Showdown in the Draay Estate

In 3963 BBY, the Jedi Order stormed the Draay Estate when Jedi Master Xamar attempted to exculpate Jedi Covenant founder Krynda Draay by implicating himself as one of the principal participants of the Padawan Massacre of Taris a year earlier. As the fugitive Padawan Zayne Carrick—who had been framed by the Covenant's First WatchCircle for the murders—worked to prove his own innocence, Xamar apprehended him and cleared the young Human's name upon conference with the Jedi High Council. Xamar then planned to bring an end to the Covenant's mysterious activities and his fellow WatchCircle members to justice in a scheme devised by himself, the High Council, and Carrick, which involved the latter pretending to have fully embraced the dark side of the Force. With Carrick in "custody" and seemingly under the thrall of an ancient Sith artifact known as the Muur Talisman, Xamar brought both the fugitive Padawan and his associate, Marn Hierogryph, to the Draay Estate on Coruscant, seeking examination by Krynda, at which time Xamar planned to spirit her away to safety. Instead, they were met and denied audience by Krynda's son and First WatchCircle leader, Lucien.

As Lucien prepared to kill Carrick and thus eliminate the last surviving witness to the Padawan massacre, Haazen, ersatz leader of the Covenant and Draay family steward, arrived to take control of the situation. Carrick then broke free of his captors while launching what seemed to be a dark side–inspired tirade, which was the cue for Xamar to exit and muster his forces—those Knights loyal to the actual Jedi Order and not to the Covenant. Haazen meanwhile denounced Carrick as a fraud and exposed his talisman a fake, but when he attempted to question the Snivvian Hierogryph, Xamar returned with scores of High Council operatives who proceeded engage the members of the Jedi Covenant in battle. As combat raged all around and throughout the Draay Estate, Haazen revealed his own treachery by issuing the command of Vindication to all Covenanters, an order which caused all those loyal to him and his clandestine organization to rebel against the authority of the Council. Much of the Draay Estate was destroyed by Haazen's machinations, and many Jedi were killed—including Xamar.

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