Dallan Morvis

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"It's your career or your life, Morvis. Don't take too long deciding."
―Saul Karath, to Morvis[1]

Dallan Morvis was the second-in-command aboard the Courageous during the Mandalorian Wars. He fought at the battles at Vanquo, Serroco, and Omonoth and was later promoted to the rank of captain and placed in the command of his own capital ship, Veltraa. Eventually, Morvis reached the rank of admiral and gained the command of Diligence.

Biography

"You know, Dallan Morvis was very much misunderstood. People assume that because you're born to wealth, you don't know what you're doing."
―Jarrow Rusher on Dallan Morvis[2]

His father was the founder of the Coruscant Financial Exchange and his mother—the senator from Chandrila, so Dallan Morvis has been obviously groomed for big things. But instead of typical thrust into the Naval Academy at Coruscant, Morvis choose to become an asset to the Admiralty.

Upon graduation, he became a junior liaison between the Vanjervalis design team and Admiral Noma Sommos's staff. That assignment eventually lead him to promotion to lieutenant and his first bridge posting on Reciprocity under command on then-Captain Saul Karath. Morvis saw in Karath a leader on the rise, so he followed him to Courageous—and right into the Mandalorian Wars. But on Courageous, Morvis encountered a rival in the junior officer Carth Onasi. Onasi shared both Karath's hardscrabble beginnings and penchant for quick and sometimes reckless decision-making - neither of which applied to the high-born, calculating Morvis. In Carth, Morvis saw a competitor for the admiral's favor, so he struggled to make life more difficult for him.

When fugitive Padawan Zayne Carrick was brought onboard and later joined them on the escape from Serroco, Morvis showed no sympathy for Onasi's new friend. But it was Onasi and Carrick, without whom Morvis would never escape a career-ending disaster aboard the Arkanian Legacy. There, Morvis suggested to Karath that the Republic use exogorths—weaponized space slugs capable of decimating star systems—to create a firewall of scorched systems between itself and the Mandalorians and urged him to bargain for Republic control of the slugs. But Onasi and Carrick brought the affair to an unfortunate end, leaving Morvis with empty hands back on Coruscant.

This time however, Morvis choose to turn to his political connections, which resulted in him not only escaping punishment but also winning a captaincy aboard Karath's successor vessel, the Swiftsure and soon enough—the command of his own capital ship, Veltraa. Morvis, thus, continued to show his talents as a survivor willing to do anything to protect his position—a hidden element of Karath's character he struggled to imitate and cultivate. He eventually became Zayne Carrick's commanding officer during the Mandalorian Wars, and both were captured by the Mandalorians. Eventually Zayne took charge during a prison escape, and the rest of the soldiers began to defer to Zayne. Morvis was enraged and blamed Carrick for everything bad that had happened. Zayne finally had enough and told Morvis that it was his own fault; now that he was in a position where he couldn't rely on favors he didn't know what to do. Morvis finally broke down and admitted that he felt the need to live up to his family's proud legacy. Zayne told him that being a hero meant facing danger when the time came.

Eventually, Morvis was promoted to the rank of admiral and was given the command of his own Inexpugnable-class ship, the Diligence. He was described millennia later by the mercenary brigadier Jarrow Rusher as a capable yet misunderstood officer. Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra, however, claimed that his accomplishments were fraudulent.

Behind the scenes

In a series of Twitter posts, John Jackson Miller drew connections between various clues within published works that hint at the future actions of Dallan Morvis and Zayne Carrick.[3]

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ Knights of the Old Republic 17
  2. ↑ Knight Errant
  3. ↑ TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Okay, with the OLD REPUBLIC OMNIBUS out today in the 15th anniversary year of the KOTOR comics series, I'd promised I would shine a light on Zayne Carrick's possible future actions after the comics series — drawing only on clues we already published! /1" (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "I'm not big on telling "stories we never got to tell" because I try to write every story as if it's complete — and because you never know when you might want to use a story idea later on. Writers are environmentalists — we save everything!

    But there's a difference here... 2/"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "And that's that this is all based on material we published. Threads we wove in over the years, that some people caught and others didn't. That's more fair game.

    Let me also put a SPOILER WARNING here for all of it — read the stories first! Here goes... /3"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "The Old Republic game has a Carrick Station. As I told the designers, Zayne hadn't yet done anything positive that the public knew about, beyond swoop dueling. Sure, it might've been named for another Carrick — even one of Zayne's four sisters.

    But there's another thread... /4"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "...in KENOBI. Millennia later, Obi-Wan Kenobi knows who Zayne Carrick is. It comes up in a meditation about Jedi working alone. Zayne's treatment was a great shame the Order would never live down; it's reasonable Obi-Wan would know such a cautionary tale.

    Explanation enough? /5"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Yes, except Zayne isn't the only KOTOR character whose history is known long after his lifetime. And we're not talking Gryph and his memoirs here.

    No, we turn now to Dallan Morvis, the Republic officer introduced way back in KOTOR #8. He's Saul Karath's protege — and a jerk! /6"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Readers didn't like Dallan Morvis. They weren't supposed to. He's both a stuffed shirt and an empty suit. His father founded a financial exchange; his mother was a senator. He'd gotten his role as Saul Karath's junior through no merit whatsoever. He gives a lot of BAD advice. /7" (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Zayne and crew repeatedly embarrassed Morvis, to the point where Karath washed his hands of him. Yet when Zayne got drafted, his CO was — of course! — Dallan Morvis.

    It was just Zayne's luck — and it was my intention all along. Their early days were rocky, to put it mildly! /8"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Yet no one believes more in second chances than Zayne. Knowing he's needed in the war — and that Morvis needs guidance — Zayne agrees to serve on Morvis's bridge as an advisor, helping him make smart and moral decisions.

    Like a Jedi. That's where we left Zayne in the comics. /9"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "But there were other stories I told, some overlapping, all with the same plan in mind. Which brings us again some three thousand years into the future...

    ...where we find in the KNIGHT ERRANT novel that Brigadier Jarrow Rusher is a huge fan of Morvis, all those years later! /10"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "From what Rusher believes, Morvis made admiral at some point and also got command of Diligence, one of the big Inexpugnable-class warships like Karath is shown with in KOTOR. (Presumably fixed, after Haazen hacked them with codes stolen by Gryph -- but that's another story!) /11" (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Indeed, Morvis is notable enough that the Sith Lord Arkadia knows who he is — to the point that she knows that the cover story for the First Battle of Omonoth was bogus. Karath and Morvis didn't drive Mandalore from Arkanian Legacy; it was Zayne's pals. (Another long story!) /12" (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "So here's Morvis, who's known millennia later, just as Obi-Wan knows of Zayne. What did Morvis do, what was he said to have done, which would give him that notoriety? Well, maybe I told you…

    ...in yet ANOTHER story. One that was released in between KOTOR #50 and KOTOR: WAR. /13"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH: SENTINEL finds Jelph Marrian, the sole Jedi exile on Kesh and a former member of Lucien's Covenant, listening in on the galaxy two years after we last saw Zayne and Morvis.

    He hears the Jedi Civil War has begun. /14"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Jelph — and everyone listening — is warned not to return, that Revan and Malak have fallen to the Dark Side, and that the galaxy is being torn apart.

    The thrust of the message is BEWARE and STAY AWAY. /15"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "You may recall another message, years later, telling Jedi to fear Republic forces. This warning is just as broad, because the fallen Jedi Revan and Malak have co-opted part of the Navy, Karath along with it.

    As they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes! /16"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "But who was it that warned everyone — not just Jedi — that Revan and Malak had fallen, and that the Republic and its residents were under great threat?

    Who was the Obi-Wan in this case? /17"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Turns out…

    ...it's an admiral. /18"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "And there just happens to be a Republic admiral, Morvis, who was betrayed by his mentor, Saul Karath -- much like his aide, Zayne Carrick, was betrayed by his own mentor, Lucien Draay, years earlier.

    An aide who knows Malak — or Alek, or Squint — very well. Huh. /19"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "Now, to be absolutely clear, I never said WHICH admiral it was, much less who was assisting him.

    But I'll bet that if YOU warned the galaxy, history would damn well remember you after that! /20"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "I may have mentioned bits of this before in podcasts — and in my notes at farawaypress.com. It's all stuff that's in the text, if you choose to read it a certain way — and pay attention to where all the pieces happen to be. /21" (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "What's that? Are there any more things like that, perhaps that suggest even later events than that one?

    Well, yeah. But I have to save SOMETHING for the 20th anniversary!

    In the meantime, go get your KOTOR Omnibus and find them for yourself. Tell your retailer I sent you! /22"     (backup link)
    TwitterLogo John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) on Twitter (post on July 7, 2021): "I wholeheartedly endorse this response. I never saw it any other way. (In response to: ""Jedi are killing each other, I need to run away if anything is going to make sense in the future" is a lesson I think Zayne was uniquely positioned to know and share. So I buy this plot thread. And the whole spool.")" (backup link)

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