While Star Wars is set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away; Knights of the Old Republic is set even longer ago than that. Here Jedi are far more commonplace, and the galaxy is in as much peril as it ever was. The current threat is not the Empire, but the Sith. Well, wannabe Sith at any rate – the real blighters died out already, leaving secrets for a new wave of Dark Side servants to discover. All of that pales in comparison to an even greater technology however – an ancient galactic-scale weapon of mass destruction whose creators seemingly vanished tens-of-thousands of years ago. You'd think that someone would take the hint.