Four millenia after the Galactic Empire was torn up by the roots and the New Republic was founded upon its rubble, the Age of Antimatter began. Never before had the Galaxy seen technology of this calibre, powerfull enough to wipe out entire solar systems without leaving behind a speck of dust.
Motivated by greed and under the guise of mutually assured destruction, the Powers that be scrambled to learn this technology at all costs.
In these unsettling times, it was a commonly veiwed that the end would be brought about by a wave of empty darkness. As tensions rose in the outer rim, the threat of ultimate destruction became ever more real with fear and violence rising in response. To calm the masses, the republic ordained a taskforce of one-thousand, one-hundred Jedi knights led by the popular and beloved Jedi knight Karr-rik, to identify and destroy every peice of information about the creation of this dread weapon. Thus their scourge began and with much diplomacy and necessary violence, the technology was driven to the edges of the galaxy where they were being stored on a handful of planets.
On the small planet Varse in the outer rim, a small contingent of antimatter researchers were holed up undeground as the Mandelorian fleet bombarded the surface. The fleets goal was to make a strike for this technology before the republic arrived and perchance they could hide it for use in the future. There, a young force sensitive would be the key to beginning the set of events that would lead to the ultimate destruction of the Galaxy.