Followers of Ruin

The Followers of Ruin, also known as the New Sith were the wave of Sith that followed Sith philosophy as taught by Darth Ruin.

### Darth Ruin

Darth Ruin, formerly the Jedi Master Phanius, apostatized in 1543 AC due to fundamental conflicts between his views and those of the Jedi Order. What little of his writings remain showed him to be a very charismatic but self-centred man who believed his own council superceded that of anything else, even the Force. It appeared he had a following; for when in 1547 AC he declared himself Darth Ruin, Lord of a new Sith empire, fifty Jedi left the Order to join him as his apostles.

He preoceeded to fight a destructive campaign against the Republic, beginning in the outer reaches around Sith Space and quickly subsuming a large portion of the galaxy. How much exactly is largely lost to later Propaganda attempts. While known at the time as the 'Sith Empire', to differentiate from other, older Empires the term 'New Sith Empire' or 'Empire of Ruin' are often used.

### The Council of Lords

In 1551 AC the New Sith Empire shattered with the assassination of Darth Ruin. While several Sith in the following decades proclaimed themselves Lord of the Sith, none ever held supremacy over all of Sith Space. It wasn't unusual to have anywhere between two and ten sith empires in parallel. Over the next two hundred years, the SIth empire(s) slowly but certainly advanced corewards, and despite some setbacks in the Thrasybule sector has conquered up the Hydian and Perlemian; controling the area between up to Mandalorian space and the trade routes themselves into the Expansion Regions.

In the years between 2023 and 2053 a series of civil wars saw the Sith weaken and allowed the Republic to push the SIth back along the Perlemian into the Medidian sector of the Outer Rim; and stalling the Sith in the Expasion Regions of the Hydian. In response, the disparate Sith states coordinated and in 2056 the Council of Lords lead the battle of Mizra against the Jedi Order; killing or turning thousands of Jedi and collapsing the Republic control of The Mid Rim Perlemian and the northern Expansion region; and annexing Miraluka space.

### The Fall of the Southern Galaxy

A few decades later, The Sith under Darth Rivan in the South launch a capaign up the Corellian run, using Almas as a staring point. While in 2090 an assault on Almas successfully conquered the fortress world and killed Darth Rivan, the expansion of SIth space up the Corellian Run up to Denon allowed Darth Rivan to conquer large chunks of the galactic South. With the fall of Almas, his empire fractured but the southern galaxy did not return to republic control, instead remaining with Sith States like the Chagras Hegemony.

The final hammer in the Republic coffin were the Sictis Wars, where the Forces under Belia Darzu, using Tython as a staging groud, assaulted the Galactic Core. She was fairly successful, gaining territory up to the Tapani sector before falling through assassination in 2292.

### The End of the New Sith

At this point, any cohesion the SIth might have had 500 years later has been lost. The New Sith are everywhere, and they are mostly fighting each other. It is in this climate that Jedi Master Skere Kan decided that a reunification of the Galaxy through the Jedi or the Republic was friutless, that any such action much be taken in form of a Sith Republic. To this end, he and several like-minded Jedi left the Order and instead focussed on conquering the galaxy. By 2516, he had an Empire; and founded his own SIth philosophy - the Brotherhood of Darkness - and promptly declared war on the Republic.

While some holdouts of the Followers of Ruin remained into the first century of the Ruusan Reformation, as of 2516 they were no longer a relevant faction in the galaxy.