Dark
Jedi: Sith
History #2
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Rise
of the Sith
No one knows
exactly what happened in those ancient times before the rise of
the Sith Empire. The fledgling Old Republic had established the
new order of Jedi Knights as a police force to protect and nourish
its growth. The Jedi were the guardians of peace, a beacon of pure
flame to the galaxy.
But somehow, things turned. A band of Jedi, discovering the power
of the dark side of the Force, forsook the Jedi Code and sought
to destroy all the Jedi had worked so hard to build. Seeing its
strength crumbling under the teachings of these rogue Jedi, the
Republic took action. With the help of the light-side Jedi, it rounded
up these renegades and exiled them, giving them a spacecraft and
sending them into the unknown. The idea was that out in the vast
undiscovered galaxy, with no place to call home, the dark Jedi would
die but the Republic would not be held responsible for their deaths.
Except that it didn't happen quite like the Republic wanted it to.
The exiled Jedi emerged on the other side of the galaxy to a system
previously unknown to the Republic. This system was inhabited by
a race called the Sith, aliens with red skin, cranial horns, bony
chins, and insectile features. The Sith were black magicians, practicing
magic arts but without the aid of the dark side of the Force. Their
society was divided into three classes or castes: slaves, warriors,
and nobles, and the different nobles of Sith clans often engaged
in feuds and wars to show their power. It was a violent society,
ripe for conquest.
Here the dark Jedi saw their chance. As they landed in their spacecraft,
the Sith saw them as having fallen from the sky and worshipped them
as gods. The dark Jedi then proceeded to enslave all the Sith, from
nobles on down to slaves. Seeing that the Sith were so powerful
in the black arts, the Jedi then interbred with the most powerful
of them, forming a new breed of magicians both strong in the Sith
arts and in the dark side of the Force.
Out of this new breed of Sith came the Dark Lords of the Sith, men
who claimed the right to rule over all of the Sith and dark Jedi.
Only one could rule at a time, and this led to more feuds and wars
as the Sith lords struggled to gain the high position.
The world of the Sith lords was Korriban. Here, on this barren world,
the Sith built temples carved out of the stone of the cliffs and
entombed their dead. Vermin and other unnatural beasts populated
the crevices and crannies and the essence of the dark side filled
the tombs. Thousands of generations of Sith lords were buried here,
and, later, the Dark Lords of the Sith were also entombed.
The Sith built a far-flung empire on their side of the galaxy and
the Republic became memory, story, and then legend. And, strange
as it was, the Republic never knew that the Sith existed.
Be
mindful,
Darth Moor
darthmoor@forceacademy.com
