Prologue: While You Were Away...
The organization known as the Galactic Empire was holding power in the galaxy. The evil Emperor Palpatine, known to a few as Darth Sidious, ruled the galaxy with an iron fist, crushing any insurrections that dared stand against him. His enforcer: Darth Vader, once known as Anakin Skywalker, protected from the environment around him by a terrifying suit of black armor after suffering a catastrophic defeat at the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi on the volcanic planet of Mustafar. Together, these two Sith Lords nearly destroyed the Jedi Order. Nearly.
A hundred Jedi managed to survive the attack that became known as Operation: Knightfall. This number included the Gallifreyan Jedi Master known as the Doctor. But over time, the Great Jedi Purge, the Empire's name for the hunting of Jedi, began to dwindle that number down. Within nineteen years, there were only three Jedi left, to the Doctor's knowledge: Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Doctor, and the Doctor's Padawan, Jennara Oswin. Obi-Wan Kenobi was in exile on Tatooine, and the Doctor and Jennara travelled across the galaxy. All three Jedi were waiting for the day when Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, son and daughter of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala, would be deemed ready to begin their Jedi training and defeat the Sith. And that day would soon be upon them.
In the past nineteen years, the Doctor had watched Jennara grow from a timid child into a confident young woman, a Jedi Sentinel, no less. She was now capable of slicing into just about any security system in the galaxy. The Doctor thought this would come in handy, but there was still a test that hadn't been thrust upon her yet: the Trial of the Spirit. He didn't quite know how to administer this test to her, but the answer would soon become clear to him.
The Doctor and Jennara had been emboldened to strike at Imperial planetary bases with the rise of the Rebel Alliance. They struck at the Empire swiftly, never doing anything more than damaging a few pieces of equipment at a time, but their efforts had nonetheless gained them a reputation as heroes with the Rebellion, even if they never got involved. The Doctor had promised himself and Jennara that they would never get involved in the Galactic Civil War, as it was being called, unless either Luke or Leia had decided to get involved. Nevertheless, they regarded the Rebellion as friends to be trusted.
The Doctor could, in the back of his mind, sense a great evil about to descend upon the galaxy, and it was of Darth Sidious's design. He could sense that they were building something, and it had something to do with a star of death, whatever that meant.
There were many events going on in the galaxy, and the Doctor would soon find himself in the thick of it once more, and it all started with a call.
This is the story of the Doctor during the rise of the new hope of the galaxy, the climactic battle that would cement the Rebellion as a legitimate threat to the Galactic Empire, and the rise of the Eleventh.