Dark
Jedi: Sith History #6
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The
Sith War
The rise of
Exar Kun to the position of Dark Lord of the Sith shook the Republic
to its core, but the turning of Ulic Qel-Droma to the dark side
to become Kun's Sith apprentice presented a far more serious problem.
For now, Kun had an ally who had once been in the inner ranks of
the Republic. An ally who knew many of the Republic's secrets and
weaknesses. And the Republic had lost a loyal Jedi.
The Sith base was on Yavin IV, where Kun ruled over his tribe of
Massassi. Though Ulic had killed Satal Keto, leader of the Krath,
a spinoff branch of the Sith, Keto's cousin Aleema was still alive
and well. A powerful Sith magician, Aleema helped unite the Krath
under her lover, Ulic. Another ally of the Sith was the mysterious
warrior Mandalore.
Building a fleet to rival the fleet of the Republic, Kun waged an
all-out war against the galactic government, calling for an overthrow
of the old Jedi order and the establishment of a new Golden Age
of the Sith. He attacked various strategic points in Republic defense
and at the same time seduced many budding young Jedi to the dark
side, persuading them to kill their masters and join him. Among
the Jedi Kun seduced was Crado, his fellow student under Master
Vodo-Siosk Baas. The Sith then launched their greatest offensive:
an attack on the capital of the Republic itself-Coruscant.
The Coruscant attack, however, did not go as planned. Ulic Qel-Droma,
betrayed by Aleema, was captured by Republic forces and tried for
war crimes and treason. As Ulic sneered at the assembled audience,
Kun and Mandalore broke into the courtroom and rescued him, using
a Sith spell that rendered all those in the room immobile except
for the Sith. Kun's old master, Vodo Siosk-Baas, attempted to detain
his student, trying to make Kun realize how far he had fallen to
the dark side. In a rage, Kun struck his master down.
After the rescue, Kun decided it was time for more drastic measures.
Underneath the ruins of the Yavin temples, Kun had found Naga Sadow's
ship, still intact for over a thousand years. Aboard this ship was
a superweapon designed by Sadow to destroy worlds. As revenge for
what she had done to Ulic, Ulic and Kun sent Aleema to ambush Republic
forces using the weapon. When she activated it, the weapon caused
the sun of the Cron Cluster to supernova, destroying most of the
system and Sadow's ship, which Aleema had been aboard. One of the
worlds in the system was Ossus, on which the Jedi Library had been
housed for millenia.
By this point many of the Republic Jedi had despaired of ever stopping
the Sith. But Nomi Sunrider, one of the strongest Jedi and formerly
in love with Ulic Qel-Droma, still believed that he could be redeemed.
She launched a rescue mission, composed of herself, Ulic's brother
Cay, and many of Ulic's former friends, to save the man she had
once loved. But Ulic would not listen. Finally, Cay, desperate to
turn his brother back, forced Ulic into a duel with him. But Cay's
skill was no match for Ulic's anger and his Sith arts, and he was
killed.
The death of his brother shocked Ulic and he knelt by Cay's body,
weeping. Grief-stricken at the tragic death of her friend, Nomi
gathered her Force powers and, using a Jedi trick taught to her
by Odan-Urr, former keeper of the Jedi Library on Ossus, blocked
Ulic from the Force. The realization that he could no longer feel
the Force forced Ulic to accept that he had been wrong all this
time. Gathering what little strength he had left, he led Republic
forces to Yavin IV to destroy the Sith and Exar Kun.
Republic forces incinerated the Yavin jungle and destroyed many
of the Sith temples that Sadow and Kun had built. But Kun, discovering
Ulic's treachery, had drained the life force from a massive gathering
of his Massassi warriors to keep himself alive as the Jedi tried
to destroy him. He succeeded, to a degree, becoming a spirit trapped
within the walls of the Yavin temples. The rest of the Massassi
were burned along with the forest and the Sith race passed into
history.
Be
mindful,
Darth Moor
darthmoor@forceacademy.com
