Sictis Wars The Sictis Wars was the name of a two - decade subset of the New Sith Wars , a thousand - year conflict initiated by a revived faction of the Sith Order . Lasting from 1250 BBY to 1230 BBY , the beginning of the Sictis Wars marked the rise of a new major Sith figure , the Dark Lord Belia Darzu . In this period , Lord Darzu created the defining threat of the Sictis Wars — the organic - metal hybrids known as technobeast s . With an army of these mutated Sithspawn creatures bound to the Dark Lord ' s will , the technobeasts were unleashed upon the Galactic Republic and the Jedi . In the final year of this period , Darzu was assassinated by her former allies , the secretive Mecrosa Order . The Sith were nonetheless deemed victorious , though without a clear line of succession for a new Dark Lord to assume Darzu ' s place . Prelude . For three quarters of a millennium since 2000 BBY , a conflict known as the New Sith Wars had been waged throughout the galaxy . The war was initiated by a resurgent faction of the Sith Order , a cult of dark side practitioners that opposed the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order . In the later period of the New Sith Wars , the tide of the conflict had been turned against the Republic , strengthening the power of the Sith as a result . Before the Sictis Wars , the last major figure to lead the Sith was the tyrannical Darth Rivan , a Sith Lord who commanded his own brand of soldiers — the Battlelords . During an engagement on the planet Almas , Rivan unwittingly summoned a wormhole that transported him through time into the future Ruusan campaign , leading to the Sith Lord ' s demise . War . In 1250 BBY during the last quarter of the New Sith Wars , the beginning of the Sictis Wars saw the rise of a new leader of the Sith , a female Shi ' ido Dark Lord known as Belia Darzu . Using a hidden stronghold on the planet Tython , Lord Darzu experimented with Sith alchemy and the Force technique known as " mechu - deru " . In her efforts to create hybrids of metal and flesh , she developed the nanogene spore , a technovirus capable of transforming living organisms into Sithspawn called technobeast s . Inside Darzu ' s fortress , beings from several different species were subjected to the virus , forming an army of technobeasts known as the Metanecrons . Bound to the Dark Lord ' s will , the technobeasts were unleashed upon the Galactic Republic and the Jedi , becoming recognized as the signature horror of the Sictis Wars . In combat , the technobeasts were known to infect their victims with the nanogene spore , assimilating yet more subjects into the legions of mutated cyborgs . One male Jedi Knight , however , managed to resist the effects of the technovirus through the power of the Force . Preserving his identity and becoming known as the " technobeast Jedi " , the Knight continued to serve the galaxy for decades under this new moniker . By the final year of the Sictis Wars , an alliance that was once formed between Lord Darzu and the Mecrosa Order — an underground assassin cult based in the Tapani sector — had fallen apart . Despite their former connections with the Sith , the Mecrosa themselves sought to retaliate in response to Darzu ' s unwanted incursion in their territory . In addition , Lord Darzu was betrayed by her own Sith followers , who would somehow play a role in her impending assassination . To this end , Belia Darzu was poisoned to death by the Mecrosa on the planet Tython , ending the Sictis Wars in 1230 BBY . Aftermath . The Sictis Wars , in the face of Belia Darzu ' s assassination , were ultimately deemed a victory for the Sith . This victory deprived the dark side cult of a clear line of succession , leaving no established individual to seize the mantle of Dark Lord . The murder of Lord Darzu sabotaged her technobeast army , halting the production of new Sithspawn hybrids . The end of the Sictis Wars , however , did not permanently bring an end to this signature threat . In the aftermath of the conflict , the Sith successors of Darzu would continue to employ the creatures — albeit in smaller numbers than before — until the New Sith Wars finally ended in 1000 BBY . Behind the scenes . The Sictis Wars were first mentioned as an unidentified period of the New Sith Wars in " " , a article written by Abel G . Peña in 2006 . This period was identified as the Sictis Wars by author Daniel Wallace in " The New Essential Guide to Droids " , a reference book published by Del Rey .