Editing Jedi Order (section)

===='''The Great Galactic War  '''====
: ''3,681 BBY to 3,653 BBY
Known as the Great War during the conflict and in the years afterward, this was a war between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic. Also known as the Republic–Sith War, the conflict was ultimately the culmination of a 1300-year grudge held by survivors of the old Sith Empire against the Republic for their defeat in the [[#The Great Hyperspace War and aftermath|Great Hyperspace War]].

In the third decade of the war the Dark Council stunned the Republic by offering the chance to negotiate a peace treaty. Fearing a ruse, the Jedi Council formally recommended that the Senate ignore the overture, but they were ignored. However, Senators and Jedi alike did agree that the war could not be won and that, if nothing else, peace negotiations would offer their war-weary troops a respite. At the Senate's request, Grand Master Zym agreed to send a contingent of Jedi with the peace delegation, and diplomats from both sides traveled to Alderaan to discuss terms. But the Empire's peace overture was indeed a deception.
 
Even while Republic and Imperial negotiators talked on Alderaan, a large Sith fleet invaded and sacked [[Coruscant]] itself, the heart of the Republic. As a team of Sith warriors led by Darth Malgus attacked the Jedi Temple and slaughtered all within, the fleet, led by Darth Angral, bombarded and invaded the planet. Once Coruscant's planetary defenses were destroyed, the Sith destroyed the Jedi Temple outright and blockaded the planet to hold its inhabitants hostage.

The war cost countless lives and devastated worlds from the Core to the Rim, as well as having dramatic galactic consequences otherwise. The Republic economy was shattered and roughly half the galaxy would end up under Sith dominion, divided by the '''Treaty of Coruscant'''. But it would not ultimately be conclusive. While a strategic defeat for the Republic, the end of the war left both powers standing, engaged in an undeclared conflict for supremacy on numerous disputed worlds.