First Jedi Purge The First Jedi Purge took place some time after the Battle of Rakata Prime , and the end of the Jedi Civil War , from 3954 BBY until 3951 BBY . This purge saw nearly the entire Jedi Order disappear from the galaxy ; the Order publicly disbanded and most of the survivors were slain by the Sith . During the Sith Civil War , circa 3954 BBY , Darth Traya , Darth Nihilus , and Darth Sion took command of the remnants of Revan ' s Sith Empire . After the exile of Traya , Sion utilized his Sith assassin s to assassinate Jedi , while Nihilus would consume the life of an entire planet in search of the Jedi . Nihilus ' s final attack was on the Miraluka world of Katarr ; nearly all of the remaining hundred Jedi died at a meeting that was being held on the planet . Despite the Sith ' s success against the Jedi , the purge was finally brought to an end by Meetra Surik , who not only trained a new generation of Jedi , but also personally killed all three leaders of the Sith Triumvirate in combat . After the conclusion of the purge , the Jedi who Surik trained proved essential to the Order ' s revival . Origins . By the year 3956 BBY , the Jedi Order had weathered one of the most turbulent periods in its long history — three galaxy - spanning wars that occurred in the short span of fifty years , two of which had been orchestrated by fallen members of the Order itself . In the aftermath of those devastating conflicts , the Order had dwindled and weakened to the point that it had become a shadow of its former self . Thousands of Jedi were lost in the Great Sith War , the Mandalorian Wars , and Jedi Civil War , and those conflicts erupted across the galaxy in such close succession , that the Jedi were not given enough time to rebuild their numbers ; the Order simply could not sustain such heavy losses over such a short period of time . The Order ' s problems were compounded by the fact that the Jedi faced a dramatic loss of knowledge stemming from the destruction of critical centers of learning , including the Great Jedi Library on Ossus and the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine . Too many important holocrons , records , and histories had been scattered , lost , or looted during the wars . As a result , there were too few experienced Jedi to instruct aspiring students and an inadequate knowledge base with which to teach them . By the end of the Jedi Civil War , the already depleted Jedi Order had been all but wiped out . Less than one hundred individuals survived to rebuild . As the Galactic Republic hovered on the brink of collapse , the Jedi Order slowly began to deteriorate . Also , a redeemed Revan left Republic space , denying both the Republic and Jedi someone to rally around to rebuild . An intense climate of disillusionment permeated the Jedi ranks , as the few surviving members faced an unprecedented level of anger and resentment from the Republic citizenship who had begun to fear their former heroes . The Jedi themselves were losing faith in the Order , as they began to ask themselves how and why so many of their number had fallen to the dark side over the years . Even members of the Jedi High Council began to question the Jedi teachings . The Sith Lords . After the death of Darth Malak and the destruction of the Star Forge , the infrastructure of the Sith Empire had disintegrated . Most of the Dark Jedi who had survived the war wiped themselves out in struggles for dominance , yet scattered remnants of Revan ' s Empire remained entrenched in secret places of power . With time , they regrouped , and new leaders emerged to guide them . On the ancient Sith world of Malachor V , Revan ' s secret sect of Sith assassin s still lingered . In the heart of the Trayus Academy , the Trayus Core , the Sith Lords Darth Traya , Darth Nihilus , and Darth Sion developed a new strategy . Waging a shadow war , the new Sith Triumvirate battled with only one goal in mind : the complete and utter extermination of the Jedi . They manipulated events from the darkness , causing local conflicts on key Republic planets . These worlds , if left to fall , would mean a quick and decisive end to the Republic . It was a dark and chaotic time for the Order . A steady stream of Jedi , including the Jedi Watchmen overseeing several worlds , stepped down , renounced the Order , and were never heard from again . Entire Jedi gatherings began to vanish , leaving behind a strange disturbance in the Force that only a few members of the Jedi Council could recognize . In time , the Jedi began to suspect that they were being hunted . At last , the Jedi Master Atris summoned many of the most powerful and influential of the remaining Jedi Masters to a secret conclave on the Miraluka world of Katarr under the pretext of discussing the emerging threat . But the conclave was not as secret as the Jedi thought . Atris leaked information about the conclave to the greater galaxy in an attempt to draw whoever was attacking them out of the shadows . As a result , Darth Nihilus arrived as the Jedi assembled and annihilated every living thing upon the planet , both the Jedi and the Miraluka colonists . The sole survivor of the attack was the Miraluka Visas Marr , whom Nihilus captured and trained as his apprentice . After that shocking event , the remaining Jedi Council members , Masters Vrook Lamar , Kavar , Zez - Kai Ell , and Lonna Vash , decided to go into exile . In so doing , they hoped that the mysterious and secretive new Sith threat would be lulled into a false victory and reveal itself . The Jedi Exile . Return to known space . By the year 3951 BBY , almost all the Jedi had been eliminated . One of the survivors was the figure known Meetra Surik , alias the Jedi Exile . Surik — who had spent time in the Outer Rim and the Unknown Regions , having been banished from the Jedi Order for following Revan to fight in the Mandalorian Wars — returned to Galactic Republic space in 3951 BBY . The " Harbinger " , a Republic cruiser bound for Onderon , had been ordered by the Republic admiral Carth Onasi , a veteran of the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil War , to abort the planned trip and head to the Outer Rim instead , in order to pick up Surik . Then bound for Telos IV , the " Harbinger " suddenly received a distress call and , upon reporting it and the distressed vessel ' s ID , was ordered to assist the vessel . Upon their arrival the captain of the " Harbinger " discovered both the " Ebon Hawk " and the Sith warship seemingly adrift . He ordered a boarding crew onto the Sith vessel and the " Ebon Hawk " to bring aboard any survivors . The Sith warship was found to be completely empty - a " ghost ship " as one unnerved Republic soldier remarked - save for the ' corpse ' of the then unknown Lord Sion , which was brought aboard . Over the next few days , the crew reported feelings of " being watched " and unexplained mishaps occurring , such as systems suddenly dying on them , climaxing when Lord Sion awoke and Republic officers being killed by cloaked Sith assassins that had secretly boarded the " Harbinger " when the ship had attached an umbilical to the ' empty ' Sith warship . While the Sith were taking control of the " Harbinger " , the " Ebon Hawk " docked with the vessel , extracted Surik and attempted to depart . The " Harbinger " had been completely taken over by the Sith at this time and fired on the small freighter , heavily damaging it as it jumped to hyperspace , rendering everyone aboard unconscious as a result . Peragus . Several days later , Surik woke up from a stupor in the mining facility and found an old woman who had been left for dead . This woman later revealed herself to be a Jedi Master named Kreia . She guided Surik through their escape from the mining facility . They found the facility to be completely abandoned , except for malfunctioning mining droid s , an HK - 50 protocol droid , and an im prisoned Human named Atton Rand . Before long , however , the Sith Lord who had attacked the " Harbinger " arrived . Kreia , the Exile , and Atton escaped with T3 - M4 onboard the " Ebon Hawk " , setting a course for Telos IV — the only available destination in the Peragus navigational charts . While being pursued by the Sith in the asteroid field around Peragus , laser fire from the " Harbinger " ignited the volatile fuel within the asteroids . The resulting explosion destroyed both the facility and the planet of Peragus II itself , although the " Ebon Hawk " and the Sith on - board the " Harbinger " were able to escape . Telos . After arriving at the massive Citadel Station in orbit around Telos , the crew of the " Ebon Hawk " were detained for the destruction of the Peragus mining facility . They were soon cleared of any crime — but not before the " Ebon Hawk " , with T3 - M4 on - board , had been stolen and flown to the Telosian surface . After being refused a new vessel by the Telos Security Force , the three utilized alternate transportation to get down to the surface , where they were shot down by Czerka Corporation air - defense turrets . They were pulled out of the burning vessel by a Zabrak engineer named Bao - Dur , who was responsible for designing Telos ' planetary shields . While on the surface , they learned that the " Ebon Hawk " had been taken to the old planetary aqueducts in the polar region of the planet . Stealing a shuttle from an abandoned military compound , they traveled to the aqueducts and were once again shot down , this time by three HK - 50 bounty hunter assassin droids . After defeating the droids , Atton , Kreia and Surik ( Bao - Dur was knocked unconscious by the crash ) entered the polar aqueduct system . There , they found themselves once again being detained by the Last Handmaiden and her sisters . They had entered the secret Telosian Jedi Academy . Surik was granted an audience with Atris , the Jedi Master controlling the facility . After a heated debate over what Surik should have and did do during the Mandalorian Wars , she and her party were granted leave and left with the " Ebon Hawk " and T3 - M4 . After leaving the academy , T3 revealed that he had managed to download Atris ' s database and navigational charts while at the academy , including a recording of Surik ' s trial and records of where the last five remaining Jedi Masters were hiding : Atris on Telos , Kavar on Onderon , Vrook Lamar on Dantooine , Zez - Kai Ell on Nar Shaddaa and Lonna Vash on Korriban . Surik , wanting to know why she had been exiled , traveled to these worlds in search of the Jedi in an attempt to unite them against the Sith and to find the answers to her questions . The Lost Jedi . Dantooine . During her search for the remaining masters , Surik came to Dantooine to search for Master Vrook . When she arrived , she found that much had changed since she left for the Mandalorian Wars : the Jedi Enclave had been destroyed , and Dantooine was barely surviving as a planetary government . The remaining citizens had pulled together and built a new government based at the old Matale estate , that was known as Khoonda . After meeting with the administrator , she journeyed into the ruins of the Enclave . There , she found out that Vrook had been captured by the mercenaries on the planet . Surik found and freed Vrook , but Vrook said he had allowed himself to be captured to avoid a conflict with Khoonda and the mercenaries . Now that they had lost Vrook , the mercenaries would launch a full - scale assault on the weak government . Surik chose to help Khoonda , and under her military leadership the Khoonda Militia defeated the mercenaries . Nar Shaadaa . The second stop on their search was the planet of Nar Shaddaa . Nar Shaddaa was the " " gaping maw of Nal Hutta . " " The massive population and large cityscape of the planet made it easy for one to hide and lay low for a while . Unfortunately , Surik did just the opposite . In her attempt to find Jedi Master Zez - Kai Ell , Surik made an effort to cause much anger and distress to the Exchange , and get the bounty hunters off her back . When Meetra was captured , the famous bounty hunter Mira joined up with Meetra ' s party and they rescued her on G0 - T0 ' s yacht . During the rescue , the yacht ' s cloaking was sabotaged and one of the local Hutts Vogga , whose freighters were being raided by G0 - T0 ' s yacht , quickly seized the opportunity and destroyed it , right as the Ebon Hawk escaped . Finally , Surik came back to Nar Shaddaa and found the Jedi Master . The Master confessed that he felt that the Jedi Order had much to take responsibility for , and their inability to do so at Surik ' s trial caused him to leave . He answered her questions and taught her a lightsaber form . He then agreed to go to Dantooine and wait for her there . Onderon . Surik ' s journey also took her to Onderon where Master Kavar , who was also an old friend , was staying as an advisor to Queen Talia . But she found that , like Dantooine , Onderon also had problems : Many people on Onderon blamed the Republic for all the suffering that had come during the recent wars . Taking advantage of this , General Vaklu , Talia ' s cousin , began to round up followers by saying Onderon should break away from the Republic and become independent again . His plans were to ultimately kill Talia and make himself king . After nearly being shot down by Vaklu ' s forces , Surik landed on Dxun , one of Onderon ' s moons . There , she found the Mandalorians , under the command of Mandalore the Preserver , were rebuilding . She was able to ally with the Mandalorians and get safe passage to Onderon . But her meeting with Kavar was cut short by Vaklu ' s troops . She left the planet with Kavar ' s word that he would contact her again . By the time Kavar was able to contact Surik , Vaklu was ready to strike . He launched a civil war in the streets of Iziz . When Surik heard of this , she headed to Dxun . Surik , along with the Mandalorians , launched a counter - attack from Dxun and succeeded in defeating Vaklu before Talia could be defeated . Korriban . Surik also traveled to the Sith world of Korriban , the goal to search for Master Lonna Vash but upon arrival she found that Vash had already been killed . Vash was killed shortly after the " Ebon Hawk " touched down on the planet , as noted by one of Surik ' s companions . It was also here that Meetra Surik first fought with Darth Sion , who knew Surik would come looking for Vash , and waited in Korriban ' s Sith Academy where he then attacked her . As they dueled Surik gained the upper hand , striking down Sion several times . Unfortunately for Surik , the Lord of Pain used his Dark Side powers to heal himself each time . Finally Kreia contacted Surik telepathically urging her to flee , telling Surik that this was a battle she could not win . After escaping Sion , Surik discovered the lost tomb of Sith Lord Ludo Kressh , where she confronted and defeated several visions from her past . These included her service in the Mandalorian Wars ( specifically the Battle of Dxun ) , as well as her decision to defy the Jedi Council and join the Republic ' s war effort . She emerged from the tomb stronger in the belief her decisions had made her the Jedi she was . Meeting with the Council . After locating and conversing with all of the remaining Jedi Masters , the Exile returned to Dantooine to find the rebuilt Jedi Enclave . There , Masters Vrook , Kavar and Zez - Kai Ell ( Master Lonna Vash had already been killed by the Sith ) had formed a council in which they would decide her fate . Right after they reestablished the Exile ' s banishment and just before they could strip her of the Force once again , Kreia stormed into the meeting . The Exile , held in stasis by the Masters , was left helpless to defend them as Kreia put the Jedi Masters through the same suffering the Exile had felt on Malachor V , leaving them not only dead , but void of the Force . After she left , Surik finally regained her strength and departed for Telos in search of Kreia , who had once again assumed the title of Darth Traya . There the Exile was again forced to confront Atris , who had been corrupted by the dark side by the Sith holocrons at the secret academy . After the Exile defeated her , she was able to persuade Atris to forgive her and helped herself see the folly of her beliefs . Atris then told the Exile that Traya had fled to Malachor V to wait for their final confrontation . Afterwards , Atris declared herself an ex - Jedi and went into exile to try to find understanding . The Battle of Telos IV . Shortly thereafter , a Sith fleet headed by Darth Nihilus arrived at Telos , having been drawn to the academy in the polar region . With the assistance of the Mandalorians and Mandalore Canderous Ordo , the Exile boarded and engaged Nihilus aboard his ship , the " Ravager " , to keep him from destroying Telos in order to feed his hunger . With the assistance of Visas Marr and Canderous , the Exile defeated him and headed to Malachor V . The end of the Purge . Having succeeded in defending Telos and defeating Darth Nihilus , the Exile and her associates made their way to Malachor V . After crash - landing on the surface of the planet , the Exile proceeded to the Trayus Academy , battling her way through storm beast s , Sith warriors , and assassins before confronting Darth Sion himself . After an intense and prolonged duel , the Exile finally brought Sion to the realization that Kreia was using him and didn ' t care what happened to him . Having been persuaded to let go of his hatred — the only thing that kept him alive — Sion finally succumbed to his numerous injuries . The Exile then made her way to the Trayus Core , where she confronted Darth Traya . After a fierce battle , the Exile succeeded in defeating the Sith Lord but spared her life . Traya refused to give up however , and attacked the Exile again . But the Exile was able to defeat her again , and this time also redeemed Traya from the dark side . Before she gave her life to the Force , Kreia gave the Exile information about Revan ' s location in the Unknown Regions and about the fates of the Exile ' s allies and the planets they had visited . Shortly after this exchange , Bao - Dur ' s remote reactivated the Mass Shadow Generator in order to completely destroy the planet . The crew of the badly damaged " Ebon Hawk " retrieved the Exile from the Core and escaped the planet . With the defeat of the Sith Triumvirate and the " restoration " of the Jedi Order , the Exile left the Republic in the hands of her Lost Jedi and began her journey to find Revan in the Unknown Regions . Victims and survivors . Known survivors . < br clear = " all " > Unknown status . < br clear = " all " >