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Sometime following the Hundred-Year Darkness and the exile of a rogue Jedi to Moraband, a war broke out between the Sith Order and the Galactic Republic, during which Coruscant became a contested battleground between both factions.
Prelude[]
Before around 5000 BBY,[2] a rogue Jedi rebelled against the Jedi Order, believing that following the way of the dark side of the Force was the key to unlocking their full potential. The Jedi was cast out[5] during an event known as the Hundred-Year Darkness. As a result of this event, the Sith were born.[1]
The war[]
During a period in which the Sith dominated the galaxy, the Sith had control of Coruscant, the capital of the Republic.[4] The Sith constructed an immense black shrine over a light side vergence on a mountain at the heart of the planet[4] no later than close to five millennia before 14 BBY.[6] The Jedi eventually laid siege to the shrine, burning it to its foundations and defeating the Sith.[4]
Aftermath[]
The Jedi built their own shrine over the Sith shrine's foundations.[7] Eventually, the Four Masters[8] erected the Jedi Temple above the former site of the shrine to contain the dark energy emanating from[3] the corrupted vergence and metaphorically bury the Sith legacy. Over the following centuries, the Jedi Temple slowly took form. The ruined foundations of the Sith shrine were steadily buried beneath layers of plasteel and ferrocrete as a massive, flat-topped ziggurat was built around them.[4]
Although the Jedi emerged victorious during the conflict,[4] they would continue to do battle with the Sith over the ensuing millennia.[9] While the Jedi falsely believed that the shrine had been destroyed, part of it remained deep underground; its insidious power would contribute to the near destruction of the Jedi Order around 5,000 years later.[4][3]
Behind the scenes[]
In Star Wars Legends, the first conflict between the Jedi and Sith following their initial split was known as the Great Hyperspace War. The war made its first appearance in Legends in Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1[10] which was released on October 1, 1994.[11]
The sourcebook Nexus of Power directly references a canon Great Hyperspace War. However, as it does so in the context of the contents of the in-universe mythical Qel-Droma Epics and no mention is made of an attack on Coruscant, it is not clear if they are the same conflict in canon.[4]
Appearances[]
- The High Republic: Into the Dark (Indirect mention only)
- The High Republic: Into the Dark audiobook (Indirect mention only)
- Tarkin (First mentioned, simultaneous with audiobook) (Indirect mention only)
- Tarkin audiobook (Indirect mention only)
Sources[]
- Nexus of Power
"Before the dark times…" — Star Wars - The Official Magazine 101 (Indirect mention only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars (2015) 9
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 According to Star Wars Timelines, an era of conflict between the Jedi Order and the Sith ran from c. 5000 BBY to 1032 BBY, therefore it can be deduced that the Sith war took place between those two dates.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Tarkin
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 Nexus of Power
- ↑
Sith in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ According to the novel Tarkin, the Shrine in the Depths on Coruscant had been abandoned "close to five thousand years" as of the story's present day in 14 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines.
- ↑ The High Republic: Into the Dark
- ↑ Star Wars: Complete Locations
- ↑
Star Wars Helmet Collection 14 (Weapons & Uniforms: The Sith)
- ↑ Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1
- ↑
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Dark Lords of the Sith #1 (of 6) on Dark Horse Comics' official website (backup link)
