sing arcane and forbidden practices, they constructed a half-mechanical, half-organic mercenary army, created with parts of various different alien species and droids, who possessed a determined, warlike attitude. This army would fight the Renegades' conflict, and they were confident it would topple the Dominion.[10]

The army—whose number included Gorm, a formidable warrior who would achieve much greater notoriety in later decades—proved almost invincible against the forces of the Arkanian Dominion in combat. The cyborgs slaughtered thousands of pro-Yaka-modification Arkanians, and the Renegades soon had the upper hand over their helpless opposition. The desperate Dominion eventually pleaded[4] for the Republic[1] and Jedi Order to intervene.[4]


The Republic eventually acquiesced to the Arkanians' entreaty, consenting to send Republic police squads and a number of Jedi, including a young Mace Windu,[1] the Padawan Squire Kinning,[7] as well as Aqinos, a heterodox Sunesi Jedi Master. Aqinos had controversially spent the previous ten years training a group of Force-sensitive Shard as to use the Force as Jedi, and these, encased within Uulshos Justice droid bodies and known as the Iron Knights,[11] accompanied him to Arkania.[6]

The arrival of the combined Jedi/Republic task force quickly turned the tide in the conflict, though Kinning lost her arm in battle.[7] Mace Windu did battle with Gorm, though both individuals survived.[1] Eventually, the Arkanian Revolution was crushed with the eventual defeat of the mercenary army at the hands of the Jedi.[4] The surviving Renegades were executed[10] and the Dominion remained in power.