Mandalorian Wars

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Previous: Great Sith War[1] Concurrent: Kanz Disorders[1] Next: Jedi Civil War[1] Mandalorian Wars Beginning: 3,976 BBY[2][3] End: 3,960 BBY[4] Place: Outer Rim[2], Mid Rim[2], Inner Rim[5], Core[5], Unknown Regions[2] Outcome: Republic victory[2] The Mandalorian clans are disarmed and disbanded Major battles: Battle of Cathar[1], First Battle of Onderon[5], Second Battle of Dxun[5], Second Battle of Althir[1], Battle of Malachor V[2] Combatants Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders[2] Galactic Republic, The Revanchists[2] Commanders Mandalore the Ultimate †[2] Cassus Fett[2] Rohlan Dyre[6] Canderous Ordo[2] Revan[2] Alek Squinquargesimus[2] Jedi Exile[5] Admiral Saul Karath[2] Admiral Noma Sommos[6] Admiral Jimas Veltraa†[6] Mon Halan[5] General Derred[5]

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The Mandalorian Wars erupted after two decades of relative peace following the Great Sith War. The conflict was set in motion by the ambitious Mandalore the Ultimate, who reconsolidated the Mandalorian clans under the Neo-Crusader banner.

Due to contradictory historical accounts from the period, the exact date of the war's beginning would remain a point of contention among historians. The wars could be said to have begun in the year 3,976 BBY, as it marked the start of Mandalorian aggression along the Outer Rim.

The first skirmishes between the Mandalorian and Republic fleets occurred as early as 3,965 BBY, but many published histories tend to emphasize the time period after the Mandalorians invaded the Galactic Republic proper, circa 3,963 BBY. After the invasion, the Republic Military and a faction of the Jedi Order entered the war. The wars concluded in 3,960 BBY with the Republic victory at Malachor V.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Origins 1.2 The war in the Unknown Regions 1.3 The border war 1.4 Division within the Jedi Order 1.5 The Onslaught 1.6 Serreco, Omonoth, and Alderaan 1.7 The Jedi intervene 1.8 The tide turns 1.9 Malachor V 1.10 Aftermath 2 Notable figures 2.1 Galactic Republic 2.1.1 Revanchists 2.2 Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders 3 Appearances 4 Sources 5 Notes and references 6 See also

[edit] History

[edit] Origins

The roots of the Mandalorian Wars lay buried deep in the turmoil of the Great Sith War. In the year 3,996 BBY, the Mandalorian clans roamed far from their homeworld as they scouting the known galaxy for worthy foes. The nomadic warriors were voyaging to the Empress Teta system which was, at that time, ruled by a Sith sect know as the Krath. Mandalore the Indomitable, the Lord of the Mandalorians, had heard rumors of the military exploits of the Krath's young commander, a fallen Jedi named Ulic Qel-Droma. On the world of Kuar, Mandalore challenged Ulic to single combat, and he was defeated by the Sith Lord. After the duel, he pledged his loyalty to Qel-Droma and thus allied the Mandalorian clans with the Sith. Under orders from Ulic Qel-Droma and his Sith Master, Exar Kun, they laid waste to numerous worlds and earned the enmity of the Republic and its Jedi defenders.^[7][8]

In the waning days of the Great Sith War, as the Brotherhood of the Sith hovered on the very brink of defeat, the Fourth Battle of Onderon took place. Mandalore staged a surprise assault against the city dwellers of Iziz, but just as the tide of battle turned in the Mandalorians' favor, Republic reinforcements arrived in the system. The Republic commander informed Mandalore that his master, Ulic Qel-Droma, had been captured and he demanded the Mandalorians' immediate surrender, but Mandalore refused to concede the battle. Caught between the incoming Republic fleet and the native Beast Riders, the Mandalorian forces were devastated.^[7][8]

Mandalore ordered a rapid retreat to Onderon's nearby moon, Dxun, believing that he could lose the Republic pursuit in its dense jungles. Unfortunately, while withdrawing, a Republic frigate fired upon his Basilisk droid mount and he crashed into the canopy far from friendly aid. Rising from the wreckage, Lord Mandalore was immediately attacked by a pack of ravenous Drexl and he was devoured. Initiating a search of the Dxun's dangerous forests, the remaining Mandalorian Crusaders scoured the landscape for signs of their leader. In a fateful moment, one crusader stumbled across Mandalore's mask hanging, snagged in a patch of nearby foliage. In accordance with the laws of his people, he claimed the mask and became the new Mandalore, Mandalore the Ultimate, whose legacy would affect the galaxy for years to come.^[1][7][8]

[edit] The war in the Unknown Regions

The Mandalorian Crusaders suffered a humiliating defeat in the Onderon system, and their Sith allies were vanquished by Republic and the Jedi Order soon thereafter. The Great Sith War was over. During the next twenty years, Mandalore the Ulimate undertook the arduous task of reforging the Manalorian clans. From his new forward base of operations on Dxun, Mandalore recalled his scattered warriors, but few remained to heed his summons.^[5] Undeterred, he began to heavily recruit members of other species into the Mandalorian fold, thereby forming a new generation of warriors known as the Neo-Crusaders. In time, the Mandalorian ranks swelled with warriors from countless worlds. Humans soon made up the majority, but races as diverse as Twi'leks, Togorians, Rodians, Kerestians, and Mandallian Giants were well represented. The term 'Mandalorian' began to signify more than just a species; it now referred to a sect of warriors who defined themselves by their devotion to the Mandalorian ideal of earning honor and glory through combat.^[2][9]

In the year 3,976 BBY, Mandalore the Ultimate launched a new Mandalorian crusade. Goaded by an unknown Sith faction, he devised an ambitious scheme to overthrow the weakened and vulnerable Galactic Republic.^[10][5] He began by leading his renewed clans in a brutal campaign of conquest along the Outer Rim Territories, on the edge of Republic Space.^[8] Sacking independent planets such as Althir, the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders were able to carve out a clan territory greater than that ruled by the Hutts in the span of little more than a decade.^[1][2]

During this period of rampant imperialism, the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders conquered the planet Cathar. The operation was masterminded by Mandalore the Ultimate's chief strategist, Cassus Fett, who wished to exact vengeance on the native Cathar species for opposing the Mandalorians in past conflicts. Fett's forces viciously massacred the Cathar – driving the species to the brink of extinction. Years later, tidings of the event would bring about a major turning point in the Mandalorians' war with the Republic.^[1][2]

[edit] The border war

The Republic Senate initially chose not to intervene in the Mandalorians' crusade of conquest. The senators were wary of allowing the Republic to become embroiled in another galaxy spanning conflict; They still remembered the devastation wrought during the Great Sith War, and they did not wish to risk open warfare in the defense of planets located beyond their government's borders. They refused to take part in the ongoing conflict unless the Mandalorians threatened to invade the Republic itself. Meanwhile, Mandalore prepared to do just that. He plundered resources from his conquered provinces and stockpiled them in order to fuel his war machine. With each military victory, the Mandalorian clans grew more powerful; They assembled a massive slave labor force, and they conscripted subject peoples into their ranks.^[1][5] As planet after planet fell before their advancing fleet, refugees began to pour into Republic space – flocking to border worlds such as Taris in the hopes of escaping the Mandalorians' wrath.^[2]

The Republic Senate allowed the Mandalorians' crusade of conquest to continue, unchecked, for more than a decade, but as the Neo-Crusaders began to converge on Taris, the Senators chose to make a stand and defend their government's extensive commercial investments in the planet. In the year 3,966 BBY, Taris was granted Republic membership at the behest of the rich and influential company, Lhosan Industries. Soon thereafter, Taris's resource worlds of Vanquo, Tarnith, Suurja, and Jebble fell under the threat of Mandalorian attack. In response, the Republic deployed its Outer Rim fleets in a lengthy defensive formation which came to be known as the Jebble-Vanquo-Tarnith line. However, the Republic Navy was spread too thin over a vast area and it lacked the ships to truly defend the entire front; Thus, the line was more of a show of force than a practical military deterrent.^[11][12][6]

In the following years, Neo-Crusader and Republic forces fought the first of many skirmishes along the Republic border between Taris and the Mandalorian homeworld. A series of four minor battles took place on the agrarian world of Suurja, but the contest eventually ended in a stalemate. By 3,964 BBY, the war appeared to have ground to a halt; Apart from taking a stellar research station on the remote planet Flashpoint, the Mandalorians had not conquered a populated system in the Outer Rim for more than a year, but appearances were deceiving. As the two galactic powers sparred within the neutral Republic frontier, the Mandalorians were systematically probing the strength and resolve of the Republic Military in preparation for a full-scale attack.^[13][14][6]

[edit] Division within the Jedi Order

Amid such uncertain times, radical new factions began to coalesce within the Jedi Order. An outspoken Jedi Knight, who would become known in the popular media as "The Revanchist," warned of the danger posed by the Mandalorian clans. He lobbied for the Jedi Order to take an active role in the Republic's war effort, but the Jedi High Council was hesitant to be drawn into an another armed conflict.^[8] Only thirty years earlier, the fallen Knights Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma had successfully led a host of Jedi to the dark side and thence to war with the Jedi Order. The resulting struggle with the Sith took a very heavy toll on the Order and it had yet to fully recover. In the face of a looming Mandalorian threat, the Jedi Masters grew cautious lest they repeat the mistakes of the past; They were wary of the dark side and they sensed that an unknown hand was at work behind the new war.^{[2][13][15][16]}

The Jedi High Council seemed content to watch and wait as the border war escalated along the Outer Rim, but a growing movement within the Jedi Order refused to stand idly by. The young and charismatic Revanchist began to recruit Jedi followers to combat the Mandalorians, and his friend Alek "Squint" Squinquargesimus was the first to join his cause.^[2] The two knights were well known and admired within the Order, and they were able to quickly enlist a number of like-minded volunteers, forming a faction that would come to be known as the "Revanchists."^[16] Anticipating a Mandalorian invasion, they scouted the battlefront without the knowledge or consent of the Jedi Council.^{[2][14][6][15][8]}

While the Revanchist concerned himself with the Mandalorians, the famed Jedi seer Krynda Draay focused her attention on the Sith. Embittered by her failure to predict the rise of Exar Kun and by the loss of her husband during the Great Sith War, Krynda lived in self-imposed solitude for a number of years thereafter, but the needs of the Jedi Order eventually drew her out of isolation. In the aftermath of the Sith War, the Jedi ranks were gravely depleted, and there were few remaining Masters who were capable of training the next generation in the ways of the Force.^[5] In time, Krynda was convinced to train a new class of Jedi seers, but she had greater ambitions. With the aid of her her new students, she quietly founded a secretive Jedi splinter group known as the Covenant – an organization which was dedicated to the goal of preventing the Sith from ever rising to power again.^[15][8]

[edit] The Onslaught

In the year 3,964 BBY, decades after Krynda Draay first founded the Covenant, the organization's first WatchCircle, stationed on Taris, received a disturbing vision that foretold the return of the Sith. Their brief glimpse of the future seemed to predict that one of their own Padawans was to become a Sith Lord – one who would be responsible for the collapse of the Jedi Order. Having dedicated their lives to the sole mission of safeguarding the Republic from the Sith, the WatchCircle decided that their students had to be sacrificed for the greater good. They massacred their apprentices within the halls of the Jedi Tower in an attempt to forestall the future that they had foreseen, but their plan was not entirely successful; One of their Padawans managed to escape the scene of the crime.^[14][8]

The Covenant members framed the lone survivor, Zayne Carrick, for the murders that they had committed, but Carrick repeatedly escaped capture and fled the system. As a result, the Tarisian citizenry lost faith in their Jedi protectors and civil order began to deteriorate. Prominent business interests, such as Lhosan Industries, announced their intentions of pulling off the planet, sighting security risks. Three weeks after the Padawan Massacre, the embarrassed Jedi Order also decided to cut its losses; Taris slowly descended into anarchy and the Jedi chose to abandon it to its fate.^[14][6][8]

In 3,963 BBY, Mandalore the Ultimate received word of the chaos that had consumed Taris. Understanding that the planet was the key to the entire sector, he took advantage of the situation and signaled his long-prepared forces to attack en masse. The invasion of the Republic began with a rapid conquest of Onderon which staged from nearby Dxun.^[5] Soon afterward, the Mandalorian fleets in the Outer Rim began to pour into Republic space through three invasion corridors in adjacent sectors. The Republic was caught completely off-guard by the sudden Mandalorian break out – an event that the popular media would refer to as the "The Onslaught."^[12] Overwhelmed, the deployed battle groups of the Republic Navy did their level best to counter the massive Mandalorian assault while the Galactic Senate prepared to retaliate with the entire Republic fleet.^[2][6][8]

The primary Mandalorian invasion force, commanded by Mandalore himself, began a major push towards the Republic security cordon surrounding the Taris system. Splitting his command, Mandalore simultaneously attacked Taris and the nearby planet Vanquo, thereby forcing the Republic defenders to divide their efforts. While Captain Saul Karath of the Courageous oversaw the defense of Vanquo, the Admirals Jimas Veltraa and Noma Sommos commanded the defense of the Jebble-Vanquo-Tarnith line surrounding Taris. When the line became indefensible, Admiral Veltraa reformed the remnants of the Outer Rim fleets into a new defensive line around the planet Taris itself, but that formation also fell before the massed Mandalorian assault. During the battle, Admiral Sommos was gravely injured and Admiral Veltraa was killed when his flagship, Reliance, was destroyed. Once the dust had finally settled, Taris found itself under siege and the remnants of the Republic fleets in the region were in full retreat.^[6][12]

[edit] Serreco, Omonoth, and Alderaan

After retreating from the front, the remnants of the Republic's Outer Rim fleets eventually regrouped and resupplied on the backwater world of Serreco. The battle group was under the command Saul Karath, who had been promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral following the Battle of Vanquo.

The Mandalorian veteran Canderous Ordo would later reminisce that the Republic initially utilized "shameful" defensive tactics such as placing military installations adjacent to major civilian population centers. He believed that the Republic felt that his people would not use "appropriate force" against their bases in major cities. The Mandalorians quickly disabused them of such notions. On the planet Serroco, the Republic military made the mistake of placing its defensive fortifications within the cities of the native Stereb. Disgusted by what he called a "defense without honor," Mandalore had the cities completely annihilated with nuclear devices.^[2][16] The Mandalorian war machine proved to be ruthless, tenacious, and largely unscrupulous – willing to achieve victory regardless of the cost. In the battles of Serroco, Duro, and Eres III, they shocked the galaxy with the sheer carnage they were willing to inflict upon any worlds that dared to fight back.^[5]

The Mandalorians soon began conscripting recruits to prepare for the attack on Alderaan. As they massed their forces on Jebble, the unexplained Rakghoul Plague began spreading throughout the base. To prevent the infection from spreading to the rest of the galaxy, Cassus Fett had no choice but to obliterate the base.^[17] Soon after, reports from Republic Intelligence say that the Mandalorians suffered an insurrection, convincing the Jedi High Council that the Revanchist's path was wrong.^[18]

[edit] The Jedi intervene

In the opening stages of the war, the Republic military proved to be outmatched by the sheer ferocity of the Mandalorians' attacks. Time and again, the Republic navy was soundly beaten. In desperation, the Republic petitioned the Jedi Council for aid, but the Council urged patience as they assessed the Mandalorian threat. The revelation of exactly what had occurred during the Battle of Cathar, several years earlier, would mark a turning point in the conflict. After learning of the genocide of the Cathar, the Revanchist and Alek openly defied the Jedi High Council and led their Jedi followers to war.^[1] The Jedi Crusaders joined the Republic fleets battling the Mandalorians and they quickly became vital to the Republic's war effort.^[2]

Revan and Alek proved to be extremely capable commanders in the field of battle and they rose swiftly through the ranks of the Republic military. Soon, they were given direct control over one-third of the entire Republic fleet. Revan used his new-found authority to spearhead the Republic war effort and under his enterprising leadership, the all-but-defeated Republic Navy began to push the Mandalorians back. The Jedi Masters, however, believed that Alek and Revan were only offering easy solutions to the galaxy's problems and they feared that much woe would result from their recklessness.^[2]

[edit] The tide turns

Revan's keen tactical abilities completely turned the Republic's war effort around, but he did not achieve such success without paying a heavy price. As the war dragged on, Revan began to take certain moral shortcuts – committing several "unsavory" acts, such as leaving "non-strategic" planets completely undefended in order to accomplish the "greater goal" of speedily winning the war. Revan and Alek adapted to their enemies' merciless tactics by simply co-opting them – fighting fire with fire.^[1] In time, they developed a cold and calculating disposition uncharacteristic of Jedi; They grew to despise weakness and indecisiveness in all its forms. Though Revan’s tactics were flawless and Alek’s righteous fury was unmatched, the pair slowly began to mirror the callous Mandalorians they were fighting.^[2][5][19]

Revan and Alek led the Republic to victory after victory. They pushed the Mandalorians back to Taris, off of Dxun and Onderon, and back into Mandalorian space. Even Cassus Fett's impressive victory at the Battle of Jaga's Cluster could not turn the momentum back in the Mandalorians' favor. Pursuing the roving Mandalorian fleets, Revan and Alek ventured into the Unknown Regions beyond the Republic's borders. In an effort to draw their enemies out, their forces assaulted the Mandalorian regime on Althir, and in the resulting battle, much of the remaining Mandalorian army was decimated.^[1] Yet for all their success, the Republic took enormous casualties while the two young Jedi were in command. During the assault on the Mandalorian Outpost on Dxun alone, as many as ten Republic soldiers died for every Mandalorian slain.^[5]

[edit] Malachor V

Early in the war, at some point in the year 3,963 BBY, Revan visited the ancient Sith world of Malachor V while scouting for new outposts along the embattled Outer Rim. Word had reached him that Malachor was anathema to the Mandalorians and he wished to know the reason why. Upon landing on the planet's surface, he was nearly destroyed by the resonance of ancient Sith power and he only managed to survive the encounter through sheer force of will. He fed upon the power of the dark side of the Force, and in so doing, avoided being utterly consumed by it, yet he did not escape unscathed. The dark side beckoned and Revan fell under its influence.^[4]

In the year 3,960 BBY, Revan forced a final confrontation with the Mandalorians above Malachor V.^[2] He deployed a massive fleet to the planet consisting mostly of those whose loyalties to himself remained in doubt. In utter secrecy, he had prepared a superweapon, known as the "Mass Shadow Generator," which had been designed by the Zabrak engineer Bao-Dur. The weapon was the centerpiece of a trap with which he hoped to bring about a conclusive end to the destructive conflict. Commanding the fleet and overseeing the device's use was a capable and jaded Jedi General (later known as the Jedi Exile) who had taken part in the recent bloody campaign on Dxun. Revan lured the Mandalorians to the planet and a massive fleet battle ensued in orbit.^[5][4]

Revan himself was delayed outside the system by a Mandalorian scouting party. He eventually arrived at Malachor and entered the fray, but he was late and the Mandalorian fleets were far from defeated. In that moment, he drew upon the Sith energies haunting the surface below to augment his power. Soon thereafter, Revan pressed Mandalore into a direct confrontation and the fallen Jedi struck the great Mandalorian leader down in single combat.^[1] Meanwhile, more and more of the Jedi fighting in orbit found themselves unable to resist the call of the power emanating from the planet below and were thus drawn to the dark side.^[4] With renewed vigor, Revan's forces pressed the attack. They soon achieved a stalemate and then slowly began to push the Mandalorian fleet back towards Malachor V.^[5][2]

Finally, as the fighting grew intense, Revan's Jedi general observed that the Mandalorians had taken the bait and that her trap was set to spring. With a nod of her head, she commanded Bao-Dur to activate the secret weapon. Moments later, she watched in horror as a significant portion of both fleets were suddenly drawn from orbit into a vast gravity vortex that was powerful enough to crush the countless ships into the planet's crust and fracture the world to its very core.^[5]

After slaying Mandalore the Ultimate and winning the war with a sweeping victory at Malachor V, Revan and Alek were hailed as heroes and saviors of the Republic, yet at that time, Sith teachings were already sweeping through the ranks of their command. Soon after that final battle, they led the remainder of their forces into the Unknown Regions under the pretense of tracking down the remnants of the Mandalorian fleet, but they did not return and they sent no word of their whereabouts. In time, the Republic feared that the Jedi and their followers had been lost in a tragic, unknown disaster in the depths of unexplored space.^[2][5][19]

[edit] Aftermath

Few ships from either fleet survived the battle of Malachor V unscathed, but the Mandalorians sustained the worst damage and the highest casualties. The few shell-shocked survivors rapidly transmitted their unconditional surrender.^[4] After the battle, Revan had a singular opportunity to put an end to the threat of the Mandalorians once and for all, but he chose not to take advantage of it. He merely disarmed and disbanded the clans, allowing them to splinter into disheartened groups which scattered across the Outer Rim. There, devoid of leadership and honor, they degenerated. A few Mandalorian survivors returned to the Mandalore system, but many, including Canderous Ordo, humbled their pride and became mercenaries for hire.^[1] Other groups became outright bandits, in a futile effort to relive their glory days.^[2][5]

The Jedi general who had brought the war to its cataclysmic conclusion proved incapable of enduring the psychic backlash of the destructive energies that she had unleashed; she survived the ordeal only by unconsciously deafening herself to the Force. After the war, she would be the only Jedi out of all those who had served with Revan to reject the dark side and return to the Jedi Council on Coruscant for judgment. Before the Council, she was charged with following Revan to war in an act of rebellion and the Masters informed her that she was to be exiled from the Jedi Order as a result. Upon hearing her sentence, the Exile defiantly stabbed her lightsaber into the center stone of the Council Judgment Chamber. Her sentence was harsh and not one that the council could truly enforce, but she chose to accept it nonetheless. Turning her back on the Jedi, she departed from known space to wander alone on the fringes of the Republic.^[5]

In 3,959 BBY, one year after their disappearance, the lost heroes Revan and Alek suddenly returned to the Galactic Republic at the head of a massive invasion fleet which consisted of commandeered Republic vessels as well as numerous vessels of unknown design. The armada was crewed by a host of experienced veterans and commanded by defectors such as Admiral Saul Karath, General Derred, and Mon Halan—some of the finest officers that the Republic had produced during the Mandalorian Wars.^[5] Calling themselves the Sith, they declared war on the Republic. So began the Jedi Civil War…^{[1][2][19][4]}

[edit] Notable figures

[edit] Galactic Republic

• The Admiral of the Fleet
• Commander Dias Athacorr
• Bao-Dur
• Commander Owen Delstar
• General Derred
• Forn Dodonna
• Lieutenant Jerrit
• Mon Halan
• Admiral Saul Karath
• Bask Modl
• Commander Dallan Morvis
• Lieutenant Carth Onasi
• Atton Rand
• Rutu
• Admiral Noma Sommos
• Catronus Steffans
• The Supreme Chancellor
• Vaklu
• Captain Teelo Vang
• Admiral Jimas Veltraa
• Viddarie
• Xaart
• General Yusanis

[edit] Revanchists

• Cale Berkona
• Talvon Esan
• Jedi Exile
• Arren Kae
• Nisotsa
• Revan
• Cariaga Sin
• Alek "Squint" Squinquargesimus
• Xaset Terep

[edit] Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders

• Bralor
• Davrel
• Demagol
• Rohlan Dyre
• Ergeron
• Esok
• Cassus Fett
• Dhagon Ghent
• Jagi
• Jarg
• Kelborn
• Kex
• Kumus
• Mandalorian Captain
• Mandalorian Commander
• Mandalorian Sergeant
• Mandalore the Ultimate
• Mira
• Canderous Ordo
• Pulsipher
• Reeza
• Sherruk
• Bendak Starkiller
• Tagren
• Xarga
• Xor
• Zuka

[edit] Appearances

• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Crossroads
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement (First appearance)
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Flashpoint
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Homecoming
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Days of Fear
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Nights of Anger
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Daze of Hate
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Knights of Suffering
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Vector
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Exalted
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (First mentioned)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Vision to Jedi Exile)
• Revelation (Indirect mention only)

[edit] Sources

• Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
•  Darth Malak in the Databank
• Chronicles of the Old Republic
• Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
• The New Essential Chronology
• The History of the Mandalorians
• Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Handbook
• Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
• Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] See also

• Taung
• Mandalorian
• Old Sith Wars

Battles of the Mandalorian Wars
First Althir - Cathar - Flashpoint Station - First Suurja - Second Suurja - Third Suurja Fourth Suurja - First Onderon - First Dxun - Vanquo - Zabrack Colonies - First Taris Serroco - Omonoth - Myrkr - Dagary Minor - Eres III - Duro - Second Taris Jaga's Cluster - Second Onderon - Second Dxun - Second Althir - Malachor V

Conflicts of the Old Sith Wars
Great Droid Revolution · Destruction of Ambria · Great Sith War · Great Hunt Cleansing of the Nine Houses · Kanz Disorders · Mandalorian Wars · Jedi Civil War Invasion of Korriban · First Sith Civil War · First Jedi Purge · Second Sith Civil War

History of the Jedi
The Great Schism - Great Hyperspace War Great Sith War - Mandalorian Wars - Jedi Civil War First Jedi Purge - New Sith Wars Republic Dark Age - Ruusan Reformation Great Jedi Purge - New Jedi Order