FalIen Jedi

Fallen Jedi, also known as dark Jedi, were Force-sensitives, frequently former Jedi, who chose to forsake some or all of the tenets of the Jedi Creed and embrace the dark side. Although "Fallen Jedi" originally referred to a Jedi who had fallen to the dark side, it could also refer to uninitiated Force-sensitives who received no Jedi training but began their careers under another fallen Jedi. The first fallen Jedi was believed to be Xendor, who was the first member of the Jedi Order to embrace the darker aspect of the Force.

Fallen Jedi also became a term of note during the Great Sith War and the Jedi Civil War, where dark Jedi served under the banners of Exar Kun and the duo of Revan and Malak, respectively. Thousands of years later, dark side adepts such as Palpatine would resurrect the term "dark Jedi", with agents serving under him bearing the title. Those whom the Miraluka Jerec controlled came to be known as the Seven Dark Jedi.

Description and comparison to the Sith
Despite the fact that both groups called upon the more aggressive powers of the Force, fallen Jedi were not the same as the Sith.



The term dark Jedi was a collective name of dark side practitioners (be they fallen or rogue Jedi) that used Force powers and a lightsaber, but were not always members of a certain organization; whereas the term Sith referred to a definite heritage or ideology. Some fallen Jedi were allied to the Sith or other organizations, while others were loners. Because they were notoriously treacherous, fallen Jedi seldom formed well-organized groups on their own in order to expand their following or reinforce their strength; one notable exception to this was the cult of Bpfasshi Dark Jedi that terrorized the Republic during the Second Clone War. Fallen Jedi could also use their power for personal gain, becoming mercenaries or assassins.

The Sith, however, were various orders which held to their own unique interpretations of the Force, held to their own distinct theologies and cosmologies, followed their own codes of honour and conduct, studied their personal history, studied their own skills and techniques, and possessed arcane secrets unknown to the dark Jedi.

The First Great Schism and the first dark Jedi
After the Jedi Order was established, divisions began to appear within the order's structure, leading to the First Great Schism, (c. 24,500 BBE), when several Jedi were discovered delving within the "dark" side of the Force. The renegade Jedi Xendor and his followers allied with the master of Teräs Käsi Arden Lyn and her Followers of Palawa from Bunduki, establishing the Legions of Lettow. After religious tensions with the Jedi blossomed and escalated into all-out violence, a war broke out between the Jedi Knights and Lettow Legionnaires that lasted a hundred years. The Lettow were finally defeated at the Battle of Corbos and exiled into the far reaches of space. These exiles finally landed on the planet Korriban, deposed the Kissai governor reigning there, and freed the population of the planet from the tyranny of the Sith Empire. The legionnaires were eventually annihilated, wiped out in a planetary bombardment orchestrated by the reigning Sith Kissai overlords which sterilized the surface of Korriban of all life. The deaths of the Lettow inspired the downtrodden Sith on other worlds in the Empire to rise up against their Kissai masters, initiating the Sith Civil War which lead to the rise of the first Sith Lords.