Duel on Coruscant (Inter–Sith Wars Period)

"Possessed by the dark spirit of Naga Sadow, Gynt attacked his former master in broad daylight. The brutal battle betwen the two was staged with all of the Republic watching."

- Gnost-Dural

Seventy-five years before the beginning of the Great Galactic War a 'lightsaber duel occured on the Galactic Republic's capital world of Coruscant. The duel was between Jedi Master Barel Ovair and his former apprentice, the Nautolan Eison Gynt. After living on Yavin IV for several years, Gynt had become possessed by the spirit of the long-dead Dark Lord of the Sith, Naga Sadow. Sadow sought to kill Ovair, who was in fact an agent of the reformed Sith Empire, which was preparing to invade the Republic. The possessed Gynt attacked Ovair on Coruscant, but was eventually defeated. In killing his former apprentice, Ovair also fulfilled a directive handed down to him by the Sith Emperor&mdash;neutralize the spirits of past Sith in order to avoid complications when the Empire's invasion commenced.