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Book I : Foundations of the Brotherhood
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the Void itself, a perfect model of the Galaxy, as if they discussed
the future among the stars. This legendary chamber eventually
became known as the Star Chamber, the name later adopted by
the cult. These Dark Jedi were amicable to Darth Bane and his
descendants, yet they were not formally allied with the Dark
Lord of the Sith. They struck out in the Galaxy, taking followers
and establishing their presence in a backwater area past the
Expansion Region, far in the Outer Rim They were comfortably
distanced from the old Sith Empire and the seat of the Dark
Lord’s power on Korriban and Ziost There, they set themselves
up to reclaim the glory lost during the Great Sith War. Their
cult never numbered more than a hundred followers, some were
hunted and executed by the Light Jedi, others fell prey to madness,
but the goal was never far off. Small coteries of Dark Jedi
were set to monitor and influence the politics of worlds in
the neighboring systems, when the timing was right, the Star
Chamber would exercise its influence and openly take control
of their worlds. They thought they had learned the lessons of
the past, and in their studies uncovered many of the central
paradoxes that accompany the Dark Side. The ambition of one
will always find ruin. In a grand ritual designed to harness
the raw power of the stars, the Sorceress lost control of the
energies she commanded. The star became an incarnation of the
Dark Side itself, transformed into a massive obsidian crystal.
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system was destroyed. The Scholar destroyed the Assassin and
the Warlord in her fit of madness. The cult’s ambitions
were shattered.
Watching From a Distance
The few surviving students fled or were killed
by their brethren in the ensuing chaos. Without their leaders,
they had no idea what direction they should take. Less than
a dozen students were powerful enough to carry on without
the Three, and following their dead Master’s, arranged
themselves into three Orders, called the Tripartite Path.
The most powerful among them claimed the title Lord of the
Star Chamber, ruling from the same Iron Throne commanded today.
This was almost a direct challenge to the Dark Lord of the
Sith.
For nearly three thousand years those Dark
Jedi watched events in the galaxy, biding their time, waiting
for the moment when they could rule openly and herald the
Final Order. When the Clone Wars ended with the birth of the
New Order they felt their time had arrived. A single emissary
of the Star Chamber remnants approached the young Emperor
Palpatine, a Dark Lord of the Sith. Palpatine was fascinated
by the cult, and realized that his Circle of Adepts would
bear fitting legacy to the Star Chamber. In a secret Imperial
Order, he recreated the Star Chamber as the theocracy that
would eventually replace
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