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==Early History of the Ki'ardi==

The discovery of Babylos and the founding of the Ki’ardi lies deep within the ancient past, in the earliest days of the Jedi. When the ancient Dark Side Jedi that would one day become the Sith were cast out from the order, a few ventured out into the then unexplored regions of the Galaxy and discovered the world known as Babylos. In this place they sensed a nexus of the Force more potent than any other in the Galaxy. Sensing and craving the power of the place, however, and still wounded of spirit from their ordeal at the hands of the Jedi, these proto-Sith were unprepared to discover the world inhabited already… by three eternally youthful human women with powers unmatched by the Jedi or the Sith. With seemingly no effort at all the women that would one day be known to the Ki’ardi as the Three Sisters, forced back the Sith from their homeworld and sent them hurtling away into the darkest corners of the Galaxy.

But the Sith are not so easily thwarted. As they licked their wounds, mastered their arts and grew powerful again in the Dark Side, the Sith remembered that strange world they had so fleetingly encountered and eventually they sent back masters of their darkest arts to try again. The Sith hungered for the world’s most precious resource: (not the Artemis Crystals themselves) but the sentient consciousness that had been born in the songs of those crystals, the very essence of the living, feeling, world of Babylos.

The first time the Three Sisters protected their world through sheer force of will. When the Sith returned, more powerful and learned in their dark arts, the Three Sisters called to the only force that could help them, the Jedi. The Jedi arrived with their swords, and archaic still-blaster sabers, and the line was drawn against the Sith and they were held back. Some of the Jedi remained on Babylos and learned the secrets of the Three Sisters and in time they became the Ki’ardi, dedicated to the protection of their world and the nurturing of its hidden consciousness. The nascent Ki’ardi attuned themselves to the world of Babylos, learning the secrets of its power and mined the Artemis crystals to help in focusing their power.

It was during their stays on Babylos that the Jedi learned how to construct Lightsabers using Artemis crystals. The process though, it was learned, killed the Artemis crystal and the Jedi, inspired but unwilling to sacrifice living creatures to create their new weapons, hunted down new crystals to empower their blades. Oddly, Babylos remains the one world where lightsaber cannot be used for the Artemis crystals disrupt the blades as they are generated, triggering terrifying light storms as a lightsaber is activated as the energy refracts into thousands of smaller streams of power instead of forming a single coalesced blade.