Knights of Fel (SWAU)

The **Knights of Fel** were an order of Force-sensitive adepts who rebelled against Emperor Palpatine in the final years of his rule and united under Artorias Fel, pledging to reform the Empire and once again see the galaxy united under fair rule. Though Force-users, the Knights of Fel were not Jedi, but were nonetheless followers of the Light side of the Force. The Knights of Fel were loyal to their leader alone and achieving self-balance with the Force was secondary to using the Force as a tool to bring about a greater good; because of this philosophy, the Jedi did not view then in a terribly favourable light, though admired their skill as warriors. They were the precursor organization to the Order of the Imperial Knights instituted by Emperor Fel after the Second Galactic Civil War

The Knights of Fel, just like their Imperial Knight successors, were first and foremost an organization of warriors and prided themselves as being effective in battle. This is in contrast to the Jedi, who are peacekeepers first and foremost, and do not usually command troops in battle. The Knights formed

The **Imperial Knights**, formally the **Knights of the Empire**, were an order of Force-practitioners loyal to the Emperor of the Fel Empire. They were fully trained in the ways of the Force and rejected the dark side of the Force, unlike previous Imperial Force-based organizations. Though they did not draw on the dark side, they did not strictly follow the light side either, and were viewed as Gray by the New Jedi Order.

The Imperial Knights swore loyalty to their Emperor, serving the Force as embodied by him. By 130 ABY, Emperor Roan Fel was a fully-trained Imperial Knight, and the leader of the organization. However, if the Emperor were to ever fall to the dark side, it was the duty of the Imperial Knights to either remove him from power or bring him back to the light, as ultimately, it was the Force to which they owed their allegiance.

Following the Fel Empire's displacement by Darth Krayt in 130 ABY, the Imperial Knights fled from the capital with their Emperor, becoming a part of his Empire-in-exile. By 137 ABY, several Imperial Knights were being routinely sent on missions by Roan Fel, as he sought to establish alliances with both the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances and the Jedi Order. They were often on the front lines of the Second Imperial Civil War, battling Darth Krayt's forces on such planets as Vendaxa, Mon Calamari, and Had Abbadon.

The **Knights of Ren** was an enclave of masked warriors who served Kylo Ren—master of the Knights of Ren and Supreme Leader of the First Order—during the New Republic Era. They were neither Jedi nor Sith, but members of a new generation of Force-sensitive adepts that emerged to fill the void left by the demise of the last Sith Lords. Adhering to the ways of the Ren, a philosophy epitomized by the lightsaber, the Knights roamed the galaxy causing wanton destruction as devotees of the dark side of the Force. Armed with distinctive weapons for ranged and close-quarter combat, they were fearsome enforcers of their master's will.

The Knights emerged from the Unknown Regions in the aftermath of the Galactic Civil War, when the Galactic Empire fell to the New Republic. They once followed a warrior known only as "Ren," until Ben Solo joined their ranks after the resurgent Jedi Order fell back into ruin. Supreme Leader Snoke gifted the Knights to the newly christened Kylo Ren, who renounced his former identity and the Jedi Code. Strong with the Force, Kylo was heir to the powerful bloodline of the Sith Lord Darth Vader, but, unknown to him, the Knights' true loyalty belonged to the resurrected Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious.

The Knights served as personal bodyguards to Kylo, who usurped Snoke's rule as Supreme Leader, during the final days of the war between the First Order and the Resistance. They were also tasked with hunting Rey, a Jedi apprentice who fought for the Resistance and shared a unique connection with Kylo. After Kylo returned to the light side of the Force, the Knights confronted their former master on Exegol, where they were slain in battle by Solo.