Meeting on Ord Mirit

The meeting on Ord Mirit took place between Supreme Chancellor Relana Isolde Tanoor and Jedi Grandmaster Banik Kelrada in the wake of the Battle of Coruscant, the conflict that started the Alsakan Crisis in 13,000 BBY. After the Alsakan Union took control of Coruscant from the Galactic Republic during the battle, the Jedi Order chose to attempt to begin negotiations between the two sides in the hopes of preventing any further bloodshed.

Kelrada chose to first meet with Chancellor Tanoor on Ord Mirit, where he convinced the reluctant Supreme Chancellor to hold off a counterattack. Shortly thereafter, Kelrada met with Lharra, the leader of the Alsakan Union, on Ossus and was able to convince her to persuade her people to end the war, but she was assassinated by her own advisers in order to prevent the end of the war. The Jedi Order was implicated in the assassination.

Prelude
In 13,000 BBY, the Alsakan Union successfully launched an invasion of Coruscant, taking control of the planet away from the Galactic Republic. This attack prompted the year-long Alsakan Crisis. The goals of the Alsakan leadership were to terraform the planet and restore it to nature as dictated by their religion, as the planet-wide city had offended their beliefs thousands of years earlier. Because the Republic’s capital was in the hands of the enemy, the Galactic Senate relocated to Ord Mirit, where the Republic leaders began planning a counterattack.

The Jedi Order hoped to prevent any further bloodshed. While the Order did not have any ties to either government, the Jedi High Council did believe that the takeover of Coruscant was against galactic law. In an effort to achieve the goal of ending the war and transferring Coruscant back to the Republic, Grandmaster Banik Kelrada chose to speak with the leaders of both governments in an effort to convince them to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

The meeting
In the days after the Battle of Coruscant, Kelrada traveled to Ord Mirit, choosing to speak with Supreme Chancellor Relana Isolde Tanoor before meeting with the Alsakan Vicar Lharra. When Kelrada arrived, Tanoor immediately shot down any suggestion that she would delay a counterattack, as she believed further conflict was inevitable due to the Alsakan’s actions and the desire of the military to seek revenge. Though she did acknowledge that Kelrada and the Jedi Order, who did not answer to the Republic, were free to seek a diplomatic solution, but she did not believe that peace would be possible.

Despite her reluctance, the Chancellor did agree to attempt to hold off a counterattack in the hopes that Kelrada would be successful, though she would only be able to do so until she felt pressure from her military commanders for a counterattack became too great. Kelrada was unable to promise that the Jedi Order would aid the Republic if the peace talks failed, but Tanoor still nonetheless agreed to hold off the counterattack for as long as she could.