The New Star Wars: The Dark Side of Change
By SilverWingedSeraph
Author's Notes:
Okay, I'm a long time fan of Star Wars. Not a rabid, crazy fan, mind you, but still a fan. Lately I've been reading the New Jedi Order series and running a Star Wars RPG for a friend, and I've kinda been in a slump in terms of writing. So I decided to write a story about the past of some of my prominent NPC characters. This story is set after the Yuuzhan Vong war, and ignores all canon after the New Jedi Order books (mostly because I haven't read anything after that, yet). This Prologue is basically just the yellow scrolling text at the beginning of the movies. Chapter One is already well on it's way, and should be uploaded soon, but right now, I need some sleep. Please, read, enjoy, and leave your thoughts.
Prologue
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
The New Star Wars
Episode I
The Dark Side of Change
Almost a millennia has passed since the fall of the Galactic Empire, and the Galaxy is in a state of upheaval. After the war with the Yuuzhan Vong, the Republic was left a mere shadow of its former glory. Many planets chose to govern themselves, or form separate Alliances. Eventually, the Imperial Remnant once more established a major foothold in the Galaxy, although a tenuous alliance with the New Republic prevented all out war. With the political fracturing in the Galaxy, the role of the Jedi Order became somewhat difficult to determine, as they were no longer sanctioned by any individual group.
Indeed, the Jedi Knights were viewed with disdain among the people of the Galactic Republic, who saw them as renegades and dangerous individuals, a relic of the past that needed to be cast aside. Inside the territories controlled by the Imperial Remnant, the view of the Jedi was much more focused, for they were still perceived as the ultimate downfall of the Empire. Ultimately, the two major political forces in the Galaxy rejected the Jedi, labelling them as a private organisation that had no political standing.
Five hundred years ABY (After the Battle of Yavin), the Jedi Order gained acceptance within the fledgling alliance of the Interstellar Confederacy, which consisted of a handful of planets in the Mid and Outer Rim. The Capital of the Interstellar Confederacy, Telos, became home of the Jedi Council, but other Temples and Praxeums were established publicly or in secret upon other worlds, notably the newly Vong-formed Ithor, where a colony consisting of an Alliance between the Yuuzhan Vong and the Ithorians allowed a hidden Jedi Enclave to be built.
The Sith were no more than a distant memory to the Jedi, and the rest of the Galaxy had all but forgotten of their existence. Over the past century though, those memories have returned to the fore. The Imperial Remnant, in a desperate bid for power, have infiltrated the Jedi Order with Force-Sensitive spies, hoping to once again have an Emperor or a Darth Vader to lead them in the conquest of the Galaxy. All they succeeded in doing, however, was establishing a cult of Dark Jedi, who came to call themselves the Sith'arii.
Though the teachings of the Sith have been lost, the draw of the Dark Side is stronger than ever, and in recent years, the Jedi Order has received many requests for assistance against the Sith'arii and their seemingly maniacal followers, and on occasion even the Imperial Remnant has come seeking their assistance. These are dark times in the Galaxy, and the long lasting peace is at breaking point. War between the Republic and the Imperial Remnant is inevitable, and the threat of the Sith returning is a deep-seated fear among the Jedi...