Dark Force The Dark Force was the dark side religion that sprang up around the Dark Force Temple , an ancient Sith temple on Dromund Kaas . It followed the teachings of Plaristes and Dak Ramis . History . Millennial ' s heresy . The Dark Force cult emerged nearly a thousand years before the Battle of Yavin . At the time , the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith were Darth Cognus and her disciple , the three - eyed mutant Darth Millennial . As members of the Banite Sith , they followed the Rule of Two , which decreed that only two Sith could exist at any given time : the master and his or her apprentice . Millennial , however , came to find that doctrine too restrictive . While he had often been at odds with his master , Millennial rebelled against the teachings of Cognus once too many . Barely escaping the confrontation with Cognus , Millennial took refuge on Dromund Kaas , a planet that had long history with the Sith . In his new haven , Millennial kept meditating on the teachings of the Sith while also studying the works of Plaristes and Dak Ramis , two controversial philosophers who had lived over 25 , 000 years earlier . Millennial came to regard himself as a prophet chosen by the will of the Force itself . He founded a new sect he called the Dark Force , anointing himself the Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side . His philosophy , which drew on Millennial ' s Sith roots as well as on Plaristes ' and Ramis ' writings , started to attract many followers . While some of the new cultists were intellectually brilliant , many of them were much more naïve . At any rate , those who called into question the Dark Force tenets were condemned to death for heresy . When Millennial ended up passing away , his cult survived him . In the second century before the Battle of Yavin , even a Jedi Padawan named Kibh Jeen was seduced by the Dark Force ' s philosophy , although he was taken down in a space battle in 181 BBY . At some point , the fallen Jedi Kadann and his pupil Jedgar traveled to Dromund Kaas , where they discovered the Dark Force Temple . The two elected to join the cult . The Emperor ' s Mages . At some point before the fall of the Galactic Republic , the Dark Force prophets were visited by Darth Sidious , the last of the Banite Sith . Intrigued by the prophets ' unique view of the Force and interested in their ucanny ability to predict the future , Sidious decided to turn them to his service . He convinced Prophet Kadann that the future he saw was not his , that he was only a messenger . By serving him and his long - percolating scheme to rule the galaxy , the Prophets of the Dark Side would fulfill their true mission . By pleding allegiance to Sidious , the clergymen of the Dark Force were brought back into the fold of the Banite Sith . Sidious annexed the Prophets as his advisors , and Kadann was appointed the Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side . Some years later , Sidious ' plans came to fruition as he replaced the Galactic Republic with his First Galactic Empire . With the advent of his New Order , the Sith Lord turned Galactic Emperor named the prophets the Emperor ' s Mages , collectively forming the Secret Order of the Empire . Many of the Emperor ' s Dark Jedi , Jedi - hunting Inquisitors , Force - sensitive military officers , and Emperor ' s Hand s received their first exposure to the dark side by studying the Dark Force religion on Dromund Kaas under the tutelage of the Prophets . While Kadann remained the Supreme Prophet , other significant figures emerged in the cult . Among them was Lord Cronal , a particularly cruel and twisted Human warlock who may have been sired by a Dathomiri witch . The former Jedi archaeologist Jerec also studied the Dark Force religion , and he cultivated a close bond with Cronal . Finally , Kadann ' s apprentice Jedgar was named High Prophet . Loyalty schism . Although Palpatine had appointed Kadann to the position of Supreme Prophet , the man ' s true loyalty still lay with the Dark Force . Prior to the Battle of Endor , Kadann ' s visions indicated a probable restoration of balance to the Force . While that prophecy did not settle well with Palpatine , Kadann refused to compromise . He was forced to flee the Emperor ' s wrath with some of the Mages , while others remained behind with the Emperor . Those who sided with the Emperor were led by Lord Cronal . As Kadann and his ecclesiastic followers fled to their Supreme Prophet ' s stronghold on Bosthirda , the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas was abandoned .