Now in command of the Inquisitorious, Vader began a harsh training program, duelling his
students and wounding each one, often cutting off a limb to ensure they remembered the lesson.
Seeing his warriors injured, the Grand Inquisitor insisted Vader’s disrespect was unwarranted,
as each of the Inquisitorious were former jedi, and therefore skilled fighters.
But Vader pointed out that was the problem, as they fought in a defensive Jedi style,
and must learn a more aggressive form of combat to survive.
Declaring that he found his students pathetic, Vader was nevertheless determined to make
them strong by instructing the GI, who would pass the lesson on to the others.
Any who did could not keep up should be terminated.
Moving on to discuss their overarching mission of finding and eliminating the last surviving
Jedi scattered across the galaxy, the GI revealed the Emperor gave him a secret list of potential
targets, but expressed confusion as to why a scholar like the Master Archivist Jocasta
Nu was highlighted, indicating her special importance.
In his previous life as a Jedi, the GI served as a Guard in the great temple and sought
to further his understanding of the force by studying the more advanced teachings kept
in the archive, only to be denied by Jocasta Nu, who believed he was not ready for such
knowledge.
Now that he embraced the dark side, his long held resentment turned to deep hatred, and
so despite his confusion as to her significance, he was eager to take on this assignment and
bring about her downfall.
When Vader then met with his master and asked about her relevance, Sidious explained that
despite being an old woman of middling force power and minimal combat ability, Jocasta
Nu was one of the greatest threats remaining to the Sith Order.
After years serving as Master Archivist in the Jedi Temple, Jocasta studied the work
of countless generations who collected notes and artefacts from every force shrine, sanctuary
or wellspring of power they discovered across the galaxy.
She alone could give them access to the hidden knowledge sealed away in secret rooms within
the Temple, and so Vader was ordered to bring her in alive.
Sidious knew much about her, stating she was not the type to meekly disappear into exile
and would no doubt make a grand display at some point which might get her killed.
Vader must therefore find her and bring her before the Emperor unharmed.
Meanwhile, on a faraway planet, Jocasta Nu finished her masterwork, having spent her
time in exile recording everything she knew onto holocrons to create a new Archive housed
in a school built to train the next generation of Jedi.
With her task complete, her assistant and friend Gar suggested she finally retire so
they could move away and start a new life together.
But Jocasta would not abandon what she considered her responsibility and instead prepared to
leave the planet in search of force sensitive students to start a new Jedi Order.
Accompanied by the droid B2, Jocasta made her way to the Imperial capital of Coruscant,
and infiltrated the former Jedi Temple in search of a memory crystal which contained
the names and locations of force sensitive children across the galaxy.
Unfortunately, her vessel was soon after landing, and so B2 sacrificed himself to implement
their contingency plan, creating a blast so powerful it destroyed the ship and surrounding
Imperials.
While searching through the wreckage, the Empire found evidence linking the ship to
the Jedi, and so alerted Darth Vader who began his own investigation, tracking her to the
Temple and ordering it surrounded.
Making her way into a secret room in the Temple, Jocasta Nu found the memory crystal which
would allow her to find the next generation of Jedi, however as she stealthily made her
way out, she became distracted by a man casually rifling through and disrespecting sacred jedi
texts.
Unable to control her frustration and disgust she leapt down from above threatened him with
her lightsaber.
Shocked to learn that her opponent was the Grand Inquisitor, a former Jedi she once knew,
they duelled briefly, but she proved to be no match for the dark side acolyte, who emerged
victorious.
Yet just as he swung his lightsaber to strike her down, Darth Vader appeared and blocked
the attack, ordering him to cease his attack.
With his chance for revenge before him, the Grand Inquisitor was hesitant to stand down,
and while they spoke, Jocasta collapsed a number of book shelves on top of them and
fled deeper into the Temple.
Making her way to a computer terminal, she deleted the entire Jedi archive to prevent
the Sith from using it, and found a devastating weapon that could be powered by her lightsaber,
using it to momentarily halt Vader’s advance.
But soon the weapon drained the saber, so she used it to blow a hole in the wall through
which she could escape.
Once outside the Imperial soldiers initially opened fire on her, but then switched to attacking
Vader, believing he was another jedi.
Eventually they realized their mistake, and cornered Jocasta, who knew they wanted her
alive so she could reveal her knowledge, and so threw herself into an abyss, only for Vader
to catch her with the force and take her into custody.
After finding the memory crystal and scanning it with his suit to view its contents, Vader
came to the conclusion this list was the reason Sidious wanted her alive.
Boarding a transport ship, they made their way to the Emperor, but before they arrive
Jocasta revealed to the clone soldiers that their commander was the famous Anakin Skywalker,
and so Vader killed the men on board to keep the secret, and crashed the ship to kill the
Jedi.
Reporting to Darth Sidious, Vader destroyed the memory crystal, falsely claiming they
learned nothing of interest from Jocasta and she was killed while trying to escape.
Back on the world of her exile, the Jedi’s friend Gar tended to the school and archive,
realizing with great sadness she would not return.
When he at last grew too old and weary to continue his work, he killed himself by detonating
a blast which collapsed the entrance to the school, sealing it away to await the will
of the force.
The archive and school were then found by Luke Skywalker as he worked to create a new jedi order.