Star Wars Jedi: Survivor introduced Dagan Gera, a Jedi from the High Republic Era – and his story in the game is affected by many of the events from that historical part of the Star Wars timeline. The High Republic is a Star Wars transmedia initiative detailing the history of the Jedi Order and the wider galaxy around 200 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace takes place. At this time, the Republic is spreading its influence to lesser-known worlds, with the Jedi in tow. While the Jedi are arguably at the height of their power in the age of the High Republic, there are plenty of villainous forces at play working to tear them down.
Those enemies are ultimately what motivated Dagan Gera and, for a time, his fellow Jedi Santari Khri, to build a refuge on Tanalorr, a planet in the Outer Rim hidden within a deadly nebula called the Koboh Abyss. Eventually, centuries later during the Dark Times, Gera is revived and reveals himself to be a Dark Jedi – a Jedi that has turned to the dark side of the Force, but is not a full Sith. Though Star Wars Jedi: Survivor partially explains the reason for Dagan’s turn to the dark side, the High Republic Era’s timeline provides important context for his fall from grace and obsession with the planet Tanalorr.
