Jedi Timeline-Part 1
Beginnings to 5,000 BSW4
BSW4=Before Star Wars 4: A New Hope
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c. 12,000,000,000 BSW4
The Big Bang; the universe is created, including the SW galaxy. Out of the Great Void
came the universe, it’s galaxies, star systems and suns. Everything that exists, and will
ever exist, was spawned from the primordial plasma of time’s beginning. Over billions of
years planets formed and life arose through a steady progression of increasingly complex
organisms. Woven into and intertwined with all of this – from the smallest molecule to
the largest star – was the Force. *

c. 100,000 BSW4
The ancient Sith race begins to develop their distinct culture and civilization.

c. 25,000 BSW4
Hyperdrive invented, possibly on Alderaan and\or Coruscant, and exploration of the
galaxy begins. Previously, the earliest spaceships could hardly escape their own star
systems, but the miraculous discovery of the faster - than - light dimension known as
Hyperspace ushers in a new age of discovery and exploration. The first galactic scouts
strike out from the Core Worlds along two stable hyperspace paths - the Perlemian Trade
Route and the Corellian Run. These twin hyperlanes outline a vast wedge - shaped
region of space that is soon dubbed “the slice”. Though it contains many of the oldest
and best known planets, “the slice” encompasses only a fraction of the known galaxy.

c. 25,000 to 15,000 BSW4
The Jedi are formed, a theological and philosophical study group. Over several centuries,
however, the monastic Jedi become aware of something more in the universe -- some
kind of “force.” They dedicate themselves to studying and learning how to master the
Force. By the time the Old Republic is founded, the Jedi decide to take a more active role
in galactic society, using the Force to aid in peace, justice, and order. As a result, the Jedi
Knights, a corps of Force-wielding guardians, are formally established (on Ossus, in the
Adega system?). Legend later has it that the first of the Jedi Knights learns the moral use
of his power from the Caamasi race.

c. 16,000 BSW4
Sith warlord – king Adas uses his knowledge of the Dark Side to conquer and subjugate
his homeworld.

c. 15,000 BSW4
Republic Fleet Systems is formed. The company is founded to design warships to counter
the threat of Sith - backed uprisings in the distant corners of the Old Republic. In time,
the company expands its operations to design exploration, transport, passenger, and
colony vessels.

c.15,000 to 100 BSW4
The Golden Age, a period of unrivaled peace and prosperity in the galaxy.

14,000 BSW4
Holocron technology is developed by the Sith.

c. 11,500 BSW4
The first great schism between Jedi Knights takes place, a schism between the Forces of
Light and Darkness. After a century of battle, the Dark Jedi are exiled and eventually take
over the Sith civilization, building it into an empire, bringing about the so-called 'Golden
Age of the Sith.'

A Sith Holocron is created. In time, it will fall into the hands of Odan-Urr.

c. 9,990 BSW4
The first lightsabers are created. One of these will later come into the hands of
Vima-Da-Boda -- and from her to Leia Organa-Solo.

c. 9,000 BSW4
The Jedi Knights build a massive underground library on Yavin IV, and a city around it.
They tap geothermal energy to create a weath control system for the planet. Gradually,
they transform the cold, barren world into a lush rain forest planet. Centuries later, for
reasons unknown, the city is abandoned and falls into myth.

c. 7,000 BSW4
The Sith lore library of Veeshas Tuwan on Arkania is opened. It serves as both one of the
few future Imperial records halls and as a repository for Sith lore. The great library
covers more than five square kilometers, and bore down into the planet's surface for
countless levels. In sealed chambers Sith sorcerers conduct Dark Side experiments and
transcribe Sith rituals for their own use. For the next several thousand years the library
grows in both knowledge and physical size, eventually becoming too large for even the
most experienced Sith Lords to easily locate the information they seek.

c. 5,200 BSW4
The Sith Lords Marka Ragnos and Simus fight for control of the Sith Empire -- a conflict
that is decided when Ragnos decapitates Simus. Simus manages to cheat death via Sith
magic and is kept alive inside a jar.

c. 5,020 BSW4
Odan-Urr is born, a telepathic and long lived Jedi Master is born. He would later be
known as the Keeper of Antiquities, and as such was entrusted as gatekeeper of the Sith
Holocron and other potentially dangerous devices.

c. 5,000 BSW4
At this point in galactic history, great portions of the galaxy had not yet been explored,
and long-distance travel was dangerous and uncertain. Hyperdrive beacons were in use
at this time, and hyperdrive explorers continued to map the galaxy.

5,000 BSW4
A young Jedi scholar named Odan-Urr is sent to the Koros system to help Empress Teta
conquer Kirrek, the last of the seven worlds of her system.
Hok and Timar Daragon of Cinnagar (two hyperspace explorers)run relief supplies for the
soldiers of Kirrek, and are killed in a final battle that wins Teta the planet and the entire
system, largely due to Urr's Jedi battle meditation.

Their children, Gav and Jori, take the Starbreaker 12 to explore the galaxy. A few months
later, they are not faring very well financially, up to their eyeballs in debt to Aarrba the
Hutt -- and worse still, a Cha'a cargo drone ship is destroyed using one of their routes.
When merchant lord Ssk Kahorr manages to stop a bonus from the Navigator's Guild and
sends bounty hunters for them, the Daragons have to escape.

Stealing the impounded Starbreaker from Aarbra's repair shop and making a random
hyperjump, they arrive on the planet Korriban -- right in the middle of the funeral of
Marka Ragnos, Dark Lord of the Sith. A power struggle is underway between Ragnos's
two pupils, the complacent Ludo Kressh and the impulsive Naga Sadow. Ragnos's spirit
halts a battle between them, urging them to "choose your course wisely... fight the correct
battles... or all is lost."
On Cinnagar, Teta vows to arrest the Daragons if they return, even as Urr receives a
premonition of the dark times to come.
The Daragons arrive at Korriban and are immediately taken captive. Sadow sees in the
Daragons a door to the Republic, and conquest. He saves them from certain execution at
Ziost fortress, murders his old ally Simus (a disembodied former enemy of Ragnos), takes
the two in at his fortress at Khar Shian and declares himself Dark Lord of the Sith. He
made the escape look like a Republic raid, and he calls for war.
On Coruscant, Teta and Urr informs the Senate of the danger, but the Senate doesn't take
the threat seriously.

Sadow begins teaching Gav Sith magic, as well as plotting the downfall of Ludo Kressh,
who himself vows to kill Sadow before he ruins the Sith Empire. A final battle ends in the
wipeout of Kressh's forces (Kressh himself escapes), and Sadow sees Jori out of the
system in Starbreaker 12 -- which, unbeknowest to her, has a tracking device on it that
will lead the Sith Empire right into the Republic...

Jori returns to Cinnagar, and is immediately arrested and charged with a long string of
crimes. Her desperate warnings go unheard, let alone heeded. Everyone, even Aarrbra,
has turned against her. And to add insult to injury, a gleeful Ssk Kahorr (the reason she
and Gav left Cinnagar in the first place) shows up to personally take the Starbreaker 12 for
himself. Jori is tried, convicted, and sent to the slave labor prison colony of Ronika all
within a single day.

Meanwhile, Odan Urr's teacher, Master Ooroo, comes to visit. He tells Odan that while the
Senate didn't listen to his warnings, the Jedi did. And Empress Teta has been building up
her army in preparation for the assault.

Ludo Kressh tries one last time to warn the Sith of Sadow's plans, but Sadow orders Gav
to block the transmission -- then watches Gav's shocked face as he in fact blows up
Kressh's ship. Gathering his fleet at Khar Shian, Sadow appoints a reluctant Gav
commander of his fleet, and orders the Great Hyperspace War into being...

Jori escapes from Ronika in an ore ship, risking her life against the Cinnagar fleet to
reach Empress Teta's palace and finally getting the warning to her.
The Sith fleet arrives in Republic space. Their first shot destroys the Starbreaker 12 and
Ssk Kahorr. They rush upon a completely unprepared Coruscant, and every other major
point in the Republic, as Sadow uses Sith illusion to make the fleet look much larger than
it truly is, and starts firing drop ships of Massassi warriors and giant beasts upon the
planets. Teta launches her fleet to meet the challenge as Urr works at Kirrek with the
now pardoned and released rebels to repel the invasion.

Gav travels down to Cinnagar to find Jori -- and is helpless to stop his Sith guards from
disembowling Aarbra.

Jori arrives just in time to see Gav and the Hutt's corpse, and jumps to the wrong
conclusion. Wielding a lightsaber given her by Urr, she attacks her brother. Gav escapes
and (with Jori following) rushes to Sadow's base at Primus Goluud, now fully realizing
how Sadow has used him and determined to stop him. With Sadow thus distracted, the
Jedi find it easier to see through the illusions and drive the Sith off Coruscant. The heroes
win at Kirrek as well, even with Master Ooroo's death.

Sadow challenges Gav to face him directly -- and then quietly abandons his base. Gav
enters the base just as Empress Teta's fleet (who followed him) arrives. He informs Jori
that with Sadow's entire force in Republic space, the entire Sith Empire is completely
unprotected. Sadow retaliates by detonating the supergiant Primus Goluud into a
supernova, killing Gav before his sister's eyes. Teta's fleet just barely escapes the death
trap.
The shattered remains of the Sith fleet return to the Empire, only to find Ludo Kressh
securely in place as Dark Lord of the Sith. He exiles Sadow from the Empire forever.
Sadow replies by crashing a ship into Kressh's flagship.

The Republic fleet (led by a vengeful Empress Teta and Jori) arrives, hellbent on finishing
the Sith Empire for good. Sadow flees, putting all the other Sith between him and the
Republic fleet. He uses the Denarii nova, detonating it to wipe out most of the Republic
fleet and make good his escape.
The Republic celebrates it's victory. Odan Urr studies the Sith's abandoned ships, and
discovers a Sith Holocron. He decides to establish a Jedi learning center....

Naga Sadow and his Massassi warriors arrive on the quiet planet of Yavin IV. He decides
to establish a base there, and begins building great temples. He intends to restore the
glory of the Sith...

Jori Daragon has the happiest ending of all. Cleared of all charges, she takes over
Aarrba's repair dock, and now has a secure fortune and bright future...

The Veeshas Tuwan Sith library on Arkania is attacked and destroyed by several hundred
Jedi Masters.