Hey Lance! Look, don;lt worry, you can join immediately. You are on a seperate plotline to the others, with Julie, who has barely played at all, so you have missed almost nothing! You can come back in right away if you want- would take 30 seconds to bring you up to scratch. It all works out rather well.
Yes, Allor, the idea with the Revenant is that he was considered dead, like Vader, but survived his/her crippling injuries through sheer selfish will- turning to the Dark Side in the process.
Actually, now I think about it, you may need to re-do that background rather more. A Revenant HAD tro be a Jedi before he fell. Not just any old force user (as if they are common...)