The Jedi-Sith War was first mentioned in the 2016 reference book Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy. The New Sith Wars as depicted in Star Wars Legends The Sith remained a distant memory until the rise of Darth Sidious, a Dark Lord of the Sith, and his apprentice, Darth Maul, in the waning years of the Galactic Republic. The Sith stayed in hiding for a thousand years, their survival unknown to the Jedi, as they plotted their revenge against the Jedi Order. Eventually, Darth Bane was killed and was buried in the Valley of the Dark Lords on its surface, but the Rule of Two continued on through his apprentice, Darth Zannah. The Sith abandoned their traditional homeworld of Moraband after it was scarred by many wars. Another reason he created the Rule of Two was so that the Sith could operate in secret, working from the shadows and favoring guile and conspiracy rather than brute force until it would be their time to take revenge, rise again, and subjugate the galaxy. Realizing that his fellow Sith Lords destroyed themselves with their greed for power, Bane reformed the order by establishing the Rule of Two, mandating that only two Sith Lords-a master and an apprentice-could exist at any given time, lest they fall prey to infighting. The Sith ĭarth Bane-the sole Sith Lord who survived the war.Īs it turned out, one Sith Lord, Darth Bane, survived. During that time, the Jedi constructed a new academy on Coruscant to train Jedi younglings in the ways of the Force. įollowing the war, the galaxy entered into a period of time known as the Great Peace. Assisted by the Republic Judicials, the Jedi Knights were responsible for maintaining law and order, namely by mediating conflicts to bring about peaceful solutions between various rival factions and planets, as well as serving as interplanetary law enforcement by pursuing wanted and dangerous criminals, pirates, and smugglers. Due to the Galactic Republic's demilitarization, the Jedi Order fully embraced their responsibilities as peacekeepers and rejected their roles as soldiers. Despite discovering the last Sith Lord's principles, when he was defeated, the Jedi believed, in their hubris, that the Sith were extinct from the galaxy. Aftermath The Republic Įven as the Old Republic collapsed, the Jedi emerged victorious from their wars with the Sith, thanks to the Sith weakening themselves by infighting in order to gain power.
Though the Sith nearly succeeded in conquering the Republic, they were defeated, which occurred at Ruusan. Within the conflict, the Sith had taken over Coruscant, and later the Jedi liberated the planet. History ĭuring the war of Jedi and Sith, the Jedi's Army of Light conducted crusades against the Sith Brotherhood of Darkness. The Jedi came into conflict with the Mandalorians, but the Old Republic continued to fend off the onslaught of the Sith as the Old Republic fell and a dark age began. Even so, the Jedi and the Sith continued to do battle over the millennia.
Eventually, war broke out between the Jedi and the Sith, during which time the Sith built empires on the backs of slavery, but it would be the Jedi and the Galactic Republic that ultimately achieved victory.
The Jedi High Council rebuked this and cast the fallen Jedi out of the Jedi Order however, the rogue Jedi gained followers and formed a new order that eventually became the Sith. During a period of time known as the Hundred-Year Darkness, a rogue Jedi came to believe that the true power of the Force lay not through contemplation and passivity, but that only by tapping into the dark side of the Force could the true potential of the Force be reached.