Blix Annon incident ĭuring the reign of Darth Tenebrous, ardently pro-Jedi Senator Blix Annon unwittingly drew the attention of the Sith. The Jedi were now aware of the Sith's existence. This had the effect of allowing the Jedi to feel the dark side for the first time in approximately eight centuries. He was known to his successors for having opened a hole in the Force. Sometime during 200 BBY, the Plan was threatened by the actions of a particular Sith Lord. With him died the secret of essence transfer. His apprentice did not share these beliefs, and slew her master. Gravid, for reasons unknown, was drawn to the light side of the Force, and also believed that emotions such as compassion and selflessness could be integrated into the Sith philosophy. The danger to the Plan in this emerged during the reign of Darth Gravid in approximately 533 BBY.
The insistence upon there only being two simultaneous Sith Lords meant that the fate of the plan was entirely contingent upon two individuals at any given time. Setbacks Darth Gravid's betrayal Ībout five centuries after the foundation of the Order of the Sith Lords, a dangerous flaw in the Rule of Two threatened to put an end to the Grand Plan. The Sith waited and watched in secret, having the luxury of observing the Jedi and the Republic, without their enemies even knowing that they still existed. Bane, his apprentice, and the early heirs of their Order, while accumulating resources in secret, were forced to sit by quietly as the Jedi and Republic recovered and restored themselves after the New Sith Wars.īut the time was certainly not spent idly. īy many accounts, the early centuries of the new Sith Order and its Plan were challenging.
With the financial leverage at his disposal, Bane was able to forge a vast intelligence-gathering network and, eventually, a fortified hideout on Ciutric IV. With the destruction of the Brotherhood of Darkness, Bane had 'inherited' the personal accounts of the notoriously lavish dark lord Qordis.
The early years, rather, were mostly concerned with laying the foundations upon which future Sith Lords would build toward the culmination of the Plan. The first years after the foundation of the Order of the Sith Lords were not spent in singleminded pursuit of the destruction of the Jedi and the Republic Bane recognized that the goals of the Plan could not be achieved in a single lifetime. Main articles: Brotherhood of Darkness and Order of the Sith Lords As the founder of the new Order of the Sith Lords, governed by the Rule of Two, he enacted a new strategy aimed at the eventual toppling of the Republic and extermination of the Jedi Order–the Grand Plan. To win, Bane sabotaged the last surviving members of the Brotherhood in the Seventh Battle of Ruusan establishing himself as the sole reigning Dark Lord of the Sith. The nature of the dark side demanded power through strength, a tactic Bane believed impossible in circumstances where many lesser Sith could ally to topple stronger Sith. Where Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness and previous Sith had failed, Bane reasoned, was in relying on numerical superiority to attack the Jedi and the Republic. The Brotherhood of Darkness is destroyed by Darth Bane.Īs the New Sith Wars drew to a close in 1000 BBY, Darth Bane identified what he believed to be the critical flaw in the Sith efforts up to that point.
" The future of the Sith no longer hinges on physical prowess but on political cunning.