Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is a 2002 first- and third-person shooter video game. The Microsoft Windows was developed by Raven Software the Mac OS X version by Westlake Interactive and the Xbox and GameCube versions by Vicarious Visions; most versions were published by LucasArts with only the Mac version published by Aspyr. The game is a sequel to 1997's Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and the third main installment in the Star Wars: Jedi Knight series. The single-player campaign set in the fictional Star Wars expanded universe two years after the Mysteries of the Sith expansion for Dark Forces II follows returning protagonist Kyle Katarn a mercenary working for the New Republic and former Jedi who cut his connection to the Force. Katarn must return to his Jedi ways to stop a branch of the Imperial Remnant led by the Dark Jedi Desann from empowering their army with the Force.