Galactic History Lesson X-445-B9:

The Shadow Knights

Orgin:

The Shadow Knights, are a extinct order, and the planet of which the order began has been lost to the Sith Lord during the second coming of the sith, after the redemption of Revan. The planet was destroyed and along with it the orders masters, diciples, and archives. The planet was called Sha-darsia and was home to a race of force sensitive humanoids exiled by the Jedi Order early in the training. The planet climate was that of a winter forest year round. Due to the harsh cold of the planet the outcasts lived in underground communities. The planet had no major oceans, only scattered lakes and seas. The planet had two moons, Wolfasicyk and Ownighd, the climates of each were barren rocks, as if two asteroids were orbiting the planet.

Fate of the Exiled:

The Shadow Knights were usualy under trained force wielders outcasted by the order for their participation in wars, battles, and unauthorized and often deadly duels. These exiles were punished by being stripped of their lightsabers and forced to live on a desolate frozen forest planet of Sha-darsia. Many outcasts died on the initial punishments, but after generations the exile population grew, and the outcasts began to live underground to aviod the freezing cold above. The exiles after many generations of struggling settled and made a main underground community called, "Knights Den".

Orgin of the New Order:

The Shadow Knights society was far from perfect, many of the exiles turned to the dark side, while some remained true to the light, the Knights Den soon split in two in the midsts of a civil war, the two factions fought, the Shadows - loyalist of the light, and the Crimson Wolves - the diciples of the dark. After months of bloodshed the walls of the Knights Den were painted in blood, the milky white eyes of the fallen staring apon the battled fatigued survivors, in the end the light side prevailed in a pyrrhic victory, only a handful survived. A new order was born from the ashes and blood of war, this new order was named the Shadow Knights, after the winning faction that prevailed in gruesome civil war in the Knight Den.

Survivors of the Civil War:

Broken and tattered the survivors rebuilt. Few in numbers and the blood of their friends and brethren fresh on their hands they toiled on. There were 5 survivors and they were,

Tarkan Wolf

Master tarkan was a male twi'lek Jedi Master who was outcasted for his continual question of the order, they saw it fit that a "troublemaker" be made an example of. Master Tarkan founded the basics of the Shadow Knight order, and taught all of the survivors how to fight, and to use the force to sence enemies and things around them.

Monica Sunrider

Monica was a female human Jedi Sentinel, she was exiled for defending herself in a illegeal duel initiate by a Guardian. The council blamed her for her actions of slaying the guardian even though she did it only in self defence. She taught the new order the ways of the polearm and the healing qualities of the force

Epayca Moonslayer

Epayca was a female rodian Jedi padawan, untrained in the force she was exiled for seeking out and killing the murderers of her family. The council sensed much anger in her and exiled her before she could spread the taint.

Akevius Lightjumper

Akevius was a female twi'lek Jedi padawan, marginaly trained in the force, she was exiled for assisting her master in his quest for sith holocrons. They felt that the bond they shared also shared the tain of the dark side, and outcasted her for being a traitor to the order.

Crimson Wolf

Crimson Wolf was a zabrak male Dark Jedi Knight, he originaly fought on the Crimson Wolves side during the civil war as their leader, but was captured and later redemed himself by giving the information about the Crimson Wolves base of operations in Knights Den. He was exiled and cut off from the force by the council for killing his master, and assualting and mortaly wounding a council member at his trial.

Growth of a New Order:

The small band of Shadow Knights prospered as their population grew with more of the exiled to come. The Shadow Knights had sucessfuly set the foundation of the order down for teachings to the other exiles. The council of the knights grew over time from the original five survivors to a council of 12. The order faced with many perils on its hand, the threat of dark side tainted exiles, the freezing cold above, the rapidly increasing wildlife, all these and more stared the order in its face as it strived to grow. Through all this the exiles grew stronger, and progressed slowly in its growth. Over a time spawn of 400 years the order had grew into a faction of over 130 exiles.

The Great Purge:

Shadow Knights were faced with a new threat during 1,000 years before the Mandolorian Wars, though their order grew, it grew to large, and caught the attention of the Sith, and the Jedi Council. The Council hunted the Shadow Knights for being exiles, and as they said "tainted and twisted by the dark side looming within.", the Dark Jedi and sith hunted the Shadow Knights for having an order and traits simular to that of the Light Jedi Order. The factions chased the scattered Shadow Knights for 800 years before both sides succesfuly "defeated" them. The Shadow Knights existed still, training in the shadows, converting more and more outcasted and exiled of both sides. Through the great purges the Shadow Knights became an all but foregotten name to the council.

5,000 years of Training:

The Shadow Knights trained feverishly for over 5,000 years, honing their pyshical skills, preserving the orders codes, and strugling to regain force sensitivity. Through the great purges many trained jedi exiles were killed leaving some experienced jedi exiles left, but a majority of untrained force sensitives, and over a span of 5,000 the followers of the Shadow Knight code were all but stripped of their control over the force. The Shadow Knights training focused on using polearm and heavy swords as a form of weapon, but the Shadow Knights also had many marksman, and heavy weapons experts in this new age of blaster technoligy

The Second Purge:

15 years prior to the battle of yavin the empire learned of the shadow knights, and began a second purge of them. The Shadow Knights posed a threat as being the closest thing to a jedi code in the galaxy, the dark side fueled empire did not like the message of such news. The empire killed over 1,240 Shadow Knights in 2 years, and 13 years ago the empire found the last remaining training facility of the Shadow Knights and assualted it with full force, records of this battle were all but lost, except for one, a dairy of one "Jesse 'ShadowWolf' ".