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"Jedi Brought to Justice" Posted onto the GNS by Mikel von Bianchi - Year 13 Day 177 KORRIBAN (IIS) - Details released today indicate that the Order of the Sith extracted justice against a former member of the secretive organization, with Jedi Azrakh Raleep, once a Lord of the Sith, having been executed in the halls of the ancient Sith temple on Korriban. Raleep, having come to public attention most recently by defecting to the Jedi Order and releasing several trivial but internal Sith communications via the Galactic News Service, had been on the run from the Order of the Sith for many months. It appears however that the defector was not able to sustain an edge over the pursuing Galactic Empire for long. Although no media were present for the proceedings, various reports began to trickle out to the public, including a claimed holocapture of the execution, causing a moment of candour by Director Mikel von Bianchi, leader of the Order of the Sith: "Azrakh Raleep left the Sith when he discovered that the mandate of our Order is to safeguard the galaxy from the improper use of the Force through the guidance of the Imperial Throne. He betrayed his brothers in the Sith in an opportunistic display of self-aggrandizement and the allure of power that the Jedi Order promises." The Noghri traitor is known to have concocted a story regarding his 'calling to the light' while simultaneously downloading whatever data he could obtain from the Order's unclassified databanks, before defecting to the Jedi Order on the heels of their earlier acceptance of disgraced Sith member, Dorian Tecto. Both situations highlight the relaxation in the Jedi Order's membership policies, expressing their desperate attempt to survive in both the face of the growing attraction of the Sith Order to force sensitives throughout the galaxy, but their own waning influence within the Galactic Alliance. Lord Bianchi continued, "I have to question the mindset of the Jedi Order, to have admitted these dangerous, power-mad individuals to their order. The Jedi continue to stifle the development of a more peaceful galaxy, as they weave a web of lies and deception based upon their brand of ritualistic mysticism that culminated in the destruction of the Jedi Order after their millennia-long manipulation of the Galactic Republic. Even the unstable leadership of the New Republic realises the danger the Jedi Order poses; and we can see this through the pulling of much support to the Jedi Order. The recent founding of their own government on the backs of the Arkanian Royal Engineers as a means of vying for greater influence within the Galactic Alliance is an example of their lust for power." Main Article