Grand Plan The Grand Plan , also known as the Sith imperative , was a plot by the Order of the Sith Lords that was centuries in the making . The Plan was a precise formula for eradicating the Jedi Order , tearing down the Galactic Republic , and replacing both with a Sith - ruled galaxy . The plan was devised and initiated by the founder of the Order of the Sith Lords , Darth Bane , and carried out by all the subsequent Sith of his order ' s lineage . Background . As the New Sith Wars drew to a close in 1000 BBY , Darth Bane identified what he believed to be the critical flaw in the Sith efforts up to that point . Where Lord Kaan ' s Brotherhood of Darkness and previous Sith had failed , Bane reasoned , was in relying on numerical superiority to attack the Jedi and the Republic . The nature of the dark side demanded power through strength , a tactic Bane believed impossible in circumstances where many lesser Sith could ally to topple stronger Sith . To win , Bane sabotaged the last surviving members of the Brotherhood in the Seventh Battle of Ruusan ; establishing himself as the sole reigning Dark Lord of the Sith . As the founder of the new Order of the Sith Lords , governed by the Rule of Two , he enacted a new strategy aimed at the eventual toppling of the Republic and extermination of the Jedi Order – the Grand Plan . History . Groundwork . The first years after the foundation of the Order of the Sith Lords were not spent in singleminded pursuit of the destruction of the Jedi and the Republic ; Bane recognized that the goals of the Plan could not be achieved in a single lifetime . The early years , rather , were mostly concerned with laying the foundations upon which future Sith Lords would build toward the culmination of the Plan . With the destruction of the Brotherhood of Darkness , Bane had ' inherited ' the personal accounts of the notoriously lavish dark lord Qordis . With the financial leverage at his disposal , Bane was able to forge a vast intelligence - gathering network and , eventually , a fortified hideout on Ciutric IV . By many accounts , the early centuries of the new Sith Order and its Plan were challenging . Bane , his apprentice , and the early heirs of their Order , while accumulating resources in secret , were forced to sit by quietly as the Jedi and Republic recovered and restored themselves after the New Sith Wars . But the time was certainly not spent idly . The Sith waited and watched in secret , having the luxury of observing the Jedi and the Republic , without their enemies even knowing that they still existed . Setbacks . Darth Gravid ' s betrayal . About five centuries after the foundation of the Order of the Sith Lords , a dangerous flaw in the Rule of Two threatened to put an end to the Grand Plan . The insistence upon there only being two simultaneous Sith Lords meant that the fate of the plan was entirely contingent upon two individuals at any given time . The danger to the Plan in this emerged during the reign of Darth Gravid in approximately 552 BBY . Gravid , for reasons unknown , was drawn to the light side of the Force , and also believed that emotions such as compassion and selflessness could be integrated into the Sith philosophy . His apprentice did not share these beliefs , and slew her master . With him died the secret of essence transfer . Premature revelation . Sometime during 200 BBY , the Plan was threatened by the actions of a particular Sith Lord . He was known to his successors for having opened a hole in the Force . This had the effect of allowing the Jedi to feel the dark side for the first time in approximately eight centuries . The Jedi were now aware of the Sith ' s existence . Blix Annon incident . During the reign of Darth Tenebrous , ardently pro - Jedi Senator Blix Annon unwittingly drew the attention of the Sith . Due to his staunch support of the Jedi Order , he unwittingly made himself a target of the Sith plan . Tenebrous intended to advance the plan by seeing Annon abducted and removed as an obstacle to fomenting Anti - Jedi sentiment . The scheme quickly went awry , however , when Annon died of a heart attack whilst still in captivity and Tenebrous ' s chosen replacement was arrested in the aftermath . Last days of the Republic . The economic zenith of the Sith plan came largely during the tenure of Darth Plagueis , a Muun Sith Lord who was more publicly known as the plutocrat Hego Damask . Throughout his reign as Dark Lord , Plagueis amassed significant financial leverage and allies , which he used to undermine and exacerbate the already - strained relationships between the Core worlds and the Rim . Simultaneously , Plagueis ' apprentice Darth Sidious , publicly known as the Nabooan noble Palpatine , amassed political influence and authority in the heart of the Republic itself – the Senate . Together , the pair would accomplish more toward their goals than their Sith predecessors had accomplished in centuries . Stark Hyperspace War and the Battle of Galidraan . In 44 BBY , a seemingly small conflict between pirates and the Trade Federation in the Outer Rim proved to be a beneficial crisis to the Sith plan . Darth Sidious would ultimately play puppetmaster to much of the conflict . Iaco Stark , pirate entrepreneur , began stealing bacta from the Trade Federation and then re - selling it to Federation markets for cheaper than it would have been sold in the first place . While turning a tidy profit for himself , this inflamed the anger of the Trade Federation – a powerful voting bloc in the Galactic Senate . Seeking to resolve the conflict peacefully , Senator Finis Valorum brokered a diplomatic summit at Troiken . But events spiralled into open war when Stark attempted to kidnap the peace delegates . For several decades prior , a Militarist movement had been developing in the Galactic Senate , which advocated repealing a number of the Ruusan Reformation s and militarizing the Republic once more . When the conflict erupted after the betrayal at Troiken , Republic Militarist Senator Ranulph Tarkin intervened on the Republic ' s behalf , styling his personal forces the Republic Army and Navy . Tarkin ' s fleet was destroyed and he himself killed , but the conflict fizzled out when Stark defected to the Republic in exchange for amnesty . The damage , however , was already done : the Trade Federation was radicalized and began demanding greater freedom in building droid armies , while the Militarist movement had gained both ground and a martyr . In the aftermath of the war , Tarkin was declared the Hero of Troiken by newly - elected Supreme Chancellor Valorum , earning the Militarists further legitimacy and adherents . They began pushing for the commissioning of a fleet of dreadnaught s , and even non - Militarists began to advocate taking greater control of outlying systems . The ramifications of the Stark Hyperspace War on the Republic were significant , and a significant victory toward the Sith ' s Grand Plan . In a conflict that lasted less than a year , the near - millennium of serene peace that the Republic enjoyed was eroded away and the process of re - militarization begun . Meanwhile , the Trade Federation – soon to find themselves puppets of the Sith – began a military buildup which would prove to be of immense import to the Sith plan in the decades that followed . 44 BBY proved to be a turbulent year for the Republic and the Jedi , and ultimately beneficial to the machinations of the Sith . This year also saw the Jedi dispatched to the world Galidraan in order to combat the threat presented by the True Mandalorians . Led by Jedi Master Dooku , the Jedi ' s mission quickly turned into a bloodbath which would haunt Dooku for years to come . Yinchorri Uprising . Around a decade later , Plagueis and Sidious provoked another conflict in order to advance their goals . They urged the Yinchorri , themselves new admissions to the Republic , into an aggressive war which concluded with multiple victories for the Sith plan . The Yinchorri , a race immune to mind tricks , were thought by Plagueis to be good potential hosts and trainers of a secret cloned army , which he planned to use to destroy the Jedi . Though this would not ultimately be the case , the resolution of the Yinchorri Uprising still proved to be of great benefit . In terms of simple bloodshed , the conflict saw the deaths of seven Jedi ; one of whom was a member of the Jedi Council . But of greater long - term value , the telepathic manipulative - immune Yinchorri were eliminated as a threat to the rise of the Sith by seeing them defeated and isolated to their own world . But perhaps most significantly , the Yinchorri incident critically undermined the Chancellorship of Finis Valorum . This created the circumstances necessary for Palpatine – Darth Sidious – to ascend to political supremacy in the Republic . Bando Gora and Cog Hive Seven . In the same year , the Sith ' s plans became entangled with a rogue Force - worshiping cult known as the Bando Gora . When the Bando Gora brought violence to the planet Baltizaar , the Republic intervened via the Jedi , who took a number of casualties before successfully repelling the invaders . In the meantime , however , Jedi student Komari Vosa — a student of Jedi Master Dooku — was captured and brutally tortured , resulting in her turning to the dark side of the Force and assuming leadership of the cult . The presumed death of his student , paired with the death the following year of another of Dooku ' s former students resulted in the Jedi Master ' s exit from the Order . The Sith plans would also become entangled with the Bando Gora via the direct manipulations of Darth Sidious . In an effort to manipulate the illegal arms market , as well as move against Darth Plagueis , Sidious his apprentice Darth Maul to the prison Cog Hive Seven . There , Maul was to seek out arms manufacturer Iram Radique , and use the Bando Gora to acquire a weapon with which to kill Darth Plagueis . Political ascendancy . Darth Sidious began to push for further and larger - scale fighting in 32 BBY , using both his good public name and his secret Sith identity to incite conflict between opposing factions . As Palpatine , he urged Chancellor Valorum to levy taxes on Outer Rim trade routes controlled by the Trade Federation , thereby inflaming the now - militarized economic giant . Simultaneously , as Darth Sidious , he ordered the Federation to blockade and invade Naboo in protest . The invasion , paired with Valorum ' s inability to act on the crisis , precipitated a sequence of events which would prove paramount to the success of the Plan . Valorum ' s Chancellorship was ended in a vote of no - confidence , while Palpatine ' s rising popularity propelled him into the position as leader of the Republic . One of the most important victories of the Grand Plan was seeing a Sith Lord ascend to the highest political office of the Republic . While many of the achievements of the Plan to date had contributed in some way , the election of Palpatine allowed the Sith to operate on a level of political authority unprecedented in their order . A secret army . Shortly before Sidious ' election as Chancellor , Plagueis advanced the Plan a leap forward in what would be his final contribution . As Hego Damask , he attended a high - society gathering , and while there spoke with Jedi Master Sifo - Dyas . Years earlier , the two had conversed on the rising unrest throughout the galaxy and the Senate ' s evident incapability of bringing the situation under control . Plagueis suggested the cloners of Kamino as a good candidate for raising an army capable of maintaining galactic order and offered to finance the operation with his own funds , the product of centuries of Sith acquisitions . Sifo - Dyas eventually agreed and placed the order . Fallen Jedi Master Dooku , now secretly apprenticed to Darth Sidious , employed a pair of bounty hunters on a mission to hunt down his old apprentice , Komari Vosa , with the true goal of finding a worthy genetic template for the clone army . Ultimately Jango Fett succeeded in the hunt , though opted not to kill Vosa at the completion of his mission . With no further use for her , and his soldier template selected , Dooku — Darth Tyranus — executed his former apprentice himself . Combined with the militarization of the economic cartels and the Rim in general , the stage was set for a galaxy - wide war of the Sith ' s making . The Clone Wars . A decade passed before war would erupt , but the Sith had not been idle . In the meantime , the Sith had continued to escalate galactic tensions , manufacturing a secessionist movement and placing Tyranus as its charismatic leader . In 22 BBY the clone army was discovered by Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi , but the discovery came too late to halt the imminent outbreak of war . At Geonosis , the Republic and the newly - declared Confederacy of Independent Systems went to war . The Clone Wars , masterminded on both sides by the Sith Order , had begun . The war dragged on in near - stalemate for three years . The benefits of the war to the Sith Plan were multiple . Sidious ' position as a capable wartime leader was solidified , and he was able to ' accept ' increasingly centralized authority . The horrors of war also significantly broadened support for unifying the various disparate pre - war security , judicial , and military forces into a single authority structure , which ultimately facilitated the Sith ' s plot for galactic dominion . One of the most noteworthy acts of political and military centralization was the enacting of the Reflex Amendment . The Reflex Amendment allowed Palpatine to bypass the bureaucracy and the Senate in order to establish a military hierarchy in parallel to the civilian government , under which Palpatine was legally authorized to appoint regional Governors - General – who answered only to him . The Reflex Amendment also acted as a stepping stone , later in the war paving the way for the Sector Governance Decree . This act entrenched the regional governorship positions appointed by Palpatine as permanent entities , and with the very real power of having military authority to back their positions . Through these two acts , Palpatine was able to further erode the Republic ' s facade of democracy , and eventually allowed him to dissolve the Senate entirely . Meanwhile , the Jedi Order was diminished both physically and morally . Each Jedi slain in battle was a victory for the Sith Plan , but the real victory over the Jedi was philosophical . Not only were the Jedi forced to abandon their traditional role as keepers of the peace , but they assumed command of an increasingly disgruntled " slave " army . Victory of the Sith . Extermination of the Jedi Order . As the increasingly violent war approached its conclusion , very few had any idea how sudden and vicious its resolution would prove to be . Shortly before the outbreak of the war , Tyranus revealed to a captive Obi - Wan Kenobi that his Sith master had control of the Galactic Senate . Dismissed as a lie to sow discord as hostilities commenced , Tyranus was indeed being truthful . Tyranus ' master Sidious , as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine , held control over much of the war . One of his greatest victories would prove to be an obscure drilled into the clone army . Lost amongst 149 other emergency orders , Order 66 stipulated the immediate termination of all Jedi officers should they be found to be acting against the Republic , and the immediate transferal of military authority to the office of the Chancellor – and the order had to be issued directly from the Supreme Chancellor . Sidious ' opportunity came after revealing his identity to the Jedi Chosen One , Anakin Skywalker . Upon learning the truth , a contingent of Jedi Masters led by Mace Windu attempted to place Sidious under arrest . A furious lightsaber battle in the Chancellor ' s office ensued , and following a fateful intervention by Skywalker , the last Jedi of the Jedi contingent – Mace Windu – was killed . The intervention of Skywalker , long schemed - for and hoped - for by Sidious , resulted in his turn to the dark side as Sidious ' newest apprentice – Darth Vader . With a Jedi attack on his person now a matter of fact , the time for the revenge of the Sith had come . Sidious commanded his new apprentice to lead and kill all within , while he personally commanded Order 66 ' s execution galaxy - wide . Nearly simultaneously across the galaxy , the Sith Plan against the Jedi came to fruition . Thousands of Jedi , spread thin on many war fronts , were mercilessly cut down by the troops they had commanded only moments earlier . With the Jedi Order torn asunder , half of the Grand Plan was complete . Fall of the Republic . By this point , the galactic circumstances of economy , politics , military , and philosophy had so fundamentally changed the face of the galaxy that the Republic , as it had been , could no longer exist . With the execution of Order 66 , centralized military authority came to reside solely in the hands of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine . With political and economical authority already firmly under his control , absolute control of the military was the final piece necessary in the Sith Plan . Sidious ordered his new apprentice to kill the surviving leaders of the Separatists , bringing an end to the war which he had so masterfully orchestrated . But the memory of decades of ineffective governance and the horrors of war which they had wrought were not easily forgotten by the Senators of the galaxy . Having demonstrated threats from both within and without , and having consolidated most authority through the office of the Chancellor , the time for the final Sith victory had come . Three years after the outbreak of the Clone Wars , on a day which would become known to posterity as Empire Day , Supreme Chancellor Palpatine issued the Declaration of a New Order . The Republic was reorganized into the first Galactic Empire and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine – Darth Sidious – was declared " Emperor " Palpatine , to the thunderous applause of the Galactic Senators . Darth Sidious had successfully completed the goals of the Grand Plan . The Jedi Order had been disgraced in the public opinion before being utterly exterminated , and the Republic had torn itself down to proclaim a Sith Lord as uncontested ruler of the galaxy . Legacy . The successful completion of the Grand Plan had dramatic repercussions at virtually every level of galactic life . Far from simply ushering in an era of Sith dictatorship , the Plan impacted politics , economics , social attitudes , and the very nature , organization , and philosophy for Force - users of all alignments . Darth Sidious ' Galactic Empire swept away the democratic institutions of the Republic , centralizing authority more and more in the new Emperor ' s hands . During the Clone Wars , Palpatine had re - introduced the regional governor title of Moff , ostensibly in order to streamline the war effort . Eventually , when the Senate was disbanded 19 years after the foundation of the Empire , direct authority over vast tracts of space was transferred to the Moffs . The consequences of centralizing all political and military authority would continue to be felt for well over a century after the Emperor ' s first death in 4 ABY , as the galaxy remained divided between the New Republic , and the Imperial Remnant . The fulfillment of the Grand Plan also resulted in a re - alignment of both dark and light sides of the Force . Under Palpatine , the Rule of Two was brought to an end . With Sidious ' authority supreme and virtually unassailable , he began the training of many new Dark Side Adepts , eventually leading to the creation of Lumiya ' s Sith until its discontinuation with the death of Darth Caedus and his apprentice ' s subsequent defection to the light side of the Force . On the light side , the Jedi Order of 25 millennia was swept away and eventually replaced by the New Jedi Order , who arranged their organization in order to avoid the mistakes that led to the downfall of the Order . Eventually , a third faction also emerged .