custom carth onasi figure and his story

Carth Onasi is one of the three main characters of the game Knights of the Old Republic. He is the first future team member out of the nine we happen to meet. He will stay with the protagonist till the very end in the Light Side game play. However his importance is very heavily depends on the character's sex. I have tried both versions, and while Bastila had almost the same role in them, (except the love affair with a male Revan) Carth had no significant importance within the game while playing a male Revan. He is just a tiny episodist, let's say a not so valuable team member. You can talk to him of course, just as with the other team members, but these conversations are only good for taking the "Carth quest", which gives you a minor side quest; you can rescue his long disappeared son, Dustil, from the Korriban Sith Academy. It doesn't matter if you save his son, or you fail - with a male Revan the conversations with Carth Onasi will end at this point. The male gamers don't really like Carth, and since mostly they choose to play a male Revan, they often just can't stand Carth, and they often can't hide how they hated this orange suit clown. I have read some comments in several chat forums, where I met some guys who were not lazy to search the runaway Carth for hours at the Rakata world, just in order to finish him personally when playing a DS game. However, KotOR has not only male gamers! The female gamers have often just the opposite emotions towards Carth. :-) If you choose a female Revan in the game start, you won't have to wait for long till Carth Onasi starts flirting with you. He will start closing to you in the second conversation at Taris, calling your female Revan "sweetheart". You can accept it, if you find it funny, or you can refuse it warning Carth that next time he calls you like that you'll cut one of his ears down. You don't have to tolerate these kind of sentences, there are other neutral answers that will possibly disarm Carth. But reading these forums that I mentioned earlier, I realized the girls usually like this kind of "virtual flirting", and they don't want to refuse Carth Onasi at all. So during the game he will continue this again and again, but while in the first half of the game you'll feel that he is just playing with you, then after finding the third piece of the Starmap, this whole romance gets more serious, though Carth becomes more shy and you'll have to make efforts to make him continue. There are two vital things you have to do to live your love fully with him. The first thing to speak with him frequently, because there are key points in the game which determines your conversations. If you don't spend enough time with Carth Onasi until the game reaches a point then you'll miss the upcoming love affair. The second vital thing for a female Revan is to rescue Dustil, if you kill him, Carth will never ever talk to you in the game!

If you have done everything right, Carth will express his feelings on aboard the Leviathan at the latest time. He will tell how he care you, wanna help you and to protect you. This means he loves you. Again, you can select an answer to refuse him, but I never do that. Poor Carth then finds out the true identity of his loved one. If everything went smoothly with him up to this point, and he told the big confession you don't have to worry, although he will retreat for a bit, but till the time you'll find the last piece of the Starmap, he will settle down and you'll be able to talk to him again. That is the time for the real LOVE, however a bit shy Carth Onasi will offer you a common future. Now you are almost a pair, you can't ruin this romance too much, unless you turn to the Dark Side on top of the Rakata Temple. This act absolute cannot be tolerated by poor Carth, no matter how he loves your female Revan, he can't stay with her after that, and leaves in painful disappointment. He will protect us even from ourselves if needed - he swears and runs away. No need to follow him, you can not find him, just like those male Dark Revans who were thirsty for his blood. However the female DS Revans will have a great opportunity to finish him finally in the Star Forge. This eventually happens in the very end of the game, after you defeated Malak, and after you declared that you were the true and biggest Lord of the Sith, and after you arrived back to the Ebon Hawk with the turbolift. Carth Onasi will wait you there! He will tell you that he was evacuated from the Rakata Prime by a Republic ship. But he couldn't forget us, especially he swore he would save us even from our dark ego. You cannot change too much on the plot by talking Carth, finally it will end by Bastila's arrival with a turbolift, who will pit us against our ex-love. You have no choice, an auto demo starts and your female Revan sabers down Carth. I think this ending was programmed this cruel in order to prevent us changing our minds. (Which is knowing the female mind wouldn't be so unexpected.) An alternate ending was created originally for this game ending but that was deleted. You can find it on YouTube, however. In this deleted scene you can decide to give Carth a chance after Bastila arrived. He will tell you to kill Bastila instead... Without her battle meditation the Old Republic fleet could destroy the Star Forge. But if this happens, we will die inside it, too. But Carth offers to stay with you, and your sacrifice together will save the Old Republic. This is a really emotional scene for the female hearts, I suppose many girls would be ready to turn against Bastila after this so to stay with Carth on the Light Side and to die together. Maybe that is the reason why the scene was deleted, representing there is no way back from the Dark Side! In my opinion these scenes prove that Revan's sex was not decided when the game was developed, and I think the female Revan love affair is deeper than a male Revan can have with Bastila. (But that is strictly my subjective opinion!) Anyway, after the game and its ancient world became extremely popular, new books, encyclopedias born, which all had to refer to the characters AND Revan, who had to be canonized as a "he" or a "she". That is how Revan (KotOR1) became a male, and the Jedi Exile (KotOR2) became a female Jedi. But these things means absolutely nothing, you make your own character as you like, the main thing is just feel good while playing, and imagine your characters as you like. During the game Carth will tell you about his earlier life, that he lived at Telos, he joined the Republic fleet and fought with them in almost significant space battles. Unfortunately he had little time to spend with his family because of the Mandalorian war. After the war, just when Carth decided to demobilize, the Sith fleet arrived above Taris, and bombed the planet until just a few people remained. However Carth has found his wife, he couldn't save her life, she died in his hands before medical aid could have arrived. Their son has disappeared during the bombardments, and Carth hasn't heard about him for long. These informations was told by Carth during our conversations in the game. After we learned his past and early life, we will get the Dustil quest. All we have to do is to visit the available planets again with Carth in our party, and soon we will find a guy, who will approach us as his long time friend. He will inform us that he saw Dustil Onasi on Korriban, where he was stationing in the Sith Academy as a student. After this we have to travel on Korriban to convince Dustil that the Sith are not so cool guys that he thinks.

The other very important person from Carth's past is his former mentor, and future enemy, and a boss of the game, Saul Karath. Earlier he was an Old Republic fleet commander during the Mandalorian Wars, but after the war, when Revan and Malak deserted to the Sith, Karath stayed with them and joined the Sith, too. In the game his flagship was the Leviathan, which tractor beams the Ebon Hawk after we found the third piece of the Star Map. On board, Carth will have the opportunity to face off his hated ex-commander and during this level he won't hesitate to confront and to kill him.

Since both of KotOR1 and KotOR2 became very popular amongst the Star Wars fans, Dark Horse comic books started to study this world which was partly introduced by the games. They created new protagonists, but fortunately some of the good old characters appear in some episodes, for example we could meet again with Carth, Mission, Admiral Saul Karath, the Hidden Bek gang, and even Darth Malak has his appearance, but as a Jedi called Alek Squinquargesimus. Since the plot takes part in the Mandalorian Wars, Karath is an admiral of the Old Republic Fleet, fighting with Carth together against the Mandalorians. Carth appears in the 14th comic book first, after Zayne Carrick's ship was taken by force by the Fleet, and was directed to the front above Serroco. (Zayne was happened to be a fallen Jedi, who was suspected of the murder of 4 Padawans, and now is on the run.)

At Serroco Carth befriended Zayne, who will have a vision, a dream, in which the Mandalorian Fleet trap and destroy the Old Republic Fleet. Next morning Zayne rushes to Carth to inform him about his vision, but Carth doesn't believe him, and thinks he is insane. But Zayne is a Jedi anyway, so finally he is able to persuade his new friend to escort him in front of Admiral Karath. But the admiral doesn't listen to Zayne, instead he arrests Zayne because he recognizes the "murderer" in him. Carth is disappointed after this, but not much later the Mandalorian Fleet arrives as predicted! The crush the entire Old Republic Fleet, and captured Admiral Karath's ship, the Courageous, from which the protagonists can barely escape. They run to Arkanian territory, where they are welcomed, but soon the chasing Mandalorian Fleet arrives here, too. In the meantime an other ship arrives with Squint (the later Malak) on board, who is on a recruiting trip. After a fight the small group finally go separate ways, and Carth and Zayne say farewell to each other. We can learn these additional information on Carth's early life from the comic books. Unfortunately only the first 12 KotOR comic books were released in Hungary, then later they continued from the 25th episode, so the KotOR fans missed the most exciting KotOR related episodes! I suggest reading those missing comix in English, they are really exciting.

Since KotOR was developed and created to satisfy the Star Wars fans it is not surprising that the protagonists mostly some kind of clones of the classic trilogy's heroes, just with different names (in a way of a subjective view). The two robots are really evident, a beeping computer expert and a chatty protocol droid but this time he will come with some assassin program module. The wise elder Jedi (Jolee Bindo) is almost a black Obi-wan added with a small disillusionment but he is a great partner to communicate with. Zaalbar is just like Chewbacca, Bastila is like princess Leia Organa, annoying haughty but she'll change for her advantage later on. Canderous Ordo, Juhani, and Mission don't have any similarities with the movie's classic characters, but Carth has features from two protagonists, from Luke and Han. It's reason is absolutely clear, if somebody would have asked a female Star wars fan, who was her favorite from the movie, the answer would have been 50% Luke, and 50% Han. It must have been applied in the game, so the female gamers could find something lovable in the male protagonist, who should have something from both movie characters. That is why Carth was created a flirting but basically a shy guy.

If we complete KotOR1 on the Light Side the whole party survive the adventures, and even they will will get a Republic medal award. The second episode continues almost this plot, but some 4-5 years later, again with an amnesiac hero. The two robots and Canderous will remain our companions, but Carth will only have a few moments, mostly in holomessages and in cinematics. He will be an admiral of the Republic Fleet, which he deploys in the space battle over Telos. We can talk to him only once personally right after this space battle, when he asked the Exile about Revan. (This only happens if we played K1 on the Light Side, learn more about it from the KotOR2 section opening article.) No matter if we selected a male or a female Revan we learned the same story, Revan went away, and never came back from the Unknown Regions, only the Ebon Hawk and the robots got back. So Carth tells the Exile that he misses and loves a female Revan, and expects her back, while he stills expects his former commander back as a male Revan. I haven't tried to give a DS female Revan in the beginning of KotOR2, but I would be really curious how the game and story goes, because in this case a DS female Revan should have killed Carth in the Star Forge, so Carth shouldn't have a role in KotOR2...

Carth Onasi's voice was presented by a talented US actor, called Raphael Sbarge, whose extremely pleasant voice helped Carth to be a well deserved and loved hero amongst the female fans. Raphael was acting in the show business from his childhood, however when he was selected into Sesame Street at his age of 4, he thought about it as a good fun and a great adventure, he would never dreamt he'd be an actor. But he finally became an actor. His mother was a costume designer and his father was a writer so no wonder he thought theater would always be his home. The Hungarian fan could see him in several TV series, since he has short appearances in almost all nowadays popular films such as all 3 CSI series, (Las Vegas, Miami, New York), the Prison Break, 24, and in ER. He had a more significant role in the 2. season of the Star Trek Voyager, in 1996, he played Michael Jonas, the traitor maquis private for 5 episodes. And finally, he was a protagonist in the Guardian series for 3 seasons. He has many ads in the US channels, where he can use his pleasant voice as a narrator.

He has multiple connections to the Star Wars games, he was a voice actor not only in the KotOR games, but he was Dack Ralter in Rogue Squadron in 1998, and Dellis Tantor in Force Commander in 2000. Then came KotOR1 and 2 in 2003 and 2004, and then Republic Commando, where he played Scorch. He haven't played any more SW characters unfortunately since then, but we can hope that he will have a role in the new Clone Wars 3D, as it happened previously with former KotOR stars Jennifer Hale (Bastila, Aayla Secura, Lolo the rodian, and Senator Cucchi), and Cat Taber (Mission Vao, Padme Amidala, and twi'lek girls).

Of course Carth has some funny moments in the game, just as some other team members.

Female Revans may want to have been escorted by Carth while visiting the hunter's lodge at Tatooine, where a local hunter called Tanis Venn will try to pick up a female Revan in a pretty rough way. Carth flies to her aid at once, and says Venn to treat the lady with respect unless he wanna loose his teeth.

Before the Leviathan a female Revan can flirt with Carth a bit, asking him why he stares at her all the time with so large eyes, making poor Carth to defend himself, however he seemed to be quite clumsy in that. Revan teased him, saying if he continues to stares at her so desperately, his eyes will fall out from his head. So Carth replied if Revan continues teasing him, he gets Revan on his knees, and paddles her badly. :-) You can learn more on YouTube, where you'll find a 7 minutes long fan video edition called "Best of Carth Onasi", where we can see a bunch of Carth's most funny sentences.

Unfortunately action figure hasn't been released from Carth Onasi so far, but Wizards has released him in the Star Wars miniatures game's 2008 Knights of the Old Republic edition among several other well known KotOR characters. However that is really a poor Carth Onasi miniatures figure, I fear...