GREETINGS. I AM MASTER GNOST-DURAL, KEEPER OF THE JEDI ARCHIVES. 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. 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. 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. 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. THEY BEGAN A WAR UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN THE GALAXY'S HISTORY. THE GREAT GALACTIC WAR DRAGGED ON FOR DECADES. THOUSANDS OF JEDI AND SITH WERE SLAIN, COUNTLESS STAR SYSTEMS WERE RAVAGED. THOUGH HE NOW CONTROLLED HALF THE GALAXY, THE SITH EMPEROR GREW IMPATIENT—HE HAD EXPECTED HIS TRIUMPH TO COME QUICKLY. 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. 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 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 ...
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