The Beginning of Everything

Date of Time: Unknown

Location: Unknown

Our Story Begins A Long, Long Time Ago On Planets Far, Far Away..... Ten Thousand Years Before Our Time.

For A Millennium, High In The Snowy Andobi Mountains Of Ando Prime, The Dai Bendu Attended A Massive Edifice They Called The THO YOR.

The Monk's Knew The THO YOR Was Not Of Their World. Within Its Sealed Structure, They Sensed Great Mysteries Waiting To Be Revealed.

And So The Dai Bendu Waited. They Contemplated And Meditated And Listened With Their Minds And Hearts, As Well As Their Senses.

One Day The THO YOR Spoked To Them.

They Heard The Call In Their Hearts, In Their Minds. Not With Words, Yet As A Voice, Heard In Stillness When All Was In Balance.

An Invitation.

There Were No Questions Among The Dai Bendu. This Was Their Moment. This Was The Moment For Which All Their Training Had Prepared Them.

This Was The Fulfilment Of Prophecy. The Dai Bendu Entered The THO YOR, Following That Prophecy.

And Found Revaluation.

Seven Other THO YOR Repeated The Pattern Throughout The Galaxy. On Kashyyyk, Wookiee Warriors Defending The Mystic Pyramid Heard The Call.

And Found Peace.

On Dathomir, Shamans And Seers Encountered The THO YOR In Dreams And Visions. The THO YOR Sang To Them.

They Followed The Song And Found Harmony.

On Ryloth, Twi'lek Philosophers, Debating The Source Of The Mystical Energy They Felt Surrounding Them, Heard The Call Of The THO YOR And Left The Safety Of Their Caves To Venture Into The Desert. By Instinct They Knew The Answers They Sought Lay Beyond Their World.

They Entered The THO YOR And Found Enlightenment.

On Manaan, Selkath Scholars And Scientists Paused In Their Studies As The Doors Of The Great THO YOR Opened.

They Entered And Found Wisdom.

The Eight THO YOR Visited Many Worlds, Gathering Other Sentients Who Heard The Call, They Sped Towards The Centre Of The Galaxy.

Within The Deep Core, Where Dark Matter Causes Stars To Collide And Space Can Warp In The Blink Of An Eye, The THO YOR Navigated The Twisted Path Of Black Holes And Stars.

Arriving At Their Final Destination...

The Planet Tython, Where The Ships Gathered Around The Ninth And Largest THO YOR. The Planet Herald Their Arrival With Great Storms.

On This World, The Travellers Felt The Energy That Surrounded Them. The Same Mystical, Primal Energy...The Same Force... That Had Called Them To The THO YOR.

On That Day The Travellers Became One In The Force.

The THO YOR Left The Central Pyramid To Take The Travellers To Their New Homes On This Strange World. One In The Force. These Travellers From Diverse And Distant Worlds Also Became One People They Became Tythans.

The Purpose Of This Gathering Soon Became Clear To The Tythans. They Were To Study The Force And Master The Abilities It Gave Them.

But Truly Knowing The Force Would Take More Than Sitting In Deep And Silent Thought. Their Lives Became A Moving Meditation A Manifestation Of The Force From Within.

Observing The World Around Them, They Saw Two Moons In The One Sky, Light Ashla And Dark Bogan, And They Understood The Dual Aspects To The Force. Light And Dark.

The Light Defined The Dark As The Dark Did The Light. When Balance Was Not Maintained, Tython Reacted To The Imbalance With Severe Storms And Quakes.

And So The Travellers Defined Themselves, Ever Seeking A Balance. They Became The Je'daii, A Dai Bendu Term Meaning Mystic Center.

Only Through The Harmony Of Balance Could The Je'daii Maintain A Peaceful World.

As The Millennium Unfolded, The Je'daii Built A Great Civilization, Establishing Temples, Cities, Seats Of Learning And Healing, Each Centered Around A THO YOR.

But Not All Of Those To Je'daii Could Become Je'daii. Those Born Without The Ability To Touch The Force Were At The Mercy Of The Planet. Even The Je'daii Could Not Always Protect Them.

It Became Clear After The Lost City Of Aurum Was Destroyed That it Was To Dangerous For Those Who Could Not Use The Force.

So, In The Second Millennium, A Second Migration Took Place. The Tythans Who Were Not Je'daii Left Tython, Going First To The Moons, Ashla And Bogan, And From There Outward, To Populate The Other Worlds In The System.

It Was A Time Of Great Sorrow And Terrible Necessity. Families Were Sundered And, In Many Cases The Wounds Never Healed.

Those Born With An Affinity To The Force Were Always Brought Back To Tython. From Youngling To Apprentice, From Journeyer To Ranger, And Finally To Master, A Je'daii Grew.

Passing From One Temple To Another, Seeking Knowledge, Seeking Balance In The Force... The Creed A Massage Of Peace.

THERE IS NO IGNORANCE

THERE IS KNOWLEDGE

THERE IS NO FEAR

THERE IS POWER

I AM THE HEART OF THE FORCE

I AM THE REVEALING FIRE OF LIGHT

I AM THE MYSTERY OF DARKNESS

IN BALANCE WITH CHAOS AND HARMONY

IMMORTAL IN THE FORCE

From Tython, The Children Of The Je'daii Spread Out Across The Tython System. Traveling Towards The Sun, They Settled On Sunspot And Malterra, Nox, And Arid Krev Coer.

Beyond Tython, They Settled First On Kalimahr, Jewl Of The Tython System, Then Shikaakwa, The Outlaw World, Then The Forrest Planet Ska Gora, And On The Moons Of The Giants Obri And Mawr, And Even The Outmost Planet, Cold Furies Gate.

The Je'daii Intervened On Settled Worlds As Requested Or As The Force Directed. But Over The Centuries They Became Mysterious, Even Feared, Figures Of Legend.

And Some Times Figures Of Resentment, The Children Of The Je'daii Became Estranged From Their Parents.

After Ten Millennia The Cycle Of Peace That The Je'daii Forged Would Be Broken Forever.