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- "Once we were brothers in the Force. But from the Hundred-Year Darkness were born the Sith."
- ―A Jedi
The Hundred-Year Darkness was a period of time that led to the formation of the Sith, who were once considered brothers in the Force with the Jedi Order. The birth of the Sith led to a number of wars over the course of galactic history.
History[]
The Hundred-Year Darkness[]
- "Legend has it the Jedi Order suffered a deep schism millennia ago. An opposing sect dedicated to the glory of the dark side arose from the ashes."
- ―Darth Sidious
The Shadowfang Beast was created during the Hundred-Year Darkness.
Initially, the Jedi Order and the individuals who became the Sith were considered brothers in the Force.[2] Around 5000 BBY,[1] this unity fractured, during the period of time known as the Hundred-Year Darkness,[2] when a rogue Jedi came to believe that the true power of the Force lay not through contemplation and passivity, and that only by tapping its dark side could its true potential be reached. The Jedi High Council balked at this new direction and the fallen Jedi was cast out, but he gained followers and formed a new order,[3] which eventually became the Sith.[2] They shared their name with the Sith, a red-skinned species with tentacles, susceptible to using the dark side of the Force.[6]
According to a later Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, the Sith "rose up" against the light side of the Force.[7] During the Hundred-Year Darkness, hellhulk stations were used,[8] and the Shadowfang Beast, a bioconstruct that generated a resonance-absorptive shield, was created.[9] The Tah'Nuhna species were neutral during the war.[10]
Legacy[]
- "Lesson Two. Now that they're extinct, the Jedi are romanticized—deified. But if you strip away the myth and look at their deeds, from the birth of the Sith to the fall of the Republic, the legacy of the Jedi is failure. Hypocrisy. Hubris."
- ―Luke Skywalker, to Rey on the legacy of the Jedi
Numerous wars ensued between the Jedi and Sith following the Hundred-Year Darkness.
The planet Korriban, later known as Moraband, was the homeworld of the Sith Order.[12] As they grew, they constructed massive temples and tombs on Korriban in a location known as the Valley of the Dark Lords.[13]
The birth of the Sith led to countless wars between the two rival sects.[13] During one of these wars,[14] the Sith ultimately became the dominant power in the galaxy for a period of time.[15] They had captured the planet of Coruscant, the capital of the Republic,[14] and constructed an immense black shrine over a light side vergence on a mountain at the heart of the planet[14] no later than close to five millennia before 14 BBY.[16]
The Sith were believed to have been destroyed in the Jedi-Sith War, but they eventually returned to galactic prominence[17] and ushered in the Clone Wars.[18] Both sides of the war were controlled by Darth Sidious, known publicly as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine,[19] and allowed him to gain enough power over the galaxy to transform the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire[15] in 19 BBY.[20] This led to Sith rule over the galaxy.[4]
During the Mission to Skako Minor[8] around 1 ABY,[21] Doctor Chelli Aphra discovered a hellhulk station in the workshop of the Skakoan Techno Union chairman Wat Tambor on the planet Skako Minor. An Imperial Delta-class T-3c shuttle that crashed through the wall of the laboratory activated a techno-totem displayed in the workshop, which awakened a cybernetic Chthonic worm god known as the Hellhulk.[8]
The Imperial Era lasted until Sidious' first death[5] during the Battle of Endor[22] in 4 ABY.[20] The Sith Eternal cult conspired to revive Sith rule across the galaxy, but the return of the Sith was aborted by Sidious' final demise[4] during the Battle of Exegol[23] in 35 ABY.[24]
Behind the scenes[]
The Hundred-Year Darkness was first mentioned in the current canon continuity in the 2015 comic book Star Wars (2015) 9.[2] The conflict originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity's comic book series Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi.[25]
Appearances[]
- The High Republic: A Test of Courage (Indirect mention only)
- The High Republic: A Test of Courage audiobook (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars (2015) 9 (Mentioned only) (First identified as Hundred-Year Darkness)
- Darth Vader (2015) 20 (Indirect mention only)
- Doctor Aphra (2016) 16 (Mentioned only)
- Doctor Aphra Annual 2 (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition audiobook (Indirect mention only)
- Allegiance 1 (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
Jedi Order in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only) (Concurrent with the entry for Sith)- Sith in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only) (Concurrent with the entry for Jedi Order)
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know (Indirect mention only)
- Knights of Fate
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 65 (Highlights of the Saga: Life after Jedha)
- "Before the dark times…" — Star Wars - Das offizielle Magazin 101
- Star Wars: The Secrets of the Sith (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars: Timelines (Indirect mention only)
- Jedi Order in the Databank (backup link)
- Sith in the Databank (backup link)
- The Force in the Databank (backup link) (Indirect mention only)
- Eras on StarWars.com (backup link) (Indirect mention only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars: Timelines
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Star Wars (2015) 9
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3
Sith in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Star Wars Book
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: The Secrets of the Sith
- ↑ Star Wars Workbook: 3rd Grade Reading and Writing
- ↑ Darth Vader (2015) 20
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Doctor Aphra (2016) 16
- ↑ Doctor Aphra Annual 2
- ↑ Allegiance 1
- ↑ Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition
- ↑ Moraband in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Sacrifice"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Nexus of Power
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- ↑ According to the novel Tarkin, the Shrine in the Depths on Coruscant had been abandoned "close to five thousand years" as of the story's present day in 14 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines.
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Shadow Warrior"
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of issues 9 to 31 of the Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic-book series to around 1 ABY. Therefore Doctor Aphra 15, including Mission to Skako Minor, must take place around 1 ABY.
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker
- ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary dates the events of Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker as taking place one year after the "Starkiller Incident." As Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the Starkiller Incident to 34 ABY, it can be deduced the events of Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker take place in 35 ABY.
- ↑ Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 3
