Darth Millennial Darth Millennial was a three - eyed mutant Sith Lord and Shadow Hand , heir to the lineage of Darth Bane , who lived almost a thousand years before the Battle of Yavin . Apprenticed to Darth Cognus , Millennial was powerful in the Force and had the ability to see the future . However , he and his Master disagreed on many aspects about the Sith , and Millennial became disillusioned with the Rule of Two , which he felt was far too restrictive , and saw far more sense in Lord Kaan ' s Rule by the Strong . Eventually , he left his enraged Master and founded the Dark Force religion , which would later become the Prophets of the Dark Side on the planet Dromund Kaas . Proclaiming himself as a prophet chosen by the will of the Force , he attracted many Force - users from across the galaxy to his religion before passing away . Biography . Life . Millennial was a three - eyed mutant of Human descent who lived almost one thousand years before the Battle of Yavin . He was at some point in his life seduced by the dark side of the Force , whereupon he joined the Order of the Sith Lords . He was apprenticed to a female Iktotchi Dark Lord of the Sith , Darth Cognus , who was a firm believer in Darth Bane ' s Rule of Two , which stated that there should always be two Sith : a Master and an apprentice . Millennial proved to be a talented user of the Force ; he had powerful precognitive abilities and was trained as a Shadow Hand of Darth Cognus . But while Millennial was a talented Force - user , he and Cognus disagreed on many aspects of the Sith , most notably the Rule of Two . Millennial was forever questioning what he had been taught , and he vehemently disagreed with the philosophy of the Rule of Two , which the mutant found to be far too restrictive . Instead , he believed in the more martial philosophy put forward by former Dark Lord and the founder of the Brotherhood of Darkness Lord Kaan : the Rule by the Strong , which stated that there should be many Sith , with the leader being whomever was the strongest at any one time . Millennial ' s Master , though , rejected the concept , and the two clashed many times during his apprenticeship . Eventually , tensions reached a boiling point , and Millennial abandoned his Master and fled to the remote planet of Dromund Kaas , where he sought refuge from his Master ' s wrath . Cognus trained a new apprentice and continued the lineage of the Rule of Two , while Millennial went about founding his own dark side religion on Dromund Kaas . Millennial settled on the swamp world and spent much time contemplating and focusing on Kaan ' s ideas . Melding them with teachings of two Pre - Republic era philosophers named Plaristes and Dak Ramis , Millennial started his own unique religion , named the Dark Force , and built a temple in the swamps of Dromund Kaas . He proclaimed himself a prophet chosen by the will of the Force and invited Force - users from across the galaxy to join him on Dromund Kaas and initiate themselves into the Dark Force . Many Force - sensitives from all sorts of backgrounds , as well as hordes of naïve Sith cultists , joined him , though they attempted to keep the religion secret . Anyone who did not believe in the Dark Force was slandered and labeled as a heretic , and Millennial and his religion encouraged the killing of such non - believers . Millennial became the Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side , and his organization made multitudes of prophecies during his lifetime . Legacy . Eventually , Millennial passed away , but his religion lived on . Practitioners of the Dark Force came to be known as Prophets of the Dark Side , and the order survived on Dromund Kaas in seclusion for centuries , away from the prying eyes of the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic . Eventually , the Prophets came to the attention of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious , who recruited them as advisers in his capacity as Supreme Chancellor and Galactic Emperor . After the Prophets were attacked by Sidious ' s Inquisitors , they fled to Bosthirda . Millennial ' s order was eventually wiped out by a trio of darksider s : Azrakel , a former student of the Prophets ; Lumiya , the Dark Lady of the Sith ; and her apprentice , Carnor Jax . By the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War , they had yet to be reformed , at least not openly . A false group of prophets sprung up after the Battle of Endor , using the ancient prophecy that another three - eyed mutant would rise among the prophets to promote a slave lord named Trioculus as the new Emperor . These false prophets were themselves killed off , however . Millennial ' s existence was known to the New Jedi Order , and , after the Yuuzhan Vong invasion , Jedi Master Tionne Solusar published a series of texts , several of which mentioned Millennial . The New Jedi Order , however , knew little information other than that he founded the Dark Force . Personality and traits . Millennial was not one to blindly follow his superiors and questioned everything he was taught , formulating his own opinions . He saw strength in numbers and felt that the Sith would thrive under the Rule by the Strong . He felt that a leader should be the strongest of the group and that if another became stronger than the leader , he or she had the right to claim command for himself or herself . Millennial himself was a strong leader , as he persuaded many followers of the dark side to leave their respective orders and join him on Dromund Kaas . Millennial had great belief in himself and his abilities , particularly those that allowed him to see the future , and he thought that he was special enough to be chosen as the prophet of the will of the Force . But while Millennial was supremely confident in himself , he knew when to run and hide . After his and his Master ' s confrontations over how the Sith should be ruled escalated , he knew he was no match for her and went into hiding . Millennial was pale - skinned , with a black - and - silver - colored beard . He had two blue eyes and an yellow - colored third eye that was positioned in the center of his forehead . Powers and abilities . Millennial had powerful precognitive abilities and was trained as a Shadow Hand of Darth Cognus . Later , Millennial created his own organization of Force wielders that also had strong precognitive abilities . Behind the scenes . Darth Millennial was created by Abel G . Peña prior to 2001 , as part of " " , an article discussing the various lesser - known Sith organizations . The article describes Millennial as a " three - eyed mutant , " retcon ning him to be the Dark Lord mentioned in the children ' s novel " The Glove of Darth Vader " . Peña considered the character to likely be Human , though this wasn ' t established firmly in canon . However , " Evil Never Dies " would not be published for a number of years ; in the interim , Peña mentioned Millennial briefly in " The Dark Forces Saga " , released on the Wizards of the Coast web site in June 2005 , marking the character ' s first appearance in canon . " Evil Never Dies " was subsequently released on StarWars . com one year later , expanding Millennial ' s backstory as established in " The Dark Forces Saga " . With Peña ' s previous Darth creation , Darth Ruin , he had followed George Lucas ' s pattern of short Sith names , such as Darth Bane and Darth Maul ; however , with Millennial , he decided to be adventurous and go with a longer name , in the same vein as Lucas ' Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis . Millennial was a religious figure , so Peña wanted to integrate the concept of infinity with his name ; he chose to base it off the word " millennium , " meaning a thousand years , as one thousand is the symbol used to represent infinity , similar to how Western Culture uses the ∞ symbol , and the 萬物 . The figure one thousand also crops up in a number of prominent " Star Wars " works , such as " " , " " , and Tom Veitch ' s " Dark Empire " , which contributed toward Peña ' s choice . Additionally , as Millennial existed around the same time the Sith became extinct , Peña sees his name as a prophecy in itself , as the Sith remained extinct for a thousand years . Millennial was subsequently referenced in Ryder Windham ' s " " , as well as Matthew Grau ' s " " , and " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , by Daniel Wallace , Pablo Hidalgo , Stephen J . Sansweet , and Bob Vitas . In " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , Millennial ' s name is misspelled as " Darth Millenial . " He also received his first official depiction in that work , which showed him to be Human , canonizing Peña ' s previous comments that he was likely a member of that species .