Conclave on Exis Station The Conclave on Exis Station , or the Exis Convocations , was held by the members of the Jedi Order in 3986 BBY on Exis Station , an ion mining station in the Teedio system . The convocation was the first major meeting of the Jedi since the Conclave at Deneba held during the Krath Holy Crusade of ten years earlier . Following the events of the Great Sith War , in which the Galactic Republic had fallen into turmoil and a large number of the Jedi were killed — including a majority of the Order ' s most influential Masters — the galaxy had experienced marked recovery , but the Jedi sought direction . Nomi Sunrider , the head of the Jedi at the time , called as many of her comrades as could attend to Exis Station , where a meeting would be held discussing the future of the Order . Sunrider held forth before the Jedi , speaking of the great cost of the war , the period of healing the galaxy had gone through , and the future of the Jedi Knights . The conclave was interrupted , however , when Vima Sunrider , Nomi ' s daughter , stole an ion mining vessel and was very nearly killed . Following her rescue by Tott Doneeta , the meeting continued . Sylvar spoke next , condemning the fallen Jedi Ulic Qel - Droma for his actions in the war , and calling the Jedi to seek justice against him . Following the Conclave on Exis Station , the Jedi experienced a period of relative peace ; the convocation would be remembered thousands of years later as a pivotal point in Jedi history . History . Background . The Great Sith War , which occurred in 3996 BBY , was a galaxy - spanning conflict between the forces of the Galactic Republic , which included the Jedi Order , and the followers of the Sith and their allies . In an attempt to wrest control over a large portion of the galaxy from the Republic , which had reigned for over twenty millennia , the spirit of the long - dead Dark Lord of the Sith Freedon Nadd subverted several Force - sensitives into furthering his ambitions from beyond the grave . Among these were Exar Kun , a Jedi apprentice who had grown disenchanted with the current state of the Order and had left on his own quest for knowledge — including that of the Sith . Also under the influence of Freedon Nadd were Satal and Aleema Keto , members of the Tetan elite who were themselves dabbling in dark - side magic , and had formed a secret society and dark - side cult known as the Krath . The Sith , having been reestablished by the followers of Freedon Nadd , waged war on the Republic and the Jedi , causing bedlam on the galactic scale . But in due time , the ambitions of Nadd ' s converts outweighed his influence over them . Another spectral Dark Lord named Marka Ragnos branded Exar Kun — along with fellow fallen Jedi Ulic Qel - Droma — the inheritor to the Sith traditions . Kun also extinguished Nadd ' s spirit , brought the Krath into his own dominion , and took full control of the Sith War . Together Kun and Qel - Droma drove the war to even more cataclysmic proportions , but the Jedi Order fought the Sith at each turn . Notable Jedi Masters and Knights such as Nomi Sunrider , Sylvar , and Thon of Ambria led Republic forces against the followers of Kun and Qel - Droma as the war came to the point where a decisive victory , or a false move , could spell triumph or defeat for either side . Ultimately , the Republic and the Jedi were victorious , but at great cost . Many of the most influential Jedi Masters , including Qel - Droma ' s and Kun ' s mentors , Arca Jeth and Vodo - Siosk Baas , respectively , were killed in the course of the war . The Sith launched a suicide attack — killing its unwitting perpetrators , Aleema Keto and the Cathar Crado — in which they triggered a supernova in the Cron Cluster using Sith magic , devastating the Jedi library world of Ossus . Ulic Qel - Droma , having killed his brother , the still - loyal Jedi Knight Cay Qel - Droma , in a fit of rage , was cornered by Nomi Sunrider , who then removed his ability to use the Force . Qel - Droma then led the Jedi armada to Exar Kun ' s base on Yavin 4 , where Kun managed to transcend his physical body , only to have his spirit contained on the moon by the Jedi . Following the devastation of the war , the Sith were all but destroyed , and Qel - Droma wandered the galaxy in a self - imposed exile . The Jedi Order rebuilt , naming Sunrider as their leader . . Many new Jedi were trained to replace those who had fallen in the war . In 3986 BBY , the Sith War had been over for more than a decade , and the Republic — and the Jedi alongside it — had begun to recover . The Jedi Order had not met in great numbers in the late stages of the war or in the years following it , their last great convocation having taken place at Mount Meru on Deneba in 3997 BBY during the Krath conflict . And so the Jedi were called to meet at Exis Station , an ion mining station in the Teedio system , in order to discuss the future of their order . The conclave . The space around Exis Station swarmed with spacecraft as the Jedi gathered there for the conclave . Nomi Sunrider brought her teenage daughter , Vima , to the station for the conference , and there Vima was reunited with the Tchuukthai Jedi Master Thon , who had been Nomi ' s master and had cared for and protected Vima for a good portion of her life . Also arriving on the station , with two of her fellow Cathar flanking her , was Sylvar , now a revered figure on her homeworld . But the three had little time to catch up , as the Conclave on Exis Station began with a speech by the head of the Order . After welcoming the numerous Jedi Masters and Knights to the convocation , Sunrider spoke of the Sith War , and of the time of healing since its end . Her words were ones of hope , as she asked the Jedi to think of the future , and to place their trust — trust that had been shaken in the terrible war — in the Force . As Nomi spoke , Thon noted that the gathered Jedi looked up to his former apprentice , and followed her ; he was proud . Vima Sunrider , however , was bored with the conference already , merely complicating the frustration she already felt at her mother ' s neglect of her Jedi training . The girl slipped away , looking for something adventurous to do , and found just what she was looking for . One of Exis Station ' s ion mining crews was heading to their ships for a shift . Vima , finding one ship both prepped and unguarded , climbed into the cockpit and took off with the rest of the formation . But the teenager was ill - prepared for such a flight , and soon found herself caught in a magnetic loop from one of the local star ' s chromospheric storm cells . As Nomi Sunrider was laying out plans to form a new Jedi Council , she brought the conclave to a halt when she sensed her daughter ' s imminent danger ; Thon and Sylvar also felt Vima ' s predicament in the Force . With the stolen ion mining ship careening towards the star , Vima punched out in the escape pod . As it fell , the mining crew ' s foreman refused to risk his crew on her rescue , and Vima ' s situation seemed dire . Yet at the last moment , the escape pod was snagged by a grapnel from the ship of a newcomer — the Twi ' lek Jedi Tott Doneeta , arriving at the station late after having been caught in a heat storm on his homeworld of Ryloth . He returned with Vima to Exis Station , where they were received by Masters Thon and a very relieved Nomi . The conclave began once more . Sylvar soon took the podium , as there was much she wanted to address at the convocation . Ulic Qel - Droma , one of the leaders of the Sith during the war , had been left to his own designs following the end of the conflict , and Sylvar sought justice . She was bitter about the cost of the war , including the death of her mate , Crado , and placed all blame on the last remaining member of the Sith regime . Demanding that Ulic be hunted down and brought to justice , Sylvar caused Nomi to reflect on her memories of him . Vima did also , although as she had been a young child , hers were not as bitter as the others ' . Outcome . The conclave came to its conclusion shortly thereafter . The myriad Jedi began to go their separate ways , and the station slowly emptied . Tott Doneeta , sensing that Sylvar still had much turmoil in her , invited the Cathar to join him in his work on Ryloth . Vima Sunrider decided to run away once again , this time in search of Ulic Qel - Droma ; the young girl stowed away aboard the ship of the spacer known as Hoggon , who had come to the convocation to observe the great Jedi of the war . She convinced Hoggon , who had taken Ulic to the ice planet Rhen Var , to bring her there as well . After discovering where her daughter had gone , Nomi Sunrider also traveled to Rhen Var , in order to confront Qel - Droma and take Vima home ; Sylvar also arrived on the planet , but with her own intentions . After a long duel between he and the Cathar , Ulic refused to defend himself against Sylvar any longer , and it was this action that reminded Sylvar what it meant to be a Jedi . She gave up her quest for vengeance , but Qel - Droma was shot and killed by Hoggon soon after — the spacer sought glory and his own place in history . The Conclave on Exis Station would become known as a pivotal point in the history of the Jedi . Several thousand years after the conference , the Jedi Knight Tionne , of the New Jedi Order , would discover Exis Station ' s location , as well as the text of Nomi Sunrider ' s speeches . Eleven years thereafter , the dark side Mage known as Orloc would set up his base on Exis Station . Principal participants . Nomi Sunrider . Nomi Sunrider was head of the Jedi Order at the time of the Conclave on Exis Station . The wife of the late Jedi Andur Sunrider , Nomi chose to follow the path of her husband ' s training when he was killed by pirates . Arriving on Ambria , Sunrider was trained as a Jedi by the Tchuukthai Jedi Master known as Thon . Possessing a strong natural ability in battle meditation , Sunrider became a respected Jedi Knight , and was sent on many missions as the Great Sith War developed . Along the way she came to know — and to love — Ulic Qel - Droma , another prominent young Jedi Knight . When Ulic was seduced by the dark side , joining the Krath , Nomi found herself fighting a war against the man she loved , but never faltered in her resolve to uphold the Jedi way of life . By the end of the war , Nomi had become established as a leader among the Jedi . Nomi was the mother , by her late husband , of Vima Sunrider . Throughout her mother ' s training , and often during the course of the Sith War , Vima accompanied Nomi . After the war , Nomi took Vima as her Jedi apprentice , and brought her to Exis Station for the conclave . Nomi Sunrider would live on as a legend among the Jedi , still famous after thousands of years . Sylvar . Sylvar , a Cathar Jedi Knight from the planet Cathar , was well - known throughout the galaxy and famous among her own people by the time of the conclave . Having chosen Crado as her mate , Sylvar and her lover went on to train in the Jedi arts under Vodo - Siosk Baas on Dantooine . Their fellow apprentice , Exar Kun , grew tired of the Jedi way , and shunned his path in search of new — and forbidden — knowledge . Kun went on to become the Dark Lord of the Sith , and Crado followed , abandoning the Jedi and Sylvar . As the events of the Sith War unfolded , Sylvar found herself by the side of Nomi Sunrider often , after having saved young Vima from Krath war droid s . As the war progressed , Sylvar lost first her master to the Sith , as Exar Kun murdered him , and then her mate , whom Ulic Qel - Droma sent on a suicide mission . Following the events of the war , Sylvar blamed Qel - Droma , the only surviving member of the Sith , for the tragedies , and sought justice . Behind the scenes . The Conclave on Exis Station begins in the comic " " from the " " comic series , and is concluded in " " . Events surrounding the conclave continue throughout the rest of the " " story arc , which was written by Star Wars author Kevin J . Anderson . The conclave is briefly mentioned in the short story " Firestorm " , also by Anderson , as well as in the junior novel " " by Rebecca Moesta .