Rur / Legends Rur was the High Shaman of the Terrible Glare . He was a humanoid male and the last of his order . Biography . Rur was the High Shaman of the Terrible Glare . After his order lost a war with the Jedi , thousands of years before the Galactic Civil War , Rur had embedded his personality into a computer , his body mummified inside a pyramid of glass . In this state he sat waiting in the temple of his order on the planet Garn . He used sensors to detect nearby Jedi through their lightsabers , and lured them to the temple with a false distress signal , where he killed them with a horde of dangerous beasts . In his computerized mind , he was certain only a few months had passed since the war , and that the Jedi roamed the galaxy still . Sometime after the Battle of Yavin , he lured Luke Skywalker to the temple . The young Rebel revealed to Rur that thousands of years had passed since the war , and that there were no Jedi left for him to exact his revenge upon . In shock and despair of hearing this news , the shaman apparently activated some sort of self - destruct mechanism in the temple , causing it to crumble around him . Skywalker managed to escape , but Rur was never heard from again . Behind the scenes . Rur appeared in " Blind Fury ! " , a 1982 comic written by Alan Moore . The article " Cult Encounters of the Star Wars Universe " was supposed to include a backstory for Rur , however the article was never officially published . The information that was to be published in the article is outlined below . A male Sunesi , Carel Kapekos was born during the Pius Dea Era to parents who raised him in the Pius Dea faith . Identified as Forceful , Kapekos was accepted into the ranks of the Jedi Order and continued to worship the Goddess , an acceptable act within the Order at the time . A model Jedi , Kapekos believed that the Pius Dea Crusades that swept the Galactic Republic had gone too far , and thought that the Order had a responsibility to curtail the worst transgressions of the Contispex dynasty while still fighting against predatory races such as the Hutts . Serving as a Knight Errant in defense of the common people of the galaxy , Kapekos received a vision of fallen Jedi rising up to oppose justice and righteousness in addition to an invasion from a nameless terror from Wild Space . Becoming paranoid of schismatics amongst the Order ' s members , Kapekos began to accrue as many ancient texts in hopes of plumbing them for a way to defeat the dark side of the Force and its adherents . Petitioning the Council to expand the Order ' s military presence in the Republic , Kapekos ' suggestions were dismissed but did not censor him for his beliefs . As the Jedi Order assisted in the destruction of the Pius Dea and took control of the Republic , Kapekos led the Pius Dea Jedi in revolt against the actions of Grand Master Biel Ductavis . Ductavis stood firmly against Kapekos and his followers , demanding that they foresake the Goddess or leave the Order . Incensed , Kapekos and sixty - seven followers left the Order and followed their new leader to the world of Garn where a Cathedral ship of the Pius Dea had crash - landed . Taking up residence on Garn , Kapekos and his followers rescued the survivors of the crash and brought them into the fold of their new Order of Shamans . Training one of the ship survivors as his students , Alquist became his second in command and closest advisor . Watching from afar as the Jedi Order returned to Coruscant and installed themselves in the halls of government , Kapekos was accused by the High Council of liberating the so - called Fallen , a group of Pius Dea Jedi who had left the Order and never joined with Kapekos ' Shamans on Garn . Standing before the High Council on Coruscant to clear his name in a show of good faith , Kapekos was unprepared for the hostility that awaited him from the Jedi Vindicator s who had taken hold of the Order ' s leadership . Deemed as an affront to the Force by the Vindicators and vilified as heretics , Kapekos was stripped of the Force by the High Council , the Order ' s harshest punishment . Enraged by the Council ' s betrayal , Kapekos was released back into the galaxy and returned to Garn a broken and tormented being . Driven by revenge , Kapekos secluded himself away from his followers , causing rumors to circulate on his mental state . Some believed him possessed by Xendor ' s spirit , but others knew that Alquist and other confidants had assisted him in learning arcane teachings that predated the Jedi . Taking the name Rur , meaning " open spaces " and " freedom " , the former Jedi named himself High Shaman and created the Order of the Terrible Glare . Named in mockery of the Jedi Order ' s light , the Terrible Order worshipped the Goddess and was guided by a series of rambling texts . Detailing the existence of a portal gate hidden on Garn which granted access to the Night Realm , the Shamans of the Terrible Order established a great pyramid to house the gate and prevent the dreaded Rozzum from entering the universe . Believing that he could control the Rozzum and keep them at bay , Rur stole away to his private citadel where he amassed great prestige amongst his people . Rur eventually dispatched Alquist to Coruscant in a ploy to lure out the Jedi Vindicators and destroy them at Garn . Feigning a lack of control on Garn , Alquist claimed that the Rozzum had escaped and were set on destroying the galaxy . Expecting the trap , the Vindicators sought a confrontation anyway and descended on Garn with abandoned . The Vindicators arrived on Garn to find Rur ' s Shamans had created Shadow Domes , pure pockets of darkness that consumed the light of the Force . The defiled towers erected in these abysses were crawling with Rozzum and the home to Shamans with arcane skill . Assaulting Garn , many Jedi Vindicators were imprisoned within soul snare s and were doomed to an eternity of torment . Realizing that the Garn Conflict warranted a massive assault , a guild of Jedi Grand Masters and the High Council attacked Garn and a great madness swept across the world as the Jedi sought to put down Rur and the Terrible Order . With casualties on both sides reaching into the thousands , the Jedi left Garn a ruined and forbidden world , the High Council could not use the resources needed to recover Rur ' s body . Indeed , Rur remained within his Citadel , hidden from the Jedi and lost to history .