Dark Nest Crisis

The Dark Nest Crisis started 35 ABY, when the Chiss sent a message to the Galactic Alliance, accusing the Jedi of interfering in their internal affairs. The Jedi were puzzled, seeing as they had their hands full with pirates such as Red-Eye and major relocations of refugees. Then, one by one, it was discovered that the Jedi who had survived the Myrkr strike mission had left their assignments and headed into the Unknown Regions. When Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade, along with a few others headed out there, they discovered that the missing Jedi had heard a call for help from one of the other Jedi from the Myrkr mission - Raynar Thul, who had been presumed dead.

Instead, he survived and landed among the Killiks, who began taking on many of his qualities. As they expanded their Nests, they came into contact with the Chiss, who used defoliators to ruin their food stocks and drive them off. The Myrkr survivors were helping Raynar defend the Nests, going out into combat to disable the defoliators.

Luke and Mara forced the young Jedi to come back into the Alliance fold, reminding them of their responsibilities to the Galactic Alliance. However, several of the Jedi had become Joiners, including Jaina Solo and Zekk. They referred to themselves as we and had a very powerful connection to the Nests because of their Force abilities.

The situation between the Chiss and the Killiks was resolved for a time when Han agreed to give the Killiks a nebula they had found, in exchange for the help of Chief of State Cal Omas to annul a claim by RePlanetHab so the Ithorians would have a world of their own, ten years after Ithor was destroyed.

One year later, things began flaring up again as the Killiks found that the worlds they lived on had a self-defense mechanism - something they termed the Fizz. It destroyed anything that attacked the planets it was on, which resulted in a great loss of life for the Killiks. They blamed this on the Jedi who had given them the worlds, further destablizing the Galactic Alliance and making the Jedi look even worse in the eyes of the galaxy. Plus, black membrosia and pirates were being found outside of the nebula, making the Killiks seem responsible for much of the trouble in that area of the galaxy.

Also at this time, Jacen Solo discovered he was a father – the year before, he had convinced Tenel Ka to send a Hapan battle fleet to help the Killiks - but her price was that he spend a night with her. She became pregnant, but used the Force to slow things down so that her nobles would not think that Jacen was the father.

The Dark Nest send assassins to kill the baby, having been hired by Tenel Ka's grandmother to kill her. They were foiled by Jacen and a modified version of the YVH war droid.

Shortly afterwards, some of the Jedi launched a preemptive strike on a Chiss base in order to prevent the Chiss from attacking the Killik Nests. This, however, only served to make the Chiss angrier, and they decided to handle things on their own, rather than allow the Alliance to take care of the matter.

This was soon one of the first salvos of the Swarm War - the other being the capture of the Victory-class Star Destroyer Admiral Ackbar by the Killiks.