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Sith Empire

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Sith Empire
Political information
Type of government

Theocratic Empire

Head of State

Dark Lord of the Sith

Head of Government

Dark Lord of the Sith

Commander-in-chief

Dark Lord of the Sith

Legislative branch

Sith Council

Societal information
Capital

Ziost, Korriban

Official language

Sith

Historical information
Formed from

Exiles

Date of establishment

6,900 BBY

Date of dissolution

4,990 BBY

Era(s)

Old Republic era

[Source]
"Across the reaches of the galaxy, through seas of dark stars, rivers of whispering black shadow from the Republic's ancient past. Evil history we had thought forgotten."
―Jedi Master Ooroo[src]

The Old Sith Empire was a rich and powerful empire established by Dark Jedi banished from the Galactic Republic after their defeat at the Battle of Corbos during the Hundred-Year Darkness. The Jedi exiles fled to the remote world of Korriban. After conquering it, they interbred with the native Sith species through the art of Sith Alchemy and began a long period of building and expansion. The Sith Empire developed in complete isolation for two thousand years before it eventually rediscovered the Republic. Under the leadership of the Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow, the Empire invaded Republic space during the Great Hyperspace War, but it was defeated. The Sith Empire was believed to have been destroyed by Republic forces during the Second Battle of Korriban.

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[edit] History

"Once we were mighty Jedi of the Republic, brothers in the Force but the Great Schism between the Dark side and the Light turned Jedi against Jedi. Our ancestors were defeated, driven off, cast out! But we turned our exile into victory, here on the far side of the galaxy. In these unblemished worlds we found the Sith people treated us as Gods! After many centuries some of us have interbred with the Sith while others still bear true Jedi blood. Our Sith Empire is great, rich, and powerful. This is our Golden Age."
―Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos[src]

[edit] Origin

Around the year 6,900 BBY, exiled fallen Jedi—fleeing from the Battle of Corbos, which concluded the Hundred-Year Darkness—landed on Korriban, a desolate world inhabited by the relatively primitive but unusually Force-sensitive Sith people. Using their training in the Force, the fallen Jedi amazed the Sith, and elevated themselves to god-like status on Korriban, becoming the rulers of the Sith people. As years passed, and interbreeding occurred between the Fallen Jedi and the Sith, the term "Sith" came to mean not only the original inhabitants of Korriban, but also their fallen Jedi masters. Thus was the Sith Empire born, with nearby Ziost becoming the capital, while Korriban became a sacred mausoleum-world.

[edit] The Golden Age of the Sith

Eventually, the Sith formed an immensely rich and powerful empire built upon sorcery and dark side fueled technology quite possibly adapted from the scattered ruins of the earlier Infinite Empire of the Rakata. At its height, the Sith Empire contained at least 120 worlds.

Over the centuries, the Dark Jedi exiles were forgotten by the Galactic Republic even as all records of the Republic were lost by the Sith. The two civilizations thrived in isolation, each ignorant of the other. The Golden Age of the Sith came to an end with the death of Marka Ragnos.

[edit] The Fall of the Sith Empire

Naga Sadow invades the Galactic Republic.
Naga Sadow invades the Galactic Republic.

Circa 5,000 BBY, Gav and Jori Daragon, two young hyperspace explorers, found Korriban accidentally while establishing hyperlanes. Thus the Sith Empire, led by Naga Sadow, rediscovered the existence of the Republic, and decided to conquer it and so the Great Hyperspace War began. After an assault on Coruscant, the Sith were defeated and forced back to Korriban. When Sadow arrived, Sith forces loyal to his rival Ludo Kressh attacked Sadow. Kressh was killed, and the Empire might have survived, but Sadow's fleet was then attacked by the forces of the pursuing Republic. Sadow sacrificed most of his fleet in a successful escape attempt that led the Republic to believe Sadow had been killed. The Sith were defeated. However, some of Kressh's forces survived, unknown to the Republic.

A decade later, the Republic launched a second assault against the Sith Empire, resulting in its splintering and eventual collapse.[source?]

[edit] Government and Politics

The leader of the Sith Empire was the Dark Lord of the Sith. The Sith Council was a body of advisers to the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith. It consisted of ten members made up of Sith Lords within the empire. Each Lord on the Council personally ruled over a dozen worlds. This Council convened in a great citadel on Ziost.

[edit] Economy

The Sith Empire was far smaller than the Galactic Republic, but much wealthier and more centralized, and in possession of unique and potent technologies. The Sith Lords allegedly controlled the riches of a thousand species.

[edit] Society and Culture

Culturally, the Sith Empire was very different from that of the Republic, being much more ecumenically driven than its counterpart.

The Sith Empire was hierarchical, utilizing both a rigid caste system and a stratified rank structure to put its subjects in their proper place.

Slave Caste

Sith slaves were the lowliest caste of the Sith. They worshiped the Sith Lords as gods and were often used as sacrifices. The Sith Lords used them for slave labor. When a Sith Lord died, his slaves were buried alive with his body in his tomb on Korriban.

Engineer Caste Sith engineers built and maintained Sith technology, including droid and starships.

Massassi Caste

Massassi were the warrior caste of the Sith. They were unswervingly obedient to the Dark Lord of the Sith; they were also loyal to the individual Sith Lord they served, though this loyalty was secondary to their loyalty to the Dark Lord.


Sith'ari Caste

"Sith'ari" was the title translated "Sith Lord" in Basic. They were the leaders of the Sith. Each Sith Lord has his own slaves and his own army of Massassi. The first Sith'ari was King Adas, who ruled all of Korriban. Following his death, many Sith'ari fought each other in constant civil wars, each ruling only a fief. From 6,900 BBY to 5,000 BBY the Sith Lords collectively ruled the Empire through a governing body known as the Sith council; each member of the Council had a personal fleet. Sith Lords used the dark side of the Force to inflict misery, suffering, and corruption. They were also tasked with preserving the lore of the Sith by passing all their knowledge on to their heirs. While they did not enter combat as often as lesser Sith (preferring to Massassi), they were the most fearsome of the Sith as they were the keepers of the Sith's greatest secrets and wielders of its most potent sorceries. Following 6,900 BBY, the Sith'Ari interbred with the Jen'jidai, resulting in a mix of Ancient Sith and baseline human species traits, resulting in many losing the low-light vision which most Ancient Sith possessed. Following the fall of the Sith Empire in 5,000 BBY, Sith of other species continued to use the title "Sith Lord" for powerful Sith masters but did not equate it with the word "Sith'ari"; the word "Sith'ari" took on the approximate meaning "Chosen One" with later Sith, referring to an unidentified individual who would fulfill a particular Sith prophecy.

The Jen'ari

"Jen'ari" was the title translated "Dark Lord of the Sith" in Basic. Jen'ari were the greatest and most powerful of the Sith'ari. There was only one Jen'ari at a time, who was the head of the Sith council and ruler of the Sith Empire. The original Jen'ari were Jen'jidai; later Jen'jidai were Sith'ari who assumed the title after the death of the previous Jen'ari, defeating any rival claimant to the title in combat (often resulting in death or at least disfigurement). Many Jen'sari had partial Jen'jidai ancestry, which supposedly made them more powerful in the Force. There was only one Dark Lord of the Sith at a time. After the fall of the Sith Empire, the title "Dark Lord of the Sith" was used by both the leader of the Sith Order (such as Exar Kun or Revan) and his apprentice (such as Ulric Qel-Droma or Malak), although it is uncertain if the title "Jen'ari" remained in use in any capacity, or was abandoned for the title "Darth".

[edit] Animals in Sith Culture

[edit] Non-military Technology

[edit] Military

[edit] Warbeasts

[edit] Starships

[edit] Droids

[edit] Weapons

[edit] Military Garb

[edit] Astrography

The region of the Galaxy that the Sith Empire ruled was known as Sith Space. It contained at least 120 inhabited worlds, including:

[edit] Symbols

Naga Sadow,
Dark Lord of the Sith

Naga Sadow

Old Sith Empire symbol

Old Sith Empire symbol

Exar Kun

Ulic Qel-Droma

[edit] Behind the scenes

Sith war mountaineers and Sith warbirds may be different artistic interpretations of the same creature; this seems plausible given the very different artistic interpretations of Sith war behemoths. Sith war worms may be simply Force illusions rather than actual animals, or may be the silooths described in roleplaying sources, although roleplaying sources have never illustrated silooths and the description of a silooth may make such an identification impossible.

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Sources

Preceded by:
True Sith 		Sith Organization
6,900 BBY–4,990 BBY 		Succeeded by:
Naddists
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