The game begins some five years after the end of the first game. You play a former Jedi who has been cut off from the Force, drifting unconscious in the battered wreck of the Ebon Hawk. After landing on a nearby mining colony, though, you find that discovering how you got there is the least part of the Galaxy-spanning storyline. It seems things haven't been going terribly well for the Republic since Darth Malak's saga ended in the first game. The Sith are everywhere, the Republic is about to fall, and the Jedi are almost extinct. You, naturally, are at the center of this battle, and whether you go Light Side or Dark Side, it'll be your decisions that determine the fate of the universe.