Thousands of years before the rise of the
Galactic Empire, the force was revered and studied across many worlds with various religions
and sects emerging to devote themselves to understanding this primal cosmic force. The most famed and influential of these groups,
came to be known as the Jedi, a monastic order of force-sensitive individuals that dedicated
themselves the light side, practicing humility, patients, empathy and compassion. Over many years of training some of these
Jedi grew to become immensely powerful in the force, able to move objects with their
mind, detect other force users and manipulate the weak minded. It also enhanced their physical abilities,
making them faster, stronger and more resistant to distress and pain. Given their extraordinary abilities, they
became masters of lightsaber combat, wielding weapons powered by Kyber crystals, many of
which were found on the planet of Ilum. In order to prevent abuses of power, or the
corruption of their community, a council of Jedi masters was chosen to oversee their affairs,
and ensure all Jedi adhered to the principles of the Jedi Code. Yet not all were content to obey the rigid
rules and slow training process of the order, desiring to expand their knowledge and increase
their abilities without restraint. One such individual, came to believe that
there was a power in their base, primal emotions, channelling fear, anger and pain to harness
the energy of the darkside. The Darkside, offered force-sensitives a faster
more intense training regimen that led them to great power far more quickly than traditional
jedi teachings. It also presented a whole new understanding
of the force to be studied and explored, which eventually allowed them to wield exciting
new abilities like force lightening. However when the rogue Jedi explained his
new philosophy to the Jedi Council, they were outraged, exiling him from the order. Yet many other Jedi were fascinated by this
new approach to the force, and so followed the rogue and learning the ways of the darkside. The Sith as they became known, inevitably
came into conflict with their former brothers in the force during a time known as the Hundred
year darkness. Yet the Sith were not able to overcome the
well established Jedi order, and so retreated into unexplored space, settling on the planet
of Moraband, where they built a new darkside civilization that would expand to conquer
many other planets and systems. Upon Moraband, they built great temples one
of which housed an execution chamber where they sacrificed jedi prisoners. Many of the Sith were buried in the Valley
of the Dark Lords and it was from Moraband that they planned their wars against the Jedi
order and the alliance of planets known as the Republic, which they protected. For many years the Sith battled their ancient
enemy in conflicts that grew so deadly, superweapons powered by enormous kyber crystals were built
to inflict mass devastation. When the fighting reached the planet of Malachor,
a superweapon within a Sith temple was activated, destroying the world in what came to be known
as the Great Scourge of Malachor. During the chaos of these years, the Sith
invaded and held Coruscant, capital of the republic, and there built a shrine to the
darkside. Eventually, the republic would take back this
world, and so the Jedi attempted to seal off the darkside influence by building a great
lightside temple over the shrine but this was only partially successful, and the sith
would one day come to make great use of this ancient source of darkside power. During the Dark Age, they fought a final great
conflict known as the Jedi-Sith War, where once again the Sith captured Coruscant, only
for the planet to be liberated in the year 1032 BBY. Despite the great advances and unending aggression
of the mighty Sith, years of infighting weakened them to such an extent they were ultimately
defeated by the Jedi Order, with the legendary dark side master Darth Bane emerging from
the conflict as the sole surviving Sith Lord. Recognizing the self-destructive nature of
the Sith, and wanting to avoid future infighting, Darth Bane created the Rule of 2, declaring
that only 2 Sith could ever exist at any one time. A Master to embrace the power of the Darkside,
and an Apprentice to desire that power. In this way they would work in the shadows,
secretly manipulating events to destroy the Jedi order and return the Sith to dominance
throughout the Galaxy. Darth Bane was eventually defeated by the
Jedi, and after his death was buried in the Valley of the Dark Lords on Moraband, but
his teachings and philosophy lived on through his secret apprentice who escaped Jedi notice. The years of chaos and war took a heavy toll
on the galaxy and ultimately led to the fall of the Old Republic. Yet with Sith seemingly defeated, a new galactic
republic emerged and for a thousand years flourished under the protection of the Jedi
Order. Slowly and without need for violence or war,
the Republic expanded across the galaxy, spreading their values of democracy, equality and justice
to all member worlds. Those outside their borders however, were
often left to their own devices, making the Outer rim of the galaxy a refuge for pirates
and criminals, which then led to a culture of animosity between republic and non-republic
worlds. Meanwhile the legacy of Darth Bane, continued
on in the shadows, with his apprentice becoming Master of the Sith, and in keeping with the
Rule of Two, took on a single apprentice. With only 2 Sith ever alive at one time, the
only method of Advancement would be for the apprentice to kill and take the place of their
master. And so the relationship was maintained on
a balance of loyalty and strength. As long as the Master was Strong, the Apprentice
owed absolute obedience, yet if either one ever wavered in their strength or loyalty,
the other would be justified to attack. Leaving only a single Sith alive, to find
a new apprentice and begin the process again. After a thousand years, the lineage of Bane
led to Darth Plagueis, the wise, and his apprentice Sheev Palpatine of Naboo who took the name
Darth Sidious. Plagueis was a powerful Dark Lord who found
the secret of manipulating the Force to prevent himself from aging, and may even have had
the ability to prevent the deaths of others. Together with his apprentice they worked to
place Palpatine in the galactic senate, while Plagueis remained in the shadows, manipulating
events from afar. Over time the Sith Master became obsessed
with immortality and understanding the nature of the force, even developing a theory that
it could strike back against those who abuse it’s power. Yet for all his wisdom and cunning, he could
not forsee the coming betrayal of his apprentice. Darth Sidious, was never able to learn his
masters secret for immortality, but nevertheless felt he had learned all that was necessary,
and killed plagueis while he slept, and taking his place as Master of the Sith. In keeping with the rule of two, Sidious already
had an apprentice of his own, choosing the force sensitive child of Mother Talzin, a
powerful witch from the planet Dathomir. This young Nightbrother, became known as Darth
maul, and was trained in the ways of the darkside, specializing in the use of a duel bladed red
lightsaber. Maul’s aggression, speed and strength were
impressive even to Sidious, and as he learned of their history, the apprentice grew wrathful,
desiring vengeance against the Jedi who defeated the Sith in the last war. However, Sidious was not yet prepared to reveal
their existence, and so forbid Maul from going after the Jedi, leaving him to satisfy his
lust for violence by hunting Rathtar’s on Twon Ketee. Yet the Sith Master also recognized Maul’s
need for a greater challenge, and so sent him to deal with pirates harassing the Trade
Federation. During his time dealing with the threat, he
learned of a Jedi Padawan who had been taken as a prisoner, and tracked the Twilek woman
down, eager to test himself. Hiring a group of bounty hunters and help
rescue the Jedi, for a time they fought side by side, eliminating pursuers as they escaped. However once the immediate threat was gone,
the Jedi padawan and sith apprentice turned against each other, engaging in a lightsaber
duel, with Darth Maul emerging victorious. Meanwhile Sidious, acting as Senator palpatine,
manipulated the galactic government from within, finding allies and earning a reputation as
a man of action and integrity, while in secret he took every opportunity to manipulate the
process for his own benefit. Fortunately for the Sith Lord, after so many
years of Republic rule, the government had grown corrupt and seemed to only truly care
about the maintaining the luxury of the core worlds, at the expense of all others. The Jedi, considered themselves allies and
servants of the Republic but did not think it appropriate to interfere in matters of
politics, and so were unable to prevent the factionalism and partisanship of the Senate. Blinding themselves to the possible consequences
of deep political turmoil. Yet not all Jedi were unaware of the potential
for conflict, as Master Sifo Dyas foresaw a larger threat approaching. Though he was expelled from the Jedi High
Council for his beliefs, he was convinced a war was coming, and travelled in secret
to the world of Kamino, where he ordered the creation of a clone army. However Palpatine became aware of his actions,
and contacted Lama Su the Prime Minister of Kamino, arranging for every clone Soldier
to be implanted with an inhibitor chip, that would allow the Dark Lord to gain control
of the entire army at the moment of his choosing. Darth Sidious than ordered the death of the
Jedi Master, using the fallen Jedi Count Dooku to arrange for the Pyke Syndicate to shoot
down his ship above the moon of Oba Diah. After a thousand years of preparation, Darth
Sidious was at last prepared to unleash the revenge of the sith against the Jedi Order. Beginning with what came to be known as the
Naboo Crisis. 32 years before the battle of Yavin, the Dark
Lord made a secret alliance with the Trade Federation, an enormous merchant conglomerate,
with its own representation in the senate, convincing them to invade the planet of Naboo
in protest of the recent taxes imposed upon Free Trade zones. This then prompted a diplomatic crisis in
the galactic senate, which Senator Palpatine used to bring down Chancelor Finis Valorum,
so he might be elected as his replacement. Unfortunately for the Dark Lord, not everything
went to according to plan, as it was during the Naboo crisis, that the existence of the
Sith was revealed, when his powerful apprentice Darth Maul was sent to kill Jedi master Qui
gon Jinn, and his padawan Obi Wan Kenobi. Although Maul proved to be shrewd and masterful
with a lightsaber, engaging both Jedi at once and even killing the Jedi Master, he was ultimately
defeated and seemingly killed by the padawn Obi Wan Kenobi. Sidious was deeply disappointed by the loss
of his apprentice, having spent years training him in the ways of the darkside, and had no
choice but to find a new apprentice, selecting the former Jedi Count Dooku, who took the
name Darth Tyrannus. Trained as a jedi from a young age, Dooku
proved supremely gifted in the force, chosen as the apprentice of Master Yoda before rising
to the rank of Jedi Knight. Famed as perhaps the greatest lightsaber duellist
in the Order, he soon took on an apprentice of his own, training and befriending Qui Gonn
Jin. Unfortunately, Dooku grew frustrated with
the corruption he saw in the republic government, and became disillusioned by the Jedi council’s
unwillingness to involve themselves in political affairs. And so the Master Dooku left the Order, going
into self imposed exile for a time, and there was approached by Darth Sidious, who offered
him the chance to destroy the old corrupt government and replace it with one of his
own design. In order to achieve this, Darth Tyrannus was
ordered to reach out to a number of worlds and systems, taking advantage the growing
resentment towards the republic. After a number of years, he created an alliance
between thousands of worlds which then all succeeded and declared themselves the Confederacy
of Independent Systems. Chancellor Palpatine then used the Secessionist
threat as an excuse to pass the Military Creation Act, allowing for the Republic to raise an
army. The Jedi and senate, unaware that both sides
of the conflict were being manipulated by the Sith, took the Separatist threat seriously
and made the decision to use the recently discovered Clone Army of Kamino,* as Republic
forces against Dooku and his droid armada. The Clone Wars, as they became known dragged
on for many years causing great devastation on both sides. Yet this was all a part of the Sith plan,
as it allowed Palpatine to gradually gain emergency powers as Chancellor of the Senate. As Count Dooku worked to strengthen the separatist
alliance, he brought in many powerful factions, such as the Trade Federation, the Banking
Clan, the Techno Union, the Commerce Guild and the Corporate Alliance. Having fully embraced the darkside and their
ambitious, selfish nature, it was not long before he already started planning for the
future, and the day he would overthrow Sidious to replacing him as Master of the Sith. And so when he learned of a powerful force
user who had defeated the pirates and warlords of the planet Rattatak, he offered her a place
by his side, to serve as his apprentice. Asaaj Ventress, as she was known, was born
into the nightsister clan of Dathomir, but was sold into slavery at a young age. During her time on the planet Rattatak, she
was found by a stranded jedi, who trained her as his Padawan. Yet soon her master was killed, and this loss
affected her so deeply she turned to the darkside and went on a mission of vengeance. Asaaj proved a useful tool for Dooku, however
Sidious grew concerned about the darkside assassin and how powerful she was becoming. Confronting Dooku, the Dark Lord demanded
to know if he’d taken on his own apprentice, in the hopes of replacing Sidious as Master
of the Sith. Though that indeed was Dooku’s plan, he
was forced to deny it, and was ordered to kill Ventress to prove his loyalty. And while Dooku gave the order to have her
ship destroyed, his former apprentice survived the attack and returned to her homeworld of
Dathomir, where Mother Talzin and the Nightsisters healed her wounds. Working together with the clan, Asaaj then
set out on a mission of revenge, but failed in her first attempt to kill her former master. Fortunately, Dooku did not learn who was responsible
for the attack, and so when Mother Talzin approached the Sith Lord, offering a new darkside
apprentice to replace Ventress, he accepted her offer. And so Savage Oppress, a powerful force user
and brother of Darth Maul was given over to the Dooku, though his true loyalty was to
the nightsister Asaaj Ventress . Eventually the deception was revealed, and
Dooku was forced to engage both of his former apprentices. But they were unable to overcome the Sith
Lord and Savage, having grown enraged by the taunts and dismissal of both his darkside
Masters, turned against Ventress as well, pinning all 3 against each other briefly,
until they became separated and escaped. Ventress later returned to Dathomir, only
for Dooku to send a droid army against them, wiping out the nightsisters and leaving his
former apprentice alone in the galaxy, forced to become a bounty hunter for her remaining
years. Savage however was not yet finished with being
a darkside apprentice, as he was sent on another mission by Mother Talzin before the Nightsisters
were destroyed, seeking out his brother Maul who survived the duel with Obi wan Kenobi
through his deep connection to the force. Although Maul had been greviously wounded
and grown mad over the years, he was eventually found and his mind soothed, then returning
to Dathomir where he was given cybernetic legs. Maul, now yearning for vengeance and eager
to carve a new place for himself in the galaxy, took his brother Savage as a Sith apprentice,
modelling their relationship after the Rule of Two, and legacy of Darth Bane. Together the brothers went off, wreaking havoc
across the galaxy, forming a shadow council and even coming to rule the planet of Mandalore. Yet when Darth Sidious learned of Maul’s
survival and his formation of a secondary group of Sith, he came to see his former apprentice
as a rival, and so went personally to Mandalore and engaged the brothers, killing Savage and
imprisoning Maul. Although Maul eventually escaped captivity,
he never again rose to the heights he’d once reached, and over time became obsessed
with seeking vengeance against Kenobi, who had robbed him of the chance to become a great
Dark Lord of the Sith. Yet his obsession only served to stunt his
growth and power in the force, where as Master Kenobi became wiser, more patient and cunning
with each passing year. Decades later, Maul at last tracked down the
old Jedi to Tattoine, where they fought a final dual resulting in Obi wan quickly defeating
and killing his old foe. As the Clone Wars continued, Sidious continued
to use his apprentice Count Dooku to sow chaos and division across the galaxy. However he also saw great potential in another,
believing that the young jedi Anakin Skywalker, might one day become far more powerful then
Dooku, and a more worthy Sith apprentice. Anakin Skywalker had once been a slave on
Tattoine, but was discovered by Kwi Gon Jinn who after learning that the child had been
conceived by the force, came to believe he the chosen one which prophecy stated who would
one day bring balance to the force. Despite being too old for traditional Jedi
training, Anakin was taken as the apprentice of Obi Wan Kenobi and quickly grew to be a
powerful force user and masterful with a lightsaber. Nevertheless he was proving to be a poor Jedi,
unable to control his emotions and suffering from night terrors in which he envisioned
future tragedies and the death of loved ones. As he grew more powerful and earned the rank
of Jedi Knight, he became arrogant in his skills, resentful towards the council for
not making him a Master, and even bitter towards Obi Wan, for constantly treating him like
a Padawan. Anakin also fell in love with senator Amadala,
violating the Jedi Code by marrying her in secret. Chancellor Palpantine, who grew close to Anakin
from a young age, took every opportunity to encourage his independent thinking, slowly
luring him to the darkside. Sidious even organized his own kidnapping,
in order to manipulate events so that Anakin and Obi Wan would have to face Count Dooku
in battle. In the past, Dooku had faced and defeated
both of these Jedi, only failing to kill them because of the interference of Master Yoda. But this time the fight proved more challenging. Although the Dark Lord defeated Obi Wan, he
was unable to overcome Anakin Skywalker and was beheaded at the order of Palpatine. With his apprentice dead, the Chancellor offered
Anakin a place by his side, and revealed himself as a Sith Lord. Anakin at first was shocked by the revelation
and reported the discovery to Mace Windu who along with Jedi Masters Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar
and Saesee Tin went off to arrest the Chancellor. But Sidious was so powerful he was able to
kill all the Jedi save mace Windu, who was able to reflect back his force lightening. Yet just as Master Windu was about to land
the finishing blow, Anakin Skywalker cut off his arm, allowing for Sidious to send Mace
Windu flying out a window to his death. Anakin had fallen to the darkside, believing
that only with the help of Darth Sidious would he be able to prevent the death of his wife
and unborn child. And so Sidious named his new apprentice Darth
Vader and ordered him to kill the last of the Separatists leadership to bring about
an end to the Clone Wars. With the attempt on his life a failure, Sidious
pronounced Order 66, triggering the inhibitor chips in all clone soldiers, to have them
turn against their Jedi generals. Sidious then ordered Darth Vader to lead the
assault against the Jedi Temple on Coruscant killing the Younglings as his initiation into
the darkside. Although the great Jedi Purge finally granted
the Sith vengeance against their ancient enemy, some few escaped the massacre, and went into
hiding. In order to hunt down these last remaining
Jedi, Sidious created the Inquisitorius, a group of force-sensitive darkside acolytes
of limited power who would report to Darth Vader. Leading this group was a former Jedi Temple
guard, who grew disillusioned with the order towards the end of the war and then fell to
the Darkside. Having survived the initial purge, Obi Wan
Kenobi tracked down his fallen apprentice Anakin Skywalker engaging in duel that ended
with obi Wan as the victor, cutting off Anakin’s legs and an arm, while leaving him to burn
in the fires of Mustafar. Obi Wan the departed, as his former apprentice
screamed in pain, unwilling to finish him off, and instead chose to leave his fate to
the Force. As a result Sidious rescued his apprentice
and built him a cybernetic suit, teaching him to use pain anger and hatred as fuel to
reach new heights of power in the darkside. Padme Amadala died soon after learning of
Anakin’s betrayal of the Jedi, but was able to successfully give birth to twins, naming
them Luke and Leia before her passing. The children of Anakin skywalker were split
up, with Obi Wan taking the boy to Tatooine to live with relatives of Anakin’s mother,
while the girl was given to Bael Organa who would raise her as a princess of Aldaran. Though the Purge and subsequent hunt for the
Jedi nearly wiped them out, some few did survive, such as Obi Wan, and Grand Master Yoda, who
went into exile on Dagobah, having learned from the Force that it was his destiny to
wait for one who would restore the Jedi Order. Meanwhile, with the Separatists and Jedi both
defeated, Chancellor Palpatine dissolved the Republic and declared himself Emperor of the
First Galactic Empire. Having kept track of all though who opposed
Chancellor Palpatine during the years of the Clone Wars, he began to arrest and kill any
who posed a threat to his power. Yet some of these people went into hiding,
while others feigned loyalty to the Emperor, while in secret they organized a rebellion,
working form the shadows to restore the Republic. With his enemies largely vanquished, Emperor
Palpatine ruled for two decades, during which time he consolidated his power, reorganizing
the government and military, and diminished the power of the Senate to become a symbolic
organization with no real authority. Sidious also spent his time training Vader
in the ways of the Sith, with one of his first lessons teaching the truth about Kyber crystals,
and how they were living being that could feel pain and be made to bleed. Vader was therefore sent off to track down
a Jedi and take his lightsaber, so he might remove the kyber crystal within and corrupt
it with his anger and hatred. Finding Kirak Infil'a living in self imposed
exile on the river moon of Al'doleem, the battle nearly ended with the death of Vader. However, by exploiting the Jedi’s compassion,
Infil’a was forced to use his powers to save the people of local city, and this distraction,
allowing Vader to steal his green lightsaber and snap his neck with the force. Afterwards Vader went to Mustafar and attempted
to corrupt the crystal with the help of sith shrine. Yet it proved a difficult process, as the
crystal channelled the lightside and resisted him, even granting him a vision that tested
his dedication to the darkside. But ultimately he passed the test, and bled
the crystal, creating his own red lightsaber. The hilt of the weapon however would later
break during an assassination attempt on Vader’s life, and so he built a new lightsaber, using
the same red krystal he bled on Mustafar. For years Vader acted as the secret enforcer
for Emperor Palpatine, often dealing with an ever increasing number of rebel attacks
across the galaxy. On one occasion, the Emperor joined Vader
on a trip to Ryloth, which was having trouble with the Free Ryloth Movement, which fought
to free the planet from imperial control. During this journey, their ship was shot down
and the rebel group attempted to kill the Emperor and Vader, only to fail and be forced
to flee their homeworld. One of these Twilek rebels was the famous
hero cham Syndulla, who along with his daughter Hera would come to play an important role
in the development of a larger rebel alliance. Though few were even aware of Darth Vader
existence, some high level imperials worked with him on a number of projects, such as
Wilhuff Tarkin and Thrawn. Both of which were exceptional officers that
gained Vader’s respect, with Tarkin even becoming somewhat of a friend to the Dark
Lord. Vader was also one of the few privy to the
larger plans of the Emperor, learning about his secret efforts to build a superweapon
called the Death Star. While investigating rebel activity on Lothal,
Vader interacted and fought with Jedi Kanan Jarrus and his apprentice Ezra Bridger, and
could have easily defeated them but chose to let them live so he might follow their
ship. Later while once again facing these rebel
Jedi on the planet of Malachor, his former apprentice Ashoka Tano interfered, distracting
the Dark Lord so the others might escape. When a group of rebel agents infiltrated an
imperial base on the planet of Scariff and stole the plans to the death star, Vader chased
after them, following a ship that carried Princess Leia Organa, his long lost daughter
who was now a Senator from Alderaan. Although she held the plans for a time, Leia
hid them with her astromech droid R2D2, and sent him on an escape pod to the planet of
Tatooine, where he might find Obi Wan Kenobi and enlist his aid in taking the information
to the Rebel leadership. While on Tatooine, R2D2 encountered Luke Skywalker
who took the droid home to his family’s moisture farm. But It was not long before Imperial forces
tracked down the droid, destroying Luke’s home, killing his aunt and uncle. After learning of the plight of the Alliance,
and with no more ties to Tatooine, Luke joined Obi Wan in his journey to find the Rebellion
and began his Jedi training. With the help of Han Solo, Chewbacca and the
Milenium Falcon, Obi Wan, Luke and their droids left Tatooine, and were able to recuse Princess
Leia, but not before Grand Moff Tarkin used the Death Star to destroy the planet of Alderaan. While on board the Death Star, Vader sensed
the re-emergence of his old Jedi master and sought out Obi Wan, who sacrificed himself,
fighting off the Dark Lord so Luke and the others could escape. Making contact with the Rebellion on the moon
Yavin 4, the Death Star tracked their movements and so confronted the Alliance fleet in the
battle of Yavin. A number of X wing fighters, were then sent
to destroy the Death Star, having found a single weakness in the structure’s design. And while it seemed like an impossible mission,
by channelling the force Luke was able to shoot proton torpedos directly into the exhaust
port of the great Superweapon, creating a chain reaction that destroyed the Death Star,
killing Grand Moff Tarkin who commanded the ship. Four years after the battle of Yavin, Luke
continued his training, this time on Dagobah under Master Yoda, but left before he was
ready in order to rescue his friends taken captive in cloud city. Yet the mission was a failure, with Luke defeated
by Darth Vader in combat, losing a hand and learning that the sith lord was his father,
the former Jedi Anakin Skywalker. Fortunately, Luke and his friends were able
to escape with their lives, and returned to the alliance. Learning of a second Death star being constructed,
Han and Leia led an attack against a shield generator protecting the superweapon on the
planet of Endor, while Luke went aboard the ship to confront Sidious and Vader directly. After a grueling battle, in which the Dark
Side briefly took hold of Luke, allowing him to defeat his father Darth Vader, Sidious
was ready to offer Luke a place by his side as his new apprentice, if only he finished
off his father. But Luke ultimately rejected the dark side,
and threw down his lightsaber. Sidious, disappointed in his potential new
pupil, attacked him with force lightening, putting so much of his power into the attack
he left himself vulnerable. Darth Vader, unable to watch his son die,
reached out and threw the Sith Lords down a cavernous shaft, to his death.* Vader, who
was gravely injured by the energy pulsing through the Emperor, then collapsed, and asked
Luke to remove his mask, so he might see his son with his own eyes, one last time before
death. Having returned to the light side of the force,
Anakin Skywalker’s consciousness survived the death of his body, joining Obi Wan, kwi
gon and Yoda as spirits within the force. Through Vader’s actions at the end of his
life, many believe he at last fulfilled the ancient prophecy as the chosen one, having
destroyed both the Jedi and Sith, to bring balance to the Force. With the Deathstar destroyed and the Emperor
and vader dead, the Galactic Empire was severely crippled though not yet defeated. The surviving leadership of the Empire would
abandon many core worlds, retreating into the Outer Rim where imperial Governors, admirals
and moffs began conspiring against each other, engaging in small scale civil wars to determine
the new leadership of the Empire. Eventually, the few Imperial officers and
ships that remained, retreated into Unknown space, and there reformed in First Order,
led by Supreme Commander Snoke, a powerful non sith darkside force user. Snoke wore a golden ring with an obsidian
stone mined from beneath Vader’s castle on Mustafar, enscriped with glyphs from the
Four Sages of Dwartii, a group of philosophers and lawgivers from the early days of the Galactic
Republic. During his time in power, Emperor Palpatine
kept statues of these figures on display in his chamber’s on Coruscant. The Rebel Alliance then dissolved to becoming
a new Republic government led by a Galactic Senate, with the former Senator and Rebel
leader Mon Mothma serving as the first elected Chancellor. As the New Republic worked to fill the power
vacuum left behind, Luke Skywalker, last of the Jedi, became responsible for the creation
of a new Jedi Order. The Sith however were now entirely destroyed,
with the lineage of Darth Bane finally extinguished. Yet their legacy would live on, as many future
beings were inspired by the power the Sith once held. Groups like the Acolytes of the Beyond, who
venerated the Sith and collected artefacts like what they believed to be Darth Vader’s
Lightsaber, destroying it in the belief that this returned the item to its deceased owner. Later Kylo Ren as he became known, longed
to become as powerful as the Sith, often speaking to the ruined helm of Darth Vader, trying
to communicate with his legendary grandfather.
