Jedi-Sith War

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The Jedi–Sith War was a war fought between the Jedi Order and the Sith during the Dark Age. At least two battles were fought for control of the planet Coruscant.

PreludeEdit

During a period of time known as the Hundred-Year Darkness, a rogue Jedi came to believe that the true power of the Force lay not through contemplation and passivity, but that only by tapping into the dark side of the Force could the true potential of the Force be reached. The Jedi High Council rebuked this and cast the fallen Jedi out of the Jedi Order; however, the rogue Jedi gained followers and formed a new order^[12] that eventually became the Sith.^[13] Eventually, war broke out between the Jedi and the Sith,^[6], during which time the Sith built empires on the backs of slavery,^[14][15] but it would be the Jedi and the Old Republic that ultimately achieved victory.^[16] Even so, the Jedi and the Sith continued to do battle over the millennia.^[17]

The Jedi came into conflict with the Mandalorians,^[18] but the Old Republic continued to fend off the onslaught of the Sith as the Old Republic fell and a dark age began.^[5]

HistoryEdit

The Sith had taken over Coruscant, and later the Jedi liberated the planet.^[5]

AftermathEdit

The RepublicEdit

Main article: Galactic Republic

After years of full-scale war with the Sith, the Old Republic gradually declined and fell. Following the collapse of its government, a number of star systems united to form the Galactic Republic. As its governing body, the newly reorganized government established the Galactic Senate, the members of which were elected to represent their systems. The Republic's capital was installed on Coruscant, which had already existed for several thousand years.^[19] The new government united much of the galaxy under the rule of democracy until it was replaced by the Galactic Empire at the end of the Clone Wars in 19 BBY.^[20]

The Jedi OrderEdit

Main article: Jedi Order

Even as the Old Republic collapsed, the Jedi emerged victorious from their wars with the Sith, thanks to the Sith weakening themselves by infighting in order to gain power.^[8] Despite discovering the last Sith Lords' principles, when he was defeated, the Jedi believed, in their hubris, that the Sith were extinct from the galaxy.^[11] Due to the Galactic Republic's demilitarization, the Jedi Order fully embraced their responsibilities as peacekeepers and rejected their roles as soldiers. Assisted by the Republic Judicials, the Jedi Knights were responsible for maintaining law and order, namely by mediating conflicts to bring about peaceful solutions between various rival factions and planets, as well as serving as interplanetary law enforcement by pursuing wanted and dangerous criminals, pirates, and smugglers.^[6]

Following the war, the galaxy entered into a period of time known as the Great Peace. During that time, the Jedi constructed a new academy on Coruscant to train Jedi younglings in the ways of the Force.^[7]

The SithEdit

Main article: Sith

As it turned out, one Sith, Darth Bane, survived. Realizing that his fellow Sith Lords destroyed themselves with their greed for power, Bane reformed the order by establishing the Rule of Two, mandating that only two Sith—a master and an apprentice—could exist at any given time, lest they fall prey to infighting.^[8] Another reason he created the Rule of Two was so that the Sith could operate in secret, working from the shadows and favoring guile and conspiracy rather than brute force until it would be their time to take revenge,^[20] rise again, and subjugate the galaxy.^[21] The Sith abandoned their traditional homeworld of Moraband after it was scarred by many wars.^[22] Eventually, Darth Bane was killed and was buried in the Valley of the Dark Lords on its surface, but the Rule of Two continued on through his apprentice,^[8] Darth Zannah.^[23] The Sith stayed in hiding for a thousand years, their survival unknown to the Jedi, as they plotted their revenge against the Jedi Order. The Sith remained a distant memory until the rise of Darth Sidious, a Dark Lord of the Sith, and his apprentice, Darth Maul, in the waning years of the Galactic Republic.^[11]

Behind the scenesEdit

The Jedi–Sith War was first mentioned in the 2016 reference book Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy.^[5] It was first identified in the 2019 Fantasy Flight Games reference book Rise of the Separatists.^[7]

In Star Wars Legends, this conflict was known as the New Sith Wars where it was fought from 2000 to 1000 BBY.^[24] and made its first appearance in Dark Forces: Jedi Knight.^[25]

AppearancesEdit

• Darth Maul 4 (Indirect mention only)
• Darth Maul 5 (Indirect mention only)
• Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only)
• Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (Indirect mention only)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Sacrifice" (Indirect mention only)
• Tarkin (Indirect mention only)
•  ""—Star Wars Adventures Ashcan (Mentioned only) (Appears in flashback(s))

SourcesEdit

• Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
• Star Wars Helmet Collection 14 (Weapons & Uniforms: The Sith)
• Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z
• Rise of the Separatists (First identified as Jedi-Sith War)
• Star Wars: The Secrets of the Jedi
•  The Force in the Databank (backup link) (Indirect mention only)

Notes and referencesEdit