Second Sith Empire

The **Second Sith Empire**, also dubbed the **Reconstituted Sith Empire**, **Resurgent Sith Empire**, and **Vitiate's Sith Empire** was a stellar nation created in the aftermath of the First Terran-Sith War and First Sith Genocide of 24K.369 BTC/12,000 CE. From there, the remnants of the First Sith Empire would rebuild their strength in the far off regions beyond the Terran border. This empire was created after Sith survivors of then Emperor Naga Sadow's disastrous campaign against Terran Space fled their old homeworld and colonies to escape the slaughter the Terran governments and militaries were carrying out against their people. Led by Sith Lord Vitiate, the refugees wandered aimlessly through space in search of a new home. Twenty years after their escape, the Sith discovered the forgotten world of Dromund Kaas and settled it to begin the process of rebuilding.

During the rebuilding process, Vitiate proclaimed himself to be the Dark Lord of the Sith Order and the Emperor of the Empire. Under the care of the Emperor and his Dark Council of Sith Lords, then established its capital of Kaas City and began building a mighty war machine, with the intent of eventually returning to combat with the Terran people once more. This empire worked towards that goal for the next 17 thousand years, gradually expanding and gaining more power and influence. However, there were setbacks numerous times in the form of two devastating civil wars, the First Sith Civil War, which occurred in the midst of the Galactic Dark Age and lasted the entirety of it, leaving the empire in utter ruin in the process, and the Second Sith Civil War, lasting 45 years and while not nearly as destructive as the First, forced the Sith government to rebuild. Nonetheless, the Second Sith Empire would emerge 28 years after the Second Sith Civil War and start the Second Terran-Sith War in an onslaught of unrivaled proportions.

For the next 28 years, the Terrans and Sith would engage in this brutal slaughter of a conflict that was the Second Terran-Sith War, with both sides becoming increasingly more brutal in their fight. But eventually, the Terrans slowly turned the tide of the war in their favor and after 18 years after the start of the war, the Terrans forces would manage to force out the invading Sith from their territory and began their own invasion into Sith and Sith allied controlled space. From there, the war between the two would only get more and more gruesome and bloody as the Terrans forces began inflecting retributive acts against the Sith, slaughtering whole cities and burning large portions of the planet in the process of their invasions, which in turn only caused the Sith to become increasingly more brutal in their attacks. By 6429 BTC/29K.940 CE, it became clear to all that the Sith were not going to win this war, and yet, the ruling Sith refuse to accept that, continuing to enact increasingly more desperate and brutal methods in hopes of winning the war, and the Terrans government response in turn by enacting the Second Sith Genocide. In 6423 BTC/29K.946 CE, Terran forces began a massive onslaught the likes of which the Sith had never seen, wiping more and more of the Sith's navy in a straight line towards the capital world of Dromund Kaas. Realizing this, the Dark Council placed the entire planet on lockdown and gathered as many remaining soldiers and ships as they could but the Terran armada did not arrive at Dromund Kaas, instead, it appeared above the star of the system, which confused Sith forces at the time before realizing what the ships were planning to do and franticly heading to stop the Terrans before they imploded the star. But it was too later too late, the Terrans launched their payload and quickly escaped into hyperspace, leaving the Sith with no time to evacuate the system. In a flash of light that could be seen from light-years away, the Kaas system was no more, completely destroying both Dromund Kaas and any nearby star systems with it. With the loss of the capital system and with it the government as a whole, the Sith Empire quickly crumbled, the military and Sith Order unable to do much of anything as all lines of communication were cut in the attack, and thusly were unable to resist the Terran ships now in orbit of nearly all Sith worlds and began the second phase of the genocide, the releasing of the Apocalypse Virus. The horrific pentagon did its' work, within weeks, each and every Sith controlled world was lifeless, completely wiped out of all life in its' entirety and to finalize this near-complete slaughter, the Terrans would then bomb Korriban enough to crack open its' crust and permanently warp its' atmosphere and gravity.

Just as the Second Sith Empire's birth began violently, so too did it die violently, at the end of the war, some 85% of the entire Sith population, be they Sith Purebloods, Humans or other, often enslaved species were slaughtered. Hundreds if not thousands of worlds reduced to a lifeless husk. Those who survived barely managed to escape to Republic space, but the conflict and resulting genocide, permanently burned away any desire for revenge, in fact, many of the surviving Sith, regardless of who they were in Sith society, had all but abandoned their traditions and customs, effectively ending the Sith way in its' entirety. From there, the Sith survivors would come to regard themselves as members of the Republic and Jedi, rather than the old empire and Sith, with the Sith Purebloods even going so far as to rename themselves the Ziostians after their new adopted homeworld of Ziost. Nevertheless, the Second Sith Empire had come to an end at the climax of their second war with the Terrans people, and with it came the end of the Sith Order and the traditions its' people once held.