This was done so that the Sith could plot against the Jedi. His Rule of Two philosophy helped him and the other Sith pursue power. He believed that, to prosper, the Sith had to unlock their Dark Sides. Bane believed that the old Sith Order was weak, and thus, created his own Sith Order.
Bane was the one to destroy the Dark Brotherhood using the Thought Bomb and he possessed an armor that could deflect blows from lightsabers. He even went on to unlock abilities that were unheard of by Sith during his time. Darth Bane is considered one of the best duelists of all time and would no doubt overpower Darth Vader had he the chance.
Darth Sidious' first apprentice Maul lived during the reign of the Galactic Empire and due to the location he was raised, Maul knows much more about magic and combat than others. Like Darth Vader, he too is connected to the Force, but his speed and agility set him apart from other Sith and make him a formidable opponent to Darth Vader.
It can be said that Darth Maul's skills as a lightsaber duelist are far superior to that of Vader's. His greatest asset was his resilience to pain and his lack of weakness of any sort. Sion's powers were extraordinary and not only was he capable of telekinesis including Force Wind, Rage, Immunity and Drain because of the Force flowing through him, but he was also immune to fear-based attacks.
Sion's immortality made him a powerful adversary to those who stood up against him, and it's his powers that would have made him such a threat to Vader.
From the beginning, it was clear that Nadd was unlike other apprentices and his control over the Force was exceptional. Thus, many of the teachers there actively worked to make him the best they could. As Nadd's lust for power grew, he became decidedly darker and ended up betraying his Master and leaving the Jedi Order. After he had learnt all he could from his new Master, Nadd dispatched Sadow to become a Dark Lord himself.
He was so powerful that his occupation in Onderon adversely impacted the atmosphere and climate in that area. With his lightsaber and Sith sorcery, Nadd was almost indestructible.
The apprentice of Darth Plagueis, Sidious was born on the planet of Naboo. Darth Plagueis found him and made him his pupil, teaching him all he knew about the Force. A Master of Force lightning, foresight, and telekinesis, Sidious was certainly someone to be afraid of.
The Sith Lord was also quite good at Sith magic. Apart from this, Darth Sidious could use Force choke even on people light years away from him , as well as use Force Persuade and have anyone obey his commands. He even had the ability to shield his thoughts from others. Sidious wasn't a slouch in fighting as well, as he could hold his own in a lightsaber duel.
Character History: Mother Talzin was a powerful wielder of strange Dark Side sorcery and the spiritual guide to the group of assassins and sorcerers known as the Nightsisters.
While usually taking a neutral stance on galactic politics and selling the Nightsisters services to whomever could afford them, Talzin spent much of her life and afterlife plotting revenge against Darth Sidious for making her think she would be his right hand and instead taking her son Darth Maul from her and raising him as his apprentice.
What he is known for: Earning Count Dooku's trust so his mother Talzin could strike, Helping his brother Darth Maul recover and create a base of power. Character History: Savage Opress started as a member of the Nightbrothers , but managed to earn Count Dooku's trust enough to become one of his enforcers.
During this time Dooku also took him on as a secret apprentice, teaching him knowledge of the Dark Side. Unknown to Dooku, Opress was actually an agent of his mother, Talzin, and used this time to feed her information about Dooku's activities and to locate his brother, Darth Maul. After finding his brother, Opress would help him plan revenge on Dooku and Sidious, but would ultimately fall in battle against Sidious.
Opress was accepted as an apprentice of Darth Maul's under the invocation of the Rule of Two and thus might arguably be considered a canonical Sith Lord. First Appearance: Star Wars: Rebels.
Character History: Not much is known about the Grand Inquisitor. During the early years of the Empire , Darth Vader would send the Inquisitor to investigate reports of possibly Force users. This job led him to clash with Kanan Jarrus and his allies on more than one occasion. The Inquisitor finally fell in a duel with Kanan.
Vader also dispatched the Eighth Brother to pursue Darth Maul. Disillusioned by visions of the rise of the Empire, Krell choose to renounce the Jedi, ally with the new order, and become Count Dooku's apprentice.
He turned against his men and sewed chaos. Krell was eventually captured by Clone Troopers and executed. Character History: Barriss Offee became jaded with the role of the Jedi in the Clone Wars, and lashed out with a destructive terrorist attack. When Darth Sidious and Darth Maul were revealed in The Phantom Menace , the title took on its distinct association with the Sith, and it has appeared throughout of all eras of the Star Wars saga. As a result of the popularity of Star Wars , the term "Darth" has entered the popular lexicon as a term for evil.
Most references are still associated with the Star Wars universe. It is possible that at this point in the development of the saga "Darth" was intended to be the character's name, not a title; in-universe, possibly Obi-Wan was deliberately emphasizing the title as a way of taunting Vader and driving home what he had become.
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Edit source History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. It was used by those Dark Lords who have sought to enforce their will on the other Masters. It was a challenge — a warning to bow down or be destroyed.
It began when Palpatine orchestrated his own kidnapping during a Separatist surprise attack on Coruscant itself. With Darth Tyranus dead and the Separatists on the verge of defeat, Palpatine subtly guided Anakin Skywalker further into the dark side of the Force.
He eventually revealed his secret identity as Darth Sidious to Skywalker, knowing that the young Jedi would report the revelation to the Jedi High Council.
Their failure not only cost them their lives, but also led to Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side.
Shortly after his anointment as a Sith Lord, Darth Vader returned to the Jedi Temple at the head of the st Legion , a famed unit noted for its elite clone troopers. While Sidious's new apprentice carried out Operation: Knightfall , the mission to exterminate all Jedi inside of the Temple, the Dark Lord issued Order 66 —a contingency directive issued in the event of a Jedi Rebellion—to the clone commanders.
Failing to foresee imminent betrayal, countless Jedi officers were ruthlessly gunned down by the clone troopers. Although a few Jedi survived, including Grand Master Yoda and General Kenobi, much of the rest of the Order was destroyed on Coruscant and various other locations throughout the galaxy. By sunrise on Coruscant, Darth Sidious called for a special session of congress.
Inside the Grand Convocation Chamber of the Senate Building , the Chancellor accused the Jedi Order of committing acts of rebellion, including an attempt on his own life. Hence, he labeled the Order's surviving members as enemies of the state, subject to summary execution upon discovery.
What followed next was the Declaration of a New Order , which outlined the Republic's transition into the first Galactic Empire ; a New Order ruled by the self-appointed Emperor Palpatine. After a thousand years of plots and patience, the Order of the Sith Lords achieved its two primary goals: the systematic purge of the Jedi Order and the rebirth of Sith galactic hegemony. Though the Sith exacted their vengeance on the Jedi, the victory was somewhat hollow for Darth Sidious due to the near death of his apprentice.
Blinded by overconfidence in his own abilities, Vader had been dismembered by his former master and left to burn to death on the shores of Mustafar's lava flows. The injuries, combined with the psychological damage his transformation and recent choices had inflicted upon him diminished his potential power in the Force.
The Emperor retrieved Vader and rebuilt his body, but the process ultimately turned Vader into a cyborg ; a being more machine than man. Furthermore, he was forced to spend the rest of his life encased within a fully-concealing suit of armor —outfitted with life support technology—just to stay alive. In spite of Darth Vader's weakened potential, he still became the Emperor's chief enforcer and a much feared symbol throughout the Galactic Empire.
However, Sidious also realized that finding another apprentice as powerful as Vader was extremely unlikely, and, despite Sidious's sociopathic tendencies, he had even developed a degree of affection for Vader. In fact, it appears to be very likely that Sidious actively sabotaged his apprentice's recovery and training, purposely limiting Vader's abilities so that his apprentice would not rebel against him.
Through the Galactic Empire, the Order of the Sith Lords controlled the known galaxy through military force and state-sponsored terror. Planets that resisted the New Order's policies were swiftly made examples of by the Empire's clone soldiers, newly dubbed Imperial stormtroopers. However, trouble was brewing beneath the superficially stable surface of the Empire. As the brutality of the Sith regime became ever clearer, civil unrest grew accordingly throughout the fledgling Empire.
Numerous Imperial Senators began to consider the possibility of open rebellion, and some of them even began funding anti-Imperial extremist groups like Rahm Kota 's militia.
These Senators had long been suspected by Sidious of treason , but the Emperor could find no proof of their rebel affiliations. Additionally, many of the suspected Senators were among the most respected members of the Senate, so he could not simply have them executed without massive public backlash. As such, Sidious had no viable means of eliminating these insurrectionist Senators, and simply had to put up with their actions.
Even worse, although seemingly loyal to the Emperor, Darth Vader harbored a great deal of anger at his master and sought to overthrow his rule. For years, the Dark Lord personally trained a young Human orphan as his own Sith apprentice. The apprentice, codenamed Starkiller , was kidnapped by Vader shortly after his Jedi father was killed on Kashyyyk.
Afterward, Starkiller spent years preparing for the day when he and his Master would overthrow Darth Sidious, thus allowing him to become a true Sith Lord. However, Sidious eventually discovered the young human and, instead of having him executed, decided to use him to gather the rebellious members of the Senate under the pretense of forming an armed insurrection against the Empire.
For some unknown reason, Darth Vader apparently changed his mind about attempting to overthrow his master with Starkiller at his side.
Once the apprentice fulfilled his purpose by bringing rebellious senators together in one location on Corellia , Vader betrayed Starkiller, nearly killing him, and apprehended the rebel leaders.
In act of redemption for his former life as a Sith assassin, Starkiller defeated Darth Vader and rescued the senators, but ultimately fell during a struggle with Darth Sidious in the process. The apprentice's sacrifice resulted in the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic , a galactic insurrection aimed at the overthrow of Palpatine and the restoration of democracy.
Sidious, frustrated by the setback of Starkiller's demise, was also concerned that the Rebel Alliance—secretly created by himself and Vader through Starkiller's actions—would eventually destroy the Order of the Sith Lords unless every rebel was exterminated first. The Galactic Civil War was the result of Darth Sidious's failure to prevent the creation of the Rebel Alliance, which partially owed its existence to the Emperor's schemes. Under the pretense of increased security, Sidious announced the Dissolution of the Imperial Senate ; the legislative body that originated from the Senate of the former Republic ceased to exist as Imperial governors gained direct control over their star systems.
The removal of the last symbol of the Old Republic was followed by the Battle of Yavin where the Galactic Empire experienced an unexpected defeat against the Rebel Alliance. The Empire's loss at Yavin 4 was further magnified in scale by the destruction of the Death Star , an immense battlestation designed to inspire submission through fear of its ability to destroy entire planets.
Luke Skywalker, a young Rebel pilot and the son of Anakin Skywalker, became a priority target of the Emperor and his apprentice. Both Sidious and Vader agreed that Skywalker had the potential to be a powerful asset to the Order of the Sith Lords, so long as he could be turned to the dark side first. Likewise, the Emperor intended to claim the Jedi aspirant as his new apprentice, thus releasing him from the necessity of relying on Vader's services any longer.
It was only after her assassination attempt failed, and Sidious was left with no other options, that he decided to try turning Skywalker to the dark side.
Four years after the Battle of Yavin , Darth Sidious decided to accomplish two goals—Luke Skywalker's fall to the dark side and the end of the Rebellion—at the same time.
Hence, he allowed the Alliance's Bothan spies to discern the location of the second Death Star , as well as the shield generator that protected the station during its construction period. Furthermore, he also chose to oversee its production in person, knowing that the Rebels could not afford to miss the opportunity to assassinate their main target.
Neither Sith Lord succeeded in their objective. While Skywalker came close to embracing the dark side, in the end he refused to murder Darth Vader in hatred, hence declaring himself a Jedi as his father once was.
Realizing that Skywalker was lost to the Sith and would not turn, the Emperor unleashed his own anger through the use of Force lightning, which he used to slowly torture the Jedi. But while doing so, the Emperor's apprentice experienced another metamorphosis, caused by the sight of his son in excruciating agony.
The Emperor failed to realize that Darth Vader no longer stood beside him; the fallen Jedi Knight re-embraced the former persona of Anakin Skywalker. In a single act of redemption for all of his deeds as a Sith Lord, Anakin Skywalker suddenly seized Darth Sidious in order to save his son.
Shrieking in utter surprise and terror, the Dark Lord turned the full power of his lightning against his now former apprentice. Despite sustaining critical damage to his armor's life support systems, Skywalker withstood the attack and threw his former Master into the Death Star's reactor shaft. At some point before his death, Darth Sidious became obsessed with achieving immortality, much like his Master who also hoped to avoid the tradition of the Rule of Two.
After rediscovering the lost ability to move his soul into another vessel, the Emperor secretly commissioned the creation of a series of clones with himself as their genetic template.
With the destruction of his original body on the Death Star II, the fallen autocrat used his new technique for the first time, thus preventing his spirit's banishment into the Void. Upon claiming one of his clones as a host for his essence, Darth Sidious was alive once more.
He then hid on Byss for several years while plotting to reestablish his hold over the galaxy. The use of a cloned body was only a temporary solution. The fact that a clone was created beyond the natural process made it more vulnerable to the harmful effects of the dark side. As a result, the clones that Sidious inhabited were subjected to rapid age acceleration and decay, thus leading young clones to extreme old age in a short matter of time.
Even still, however, Sidious regarded this dilemma as an acceptable price to pay for immortality. Although he found the dying painful and the transition uncomfortable, the Dark Lord believed that he would live forever as long as there was always a fresh supply of clones for him to possess.
Without Sidious's presence, the Galactic Empire was fractured into various factions controlled by ambitious Moffs and Imperial officers who desired to seize opportunity in the wake of the massive power vacuum left behind by the fall of the Sith Lords. The discord that engulfed the Empire worked to the advantage of the New Republic —the successor state to the Rebel Alliance—and its objective to liberate the galaxy from Imperial control.
Convinced that the Emperor's defeat could only be achieved through the dark side, Skywalker accepted his father's former position at Sidious's side.
With the help of both Leia and her unborn son Anakin , Skywalker managed to disrupt Sidious's link to the dark side. This action caused Sidious to lose control over the Force storm he had been using to destroy the Rebel fleet at Pinnacle Moon. Although Skywalker returned to his role as a Jedi, the Emperor cheated death once more by taking possession of another clone.
As Sidious concentrated his full attention on destroying the New Republic and Luke Skywalker's new Jedi Order, [3] a plot was orchestrated by a group of Imperial conspirators, led by Imperial Sovereign Protector Carnor Jax , who wanted to end the Emperor's reign permanently.
They poisoned the last remaining supplies of clone bodies, thus diminishing the Emperor's ability to avoid his final death. The dying Emperor journeyed to Onderon where he destroyed his last clone body, thus releasing his spirit in an attempt to gain control of Anakin Solo.
His efforts were thwarted by the intervention of Empatojayos Brand , a survivor of the Jedi Purge. Using his mortally wounded body to trap the Emperor, Brand bound Sidious's life essence to his own, thus taking Sidious's spirit with him as he became one with the Force. As an Emperor's Hand , Lumiya had a limited knowledge of Sith teachings and dark side techniques during her tutelage under Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. The third organization that followed in the wake of Sidious's demise was the One Sith , [45] founded by Darth Krayt.
Although Hett survived the betrayal of the clone troopers during Order 66 and the subsequent Purge, his faith in the light side of the Force was destroyed by the desire for vengeance against the Galactic Empire and the Order of the Sith Lords. Hett eventually came to believe that the only way to defeat Sidious and Vader was by embracing the power of the dark side. This organization would later be taken over by Darth Wyyrlok after the latter murdered Darth Krayt, although it would eventually be under the command of Darth Krayt again, having managed to revive himself.
The One Sith eventually ended up defeated when Darth Krayt died, this time permanently, and his remains flung into the sun, with several surviving Sith-aligned members going underground. The One Sith eventually ended up destroyed altogether by a rogue Sith named Darth Wredd wiping out all of the Sith except for himself with the intention of reinstating the Rule of Two.
However, Wredd ultimately failed to gain an apprentice in the form of the Imperial Knight Yalta Val , who remained true to the light side, and Wredd ended up being killed by Ania Solo , presumably wiping out the Order of the Sith Lords permanently, although the Empress Marasiah Fel implied that this may not necessarily be the case. Hence, only two Sith Lords were allowed to exist at any given time; the master and an apprentice.
This new tenet was also meant to inspire the apprentice to murder the master, thus culling the weak from the Order and guaranteeing that only the strongest were fit to be Sith Lords. Both members of the Order held the title Dark Lord of the Sith and were required to adopt a Sith name, beginning with the title of Darth. Sith Masters were the head of the Order. Only one master could exist at a time, and each was supposed to have only one apprentice to serve them.
Sith apprentices were neophytes in the ways of the dark side of the Force. Although they were taught to embrace absolute submission during their training, apprentices also had a tendency to become utterly fixated on the power that the Master embodied as the senior Dark Lord of the Sith. A dynamic designed by Darth Bane led to a tradition in which the apprentice eventually killed the Master and usurped the role of leadership.
Upon appointing an apprentice of their own, the cycle would be renewed as the new apprentice waited until his or her power eclipsed the Master. Different from a Dark Jedi acolyte or a formal Sith apprentice, a secret apprentice was an individual who was introduced into the Order and trained by a Master to replace a failed apprentice, [5] or by an apprentice in order to overthrow the Master. Wookieepedia Explore.
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