Order of the Terrible Glare / Legends The Order of the Terrible Glare was a splinter group of the Jedi Order , formed by dissident Jedi Knights during the Pius Dea Crusades . When the Jedi Order recused itself from the Galactic Republic during this time , these dissenters rallied to the Pius Dea cause , and abandoned Ossus in favor of Garn . Becoming a violent and dangerous cult led by shamans , the Order waged war against the Jedi before being destroyed at the end of the Crusades . The sole survivor , Rur , lived on in a computer and lured Jedi to Garn for thousands of years , taking vengeance on them one at a time . However , Rur was finally defeated by Luke Skywalker during the Galactic Civil War , which brought an end to this ancient Order . History . The Order of the Terrible Glare was a group of dissident Jedi Knights who splintered from the Jedi Order when the Jedi High Council withdrew to Ossus during the Pius Dea Crusades of the Galactic Republic . Believing that the Pius Dea were correct in their pursuit , these Jedi abandoned the Order and championed the crusaders who were causing turmoil across the Republic . The shamans of the Order used their Force abilities learned on Ossus to pervert nature , developing soul snare — crystal prisms that were capable of imprisoning the life force of a sapient being for eternity . Master illusionists , the shamans of the Order of the Terrible Glare established a base on the desolate planet Garn where they stored massive computer terminals to store their knowledge and equipped with sensors able to detect lightsabers across interstellar distances . At some point , the Order also allied with the ghastly inter - dimensional monsters , known as the Rozzum . Despite the length of the Crusades and the fanaticism of the Order ' s shamans , the Jedi Order proved to be more powerful and were able to overthrow Supreme Chancellor Contispex XIX on Coruscant . With the Republic under control , the Jedi Order dispatched a strike team to Garn and laid waste to the world . While all members of the Order were thought to have been killed , High Shaman Rurr survived long enough to encode and preserve his mind within one of the Order ' s computers . Trapped within the Order ' s black tower , Rur would secretly continue to wage war against the Jedi Order for millennia , using long - range sensors to detect lightsabers and sending false distress signals to lure their wielders to Garn and to their deaths . Rur , in his computerized state , lost sense of time ; a span of more than 10 , 000 years was to him but a few months . At the height of the Galactic Civil War , Rur lured Luke Skywalker to Garn using a distress signal in which a woman pleaded for help from his tower . There , Skywalker was " attacked " by giant " pale squirmers , " manifestations of his own fears , and discovered soul - snares still containing the life forces of fallen Jedi Knights . Elsewhere in the tower , he discovered the desiccated skeletal remains of armored Jedi , and ancient and alien remains unknown to him . Ultimately , Skywalker encountered the vengeful remains of Rur , who appeared as a green - skinned humanoid figure draped in ornate vestments within a green translucent pyramid . Rur accused the Jedi of treachery in their " recent " attack " many months ago , " and announced his intention to take revenge on Skywalker as he had done to so many others . Recognizing the planet and the ancient Order from a story briefly related to him by Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi , Skywalker explained to Rur that the Jedi were all dead , killed in the Great Jedi Purge , and that he was not a Jedi , but merely a man with a lightsaber . Unable to reconcile the destruction of the Jedi Order and the passage of so much time with his ancient lust for revenge , Rur fell into a self - destructive fit of dissonance , and destroyed the tower . Skywalker narrowly escaped , reflecting on the hatred and vengeful spirit that had finally consumed the last of the shamans of the Order of the Terrible Glare . Behind the scenes . The Order of the Terrible Glare is in some ways a precursor to later , better - established elements of " Star Wars " lore , such as the Dark Lords of the Sith , as ancient and terrible enemies of the Jedi , thought long - since destroyed , and the Ssi - ruu k , as enemies who stole souls and kept them imprisoned in technological constructs . In particular , Rur bears a strong resemblance to the later character of Exar Kun , who also escaped destruction at the Jedi ' s hands by death , returning to menace Luke Skywalker thousands of years after his demise . Given the use of crystals in the Terrible Glare ' s unique technology , it is visually similar to the Sith Empire ' s magic , but in light of Palpatine ' s interest in the Ssi - ruuk ' s entechment technology , it is highly likely that the Sith Lords never obtained the secrets of the Terrible Glare ' s soul - snares , even though they were able to imprison evil spirits within their holocrons . The Order of the Terrible Glare was going to be featured in Joseph Bongiorno ' s and Rich Handley ' s article " Cult Encounters of the Star Wars Universe " , but " Star Wars Gamer " was canceled before it was published . According to Bongiorno , the bit on the Order was going to feature some dialogue between Skywalker and Bodo Baas from the holocron . Finally , what — if anything — this order had to do with the name given to the storm of solar irradiation that engulfed Dweem and its neighboring worlds , circa 60 BBY , has not yet been established .