Hundred-Year Darkness/Legends

The Hundred-Year Darkness, also known as the Hundred-Year War, was a conflict that began in 7000 BBY and lasted until approximately 6900 BBY, when a group of Dark Jedi created monstrous armies to battle the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic. The Hundred-Year Darkness began three years after the Dark Jedi split with the Order in the Second Great Schism. After ten decades of fighting, the Dark Jedi lost the war at the Battle of Corbos, but went on to conquer Korriban and found the Sith.
==Beginnings==
The Second Great Schism began when a group of Jedi began practicing extended uses of the Dark side of the Force. By relying more and more upon the dark side, these Jedi learned that using the Force of sufficient intensity could bend life itself.The New Essential Chronology With their new powers, the Knights experimented upon other lifeforms to create monsters as extensions of their will. Other Jedi looked upon these new powers with horror. The earliest rebels, the Legions of Lettow, had been defeated in the First Great Schism, but their legacy remained, and a second group of dissidents would emerge, led by Ajunta Pall.
All great conflicts began with passion, and this one was no different. Firmly adamant in protecting their newly-acquired powers, this sect of Jedi sought to convince the other Jedi to embrace the Dark Side instead of fearing it. The others were not convinced. Firmly convinced that their way was right, the arguments turned into conflict. The rogue Jedi were exiled along with their teachings. A war had begun that would last a hundred years.
==War==
During the war, the Jedi constructed the Prism, a secret prison facility known only to the members of the Jedi High Council.Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison 3
As the war went on, Sorzus Syn created Shamblers, Howlers, Pit Horrors, and ultimately, Leviathans, creatures that could suck life essences into blister-traps on their backs.
The last stand of the Dark Jedi was on the world of Corbos. With the help of infighting, the Dark Jedi were defeated.
===Exile===
After their defeat on Corbos, the surviving Dark Jedi were rounded up by the Jedi. The Exiles, as they became known to the Jedi, were stripped of their weapons and navigational instruments, herded onto unarmed galleons, and banished beyond known space.
The Hundred-Year Darkness was over, and the Jedi had weathered the Second Great Schism.
==A new world==
Inspired by rumors of the Kingdom of Sith, Sorzus Syn guided the Dark Jedi to Korriban. Landing on the world, they found that true to the rumors, it was inhabited by a humanoid species calling themselves the Sith. Hakagram Graush, the King of the Sith, was shocked at the appearance of the outsiders, but after witnessing their powers and advanced technology, the king welcomed the exiled Jedi to the world. However, this led to Graush's downfall. Graush's Shadow Hand conspired with the new arrivals, and betrayed his liege to the Dark Jedi. Using his training in the Force, Ajunta Pall beheaded Graush, convincing the Sith that the Exiles were gods. The Exiles became the rulers of the Sith and came to be called the Lords of the Sith. Ajunta Pall became the first Dark Lord of the Sith.
Sorzus Syn learned the prophecy of the Sith'ari from the Sith. The Sith'ari was a perfect being who would one day lead the Sith. According to prophecy, the Sith'ari would rise up and destroy the Sith, but in the process make them stronger than ever before. Syn saw this as a striking parallel to the Chosen One of Jedi legend and speculated that she was the Sith'ari.
==Return==
After becoming Sith Lords, several Exiles took the ship they had arrived on along with new weapons, Massassi warriors, and their new secrets of Sith alchemy in an attempt to destroy the Jedi against Ajunta Pall's orders, only to have themselves destroyed, and giving the Jedi the knowledge that Sith Space existed, and that the Exiles had survived.
==Legacy==
As time passed, and interbreeding occurred between the Exiles and the Sith, the term "Sith" came to mean not only species, but also their fallen Jedi masters. When they first met the Exiles, the Sith wore primitive clothing. With the influence of the Exiles, elaborate clothing came into use.
==Behind the scenes==
The first reference to fallen Jedi becoming the rulers of the "Sith civilization" to be published was in Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising 1.Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising 1 This information was again mentioned in Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1.Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1 The first mention of the name "the Hundred-Year Darkness" was in Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 3 in a list of events involving the Dark Side. No further information about it was mentioned.Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 3
In Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 0, it's mentioned that the "First Great Schism" was followed by "a century of bloodshed" that ended with the Dark Jedi faction getting exiled and becoming the first Sith Lords. In Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 2, the Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos says that the ancestors of the Sith Lords were exiled as a result of the "Great Schism," implying that thanks to his ancestors being exiled at the end of the "First Great Schism", he's unaware that there was a "Second Great Schism."
Arden Lyn's biography in "The Emperor's Pawns", a collection of biographies that were published in Star Wars Gamer #5 (2001), says that the "First Great Schism" occured ~25,000 BBY. The timeline in the beginning of The New Essential Guide to Characters (2002) mentions that "circa 7,000 BBY", "The Jedi Knights lead the Republic through the Hundred-Year Darkness", with no further information being given. The New Essential Guide to Characters also restates the information about the "First Great Schism" from Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith and the year from "The Emperor's Pawns" in the timeline in the beginning of the book and in the character entry for Naga Sadow.The New Essential Guide to Characters
The New Essential Chronology (2005) restates that the Hundred-Year Darkness occured ~7000 BBY, but also revealed it to be the same event as the "hundred years of bloodshed" mentioned in Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith and to have followed the "Second Great Schism" while the "First Great Schism" was retconned to be a separate event. When asked about this retcon, Daniel Wallace, author of The New Esssential Chronology, said it was because of "LFL internal documents" dating Dark Jedi contact with the Sith species at ~7000 BBY. Leland Chee said that this retcon was to "correct the the (sic) original discrepency of the timing of the Great Schism introduced by The New Essential Guide to Characters", but didn't say what source The New Essential Guide to Characters created a discrepency with.
==Appearances==
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 0 
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 2 
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 4 
*Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising 1 
*Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith audio drama 
*Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1 
*Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 3 
*Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 4 
*Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 
*Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords 
*Star Wars: The Old Republic 
*Darth Plagueis 
*The Wrath of Darth Maul 
*Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison 3 
*Empire's End 2 
*Fate of the Jedi: Ascension 
*Legacy (2006) 30 
*Legacy (2006) 32 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Conflicts of the Colonies
Category:Conflicts of the Outer Rim Territories