Sith

The Sith, also referred to as the Sith Order, was an ancient religious order of Force-wielders who drew from the dark side of the Force. Driven by their emotions, including hate, anger, and greed, the Sith were deceptive and obsessed with gaining power no matter the cost. The Order reached the apex of its power under Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith who achieved his Order's goal of galactic conquest after a millennium of plotting. Within a generation, however, the deaths of Sidious and Darth Vader at the Battle of Endor would mark the final end of the Order of Sith Lords.
The term "Sith" originally referred to a species of aliens native to the planets Korriban and Ziost, who were later enslaved and ruled by exiled Dark Jedi from the Galactic Republic. These Dark Jedi had once been members of the Jedi Order, a monastic Force religion dedicated to peace through the use of the light side of the Force. The Dark Jedi, who refused to rely exclusively on the light side, challenged the Jedi by giving in to the dark side, which started the Hundred-Year Darkness. However, they had been defeated and subsequently exiled from known space, which led to their discovery of the Sith species. Following centuries of interbreeding and mixing of cultures between the aliens and the exiles, the Sith would no longer be identified by their race, but by their dedication to the ancient Sith philosophy. This religious order would survive in many different incarnations throughout galactic history. The rise of a new leader, or Dark Lord, would often cause drastic reorganizations in the cult, however the Sith would always be characterized by their lust for power and their desire to destroy the Jedi Order.
The Sith were the most infamous of all dark side religions, and its members were often seen as the pinnacle of power within the dark side, commanding several Empires and initiating many galactic wars. With such great influence, the Sith religion inspired many cults that weren't technically part of the Sith Order, nor did they consist of actual Sith. Instead, they were founded and made up of Sith devotees and other Force-sensitives dedicated to prolonging the teachings and the memory of the Sith. Among the most notorious of these cults was the Sith Eternal, an organization created by the Sith Lord Darth Bane and his apprentice; following the near extinction of the Sith due to their constant own hubris, Bane created a new philosophy known as the Rule of Two in which only two Sith Lords — a Sith Master and a Sith apprentice — could exist at one time, whilst the Sith Eternal served them in the centuries-long plan to establish themselves as the ultimate ruling power in the galaxy.
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