True Sith

The "True Sith" was an obscure and largely unknown order of adherents to the Dark side of the Force. Jedi Master Kreia told the Jedi Exile that the order had been in existence for tens of thousands of years and were silently waiting in the Unknown Regions during the time of the Jedi Civil War.

According to Kreia, the "True Sith" had existed for millennia prior to the rise of the ancient Sith Empire. She and Revan believed that it was they who had goaded the Mandalorians into attacking the Galactic Republic, starting the Mandalorian Wars. Kreia stated that both Malachor V and the graveyard planet, Korriban, had once been planets at the edges of that mysterious Empire, and that while these "True Sith" had forgotten those ancient worlds of the dark side, they would remember.

Following the Jedi Civil War, Revan vanished from known space, supposedly to search for and destroy this order, and the Jedi Exile also left known space to find and assist him. Some believe they succeeded because the Republic and Jedi have no records of encounters with anyone calling themselves 'True Sith.' Others believe they failed because the Sith still exist.

Behind the scenes
The existence of the "True Sith" has caused some confusion with their placement in galactic chronology. When the game was first released, the establishment of the Old Sith Empire was believed to have taken place circa 25,000 BBY. Additionally, the beginning of the True Sith's existence was fixed as being approximately "tens of thousands of years" in the past. In 2005, however, the establishment of the Old Sith Empire was retconned to have happened around 6,900 BBY, which presented a new divide in the historical placement of the two groups, and indeed in the very nature of the Sith themselves.

It has since been mentioned by VIPs on developer Obsidian Entertainment's message boards that the company in fact did not use the "25,000 BBY" date as a basis for their development of the True Sith; the order was conceived as an entirely separate geographic group from the later Sith Order of Marka Ragnos and its like, though further details have yet to be released.

More recently, it was discovered that, after the Sith King Adas died while driving the Rakata from Korriban in 28,000 BBY, the Sith species possessed the technology to relocate themselves to nearby Ziost. It is therefore possible that some Sith from this era became the "True Sith," taking up residence out in the Unknown Regions, and eventually constructing the Trayus Academy on Malachor V.

Another belief is that the "True Sith" were actually the yuzhan vong and that they had probably died fighting them.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords