Legions of Lettow The Legions of Lettow was the name taken by the apprentices and acolytes of the Kashi Mer Dynasty exile and Jedi Renunciate Xendor . One of the earliest breakaway sects of the Jedi Order , the Legions were defeated in battle at the end of a violent war with their Jedi cousins . History . During the early history of the Jedi Order , the Kashi Mer exile Xendor was studying on the planet Ossus , fortress world of the Jedi and home to a culture devoted to the study of the Force and its light side aspect called the Ashla . A respected Jedi Knight , Xendor was a vocal opponent to the Order ' s increasingly exclusionary ways and eager to learn the techniques and teachings of representatives from other Force traditions also studying on Ossus . Among his closest allies was a Steel Hand of Palawa named Arden Lyn ; the two of them shared philosophies away from the eyes and ears of the Jedi High Council and eventually became lovers . Xendor , able to bear his frustration no longer , approached the High Council and requested their blessings in opening a new Jedi academy far from Ossus to focus on the darker aspects of the Force , the Bogan . When the Council refused , Xendor quietly broke with the Order and traveled to the planet Lettow to open an academy which focused its teachings on the Bogan . Drawing on Force traditions such as the Order of Dai Bendu , the Followers of Palawa , the Kashi Mer Guardians of Breath , the Baran Do , and the Chatos Academy , Xendor ' s academy drew a trickle of interest which quickly transformed into a roaring river . It was these acolytes which named their new group the Legions of Lettow , as they knew that they would one day be forced to defend their traditions from the Jedi High Council ' s wrath . At the academy , the Legionnaires followed similar initiation ceremonies that were practiced by the Jedi Order ; for example , the forging of Force - imbued blade s was carried over from ancient Tythonese practices . Initiates shaped high - carbon steel in the furnaces of the academy in an extremely challenging ritual , melding the blade ' s molecular lattice with that of the energy crystal , making the blade and the crystal one - in - the - same . With the furnace - forged steel , the Legionnaires adopted the ancient Jar ' Kai fighting art , calling it Niman , after the triumvirate of Kashi gods . Sometime in the 24 , 500s BBY the Jedi Order had grown weary of the dissidents ' continued existence and decided to put an end to the Great Schism which had torn at the Order ' s fabric for too long . Forming a massive army , the High Council forced the Legionnaires into open combat . Reluctant to take up the title of general , Xendor hoped to avoid massive bloodshed by bringing the war directly to Ossus . During the battle , Xendor ' s forces were pushed back and forced to commit troops to several fronts as the Order pushed the Legionnaires towards the galaxy ' s core . In an attempt to warn the Galactic Republic of the Jedi Order ' s machinations in forcing the conflict into civilized space , Xendor was ignored and branded as a warlord by the Republic . Campaigns were played out on Chandrila , Metellos , Brentaal IV and Coruscant until the Jedi leader , Awdrysta Pina managed to come into direct battle with Xendor on Columus . Known as the Green Blade , Master Pina and his Jedi Knights were able to separate Xendor ' s vanguard from the bulk of his army through the use of a strong Force meld . Cutting through powerful warriors such as Sethul Asaiage and Tun Bohoi , Pina eventually dueled Xendor and slew him in hand - to - hand combat . With Xendor dead , Arden Lyn took command of the remaining Legionnaires on Lettow . As Pina ' s forces sacked the academy , Lyn and her comrades held off the Jedi until the surviving Legionnaires could flee Republic space . Separating from the rest of the survivors so they could not be cornered together , Lyn attempted to hide beyond Kitel Phard but was hunted mercilessly by Master Pina and he finally cornered her on Irkalla . There , Lyn used a Kashi Mer talisman gifted to her by Xendor to shatter Pina ' s blade and send the shards through his body . As he lay dying , Pina poured his last bit of life into attacking Lyn with the Morichro technique , stopping her heart and nearly killing her . All remaining Legionnaires were hunted down or left to die in exile , their attempted schism put down with crushing exactness by the Jedi Order , leaving the Legions of Lettow to descend into myth and legend , barely remembered in the footnote of galactic history . Legacy . In the centuries following Xendor ' s separation from the Order , the Jedi who would eventually be known as the Dark Jedi Exiles of the Hundred - Year Darkness believed themselves to be the heirs of the Legion of Lettow ' s legacy . The Exiles , banished to the Unknown Regions , were able to create the Empire with a philosophy which focused on the dark side of the Force . A record from the final battle on Columus survived the conflict and was obtained by the Jedi Order . Called the Columus Data Card , the files were written through audio records by Padawan Danzigorro Potts . Describing the final battle as he lay dying , Potts described the deaths of Xendor and other former Jedi , including his own master Jook - jook H ' broozin and friends Blendri and Cuthallox Millennia later , " Minions of Xendor ! " remained a common curse among smugglers . Behind the scenes . The Legion of Lettow was the name of the entire Sith Order in George Lucas ' first revision of the original script for " " , simply entitled " The Star Wars , " in which members were simply referred to as " Lettow . " This script is barely recognizable from the final script used for the film .