Originally posted by Selenial
The Sith Hermetica ****ed over Kreia, not the planet. .
😬 Okay...
Malak read said Sith Hermetica.
"Led by a woman named Kreia, the rogue Jedi turned to the dark side teachings uncovered by Malak and Revan. Kreia took the name Darth Traya, and her followers called themselves the Sith after the long-lost species that had invaded the Republic a millennium before." ―Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
He wasn't ****ed over. 👆
10/10 argument there, Selenial.
As for Nathema, unless you can prove Malak survived it unfazed, he didn't exactly do better than the Exile.
"He knew with absolute certainty that he had been to this world before. He remembered its deserted city and its lifeless surface. He remembered searching the empty buildings with Malak, looking for archives, records, and astrogation charts that would guide them on the next step of the journey. But most of all, he remembered the horror of a dead planet entirely stripped of the Force." ―Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
Revan made no mention of them getting ****ed over on the planet more than that it was a "horror." They, however, were on the planet far longer than Surik.
"Her body reacted with a revulsion so strong she felt physically ill. Her mind briefly tried to imagine what had happened to cause such an abomination, then recoiled from the answers. Her mind went blank and her body numb.
She stood motionless for several minutes, or maybe it was several hours; time had no meaning here. But the incessant squawking of T3 eventually roused her from her stupor.
...The entire process took less than five minutes, but for Meetra it might as well have been an eternity. She had managed to keep busy up until this point, but while waiting idly by for T3 to finish she began to notice the absence of the Force once more.
She could feel the Void pressing in on her from all sides. At the same time it was pulling on her, trying to rip away the very essence of her existence. Nature abhors a vacuum; the emptiness was trying to fill itself with her energy. For an instant she felt as if she were going to become undone, her physical body discorporating into trillions of subatomic particles that would scatter across the entire surface of Nathema.
No! she screamed in her mind. The Void will not take me! I am more than just a collection of random matter and particles! I am a living being. I am Meetra Surik!
The affirmation of her own existence seemed to push the Void back, at least for the moment. But Meetra knew she couldn’t hold out against it much longer. As much as she tried to ignore what she felt—or, more precisely, didn’t feel—all around her, she knew it was only a matter of time until the horrors of Nathema stripped away her sanity." ―Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
Surik admits that if she stayed on Nathema a little longer she would have been utterly ****ed. We know Malak was on the planet longer than her, and based on the fact he clearly wasn't ****ed over, it's obvious that he managed to resist it well enough that Revan made no mention of him other than that they traveled together and thought of the planet as a "horror."