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AS STARVATION SWEPT THROUGH THE LOWER LEVELS OF CORUSCANT, RIOTS BROKE OUT PLANETWIDE. LONG-STANDING HOLDOUTS IN THE OUTER RIM BEGAN FOLDING TO THE EMPIRE, AND CRITICAL SUPPLIES VANISHED FROM THE CORE WORLDS ALMOST OVERNIGHT. THE BLOCKADE CHOKED THE PRIMARY TRADE ROUTE FOR PROVIDING REPUBLIC MILITARY SUPPORT TO THE OUTER RIM… AND THE MAIN HYPERLANE FOR BRINGING RAW GOODS FROM THE COLONIES TO THE CORE WORLDS. THE SITH ONLY CONSIDERED TURNING TO SUCH MEASURES AFTER THEIR EFFORTS WERE UNDERMINED BY AN UNLIKELY REPUBLIC ALLY - THE CRIMINAL SMUGGLING CONTINGENT THAT BROKE THE MANDALORIAN BLOCKADE. I WILL ELABORATE ON THIS THEORY SOON.ĪFTER THE SACKING OF CORUSCANT, THE JEDI COUNCIL AGREED THAT THE REPUBLIC HAD BEEN UNDONE BY THE BOLD CUNNING OF THE EMPIRE’S STRATEGY.Ī CLOSER LOOK, HOWEVER, SUGGESTS THE SACKING OF CORUSCANT WAS NOT THE CROWNING MOMENT OF THE EMPIRE'S CAMPAIGN, BUT RATHER A RISKY MANEUVER UNDERTAKEN AFTER ALL OTHER EFFORTS HAD FAILED. IN RETROSPECT, THIS OUTCOME WAS INEVITABLE, AND WOULD HAVE COME SOONER WERE IT NOT FOR SOME OF THE REPUBLIC'S LESS SAVORY ALLIES. THUS BEGAN THE UNPRECEDENTED STALEMATE-THE JEDI RECONNECTING WITH THEIR ROOTS, THE REPUBLIC NURSING ITS WOUNDS, THE SITH CONSOLIDATING THEIR POWER, AND A GALAXY DIVIDED BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT. THOUGH STILL COMMITTED TO DEFENDING THE REPUBLIC, THE JEDI RELOCATED TO THEIR ANCIENT HOMEWORLD OF TYTHON-TO REST, MEDITATE, AND SEEK GUIDANCE FROM THE FORCE. THE JEDI RETURNED TO CORUSCANT TO FIND THEIR TEMPLE IN RUINS AND IRATE SENATORS BLAMING THE JEDI FOR ALL THE REPUBLIC’S TROUBLES. JEDI AND REPUBLIC TROOPS BEGAN WITHDRAWING FROM BATTLEFIELDS AROUND THE GALAXY, LEAVING STAR SYSTEMS TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES AND TO BE QUICKLY SWALLOWED UP BY THE SITH EMPIRE. DESPITE UNFAVORABLE TERMS, THE TREATY OF CORUSCANT WAS SIGNED. WITH CORUSCANT’S DEFENSES INCAPACITATED, THE IMPERIALS ANNIHILATED THE JEDI TEMPLE, CAPTURED THE SENATE TOWER, AND HELD THE ENTIRE PLANET HOSTAGE.īACK ON ALDERAAN, REPUBLIC DIPLOMATS HAD NO CHOICE. BOMBARDING THE PLANET FROM ORBIT AND STORMING THE CITY-WORLD’S BOTTOMLESS TOWERS. THE IMPERIAL FLEET LAUNCHED A SURPRISE ASSAULT ON THE REPUBLIC CAPITAL OF CORUSCANT. REPUBLIC AND IMPERIAL DIPLOMATS CONVENED ON THE PLANET OF ALDERAAN TO DISCUSS A GALAXY-WIDE CEASE-FIRE… THE JEDI COUNCIL URGED CAUTION AS THE SENATE TO CONSIDERED THE SITH’S OFFER, BUT EVEN THEY HAD TO AGREE-THE WAR WAS UNWINNABLE-PEACE WAS THE ONLY HOPE. MATTERS HAD BECOME COMPLICATED FOR THE REPUBLIC WAR EFFORT SINCE THE CRITICAL TRADE ROUTE BETWEEN THE OUTER RIM AND THE CORE WORLDS WAS RECOVERING FROM THE MANDALORIAN BLOCKADE. THE LORDS OF THE EMPEROR’S DARK COUNCIL SURPRISED THE REPUBLIC SENATE WITH AN OFFER OF PEACE-A REPRIEVE THE REPUBLIC COULD NOT AFFORD TO IGNORE. THOUGH HE NOW CONTROLLED HALF THE GALAXY, THE SITH EMPEROR GREW IMPATIENT-HE HAD EXPECTED HIS TRIUMPH TO COME QUICKLY. THOUSANDS OF JEDI AND SITH WERE SLAIN, COUNTLESS STAR SYSTEMS WERE RAVAGED. THE GREAT GALACTIC WAR DRAGGED ON FOR DECADES. THEY BEGAN A WAR UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN THE GALAXY’S HISTORY. THREE CENTURIES AFTER THE DEATH OF DARTH MALAK AND THE END OF THE JEDI CIVIL WAR, THE TRUE SITH EMPIRE RETURNED FROM DEEP SPACE, ATTACKING THE REPUBLIC. I'VE CHOSEN TO BEGIN WITH THE SINGULAR DEFINING EVENT OF RECENT YEARS-THE UNPRECEDENTED PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SITH EMPIRE AND THE GALACTIC REPUBLIC-THE TREATY OF CORUSCANT. SPECIFICALLY I AM TO TRACE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE EMPIRE AND THE REPUBLIC, THE SITH AND THE JEDI, TO UNCOVER THE ROOTS OF THE STRUGGLE WHICH NOW PLAGUES US. THE JEDI COUNCIL REQUESTS I PERFORM A DAUNTING TASK-TO REVISE THE ORDER’S HISTORICAL RECORDS IN LIGHT OF NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT THE FORMATION OF THE SITH EMPIRE. I AM MASTER GNOST-DURAL, KEEPER OF THE JEDI ARCHIVES.