Battle of Mizra

The Battle of Mizra was an engagement of the millennium-long New Sith Wars that took place in 1466 BBY. It pitted a force of Galactic Republic soldiers, accompanied by Jedi and led by a Jedi coordinator, against a massive army of the New Sith that featured many Sith Lords riding speeders. At one point during a Jedi retreat, a Sith sniper killed the Jedi coordinator—who had been using the battle meditation Force ability to improve the combat performance of the Republic force—causing a rout that saw the deaths of more than half a million Republic troops and capture of hundreds of Jedi.

The defeat at the Battle of Mizra served as a turning point in the New Sith Wars, resulting in significant loss of Republic political control over the Outer Rim Territories and a rise in power for the Sith. Centuries after the battle, it was mentioned in documents such as the Jedi trainee guidebook The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force, the Sith text The Rule of Two, and a galactic history chronicle by the Historical Council of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. The battle was also immortalized in a description by the poet Felloux.

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