Wall of light

"A wall of light, created by many Jedi joined together, can push the darksiders back."

- Arca Jeth

A wall of light was an immense manifestation of potentially destructive light side Force energy created through the combined power of many Jedi working in unison. When performed successfully, a wall of light allowed participating Jedi to effectively contain the power of the dark side within a specific location, or sever an especially dangerous darksider from their Force connection. The ability was popular among Great Sith War–era members of the Jedi Order, who used it to great effect against the resurgent Dark Lords of Exar Kun's Sith Brotherhood.

Description
"We must create a wall of light&hellip;either to cleanse&hellip;or destroy."

- Nomi Sunrider

The use of the Force to create a wall of light side energy was a Jedi's most devastating offensive ability. The technique required the collective effort of several participants to form&mdash;with considerable difficulty&mdash;an all-encompassing prison of whitish–blue energy, from which the dark side could not escape. Celestial bodies besieged by a wall of light were sterilized utterly by flames and violent weather phenomena, while wielders of the dark side found themselves completely blocked from the Force.

Applications
"When you feel the dark side energies turned against you, you must use your Jedi abilities to take power away from an opponent, rather than to inflict harm. This technique blinds your enemy to the Force with a wall of light, a permanent blockage if you so choose, rendering him unable to use Jedi powers. It is difficult. And it is the most devastating attack possible using the powers of the light side."

- Odan-Urr, via the Tedryn Holocron

The primary purpose for the creation of a wall of light around a specific location was for the quarantine or total eradication of the dark side's malevolent influence. Under extreme circumstances, a lone Jedi Knight was capable of erecting a wall of light to harmlessly subdue an especially dangerous enemy, but use of such power often brought forth unexpected and potentially irreversible results. The victim experienced extreme agony as their connection to the Force was interrupted, in a severance that could be made permanent at the discretion of the Jedi.

Users
"I imprison you in a wall of light. A fortress to block you from the Force&hellip;blind you to your Jedi powers&hellip;"

- Nomi Sunrider, as she imprisons Ulic Qel-Droma within a wall of light

During the Jedi conclave on Deneba, Arkanian Jedi Master Arca Jeth inferred that a wall of light was required to defeat the Krath cult, whose holy crusade against the Republic had spread the influence of the dark side across the galaxy. When the Krath later attacked Coruscant, their leader, fallen Jedi–turned–Sith Lord Ulic Qel-Droma, was defeated and trapped within a wall of light by Master Vodo-Siosk Baas and Knights Dace Diath, Tott Doneeta, Cay Qel-Droma, Nomi Sunrider, and Sylvar.

Nomi Sunrider faced Qel-Droma again on Ossus and imprisoned him within a wall of light that inadvertently resulted in a permanent severance from the Force. At the culmination of the Great Sith War, Sunrider guided thousands of Jedi, including Tott Doneeta, Sylvar, Oss Wilum, and Thon, in the creation of a wall of light over the Yavin moon to defeat Dark Lord of the Sith Exar Kun. Although his spirit was successfully trapped within the walls of his Massassi temple, a planet-wide firestorm caused by the Jedi's magnified power annihilated Yavin 4's landscape in the process.

Behind the scenes
Wall of light was a Force power first mentioned in Tom Veitch and Kevin J. Anderson's Descent to the Dark Side, the third issue in the Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith comic book story arc. It was also mentioned in John Whitman's Dark Lords of the Sith audio rendition. Wall of light's first appearance was in The Battle of Coruscant, the second issue of Tales of the Jedi's subsequent The Sith War story arc. It was also featured as the means by which the Jedi and Republic defeated Exar Kun in The Sith War climactic finish, titled Dark Lord. Wall of light also received its own card with the September 2009 release of The Shadow Syndicate, the fourth expansion of the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game. The card illustration was later implemented in Timeline 10: The Exar Kun War, the tenth in a series of in-universe holorecordings made by Kel Dor Jedi archivist Gnost-Dural.

While Dark Lord depicts the destruction of Yavin 4's landscape as the result of the Jedi's creation of a wall of light, it is incorrectly stated on pages 112 and 131 of The Essential Atlas that Yavin 4's surface was destroyed by orbital bombardment.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith 3: Descent to the Dark Side
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith (audio)
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War 2: The Battle of Coruscant
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War 5: Brother Against Brother
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War 6: Dark Lord
 * Timeline 10: The Exar Kun War

Notes and references
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