Brotherhood of Darkness

Founded by the Sith Lord Darth Ruin, the Brotherhood of Darkness (sometimes referred to as the Dark Army) was the last mass gathering of the Sith in history. An army of over ten thousand Sith Lords and their followers, its destruction on Ruusan heralded the beginning of a new order.

For over two thousand years after the Jedi Civil War, the Sith Order was rampant throughout the Galaxy, but also bitterly divided. The Brotherhood of Darkness, which had been founded some two thousand years before the Battle of Yavin, had fractured countless times, and the various schismatic sects made little pretense at unity. Many self-proclaimed Sith Lords prosecuted vast, cruel campaigns against each other as well as against the Jedi Order and the crumbling Galactic Republic. The Sith were on the verge of their greatest victory, yet their division threatened to end it all.

Eventually, from amongst the feuding marauders, a charismatic Sith named Lord Kaan arose. He defeated all of his enemies, took the title of "Dark Lord of the Sith", and reunited the Brotherhood of Darkness with himself as Supreme Leader. To appease several ambitious rivals, Kaan declared that "All are equal in the Brotherhood of Darkness", and granted the previously unique title Dark Lord of the Sith to dozens of the highest ranked Sith. In exchange, the other Dark Lords agreed to continue to recognize him as leader. With the creed of "Rule by the Strong", Kaan and his followers set about to topple the Jedi and the Republic and create a dark-side dictatorship.

The Brotherhood of Darkness numbered over twenty thousand Sith and Dark Jedi at the time of Kaan's ascent. By the time of the Battles of Ruusan, the Brotherhood was less than two thousand in number. Of that, by the time of the Seventh Battle of Ruusan's conclusion and the detonation of Kaan's thought bomb, only three survived: Darth Bane, Darth Zannah, and Darovit.

Appearances

 * Jedi vs. Sith
 * Dark Forces: Jedi Knight (flashback)