Acolyte Order

The Acolyte Order, also known as the Acolyte Program, the Order of the Acolytes, or the New Sith Order, was a Sith breakaway sect of Force-sensitive operatives devoted to the dark side of the Force. Founded during the end of the Clone Wars, it sought to overthrow the Sith and threaten the plans of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious. Following the death of Count Dooku in the Battle of Coruscant, his Sith apprentice, Darth Midous, claimed leadership of the Acolyte Order and advanced their plans for galactic domination. He started by taking on the fallen Jedi Knight Yondo Patton as his apprentice, renaming him "Darth Arcane" and granting him the title of Grand Acolyte. Then, the two recruited three other members to the Order, who where called Sith Acolytes, and they served as the personal enforcers and executioners of Lord Midous. These apprentices were also trained to follow Midous' revised doctrine of the Sith ways, which allowed for more than two Sith to exist at any given time. During the Imperial Era, the Acolyte Order was absorbed into Midous' United Front, and it was based in the Acolyte Grand Temple on the planet Vespara.
During the Sith Civil War, the Acolytes fought against the Galactic Empire and sought to overthrow the Galactic Emperor Darth Sidious. In 5 BBY, the Acolytes were tasked with hunting down Jedi Knight Kenan Verso, the son of the late former Jedi Master Keleran Verso. As the former Padawan of Keleran, Midous sought to turn Kenan to the dark side and utilize the abilities of the Verso bloodline to advance his plans against the Empire. He would exhaust all resources towards capturing Verso, but it wasn't until the hunt resulted in the death of Darth Noctis that Midous decided to call off the hunt. By the time of the Second Battle of Coruscant, Midous and Arcane were the last members of the Acolyte Order. The battle resulted in the death of Midous, the destruction of Twilight Station, and the fragmentation of the Union, but Arcane managed to survive the onslaught and went into hiding.
==Behind the scenes ==
The Acolyte Order was first created to be a secret organization of the Sith consisting of dark side agents who served in the United Front for the second trilogy of the Legacy saga. Through inspiration from the Inquisitorius of the Galactic Empire and the One Sith of Star Wars Legends, the Sith Acolytes were created in the form of eight Sith Lords and Ladies. However, this idea was decided to be cut entirely due to a few issues that were incongruent with the current canon. The main problem was that the Sith followed Darth Bane's Rule of Two, limiting them to only two Sith at any given time, which caused a huge issue for introducing Darth Midous and his several apprentices. The other issue was that eight members seemed to be too excessive, considering that Midous would have to train them all into full-fledged Sith in a small amount of time. Therefore, JB went back to the drawing board to piece together another plan for the Acolytes. He started by erasing his former ideas and reintroducing the organization entirely. 
After the Legacy saga was reintroduced to feature nine films in 2024, the first film Star Wars: Return of the Sith introduced Midous as the Padawan of Jedi Knight Keleran Verso, an idea JB had before creating the film. By the end of the first trilogy, the Acolyte Order will be introduced as a splinter group of the Sith that follows Midous' revised doctrine of the Rule of Two, which he calls the Rule of One, allowing for more than two Sith to exist and serve under one "Dark Lord of the Sith." This allowed for the introduction of multiple Sith Acolytes set to be the primary antagonists in the upcoming trilogies. By creating another religious order of dark side wielders, Midous was able to train a new generation of Sith, even with Sidious and Vader existing under the Rule of Two.
==Appearances == 
*Star Wars: The Fallen Order 
*Star Wars: Rise of the Rebellion
*Star Wars: Revenge of the Empire
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