Kellan, though shattered by her vision that had now come to pass, refused to accept complete responsibility. "Tis not by the hand of the Jedi alone that the destiny of your people has been set in motion, Elder," she stated. "Kuylen and followers arrived here ahead of us. They are seeking the secrets of Demnos. Should such knowledge of the Sith fall into their hands, other races will meet the same fate as yours. Perhaps not by genocide, but death by any other name is still death." She held her palms up in surrending gesture. "Help us to find him. We can stop him."
"As I say," says the Elder, "I do not agree with your appraisal of the situation, but as I also said, we are beyond recriminations now. I cannot directly help you find Kuylen, I can only hope you are successful in your mission when you do, if for no other reason that the sum totality of things cannot be further aided by your deaths.
"Now. You have questions, I am sure. I will answer them."
"First let me apologize, for we did not know the hazards we were. I know you will not accept any apologizing from us, since we have started a miniature war on your world, but I feel that I must."
"I would like to know what happened the last time the Jedi and the Sith came to Zeiton. The last time there was a war."
Ah- an apology, no matter how hollow seeming, very much befits you as Jedi. That is appreciated by me as the guy running the game.
"Records are difficult to come by, of course," says the Elder. "But I know this much.
"The Jedi came first, by accident. This world is remote and even during their strike at this Galactic Sector, held by the Sith, few ships came out this far. They were, like you, amazed by this world and attempted to help us. Our people at the time were riven by internal dispute but by some quirk of fate no one faction had ever managed to coherently describe the Force. Nonetheless, our race was one of rgeat technologial achievement; the instincts the Force gave us had led to great accomplishment.
The Jedi foresaw... or should I say assumed... that our culture would eventually fall to the Dark Side. Telling our people of the Force and its dangers, they offered us help, training, and guidance.
Our people were convinced and impressed. But we soon learned a harsh lesson that we accept as a Universal truth. Dark chases Light. Come the Jedi... and eventually will come the Sith.
The Sith, of course, saw only a resource to be exploited, our race to be used as slave soldiers to overthrow the Republic and the Jedi. The Jedi here resisted their approach but the Sith directed considerable resources at the problem. They annihilated the defenders and occupied Zeiton.
Thus began the wars. They were long, and they were terrible. They persisted for at least a century. I understand the Sith bombardment of our world did not cease for over sixty years. The mountains crumbled and the oceans boiled away to nothing. The upper soils were thrown into the atmosphere, where they still swirl and twirl in the endless winds as the atmosphere became unimpeded by terrian. Our luscious world was transformed into the dead one you see above.
Eventually, the Jedi succeeded in their 'War of Liberation'. Of course, by then, there was precious little left to liberate.
During the war, both sides used Zeitonian troops, and both sides realised what you now have. That our people, seemingly the most suitable in the Galaxy for use of the Force, were in fact the people who would suffer the most by its use. The Sith didn't care, though they never succeeded in creating their ultimate army. The Jedi, of course, realised the full horror very quickly, but until the war was won there was little they could do.
When the war was won, and the shattered hulk of Zeiton lay before them, the Jedi accepted that to bring the Force to Zeiton would be its doom. Loathe as they were to endorse it, they had no choice but to instruct one line of wise people- the Elders- to know the truth- and conceal it at all costs from the Zeitonians. No measure would be considered too harsh or too strict for the alternative was our extinction.
And so the Jedi left, leaving their solemn promise to never return again. We re-built our civlisation underground; our people are now unaware that it was ever any different. The Line of Elders remains unbroken from that time, though not in a direct fashion. The Council Members are all from that bloodline.
I do not know how it happened that the weapons, the lightsbares, of the fallen Sith and Jedi became our emblems of state. I assume that they were found by others and an Elder in the past could not simply deny their existence. They are consiudered relics of a forgotten past. Of course, stories and legends of the past exist. We ensure they are seen only as myths.
And that is Zeiton- the planrt the Jedi saw as the greatest wonder of the Galaxy, the Sith as the tool for Galactic domination. A frightended, ignorant people, hiding under the earth. But still alive.
Of course, we foresaw a time when the curse of the Force would return to us. That time is now. Despite my efforts, now as then I have not been able to stop this storm. The disaster is begun and only you can possibly make any difference now."
*In a barly autable, hoarse, wisper*
"But we can, We must. There is no way we can let them win, no possible way. If they win then all of your people will become what they almost became so long ago, they will becoem Kuylen's slaves, his expendable shock troops. Do you really want that to happen, and if it would happen anyway, wouldn't you want to go down fighting. Well I would, and I will. The darkside must be stopped at all cost."
"Roan, try to see it in a different light. Because we have even come here, the Dark-Side dwells here. Everyone on this planet can use the Force, and therefore everyone has a potential use of the Dark-Side. Basically we'd have to go around killing everyone, and that is not possible."
"I'm sure if you had told us earlier we would have left without question, Elder. Though it is our ignorance anyway. The Jedi Council might have tried contacting us, but, like you say, few ships have reason to come out this far. The communications on my ship between us and our capitol of Coruscant are not made to work this far out of the galaxy. Still, it is our ignorance that has caused this."
"Maybe if you will not lead us directly to the Dark Jedi, you can tell us of their target. They call it the Mausoleum of Demnos, but when we asked any of the soldiers fighting with us, they undoubtably did not know anything, since they had been cleansed of all knowledge of it's existence."
"Could you tell us of the Mausoleum?"
No.
The Elder did tell you earlier, btw. He was also certain you would not leave of your own accord whilst on your mission and I have to say that comments from you guys show him to be right. He also does not believe you could not have been contacted before you came here, and that is a point you guys are a bit hazy about as well. You cannot really give him a good explanation for that one.
He has also already told you that he knows nothing of any Mausoleum.
"However," he says, "I am confident that, if I assume rightly about your mission, that you should locate this 'Kuylen' soon."