they hold dear. You are a coward. A shameless coward who deserves to die. Now, face me like a man. Before you have even finished swinging down your blade, I will strike you down and toss your worthless body aside."
 * (To Abeloth) "This time I'll put my life on the line!!"
 * (To General Grievous) "I had always believed that battle was an art to be perfected through meticulous training and preparation. But today, for the first time, I was able to comprehend the thrill of indulging one's more primal instincts. You have my thanks. This battle was an enjoyable one."
 * (To Luke Skywalker) "All of us have the same pride in our hearts. The pride of shouldering the weight of the Jedi Order."
 * (To Yoda) "I have learned all too well that I am still far too weak to allow myself to grow headstrong. As I have been lucky enough to survive, I must strive to once more achieve strength enough to justify the pride I once held."
 * (To Korrah Knights) “The sky is too vast for a person to live life alone.”
 * (To Korrah Knights) "Fear is never born from nothing. It is born from the tiny insecurities that linger within our hearts."
 * (To Matthew Knights) "If you wield your lightsaber without regard for your own life, you will find yourself unable to protect anything."
 * (To Korrah Knights and Matthew Knights) "Just like a person holding a sword trying to protect something. That maybe one's life, or place in society, or reputation, things that one loves, things that one believes; it matters not if it's good or bad, the will to 'protect it' does not change."