Founding of the Sith Empire

Founding

A group of exiled Dark Jedi flee to Korriban and conquer it from the native species to form the Sith Empire.

Around the year 6900 BBY, exiled fallen Jedi fleeing from the Battle of Corbos, which concluded the Hundred-Year Darkness, landed on Korriban, a desolate world inhabited by the relatively primitive but unusually Force-sensitive Sith people. Upon arriving, the Dark Jedi attempted to subjugate the Sith and take whatever knowledge they possessed. The Sith attempted to protect their secrets, but they fell to the superior training and technology of the invaders. Using their training in the Force, the fallen Jedi amazed the Sith, and elevated themselves to god-like status on Korriban, becoming the rulers of the Sith people. Over the next two thousand years, interbreeding occurred between the fallen Jedi and the Sith by means of Sith alchemy, which led to the term "Sith" being used to identify not only the original inhabitants of Korriban, but also their fallen Jedi masters. This intermingling between the two species continued across hundreds of generations, and the hybridized offspring of this union became the new ruling class of the Sith. Thus was the Sith Empire born, with Ziost becoming the capital, while Korriban became a sacred mausoleum world. One of the first Sith Lords of this new empire was Ajunta Pall, whom the native Sith viewed as an incarnation of their primary god, Typhojem.   Once the Exiles became Sith Lords, an overly ambitious group of their number, led by Baron Remulus Dreypa, decided to retrace their steps back to the Republic using a navicomputer from one of the ships that brought them to Sith Space. Despite the objections of Ajunta Pall, these Sith decided to embark on their quest back to the Republic and wage war against the Jedi. While the greater Sith were unaware of their fate, this expedition did succeed in their goal and fought against the Jedi Order. However, they were defeated and alerted the Jedi that the Exiles had claimed a world of their own. Despite this discovery, the Jedi were unable to determine where Sith Space was and could not locate the growing Sith Empire.