Abeloth

Abeloth, self-styled as the Beloved Queen of the Stars and also known as the Bringer of Chaos and the Destructor, was an extremely powerful Force entity. Her dark side powers and immortality derived from her being corrupted by drinking from the Font of Power and bathing in the Pool of Knowledge. She first lived as the Servant, a mortal woman who served the powerful Ones on a jungle planet over a hundred thousand years before the Battle of Yavin. She eventually became the Mother, keeping the peace between the Father's warring Son and Daughter as a part of the family. However, she grew old while the Father and their children did not, and she feared she would lose her precious family. In a desperate attempt to hold onto the life she so loved, she drank from the Font of Power and bathed in the Pool of Knowledge. Her actions corrupted her, transforming the Mother into the twisted, immortal entity known as Abeloth.

When the Father discovered her crime, he departed the planet with his children and left Abeloth stranded. The Son and the Daughter enlisted the help of the Killiks to create massive technological artifacts, such as Centerpoint Station and Sinkhole Station, to imprison Abeloth in the Maw. According to the Thuruht Killiks, Abeloth managed to escape her prison whenever the Current of the Force was altered and the flow of time changed. Each time she escaped, the Son and the Daughter would return to the Killiks and defeat Abeloth, locking her back in her prison. This cycle repeated itself for thousands of years, though the Ones died during the Clone Wars after the Jedi Anakin Skywalker refused to take the Father's place as the Keeper of the Balance.

When Jacen Solo fell to the dark side in 40 ABY and became the Sith Lord Darth Caedus in an attempt to change his vision of a future where the Sith ruled over the Throne of Balance beside his daughter, Allana, he unintentionally unleashed Abeloth; she began to escape from her prison with the destruction of Centerpoint Station during Caedus' war against the Jedi, which threw the galaxy into turmoil. In 43 ABY, Abeloth used psychosis to remotely turn young Jedi into renegade agents, creating havoc on the galactic capital of Coruscant and pitting Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala against the Jedi Order. Abeloth was then discovered and hunted down by the Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben, as well as the Lost Tribe of Sith. A young Sith, Vestara Khai, saw Abeloth's true form and eventually joined the Skywalkers as part of an alliance.

Both the Jedi and the Sith fought and killed Abeloth in the Maw despite her exploiting their divisions, but the entity was also able to possess other beings by sharing her Force essence among multiple bodies, and she used the Sith Meditation Sphere Ship to travel to Pydyr and hide among the Fallanassi. She possessed their leader, Akanah, who was a former lover of Luke Skywalker's, and battled the Jedi and the Sith. Abeloth made High Lord Sarasu Taalon her pawn, only for Khai to kill the Sith and flee with the Skywalkers, falling increasingly in love with Ben. Abeloth subsequently fled to Nam Chorios, where she manipulated the Theran Listeners against the Skywalkers and Khai, but Master Skywalker defeated the entity by freeing Callista Ming, another former lover of his, from Abeloth's possession.

Abeloth nevertheless escaped and allied with the Sith Tribe, though her failure to dispose of Grand Lord Darish Vol prompted her to annihilate the Sith's capital city. Forces loyal to her, led by Gavar Khai, continued harrying the Jedi on Dromund Kaas and Upekzar, while Grand Lord Vol took advantage of the Galactic Alliance's political turmoil and sent his Sith to infiltrate Coruscant. However, Abeloth also had the same idea, possessing the beloved Senator Rokari Kem and working with High Lord Ivaar Workan to navigate the Alliance's political conspiracies and becoming elected as the new Chief of State. Wishing to be the "Beloved Queen of the Stars," Abeloth also possessed the Imperial Lydea Pagorski to help Admiral Daala realize her ambitions usurping the Imperial Head of State, Jagged Fel.

While Tahiri Veila and Boba Fett killed Abeloth's Pagorski avatar on Hagamoor 3, the entity had replaced Grand Lord Vol to control the Sith Tribe forces on Coruscant, concentrating them in the Jedi Temple. The attacking Jedi and Alliance forces were ambushed due to Abeloth's foresight and control of the Jedi Temple's computer core, and the entity also possessed the Sith Lady Korelei. Abeloth was enraged by the persistence of the Jedi and replenished and bolstered her power by feeding on the terror and anguish of those around her. To that end, she unleashed her wrath on Coruscant, creating groundquakes that produced volcanoes to inflict casualties upon billions of civilians.

Abeloth was desperate to re-create a family for herself on her own terms, and she abducted Ben Skywalker and Vestara Khai in an effort to force them to drink from the Font of Power on her world. They resisted her while Luke Skywalker and Darth Krayt, the Sith in the late Jacen Solo's vision, battled Abeloth in the astral realm beyond shadows. Jedi Master Saba Sebatyne also fought Abeloth at the Jedi Temple's computer core, and the struggles depleted Abeloth's Force essence, destroying the entity. Afterward, Luke Skywalker and the Jedi Council were convinced that Abeloth would recover and return, though not in their lifetimes. Heeding Raynar Thul and other Jedi Knights' findings from the Thuruht Killiks as well as the Jedi Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi's reports of Anakin Skywalker's encounter with the Ones from long ago, Luke Skywalker intended to search for the realm of Mortis and obtain its dagger to ensure that Abeloth could be permanently killed.

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