Author's Note from the Archivist

Contextual Fragment | Source Redacted | Cycle Approx. 10 ABY

The following records are drawn from scattered repositories across the Outer Rim, salvaged from rebel caches, shattered archives, and recovered holocrons. Most are incomplete. Some may be deliberately altered. Others—deliberately erased.

At the time of these events, the Galactic Empire had fallen, but not cleanly.
The Rebellion had become a fledgling New Republic, preoccupied with reconstruction, demobilization, and containment of fractured Imperial warlords.

The Jedi Order was extinct. Its relics were looted or buried.
The Sith were believed defeated. Their truths, however, lingered in shadow—on Exegol, in whisper, in science.

The Force was spoken of in half-memories. In most places, it was myth.
But on the fringes of the galaxy, where scanners failed and silence held, something old began to stir:
Magick that had outlived the purge.
Science that had escaped its creators.
And those who believed the Force must be either erased… or reborn.

What follows is one version of what came next.
It is not the only version.

But it is the one the fire remembers.

— Archivist’s Preface, Codex of Embers, Vol. I