Shorn's What Ifs:
What if Shorn's mother had never died?
What if Mikhail Shorn's aristocratic father - Casperli - had not been oppressive, emotionally distant, and cruel?
What if Casperli had not had Mikhail's girlfriend's lowly peasant family evicted from their house in order to break the two of them up?
What if Mikhail had never been forced to join the Republic Army?
What if Senators had never sanctioned anti-pirate operations with an overstretched military?
What if Captain Mikhail had not witnessed the decimation of his company?
What if his superior officer had never insulted a drunken Mikhail?
What if he had not accidentally killed his superior officer by throwing him out a window?
What if he had not chosen to flee to Sith space, where he was admitted into the Sith Order, then thrown into a gladiatorial-esque camp where only one could survive?
What if Mikhail had never found the Soulsaber?
What if the confused new Sith had not accidentally killed his ex-girlfriend after she attacked him, then slaughtered her husband and children out of rage?
What if Darron Wraith had convinced the young Sith to come back to the light?
What if Tahira Solo had convinced him?
And the ultimate:
What if Spencer Jacobs had chosen him?