User:Brandon Rhea/Bendu

The Bendu Order was a monastic peacekeeping organization that professed a belief in the balance of the Force, between the light side and the dark side. The Bendu descended from the Je'daii Order of Tython, when two Je’daii brothers left the Order during the Force Wars and discovered a planet in the Unknown Regions called Had Abaddon. There, they drifted apart and one brother fell to the dark side, creating a schism between them. The other brother and his followers defeated him, and they fled Had Abaddon for the neighboring world of Kal'Shabbol. On that planet, they formed the Bendu Order, retaining the Je’daii belief that the Jedi Order gave up after it was formed in the wake of the Force Wars.

After building a society on Kal’Shabbol, the Bendu found other worlds in their region of space, called the Ashlan Expanse, and formed relations with them. This allowed the Bendu Knights to become the guardians of peace and justice in the Ashlan Expanse, just as the Je’daii once were on Tython. The Bendu rarely left their home planet to fight in conflicts that did not directly affect them, however, and they remained hidden from the rest of the galaxy, including the Galactic Republic, for thousands of years. That changed in the aftermath of the Great Territorial War, when the Bendu were discovered by Jedi Knight Ussej Padric Bac and his followers. Rather than revealing the Bendu to the rest of the galaxy, however, they joined the Bendu Order.

Decades later, during the Great Sovereign Crusades, the leader of the Order, Bendu High Priest Ussej Padric Bac III, decided to lead the Bendu into war against the Sith and aid the Jedi and the Republic. He became jaded by the Jedi, however, and instead launched a war against the Jedi Order, believing that the Bendu Order could more effectively serve as the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. However, the actions of the Bendu during the war inadvertently led to the Sith taking over Coruscant and, with it, much of the Republic, so the Bendu retreated back to Kal’Shabbol, only briefly returning to help the Jedi and the Republic defeat the Sith during a final battle on Coruscant.

The Great Sovereign Crusades came to a close on Coruscant, and the Bendu remained on Kal’Shabbol. Though the Republic and the Jedi faced more conflicts&mdash;the Great Galactic War, the New Sith Wars, the Clone Wars, and the Galactic Civil War, amongst others&mdash;the Bendu kept their former stance on non-intervention and were not heard from again.