Count Dooku , for example, became a Sith with the hopes of bettering the Republic by wiping it out and starting anew. Likewise, Darth Gravid tried to incorporate both the light and dark into his teachings, and Darth Vectivus simply studied the Force without trying to destroy the Jedi or conquer the galaxy. However, all of those Sith were the exception to the rule of Sith philosophies and morality. Other, true Sith would not have approved of their motivations for a simple reason.
You, and those who succeed you, are building an arsenal of dark side potency. To prove the point, Dooku was a pawn in the game to acquire Vader. Likewise, Gravid was killed by his apprentice, and Vectivus was shunned by his order, left to die and not pass on his knowledge to an apprentice. In short, Sith subscribed to the philosophy of self-promotion and aggrandization at the expense of others.
Anyone who advocated otherwise would not have been considered a true Sith. The very nature of the Sith makes them naturally antagonistic towards the light side of the Force, and Jedi in general. Yet, Darth Gravid was far, far different in many respects. He was one of the few Sith Lords to show actual respect for his Jedi opponents. Gravid was a powerful Sith Lord dedicated to his cause, but he also believed that strict adherence to the dark side would be the Order's eventual undoing.
As such, he tried to incorporate light side teachings into the Sith ideology , and it eventually drove him insane. He decided to suppress all Sith knowledge and destroy its artifacts and historical records in order to "save" it from itself.
The damage Gravid did to the Sith Order was immeasurable. Darth Marr was nothing, if not ambitious. From a young age, he rose to prominence within the Sith Empire, and his actions against the Republic were extraordinary.
He was characterized by his face mask, which he never removed, which added to his mystery and intrigue as a major political character within the Empire. Marr might have been an aggressor, but he was clearly not evil in the strict sense of the word.
He was a strong advocate for alien rights, fighting back against much of the xenophobia and racism within his own Order. He died acknowledging the truth of the Jedi code, which was remarkable among Sith Lords.
Fans who followed the novels watched as they rose from children to prominent Jedi Knights who partook in a number of intense conflicts, particularly the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galactic core.
It was this event that would serve as the catalyst for Jacen Solo to fall to the dark side and become the Sith Lord known as Darth Caedus. He believed it was the only way to save the galaxy from slipping into utter destruction. His road to peace was littered with destruction and dead bodies, including his uncle Luke Skywalker's beloved wife, Mara Jade. Eventually, Caedus was put down by his twin sister Jaina in one final, emotional duel.
This would result in the planet being forbidden from Jedi and becoming a legend for millennia to come. He decided that his only audience was the Force and yearned to be worthy of it. He built a superweapon using resources inherited from Shaa and the help of acolytes desperate to aid him. Darth Momin's superweapon had the power to incinerate an entire city, but his true plan was different. He wanted to pour the Force into the weapon's engine and freeze the terrified expressions of the people in time forever, creating an artwork depicting fear and pain devoted to the dark side of the Force.
When he attempted this, the Jedi intervened and Momin's body was destroyed, yet his mind remained inside his mask where he waited for his revival as ages passed. During one conflict, the Jedi and Sith fought on the planet Takodana. The pirate Maz Kanata later built her castle on top of the legendary battlefield. His life became the inspiration for holostories , one of which depicted him fighting many Sith troops at once.
The legendary Sith Darth Wrend fought against the Jedi. Despite being believed dead, Wrend returned to continue to battle. He also tamed the Nightmare Conjunction [53] and wielded a lightsaber with a gold hilt.
Early on in the war, the Sith attacked the Old Republic capital world of Coruscant. The Sith successfully captured the planet as well as the Jedi Temple.
The Sith were reformed by Darth Bane, who decreed that only two Sith Lords could exist at any given time. The Sith numbered thousands, yet they eventually fell, [56] and despite the Sith armada 's quantitative advantage over the much smaller Ghostfinder fleet , the Sith were outmatched.
Within a year, the Jedi managed to defeat the infighting Sith, bringing what was left of the dark order to its knees. However, one Sith, Darth Bane , survived. With his fellow Sith Lords destroyed, he reformed the order by establishing the Rule of Two, mandating that only two Sith, a master and an apprentice, could exist at any given time, lest they fall prey to infighting.
The Sith abandoned their traditional homeworld of Moraband after it was scarred by many wars. Many Sith worlds were then quarantined, including Rhelg , Jaguada , and Ziost. Some worlds were so cleansed of their Sith history that even locals had no idea of their past. The Sith remained hidden for a millennium, allowing the Jedi to believe that their ancient nemesis had gone extinct. The Sith stayed in hiding for a thousand years, their survival unknown to the Jedi as they plotted revenge.
With Sith teachings passed down by the Rule of Two, the Order managed to survive. Within the vision, Skrye stated that the Sith were reborn and used the Cauldron , a superweapon that ripped a planet into two pieces. Eventually, the Sith apprentice known as Darth Sidious [15] killed his master, Darth Plagueis , in his sleep , seizing the status of master for himself as he forwards a plot to destroy the Jedi.
The Sith remained a distant memory until the last days of the Galactic Republic when Darth Sidious and his apprentice, Darth Maul , revealed themselves to the Jedi. Sidious hid in plain sight as the unassuming Senator Sheev Palpatine of Naboo while secretly orchestrating with the Trade Federation for the invasion of his home planet.
This allowed the Dark Lord to make a play for the galaxy's highest office in his civilian persona and sow the seeds of Sith revenge. Despite this setback, the Sith had returned, clouding the Force with the power of the dark side. The arrival of Anakin Skywalker , a young boy especially strong with the Force, into the Jedi Order offered a potential recruit for the Sith with Darth Sidious in the public persona of Palpatine, who had become Supreme Chancellor of the Republic.
Following Maul's apparent demise on Naboo, [3] Darth Sidious approached the fallen Jedi Master Dooku, who had taken on the title of Count of Serenno , and offered him the chance to destroy the Jedi Order and reshape the Republic by becoming his new apprentice.
Dooku agreed and was given the name Darth Tyranus, desiring both power and the elimination of the corruption that plagued the Republic. The Sith chose a bounty hunter, Jango Fett, as the template for an army of clone troopers. For nearly a decade after accepting Sidious's offer, Tyranus helped his new master to implement much of the groundwork necessary to begin the Clone Wars. The Sith took control of Sifo-Dyas' project, however, after arranging his assassination by the Pyke Syndicate. Darth Tyranus, under his public identity as Dooku, reentered the public eye in spectacular fashion, commandeering a Galactic Republic Holonet station in the Raxus system and delivering a rousing speech in which he thoroughly lambasted the corruption and shortcomings of the Republic.
He then began to rally rebellious star systems to his cause and secretly allied himself with powerful commercial entities, resulting in the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The Separatist leadership was controlled by Tyranus, who in turn answered to Sidious.
War broke out as both the Confederacy's droid armies and the newly-formed Grand Army of the Republic fought over the desert-landscape of Geonosis after the extent of Tyranus' secret alliance with the Trade Federation , the Techno Union , the InterGalactic Banking Clan , the Corporate Alliance , and the Commerce Guild was revealed. Though the Republic was able to score a victory, Tyranus and the rest of the Separatist leadership were able to escape the planet.
In preparation for the upcoming galactic-scale conflict and its aftermath, Tyranus traveled to Coruscant's industrial district, known as the Works , after the First Battle of Geonosis , where he met with Sidious and delivered the "good news" of the war's beginning, as well as presented him with the plans for the DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station. In the aftermath of the battle at Geonosis , the Jedi, once peacekeepers, had become generals and commanders , ranks that they were formerly denied due to the Jedi Code.
For at least two years into the Clone War, many Jedi believed that Dooku had lied to Obi-Wan Kenobi on Geonosis about the existence of a second Sith Lord and that he was the master of the Order, allowing Sidious to continue manipulating the Republic for much of the war without arousing suspicion or unwanted attention.
Savage Opress, the brother of Darth Maul, was briefly trained as the secret apprentice of Darth Tyranus. Dooku soon after traveled to Dathomir to meet with the Nightsisters in hopes of finding a new apprentice. However, Asajj Ventress sought revenge for Dooku's treachery and used Opress as a means of attaining her goal.
Returning to the Nightsisters, Opress found that his brother, Maul, had not been killed as previously believed. However, Maul's tragic events had driven him to insanity. He remembered only one word: "Kenobi. Now fully healed by the Nightsisters' magic and given a pair of new robotic legs, Maul began a hunt for the man who had nearly destroyed his life, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
His revenge scheme eventually ended with Maul's control of Mandalore [74] and the death of Satine Kryze. However, Darth Sidious sensed his former apprentice's action and his stance as a potential rival, and traveled to Mandalore to put an end to it. He killed Opress and took Maul captive, [75] locking him away in an old mountaintop prison known as the Spire , in an elaborate Sith gambit to settle a longstanding and deadly dispute with the Nightsisters.
Later during the war, Yoda visited Moraband, the Sith homeworld. The Jedi Master encountered an illusory spectre of the ancient Sith Darth Bane, who was buried on the barren planet and battled Sidious on a spiritual plane as the result of an ancient, arcane Sith ritual. Through his experience, Yoda gained a new enlightenment about the Force that the Sith did not foresee. After three years of the Clone Wars, Darth Sidious' grand scheme was almost complete. He sacrificed and betrayed Count Dooku to a violent killing by Anakin Skywalker, to manipulate the young Jedi.
Plagueis, through the dark side, had gained the ability to keep people from dying until his apprentice killed him in his sleep.
Eventually, Palpatine revealed himself as Sidious and converted Anakin to the dark side. With a new Sith apprentice at his side, Sidious enacted Order 66, causing the clones to turn against the Jedi [2] due to the biochips that controlled their actions. Sidious then ordered Vader to go to the Mustafar system to wipe out the Separatist Council and thus ending the Confederacy.
In the political arena, he reorganized the Republic using the powers given to him as a result of the Clone Wars to transform the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire to restore the Sith Empire, installing himself as Emperor. Once more, the Sith ruled the galaxy, unbeknownst to all but the few surviving Jedi. The Sith ruled the galaxy for a generation, consolidating the Empire and hunting the few Jedi who survived Order Fortress Vader was a Sith stronghold constructed on Mustafar during the rise of the Empire.
Sometime into the Imperial Era , Vader embarked on a mission to Mustafar. Sidious had assured Vader that Momin's mask would guide him during his studies there. Whilst on the planet, Vader meditated in the Sith cave there. That was when Momin's mask possessed Roggo and Momin used his body to design a structure.
When Brenne discovered this, she was shot dead, alerting Vader to the situation. Vader killed Roggo [30] and removed the mask from his body. He took it to the Cave and reached into it using the Force.
Momin revealed himself to Vader and told him his story, before attempting to possess him too. Vader resisted but came to let the mask take control of a Mustafarian , giving Momin a body again. The two discussed the structure Momin had designed and Momin claimed it could tune the energies of the dark side locus on Mustafar, opening the door to the dark side. Vader subsequently agreed to let him build the Fortress. The insurgents on Ryloth failed in their efforts to assassinate the Emperor and his apprentice.
Cham wanted to kill the two Sith Lords to bring about the demise of the Empire. However, Sidious had anticipated Cham's move, and the two Sith eluded Cham's attempts to assassinate them. This operation dealt a major blow to the Free Ryloth rebels, who were forced deeper underground, and also led to the exposure of Colonel Belkor Dray as a traitor.
Despite Sidious' hopes, he failed to stamp out the sparks of the growing rebellion. After the outbreak of the Lothal insurgency about four years before the Battle of Yavin , Sidious dispatched Vader to hunt down the Spectres , who were part of the growing rebellion.
Vader lured the Spectres into a trap on Lothal in an attempt to track down the Phoenix Cell. Vader led an attack on the Phoenix fleet which destroyed the rebel flagship Phoenix Home but failed to destroy the rebellion. During the skirmish, Vader discovered that his former apprentice Ahsoka Tano was still alive.
The power within the ancient Sith temple on Malachor destroyed Jedi and Sith alike. Vader remarked that the Emperor would be pleased with their discovery. When the Fifth Brother remarked that the power of the Jedi was growing, Vader responded that it would be their undoing.
Vader sent another Inquisitor called the Eighth Brother to hunt down a "shadow" and to obtain a Sith holocron. Why are the Sith evil?
Why was Qui Gon meditating? Why did Qui Gon not disappear? Does Vader recognize c3po? How much older is Padme? Why did Qui-Gon take Anakin? Why didnt Qui-Gon wait for Obi Wan?
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