Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-25356210-20160316023355/@comment-26184570-20160316164538

Edacnik wrote: Ah.

So ultimately it's the empires fault? Partially, but not completely. Ever since their begining, they were hunted and hated. They were originaly an offshoot of Humans, who where then banished to wander by the Rakata. For thousands of years, they split into many smaller groups, becoming many subspecies, but maintaining some key features. Then, the ancient progenitor Sith commited a horrible, brutal genocide against the Mäk'dī. The group that suffered the most where the Umbaran and Mandalorian Mäk'dī, because they were closest to the Sith. When the Sith were first defeated in the Hyperspace war, the Jedi inadvertently saved the Mäk'dī, despite the fact that there have been many quarrels between the Mäk'dī and the Jedi in the past. When this happened, the many different Mäk'dī sub-species finally regrouped back at their ancient homeworld, after many thousands of years of suffering. This culminated in their many different cultures and traits merging, and they finally became one united group again. Ever since then, they have had a tense relationship with the Jedi (they believe the Jedi are foolish for only drawing on the light, because only drawing on the light makes you weak, and keeps you from balancing yourself or building immunity to the Dark Side of the Force), but they often build tense alliances with the Jedi so they can defeat the Sith.