A/N: This story is more important to me than the other ones I'm doing (not saying they aren't important) because Star Wars is my favorite franchise of all time. Even so, I've always had my own idea of how the Star Wars mythos should have gone. This series will be packed with Canon, EU and OC characters, along with changes to the series' story. Welcome to the rewrite of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars.
The Phantom Menace
Chapter 0: History of the Force
The Force. It surrounds everything and engulfs everything. It binds the universe together. In the beginning, there were two siblings. Ashla and Bogan.
Ashla was kind and brought life to anything she was around. She was the light. But her brother, Bogan, was evil and corrupted anything he came near. He was the darkness.
Bogan would become tired of his sister bringing life and decided to end her. Bogan tried to kill Ashla, but failed and was locked away.
However, Ashla would realize that she could not keep the universe in check by herself. Therefore, she created the Ones and the Whills.
The Ones, the Father and the Mother, kept any from abusing the Force and the Whills watched over the galaxy.
But Bogan would escape and attempt to kill his sister once more. This time, Ashla would take different measures. She would reincarnate herself and her brother into the Daughter and the Son. The Father and Mother kept the siblings in balance.
One day, the Mother transpired to take over from the Father and engulf the universe in darkness. Her plan failed and the Father banished her to the Unknown Regions.
The Son and the Daughter would frequently be at odds, so the Father stepped in. Exiling he and his children to the planet of Mortis, where he could keep balance.
And keep balance he did. Whenever conflict arose between the siblings, the Father would quickly step in and stop it. One day, the Father had a vision.
On a planet with twin suns, a child would be born totally of the Force. He would bring balance to the Force, but would send the galaxy into spells of light and dark. He would be forged of darkness, but would bring the light.
The Father named this child 'the Chosen One' and decided that the Chosen One would take his place.
In the year 36,453 BBY, a group of force-sensitives formed a group known as the Je'daii Order on the planet Tython. This order saw the Force in three aspects. Ashla, the Daughter, Bogan, the Son and Bendu, the Father. They saw that the night sky represented this belief by the two moons that orbited Tython. One bathed in light, the other shrouded in darkness. Ashla and Bogan, respectively. Any Je'daii who fell too far to either side were exiled to one of the moons until they found balance.
Years later, a schism would shake the Order to its foundation. With this, the Force Wars began, known to the galaxy as the first conflict between the Light and the Dark.
The Dark Side adherents were exiled while the Light Side users would reform as the Jedi Order. The Jedi would depart Tython and find a new home on Ossus, where they would join the Galactic Republic as keepers of the peace.
Over the years of the Jedi's existence, multiple Jedi would fall to the Dark Side and be exiled after the Hundred-Year Darkness. These 'Dark Jedi' would find a home on Korriban, where a species known as Sith lived. The Dark Jedi enslaved and ruled the Sith.
Following centuries of interbreeding and mixing cultures, the Sith would not be identified by their species anymore, but their dedication to the ancient Sith philosophy.
This religious order would survive in many incarnations through galactic history. The rise of a new leader, the Dark Lord, would often cause drastic reorganizations in the cult, but the Sith would always be characterized by their lust for power and desire to destroy the Jedi Order.
Centuries would pass of conflict between the Jedi and the Sith, neither ever truly leaving the victor. During these wars, the Sith would create a weapon that they dubbed the protosaber.
Protosabers utilized blades of light, held together by the Force. While these weapons were powerful, they had weaknesses. Large power cells were required to power these weapons and were obvious weak spots.
Years of development on both the sides of the Jedi and Sith brought forth the weapon they use in the present. The lightsaber.
Lightsabers were highly advanced from the protosabers of the past, having internal power cells. They were also powered by crystals that gave lightsabers their color. There were many variants, but the main two were adegan crystals and kaiburr crystals. All colors meant something and called to those who followed their philosophy.
Yet the Sith had a problem. Only one kind of crystal would call to them, and that red crystal was incredibly rare. So they created a synthetic crimson variant. With the creation of lightsabers, the war between the Jedi and Sith became more and more advanced.
Many years after this, in 3998 BBY, the sarcophagi of Freedon Nadd and Queen Amanoa were being moved to the jungle moon of Dxun by Jedi and Beast Riders, led by Jedi Master Arca Jeth. During the funeral, the group was attacked by a group that worshipped Nadd, the Naddists. Led by Sith warrior Warb Null, the group laid siege to the procession. During the attack, Null and the Naddists stole the sarcophagi and escaped.
Realizing the darkness, Jeth, Jedi Knight Ulic Qel-Droma and Queen Galia approached King Ommin, father of Gallia and husband of the late Amanoa, for assistance in finding the Naddists. However, using Sith magic, Ommin incapacitated Jeth while Qel-Droma and Galia were confronted by the spirit of Freedon Nadd and Warb Null.
Qel-Droma killed Null, but Ommin had enough time to capture Jeth. In the end, Qel-Droma called for aid, including Nomi Sunrider. Afterwards, leaders of the Krath, a dark side cult, Satal and Aleema Keto, spoke with Ommin about a Sith spellbook they could not read. Ommin gave them a Sith amulet that let them read it.
During Ommin's meeting with the Ketos, the Jedi reinforcements arrived on Onderon and joined the battle. With a Republic fleet, the Jedi freed Jeth, and were again confronted by Nadd's Force spirit. Seeing that Ommin could no longer be used as a vessel for his means, Nadd took his power from Ommin, causing him to die. After a brief war of words with Jeth, Nadd retreated back to his sarcophagus. With Ommin's death, and Nadd's apparent defeat, the Naddists were defeated by Jedi and Republic. Afterwards, the sarcophagi of Ommin, Amanoa and Nadd were transferred to Dxun.
Sometime afterwards, Qel-Droma and Jedi Knight Exar Kun fell to the dark side. Kun was declared Dark Lord of the Sith by the spirit of ancient Dark Lord Marka Ragnos, and Qel-Droma was declared his apprentice.
Six months later, the two began their plans for galactic conquest. Kun arrived on Ossus and spoke to a group of Jedi questioning their roles in the order following the death of Arca Jeth. Believing Kun held the secrets the Jedi Masters had withheld from them, the Jedi accompanied Kun to Yavin IV.
After a brief confrontation with Mandalore the Indomitable, in which he won, Qel-Droma gained the allegiance of the Mandalorian clans, and added their manpower to the Krath forces. With their massive army, and Kun gaining Sith converts, Qel-Droma and Aleema Keto planed for an invasion of Coruscant.
Under the guidance of Kun, the Jedi defectors travelled with him to Yavin IV where he advised them that he needed their help in destroying an ancient Sith holocron, thus freeing the moon from the dark side's grasp. Once on the ground, the Jedi watch as Kun made a spectacle of destroying the holocron. In reality, however, Kun's destruction of the device unleashed a strong wave of dark side magic which infected all those around him, excluding the Cathar Jedi Crado who had already sworn fealty to Kun. Under the control of Kun's Sith magic, the new Sith acolytes were dispatched from Yavin IV with the mission of finding and killing their old Jedi Masters: the Brotherhood of the Sith was formed.
Kun believed that such a blow against the Jedi Order would weaken it to the point where it could no longer resist his efforts at galactic domination. Meanwhile, Qel-Droma and Keto launched their invasion of Coruscant, however due in a large part to treachery by Keto, who believed she could usurp Qel-Droma and claim his power, the invasion was stalled by the Jedi and Republic. Under orders from Keto, the Krath and Mandalorian soldiers retreated from the surface, leaving Qel-Droma to face capture by the Republic Inquisition.
Though Qel-Droma was captured and placed on trial for his war-crimes, he steadfastly denied the charges brought against him, claiming the Republic was a weak and corrupt government. During the proceedings, Exar Kun and a party of Massassi warriors, arrived to help free the captured Sith Lord. Mandalore the Indomitable, who learned of Keto's treachery against Qel-Droma during the attack on Coruscant, traveled to Yavin IV to seek out Kun in the hopes that he would help rescue Qel-Droma from the Inquisition. After a dramatic entrance, in which he used Sith magic to paralyze all those non-Jedi present, Kun killed the Republic Supreme Chancellor and confronted his former Master Vodo-Siosk Baas.
While other Jedi battled Kun's Massassi warriors, Baas dueled Kun, but was soon bested by his former student. With the death of Master Baas, Kun and his remaining warriors collected Qel-Droma and departed Coruscant. While Kun was busy on Coruscant rescuing Qel-Droma, the various Sith acolytes departed Yavin IV and launched their pogrom against their former Masters. With great efficiency, almost all of the targeted Masters were assassinated, although at least one, Thon, was able to best his assassin and survive the attack. Nevertheless, the deaths of so many Jedi Masters garnered worry among the remaining Jedi, and when word of a Sith attack against Kemplex IX arrived, a team of Jedi was hastily dispatched to deal with it. The ensuing battle at Kemplex IX witnessed the deaths of all participants on both sides, as the Sith, under Aleema Keto, used Sith magic to set off a chain of stellar explosions in the nearby Cron Cluster. The resulting supernova couldn't be controlled, and utterly destroyed everything surrounding it; the supernova was on a collision course with the Jedi library-planet of Ossus, and Kun and Qel-Droma believed that once the Jedi evacuate the world, they could then swoop in and plunder the remaining Jedi secrets. Though the Jedi were caught unaware by the catastrophe, they rushed to gather what artifacts they could and flee. However, the Sith arrived on the planet before the Jedi could leave, and Cay Qel-Droma confronted his brother. After a duel, Ulic kills Cay. However, this act horrifies Ulic, and he abandoned the dark side. Nomi Sunrider, horrified by what the man she loved had become, found herself overcome with grief and torment and severed Ulic's connection to the Force. Broken and unable to touch the Force, Qel-Droma agreed to help the Jedi end the war by leading them to Kun's secret base on the moon of Yavin IV. The Jedi caught the Dark Lord of the Sith unprepared, and they were able to completely level the moon, causing an enormous firestorm to spread across the planet, thus effectively destroying Kun and his seat of power. However, Kun's spirit lived on, as before his death he used his powers to drain the life from his Massassi followers, binding his spirit to a Sith temple on the moon.
Ten years after the devastating defeat of Exar Kun on the moon of Yavin IV, the Jedi Order was called to its first convocation since the Great Sith War by its new leader, Grand Master Nomi Sunrider. Since the end of the war, both the Jedi and the Republic had focused on helping to restore the damaged parts of the galaxy. The Jedi, however, lacked direction, and so Sunrider hoped that, through a conclave, the Jedi Order could begin to build a united front and start replenishing the numbers they had lost during the conflict. And so, heeding the call of their leader, masses of Jedi began descending upon Exis Station, the location chosen for the conclave.
The conclave, however, was soon manipulated by one of the Jedi present: a Cathar by the name of Sylvar who had fought during the Sith War, and who lost her mate, Crado, due to Ulic Qel-Droma. Angry that Qel-Droma had not been apprehended and brought to trial for the crimes he had committed during the war, Sylvar managed to successfully turn the focus of the conclave away from rebuilding the Order, to the question of "What should be done to Ulic Qel-Droma?"
After her rescue from death by Twi'lek Jedi Knight Tott Doneeta, Vima Sunrider felt that her Jedi training could not continue under the guidance of her mother, who she believed cares more about leading the Jedi Order than she did about the future of her own daughter. Vima then decided to seek the only person who she thought can help her: Ulic Qel-Droma. Eventually making her way to Rhen Var, the frozen planet which some believed Qel-Droma had exiled himself to, Vima began her search for the former Dark Lord of the Sith. Vima made her way to what appeared to be an abandoned fortress in the middle of the desolate frozen wastes of Rhen Var, and upon finding a way inside, Vima was finally confronted by Qel-Droma. The fallen Jedi initially refused to train Vima in the ways of the Force, believing that since he could no longer touch the Force, he couldn't adequately train her. Qel-Droma, though, soon changed his mind and took the young Jedi as his apprentice.
Meanwhile, Sylvar's anger at Qel-Droma and his war crimes, specifically his involvement with her mate's death, drove her close to the dark side of the Force. In an effort to find solace for her anger, Sylvar traveled to the planet of Ryloth with fellow Jedi Tott Doneeta, but allowed her anger to control her actions there. With her anger clamoring to claim her, Sylvar believed that she could only find peace on her home planet of Cather through a ritual called a "blood hunt." Nevertheless, Sylvar's anger did leave her, and she concluded that she must find Qel-Droma and confront him about everything he has done. During this time, Nomi discovered what her daughter had done and who she is with, and departs Exis Station in an effort to bring Vima home. Arriving on the frozen planet, Nomi made her way to the fortress where Qel-Droma and Vima were, and proceeds to meet with her former lover for the first time since the end of the Great Sith War. Initially angry that Vima had chosen to seek out Qel-Droma, Nomi is able to realize both the reasons behind her daughter's choices and also what Qel-Droma had been able to teach her thus far. Qel-Droma, believing that he would finally be able to find peace now through the efforts of both Vima and Nomi, was soon confronted by the angry Sylvar, who had also arrived on Rhen Var. A fierce lightsaber duel ensued, but Sylvar was unable to continue fighting when Qel-Droma made her realize that she was slowly walking down the same road that he had walked during the Sith War. Finally releasing her anger, Sylvar admitted how close she has come to falling. However, at that moment the pilot Hoggon, who had transported Sylvar to the planet, shot Qel-Droma from behind, proudly proclaiming that he was the one to kill Ulic Qel-Droma. In the arms of Nomi Sunrider, the Force itself forgave Qel-Droma, and he became one with it, showing those present that he has at last been redeemed.
Nearly twenty years after, the Mandalorian Wars broke out. As many planets were conquored by the ruthless onslaught of the Mandalorian warriors, the Jedi Knights Raven Kenobi and Alek Skywalker rallied many Jedi to lead the Republic armies, against the wishes of the Jedi Council.
When the Mandalorians fought against the Republic, with their new Jedi generals, the war was at a turning point. The Mandalorians felt that they could finally test their skills against the legendary Knights of the Jedi and praised them as worthy opponents.
As the Mandalorians fought at Malachor V they were caught off guard as the Republic had a new superweapon call the "Mass Shadow Generator" created by Zabrak engineer Bao-Dur. As the superweapon was activated most of the Mandalorian and Republic warships sank into a vast gravity vortex. The Mandalorians taking the most damage surrendered to the Republic. To further demoralize the Mandalorians, Raven executed Mandalore the Ultimate.
Raven refused to reveal the location of the mask of Mandalore, ensuring the clans would wander leaderless and scattered across the galaxy, working as bounty hunters or in other criminal careers, until a new Mandalore rallied the clans together again. Raven and Alek were found by the shadowy Sith Emperor, and the two were turned to the dark side of the Force, deemed Darth Revan and Darth Malak. They declared war on the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic. The remaining Jedi fell to the dark side with the exception of Revan's general, apprentice and best friend, Meetra Surik, who was stripped of his Force sensitivity due to the overwhelming death during the final battle at Malachor V.
Unbeknownst to the Emperor, Revan and Malak broke free of his control, and set out to find the Star Forge. After finding the Star Forge, Revan and Malak used the massive space station to create a mass amount of warships and formed a New Sith Empire.
The resulting conflict, the Jedi Civil War, began when Malak betrayed Revan when a group of Jedi Knights invaded the Dark Lady's flagship. Revan was taken by the Jedi Council and had her memory wiped. Given a new identity as Republic soldier Kate Windblade, Revan eventually recovered her Force potential, and was trained by the Jedi Council, Bastila Shan, and her original master, Vima Sunrider, as a Jedi.
Throughout the conflict, Revan and her allies found the maps to the Star Forge, yet Revan and Bastila had fallen to the dark side. Darth Revan confronted Malak, and defeated him. Malak expected death, but Revan instead decided to put Malak in Imperial prison for the rest of his life. Afterwards, Revan and her new Sith apprentice, Bastila, took control of the Empire. However, not all wished to return under the leadership of Revan. The Sith went into a four way civil war. There was Revan and her Empire, those under the newly formed Sith Triumvirate, led by Darth Nihilus, Darth Traya, and Darth Sion, there was those still loyal to Malak, and the new and mysterious One Sith order. After the Sith Civil War broke out, the Jedi held a convocation on Katarr.
However, Jedi Master Atris leaked the location of the conclave to draw out who had been attacking them. This proved to be a mistake, and Darth Nihilus drained all living beings on the planet except for Visas Marr, the lone survivor. Nihilus took Visas as his apprentice. Afterwards, the remaining Jedi Council members went into exile.
Sometime after this, Meetra Surik returned, and through a long and elaborate series of events, defeated the Sith Triumvirate, Malak's adherents, and confronted Revan. After a duel, Surik turned Revan and Bastila back to the light, and the Sith Empire was finally dissolved.
A few years later, Sith apprentice Darth Zzazz, a member of Malak's remnant, created a male clone of Revan named Revan-Prime.
Prime broke Malak out of prison, and the three Sith began to rebuild the Sith empire. On a mission, Prime was trapped in the destroyed Jedi Enclave on Dantooine with Meetra Surik, Bastila Shan and Mission Vao. During his time on the planet, Prime turned to the light side and fell in love with Shan.
When the group escaped, Revan, Surik, Shan and Prime attacked Malak's flagship, and the clone killed Darth Zzazz and Malak. Sometime after, Prime and Shan married and had a child, Vaner Shan. Years after this, Vaner had a daughter named Satele Shan.
Nineteen years later, the Sith Empire, under the leadership of the mysterious Sith Emperor returned. A fleet of Sith warships launched an assault on the currently Jedi occupied Korriban.
The Sith Lord Vindican and his apprentice Malgus attacked the defenders, Jedi Master Kao Cen Darach and his Padawan, the now nineteen year old Satele Shan. Shan escaped on Darach's orders, but Darach was slain by Malgus.
Korriban was brought back under Imperial control, and Malgus killed Vindican, taking the title of Sith Lord for himself. After the capture of the Dread Masters, Darth Malgus spearheaded the mission to conquer Alderaan.
The mission was an Imperial victory until the arrival of Jedi Knight Satele Shan. Satele and Malgus dueled once more, a decade after their battle on Korriban. Shan managed to mortally wound Malgus, and the Republic drove the Empire away from Alderaan. Despite his wounds, Malgus escaped as well. The battle was not without Republic casulties, however. Captain Jace Malcolm had been killed by Malgus early in the conflict.
Malgus would turn his attention to the planet of Serenno. Malgus ordered one of the Empire's infiltrators to assassinate Jedi Master Ven Zallow, while Malgus mobilized the Imperial fleet. The mission was partial success. The infiltrator was killed by Zallow, but Serenno had been taken.
Soon, Imperial tactics started to become more aggressive and desperate as the war entered its third decade. The Dark Council then stunned the Republic by offering to negotiate a peace treaty. When the Republic negotiated with the Empire on Alderaan, a large Sith fleet invaded and sacked Coruscant, the heart of the Republic. Darth Malgus led a team of Sith warriors within the Jedi Temple, slaughtering all within, and Darth Angral bombarded and invaded the planet.
With Coruscant firmly under the heel of the Empire, Angral personally executed Supreme Chancellor Berooken and claimed his office for his own. Faced with no alternatives, the Republic agreed with the Sith Empire's treaty. The treaty mandated that all Jedi and Republic forces withdraw into Republic space, and stand down from all combat duties.
The Republic still stood, but the Empire had won. After a twelve year Cold War, the Galactic War started. During the strain on the peace, Fleet Admiral of the Republic Navy, and Jedi Master Oteg was contacted by the spirit of Meetra Surik.
Surik had died in a failed attempt to destroy the Sith Emperor, alongside Revan, Bastila Shan, Revan-Prime and the Sith Lord Scourge. However, Revan had been taken into stasis, and had stayed there for the past thirty years. Similarly, Scourge had been frozen in carbonite, and left in a secret storage chamber. With the Republic and Empire's conflict heating back up, Surik knew it was time for Revan to be freed.
Following an intelligence-gathering assault on the Imperial fortress at Taral V, Oteg led his fleet into The Maelstrom to attack the Imperial prison facility inside. A fierce battle—one of the first of the soon-to-be new war—ensued, with both sides taking heavy casualties. Ultimately Oteg's fleet prevailed, successfully retrieving Revan before withdrawing from the area. With her freedom, Oteg believed that the Republic had obtained the means by which to finally defeat the Empire.
Revan's respite and sojourn to Republic space would be brief. Now fully aware of the crisis facing the galaxy, she set out to utterly destroy the Empire with the aid of ancient Rakata technology, an automated mass-manufacturing space station known as the Foundry. The Foundry was set to manufacture countless extermination droids designed with bioscanners to detect Sith genetic material, and destroy any life containing it—which would result in the genocide of the vast majority of the Imperial population.
The Empire had prepared for this situation. Darth Malgus, long opposed to the peace with the Republic, revealed to his chosen strike team that the rescue of Revan had been Malgus' own design. He intended that Revan would lead the Empire to the Foundry, in order that it could be used by the Empire in the coming war against the Republic. The Imperial strike team was successful in their attack on the Foundry, destroying the few active extermination droids already built before being totally annihilated by Revan. But instead of help the Republic, Revan disappeared, fate unknown. After mopping up the remaining Republic starships, the Empire claimed victory—and with it, ownership of the Foundry.
Elsewhere in the galaxy, Jedi Master Tol Bragga set in motion an ambitious plan which he hoped could pre-emptively avert the coming war: to capture and subsequently redeem of the Sith Emperor to the light side of the Force.
Braga's quest enlisted the aid of Jedi Knight Oasis Kathra who, by that point, had become known as the Hero of Tython due to her role in saving Tython from destruction at the battle of the Oppressor. The Hero travelled the galaxy for this mission, seeking out clues as to the whereabouts and technical specifications of the Emperor's highly secretive space station, conducting investigations on Balmorra, Quesh, and finally Hoth. The attack on the Emperor's person went poorly for the Jedi strike team—the entire force was captured, and most of the Jedi were effortlessly subdued by the Emperor's admirable command of the dark side of the Force.
Eventually, the Jedi gained a victory and made a bold counterstrike–a direct attack on the Imperial capital planet, Dromund Kaas, and with it, an attack on the Sith Emperor himself.
While the Republic Fleet engaged the Imperial First Defense Fleet in orbit, a strike team commanded by the Hero of Tython descended to the stormy world to confront the Emperor and determine the fate of the galaxy. After battling their way through the Imperial capital, the team entered the inner sanctum of the Emperor: the Dark Temple. The group separated to pursue various objectives, while Oasis went on with the faithful droid companion T7-O1 to battle the dark overlord.
The Hero and the Emperor, in a new Voice body since their last encounter on Voss, battled ferociously, with the Emperor employing numerous dark side abilities and tricks to defeat his opponent. Ultimately, however, the Hero prevailed and slew the Emperor's host. His consciousness critically damaged, the essence of the Emperor retreated to his own body to hibernate for rest and recovery. Though the Emperor was not completely defeated, his state had been effectively left without a ruler.
One of the first to seize advantage of the new circumstances was the long-dissatisfied Sith Lord Darth Malgus. Nursing decades-long grudges against the Dark Council over the Treaty of Coruscant, as well as for their own infighting and exclusionary practices, Malgus seized the opportunity to proclaim himself ruler of the New Empire.
Already in possession of the Foundry facility from the early struggle with Revan, Emperor Malgus also seized control of the Sith Emperor's now-abandoned space station. Malgus quickly searched out allies and others sympathetic to his belief that the Sith could only survive and be improved by constant warfare. Among the new allies was the Schism Collective, a technologically adept group who quickly adapted the Foundry's mass-production technologies for use on the Emperor's space station.
Following a string of victories in the Unknown Regions, Malgus and his forces gathered and struck at Ilum, a planet notable both as a place sacred to the Jedi Order as well as for its natural production of adegan lightsaber crystals. The goals of the New Empire were twofold: first, Malgus intended to destroy both the Republic and Sith Empire forces there as punishment for disloyalty. Second, the capture of the planet's crystals would provide an invaluable military resource for the fledgling state. The already-contested world quickly found itself besieged by a new player in the Galactic War.
Both Republic and Imperial forces were forced to turn and engage the New Imperial attackers, which was ultimately to the benefit of the Republic as the two Imperial groups whittled away each others' strength. A strike team was eventually able to board Malgus' commandeered space station and fight their way to his throne room. There, Malgus was slain in single combat—bringing an end to his New Empire.
The assault on Ilum, at first a major threat, had turned into an overwhelming victory for the Republic forces. Malgus' New Empire was vanquished, and in the fighting, the Sith Empire's forces on Ilum had been severely reduced. The outcome of the battle left the Republic firmly in control of Ilum, and deprived the Sith Empire of access to the valued adegan crystals.
As the Galactic War continued to rage throughout the galaxy, agents of the Galactic Republic were contacted by Republic Strategic Information Service agent Theron Shan–the non-Force sensitive son of Satele Shan–and his commander, Colonel Rian Darok regarding a planned assault on the Korriban Sith Academy. Despite stiff resistance, the overall mission proved to be quite succesful, although the Sith were soon able to reinforce the fortress after reinforcements arrived, prompting the strike team to retreat.
Concurrently, and without SIS' knowlege, Darth Arkous of the Dark Council had orchestrated his own attack on the Jedi homeworld of Tython, attempting to steal vital data from the Jedi Archives while trying to do as much damage as possible.
Using weapons based on the isotope-5 technology acquired at Makeb, the Sith launched their assault. After fighting past Jedi defenders, slaying instructor Liam Dentiri and Jedi Council member Master Oric Traless, they received the information that they had came for, although they were soon repelled by the Republic strike force that had attacked Korriban.
Following the battles, the Sith Lord, and secret daughter of Darth Marr and Darth Nox, Lana Beniko, Darth Arkous' own pupil, traveled to Manaan to investigate her master, who was reportedly implicated within a wider conspiracy somehow linked to the attacks. There she met Theron Shan, who himself was searching for similar answers, instead linked to Colonel Darok, and the two decided that they would accomplish more if they allied with one-another. While collaborating, the duo discovered that the data thefts themselves were linked to artifacts of the Rakata — a race that ruled the galaxy thousands of years earlier, and that they had been carried out by both Arkous and Darok, who were in league with one-another.
Contuing their collaboration on Manaan, which was, in fact, a world once ruled by the Rakata, they recruited the help of the Hero of Tython, now known as "The Outlander". The Outlander led a stealthy assault on a secret laboratory overseen by Gorima, a Selkath scientist. After freeing the Wookiee smuggler Jakarro and his droid C2-D4, and the arrival of Dark Council member Remowa, better known as Darth Nox and Sith Lord Choltsûn, better known as the Empire's Wrath, the squad tracked down Gorima, who revealed that he was on the payroll of both Arkous and Darok, who instructed him to construct a new Infinite Army. The Outlander's team destroyed the facility, although the research data was stolen by the two traitors shortly before the confrontation with Gorima.
Revealed to have been high ranking members of the Order of Revan, an Imperial fraternity dedicated to following the teachings of Revan, the traitors were pursued to Rakata Prime, once the capital of the Infinite Empire where, decades prior, the final battle of the Jedi Civil War took place, resulting in the destruction of the Star Forge, which, although destroyed, left much debris floating around the planet.
The Outlander was given a small strike force in order to infiltrate the Temple of the Ancients on the surface, where Arkous and Darok established their headquarters. Using Gorima's research, the traitors had managed to breed a small army of Rakata technology-infused soldiers of the ancient Rakatan species in order to bolster their already surprisingly vast ranks.
Upon reaching the temple summit, the Outlander's forces engaged the joint forces of both Arkous and Darok, out of which the strike team emerged triumphant. However, the victory was short lived after a small fleet of warships belonging to classes built by both Republic and Empire emerged from lightspeed, entering into low orbit. There, a man claiming to be Revan projected a large image of himself before the strike team, informing them that the loss of Arkous and Darok was merely a setback, saying that an "infinite army" was not necessary in carrying out his ultimate plans. After cutting transmission, Revan ordered the temple to be bombarded, although the Outlander and their squad managed to escape the structure's demolishion in the knick of time.
Following the disasterous events on Rakata Prime, the small alliance fell apart, its leadership otherwise being strained as a result of the Imperial and Republic governments not having fully understood the gravity of the situation. Lana Beniko, believing to have been directly responsible for the murder of Darth Arkous, one of the highest government officials in the Empire, was given a warrant for her arrest. Shan, on the other hand, for his alleged involvement in Darok's demise was disavowed from the SIS and branded as a traitor by the Republic, prompting him and Beniko to go underground for the time being. The Outlander and the rest of the strike team were not implicated in their own direct involvement and parted ways, despite the growing Revanite threat.
Months later, those members of the strike team that organized on Rakata Prime, including the Outlander, found that coordinants leading to the mysterious world of Rishi had been entered in on their respective navicomps, and for reasons of their own, all traveled to the planet.
After arriving, they, on their own, discovered that it was Shan and Beniko who had entered in the coordinates, prompting them to set out and find where they might have been located on Rishi. Little did they know, but the Revanites too had established a presence on the world and had hired the local Nova Blade pirates to harass shipping in the region. This strange action greatly altered shipping patterns that had previously existed in the region.
With few options available, the Outlander and her allies decided to enlist the local clan of Mandalorians, also having struggled to combat the Revanites on-world. Although initially warry of the operatives' intentions, the Mandalorian leader Shae Vizsla, who went by the name "Torch", agreed to help the heroes in fighting the Revanites, giving additional information that the group had secretly amassed its own forces on the surface of the planet.
While infiltrating the Revanite hideout, Theron Shan was captured and tortured by Revan, who also happened to be his great-grandmother. The Outlander succeeded in rescuing the agent, who then revealed that he had learned that the Revanites were trying to lure both the Imperial and Republic fleets to the planet in order to gather them all into a single place. With the fleets locked into a massive battle in the skies above Rishi, Revan placed saboteurs on each and every vessel, with the intent of having both fleets annihilate one-another, which would ultimately weaken the military might of both factions, in order to 'clear the board' so that neither Republic nor Empire could oppose her in her plans to bring back the Sith Emperor to destroy him once and for all in his physical form.
Although Revan initially viewed it as being a longshot, the Revanite plot nearly succeeded, but due to Shan's intel the operatives were able to identify the traitors in both fleets. A strike force quickly set out to destroy the signal jammer that prevented any communications to and from the planet and between Republic and Imperial forces. This proved to be a victory, and, despite heavy losses, a ceasefire was called between Republic commander Satele Shan and the Empire's new leader Darth Marr, both of whom who had personally gone to oversee what would have been one of the largest, albeit bloodiest, turning points in the war. After both leaders agreed to meet on the planet's surface, Darth Marr and Satele Shan concluded that they would consort with the anti-Revanite group, now led jointly by their children, and the Outlander.
Calling for a summit, the commanders concluded that the Revanites were a far larger threat than previously thought, and that Revan's manipulation nearly led to the destruction of both the Republic and Empire. Furthermore, it was finally brought to Marr's attention that Emperor Vitiate, believed to have been killed four years later by the Outlander/Hero of Tython, was in fact still alive, albeit in a weakened incorporeal form.
Facing the horrific inevitability of a revived Emperor returning to consume the galaxy, both the Republic and Empire agreed to form a joint coalition to combat the deranged former Jedi in an attempt to put a stop to his plans.
Tracking Revan to the moon of Yavin IV, the coalition set up a small base camp not far from the Order of Revan's position. From there Satele Shan, Darth Marr, Darth Nox, the Wrath, Theron Shan, and Lana Beniko could coordinate the allied forces in a series of attacks against the Revanites, while the Outlander led the troops out on the field.
The initial alliance was shaky, as soldiers from both the Empire and Republic were not trustful of the other side. This distrust resulted in both sides conducting espionage against one-another, which led to further hostility, taking away from the time that they could have spent facing the growing Revanites.
Imperial and Republic platoons came face to face with one another on the field, coming close to engaging in an all-out battle, but after a former Imperial Guard, Commander Iven, who was pledged to the Revanites, was found in the area, both factions agreed to capture and and return him to the alliance camp for interrogation. Iven then revealed that the Revanites were using an ancient facility known as the Temple of Sacrifice as a base and that Revan was in control of an ancient artifact that could bring back the Sith Emperor.
In spite of the increasing conflict between the Revanites and the Coalition, both Satele Shan and Darth Marr could both detect a large light side energy on the moon. While out engaging Revanite forces, the Outlander came across a Force spirit, which appeared to be Revan's light side, who revealed that after the events on the Foundry, her Darth Revan persona became its own being. Her light half was capable of becoming one with the Force, but was unable to do so without her darker counterpart, who still existed in physical form and was the "Revan" responsible for attempting to bring Vitiate back to life. This prompted the Outlander to return to the base camp and organize one final assault against the Revanites along with the strike force, in order to put a stop to Darth Revan's plans once and for all. Organizing its forces, the coalition prepared to attack the Temple of Sacrifice, where Darth Revan had already begun the ritual. After fighting through wave upon wave of Revanites, the strike team finally reached the former Sith Lady, who engaged them in open combat. Although it took the effort of them all to defeat her, Darth Revan was finally beaten. Although it had appeared that they stopped her in her tracks, the voice of Vitiate echoed from above the temple, taunting Darth Revan that the entire conflict had been a ploy to bring him back to physical form and that she was no more than a pawn in a larger plan before vanishing into the night. Vitiate had once more regained strength, once more threatening the galaxy as a whole.
Disgruntled and saddened by the fact that she had been deceived, Darth Revan, after being confronted by her ghostly counterpart, finally agreed to join with her once more in order to become one with the Force. Whole and in perfect balance, Revan, instead of passing on, returned to the physical plane to destroy Vitiate.
Although victory had been achieved, it was agreed that Vitiate's return was perhaps the most significant concern that the galaxy would face in the coming days. Despite such, however, the Republic and Empire were both still at war with one-another, and it would be difficult to convince both governments to halt hostilities entirely. Still though, Marr and Shan came to a mutual conclusion: that if Vitiate one day were to return and attack, they would be ready and prepared to reconstitute their alliance, but, for the time being, mutually agreed to dissolve the coalition. Small pockets of Revanites still remained, and this group was brought into the Republic by the revived Revan. The threat having been neutralized, the Imperial and Republic fleets departed the system, ready to return to war.
One year later, Vitiate returned, and took over the planet of Ziost and, despite attempts by the Republic and Empire to break his hold, brought about a horrific cataclysm—feeding off of the planet's population, Vitiate used a Sith ritual to consume all life on the world, just as he had done to his own homeworld of Nathema more than a millennium earlier.
In the aftermath of his reawakening on the moon Yavin IV, Vitiate took gradual control of Ziost's population and used them to slaughter each other to fuel his strength, and Theron Shan deployed the Sixth Line—a covert team of Jedi—to investigate, only for them to fall under Vitiate's control. As the situation worsened, Supreme Chancellor Leontyne Saresh decided to ignore the warnings of Shan and her agent Rane Kovach, and she sent the Republic Military to exploit the Empire's weakness by invading the planet for "humanitarian reasons." Saresh's forces fell under Vitiate's control just as the Imperials had, adding to his army of possessed. Shan and Sith Intelligence Minister Lana Beniko worked to free the planet's population from Vitiate using an powerful electrostatic gun in the city of New Adasta, but the effects were only temporary—only a fraction of the planet's population was evacuated before Vitiate unleashed a wave of death energy across the planet, turning all living things to ash and leaving behind a barren, gray and brown world haunted by the monstrous Sith known as Monoliths that he had created.
In the aftermath of the incident on Ziost, a number of Republic and Imperial outposts were destroyed in a series of lightning surprise attacks by an unknown force under the command of twin lightsaber-wielding warriors. Suspecting a connection between the attacks, Darth Marr organized a joint Republic-Imperial task force to investigate the region the warriors had come from: Wild Space. The fleet had the additional goal of searching for Vitiate, whom Marr and his allies suspected might have something to do with the invaders.
The task force had barely begun their investigation when they came under heavy assault by a fleet of unidentified ships hosting legions of the same droids used in the earlier attacks. Darth Marr's flagship was destroyed and Marr and one of his associates were taken captive. They were eventually introduced to one of the twin warriors, Prince Arcann, who brought them to the planet Zakuul, seat of the Eternal Empire. Once there, Marr and his ally immediately recognized Arcann's father, Emperor Valkorion as the Sith Emperor himself. In the ensuing struggle, Valkorion was killed and Marr was presumed dead, and Arcann assumed the throne and froze Marr's associate in carbonite.
Blaming the Outlander for Valkorion's death, Arcann declared war on both the Republic and Empire. The war was a disaster on both sides, with the Eternal Fleet swiftly revealing its superiority; Coruscant and Dromund Kaas were fully blockaded within a year. Eventually, both sides sued for peace. Supreme Chancellor Saresh was overruled by the Senate in the matter, while the Ministry of Logistics stepped in for the now-defunct Dark Council and the other departments of the Imperial government. The treaties and and subsequent regime changes on both sides effectively brought the Galactic War grinding to a halt.
The end stages of the conflict left devastating after effects upon the galaxy. The Galactic Republic and Sith Empire, which had ruled the galaxy as the two dominant galactic superpowers, were now under the thumb of the Empire of Zakuul. Not only this, but the conflict also changed the internal workings of both governments.
In the Republic, the power that Chancellor Saresh had gained during wartime amassed her enough control for her to override the Senate in military affairs. Many believe the Republic had 'lost its soul' because of this shift in power; Saresh's regime became viewed as increasingly more and more authoritative in nature. At least on one occasion, a group of soldiers attempted to have her arrested, though one member of the group warned Saresh. The rest were quietly arrested. Though Saresh was eventually removed from office due to term limits, she continued to lead through a puppet chancellor.
Darth Acina, meanwhile, took advantage of the absence or death of the other Dark Councilors and the Empire's Wrath and then declared herself Empress of the Sith.
The Eternal Empire exacted a heavy tribute from both sides, mostly in raw materials. This tribute was slowly destroying the Republic and Imperial economies. To make matters worse, both sides were secretly re-arming themselves in the hope of finally crushing each other, all while refusing to see that Zakuul had become the center of the galaxy.
With the Eternal Empire holding the Republic and Empire in a stranglehold, slowly depriving the two powers of supplies and resources, Lana Beniko - the former minister of Sith Intelligence - decided that something needed to be done, so she travelled into Wild Space with her personal bodyguard droid HK-55 in search of the figure known as the Outlander, hoping to learn their fate. Along the way, she recruited a former member of the Zakuulan military, Kotg Vortena, for help in liberating the Outlander. Lana would eventually learn of the Outlander's location deep within the Spire and soon developed a plan to liberate the last hope of the galaxy.
With help from Koth, HK-55, and T7-O1 - former companion to the Hero of Tython/Outlander - Lana freed the Outlander from her prison and fled the Spire, with High Justice Vaylin in pursuit. Crash landing in the Endless Swamp surrounding the Spire, the small crew - minus T7-O1, who had remained in the Spire to achieve a secondary objective - located the ancient warship known as the Gravestone, the only ship in the history of Zakuul to stand a chance against the unstoppable Eternal Fleet.
After repairing the Gravestone, the Outlander's team soon found themselves under attack from the forces of the Spire, nearly being overrun by Skytroopers and Knights of Zakuul, only to be saved at the last minute by the intervention of Senya Tirall. As they fled the planet, Koth used the Gravestone's omnicannon on the Eternal Fleet, destroying more than two dozen ships in a single shot. Jumping to hyperspace, the Outlander's team made their way towards Asylum, a shadowport and safe haven for those who oppose Arcann's rule.
Having to go through deep space without the hyperdrive, due to many of the Gravestone's systems cutting out mid-flight, the group eventually arrived on Asylum, where Koth reunited with his old crew, including Len Parvek and Ralo - a former Republic soldier who served on Darth Marr's flagship five years earlier. After rescuing one of Koth's engineers, Tora, from Tanno Vik and his mercenaries in the Free Zone, the Outlander was led by Senya to the Scions of Zakuul - led by Heskal - a group of prophetic protectors of Zakuul who were hunted to near extinction by Arcann. After being tested by the Scions, the Outlander was forced to duel Heskal, a duel that only ended after Lana and Koth's crew intervened.
Following the fight with Heskal and the Scions, the crew of the Gravestone received a message from the Lady of Sorrows - an information broker on Zakuul - and left for Zakuul's Old World district to find her. While the Outlander was gone, Heskal had a vision of the future and told Arcann that the Outlander was on Asylum, prompting the Emperor to prepare the Fleet for combat before personally travelling to the shadowport.
Following their mission to meet with the Lady of Sorrows - who in reality was the highly advanced droid SCORPIO - the Outlander and Senya returned to Asylum with their new ally. While SCORPIO worked on upgrading the Gravestone, the Outlander went to meet with Heskal in the Scions' hideout. At the same time, Arcann arrived on Asylum and beat the Outlander to the Scions' hideout, allowing him to massacre the group and mortally wound Heskal. A fight broke out between the Outlander and Arcann while the Eternal Fleet bombarded the shadowport. A shuttle crashing into the hideout abruptly ended the fight, leaving Arcann buried under the collapsed building, allowing the Outlander to return to the Gravestone.
The Outlander made her way to Asylum's Control Spar - with assistance from Beniko, Vortena and HK-55 - to unlock docking clamps grounding the frigate - while Senya engaged her daughter. Arcann, who had survived the collapse of the Scions' hideout, pursued the Outlander all the way to the Control Spar, where the two resumed their fight, this time with the Outlander receiving aid from HK-55. After Arcann destroyed HK, the fight ended when the Emperor was thrown from the platform, though he managed to survive the fall. With the Gravestone free, the Outlander's forces fell back to their ship and barely escaped the Eternal Fleet.
Though the Eternal Empire took control of Asylum, the battle showed the galaxy that Zakuul was not invincible, and members of the Republic and Sith Empire voiced their interest in an alliance against a common enemy, gathering on the planet Odessen to establish a base.
Upon the arrival of the Outlander, the Alliance got to work building a base out of a cliff face. Once the groundwork was established, the Outlander - who was operating as the Commander of this Alliance - got to work recruiting noteworthy individuals from across the galaxy to add to the efforts of the new faction.
Reports of this new faction spurred others across the galaxy to take action, with resistance fighters gathering on planets under the threat of a Star Fortress. One such resistance cell on Bothawui was making significant progress, prompting the Eternal Empire to demonstrate their power by firing a massive laser from the Star Fortress, wiping out the cell. In response, the Outlander infiltrated one of these Star Fortresses, hoping to deal some damage. Learning valuable information about the inner-workings of the Star Fortresses, the Alliance made contact with resistance fighters on Alderaan, Belsavis, Hoth, Nar Shaddaa, Tatooine and Voss to destroy shield bunkers protecting the sun generators powering the battle stations, and systematically destroyed the Star Fortresses above each of the aforementioned planets.
At the same time, the Eternal Empire continued their search for the Outlander and the Gravestone, only for their searches to continuously come up empty. Growing frustrated with the lack of progress, Arcann ordered Vaylin to have the Eternal Fleet bombard one planet in five different sectors until they were dust, knowing that someone would tell them where their targets were if they gave them a reason.
A few months after the formation of the Alliance, Theron Shan learned of an anarchist on Zakuul known as Firebrand dedicated to bringing down Arcann's "perfect society". Believing it might be beneficial to bring her into their ranks, Shan brought this information to the Commander, labelling her a potential ally, with Beniko backing him up by noting that she has survived on Zakuul for over two years, as was connected to the populace. Deciding that Firebrand was at least worth investigating, the Outlander travelled to Zakuul to meet her.
SCORPIO, using her Lady of Sorrows alias, sent a message to Firebrand offering her high-yield explosives. After being saved from Skytroopers by Shan and the Outlander, Firebrand revealed her true identity as Kaliyo Djannis. As they helped Kaliyo set up some explosives around the Spire the Commander got a better understanding of the workings of Zakuul, in particular, the command centre of the Spire known as the Overwatch, where most of the droids in the Spire's are operated from. Kaliyo explained that the Overwatch was where the Alliance could collect complete schematics of the Spire, which would be crucial should they ever need to raid it.
After invading the command centre and downloading the schematics, the Outlander soon learned from the Overwatch administrator, Tayvor Slen, that he had sponsored Kaliyo two years earlier to bomb small targets to rid the people of the Spire of their "darker urges." Upon killing Slen, Kaliyo revealed her true plan of disabling the droids that practically ran the city before bombing the Spire, causing mass panic.
After the raid on the Overwatch, the Commander returned the schematics to Odessen and Kaliyo joined their ranks. At the same time, an outraged Arcann had the Knights of Zakuul battle to the death in the duelling circles, effectively halving their ranks.
After the raid on the Overwatch, Shan was spending some time analysing the data the Commander had secured and passed some of it through to Jonas Balkar, a member of the SIS, who passed it on to Aric Jorgan, the new commander of Havoc Squad, convincing the Squad to conduct an unsanctioned mission on Zakuul, an act that was essentially treason. With the information Balkar had supplied him, Jorgan was able to organise an operation to plant a wiretap on a planetary transmitter within a Zakuul Knight outpost in the Endless Swamp. Shan and the Commander travelled to the Swamps where they met with Jorgan and the reformed Havoc.
Before they could discuss the operation details however, a small force of Zakuulan droids intervened and forced the Alliance force to separate to ensure their base was not discovered, delaying Jorgan's operation to the following day. As Jorgan and the Commander made their way through the swamps, they were forced to rescue a group of Zakuulan refugees, providing them shelter at their camp.
The next day, the Alliance put their plan into action. In order for Jorgan and the Commander to infiltrate the outpost and plant the wiretap, a sizeable Alliance force travelled to the Swamps and launched a major assault on the outpost, forcing the Knights to move to combat them. While the Commander succeeded in planting the wiretap, the assault was costly for the Alliance, with nearly all of their forces wiped out, only surviving through the intervention of the refugees.
As a result of the refugees actions, Jorgan decided to keep Havoc Squad in the Swamps to train the refugees into a proper fighting force. As soon as the Commander returned to Odessen, they had already started receiving information from the transmitter, making the mission a costly success.
Following the operation in the Endless Swamp, SCORPIO was put in charge of monitoring the signals they were receiving from the outpost, and discovered the "GEMINI Frequency", transmissions broadcast from the Eternal Throne to every ship in the Eternal Fleet. With this information in mind, she cross-referenced this information with the schematics of the Spire, revealing a hyperwave relay station ten kilometers beneath the Spire, which she identified as the source of the GEMINI Frequency.
Seeing an opportunity, the Alliance pieced together a plan to infiltrate the relay station. Major Jorgan and Kaliyo both offered to complete the mission, with Jorgan offering to destroy the station while Kaliyo insisted that she could get them control of the Frequency. Once the decision of who would carry out the task was made, the mission began while the Outlander consulted Valkorion in the Odessen wilderness for potential information on the Spire. However, they disappeared not long after, forcing the strike team to improvise without them.
By the time the Outlander returned - having been attacked and seemingly abandoned by Valkorion and saved by Satele Shan, Revan and recovered Darth Marr, now Marr, the Jedi Knight - the strike team had entered sublevel four of the relay station, where they lost contact with Odessen. In response to the team being cut off, other members of the Alliance moved in to support them, completely cutting off Odessen from all of their forces on Zakuul.
Due to Jorgan and Kaliyo being unable to cooperate with each other the strike team was unable to secure the Frequency. While four members of Havoc Squad were killed in the chaos, Kaliyo managed to steal a datacore from a security console outside the relay station, containing a large file archive on the Eternal Empire's droids. This would be the last major Alliance mission on Zakuul for some time.
After Arcann's defeat, Vaylin would become Empress, but would be slain by the Outlander. Then the Battle of Zakuul would break out, and Vitiate would make his final bid for control over the galaxy. During the battle, Vitiate took over the Outlander's body, and had a final showdown with Revan. Vitiate was expelled, and his spirit was destroyed by Revan, finally putting an end to the Sith Emperor.
Almost two thousand years later, the Ruusan campaign of the New Sith Wars was in full swing. It consisted of seven battles, that lasted over two years, from 1002 BBY to 1000 BBY.
During the campaign, the Galactic Republic's Army of Light was commanded by the Jedi Master Lord Hoth, and the Brotherhood of Darkness was led by Skere Kaan, Dark Lord of the Sith. Throughout the course of the battles, additional reinforcements attempted to land on Ruusan, though many Jedi forces were destroyed by an orbiting Sith blockade and many Sith reinforcements were destroyed by the Republic Navy en route to Ruusan. Four of the seven battles were won by the Army of Light, although the first battle of Ruusan was an absolute victory for the Sith; the Republic's forces were utterly destroyed and not a single Republican escaped that battle alive.
The final battle led to the destruction of both the Brotherhood of Darkness and after thousands in the initial battle, a final hundred Jedi, who sacrificed themselves to force Lord Kaan to detonate his final superweapon, the thought bomb, underground in the caverns on Ruusan, taking himself and all Sith lords with him. This controversial decision and the enormous damage caused to the planet by the ongoing space, air and ground battles with ever changing fortune and the ecological aftereffects of the thought bomb lead to the Ruusan Reformation of Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum and the Rule of Two of Darth Bane, who secretly arranged these course of events to wipe out the Brotherhood of Darkness and so start again with only his apprentice, to now conquer by stealth and deception.
Twenty years later, Bane's apprentice, Darth Zannah, followed the code of the Rule of Two, and attacked Darth Bane on Ambria. After a duel, Bane was killed by his apprentice. After this, the Sith vanished into the shadows, just as Bane planned.
Over nine hundred years later, the current Sith Lord, Darth Tenebrous, had been killed by his apprentice, Darth Plagueis. Two years later, the child who would soon become known as Darth Sidious (descendant of Darth Nihilus, Visas Marr, Darth Marr, Lana Beniko and Choltsûn) unlocked her Force potential, and killed her older brother Sheev, after he killed their parents and other siblings. Plagueis took this child in, and both raised her as his daughter, and trained her as his apprentice.
And now, here we are. In 32 BBY, where the Jedi are the peacekeepers of the galaxy and the Sith have supposedly gone extinct. The galaxy is in peace and the light side is in control. Or is there a darkness that has been waiting to reveal itself to the Jedi? A darkness that has been waiting to have revenge?
A/N: This chapter is not for the story of the Phantom Menace. This chapter is made to give the history of the galaxy, the Force, the Jedi and Sith and light and dark. Already, you can see some changes I've made. Next chapter, the first part of The Phantom Menace. Thank you for reading.
EDIT (8/25/17): By the Force, it took me all night to write all that. So, I've edited this origin chapter to contain the time of Exar Kun, and more greatly expand on the Old Republic time. And again, you can notice more changes I've made to the EU. Instead of Revan, Scourge and Meetra Surik going (and failing) to kill Vitiate, Revan, Meetra, Bastila Shan, Scourge, and Revan-Prime, a character I created since Revan could be male or female in KOTOR, were the one who died against Vitiate (excluding Revan and Scourge, of course). The KOTOR I story ended in the dark side ending, with Revan and Bastila being redeemed by Surik. I had Darth Marr become a Jedi, and he is the son of Darth Nihilus and Visas Marr. Lana Beniko is the secret daughter of Darth Marr and Nox, and Choltsûn/The Empire's Wrath was the Sith Pureblood character I created in the Old Republic game. He was a Sith Warrior. In the game, Choltsûn/Wrath romanced Lana, so they got together in this rewrite. Remowa/Darth Nox was my human Sith Inquisitor. Another thing that wasn't documented was that Marr and Satele Shan got together, and that Theron Shan got with the Hero of Tython/The Outlander, and the two were ancestors to the Skywalker family. Speaking of the Skywalker family, Alek Skywalker/Darth Malak, is the first member of the Skywalker family. Tyrral Skywalker, grandfather of Theron Shan, was Malak's brother. And yes, Raven Kenobi/Revan, is the first member of the Kenobi family. And because Theron is part of both the Skywalker, and Shan families, he is a Skywalker and Kenobi. It also means that Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are distant relatives. Anyway, Attack of the Clones is still being written, and once all chapters are written, I'll try to release them on a weekly basis. See you guys later.