Previously on Dark Jedi Brotherhood Vendettas
Crystal Ascendent
Restoration Trooper
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Pre-War Summary
Great Jedi War XV
The Children of What-now?
“Seizing an opportunity, the Children have launched a surprise assault on the capital systems of all seven Clans. In the vanguard, impossible Force-twisted abominations and gravity-defying crystal asteroids have established beachheads in each system. Still reeling from the Collective’s near-destruction of Arx, the forces of the Dark Council are unable to respond in strength. For now, the Clans are on their own.”
The War Begins
Summary
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Question: What are these crystals? Where do they even come from? What the what?
The crystals have been a building plot for a couple years now. They first became this known, to a few, seemingly valuable commodity mostly mistaken for kyber crystals when, originally, the Collective was looking into various technologies and other power sources to create their superweapons and mega AI that would accomplish their genocide against all Force-touched. We first see these crystals thereof, when Avitus Oligard, Force-User, cousin, and emotionally abused right hand to Rath Oligard, leader of the Collective, hears them whispering to him.
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Later, the Tenixir Revenants (TR) and the Severian Principate (SP), two factions who would soon be involved in Shenanigans ™ thanks to the Dark Brotherhood (DB)'s nefariousness, eventually both came into contact with those same crystals when on the SP colony world that the Collective attacked as a false flag operation to discredit the DB and ruin their attempted alliance with the SP. The crystals began drawing on other people, including the SP folks. The TR pirates, meanwhile, opposed to the SP for imprisoning them, found the importance of the crystals artificially inflated via "our enemy wants them so get them before they do". The SP found some of these crystals, the TR also eventually began to hunt for them, and all the while, we see a third party, the mysterious Seer, seems to know about the crystals that everyone else is ignorantly chasing.
After the Collective attack on Arx, we the DB get our hands on a lot of crystals the Collective had collected. Then, on Dandoran, as everyone of the 3 groups arrives there because a powerful Pizza Hutt obtained some crystals and we think it might be the same kind, we realize that the SP had any at all, and had been Imperials doing Imperial things experimenting with them to make super soldiers. Turns out, those soldiers are a little hard to control and fucking monstrous. They are loose on Dandoran, and we fight them. In the midst thereof, we see the Seer arrive to taunt the DB and introduce her own crystal creature, what she and her people, the Children of Mortis (CoM) call an Ascended. Unlike the super soldiers, this creature can use the Force because of its semi-Asecnded state. We are NOW seeing more of how that works and where they come from, with the full dive into the CoM, who were previously off screen/background.
Presently, we the audience know that full Ascension, to the Children of Mortis, involves becoming a crystal. This is why they whisper. They are the trapped souls of people who have died to the Ascension process. These crystals can be used to make more powerful creatures, weapons, armor, etc. While previously Ascension was a difficult ritual, the CoM has refined it into a gas delivery, making things much more dangerous.
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Question: Okay but where did the crystals come from? How did the SP or the Collective originally get them if they come from the CoM?
This is a little more vague. The CoM have been around a very, very long time. Assume some crystals got around the galaxy. Additionally, and more likely, the CoM were interested in the Brotherhood, but could not draw them out or get past their defenses/security/find them. Seeding the crystals into the galaxy to eventually get all these players into place was their plan.
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Question: Okay, I read, but why do the CoM care about us?
To them, we have several things they want (knowledge we've hoarded as another old big force organization, and the crystals we've gathered they want "back") and most of all we are..well, FUs that aren't them. To them they're about freeing or "unchaining" the Force and essentially anyone not them is using it wrong, further enslaving it.
If they want to free it, we gotta go.
Their motto is "chains unbound." Get yourself a brownie point with that.
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Question: Why do I/my characters care?
For us, we've seen around Arcona what these crystals can do. They're bad, and they should be yeeted into a sun. But also, they're currently on our lawn setting it on fire and attacking with crystal raptors. This is the one question we don't have to worry about. They're here, so we fight.
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Question: Isn't there some planet called Mortis? Is this familiar? What's up with the Father and ALL THESE NPCS GOD
Mortis was a planet in The Clone Wars show. It has 3 literal actual GODS of the Force, the Daughter, Father, and Son. Like they can Ressurect and shapeshift and Avatar State and shit. Anakin, Obi Wan, and Ahsoka encounter them. They are referenced again in Rebels as mythological figures. They weren't supposed to be real. But we the viewer already know they are.
In universe, these are the figures that the Children base themselves and their ideologies upon, Light, Gray, and Dark. Think of it like a real world cult that preaches to be the second coming of [insert messiah here] or a deity. We do not know much about the Father of the CoM, but they as a whole are not any of those three gods, and do no reside on Mortis. Thus, "children of". They're like a spin-off.
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As for the many named NPCs, Xen made an organizational chart for it, and you can see basic summaries in the TLDRs of each fiction chapter. We have not met all of them yet, and we may never. We don't know. Right now, you can focus on their leaders, if you are so inclined: Homelander I mean Harbinger, the big Light leader, Loremi, the Gray leader, and the Seer, the Dark leader. Above them is the Father. They have Plans ™. But those are a little secondary to our homes being attacked.
The Truthwardens are led by The Arbiter of Balance, an accomplished Force-user who guides the Truthwardens along their path of finding the balance between the Light and Dark sides of the Force. “The Arbiter” has been identified as Loremi P’sum. The Truthwardens are known specifically for their advanced crystal-enhanced vehicles ranging from small speeders to powerful walkers to starfighters and destroyers.
The Lightbringers are led by The Harbinger of the Light, an incredibly powerful Force-user who guides the Lightbringers along their path of understanding the Light side of the Force. “The Harbinger” has been identified as J’hon Whetu, although he appears to never utilize his given name. The Lightbringers are known specifically for their crystal-enhanced weaponry and armor.
The Shadowseers are led by The Seer in the Darkness, a horrifying and twisted Force-user who guides the Shadowseers along their path of finding the deepest recesses of the Dark side of the Force. “The Seer” has been identified as Rose Telsniw. As seen on Dandoran, the Shadowseers are known for their hybridization of crystals and organic beings to create powerful monstrosities they alone can control.