Padawan Massacre In 3964 BBY , the Jedi Masters of the planet Taris ' Jedi Tower killed their Padawans at a false Knighting ceremony that became known as the Padawan Massacre . The Masters were all members of the Jedi Covenant , a secret faction within the Jedi Order dedicated to keeping watch for and preventing the return of the Sith , and the five comprised the Covenant ' s First WatchCircle . During the Padawans ' final trial , a blind traverse of Taris ' hazardous rogue moon , the Masters had shared traumatic and violent Force visions depicting not only their deaths but the destruction of the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic . Believing that one of their Padawans would be the one to bring about this doom , the Masters made plans to slay them all in a preemptive strike . After the Padawans completed their test and returned to Taris , the Masters scheduled a banquet and a Knighting ceremony — after the banquet , the group retired to the Masters ' chambers , supposedly for the Padawans to discover which of them would be Knighted . There , the inquiries of Padawan Shad Jelavan , who felt that something was amiss , forced the Masters to strike quicker than they anticipated . Four of the five Padawans were slain , but the fifth , Zayne Carrick , was able to escape because he arrived late . Framed for the murders , the fugitive Carrick eventually learned the truth of the Padawan Massacre and set out to clear his name . Now one of the most wanted men in the Republic , Carrick investigated the murders , discovering more and more about the Jedi Covenant and its secret operations . Along the way , he encountered the five members of the WatchCircle , and events were put in motion that led to the Masters meeting their ultimate fate . Raana Tey was killed on Taris in the midst of a Mandalorian invasion of the planet — an offensive that was prompted by the Padawan Massacre — and the Feeorin Master Feln was slain by his own tribesmen on his homeworld of Odryn after a violent encounter with Carrick . Their deaths led the Khil seer Xamar to confess the Covenant ' s secret activities to the Jedi High Council and clear Carrick ' s name . Both Xamar and the Miraluka Q ' Anilia died soon afterward , however , during an insurrection against the Council led by the failed Padawan Haazen . After Haazen was defeated , Lucien Draay , the only survivor of the First WatchCircle , dropped out of sight , and Carrick refused an offer to rejoin the Jedi Order in favor of entering into business with his " accomplice , " Marn Hierogryph . Prelude . During the Great Sith War , Jedi Knight Barrison Draay was killed in action , leaving behind his wife and fellow Jedi , Krynda , as a widow along with his young son , Lucien . Devastated by his death and distraught that the greatest seers of the Jedi Order failed to predict the rise of the Sith who had instigated the conflict , Krynda disassociated herself from the Order . However , in 3993 BBY , the Jedi brought to Draay a young Miraluka named Q ' Anilia . Sensing the special promise in the child , Draay took her in and began to train her as a seer . Over the next ten years , Draay gathered other similarly promising young Jedi . Having foreseen a group that could foil the return of the Sith , she , by 3983 BBY , formed the Jedi Covenant , a secret faction within the Jedi Order that would keep watch for the dark side . Meanwhile , her own largely ignored son , Lucien , also talented in the Force , learned under his family ' s retainer , Haazen , a failed Jedi prospect in his younger days . For her First WatchCircle , Draay gathered her four best young seers — Q ' Anilia , the Khil Xamar , a rare Feeorin Jedi named Feln , and the Togruta Raana Tey . Lucien was also assigned to the Circle as their Executor , handling arrangements and providing practical help and protection . By 3969 BBY , the five Jedi Masters were posted to the Jedi Tower , a small satellite academy on the planet Taris . That year , five Padawans were transferred to Taris , and each was assigned to one of the Masters — Draay to Human Zayne Carrick , Q ' Anilia to native Tarisian Shad Jelavan , Feln to the Ho ' Din Oojoh , Xamar to the rare Nagai Jedi prospect Gharn , and Tey to the Falleen Kamlin . After five years of learning , the Taris class , by 3964 BBY , was close to the end of its training . For the Padawans ' final test , they had to traverse the rogue moon , a planetoid in the Taris asteroid belt constantly bombarded by thousands of meteor s an hour , while blinded . However , the Covenant had ulterior motives for being on the moon . The WatchCircle had felt a storm coming and believed that on the rogue moon , where the Force flowed more freely , they would be able to see what laid ahead more clearly . While they waited for their Padawans to make it to their encampment on a high promontory , the seers gathered to meditate — and were greeted by a series of vivid visions wherein each seer saw not only their violent deaths but the seeming destruction of the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic . Although each seer ' s vision was unique , there was one common thread : Each saw themselves being killed by a figure , assumed to be a Sith , wearing a red environment suit , such as the ones the Padawans were wearing on the rogue moon . Taking that to mean that one of their Padawans was going to bring about the return of the Sith , Draay suggested that they kill the trainees right then and there . However , Xamar refused to act unless their superiors were counseled first . Reluctantly assenting , Draay forestalled the execution . Draay destroyed a droid , T1 - LB , who had observed the whole thing , and soon afterward the first of the successful Padawans arrived . After all five of the learners had completed the test , they all returned to Taris and the Jedi Tower , where the Masters cloistered themselves for days . While the Padawans assumed their Masters were determining which of them would become Jedi Knights , they were actually contacting Coruscant . Krynda refused to allow the Masters to kill the Padawans , wanting the learners to be brought to the Draay Estate so more could be learned about the vision . However , when Haazen relayed her wishes to her son , he ignored them , fearing that Krynda would die if he allowed the prophecy to come to pass . Draay instead told his fellows that he had gotten the go - ahead and began working out a cover story . The Covenant would tell the public that they had rejected Shad Jelavan for his headstrong attitude , and in a rage Jelavan slew his four classmates before the Masters were forced to kill him . When everything was settled , the Masters emerged from solitude , proclaiming that they had decided who would be Knighted , and set up a banquet and Knighting ceremony at the Jedi Tower . The massacre . At the banquet , a seemingly innocuous and inadvertent event forced the Covenant to switch gears and changed everything that was to come . Zayne Carrick , considered to be the least of the Jedi class , arrived by crashing through a window and through a Besalisk caterer ' s table — embroiled in a chase of local Snivvian criminal Marn Hierogryph , Carrick had momentarily forgotten about the banquet . Draay ordered him to pay for the broken table , and while Carrick haggled with the Besalisk caterer , he noticed Hierogryph in the courtyard below . Carrick leapt out the window and apprehended Hierogryph , leaving the captured Snivvian at the Tower ' s hangar cuffed in the Padawan ' s speeder . In the process , Carrick had made himself late for the ceremony . Although the Masters had prepared for Carrick ' s customary tardiness , while they waited for him to arrive , Shad Jelavan noticed something amiss . Lucien Draay had his lightsaber , implying that Carrick would be Knighted . Although initially overjoyed that his friend would be made a Jedi Knight , Jelavan began to doubt whether Carrick , who finished last in every test and trial , would actually be Knighted . The other three Padawans present followed his lead . Spurred on by their halfhearted lies , Jelavan directly challenged the Masters . Their hand forced , the Covenant struck , cutting down the four Padawans before they could react . A moment later , Carrick arrived to see his friends lying dead on the chamber floor . Stunned , Carrick ignored the Masters ' directions to stand down and fled . With the Covenant in pursuit , Carrick made for his speeder , taking off with a confused Hierogryph still cuffed in a sidecar . A wild chase through Taris ' Upper City ensued — Carrick and Hierogryph escaped by hiding in an eatery ' s trash chute , from which they were deposited in the Lower City . There , they discovered that they were already wanted men . Carrick was charged with the murders of his classmates , and Hierogryph was listed as an " accessory . " Aftermath . Wanted man . The deaths of the " Taris Four " became an object of intense media interest , with the event being deemed the " Padawan Massacre " by the hysterical press . The massacre also had a far - reaching economic impact — soon after the massacre , Lhosan Industries announced that it was moving its operations offworld to somewhere safer , leaving many Lower City residents out of work . Needing a " show of justice , " the Taris Jedi Masters teamed with Constable Sowrs and all of Taris Security to track down the fugitives . Carrick and Hierogryph were finally cornered at Junk Junction , a desolate junkyard in the Lower City , at the home of Arkanian Offshoot s Jarael and Gorman " Camper " Vandrayk . Luckily , the Offshoots ' home doubled as a junk hauler , " The Last Resort " , and the four were able to escape into the Taris asteroid belt . In an attempt to figure out why the massacre occurred , Carrick decided to retrace his steps and went to the rogue moon , where he recovered the wreckage of T1 - LB and narrowly avoided Jedi pursuit . Camper rebuilt T1 - LB , and from the droid ' s holograph ic memory , Carrick learned of the Covenant ' s dark visions . Soon afterward , " The Last Resort " was captured by Valius Ying , a pirate who was attempting to claim the sizable bounty on his and Hierogryph ' s heads . Hierogryph negotiated for his and the Offshoots ' freedom , and Carrick decided to go without a fight . Ying delivered Carrick to the Masters in the same chamber , since cleaned , where the massacre occurred . There , Draay revealed to his former Padawan the events prior to the massacre to which Carrick was not privy and the existence and purpose of the Jedi Covenant . Draay killed an unsuspecting Ying and was preparing to kill Carrick — however , a red environment suit - clad Jarael , returning to save her friend , burst through the window wielding Carrick ' s lightsaber and carried him away , her appearance initially frightening the Masters , who briefly thought her to be the Sith of their vision . Public order on Taris significantly declined in the next few weeks . As the Middle City descended into riots , the Masters at the Jedi Tower received word that they had been reassigned to separate postings — the Dantooine Jedi Council felt that the public escape of a Jedi neophyte from their inner sanctum had undermined respect for their authority on Taris . The Masters of the Jedi Tower also received an ominous message from Carrick : He would hunt down each of them until one of them confessed and cleared his name . The message was actually Hierogryph ' s idea , in an attempt to devise a way to keep the Masters from pursuing them across the galaxy . Vindication . The massacre had a profound effect on the war with the Mandalorian warrior clans , which was still in its nascent stages . When the Jedi were pulled off Taris , Mandalore the Ultimate took that as an opportunity to claim the sector and launched a major offensive aimed at taking Taris . Taris was besieged in 3963 BBY , with the Mandalorians forcing the Taris Resistance into the Lower City . Carrick and Hierogryph served with the resistance , encountering Raana Tey , who plotted to kill the fugitive former Padawan . However , Tey became the first of the WatchCircle to fall , perishing in a massive explosion that destroyed the Jedi Tower , giving Krynda ' s name to Carrick before her death . Feln was the next to die , slaughtered by his own people on his homeworld of Odryn after the sacred Feeorin Sanctum of the Exalted was destroyed in an altercation with Carrick and Hierogryph . All the while , Carrick uncovered more and more of the Covenant ' s activities , including the secret collection of powerful Sith artifacts from across the galaxy — one such relic , the Muur Talisman , in the possession of one of Lucien Draay ' s covert agents , caused mass death and destruction on the planet Jebble , and hundreds more dangerous artifacts were found in the Sanctum of the Exalted . However , vindication for Carrick soon came from an unlikely source . Xamar , fearing that he would be the next to die and no longer trusting Lucien Draay , attempted to change his fate and confessed to the Jedi High Council the truth of the Padawan Massacre along with the covert activities of the Jedi Covenant . A large Jedi force descended upon the Draay Estate — however , Haazen used this opportunity to put into motion an operation he had been planning for decades . Haazen , who had secretly been manipulating events all along , launched an insurrection against the Jedi Council , aimed at seizing ultimate power for himself . As the Jedi moved in on the Draay Estate , Haazen used the Republic Navy ' s own ships to bombard the estate and kill many Jedi , including Xamar . In the hours to come , Q ' Anilia committed suicide by poison . However , Draay and Carrick worked together to foil Haazen ' s plot . In the aftermath of the destructive episode , the Republic covered up the violence as an unsuccessful Mandalorian terror plot . Carrick and Hierogryph were officially cleared of any involvement in the Padawan Massacre , their bounties paid off by the Jedi Order . No one , save the families of the deceased Padawans , were told the true story of the Padawan Massacre . Offered a chance to return to the Jedi Order , Carrick turned it down , preferring instead to go into business with Hierogryph . Draay , meanwhile , retreated to a private moon , where , unbeknownst to the rest of the galaxy , he led a True Covenant , intended not to avert coming doom but instead to ensure the survival of the Jedi ways should it occur . Carrick went on to form an organization called the Rogue Moon Project , staffed mainly by relatives of the slain Padawans . The Project was meant to help refugees , wrongly accused people , and beings marginalized during the raging Mandalorian Wars . As a gift , the Project members had a specialist fuse together Carrick ' s classmates ' lightsaber crystal s to use in Carrick ' s new lightsaber . Participants . The Covenant . Following the death of her beloved husband , Barrison Draay , Jedi Master Krynda Draay withdrew from Jedi affairs entirely . Half - Human , half - Miraluka , and possessing Force sight along with normal sight , Draay was a gifted seer . Unwilling to let her talents go to waste , the Jedi Order began sending Draay promising seers for her to train . The first student she accepted after years of refusing potential prospects was the young Miraluka Q ' Anilia . Draay concerned herself with training Q ' Anilia and other young seers , leaving her own son , Lucien , to learn from Haazen . Obsessed with preventing the return of the Sith , Draay formed the Jedi Covenant , dedicated to keeping watch for the rise of the Sith . Secretly training dozens of Jedi , Draay sent her First WatchCircle out into the world . The WatchCircle comprised four seers and one Executor — the latter role held by Lucien , tasked with providing security , handling arrangements , and the like . Lucien , Carrick ' s Master , was more amused by his Padawan ' s antics than anything and eventually took a seat on the Jedi High Council . The other members of the WatchCircle were the seers , trained personally by Krynda Draay herself . The first of these was Q ' Anilia , who became completely devoted to Krynda and had her own close relationship with Lucien . On Taris , Q ' Anilia trained the promising Tarisian Shad Jelavan . A Togruta , Raana Tey was plagued by violent headaches and vivid nightmares as a young girl , symptoms that baffled doctors on her native Shili . A passing Jedi recognized that these afflictions might have been runaway Force visions and referred Tey to Krynda Draay . After becoming a Jedi Master , Tey trained the Falleen Padawan Kamlin . A native of the isolated , primitive world of Odryn , the Feeorin Feln became the Elder of his tribe and displayed such prowess in battle that his fellows thought him magic . After conquering all the neighboring tribes , Feln was discovered to be Force - sensitive by a Jedi scout . After becoming both the Feeorin ' s hallowed Exalted and a Jedi Master , Feln trained the young Ho ' Din named Oojoh . The final member of the WatchCircle was Xamar , a Khil from the planet Belnar , who was brought to Krynda Draay as a youth . Characteristic of his species , Xamar had a rather cautious nature , which often led him to clash with Lucien . On Taris , Xamar trained the Nagai Gharn . After the WatchCircle ' s prophetic visions on the rogue moon , the Padawan Massacre , and the unlikely escape of Zayne Carrick , events were put in motion that led to each member of the WatchCircle and the Covenant itself meeting their ultimate fates . Tey was the first to fall — having been ordered back to Taris alone by Supreme Chancellor Tol Cressa of the Republic , the Togruta , lacking the support system she needed , descended into insanity during the Mandalorian invasion . After encountering Zayne Carrick working with the Taris resistance , Tey attempted to use Carrick ' s former friend — and massacre victim Shad Jelavan ' s sister — Shel Jelavan to kill Carrick . After Jelavan hesitated , Tey tried to do the deed herself , only to have Jelavan stab her in the back with her brother ' s lightsaber . Still , Carrick tried to help Tey out of the burning and damaged Jedi Tower , and Tey accepted her enemy ' s help — however , Marn Hierogryph , mistakenly thinking that Tey was trying to attack Carrick , blew up the Jedi Tower and killed the Togruta . Feln encountered Carrick investigating the Sanctum of the Exalted on Odryn , a structure sacred to the Feeorin in which Feln had allowed the Covenant to store Sith artifacts . After a wild chase and fight , Feln destroyed the Sanctum to prevent other Jedi from finding out what was being gathered there , leading his tribesmen to turn on and kill him . Xamar , fearing he was next , revealed the covert activities of the Covenant and cleared Carrick ' s name . Xamar ' s foreseen death came shortly after anyway , as he was killed when Haazen took control of Republic ships and ordered them to fire on the Jedi raiding the Draay Estate . Q ' Anilia died shortly afterward — after finding Krynda Draay , immobilized by a stroke suffered shortly after a vision of the massacre , in a life - preserving oubliette , the Miraluka committed suicide by poison in order to be with her again . For her part , Krynda was shortly awoken by Hierogryph , who brought the addled Jedi Master to her son , Lucien , only for her to die when Lucien confirmed that he had indeed carried out the killing of the Padawans . With these deaths , Lucien was the last remaining of the WatchCircle — having survived the events of Haazen ' s insurrections , he dropped out of sight , retreating to a private moon to lead his True Covenant . The Padawans . Zayne Carrick . A native of the planet Phaeda , Zayne Carrick was taken to the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine for training at the age of five . Even then , Carrick was recognized as having only a marginal Force capacity , although he seemed to have a " special relationship " with the Force . Very close with the other members of his Taris Jedi class , especially his best friend , Shad Jelavan , Carrick consistently proved himself to be the least of the five Padawans — his struggles were so great that some of his teachers suspected that he had some sort of Force - learning disability . On Taris , Carrick was the Padawan of Lucien Draay , who largely ignored him and privately admitted to be amused by his Padawan ' s antics . Carrick spent his time on Taris repeatedly trying and failing to capture local Snivvian criminal Marn Hierogryph , who always managed to outsmart the Human . Carrick ' s successful capture of Hierogryph fatefully caused him to be late to his Knighting ceremony — after finishing last in his final trial on the rogue moon , Carrick knew he was a long shot to be Knighted . When he finally arrived , he found his classmates dead at their Masters ' feet . Knowing that he was next , Carrick fled along with his new " accomplice , " Hierogryph , becoming one of the Republic ' s most wanted fugitives . Carrick escaped Taris with the help of Hierogryph and the Arkanian Offshoots Jarael and Camper , and dedicated himself to clearing his name and exposing the treachery of the Jedi Covenant . For Carrick , vindication finally came when Xamar admitted the truth of the Padawan Massacre , and he was cleared of all charges after he helped to put down Haazen ' s insurrection . Given the chance to return to the Jedi Order , Carrick declined and went into business with Hierogryph , now his close friend . The " Taris Four " . Besides Carrick , there were four other Padawans learning at the Jedi Tower — they went on to be known as the " Taris Four , " slain in the massacre . Of the group , native Tarisian Shad Jelavan , Q ' Anilia ' s Padawan , was considered to be the best and brightest . Orphaned in an accident in the Middle City that claimed the lives of his parents , Jelavan used his stipend to support his younger sister , Shel , and brother , Shay . A close friend of Zayne Carrick , he often tried to motivate the struggling Padawan . Raana Tey ' s Padawan was the Falleen Kamlin , noted for her capture of notorious criminal P ' den Robalt . Oojoh , a Ho ' Din and Feln ' s Padawan , was known for having brought down the Leverby smuggling ring . Rounding out the group was Gharn , a rare Nagai Jedi prospect , apprenticed to Xamar . Although all four were considered promising future Jedi , they all perished in the Padawan Massacre , leading to the end of the Jedi ' s official presence on the world . Behind the scenes . The Padawan Massacre occurred in " " , the first issue of the " " comic series , written by John Jackson Miller and released in 2006 . Over the rest of the " " arc , the Padawan Massacre was front and center , as main character Zayne Carrick , blamed for the crime , runs from the law and learns more about the event . Many " Knights of the Old Republic " issues afterward focus on Carrick trying to clear his name and combat the people responsible for the massacre , culminating when the Jedi Covenant is destroyed and Carrick absolved of his supposed crimes in the arc " " . After the release of the first " Knights of the Old Republic " issue , Wookieepedia dubbed the event the " Padawan Massacre of Taris " — Miller alluded to this name in his notes for " " and later canon ized the name " Padawan Massacre " in " " .