Hundred-Year Darkness

"*Once we were brothers in the Force. But from the Hundred-Year Darkness were born the Sith.*"

## Hundred-Year Darkness

### Key Individuals

Rogue Jedi

The **Hundred-Year Darkness** was a period of one hundred years started by the rise of the Sith. The Sith were born out of their enemy, the Jedi. A rogue Jedi became engulfed in the dark side of the force, gaining followers that came also to seek power through their attachment to the dark side. The Sith acted as the direct antithesis of the Jedi which lead to their exile, beginning a period of conflict between the two factions. For one hundred years, the Sith and the Jedi fought for dominion over the galaxy. Ultimately, the Jedi defeated the Sith, pushing them into hiding where they lay in wait on Moraband.

## Prelude

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For nearly 20,000 years, the Jedi Order had been the most powerful religious organization in the galaxy that was devoted to the understanding and harnessing of the Force. The Jedi aligned themselves with the light side of the Force and took it upon themselves to use the power that they gained through their training to better the galaxy and use their lives in the services of others. They had spread across the galaxy and often worked with the Old Republic. As this time their headquarters could be found on the planet Ossus.

## Recount

#### The Rogue Jedi

   For reasons unknown, one Jedi succumbed to the power of the dark side and bowed to the desire for power and strength at the cost of their morality, gaining a fascination with the dark side. The rogue Jedi abandoned his loyalty to the Jedi and deliberately disobeyed Jedi doctrine to pursue the dark side practices. He became convinced that the true potential of the force could only be reached through the dark side. The fallen Jedi became outcast from his fellow Jedi, exiled for his actions by the Jedi High Council. Despite his exile, the fallen Jedi continued his practice.

#### The Sith

Several other members of the Jedi order began to follow in the footsteps of the rogue Jedi, also falling to the dark side. They began to follow a similar worship, becoming one group acting in the direct opposition to the Jedi doctrine. They became known as the Sith. Concerned with gaining power and influence, the Sith became a prevalent threat to the Jedi and the galaxy.

#### Hundred-Year Darkness Conflict

The Sith and the Jedi erupted into conflict, both factions fighting to destroy the other. The Jedi were motivated to defend the light side of the force, concerned that the galaxy would fall to violence, hatred and fear while under the leadership of the Sith. The Sith however were only concerned with their rise to power and domination through their mastering of the dark side, fighting the Jedi only as a stepping stone one their rise to absolute power. For a hundred years, the two factions would routinely clash on numerous planets. Hellhulk stations were used as well as Shadowfang Beasts, bioconstructed creatures that generated a resonance-absorptive shield. The Shadowfang Beasts were crafted as a result of the war. The fighting eventually ended with the Jedi seemingly victorious. The Jedi believed their enemy to be vanquished.

## Aftermath

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Despite the Jedi beliefs that their victory was absolute and the Sith were no more, the Sith had simply only retreated into the Outer Rim Territories onto a world called Moraband, where they constructed a Valley of the Dark Lords. On Moraband, the Sith resided in hateful dormancy while they awaited a powerful return. The turned their forces from small remnants into a Sith Empire. Sith had a habit of growing impatient and emerge from Moraband, where they would attack the Old Republic and the Jedi. They were continuously defeated and pushed back to the Outer Rim however. The less frequent attacks meant that the Jedi no longer saw the Sith as a major threat to galactic safety, and thus the Hundred-Year Darkness was determined to be ended.

##### Doctrine of the Dyad

The Sith began using their connections to the dark side to bring about premonitions and forge prophecies that were invisible to the Jedi, only granted to those who could harness the dark side of the Force. The most prevalent of these was known as the Doctrine of the Dyad, a concept based around the unique force-bond between two individuals known as a Force Dyad, in which a pair of force sensitive individuals were bridged together by the Force. The power of a dyad was as strong as life itself, with the individuals forming the dyad sharing a connection that spanned across time and space, strong enough for one half of the dyad to resurrect the other from death. It was believed that a dyad was the "future of the sith", and that the emergence of a dyad connection would usher in a new age of ultimate power for the Sith. Many Sith devoted themselves to trying to bring about a dyad between masters and their apprentices. All attempts failed. The importance of the Doctrine was as such that it was etched into the walls of the Sith Citadel on Exegol.

The Sith remained present in the galaxy for another several thousand years. They made a prominent return 5,000 years later, led by Darth Sidious who manipulated the Galactic Republic into a state of weakness using the invasion of his homeworld, allowing him to become Supreme Chancellor. Over the duration of his service as Supreme Chancellor, Sidious weakened the Jedi and the Republic into a position that he destroyed the Jedi Order and entered in a new age of the Galactic Empire.

## Event Chronology

* A Rogue Jedi begins to seek power from the dark side of the Force, becoming the first practitioner of the darkness.
* The Rogue Jedi gains followers. Together they call themselves The Sith.
* The Sith are exiled by the Jedi.
* Conflict erupts between the Sith and the Jedi, a conflict that lasts around 100 years in a period that comes to be known as the Hundred-Year Darkness.
* Ultimately, the Sith are defeated, forced into hiding for survival on the desolate planet Moraband.
* The Sith Empire is forged in the Outer Rim.