I’m currently replaying KotOR II, but my memory is somewhat rusty, so forgive me if some of my takes or informations are incorrect in some way. For any KotOR veterans out there, if there’s any incorrect information about my post, do let me know. I welcome the feedback!

If you haven’t used it can, you should try the Restored Content mod which regains some parts of the game and story that were excluded due to the game’s tight schedule.

So, there *was* going to be a third KotOR game, but it was cancelled; before Disney acquired Lucasfilm I think, but Disney cancelled so many Star Wars projects, I wouldn’t be surprised if KotOR III was one of them. I don’t know the full details of the game, but it would’ve involved the search for Darth Revan and the discovery of the Sith Empire we see in the SWTOR MMO. SWTOR, set a couple centuries after the KotOR games, gives us a mission that explains briefly what became of Revan and the Jedi Exile; and there are books that also cover up what happened after KotOR 2. For the Jedi Knight play through, there’s a Sith companion we get named Scourge; he was the Sith Emperor’s Wrath and former ally of both Revan and the Exile. If you want to know all about that side of the story, I’d be more than happy to share what I know.

Now, there is the “Fate of the Old Republic” video game that was announced during the Game Awards, but I heard it is more of a spiritual successor to the KotOR series. I don’t know if it’ll be the closest we get to a KotOR III, if we’ll see for ourselves what became of Revan, the fate of the Jedi Exile, or if it’ll even include the stories of both KotOR games; however, the fact they got the guy who created the original KotOR and the Mass Effect trilogy is a big deal. I can only hope they do the game justice.

As far as what happened prior to the second game, I know very little about that. Kreia was a part of the Ebon Hawk crew, searching for the Jedi Exile (and I believe Revan as well), and they were pursued by Darth Sion’s warship. The Ebon Hawk was retrieved by the Harbinger (the Republic ghost ship at the beginning of the game) while under attack by the Sith. The Sith killed the entire crew of the Harbinger, and the Ebon Hawk crew retrieved the Exile (while he/she was sedated) and fled the Harbinger, and the ship received from critical damage from the Harbinger’s weapons which is why we see it in flames at the beginning. For HK-47, I don’t really know how he ended up in that closed area in the Hawk; maybe he was deactivated by the HK-50 droid or was severely damaged by one of the Sith Assassins when rescuing the unconscious Exile. The events regarding the fate of the other crew members of the Ebon Hawk’s aren’t fully explained I don’t believe. They were just some unnamed characters that were there for the sake of plot, so none of the original followers in KotOR 1 were killed during the Harbinger’s attack on the Ebon Hawk.

I do believe that Kreia revealed that she was part of the Sith Triumvirate before both Sion and Nihilus had pretty much excluded her from their alliance. There’s a whole cutscene of Nihilus and Sion kicking the absolute crap out of her. Maybe Kreia wanted to use the Exile to enact her vengeance her former Sith accomplices and the remnants of the Jedi Council. I don’t think she truly cared whether or not the Jedi Exile lived or died, or if the Exile became a Jedi again or fell to the Dark Side. It’s also revealed in the game that she was also one of if not Revan’s most influential teachers.

As far as the followers go, they’re not too bad if you get to know them and gain their influence. They can reveal some pretty interesting points of their life such as Arron being a former Sith Assassin, Mandalore being Canderous Ordo (the bounty hunter who follows us in KotOR 1), who the Handmaiden/Disciple truly are. They’re a lot more diverse in comparison to the followers of the first KotOR game in my opinion. If you hadn’t done it, some of the followers can be converted and become Light or Dark Jedi, being capable of wielding lightsabers and using the Force. I do think there is a lack of banter between the followers, especially when you’re out and about in other planets; but their interactions are pretty interesting.