Born a powerful force-sensitive shi’ido shapeshifter, who often appeared as a human woman,
Belia Darzu trained in the dark side as a dual wielding sith marauder,
using her rage to deal high damage on the front lines of combat.
Wearing a great battle suit while specializing in force Alchemy and Sorcery, Belia rose to become
Dark Lord of the Sith Order, ruling from her fortress on the planet Tython from 1250 – 1230
BBY. Among her greatest feats was the discovery of Mechu-Deru, a darkside method of combining
organic flesh with technology to create sithspawn technobeasts capable of spreading nanogene droids
which transformed enemies into more of their kind. Belia’s Metanecron army was so formidable,
she continued the millenia long New Sith Wars, by launching the Sictis Wars against
the Republic and jedi, winning battle after battle until they at last defeated their ancient enemies.
Yet Belia Darzu did not live long enough to celebrate her victory, as she was betrayed
and poisoned by her underlings, working in concert with the Mecrosa Order, a coven of
dark side assassins from the world Obulette that was allied with the sith, until Belia violated
their space during the war. As Belia had no heir or known apprentice, the remaining Sith
Lords immediately squandered their hard fought victory by fighting each other for supremacy.
While Belia could no longer produce technobeasts, those already in existence
were quickly seized and put to use by ambitious sith lords who used them against their enemies.
This period proved so devastating that it left both the Sith and Republic in a state of disarray
as they entered the last century of the New Sith Wars, known as the Republic Dark Age.
A powerful Dark Lord of great accomplishments, Darzu’s legacy was preserved and spread by Darth
Bane, who visited Tython in 990 BBY where he destroyed an army of technobeasts to reach the
tomb of the ancient Sith, in order to find the holocron containing her teachings and philosophy.
Though Bane was most interested in learning how to craft his own holocron, the totality of her
knowledge was considered a valuable resource by future dark side acolytes, like Cronal and Roganda
Ismaren who studied her teachings when they served under Dark Lord Palpatine. Cronal then went on to
use mechuderu against Luke Skywalker’s cybernetic hand, transforming it into a living being. Yet to
his surprise, it did not attack Luke and instead killed Cronal before the jedi cut it down.
Part way through the Republic Dark Age in 1066BBY, the Sith Order was once again ressurgent under the
Dark Lady Vilia Calimondra, a widower several times over who acquired vast territories in
the Grumani sector through her marriages which she used to build a great empire.
Ruling with ruthless cunning, she sought to ensure the future of the Sith Order remained
within her family’s lineage and so trained her seven children in the dark side before sharpening
their skills in the traditional sith fashion by having them compete and scheme against each
other. Declaring a Charge Matrica to determine which of her children would inherit the empire,
the victor would be the one who expanded their holdings the furthest. Inevitably, the contest
led her ambitious children to turn against each other in a full scale civil war that left all
dead save for her son Chagras, who was declared the victor, named heir and given operational
control of the Empire, which he renamed the Chagras Hegemony. Vilia allowed all this,
as she now had a figurehead to shield her from enemies while still reigning from the shadows.
Chagras meanwhile, maintained peace through a network of alliances with cousins,
nieces and nephews, growing his strength until 1042, when he went to war with the Old Republic.
Yet just 2 years into the conflict Chagras was assassinated with a nerve toxin, leading Vilia
to hold a second Charge Matrica, this time pitting her grandchildren against each other.
Sending them to conquer new territories like the Bactranate, Arkadia the eldest daughter of
Chagras started working against her grandmother, claiming to believe Vilia killed her father. Yet
when Arkadia started to scheme she confided in an untrustworthy spy who revealed the information to
her grandmother. Denying the assassination of her son, Vilia claimed Arkadia was in fact the
more likely culprit and was seeking to deflect blame, pointing to the fact she was an expert
with nerve toxins. Vilia then arranged for an attack against her granddaughter’s capital world,
foiling Arkadia’s plan as she had to drop everything and return home.
Continuing with the Charge Matrica, Vilia was warned that a rogue Jedi Kerra Holt was loose
in Sith space, yet the Dark Lady chose to do nothing, as dealing with this lightsider would
give her grandchildren good experience for their next invasion of the Republic. Yet all her plans
came to a halt when her grandson Odion attempted to use a powerful, ancient dark side relic called
the Helm of Ieldis to destroy all life in the galaxy save himself. The helm worked by amplifying
dark side emotions to send living beings into a murderous rampage. Taking the helm to Vanahame,
a moon under his control, Odion sought to use the Cloister where he trained orphans
to be slaves as a source of pain, which he could then amplify to wipe out all life in the galaxy.
Understanding the threat he posed, Vilia contacted her relatives, including Arkadia, asking them to
put aside their differences and unite to oppose Odion, as no one should seek to be king of a
graveyard. Despite the opposition closing in around him, Odion turned on the helm causing
the entire Grumani sector, including many force sensitives to be affected. Yet before he could
do too much damage, Odion was defeated and killed by the Jedi Kerra Holt, working with his second
in command General Beld Yulan who turned against his mad master. With Odion dead, his territories
were divided amongst the Calimondra family, and Vilia continued her rule over the Empire.
Ruling over 400 years after the death of Darth Bane, Darth Gravid was a powerful force-sensitive
human male, who inherited and built upon a vast collection of sith books, scrolls and artifacts,
containing the collective knowledge of his order preserved over many generations.
In keeping with the Rule of 2 established by Bane, Gravid took on the Twi’lik female Darth
Gean as his apprentice and built a great fortress on the world Jaguada, only to start changing his
outlook in later life, feeling drawn to the light side and even altering his philosophies to include
compassion and altruism. Possibly going mad, he took these beliefs to an extreme by casting a
great force shield over his home to keep others out while he destroyed the entire collection of
sith knowledge, believing it was the only way he could ensure his philosophies were passed
down to future generations. Learning what he was doing, Darth Gean sought to save the collection
and infiltrated the fortress to battle Darth Gravid. Though she sustained serious wounds
and lost an arm that was later replaced with a prosthetic, Darth Gean was victorious and
saved some part the Sith collection, though much of it was already lost, greatly setting
back their Order’s overall goal of growing strong enough to defeat the jedi and republic.
Remembered as a traitor who nearly destroyed a millennia long campaign towards victory,
he represented everything future Sith hated, and was used as an example of weakness and failure.
Oppositely Darth Gean, was remembered fondly, as she picked up the pieces of their order
and kept it on the right track by taking on an apprentice of her own to continue the Banite line,
used as an example of courage, success and perseverance in the face of great adversity.