Kal'Shabbol Civil War

The Kal'Shabbol Civil War was the first conflict that the Order of the Jedi Bendu of the Ophuchi took part in. It involved a group of disgruntled settlers in a valley on Kal'Shabbol rising up and attempting to overthrow the Jedi Bendu. However, the other settlers of the planet sided with the Jedi Bendu and the Valley People were defeated at their hands.

Prelude
During the final days of the monarchy of King Melchizedek on Had Abaddon, the wife of the monarch, Queen Persia, found a baby boy in a space capsule and adopted him for their own, making him the brother of Prince Achab Tahrea. They named the boy Jedi Bendu and he grew up as a prince until adulthood. One day, he discovered slave camps made up of people called the Ophuchi who were being held because of their mystical powers. Jedi Bendu sought to save them, and in doing so he became the first mortal being to discover and tap into the full extent of the energies of the Force of Others. After doing so and facing off his darker temptations, Yahweh, the God of the Universe, spoke to him at the peak of Mount Sky and dubbed him The Skywalker. Yahweh revealed to him that the Force of Others was his own omnipotent presence and that he had allowed it to be sensed by mortals to help in the salvation of the galaxy. Yahweh tasked The Skywalker with freeing his chosen people, the Ophuchi, from King Achab Tahrea of Had Abaddon, The Skywalker’s step-brother. During the battle for paradise, The Skywalker was given the unfortunate task of being the first man to kill in the name of the Force of Others, taking the life of his step-brother. As the battle raged on, however, The Skywalker and the Ophuchi prevailed and found themselves in the midst of a mass exodus from Had Abaddon. They boarded many small starships and fled to the Promised Land, the neighboring world called Kal'Shabbol. After arriving, they formed themselves into the Order of the Jedi Bendu of the Ophuchi and set up their first Jedi Bendu monastery.

Two decades after the formation of the order, additional settlers made their way from the worlds of the Ashlan Expanse to make their home on Kal’Shabbol. They had heard about the Ophuchi exodus and heard stories of the riches found on Kal’Shabbol, so hundreds of them decided to settle throughout the planet and began setting up colonies, specifically on the northern continent. Many of the settlers set up a colony around the Jedi Bendu monastery, as they felt a sense of security while in the presence of the Jedi Bendu. They named the colony Ashla Prime, while another colony on the continent became known as Vattica. The colonies flourished, and they began to create municipal governments that quickly began to work hand in hand with one another for the betterment of the people. This alliance of colonies allowed for the development of a diverse population, as it contained Humans from the Jedi Bendu and Had Abaddon as well as Ondus and Aquilae.

However, not every settler welcomed the idea of creating such a diverse culture, nor did they welcome the idea of settling near the Jedi Bendu. These disgruntled settlers had made their way from Had Abaddon and had been members of a cult that was under the protection of the former monarchy of The Skywalker's adopted family. When the monarchy fell, they were no longer protected and began being persecuted by the monarchy that rose from the ashes of the exodus. The cultist settlers worshiped a serpentine god, and because they saw serpents as predators they too felt that they were predators. When the colonies heard about the cultists settling in a large valley on the southernmost portion of the northern continent, they simply ignored them and let them do what they wanted to do. This created an anti-social culture and society within the valley, and because they felt persecuted once again the cultists, who became known as the Valley People, harbored a strong sense of ill-will towards the other colonists and specifically the Jedi Bendu, as the Valley People continued to blame them for all of their troubles. Because of this strong and apparent resentment, as well as the taboo cultural practices of the Valley People, the Order of the Jedi Bendu forbid its members from entering into it and strongly discouraged the settlers from traveling into it as well out of fear for their safety.

Civil War
Despite refusing to assimilate into the emerging Kal’Shabbolian culture, the Valley People sent spies into the Ashla Prime colony to learn what they could about the people and the ways of the Jedi Bendu. While there, they learned about the existence of the Force of Others and that the Jedi Bendu referred to it as their greatest treasure. Having never before heard of the Force of Others or its ways, they believed the so-called treasure to be something tangible that would be worth something on Had Abaddon. After formulating a plan to use the wealth they gained to overthrow the Had Abaddonian monarchy, they decided to attack the Jedi Bendu and swore that they would have their treasure for themselves.

The Valley People knew they had small numbers, but they took their nearly one hundred people and beasts that they had trained to ride and fight to the Ashla Prime colony and at first demanded that the Jedi Bendu hand over their treasure as compensation for the decades of persecution that they had put them through. The Jedi Bendu knew what they meant by treasure, so they offered to share their knowledge of the Force of Others with them. However, their desire to share their knowledge only angered the Valley People, so they attacked the Jedi Bendu monastery and succeeded in slaughtering nearly three dozen Jedi Bendu before the Ashla Prime colonists began to attack them and drive them out of the monastery. Though they were driven back, the Valley People continued to attack Ashla Prime, as well as Vattica, for nearly seven months. Eventually, however, the Valley People came to realize that the treasure was not tangible, but rather it was peace and love from Yahweh and the omnipotent powers of the Force of Others.

Aftermath
The Valley People became greatly ashamed of their actions, and in their guilt they returned to their colony in the valley. The Jedi Bendu frequently attempted to speak with them, but the Valley People were not comfortable in trying to make peace with the people that they had attacked and killed for the better part of one standard year. Instead, in one of their most secretive rituals, the few dozen remaining Valley People burned their colony and committed a ritualistic suicide, thus ending their cult and giving the Jedi Bendu a new perspective on the Ashla and the Bogan. The Jedi Bendu, aided by numerous colonists, made their way to the valley and buried the bodies of the Valley People within the valley, which the Jedi Bendu soon called the Valley of the Shadow of Death.

Behind the scenes
The concept of the Kal'Shabbol Civil Wars comes from the song One Tin Soldier (Rides Away). The article is also the second collaboration between Brandon Rhea and Solus.