Holocron of King Adas

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Holocron of King Adas,^[3] also known asAdas' holocron was the originalSith holocron, made byKing Adas around27,700 BBY. He learned how to create theholocron from theRakata who had come toconquer Korriban, and whom he had driven off.^[1]

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After its creation, Adas's holocron passed down through the years until, around the time of theGreat Hyperspace War,Lord Garu lost the holocron onAshas Ree. Centuries later thefallen Jedi Freedon Nadd found it, and used its dark knowledge to conquerOnderon. It was eventually uncovered byQueen Amanoa ofOnderon, who learned all its stored secrets. The holocron was then passed to her apprenticeNovar, to teachSith initiates. TheGatekeeper of Adas's holocron, however, had a unique personality that could turn down the user's request or even threaten its user. Amanoa and theNaddists were defeated, andKnights of theJedi Order thereafter hid Adas's holocron in a geyser crater beneath the deep waters of theplanet Kodai.^[1]

In39 BBY,Norval, a student ofCoruscant universityprofessor Murk Lundi, following instructions, retrieved Adas's holocron, which had been discovered and afterwards held briefly by his teacher before it was lost again in the depths of Kodai's seas, when the two Sith fanatics fought over it.^[4] A decade later, in29 BBY,Palpatine (alias Darth Sidious) secretly sentCarnor Jax's father, aSun Guard ofThyrsus, to retrieve the holocron—which was now en route toPloo II from Kodai, Norval having at last recovered the holocron by his own devices; Sidious killed the secret agent from Thyrsus when he failed to reclaim the ancient artifact.^[1] Also pursuing Norval, however, wereJedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and hisPadawan Anakin Skywalker, who were successful at last in reclaiming Adas's holocron from the fanatical Sith aspirant's possession; the ancient receptacle of forbidden knowledge was then taken to theJedi Temple by order of theJedi High Council, delivered to chief archivistJocasta Nu, and secured in a safe within the Temple archive vaults.^[4]

The Council, for reasons that remain unclear, later sent Adas's holocron to Jedi-affiliatedHouse Pelagia'sHolocron library.^[3] The infamous artifact was subsequentlystolen from the library by SirNevil Tritum of theMecrosa Order during theGreat Jedi Purge.^[1] Following theBattle of Endor, the Mecrosa Order gave the Sith holocron toLumiya. It is unknown whether the holocron was still in her possession when she died in40 ABY.

That same year, Jedi historianTionne Solusar incorrectly stated in herrecords thatNorval found Adas's holocron in 29 BBY, instead of 39 BBY—a statement, however, which isn't wholly incorrect, as the Sith artifact, while initially uncovered on the earlier date, was not in fact physically recovered and retained by Norval until 29 BBY.^[3]