First Jedi Purge

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First Jedi Purge
Beginning	c. End of the First Sith Civil War, 3,955 BBY
End	Destruction of Malachor V, 3,951 BBY
Place	Katarr, Korriban, Dantooine, others
Outcome	Near destruction of the Jedi Order
Major battles	Devastation of Katarr, Battle of Peragus II, First Battle of Dantooine, Onderon Civil War, Battle of Telos IV
Combatants
Sith Triumvirate
Jedi Order
Commanders
Darth Nihilus Darth Sion
Kreia Jedi Exile

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"The Jedi Temple on Coruscant lies empty. The waters in the Room of a Thousand Fountains have fallen still, in reverence to the fallen Jedi… and those now lost."

―Kreia

The First Jedi Purge took place some time after the Battle of Rakata Prime, from 3,955–3,954 BBY until 3,951 BBY. This purge saw nearly the entire Jedi Order disappear from the Galaxy: the Order publicly disbanded and most of the survivors were killed by the Sith.

After the conclusion of the First Sith Civil War in 3,955 BBY, Darth Traya, Darth Nihilus, and Darth Sion took command of the Sith remnants. After the exile of Traya, Sion utilized his Sith Assassins to assassinate Jedi. Nihilus in turn consumed life on an entire planet in search for the Jedi. Nihilus' last attack was on the Miraluka world of Katarr, when nearly all of the remaining hundred Jedi died at a conclave on the planet.

Prelude

"Only a handful of us remained after the Jedi Civil War, barely a hundred in number. Then even that hundred began to vanish, in places where the Force seemed blind. The only pattern we determined [was] that when Jedi gathered, they were seen no more. At the last Jedi conclave on Katarr, the entire planet was wiped out. An entire race, destroyed… because the Jedi chose to gather there. It was only then that we realized that we were facing something far more powerful that we knew how to fight."

―Zez-Kai Ell

By the year 3,951 BBY, almost all the Jedi had been eliminated and few Jedi remained. One of the survivors was the figure known as the Jedi Exile. The Exile's return to Galactic Republic space occurred in 3,951 BBY. The Harbinger, bound for Onderon, suddenly received a distress call and, upon reporting it and the distressed vessels ID, was ordered to assist the vessel.

The Exile

"We are at war, but it is unlike any war we have fought before — we have yet to even meet our attackers in battle. Somehow our enemy is targeting us through the Force, striking, then retreating to the shadows. The gathering of any Jedi seems to attract them like a beacon."

―Jedi Master Vrook

Upon their arrival the Captain of the Harbinger ordered a boarding crew onto the distressed vessel to bring aboard any survivors. They picked up the entire crew but were ambushed by a Sith warship. The crew of the Ebon Hawk quickly escaped but not before being attacked by the Sith warship commanded by Darth Sion. Suffering immense damage the ship made the jump to hyperspace but was left drifting in space. With the help of the utility droid T3-M4, the Exile was taken care of, and the Ebon Hawk was eventually guided to the Peragus Mining Facility.

When the Exile woke up from her stupor in the mining facility, she found an old woman left for dead. This woman later revealed herself to be a Jedi Knight named Kreia. She guided the Exile through their escape from the mining facility. They found the facility to be completely abandoned, except for malfunctioning mining droids and an imprisoned Human named Atton Rand. Before long, however, the Sith who had attacked the Harbinger arrived, intent on killing the Exile. The three escaped with T3-M4 onboard the Ebon Hawk, traveling to Telos IV, finding it to be the only available destination in the Peragus navigational charts. While being pursued by the Sith in the asteroid field around Peragus, laser fire ignited the volatile fuel within the asteroids. The resulting explosion destroyed both the facility and the planet itself, although the Ebon Hawk and the Sith onboard the Harbinger were able to escape.

After arriving at the massive Citadel Station in orbit around Telos, the crew were detained for the destruction of the Peragus mining facility. They were soon cleared of any crime but not before their vessel, the Ebon Hawk, and T3-M4 were stolen and flown to the Telosian surface while the Exile and her crew were being held. After being refused a new vessel, they utilized alternative transportation to get down to the surface, where they were shot down by Czerka Corporation air-defense turrets. Having crashed upon the surface, they were pulled out of the burning vessel by a Zabrak engineer named Bao-Dur, who was responsible for designing Telos' planetary shields. While on the surface, they learned that the Ebon Hawk had been taken to the old planetary aqueducts in the polar region of the planet. Stealing a shuttle from an abandoned military compound, they traveled to the aqueducts, and were once again shot down, this time by a HK-50 bounty hunter assassin droid. After defeating the droid, Atton, Kreia and the Exile (Bao-Dur was incapacitated) traveled into the polar aqueduct system.

Upon arriving in the aqueduct system they found themselves once again being detained by the Last Handmaiden and her sisters. They had entered the Telosian Jedi Academy. After being detained once again, the Exile was granted an audience with Atris, the Jedi Master controlling the facility. After a heated debate over what the Exile should have, and did do during the Mandalorian Wars, the Exile and her party were granted leave and left with the Ebon Hawk and T3-M4.

After leaving the academy, T3 revealed that he had managed to download Atris' database and navigational charts while being held, including a recording of the Exile's trial and records of where the last five remaining Jedi Masters were hiding: Atris on Telos, Kavar on Onderon, Vrook Lamar on Dantooine, Zez-Kai Ell on Nar Shaddaa and Lonna Vash on Korriban. The Exile, wanting to know why she had been exiled, traveled to these worlds in search of the Jedi in an attempt to unite them against the Sith and to find the answers to her questions.

The Lost Jedi

After locating and conversing with all of the remaining Jedi Masters, the Exile returned to Dantooine to find the rebuilt Jedi Enclave. There, Masters Vrook, Kavar and Zez-Kai Ell had formed a council in which they would decide her fate (Master Lonna Vash had already been killed by the Sith). Right after they reestablished her exile and just before the Masters could strip her of the Force once again, Kreia stormed into the meeting to save the Exile at the last moment. The Exile, still under her stasis state established by the Masters, was left helpless to defend them as Kreia put the Jedi Masters through the same suffering the Exile had felt on Malachor V, leaving them not only dead, but void of the Force.

After she left, the Exile finally regained her strength and departed for Telos to find Kreia, who had now assumed the title of Darth Traya. Once she had arrived, the Exile was forced to confront Atris, who had been corrupted by the dark side at the secret academy. After she defeated her, the Exile was able to persuade Atris to forgive her and helped herself see the folly of her beliefs. Atris then told the Exile that Traya had fled to Malachor V to wait for her there for a final confrontation. Afterwards Atris declared herself an ex-Jedi and went into exile to try to find understanding.

The Battle of Telos IV

Shortly thereafter, a Sith fleet arrived in orbit of Telos having been drawn to the academy in the polar region. With the assistance of the Mandalorians and Mandalore Canderous Ordo, the Exile boarded and engaged the third Sith, Darth Nihilus, aboard the Ravager, to keep him from destroying Telos in order to fuel his need and hunger for the Force. With the assistance of Visas Marr, the former apprentice to Nihilus, the Exile defeated him and headed to Malachor V.

The end of the Purge

Having succeeded in defending Telos and defeating Darth Nihilus, the Exile and her associates made their way to Malachor V. After "landing" on the surface of Malachor V, the Exile proceeded to the Trayus Academy, battling her way through several storm beasts, and later Sith warriors and assassins before confronting Darth Sion himself. After an intense and prolonged duel the Exile finally brought Sion to the realization that Kreia was using him, and that she didn't care what happened to him. Having persuaded him to let go of his hatred, Sion finally succumbed to his numerous injuries. The Exile then made her way to the Trayus Core, where she confronted Darth Traya.

After a fierce battle, the Exile succeeded in defeating the Sith Lord but spared her life. Before she gave her life to the Force, Kreia gave the Exile information about Revan's location in the Unknown Regions and about the future fates of the Exile's allies and the planets they had visited. Shortly after this exchange, Bao-Dur's remote reactivated the Mass Shadow Generator in order to completely destroy the planet. The crew of the badly damaged Ebon Hawk retrieved the Exile and escaped the planet.

With the defeat of the Sith Triumvirate and the "restoration" of the Jedi Order, the Exile left the Republic in the hands of her "Lost Jedi" and began her journey to find Revan.

Victims and survivors

Known victims

• Dorak on Katarr
• Zez-Kai Ell on Dantooine
• Kavar on Dantooine
• Vrook Lamar on Dantooine
• Zhar Lestin on Katarr
• Vandar Tokare on Katarr
• Lonna Vash on Korriban

Known survivors

• Atris
• Ood Bnar
• Jedi Exile
• Mical (trained during Purge)
• Bastila Shan
• Vima Sunrider (or descendant)

Unknown status

• Kel Algwinn
• Yuthura Ban
• Belaya
• Jolee Bindo
• Bolook
• Tott Doneeta
• Jedi associate (seen to have died, but vision's accuracy is in doubt)
• Juhani
• Deesra Luur Jada
• Quatra
• Revan
• Nomi Sunrider
• Sylvar
• Thon
• Tooka
• Oss Wilum

Appearances

• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement (Vision to Q'Anilia)
• Unseen, Unheard
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (First appearance)
• Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Mentioned only)

Sources

• Chronicles of the Old Republic (First mentioned)
• The New Essential Chronology

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