The year 12,988 before the Battle of Yavin (BBY) was a period of time between the Alsakan Crisis and the Hutt War. Elias, later the founder of the Ophuchi Clan, received a vision from the Force, one that led him to believe that it was his destiny to gather the descendants of the Order of the Jedi Bendu and form them into a new order on Tatooine. Elias spent the next ten years doing so.