The EXALT organisation

**The EXALT organisation,** formerly known as "The DUBBED project", was a guerilla faction with the primary intent of aiding the Republic and the Jedi Order. Rising from the ashes of the DUBBED project at some time during the New Mandalorian Wars, EXALT played a pivotal role in the victories the Republic gained over the Mandalorians. After the New Mandalorian War, however, EXALT vanished from public perception and truly operated from the shadows. Their current status is unknown.

In general, little was known about the workings of EXALT. Most of information regarding the organisation has been pieced together by librarian Occam Axiom, whom was adament in her search for the true motives of the organisation she deemed "a bunch of vigilantes up to no good."

## **History of the EXALT organisation**

### **Project "DUBBED" (600 ABY - 700 ABY (estimate))**

Project DUBBED, created by a Jedi trio that had dubbed themselves Shadow (a common misconception is that they were "Dubbed Shadows"), was an effort to increase coordination with the Jedi, Republic soldiers and some individuals gifted in skullduggery. David "Tennant" Xitus, Dane Reach and Gaius "Ace" Zxion worked as a tightknit group, mostly focussed on combatting situations the Jedi High Council deemed to dangerous to officially get involved in as Jedi. With the deaths of Dane and Gaius, David left the project out of his hands, which resulted in the destruction of most of their assets. Only when David's son returned to pick up the pieces, the project was reinstated as EXALT.

### **The New Mandalorian War (718 - 722 ABY)**

EXALT played a pivotal role during the New Mandalorian War and became remarkably well-known during the conflict, contrary to their own wishes.
The first sighting of EXALT was during the bombing of the Senate District: EXALT forces deployed all throughout affected areas to counteract terrorist attacks. Making sure they were positively identified by Republic forces, they appeared to be able to break into Republic technology in order to avoid friendly fire. As soon as a majority of Republic forces (or a handful of Jedi) appeared, however, the EXALT cells would pull back and allow for the Republic to handle the situation.
In BlasTech's logs, it has been recorded that Jedi Master Cade Tennant had visited their factory on Terrelia even before the Republic tried to blockade the planet. Recently discovered logs also show that equipment started failing shortly after his visit, and that many citizens of Terrelia vanished. It can be assumed that EXALT saved and potentially recruited a lot of individuals affected by the horrors of the (preparation) of the New Mandalorian War.
The first true sighting of the EXALT flagship was during the Battle of Terrelia, although the craft only appeared right before the end of the battle. Republic admirals knew that something was evading detection, but had no idea how to pinpoint the ship's signature. As soon as the Dauntless decloaked, the battle was considered over.
Since their commanding officer played a pivotal role in the search for the darksaber, it can be assumed that EXALT provided the Republic-affiliated parties with whatever information and transportation they could, but this can not be confirmed.
During the Battle of Ilum, both the fleet and operatives of EXALT played a major role in the victory. During the naval battle, the fleet withheld their forces as per usual, but initiated action as soon as the Republic flagship was destroyed. Regrouping the Republic fleet, EXALT also immediately deployed fighters in order to protect the Republic escape pods. After the succesful naval battle, EXALT deployed a handful of striketeams to ambush and slow down the assaulting Mandalorian army, eventually evacuating all Republic forces.
Unwilling to destroy mind-controlled forces during the Clash over Coruscant, EXALT focussed all their efforts on evacuation the citizens of the areas affected by Winston "Wytheryn" Delacroix' Force Storms. Republic naval crews fighting in orbit stated that a few EXALT ships were present during the fighting, but only used their turbolasers to disable weaponry and spent most of the time drawing attention so that Republic forces were harmed minimally. During the second Clash over Coruscant, EXALT enabled the safe approach of the Jedi party on the way to assist Cade, then exiting through hyperspace as soon as Wytheryn had been killed.

### **Unknown Status (722 ABY and onwards)**

Since the New Mandalorian Wars, sightings of EXALT have been scarce. The Republic has refused to speak about their cooperation with this faction and EXALT itself seemed to remove most sensitive data from all known databases.

### **Potential sightings**

#### Incursion on Aztubek

Though unconfirmed, the Jedi party present during Aeacus' rescue and their reports have raised some suspicion of the re-emergence of the EXALT organisation.

## **Organisation**

### **Leadership**

Leadership has always been in the hands of a Commanding Officer, shortened to "CO" for obvious reasons. The original CO, known as CO-1, was David Xitus. When his reinstated EXALT, he was known as CO-2 by many. Since then, it has been presumed that there have been plenty of CO's to lead the organisation.

### **EXALT ranks**

In general, EXALT seemed to employ a mixture of army and naval titles. The commanding officer was the overall head of the organisation, with a general overlooking the field operatives and an admiral maintaining the fleet. Following a basic command structure, ranks were named after titles of Republic and Imperial land- and naval armies. The only noteworthy difference appeared to be that many "footsoldiers" operated in striketeams or *cells*, as if they were insurgent forces, adhering to their roots as a guerilla faction. It was presumed that these cells had cell leaders, but that was just speculation.