Long before the rise of the infinite empire or galactic republic, there existed the powerful
Celestial Species who roamed the galaxy interacting with more primitive peoples and teaching them
to construct celestial wonders.
Possessing a deep connection to the force, some believed they were non-corporeal spirits
who directly influenced the course of galactic events.
By roughly 100,000 years before the battle of yavin, a family of three powerful force
beings called the Ones inhabited a tropical planet, with some believing they were Celestials,
or descendants of Celestials, who emerged from the force to take physical form.
Rebelling against the rules of their father, the son drank from the font of power turning
him into a representation of the dark side, while the daughter bathed in the pool of knowledge
to embrace the light.
Furious at their actions, it fell upon the father’s to keep peace and balance between
them, a challenging struggle often leading to anger, frustration and destructive conflicts.
Yet for a time everything changed, when a servant appeared on their world, a mortal
woman taken in by the Ones, to eventually become a part of the family.
Fulfilling the role of the mother, she became a peacemaker, keeping the son and daughter
busy with games and chores, channelling their energy into constructive rather destructive
activities.
Meanwhile, she also acted as a dutiful wife for the father who could at last relax and
enjoy the calm and quiet she created.
But as the years passed, age caught up to her mortal form, and she was no longer able
to keep the peace, and so they reverted to their old conflicts.
Fearing the loss of her family, either through abandonment, or when she would be parted from
them in death, the Mother grew desperate and broke the rules of the Father, just as the
children had, drinking from the font of power and bathing in the pool of knowledge.
As a result, the Mother was reborn as a young, immortal woman with immense force powers.
But unlike the son and daughter, the Mother was mortal and so suffered severe unintended
side effects, with her body and mind so twisted she became a selfish, dark side monster obsessed
with imposing her upon others, in a misguided attempt to seek love and adoration.
Disappointed by her behaviour and fearing her transformation, the father fled the planet
with his children, thereby abandoning the Mother which was her greatest fear all along.
Suffering from the pain and lonliness of losing her family, the Mother delved further into
madness, becoming the creature Abeloth, a powerful entity with deep ties to the force,
capable of extraordinary abilities like possessing the bodies of multiple individuals at once,
influencing the minds of entire groups, creating avatars and illusions, launching large dark
side energy blasts, consuming the force energy of living beings, and existing in two realities
at once, with part of her consciousness in physical reality, while the other section
was in the Beyond Shadows, a realm of force energy connected to the current of time, allowing
those with access to see visions of the past, present and future.
Knowing Abeloth’s connection to the force meant she could not be fully killed and to
prevent the Bringer of chaos, from going on a rampage to destroy their great works, the
son and daughter returned to their homeworld and turned the entire region of space into
the Maw, a cluster of blackholes to serve as their former mother’s eternal prison.
To aid them in this task, the children enlisted the Killik species of Alderaan, a hive mind
collective who built structures like Centerpoint and Sinkhole Station to help work on the project.
Yet Abeloth’s life essence was so thoroughly intertwined with the force, that whenever
large scale events occurred, so impactful they changed the current of time and altered
the future in a significant way, she was freed from her prison, wreaking havoc upon whatever
civilizations she encountered.
Therefore, the role of jailor fell to the Son and Daughter, who always returned her
to captivity.
For tens of thousands of years, the children put aside their conflicts whenever necessary,
to perform their duty with Abeloth, until 21 BBY, when the legendary Jedi Knight Anakin
Skywalker and his companions entered another reality to visit the world of the Ones, ultimately
resulting in the deaths of the Father, Son and Daughter, each struck by the Mortis Dagger,
the only weapon capable of killing such beings.
In addition to the conflicts perpetuated by Anakin Skywalker and his contemporaries, the
force wielding jedi and sith were in a near constant state of war for roughly 5000 years,
resulting in many large scale wars and events which altered the current of time, until the
last link in the chain, was broken by jedi Jacen Solo in 40 ABY, when he travelled to
the maw and learned to enter the Beyond Shadows, allowing him to see a vision of the future
in the pool of knowledge.
Unfortunately the jedi saw a terrible nightmare of a dark man sat on the throne of balance,
ruling over the galaxy with an iron fist as Jacen’s daughter Allana stood by his side.
Horrified and determined to change the future, Jacen eventually left the light side to embrace
the dark, apprenticing under Lady Lumiya, an acolyte of Vader and Sidious who sought
to restore Darth Bane’s Sith Order along with their rule of two philosophy.
Becoming Darth Caedus, he committed terrible atrocities in the Second Galactic Civil War
until finally killed by his twin sister Jaina Solo.
Right before his death, Caedus saw yet another vision of the future, this time with his daughter
Allana sitting on the throne, uniting the galaxy and ruling as a benevolent jedi queen.
Despite what it cost him and the galaxy, he succeeded in stopping the future he saw.
Yet this change in the current of time also had the unintentional consequence of breaking
Abeloth free from her prison, and for the first time the Son and Daughter were not available
to deal with the threat.
Beginning her campaign against the galaxy, Abeloth started luring people like Callista
Ming, former lover of Luke Skywalker, into the Maw, turning them into servants and consuming
their life energy.
Using her powers to influence the minds of jedi, she brought many of them to madness,
resulting in problems between the Order and Alliance government.
Seeking minions to use in her schemes, Abeloth came into the possession of an intelligent
Sith Meditation sphere, which brought her in contact with the Lost Tribe of Sith, descended
from those who served the Dark Lord Naga Sadow but were stranded on the planet Kesh in 5000BBY.
Living in isolation for thousands of years, they were eventually visited by the Meditation
Sphere in 41 ABY, and learned the last remnant of the old Sith Order was defeated in the
Second Galactic Civil War, meaning the Jedi and their allies now ruled over the galaxy.
Hoping to build an Armada and bring the Sith back into power, the lost tribe’s efforts
were hijacked by Abeloth, who stole their ships and influenced the minds of their people,
turning many into her acolytes and personal dark side army.
Inhabiting the bodies of many throughout her travels, Abeloth was pursued and her hosts
slayed by Anakin Skywalker’s son, the equally legendary Luke Skywalker, who learned of her
existence by entering the Beyond Shadows and knew she must be stopped.
Eventually Abeloth took the body of Rokari Kem, a jessar war hero recently elected as
a senator, and used her dark influence to be voted Chief of State, making her leader
of the entire Galactic Alliance, and allowing her Sith servants to take control of Coruscant.
Yet she did not reign for long, as the Jedi invaded, defeated the lost tribe and liberated
the planet, only to learn Abeloth fled after abducting the Sith apprentice Vestara Khai
to represent the dark side, and Ben Skywalker, son of Luke, to stand for the light.
In this way she could recreate her former family as the Mother with a Son and Daughter.
Unfortunately for Abeloth, the children resisted, forcing her into a battle upon the moon of
Pydyr, while at the same time Luke Skywalker entered the Beyond Shadows to confront her
force spirit.
Though Ben and Vestara succeeded in killing her corporeal form, Luke Skywalker might have
been defeated, if not for the emergence of another, seemingly unaffiliated Sith Lord,
neither of the Banite Line, nor of the Lost Tribe.
This figure, revealed to be the Dark Man Jacen Solo saw in his vision of the future, was
in fact Darth Krayt, ruler of his own Sith Order growing in secret on Korriban, where
they lived under the Rule of One philosophy, which demanded a single all powerful leader
with many dark side acolytes serving his will.
Despite his desire for secrecy, even allowing Darth Caedus to claim the mantle of Sith Lord,
to act as a distraction from his own efforts, he risked revealing himself to Luke because
he sensed the importance of this battle, and knew it would require masters of both the
light and dark sides to slay Abeloth.
Working together, Luke and Krayt defeated Abeloth’s spirit, ending her reign of chaos.
Even so, Luke Skywalker feared she might one day re-emerge, not entirely convinced a being
like Abeloth could be completely destroyed.
Therefore it fell to the jedi order to find the Mortis Dagger used to kill the Ones, and
kept it at the ready for her eventual return, as it was the only weapon that might bring
about Abeloth’s permanent defeat.