Exile (punishment)/Legends

Exilement was a form of punishment used by numerous cultures and sentient species across the galaxy were the punished were banished from their society, rarely ever to return. This form of punishment was known to be practiced by the Jedi Order against members who went against the will of the Order or turned to the dark side. Not all cases of exilement where a form of punishment, as any being could place themselves in self-imposed exile for a wrong they perceived they had done, removing themselves fro society to keep them from wronging another again, or for failing a task they had believed they should have accomplished.

Examples of Exilement

 * The Jedi Exile was exiled from the Jedi Order after her involvement in the Mandalorian Wars and returning changed, a change that the Jedi High Council of that time feared.
 * Yoda went into self-imposed exilement after he failed to defeat Darth Sidious.
 * During his reign as King of Onderon, Freedon Nadd exiled anyone who opposed his rule.
 * Ithila, a Hapan woman, went into self-imposed exile after being scarred horribly during the Yuuzhan Vong War, ruining her beauty as she was allergic to bacta.
 * The Exiles were a group of Jedi who had turned to the dark side and initiated the Hundred-Year Darkness only to lose the war, and be banished from Republic space, an act that forged the Sith Order.
 * Jedi Master Kreia was exiled from the Jedi Order for her training of Revan and his fall to the dark side. She would later be exiled and stripped of her power by her Sith apprentices Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus.

Groups Who Practiced Exilement

 * Jedi Order
 * Galactic Republic
 * Sith Triumvirate

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi