Darth Vader was a symbol of power and strength propagated by the Empire in order to instill
fear in all those who wished to rebel against the Emperor.
Though this symbol of fear wasn’t fully developed until Vader confronted 8 Jedi at
once within the first year of the Empire’s reign.
Shortly after the execution of Order 66, a small group of Jedi contacted each other and
met up within an abandoned spice mine on the planet Kessel.
The 5 Masters and 3 Knights had gathered to discuss what had happened and what they should
do in order to take back the galaxy from the Sith.
They argued and debated over what they should do, with finally concluding to two choices:
they either team up and bring down the Sith right now at any cost, even if it means using
the dark side as a weapon, or they wait it out until the right time to strike comes,
not deviating from their sacred teachings.
Unknown to everyone present, this entire meeting was a setup to lure out Darth Vader into a
trap orchestrated by Jedi Master Shaddy, who understood that she would never be able to
convince everyone to fight, so she instead decided to force the unwilling Jedi to fight
the Sith Lord by sending out a signal that Obi Wan was there with them.
Believing his former master to be at this abandoned spice mine, Vader wasted no time
getting there.
Her plan worked, as moments after revealing her true intentions to everyone, Vader busted
through the walls screaming Obi Wan’s name.
When he found out that he was tricked, Vader then proceeded to confront the Jedi, promising
to keep one alive if they revealed Obi Wan’s location.
Of course none of them obeyed.
The first Jedi to met her end was Jedi knight Sia-Lan Wezz, who was struck down by Vader
with a single strike.
The fight continued, with Vader repelling the Jedi’s desperate attacks with ease,
with both his lightsaber and the force.
His next victim would be Jedi Knight Ma'kis, who got overwhelmed with Vader’s heavy hitting
strikes, losing his guard and finally getting struck down.
At this point, Vader was surrounded by the other 6 Jedi, who were attacking him at every
direction, with one of them even landing a hit on him on the back.
Making a quick move, Vader force jumped to the high ground and escaped the endless flurry
of attacks.
We should note, that at this point Vader was still getting used to fighting within his
suit and that he was prone to make mistakes as he hasn’t fully adjusted to moving within
his new armor.
Once on top of a mining equipment, Vader was confronted by Shaddy, the Jedi who staged
this entire fight.
However, she brought a different weapon, a cortosis blade, a blade made out of material
that was able to disable Vader’s lightsaber for a short period of time.
Seeing that he no longer had a weapon, Vader quickly force choked the overconfident Jedi
and took her blade instead.
With this new weapon, he went on to disable the other Jedi’s weapons with ease up until
he had his hand sliced off and soon after his leg injured.
With no weapon and an injured leg, Vader surrendered to the remaining Jedi.
But one of them wasn’t buying it.
Believing it to be a trick, Koffl made an attempt to finish off the Sith Lord, but was
abruptly stopped by Bultar.
Not wanting to hear the nonsense of Jedi not killing the unarmed, Koffl killed Bultar and
took her lightsaber and made a desperate dash to end Vader.
As he jumped, Vader quickly used the force to launch the cortosis blade still attached
to his severed hand at the Jedi’s chest, instantly killing him.
Grabbing that Jedi’s lightsaber, Vader confronted the 3 remaining Masters.
The 3 of them had huddled into a corner, and stared down the sith lord.
Refusing Vader’s last demand to reveal Obi Wan’s location, the 3 Jedi then used their
combined strength and hurdled massive boulders and mining equipment at Vader, forcing him
to his knees.
But being at the Jedi’s mercy didn’t last long, as the 501st Legion came to the rescue
and instantly fired upon the three Jedi, causing them to panic and scatter away from vader.
Two of them were shot down almost instantly, while the last one made a desperate attempt
to escape.
But Vader stopped him, literally with the force, allowing the troopers to blast him.
But right before they did, Master Tsui Choi made a last ditch attempt at escaping by throwing
his lightsaber at Vader’s head.
He hit him, but the helmet prevented any real damage, only revealing Vader’s eye.
Choi was then quickly shot down.
Afterwards, Vader met with Emperor Palpatine, who told his apprentice of how the Empire
has begun spreading a story of how Vader hunted down and killed 50 Jedi at once.
Although this was clearly not true, it did effectively spark fear into the galaxy, forging
Vader as a monster that could not be defeated.
This event and the story the empire later fabricated afterwards could be the reason
why the remaining Jedi in the galaxy never got together, as they perhaps didn’t think
they could ever defeat a Sith lord that was able to take down 50 Jedi at once.
For them, it was better to hide and preserve their teachings, than fight and die like the
Jedi they heard about on Imperial news.