The Conclave held at Exis Station, also known as the Exis Convocations or simply the Exis Convocation, was a significant gathering of the Jedi Order members. This event transpired in 3986 BBY at Exis Station, which was an ion mining station situated within the Teedio system. This convocation marked the first substantial assembly of the Jedi since the Conclave at Deneba that occurred during the Krath Holy Crusade a decade prior. In the aftermath of the Great Sith War, which plunged the Galactic Republic into chaos and resulted in the deaths of numerous Jedi—including a significant portion of the Order's most influential Masters—the galaxy had shown signs of recovery, yet the Jedi sought a clear path forward. Nomi Sunrider, who was the leader of the Jedi at that time, summoned as many Jedi as possible to Exis Station for a meeting to deliberate on the Order's future.
In front of the assembled Jedi, Sunrider delivered a speech addressing the profound losses of the war, the galaxy's subsequent period of recovery, and the direction for the Jedi Knights. The convocation faced an unexpected interruption when Vima Sunrider, Nomi's daughter, commandeered an ion mining vessel and narrowly escaped a fatal incident. Following her rescue by Tott Doneeta, the meeting resumed. Sylvar then took the floor, expressing her condemnation of the fallen Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma for his wartime actions and urging the Jedi to pursue justice against him. After the Conclave on Exis Station concluded, the Jedi experienced a period characterized by relative peace; the convocation would later be remembered as a crucial moment in the history of the Jedi, thousands of years later.
The Great Sith War, which unfolded in 3996 BBY, represented a widespread conflict across the galaxy between the forces of the Galactic Republic, including the Jedi Order, and the adherents of the Sith and their allies. In an attempt to seize control over a significant portion of the galaxy from the Republic, which had governed for over twenty millennia, the spirit of the deceased Dark Lord of the Sith Freedon Nadd manipulated several Force-sensitives to advance his objectives from beyond death. Among those influenced were Exar Kun, a Jedi apprentice who had become disillusioned with the Order's current state and embarked on his own quest for knowledge—including the forbidden knowledge of the Sith. Also under Freedon Nadd's sway were Satal and Aleema Keto, members of the Tetan elite who were experimenting with dark-side magic and had established a clandestine society and dark-side cult known as the Krath.
The Sith, revived by Freedon Nadd's followers, initiated a war against the Republic and the Jedi, creating chaos on a galactic scale. However, the ambitions of Nadd's converts eventually surpassed his influence over them. Another spectral Dark Lord named Marka Ragnos designated Exar Kun—along with fellow fallen Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma—as the inheritors of the Sith traditions. Kun also extinguished Nadd's spirit, brought the Krath under his control, and assumed full command of the Sith War. Together, Kun and Qel-Droma escalated the war to even more devastating levels, but the Jedi Order consistently opposed the Sith. Prominent Jedi Masters and Knights such as Nomi Sunrider, Sylvar, and Thon of Ambria led Republic forces against Kun and Qel-Droma's followers as the war reached a critical point where a decisive victory or a misstep could determine the outcome for either side.
In the end, the Republic and the Jedi emerged victorious, but at a significant cost. Many of the most influential Jedi Masters, including Qel-Droma's and Kun's mentors, Arca Jeth and Vodo-Siosk Baas, respectively, perished during the war. The Sith launched a suicide attack—killing its unwitting perpetrators, Aleema Keto and the Cathar Crado—in which they triggered a supernova in the Cron Cluster using Sith magic, devastating the Jedi library world of Ossus. Ulic Qel-Droma, after killing his brother, the still-loyal Jedi Knight Cay Qel-Droma, in a moment of rage, was confronted by Nomi Sunrider, who then severed his connection to the Force. Qel-Droma subsequently led the Jedi armada to Exar Kun's base on Yavin 4, where Kun managed to transcend his physical form, only to have his spirit confined to the moon by the Jedi.
Following the war's devastation, the Sith were nearly annihilated, and Qel-Droma wandered the galaxy in self-imposed exile. The Jedi Order underwent reconstruction, with Sunrider appointed as their leader. Numerous new Jedi were trained to replace those who had fallen in the war. By 3986 BBY, the Sith War had concluded more than a decade prior, and the Republic—along with the Jedi—had begun to recover. The Jedi Order had not convened in large numbers during the war's final stages or in the years that followed, with their last major assembly having taken place at Mount Meru on Deneba in 3997 BBY during the Krath conflict. Consequently, the Jedi were summoned to meet at Exis Station, an ion mining station in the Teedio system, to discuss the future direction of their order.
The area surrounding Exis Station was filled with spacecraft as the Jedi gathered for the conclave. Nomi Sunrider brought her teenage daughter, Vima, to the station for the conference, where Vima was reunited with the Tchuukthai Jedi Master Thon, who had been Nomi's mentor and had cared for and protected Vima for a significant portion of her life. Also arriving at the station, accompanied by two of her fellow Cathar, was Sylvar, now a revered figure on her homeworld. However, they had little time to catch up, as the Conclave on Exis Station commenced with a speech by the Order's leader.
After welcoming the assembled Jedi Masters and Knights to the convocation, Sunrider spoke about the Sith War and the subsequent period of recovery. Her words conveyed hope, as she urged the Jedi to consider the future and to place their trust—which had been shaken during the terrible war—in the Force. As Nomi spoke, Thon observed that the gathered Jedi looked up to and followed his former apprentice, which filled him with pride.
However, Vima Sunrider was already bored with the conference, exacerbating her frustration with her mother's neglect of her Jedi training. The girl slipped away, seeking adventure, and found exactly what she was looking for. One of Exis Station's ion mining crews was heading to their ships for a shift. Vima, discovering a ship that was both prepped and unguarded, climbed into the cockpit and took off with the rest of the formation. However, the teenager was ill-prepared for such a flight and soon found herself caught in a magnetic loop from one of the local star's chromospheric storm cells.
As Nomi Sunrider was outlining plans to establish a new Jedi Council, she brought the conclave to an abrupt halt when she sensed her daughter's imminent danger; Thon and Sylvar also felt Vima's predicament through the Force. With the stolen ion mining ship hurtling toward the star, Vima ejected in the escape pod. As it fell, the mining crew's foreman refused to risk his crew on her rescue, and Vima's situation appeared dire. Yet, at the last moment, the escape pod was snagged by a grapnel from the ship of a newcomer—the Twi'lek Jedi Tott Doneeta, who was arriving late at the station after being caught in a heat storm on his homeworld of Ryloth. He returned with Vima to Exis Station, where they were greeted by Masters Thon and a very relieved Nomi. The conclave resumed once more.
Sylvar soon took the podium, as she had much to address at the convocation. Ulic Qel-Droma, one of the Sith leaders during the war, had been left to his own devices following the conflict's end, and Sylvar sought justice. She harbored bitterness over the war's cost, including the death of her mate, Crado, and placed all blame on the last remaining member of the Sith regime. Demanding that Ulic be hunted down and brought to justice, Sylvar caused Nomi to reflect on her memories of him. Vima did as well, although, as she had been a young child, her memories were not as bitter as the others'.
The conclave concluded shortly thereafter. The numerous Jedi began to depart, and the station gradually emptied. Tott Doneeta, sensing that Sylvar still harbored much turmoil, invited the Cathar to join him in his work on Ryloth. Vima Sunrider decided to run away once again, this time in search of Ulic Qel-Droma; the young girl stowed away aboard the ship of the spacer known as Hoggon, who had come to the convocation to observe the great Jedi of the war. She convinced Hoggon, who had taken Ulic to the ice planet Rhen Var, to bring her there as well. After discovering where her daughter had gone, Nomi Sunrider also traveled to Rhen Var to confront Qel-Droma and bring Vima home; Sylvar also arrived on the planet, but with her own intentions. After a prolonged duel between him and the Cathar, Ulic refused to defend himself against Sylvar any longer, and it was this action that reminded Sylvar what it meant to be a Jedi. She abandoned her quest for vengeance, but Qel-Droma was shot and killed by Hoggon soon after—the spacer sought glory and his own place in history.
The Conclave on Exis Station would become renowned as a pivotal event in Jedi history. Several thousand years after the conference, the Jedi Knight Tionne, of the New Jedi Order, would discover Exis Station's location, as well as the text of Nomi Sunrider's speeches. Eleven years thereafter, the dark side Mage known as Orloc would establish his base on Exis Station.
Nomi Sunrider held the position of head of the Jedi Order during the Conclave on Exis Station. As the widow of the late Jedi Andur Sunrider, Nomi chose to follow her husband's path of training after he was killed by pirates. Arriving on Ambria, Sunrider received Jedi training from the Tchuukthai Jedi Master known as Thon. Possessing a strong natural talent for battle meditation, Sunrider became a respected Jedi Knight and was dispatched on numerous missions as the Great Sith War unfolded. Along the way, she came to know—and love—Ulic Qel-Droma, another prominent young Jedi Knight. When Ulic was seduced by the dark side, joining the Krath, Nomi found herself fighting a war against the man she loved, but she remained steadfast in her commitment to upholding the Jedi way of life. By the war's end, Nomi had established herself as a leader among the Jedi. Nomi was the mother of Vima Sunrider, fathered by her late husband. Throughout her mother's training and often during the Sith War, Vima accompanied Nomi. After the war, Nomi took Vima as her Jedi apprentice and brought her to Exis Station for the conclave. Nomi Sunrider would endure as a legend among the Jedi, remaining famous for thousands of years.
Sylvar, a Cathar Jedi Knight from the planet Cathar, was well-known throughout the galaxy and revered among her own people by the time of the conclave. Having chosen Crado as her mate, Sylvar and her lover went on to train in the Jedi arts under Vodo-Siosk Baas on Dantooine. Their fellow apprentice, Exar Kun, grew weary of the Jedi way and abandoned his path in pursuit of new—and forbidden—knowledge. Kun went on to become the Dark Lord of the Sith, and Crado followed, forsaking the Jedi and Sylvar. As the events of the Sith War unfolded, Sylvar often found herself alongside Nomi Sunrider, after having rescued young Vima from Krath war droids. As the war progressed, Sylvar lost first her master to the Sith, as Exar Kun murdered him, and then her mate, whom Ulic Qel-Droma sent on a suicide mission. Following the war's events, Sylvar blamed Qel-Droma, the only surviving member of the Sith, for the tragedies and sought justice.
The Conclave on Exis Station is introduced in the comic Tales of the Jedi – Redemption 1 from the Tales of the Jedi comic series and concludes in Tales of the Jedi – Redemption 2. Events related to the conclave continue throughout the Redemption story arc, which was authored by Star Wars writer Kevin J. Anderson. The conclave receives a brief mention in the short story Firestorm, also by Anderson, as well as in the junior novel Junior Jedi Knights: Kenobi's Blade by Rebecca Moesta.