Battle in the Fallanassi village

A battle took place in a Fallanassi village on Pydyr in 44 ABY. Luke Skywalker, his son, Ben, and Vestara Khai tracked the entity known as Abeloth to Pydyr, where Khai called for reinforcements from her Sith Tribe. They arrived and met with the Jedi, and High Lord Sarasu Taalon decided to not kill Luke Skywalker yet&mdash;Taalon was beginning to turn into an Abeloth-like being, and he wanted to learn from her what exactly he was becoming; and he needed Skywalker's help to find Abeloth. The Sith and Jedi traveled to the Fallanassi village on Pydyr, fighting their way through the village's illusory defenses, and losing one Sith shuttle, the Obuuri, in the process. Upon arriving in the village, they were confronted by Abeloth, though she appeared to them in the form of the Fallanassi Akanah Norand Goss Pell. The Sith began to take Fallanassi hostages and demanded Pell to tell them where Abeloth was hidden. When she refused, the Sith killed one of the Fallanassi, Eliya. Akanah then used the White Current to create illusions of phantoms attacking the Sith, driving them insane. This act made Luke certain that the being before them was indeed Abeloth in Pell's form.

With all of the Sith&mdash;save Khai and Taalon&mdash;temporarily disabled, Abeloth took Taalon to a gathering hall to converse with him, and Khai and the Skywalkers followed. Luke tried to convince Taalon that Abelothw as trying to play the Sith and Jedi against each other, but the Sith High Lord desired too greatly to know what he was becoming. Luke began to maneuver to gain the best possible positioning to attack, but Taalon realized his intentions and opened battle. In the ensuing fight, Luke managed to kill Abeloth's body. However, as she died, she gave possession of the body back to Pell, who asked for Luke's forgiveness. As Luke rejoined his son in the battle against Khai and Taalon, Abeloth reappeared in the form of Callista.

Abeloth quickly overpowered the weakened Luke, and Taalon moved in to kill him, but Abeloth prevented him form doing so. She expressed her desire to make Luke suffer as she and Taalon had suffered, and Taalon agreed. She knocked him unconscious, and by the time he awoke, Taalon had captured Ben in a Force net and was conversing again with Abeloth. Taalon then began feeding off of dark energy from Abeloth's tentacles, invigorating him and giving him strength. Luke reached out to collapse the hall's ceiling with the Force, and despite being choked by Abeloth, succeeded. The roofing pummeled them all, and Abeloth's grip on him weakened. Khai used the distraction to jump forward and quickly kill Taalon, causing the net holding Ben to disintegrate. The Skywalkers began to fight with Abeloth, although both had lost their lightsabers earlier in the battle. However, Khai threw Luke her lightsaber and shot Abeloth with Force lightning. Abeloth repulsed Luke with the Force and then fled.

Khai revealed that she had only killed Taalon to prevent him from turning into another Abeloth-like being, and suggested that the Jedi prepare themselves to be taken into Sith custody. However, Luke used the Force to awaken Gavar Khai, Khai's father, and mentioned that she had done a good job of killing Taalon. Gavar awakened, and shocked at what appeared to him to be a betrayal of the Sith, moved to confront his daughter. She quickly knocked him out and fled with the Skywalkers, knowing that the Sith would not forgive her actions or give her time to explain them.

However, as they made their way across the village to the Jade Shadow, the Sith began to recover from their visions, since Abeloth had already begun to leave aboard Ship. Master Vhool was the first to confront them, ordering Khai to start up the Jade Shadow and the Jedi to wait while he went back to find Taalon. As Khai started the ship and brought it's blaster cannons to bear, a wing of StealthXs sent by the New Jedi Order on Coruscant, accompanied by Booster Terrik's Errant Venture, arrived and opened fire on the Sith. Vhool, meanwhile, discovered that Khai had killed Taalon, and rushed back out to reveal the betrayal, but Khai opened fire on the Sith from the Jade Shadow. The Skywalkers were able to make it safely on board as the StealthXs forced the Sith to retreat.

Appearances

 * Vortex