Great Jedi Purge

## Combatants

* Galactic Republic (early)
* Galactic Empire
	+ Imperial Intelligence
	+ Inquisitorius
* The Path
* Alliance to Restore the Republic (late)
	+ Mantis Crew
	+ Spectres (late)

## Commanders

* Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader
* The Grand Inquisitor
* Second Sister
* Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi
* Chief Librarian Jocasta Nu †
* Jedi Knight Jarik Shan
* Ahsoka Tano
* Jedi Knight Cal Kestis
* Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus
* Maul (briefly)

> "A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct."
> — Obi-Wan Kenobi, to Luke Skywalker
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The **Great Jedi Purge**, also known as the **war against the Jedi**, was the campaign waged by the Galactic Empire to hunt members of the Jedi Order during the early Imperial Era. The destruction of the Jedi traced its origins to the ancient wars against the Sith, at the end of which were nearly eliminated by the Jedi Order. The Sith were in fact operating in secret, plotting their eventual destruction of the Jedi. A millennium after the defeat of the Sith, Darth Sidious, using his public persona of Senator and then Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, manipulated and deceived the galaxy into the Clone Wars as a pretext for gaining emergency executive power over the Galactic Republic. He used the war to manipulate and deceive the Galactic Senate into granting his office virtually unchecked executive power in the name of security. In addition, the clone army that provided the Republic with its military force had secretly been implanted with bio-chips by its Sith creators that, upon activation, would trigger total compliance and force the clones into killing their Jedi leaders.

The Jedi Purge began at the end of the Clone Wars. Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi Knight believed to be the Chosen One destined to destroy the Sith, discovered that Palpatine was Darth Sidious and informed Jedi Master Mace Windu. In what Sidious would publicly label the "Jedi rebellion," Windu and three other Masters confronted the Chancellor, who killed the three Masters and engaged Windu in a lightsaber duel. Skywalker, who sought power from Sidious in order to save his wife Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo from death, betrayed and incapacitated Windu before the Jedi Master could kill the Dark Lord. Sidious then threw Windu off his office with his Force lightning, and Skywalker became Sith Lord Darth Vader and led the Siege of the Jedi Temple, killing virtually everyone inside it. While Vader carried out the assault on the Temple, Sidious initiated Order 66, with the latter causing the clones' biochips to brainwash them into betraying and slaughtering the Jedi, ultimately leading to the Jedi Order being defeated and nearly destroyed. The Order was a resounding success: nearly all the Jedi in the field were killed. With the Jedi branded traitors and the Clone Wars at an end, Sidious declared himself Galactic Emperor when he transformed the Republic into the Empire. However, a small number of Jedi who were either not involved with the clones or escaped the trap survived and continued to vex the Sith in years after.

The Age of the Empire saw the continued hunting of the Jedi survivors by the Empire. Vader commanded a number of Inquisitors, whose job was to hunt any Jedi survivors and Force-sensitive children. The Grand Inquisitor, a former Jedi Temple Guard from Utapau, hunted a rebel cell on the planet Lothal led by Padawan Kanan Jarrus. These rebels ultimately helped create the Alliance to Restore the Republic which fought against the Empire during the Galactic Civil War. A major battle of the Purge came with the Mission to Malachor I, during which Sidious' first apprentice Maul resurfaced, and Vader dueled his former Padawan Ahsoka Tano, where most of the Inquisitors died. The Purge continued with the Mission to Onderon, Action at Coruscant, Battle of Dxun, and the Mission to the Lothal Jedi Temple.

## **Appearances**

* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 19: Ghosts of Mortis" (first appearance) (vision to Anakin Skywalker)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 74: Shattered"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 10: A Sith Lord Rises"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 11: Operation Knightfall"
* *Rylla's Bounty* — "Knightfall"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 12: The Aftermath" (flashback only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 3: Skirmish on Mandalore"
* *Forces of Destiny* — "Living with Family and Friends" (flashback only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 1: The Rescue"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 9: New Parents?" (flashback only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 10: Nightmares" (dream to Jarik Shan)
* *Rylla's Bounty* — "Reprise" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 14: What Are You?" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 19: Revelations from the Force" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 20: Future Plans" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 28: The Path of Mara Jade" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 29: Rise of the Ghost Crew" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 33: Dangerous Dragons" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 40: A Mandalorian's Rage" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 53: Fire Across the Galaxy"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 57: The Wedding" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 72: Always Two There Are"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 73: Friends Long Lost"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 78: Stealth Strike" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 80: The Future of the Force"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 88: Shroud of Darkness Pt 1"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 89: Shroud of Darkness Pt 2"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 94: Twilight of the Apprentice Pt 1"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 95: Twilight of the Apprentice Pt 2"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 96: Twilight of the Apprentice Pt 3" (main story and recap)
* *Sun and Moon* — "Prelude" (recap only)
* *Sun and Moon* — "Unexpected Encounter" (dream to Jarik Shan)
* *Sun and Moon* — "Unpleasant Memories" (flashback only)
* *Sun and Moon* — "A Taboo Proposal" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 1: Memories of the Past" (dream to Jarik Shan)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 2: Tension on Naboo"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 3: Fall of the Old Masters"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 4: Anger" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 6: The Reawakening" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 17: The Last Battle" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 20: A Rescue Plan"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 21: The Great Deception"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 22: Horrible Loss" (main story and recap)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 26: Lowest Point"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 27: Storming the Imperial Center"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 28: Action at Coruscant"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 29: A Galaxy in Uproar" (main story and recap)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 38: The Nightsisters" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 41: Ghosts of Geonosis Pt 1" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 43: Trials of the Darksaber" (hologram only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 46: The Hunt for the Mask"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 47: Vader's Vendetta"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 48: Against All Odds"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 50: Through Imperial Eyes" (hologram only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 52: Old Wounds" (hologram only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 57: Next Move" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 70: Wolves of Dume Pt 3" (vision to Jarik Shan)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 71: Enter the Gateway"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 72: World Between Worlds"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 74: Taking a Gamble" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 6: Children of the Force* — "Chapter 1: Shadowlands" (dream to Jarik Shan)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 6: Children of the Force* — "Chapter 2: Need for Rebels" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 6: Children of the Force* — "Chapter 4: The Weeping Tree" (mentioned only)
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 3: The Distress Call" (indirect mention only)
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 9: Prison Break" (indirect mention only)

### **Non-canon appearances**

* *The Legend of Reylea - Volume 1: The Avatar and the Force* — "Chapter 4: A Leaf in the Wind" (dream to Caran)
* *The Legend of Reylea - Volume 1: The Avatar and the Force* — "Chapter 19: The Equalists Strike" (indirect mention only)
* *The Legend of Reylea - Volume 2: Mysteries of Reylea* — "Chapter 2: Learning About the Force" (indirect mention only)