From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tales of the Jedi
Tales of the Jedi
Tales of the Jedi is a series of comic books that are pub- Mandalore, earning the services of the Mandalorian war-
lished by Dark Horse Comics and are part of the fictional riors. Qel-Droma attacked Coruscant, but was captured.
Star Wars Expanded Universe. They cover the Great Sith Kun led a rescue attempt, and killed his former master
War and the Great Hyperspace War and remain the earli- in the process. Soon thereafter, the Sith Lords caused the
est chronological Star Wars stories. Cron Cluster to go supernova, destroying countless Jedi
The first books released covered the Great Sith War artifacts on nearby Ossus.
(4,000 BBY). The latter were prequels that covered the Before Ossus was destroyed, Ulic’s brother Cay tried
Great Hyperspace War, which happened a thousand to convince him to return to the light. Ulic cut him down
years earlier. in a lightsaber duel and, horrified by what he had done,
surrendered himself to his former lover, Nomi Sunrider,
Summary when she forever cut off his connection to the Force. Bro-
ken, Ulic surrendered to the Republic, and led them to
The Great Hyperspace War was instigated when two Yavin IV, where Exar Kun committed a ritual that sapped
Republic hyperspace explorers accidentally crash-landed the life from every Massassi on the planet to separate his
on the Sith graveyard planet Korriban during the funeral spirit from his body and bind it to his temple.
procession of Marka Ragnos. His successor, Naga Sadow, The Cleansing of the Nine Houses are the events during
provoked war with the Republic, and installed himself the aftermath of the Great Sith War, when, after the re-
as the leader of the Sith Empire. He fought not only the pentance of Ulic Qel-Droma, and the death/ascencion of
Republic, but the forces of his chief rival, Ludo Kressh, Exar Kun, the Old Republic hunted down and bloodily
and was forced to destroy his own fleet to cover his es- purged the remnants of the Sith Brotherhood.
cape. Sadow landed on Yavin IV and constructed vast The computer game Knights of the Old Republic, takes
temples with the labor of his Massassi warriors. place forty years after the end of the Sith War.
Six hundred years later, fallen Jedi Freedon Nadd ar-
rived on Yavin IV, and learned Sith sorcery from the spir-
it of Naga Sadow. He took his knowledge and the trea-
Books in the Series in Chrono-
sures of Sadow to the planet Onderon, where he used his logical Order
acquired gifts to install himself as king. His spirit contin-
ued to advise his descendants. • Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith (1997) - 5,000
Another Jedi, Ulic Qel-Droma, was sent to Onderon to BBY ISBN Code: ISBN 1-56971-229-8
mediate a conflict, where he met the spirit of Freedon • Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire (1998) - 5,000
Nadd, who told him he would become a Sith Lord. The BBY ISBN Code: ISBN 1-56971-320-0
prophecy came true when the Krath, a secret dark side • Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic (1994) -
society, attacked the Republic and injured Ulic with 4,000 BBY ISBN Code: ISBN 1-56971-020-1
alchemically-treated shrapnel, and then injected him • Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising (1995) -
with dark side poisons that would ensure his fall. 3,998 BBY ISBN Code: ISBN 1-56971-307-3
Exar Kun left his master, Vodo-Siosk Baas, because his • Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith (1996) - 3,997 BBY
master would not let him learn about the dark side. He ISBN Code: ISBN 1-56971-095-3
went to Onderon, where he learned of Freedon Nadd’s • Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War (1996) - 3,996 BBY ISBN
tomb. Nadd’s spirit told him to go to Korriban, where Code: ISBN 1-56971-173-9
Nadd tricked him into accepting the dark side. They went • Tales of the Jedi: Redemption (2001) - 3,986 BBY ISBN
to Yavin IV, where Nadd gave him a choice: surrender to Code: ISBN 1-56971-535-1
the dark side, or die. Kun chose life. After learning about • Star Wars Omnibus: Tales of the Jedi Volume 1 (2007) -
the dark side from Nadd, Kun destroyed him with a dark 5,000-3,999 BBY ISBN Code: ISBN 1-59307-830-7
side amulet. • Star Wars Omnibus: Tales of the Jedi Volume 2 (2008) -
Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma met on Cinnagar, and 3,998-3,986 BBY ISBN Code: ISBN 1-59307-911-7
their battle was interrupted by the spirit of Marka Rag-
nos, who declared Kun the Dark Lord of the Sith, and Authors
Qel-Droma his apprentice. Together, they waged war on
• Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith by: Kevin J.
the Republic, stealing Jedi students from Ossus and sub-
Anderson, Chris Gossett, Dario Carrasco Jr
verting them to the dark side. Qel-Droma defeated Lord
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tales of the Jedi
• Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire by: Kevin J. • Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War by: Kevin J. Anderson
Anderson, Dario Carrasco, Dario Carrasco Jr, Bill • Tales of the Jedi: Redemption by: Kevin J. Anderson,
Black, David Jacob Beckett, Ray Murtaugh Chris Gossett
• Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic by: Tom
Veitch, Chris Gossett, Janine Johnston, David Roach
• Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising by: Tom
External links
Veitch, Tony Akins, Dennis Rodier • Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi on Wookieepedia: a Star
• Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith by: Kevin J. Wars Wiki
Anderson, Tom Veitch, Chris Gossett, Art Wetherell • Tales of the Jedi graphic novel info
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• 1993 comic debuts
• 1997 audio plays
• Dark Horse Comics titles
• Star Wars comics
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