The Sith
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Ancient Knowledge of the Sith
The Sith
An ancient cult that uses the Dark Side of the Force. Masters of alchemy and illusion. Once they "were mighty Jedi of the (old)Republic, brothers in the Force, but the Great Schism between the Dark Side and the Light turned Jedi against Jedi." Driven off, exiled, they fled to the far side of the galaxy where they found the Sith people who treated them as gods. After many centuries the Sith empire grew to a vast, rich realm. That was the Golden Age of the Sith . . . until Naga Sadow tried to conquer the Republic and add it to the Sith empire. Sadows invasion was defeated, but at great cost to both sides, and the Sith empire fell into disarray and all but vanished . . . until Exar Kun rediscovered it. Not all dark side Force users are Sith followers; the Force is omnipresent while the Sith are only one following of the dark side, albeit the most powerful and well known.
Dark Lord of the Sith
"Traditionally, the titular master of the ancient Sith people. a Jedi who has turned to the dark side of the Force. The title of Dark Lord was passed down from one generation to the next, with only one Dark Lord existing at a time. The mummified remains of the Dark Lords are preserved on Korriban."
Massassi
"An Ancient race of half-civilized warriors on Yavin Four, descended from the Sith followers of Naga Sadow. They were purposefully mutated by Sadow's magic in order to provide a race of fearsome warriors to guard the temples which stand as Sadow's legacy. The Massassi use the dark side of the Force to control and guide their primitive weapons. They were eventually conquered by Exar Kun." Yes, the rebel base on Yavin 4 in SW:ANH was ironically in a Massassi temple, a SITH TEMPLE!
Marka Ragnos
9th Dark Lord of the Sith.
Very little is known of Marka Ragnos but his name which was found in ancient Sith
writings.
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Naga Sadow
10th Dark Lord of the Sith.
"Naga sadow ruled approximately a thousand years before the time of Exar Kun. A
member of an elite priesthood of pure Sith blood, he was exiled from his homeworld for
rebelling against the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, and was scorned as a criminal by the
Republic. He escaped across the galaxy, engaging Republic gunships in a cataclysmic battle
at the Denarii Nova. Eventually, he and his followers ended up on Yavin Four, with his
followers devolving into the primitive Massassi warriors over the centuries."
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Exar Kun
"As a Jedi, Exar Kun was apprenticed to Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, who
admitted that Kun was the most formidable student he ever had. He was seduced by the dark
side and drawn to the planet Korriban, where the spirit of Freedon Nadd enticed him
to let the dark powers of the Sith enter him. On Yavin Four, he discovered ancient Sith
temples guarded by the Massassi, whom he eventually conquered. He confronted Master
Odan-Urr in the library of Ossus, and after killing him, took the Sith Holocron in
order to further his dark powers." Four thousand years before the time of Darth
Vader, Kun precipitated the Sith War which was one of the most destructive
conflicts in the entire history of the Republic. The war ended with all the Jedi banding
together and laying waste to most of Yavin 4, but not before Exar Kun absorbed the
life-energies of the entire Massassi race to entomb his spirit in a Sith Temple. Four
thousand years later when Luke Skywalker establishes his Jedi Academy on Yavin 4,
Kun once again makes his bid for galaxy domination by attempting to sway Luke's new
trainees to the Dark Side. Exar Kun almost succeeds with Kyp Durron, but not before
Luke, the Jedi trainees, and the spirit of Master Bodo Baas together destroy Kun's
spirit forever.
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Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker)
Darth Vader was apprenticed to Obi-Wan Kenobi in the ways of the Light Side of
the Force before being seduced by the Dark Side. Before Anakin found out that he had
children, the twins Luke and Leia, Kenobi hid them from him to protect them from their
father and the Dark Side. In a vicious lightsaber duel between him and his then-master
Obi-Wan, Anakin fell into a molten pit to emerge badly scarred and burned, which is why he
wears the trademark protective black armour and breath mask. Seething with anger, Vader
tapped the vast amounts of Dark Side energy through the ancient Sith teachings, and later
became the Dark Lord of the Sith. As Emperor Palpatines right hand, Darth Vader
chased the Rebel Alliance to the far reaches of the galaxy. In his last confrontation with
his son, Luke Skywalker, Vader finally returned to the Light Side by throwing Palpatine
into the reactor core to save his son.
Story behind Darth Vader
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Kyp Durron
Self-proclaimed Lord of the Sith.
Kyp Durron was born on the Deyer colony of the Anoat system. Kyp's parents were
outspoken polititians who openly protested the Ghorman Massacre and the destruction of
Alderaan. One night stormtroopers barged into their house and sent Kyp and his parents to
the prison colony on Kessel, and sent his brother Zeth to the Imperial Stormtrooper
Academy on Caridia. Kyp's parents were executed when Moruth Doole took over the Kessel
facilities. Kyp survived and met a fellow inmate, Vima-Da-Boda, who taught him the
basics about the Force. Later, Kyp escaped from Kessel with the help of Han Solo
and managed to be captured again by Admiral Daala while fleeing into the Maw. Narrowly
avoiding a death sentece from Daala, Kyp escaped again with Solo and the scientist Qwi
Xux. While training at Luke Skywalker's newly established Jedi Academy, Kyp encountered
the spirit of the long-dead Exar Kun and began gaining power through the Dark Side
and ancient Sith teachings. Pissed off at the Empire for all the pain it has cause him and
his family, Kyp furiously waged a one-man war against the Empire using the Sun Crusher and
his newly acquired Sith powers. While visiting the site of Darth Vaders funeral
pyre on Endor, Kyp claimed the title of The Dark Lord Of The Sith (since no
other known Sith existed to challenge his claim, although in my opinion Kyp had not
reached a high enough level to rightfully claim the title). Kyp eventually returned to
the Light Side after Kun's spirit was destroyed by the other Jedi trainies and thus was no
longer under Kun's influence.
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Note: Little is know yet of the first nine Dark Lords , but archeologists on Korriban and Old Republic historians are vigilantly digging into the past to learn the history of the Sith.