Galatic History
Long before the Empire threatened the Republic and when the Jedi Order was young, there was a different threat to the Galaxy. The Republic had been called to war against the Mandolorians who were savagely conquering the Outer-Rim worlds, and the Senate turned to the Jedi Order to help them stop the violence that was the Mandolorian battle-lust.
While the Council deliberated and decided against such an aggressive action, a faction of Jedi Knights, led by then Jedi Revan, chose to go against the Council’s wishes serve with the Republic. This division among the Jedi led to one of the bloodiest Civil Wars that the Order had known. The division was caused not because of the Jedi going against the Council’s wishes but because something in the war changed them and after the defeat Revan and Malak left the Republic only to return as Sith. They then set out to conquer the Republic, with Revan leading the seemingly endless fleet.
When Malak turned on Revan, nearly killing him, the Jedi Council, in vain, attempted to convert the fallen Jedi back to the light side by implanting a whole new Republic friendly life into his damaged brain. The ruse worked for some time, with Revan convinced that he was a Republic soldier. However, through a set of coincidences he found himself before the Jedi Council on Dantooine, being accepted once more for Jedi training. The Council charged him with a mission: To find artifacts that were scattered throughout the galaxy and use their secrets to destroy Malak. And so he departed, taking with him fellow Padawan Bastila and a Republic soldier named Carth Onasi. In time, they found the “Star Maps” but the Academy at Dantooine was ravaged in their absence, leaving many of the former Council members dead. Around the sametime Malak confronted his former master, reminding him of his time as a Sith.
Confronted with his dark path, the brain-washed man was forced to come to terms with his actions. Despite the hopes of the Council, when Revan was confronted with his true identity he embraced it. With Bastila by his side he confronted his former apprentice and struck him down, taking upon the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith once again.
For reasons unknown, Revan chose to leave the known Galaxy (once again) a short time after his victory over the Republic. Around the same time Bastila, too, disappeared. With the disappearance of the two, the Republic began to try and re-establish order. Without the Jedi, however, this proved to be difficult. The Order had been dissolved shortly after the Civil war; the people they were supposed to protect no longer trusted them. Many were unable to differentiate between Sith Practitioners and Jedi which led to resentment towards anyone carrying a lightsaber.
As darkness continued to surround the Republic, they made an appeal to the Jedi Exile, Genesis Isley, to come to their aid. The woman had been exiled shortly after the Mandolorian Wars for following Revan and crimes committed because of it. Unbeknownst to her, the real reason for her exile was because of a Force anomaly that had happened during the Battle of Malachor V. It was because of the Young Knight’s ability to form bonds between people that had led to her downfall, she felt the death of all those on the doomed planet: killing the Force inside of her and making her a “black hole” feeding (unconsciously) off those around her.
In a sort of penance for the guilt Genesis felt over the fate of those at Malachor, the Exile was tasked to find the scattered Council members that had survived the razing of Dantooine and reunite them so that they could combat a new Sith threat that was threatening the war ravaged Republic. Though she was successful in her task, betrayal among her companions led to the death of the remaining council members as Kreia revealed herself to be a Sith Lord bent on destroying the Force.
In a final confrontation between the two, Genesis triumphed and with her dying breath Kreia revealed possible reasons for Revan’s disappearance. Knowing what she must do, the Exile left the Republic to attempt to find her former comrade and stop whatever dark plots he was planning. Before she left, though, the Exile beseeched her companions that had traveled with her during her quest to re-establish the Jedi Order. As before, Genesis had an uncommon knack for drawing people to her, her charisma made her a natural leader. Along her quest she had drawn Force-sensitive people to her and Genesis had taken it upon herself to teach them the ways of the Force and the Jedi in the hopes that the Order would once again be cast in a positive light.
Though some of her companions were skeptical, they respected their friend’s wishes and went about re-establishing the Jedi Order on both Coruscant and Dantooine.
