Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic/Command Module

Command Module

 * In the skies above the Outer Rim world of Taris, a Jedi battle fleet engages the forces of Darth Malak in a desperate effort to halt the Sith's galactic domination…

As the opening crawl ends, a cutscene begins in which a Republic ship orbiting Taris is under attack by Sith fighters. Within this ship, you're awoken in your quarters by the resulting explosions and alarms, just before the door opens and an ensign of the Republic Fleet runs in and begins talking to you.

Items
As this opening dialog ends you gain control of your character for the first time, and can begin this tutorial in earnest.

The contents of the footlocker vary depending on your starting class:

The footlocker also contains a Stealth Field Generator if you spent any points in Stealth.

Party
Not only is Trask a Soldier but he is level 3, giving him substantially more Vitality than you at this point, so selecting him to lead the party is recommended (although you will switch back to party leader after each cutscene). Equipping him with your Short Sword is also recommended.

Journal
As you go through the door and approach the Utility Droid on the way to the door at the other end of the corridor, you receive a message:



Security
The door at the end of the corridor is locked. If you spent no points in Security:

If you spent at least one point in Security (the door only has DC 1, so this is all that's required to open it):

Combat
Once the door is open, a cutscene plays in which a Republic Soldier is killed by two Sith Soldiers outside.

The nearest Sith Soldier on the left only has 1 Vitality, so kill him quickly and then focus on the remaining.

If either you or Trask take damage in this or any subsequent combat:

The door at the east end of the corridor remains locked until both are killed, and leads to a small room with another two Sith Soldiers.

Search the Republic Soldier remains just inside the entrance to the right, the footlocker further along the south wall and the metal box against the north wall.

You should also search the remains of those killed when they are left behind at random.

Opening the east door triggers a cutscene of a battle at a junction round the corner to the north, which ends when one of the three surviving Sith Soldiers throws a Frag Grenade to kill the last two Republic Soldiers (and one Sith Soldier; bear this in mind when using them yourself). After turning the corner, these three must be killed before the door at the end of the east corridor to your right will open. The quickest way to do so is to follow their example and throw a Frag Grenade at the middle Sith Soldier: there’s 72.9% that it will kill all three outright, and any that survive will be reduced from 15 to 5 HP. If you want to conserve grenades, killing them from range is advisable.

This is because when you approach the junction, two reinforcements come running around the corner from the north corridor. These two each have a Medpac in their inventory, which they will use when reduced to less than 50% Vitality, so you and Trask should focus on one at a time.

Head north and follow the corridor round the corner to the east to find a cul-de-sac with a Utility Droid and a Parts Pile at the end of it. As you approach the Utility Droid will explode, but search the Parts Pile before turning back:

After returning to the junction and turning east, you will hear the sounds of a lightsaber battle as you approach the door at the end of the corridor. Opening the door will trigger a cutscene of this battle between a female Jedi and a Sith Apprentice.

Although the female Jedi defeats the Sith Apprentice, she is killed by a subsequent explosion.

Two Sith Soldiers run around the corner of the intersection ahead from the cul-de-sac to the north. Once again each has a Medpac they will use when reduced to less than 50% Vitality.

Search the Jedi's remains:

If you approach and try to open the door to the bridge at the end of the corridor to the east of the intersection while equipping a Blaster Pistol or Blaster Rifle, Trask will interject:

Open the door to be confronted with two Sith Soldiers, each armed with a Vibroblade.

Experience is also received when any of the surviving two Sith Soldiers fighting two Republic Soldiers on the bridge itself are killed by explosions.

There's a backpack in the right corner just inside the entrance to the bridge:

Level up
The exit to the bridge is to the south in the west wall, but when you try to open it you may find it locked:

If you don't have enough experience for level 2, it will be increased to 1,000 to achieve this (however, the entrance to the bridge will close and lock, and you'd have 1,275 XP if you had killed all Sith Soldiers rather than running past some of them).

Once you level up, the exit to the bridge opens. When you open the subsequent door, it locks behind you after a cutscene has triggered, as Trask runs into the room ahead of you.

He opens the door at the back of the room to the west, revealing the first glimpse of a Dark Jedi who will become familiar to you…

Trask has now left your party, never to return, but any items he equipped are automatically transferred to your party inventory. The door locks behind him, leaving you no other option but to open the door in the south wall and enter the Starboard Section.

Starboard Section


If you did not spend any points in Stealth at character generation, when you go south and around the corner to the west, you will need to run past or kill the Sith Trooper guarding the intersection ahead.

Sith Trooper information

Stealth
If you did spend points in Stealth at character generation, you will have a Stealth Field Generator:

You should save game before turning the corner, because although the next three Sith you encounter all have Awareness rank 0, even a Scoundrel with 18 Dexterity can only have maximum Stealth rank 9 at this point, which is not guaranteed to escape detection; if you do not have Stealth rank > 0 (8 Dexterity), you cannot escape detection at all.

Fortunately explosions at the end of the corridor to the west will draw the Sith Trooper away, allowing you to get to the intersection he was guarding and go down the south corridor while he is at a distance with his back turned. You can come back and kill him later if you like.

Around the corner of the south corridor to the west is a door, beyond which are two Sith Soldiers in a room. If you open the door and you're able to sneak past them, you'll gain experience.

At this point it would be advisable to kill both of them before trying to open the door at the west end of the room.

Sith Soldier information

Upon doing so, Carth gives you a warning:

A third option is to use Security to unlock the door, but since it has DC 28 this is only possible for a Scoundrel with Security rank > 7 (rank 4-5 and 16-18 Wisdom) without using a Security Spike. The door in the transport module beyond will remain locked until all Sith Troopers within are dead, so you cannot sneak past them using Stealth.

To assist with the first two options, search the footlocker against the north wall to the right of your entrance:

If you got the Part from the Parts Pile in the Command Module, you now have everything you need to fully pursue either or both of these options, regardless of your Repair and Computer Use skill ranks.

Repair
The damaged assault droid to which Carth referred is standing in the northwest corner to the right of the locked door.

Combat Droid information

The Combat Droid's Vitality and Defense are so high that activating its Energy Shield Level 1 isn't necessary: even on Hard it can kill all Sith Troopers in the transport module beyond single-handed.

The patrol takes it into the transport module, opening the door for you and engaging the Sith Troopers beyond. Note that while you will receive XP for those killed by the Combat Droid, this is not recorded in Feedback.

Computer Use
The terminal to which Carth referred is standing in the southwest corner to the left of the locked door.

The camera feed allows you to see the four Sith Troopers led by a Heavy Sith Trooper in the transport module beyond.

The camera feed now allows you to watch as the overloaded power conduit electrocutes all of them! You will receive XP for all those killed, and this is recorded in Feedback.

The door will now be unlocked. Should you opt to unlock the door yourself or activate the Combat Droid and engage its patrol mode and support it instead, you will be confronted by the following:

Sith Trooper information

Sith Heavy Trooper information

The two closest Sith Troopers are too far away from the others to make using Frag Grenades on them particularly effective, but throwing two at the Heavy Sith Trooper will also damage the two Sith Troopers flanking him, and there's ~59% chance of killing all three outright (even in the event of two successful saves, each will be reduced from 25 to 5 Vitality).

Search the Heavy Sith Trooper's remains:

Escape pods
Now open the door to the escape pods.

The last escape pod is the second on the left in the south wall.

After using the escape pod, a cutscene plays of the final destruction of the Endar Spire as you hurtle through the atmosphere to crash-land in the ecumenopolis of Taris.