Zeison Sha

The Zeison Sha were an order of Force adepts known for their survival skills and self-reliance, as well as their abilities in telekinesis and with the discblade on the planet of Yanibar in Wild Space. The Zeison Sha developed their Force powers as a means of withstanding their harsh planet. The order stressed independence and survival as well as assistance to those in need. Long estranged from the Jedi, they had little use for the Order proper.

The Zeison Sha experienced an influx of population when many friends and family of the Jedi, some of whom were Force-sensitive, fled to Yanibar during the New Sith Wars. For millennia, after those colonists were abandoned on Yanibar due to the deaths of all the Jedi who knew of their location, the Zeison Sha developed an isolationist philosophy. Unlike the Jedi Order, the Zeison Sha did not separate Force-sensitive children from their parents for training. Further attempts by the Jedi Order to re-establish relationships with the Zeison Sha ended in failure; the group survived attempts during the Great Jedi Purge to stamp them out, avoiding Darth Vader and other Jedi hunters. Even through the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Zeison Sha remained independent and spiteful toward the Jedi.

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