Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
The first serious attempt to give Star Wars a deep past.
Topic
old republic
65 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
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- 9comics
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Books (6)
All booksStar Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
The first tie-in novel for the MMO, and it has to introduce everything at once.
Star Wars: Red Harvest
Horror at the Sith academy, three and a half thousand years before anyone can help.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
The novel behind the Sacking of Coruscant trailer.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
The game’s lead writer comes back to answer the question the game left open.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation
A spy thriller with a superweapon in it, which is the Old Republic line in one sentence.
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Dossiers (50)
All dossiersAjunta Pall
The first Dark Lord of the Sith, and the only one the setting lets take it back.
Aleema Keto
A bored aristocrat who found a Sith book and started a cult with it.
Arca Jeth
Trained half the Jedi in the story, and his death started the war that killed the rest.
Atris
A Jedi historian who collected Sith holocrons to understand the enemy, and listened to them for years.
Bastila Shan
The Republic’s single most valuable weapon, and a twenty-something who has been told so since childhood.
Canderous Ordo
A defeated warrior working as muscle for a crime lord, who ends up rebuilding his people.
Carth Onasi
A pilot with a dead wife, a missing son and a trust problem, travelling with the man responsible.
Cay Qel-Droma
Kept believing in his brother long past the point of evidence, and was killed for it.
Darth Bane
The Sith Lord who destroyed the Sith in order to save them — author of the Rule of Two.
Darth Malak
The apprentice who took the throne by shooting his master in the back, and never grew into it.
Darth Malgus
The Sith Lord who sacked Coruscant, and then decided the Empire was the thing holding him back.
Darth Nihilus
The Lord of Hunger — a wound in the Force wearing a mask, and not much else.
Darth Scabrous
Chased immortality through Sith alchemy and produced a zombie outbreak in his own school.
Darth Sion
The Lord of Pain — a corpse that refuses to finish dying, out of spite.
Exar Kun
A Jedi who read too much, and the first Dark Lord the Expanded Universe built from scratch.
Freedon Nadd
Dead for four hundred years and still running Onderon through the people who dug him up.
HK-47
An assassin droid who prefaces every sentence with its own emotional label and calls you a meatbag.
Jarael
A slave who became a slaver to survive, and spent the rest of the series undoing it.
Jolee Bindo
A Jedi who walked out of the Order decades ago and would rather you did not ask about it.
Juhani
A refugee sold into slavery, freed by Revan, and later hunting him without knowing it.
Karness Muur
Left behind a talisman that turns people into a plague, and the plague outlived him by millennia.
Kreia
The Lord of Betrayal — a teacher whose whole curriculum is that you should stop needing teachers.
Lana Beniko
A Sith who does the paperwork, checks the intelligence, and is right about almost everything.
Ludo Kressh
The Sith Lord who argued for hiding, and was right.
Mandalore the Indomitable
Lost a duel to a Jedi and swore his people to him on the spot.
Mandalore the Ultimate
Took the mask off a dead warlord and turned a defeated people into the Mandalorian Wars.
Marka Ragnos
A century on the throne, and the succession crisis that ended his empire began at his funeral.
Marn Hierogryph
Con man, black marketeer, and the only person on Taris pleased to see a fugitive Jedi.
Meetra Surik
Cut herself off from the Force at Malachor V, and spent a whole game finding out what that means.
Mission Vao
Fourteen years old, abandoned by her brother, and the best slicer on a planet that is about to be destroyed.
Naga Sadow
The Sith Lord who found the Republic by accident and lost an empire trying to conquer it.
Nomi Sunrider
Widowed into the Jedi Order, and the first great woman the Expanded Universe wrote.
Odan-Urr
Built the Great Jedi Library on Ossus, and lived long enough to watch it burn.
Oss Wilum
Thon’s apprentice, and one of the Jedi Exar Kun took alive.
Revan
The Old Republic’s defining figure — a hero, a conqueror, and an amnesiac, in an order you get to choose.
Rohlan Dyre
The Questioner: a Mandalorian who kept deserting in order to find out what the war was for.
Satal Keto
Heir to a throne he took early, using a stolen book he barely understood.
Satele Shan
Grand Master of the Jedi Order, descended from Revan and Bastila Shan, and the face of a losing war.
Sylvar
A Jedi whose entire arc is about a temper she cannot train out of herself.
Tenebrae
Ate a planet to stop aging, then ran an empire from behind a curtain for thirteen centuries.
Theron Shan
A spy with the most famous Jedi surname in the galaxy and no connection to the Force whatsoever.
Thon
A four-legged, armour-plated Jedi Master who trained a woman who would not carry a lightsaber.
Tott Doneeta
Enslaved as a child, freed by a Jedi, and drawn with the first curved lightsaber hilt in Star Wars.
Tulak Hord
Called the greatest lightsaber duellist the Sith ever produced, and killed by his own apprentice anyway.
Ulic Qel-Droma
Volunteered to infiltrate the dark side, and the plan worked exactly as badly as you would expect.
Vima Sunrider
Learned the Force from the man who destroyed her mother’s Order.
Visas Marr
The only living thing left on Katarr after Nihilus ate it, and then his instrument.
Vodo-Siosk Baas
Trained Exar Kun, saw exactly what was coming, and was killed by it anyway.
XoXaan
One of the original exiles, and the one who worked out how to heal with the dark side.
Zayne Carrick
The worst Padawan on Taris, framed for the murder of his entire class.
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Comics (9)
All comicsStar Wars: Tales of the Jedi
The line of linked miniseries that moved Star Wars thousands of years into its own past and invented the Old Republic as a setting rather than a…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith
Two Jedi go looking for the Sith for the best of reasons. Exar Kun finds them on Onderon and Korriban and is remade; Ulic Qel-Droma infiltrates the…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising
On Onderon, a cult loyal to the long-dead Dark Lord Freedon Nadd seizes his sarcophagus, and the Jedi discover that the Sith are not a historical…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War
Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma take their war to the Republic. It ends with a Jedi library world scorched, a fratricide, and a Dark Lord who cannot be…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith
Two hyperspace prospectors stumble out of the Republic and into the Sith Empire, which has spent two thousand years assuming it was alone in the…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire
Naga Sadow invades the Republic, loses, and burns his own empire behind him — the war that supposedly ended the Sith and demonstrably did not.
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Redemption
Ulic Qel-Droma, cut off from the Force and living as a hermit, is found by the son of the man he killed. The last Tales of the Jedi miniseries and…
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
A Padawan is framed for the murder of his own classmates, goes on the run with a con artist and a droid, and spends fifty issues discovering that…
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — War
A five-issue coda to the fifty-issue ongoing, dropping Zayne Carrick into the front line of the Mandalorian Wars he had spent the whole series…
