The Great Hyperspace War 5000 B.B.Y.
Though Jori Daragon did not realize it, her ship carried a homing beacon that would lead Naga Sadow and his forces right to the heart of the unsuspecting Republic. She arrived back in the Teta system and sounded her alarms, sending out a call to arms-but Jori was immediately arrested and charged with fraud, felony, and theft 20420y2419u of her ship. She spoke frantically about the Sith threat, but nobody believed her, thinking it a ruse concocted by a desperate criminal. She was sentenced to a harsh colony world, unable to rescue her brother from the Sith Empire, but before long, Jori escaped. She stowed away on a cargo transport that took her to the Tetan primary world. After a desperate chase, Jori managed to slip in to meet the Empress of Teta herself. Jori spilled out her story, begging to be heard.
A few of the Republic's great Jedi Knights, upon hearing the tale, were perplexed. Those included the young Odan- Urr, his master Ooroo, and Teta's adviser Memit Nadill. When Jori furnished details of Naga Sadow's ambitions, they recalled legends of outcast dark Jedi who had vanished into obscurity long ago. Their suspicions aroused, they convinced the empress to prepare for a possible invasion.
While the Jedi Knights spread the word around the Republic, the empress traveled to Coruscant to rally support among other political leaders. After speaking at the capital, though, Teta could not convince the rest of the allied worlds to take action; only a few Jedi listeners heeded her warnings.
Back in the Sith Empire, Naga Sadow consolidated the remaining Sith forces and his blood-thirsty Massassi soldiers. Taking his pliable protege Gav, Sadow set off on a huge surprise raid against the vulnerable Republic. They launched, following the coordinates transmitted by the Starbreaker 12. Naga Sadow's entire battle fleet arrived in the Teta system, weapons blazing. The unexpected conflict spread across the Republic like a storm: a succession of battles that pitted war fleets and loyal Jedi Knights against Sith sorcery and firepower. One of the young heroes of these battles was the alien Jedi Odan-Urr, who again became a pivotal figure in the Sith War a thousand years later.
During these struggles, the Empress Teta proved to be a talented commander, but the Sith enemy was relentless- and unpredictable, since Naga Sadow had only sketchy knowledge of this new sector of the galaxy. The battles did not fare well for the Republic.
Finally, the combined Republic fleet made a major stand around the flare-active red-giant star Primus Goluud, where Sadow duped Gav Daragon one final time and left him to face the combined retaliation fleet. Sadow used his own terrible Sith technology to trigger an explosion in the core of the star.
Though Jori Daragon had no military training, she did know a lot of tricks for flying a starship. In the course of battle, Jori clashed head-on with her brainwashed brother, Gav. He ultimately redeemed himself, realizing what he had done-and what Sadow had done to him-and so he turned back to help his sister and the Republic. He asked for Jori's forgiveness just before the red-giant star went supernova, destroying him.
With the changing tides of battle, the Republic rallied against the invaders, decisively trouncing the Sith fleet. Memit Nadill and his team of Jedi Knights defeated the enemy on Coruscant itself, while Odan-Urr won an important skirmish on the outlying planet of Kirrek, a victory that cost the life of the great Jedi Master Ooroo. Naga Sadow called a rapid retreat, taking his surviving warriors back to the Sith Empire. Limping home with tattered forces, Sadow found that his old enemy Ludo Kressh was not dead after all. Kressh had cultivated spies of his own and had escaped the assassination attempt. With his loyalists, Kressh lay in wait for Sadow's already battered forces. Giving no quarter, Kressh mercilessly attacked Sadow's "traitors" before they could recover. Naga Sadow fought back with wild abandon; at this point he had nothing to lose. Both sides were devastated in the battle.
The pursuing Republic forces arrived in the middle of the fray to vanquish the Sith threat once and for all. The fleets of Sadow and Kressh were decimated in the cross fire.
Staging an all-or-nothing diversion, Naga Sadow took his most faithful followers and escaped in his damaged flagship, sacrificing the rest of his forces. Republic ships chased him, but Sadow chose one last sorcerous gambit: He flew his warship between a tight binary star, the Denarii Nova, using Sith powers to manipulate solar flares and destroy pursuing Republic ships in his wake. He left no trace of himself behind.
Of all his former glory, Naga Sadow retained only a single ship and his Massassi crew. The Dark Lord went to ground on a little-known jungle moon that orbited the gas giant Yavin. There on Yavin 4 he made his camp, entombed his warship, and left the Massassi behind as guardians. Naga Sadow vowed to let the fires of conflict die away before he would return again. Using Sith technology and sorcery, he managed to cocoon himself in a chamber that placed him in suspended animation - this in anticipation of a later day, when someone would pick up the dark teachings and bring about the new Sith golden age that the fallen Dark Lord Marka Ragnos had foretold.
Ragnos wasn't the only one whose prophecies rang true. With his final words as he died on the battlefield of Kirrek, Master Ooroo had prophesied that his studious trainee, Odan-Urr, would found a vast library and would live to a great old age, eventually to die among his beloved scrolls and books. Beginning with Master Oodoo's collection of arcane artifacts, and gathering numerous items found among the wreckage of the defeated Sith invasion fleet, Odan-Urr did indeed establish the greatest library and learning center of the Old Republic, the grand museum city on Ossus. And, as his master had predicted, Odan-Urr died a thousand years later, among his books, at the beginning of the Sith War.
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