Battle of Ossus (Sith Crusade)

The Battle of Ossus, also known as the Attack on the Jedi Praxeum and the Jedi massacre, was the most devestating battle in terms of Jedi casualties in the entire war.

Prologue
Following the Battle of the Cron Drift the Jedi found themselves on the very edge of Sith space. Fearing for the population of Osus; Luke Skywalker ordered an immediate evacuation of the planet and sent a request for the Galactic Alliance to send a relief force to their aid.

As soon as the last evacuees had left the planet the Ossus sensor array located on Ossus' moon detected a lone Sith vessel on a course to the planet. The lone Sith vessel informed the Jedi that it wished to discuss peace negotiations. Although suspicious, the Jedi allowed the vessel to land.

Upon landing it quickly became apparent who exactly was on board the Sith vessel. It was Darth Abeonis. Unsurprisingly most of the Jedi said that they should take him prisoner and attempt to end the war, but Luke Skywalker decided against this. He took Abeonis to the Jedi council room and asked him what he wanted.

It was then that Abeonis informed the Jedi Knight the reason he had gone to war in the first place. Not to destroy the Jedi and conquer the galaxy, but ironically, to install the Jedi as masters of the galaxy. He informed Luke in a vision he had had before the conquest of Csilla, Cal Omas, Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Alliance, would be responsible for the destruction of the Jedi Order by turning the galaxy upon the Jedi much like Palpatine had done eighty years before.

He then said that, in his mind the only way to prevent this was to make heros of the Jedi once more; and the only way to do that was to show the peoples of the galaxy that even after the Jedi have been almost utterly decimated, they could still fight on.

So he gave Luke a choice. The Jedi could leave Ossus without fear of Sith attack and travel to Coruscant. Once there they were to remove Cal Omas from power and secure control of the Galactic Alliance; only then would peace between the Sith and the Jedi be possible. The other choice was that the Sith attack Ossus before the releif fleet arrived and kill as many Jedi as possible. Once the releif fleet arrived the Sith would leave and the Jedi would be shown as heros.

Reluctantly, Luke choose the second option, saying; "Although i see you point of view, my loyalty to the Alliance, and its Supreme Chancellor is beyond question."

Enraged at this defiance Abeonis left, and the Sith fleet arrived.

TO BE CONTINUED