Though Darth Ruin, founder of the New Sith Order, was assassinated by acolytes, his war against the
republic went on for centuries, with Dark Lords recapturing many of their planets they once ruled
like Ziost and Yavin 4. Rising in opposition to the New Sith were their ancient enemies in the
Jedi Order, yet this proved no simple task, as they were faced with both internal divisions and
external scrutiny over events like the battle of Uba IV in 1800BBY, when their victory caused a
Sith superweapon to unleash a deadly chemical, utterly devastating the native population.
By 1750 BBY, a mysterious dark side spirit known as the Dark Underlord took physical
form and emerged as leader of the New Sith, supported by an army Black Knights under the
command of a great Zeltron General. Though no one was certain about the Underlord’s origins,
some suggested he was summoned from the chaos dimension, another plane of existence where dark
side disciples went after death, while others claimed he was the spirit of Xendor reborn,
the ancient Dark Jedi who caused the First Great Schism in their order thousands of years earlier.
Based out of Malrev IV, the Dark Underlord duel wielded sith swords and fought on the
front lines of battle to great effect until he at last found his match in jedi master Murrtaggh who
made it his personal mission to destroy the Dark Side leader. Forging an alliance with
the Mandalorians in 1750 BBY, they invaded the enemy’s home base in the Battle of Malrev IV,
allowing Murrtagh to confront the Underlord while his allies distracted the Black Knights.
In the end, the jedi was victorious and killed the Underlord, yet in doing so fell to the dark side.
As the fighting continued to go back and forth, the Republic saw a string of important
victories at Gap’s Nine, Corphelion, and King’s Galquek, in the year 1500 BBY, while the Sith,
ever divided and warring against each, attempted to regain momentum by allying with the Devaronians
and Hiitians, eventually leading to the critical Battle of Mizra in 1466. Though they lacked a
unifying leader, the disparate Lords of Sith joined together to win a great victory against
their light side opponents, forcing them into retreat. Yet as they attempted to pull back,
the Sith charged forward and killed the powerful Jedi organizing their movements through battle
meditation, thereby leaving light side forces in panic and disarray, resulting in their slaughter.
When it was all over, estimates claimed 500000 warriors were lost in the fighting, with
hundreds of jedi knights falling to the dark side. As momentum once again shifted towards the Sith,
a new Dark Lord emerged planning to end the centuries long division and self-sabotage
that weakened their Order and held them back from conquering the galaxy. Settling on the
planet Almas, the Zelosian male became Darth Rivan, a name taken from a corrupted Sith text,
possibly written by Darth Revan, a legendary Sith Lord who ruled during the Jedi Civil War.
A powerful Sith Master in his own right, Rivan terraformed the planet, built a mighty fortress
and raised an army of Battlelords, dark side warriors bound to each through the force, making
it impossible for them to turn against each other, as any harm they tried to inflict would reverse
against them. Devoted to Sith Alchemy, Rivan experimented on his apprentice Darsin, ultimately
killing his body while enslaving his spirit, dooming him to guard the fortress for eternity.
Yet while Rivan’s dark side powers and martial strength grew, he also discovered a threat
unlike anything he’d ever seen before. Learning that he was drawn to Almas by the Darkstaff,
an ancient , sentient sith relic able to consume vast amounts of force energy and unleash it to
terrible devastation. Though Rivan was tempted to use it, he knew the Darkstaff was intelligent
and ultimately answered only to itself and thus was determined to see it destroyed. But
in the end the Darkstaff was victorious, as Rivan did take the staff for himself,
thereby destroying everything he built. Rising up against Darth Rivan, the Jedi
and republic gathered their forces and struck his base directly in the Battle of Almas. As the
opposing forces engaged each other, the Dark Lord finally succumb to his temptation and took hold of
the Darkstaff, at which point it created mighty a force storm, destroying his Battlelord army, and
tearing a hole through time and space. Arriving upon the planet of Ruusan, three centuries into
the future, Darth Rivan found himself in the midst of yet another pivotal battle between
the Jedi and Sith. Yet thanks to the Darkstaff, he was drained of all force powers, allowing him
to be easily cut down by a passing warrior. Though the Jedi and Republic were free from
the threat of Darth Rivan and power was shifting back in their favour, centuries of conflict and
internal division left them on the verge of economic, political and military ruin. Seeing
no other choice, the Jedi involved themselves directly, becoming generals and politicians,
with members of the order sitting as Supreme Chancellors for the final four centuries of the
conflict. Their lack of resources and man-power also meant they could no longer sustain holonet
communications beyond the core, and lacked the services necessary to stop the Candorian Plague
from ravaging many of their worlds, sometimes killing up to two thirds of populated areas.
Taking advantage of their growing weakness, the Sith Lord Belia Darzu reigned on the
Deep core world of Tython, from 1250 to 1230 BBY, becoming so skilled in force alchemy and sorcery,
she grew her slave army by reanimating the bodies of slain opponents and through the creation of
Technobeasts, whereby she converted the organic parts of living sithspawn into metal and machine.
Waging the Sictis War against the Republic and jedi for two decades, she succeeded in leading her
forces to victory but was ultimately assassinated by the Mecrosa Order, a dark side cult allied
with the Sith, who turned against Darzu over territorial disputes. Losing their leader,
the Sith once again fell to infighting, leaving both the Republic and Empire in disarray as they
entered the last century of the conflict, known to history as the Republic Dark Age.
Without a strong leader to unify their factions, independent Sith Lords rampaged across the galaxy,
creating their own realms constantly at war with everyone around them. Distracted by their work
keeping the fledgling Republic intact, the Jedi lacked the strength to engage in these conflicts,
leading some in the order to strike out on their own, like Master Vannar Treece
and his apprentice Kerra Holt, who fought individual wars against the Sith. As more Jedi
started fighting back on their own, they grew estranged from the Order, and upon liberating
worlds and systems, became heroes to the local population, who asked them to stay as rulers.
Thus began the era of Jedi Lords, who established hereditary dynasties to rule over private realms,
keeping them safe from any and all danger. Joining together in an alliance of Lords, these rebel jedi
formed a Grand Council, which was seen as a direct rival to the High Council on Coruscant.
By 1066 BBY, the New Sith were once again on the rise, when the Dark Lady Vilia Calimondra took
power, creating an empire she ruled with ruthless cunning. Giving birth to seven children,
she decided to choose her heir though a Charge Matrica, a contest to see who could expand their
empire the most. Inevitably, this turned into a full scale war between the children,
leaving all dead save for the victor, Chagras. Naming her son as heir to the Empire,
he formed the Chagras Hegemony and went to war with the Republic, though in truth
his mother was the power behind the throne. After the death of her son in 1040BBY, a second
Charge Matrica was arranged, this time between her many grandchildren, resulting in yet another
devastating internal struggle which further weakened their family and led to their downfall.
Yet only a few decades later in 1010 BBY, a thousand years of conflict at last saw the
beginning of the end, when Skere Kaan, a former jedi turned Dark Lord ended the divisions that
plagued them for centuries by forming the Brotherhood of Darkness, an order of equals
who could at last unite in solidarity against their true enemies in the Jedi and Republic.