Timeline • Before the events of the films – At an unknown point in time, numerous Jedi become disillusioned with the Order and exile themselves, forming the Sith Order. Thousands of years later, a centuries-long war between the Jedi and the Sith takes place, which culminates with the apparent death of all the Sith. The sole survivor,
Darth Bane, takes an apprentice and goes on to create the Rule of Two, beginning the era of the modern Sith, who live in secrecy. Almost 1,000 years after Bane's death,
Darth Plagueis trains
Darth Sidious, who ultimately kills his master and takes
Darth Maul as his first apprentice. •
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – Sidious and Maul are the only known Sith in the galaxy. The latter kills Jedi Master
Qui-Gon Jinn but is defeated by his padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi and is presumed dead. •
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones – Sidious has replaced Maul with
Darth Tyranus (Count Dooku) who had formerly been a Jedi Master and was once the mentor of Obi-Wan's late master Qui-Gon Jinn. •
Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and
television series – Sidious and Tyranus are the main pair of Sith in the galaxy. Tyranus takes
Asajj Ventress as an informal apprentice, and later replaces her with
Savage Opress. After betraying Tyranus, Opress finds his lost brother, Maul, who resurfaces as a Sith Master to rival Sidious and takes Opress as an apprentice. Sidious later kills Opress, and Tyranus kills Ventress who ends up dying and being buried on Darthomir but returning later in
Star Wars: The Bad Batch due to night sister magic. •
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith – Tyranus is killed by Jedi Knight
Anakin Skywalker, who later turns to the dark side and becomes Sidious's third apprentice, Darth Vader. The Sith effectively take over the galaxy by nearly exterminating the entire Jedi Order and converting the
Republic into the
Galactic Empire, over which Sidious rules as Emperor. •
Star Wars Rebels – Sidious and Vader are the main pair of Sith in the galaxy. Vader trains the Inquisitors, all of whom are former Jedi, to hunt down surviving members of the Order hiding from the Empire. Maul lives in exile and no longer sees himself as a Sith; he later tries to take
Ezra Bridger as an apprentice, but fails and is eventually killed in a duel against Obi-Wan. •
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope,
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, and
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi – Sidious and Vader are the only Sith in the galaxy. Vader eventually kills Sidious to save his son,
Luke Skywalker, redeeming himself and returning to the light side at the cost of his own life. The deaths of Sidious and Vader signify the end of the Sith and the beginning of the downfall of the Galactic Empire, which eventually collapses a year later. •
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens –
Snoke and his apprentice,
Kylo Ren, Vader's grandson, fill in the
power vacuum left by the absence of the Sith in the galaxy. Snoke serves as Supreme Leader of the
First Order, which emerged from the remnants of the Galactic Empire, while Kylo leads the Knights of Ren, a group of Force-wielders who take their strength from the dark side. None of them are official Sith. •
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi – Snoke is killed by Kylo Ren, who replaces him as Supreme Leader. •
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker – Sidious is revealed to have been resurrected and to have manipulated Kylo Ren's actions. He leads the Sith Eternal on
Exegol and attempts to reconquer the galaxy for the Sith but is ultimately and permanently killed by his granddaughter
Rey, the last living Jedi, but she dies as a result. Kylo is redeemed like Vader before him by reclaiming his true identity as Ben Solo and kills the Knights of Ren before Sidious's second and permanent death happened. Ben later gave his own life to revive Rey. Without its leadership, the First Order eventually collapses, marking the permanent end of the Sith.
Members Darth Sidious Darth Sidious (Emperor Palpatine) was a human Dark Lord of the Sith who appeared in each trilogy of the
Skywalker Saga. Originally the eldest son of an aristocratic family from the planet
Naboo, he rose to power within the Galactic Republic's government system starting from Senator of his homeworld, then to Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, and finally self-proclaimed Emperor of the
Galactic Empire. This was done by cultivating a public image as a humble and competent politician while secretly studying and mastering dark Sith arts under Plagueis, and planning the destruction of the Jedi Order and Republic. Eventually, by manipulating disaffected political groups and using double agents to sow discord, Palpatine fomented a civil war that provided an opportunity for him to seize absolute power. He had three known Sith apprentices: Darth Maul, Darth Tyranus, and Darth Vader. He was eventually betrayed and killed by the latter, Vader, at the end of
Return of the Jedi. He returned more than 30 years later in
The Rise of Skywalker, having managed to cheat death through powerful mastery of the dark side of the Force. He attempted to reclaim control of the galaxy through the Sith Eternal's fleet of
Xyston-class
Star Destroyers, the Final Order, but was finally killed by his granddaughter,
Rey, who deflected his Force lightning back at him using the two
Skywalker lightsabers. Darth Sidious's second and permanent death marked the definitive end of the Sith. In the continuity of
Legends, Darth Sidious would return to using clones and ancient Sith powers, returning in several clone bodies over the course of several novels and comics. During this time he would briefly turn
Luke Skywalker to the dark side of the Force through sheer power as much as by guile, though Luke would later be redeemed by his sister
Leia and restored to the light side of the Force and defeat Palpatine once and for all. Shortly before his first death, Palpatine had sent a psychic command through the Force to
Mara Jade, planting in her the need to kill Luke. She eventually fulfilled this command by slaying a clone of Luke called "Luuke Skywalker", whom Palpatine had made in an attempt to use him against the original, though this plot ultimately would fail due to Mara's fatal attack on the clone.
Darth Maul Darth Maul was a
Dathomirian Zabrak Sith Lord who served as the first apprentice of Darth Sidious. He first appeared in
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, where he was ordered by his master to capture
Queen Amidala of Naboo in order for her to sign a treaty that would legalize the Trade Federation's invasion of the planet. During a duel with Jedi Master
Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan apprentice
Obi-Wan Kenobi, who were assigned to protect Amidala, Maul killed the former but was sliced in half by Obi-Wan and fell down a shaft. Although presumed dead, he survived his injuries and ended up on the junk planet
Lotho Minor, where he would become a cyborg and be driven to insanity. He was eventually rescued by his brother
Savage Opress twelve years later, during the
Clone Wars. After being provided with a pair of new robotic legs by the Nightsisters, led by Maul's mother,
Talzin, he sought revenge against Obi-Wan. This culminated with Maul allying with various
crime syndicates, taking over the planet
Mandalore, and killing Duchess
Satine Kryze, whom Obi-Wan loved. Although he was then captured by his former master, Sidious, who came to see him as a rival, he managed to escape and rebuild his criminal empire. Following his overthrow and capture by the Galactic Republic, Maul escaped once again and went into hiding while no longer being a Sith Lord. During the reign of the Galactic Empire, Maul resurfaced as a crime lord and ran his syndicate, the Crimson Dawn, from the shadows, but was eventually stranded on the Sith world of
Malachor. He escaped years later, after meeting
Ezra Bridger, whom he then forced to assist in locating Obi-Wan. Finding him to be hiding on
Tatooine, Maul fought his old nemesis one last time and was mortally wounded. Before dying, Maul took comfort in the fact that Obi-Wan was looking after
who he believed to be the "Chosen One", who would one day avenge them by destroying the Sith.
Darth Tyranus Darth Tyranus (Count Dooku) was a human Dark Lord of the Sith and the second apprentice of Darth Sidious, first appearing in
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. Born to the royal family of the planet Serenno, Dooku was rejected by his family as an infant upon the discovery of his connection to the Force, which his father in particular feared and, as such, abandoned him after contacting the Jedi Order to come and take him to Coruscant. During his training under
Yoda, Dooku proved himself to be both strong with the Force and a skilled duelist, regarded by many as one of the best in the Order. Upon becoming a Jedi Master, he left the Order and returned to Serenno to reclaim his title and heritage as a nobleman. He later fell to the dark side and became a Sith Lord and Darth Sidious's puppet. Dooku helped Sidious with his galactic conquest plans, recruiting the bounty hunter
Jango Fett as the template of the clone army that would be used by the Galactic Republic and forming the Confederacy of Independent Systems from various planets and systems that wanted to become independent from the Republic, resulting in the Clone Wars. Dooku served as the
figurehead of the Separatist Alliance throughout the Clone Wars, until meeting his demise at the hands of Anakin Skywalker in
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. In his final moments, Dooku realized that Sidious had merely used him to aid his schemes, and had planned to have him killed and replaced by someone more powerful all along.
Darth Vader Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker) was a human-cyborg Dark Lord of the Sith and the third and final apprentice of Darth Sidious, who first appeared in the
Star Wars original trilogy and later in
the prequel trilogy. As the Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker, he fought alongside his master Obi-Wan Kenobi during the galaxy-wide Clone Wars, but was slowly seduced to the dark side by Darth Sidious, then Chancellor Palpatine, before his ascension to Emperor. After helping Sidious kill Jedi Master
Mace Windu, he swore allegiance to the Sith and was given the name Darth Vader before setting out to destroy all Jedi left on Coruscant. After being sent by Sidious to assassinate the Separatist council members on Mustafar, Vader was badly injured in a duel with Kenobi, resulting in the loss of his remaining organic arm, both legs, and severe burn injuries. He was saved by Sidious and encased in a black suit of armor with extensive
cybernetics, which kept him alive. As the Galactic Empire was established and continued to grow, Vader became the Emperor's immensely feared second-in-command and was given the task of finding surviving Jedi and the
Rebel Alliance's base. After the destruction of the
first Death Star, Vader was charged with tracking down the Rebel Alliance and destroying their headquarters. However, the actions of his son,
Luke Skywalker, eventually turned Vader against his master, resulting in both Sidious's and Vader's deaths, as well as the fulfillment of the Chosen One prophecy.
Darth Plagueis Darth Plagueis was a
Muun Dark Lord of the Sith and Darth Sidious's master, first referenced in
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. In the film, Sidious (as Palpatine) uses Plagueis's story to seduce Anakin Skywalker to the dark side, claiming that Plagueis's abilities in the Force grew to such an extent that he could create life by influencing microscopic Force-sensitive entities called "midi-chlorians" and even save people from death. According to the Rule of Two, Plagueis was eventually killed by Sidious in his sleep, who subsequently became the new Sith Master and would later take on an apprentice of his own. Plagueis is the main character of the
Legends novel,
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, which explains much of his backstory, including his training under Darth Tenebrous, mentorship of Palpatine, and early plans to undermine the Galactic Republic and drive the Jedi Order into ruins. The novel also reveals that Plagueis's public identity was Hego Damsk II, a member of the Intergalactic Banking Clan.
Darth Bane Darth Bane (Dessel) was a human Dark Lord of the Sith and the sole survivor of the Sith Order in the aftermath of the ancient war between the Jedi and the Sith. He is best known for establishing the Rule of Two, which was considered the beginning of the modern Sith within the
Star Wars canon. This law stated that there must be only two Sith Lords at a time: a master to embody power and an apprentice to crave it and eventually overthrow his/her master and adopt an apprentice of his/her own. which was a concept centered on a pairing of two Force-sensitive beings linked together by an unbreakable Force-bond—which made them one in the Force—called a Force
dyad.
Darth Momin Darth Momin was a humanoid Dark Lord of Sith who appeared in the comic book
Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith and briefly in
Lando. Once a sculptor, he was imprisoned at a young age for his creations, which scared most people who saw them. Momin was eventually rescued by a Sith Lady named Shaa, who trained him in the dark side of the Force until he became more powerful than her and killed her. Momin then built a superweapon named Fermata Cage to destroy a city and perished when the Jedi intervened to stop him, losing control over the energy he wielded and causing his physical body to be destroyed, leaving behind only his mask with his spirit inside. Many years later, the mask was retrieved from the Jedi Archive vault by Darth Sidious, who gave it to Darth Vader as a gift for his journey to
Mustafar, which Vader sought to make his personal stronghold. After Momin's spirit killed some of his personnel, Vader examined the mask and learned of Momin's past, before letting him possess the body of a Mustafarian and build a fortress for him. Shortly after Momin finished building of the fortress, Vader was distracted by an invasion of Mustafarians, which Momin took advantage of to open the door to the Dark Side and resurrect himself. However, after challenging Vader to a duel, Momin met a quick demise by being crushed with a giant rock. Despite Momin's death, his dark essence remained in the mask for several more years. At one point, Momin's mask was aboard the Imperial yacht
Imperialis, when a group of thieves led by
Lando Calrissian attempt to rob the ship. After Momin's spirit possessed the bodies of two thieves, the others were forced to abandon them and blow up the ship, seemingly destroying Momin's mask, and his spirit with it. Luke Skywalker later learned about Momin and his history during his travels across the galaxy, and described the Sith Lord's role in building Vader's fortress in his book, titled
The Secrets of the Jedi.
Other canon Sith Lords •
Exim Panshard – A Sith Lord who held the title of
Viceroy on a long-forgotten planet appeared vocally in the 2022 novel
Shadow of the Sith. Exim wore a mask made of a meteoric metal, which was strong in the dark side of the Force. The mask contained the screams of a hundred innocent individuals slaughtered for the viceroy's pleasure and to give him power, enabling his own spirit to cling onto life through the mask. Yupe Tashu had later obtained the mask. After conferring with the spirits of fallen Sith, he gifted the mask to the Pantoran member of the Acolytes of the Beyond named Kiza. When her boyfriend Remi demanded the mask for himself, Yupe chastised him for angering the fallen specters. He also confiscated Remi's lightsaber and gave it to Kiza. Under the influence of Exim's mask, Kiza took part in an attack on a New Republic outpost on Devaron and killed Remi when he tried to reclaim his lightsaber. Exim's spirit made Kiza into his pawn on the promise she would get power if she brought him to the Sith planet
Exegol, where he hoped he would be reborn to bring about a new era of Sith rule. However, Exim's plans were ruined after Jedi Master Luke Skywalker sensed his growing darkness. The quest for Exegol ended in defeat for Exim; after Kiza was killed and he took full control of her body, Luke destroyed his mask before it could claim him as its vessel, ending the threat of Exim once and for all. •
Darth Atrius – Ancient Dark Lord of the Sith who lived before Darth Bane and the modern Sith. He owned two crossguard lightsabers, which were found and given away by the smuggler Sana Starros after the
Battle of Yavin. The anger possessed by Atrius when wielding both these crossguard lightsabers at the same time carried over to the weapons themselves and can transfer over to their new owners. These lightsabers were eventually destroyed by Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, thus possibly erasing all knowledge about Atrius himself. •
Darth Caldoth –
Duros Dark Lord of the Sith mentioned in the 2019 novel
Myths & Fables. He lived at an unknown point in time before
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and wrote a book titled
The Bestiary of Darth Caldoth, which mentioned various Sith warbeasts. According to the legend, Caldoth eventually gained a Sith apprentice, the
Twi'lek Ry Nymbis, and they were considered the two most powerful individuals in the galaxy at the time. Caldoth killed his apprentice with a Sith ritual that turned the person's body into stone when he felt Nymbis was going to betray him. With the ritual, Nymbis was trapped in an eternal nightmare. •
Darth Krall – Dark Lord of the Sith born as Radaki, who lived at an unknown point in time before
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. He was first mentioned in the 2019 audiobook
Dooku: Jedi Lost. Krall was seduced to the dark side after losing his faith in the Jedi Order, believing that the Jedi should retain their family ties and wealth. During his life, he fought in the Battle of Wasted Years, where the Sith emerged victorious, and tamed the Nightmare Conjunction. His lightsaber would later be stored in the Bogan Collection at the Jedi Temple on
Coruscant. •
Darth Skrye – Dark Lady of the Sith mentioned in the audiobook
Dooku: Lost Jedi. She lived at an unknown point in time before
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Her voice was heard by Count Dooku during his time as a Jedi Padawan, in a Force vision that he had after encountering the Presagers of Hakotei on Asusto. In this vision, Skrye claimed that the Sith were reborn and activated a superweapon called the Cauldron, which destroyed a planet. She also owned an artifact called the Hand of Skrye, which would eventually be found by the Jedi Lene Kostana and Sifo-Dyas on
Rishi. •
Darth Wrend – Dark Lord of the Sith mentioned in the novel
Master & Apprentice. He lived at an unknown point in time before
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and was best known for coming back to life after being killed by the Jedi Order in order to fight them once again. The legend of Darth Wrend would come to
Qui-Gon Jinn's mind during his time as a Padawan, who opened the holocron of prophecy, which contained numerous prophecies, many of which dated from ten thousand years ago. One of the prophecies said that evil would disappear yet appear again once the righteous had lost its light, which many believed was referring to the return of the Sith. At that time, Qui-Gon believed that the prophecy talked about Darth Wrend's return from the dead and that it had already been fulfilled; it would later be revealed that the prophecy was actually about the return of the Sith after living in secrecy for almost a millennium. •
Darth Tanis – Ancient Dark Lord of the Sith who lived at least 4000 years before
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, as Sith accounts from the year 3966 BBY describe kyber weaponry developed by him on the planet
Malachor. Darth Tanis is only mentioned in
The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, where it is revealed that Darth Sidious's Sith Eternal cult named the 17th Legion of Sith Troopers after him. •
Darth Revan – Ancient Dark Lord of the Sith mentioned in
The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, as the namesake of the 3rd Legion of Sith Troopers from Darth Sidious's Sith Eternal cult. Darth Revan is a more important figure in the
Legends continuity, where he is the main protagonist of the video game
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and a major character in related works. Once a Jedi hero of the Old Republic who led the Jedi to victory in the Mandalorian Wars, Revan later searched for the secret Sith Empire and was captured and tortured by the Sith Emperor, turning him to the dark side. After breaking free of the Emperor's control, Revan and his friend and Sith apprentice, Darth Malak, created their own Sith Empire using the ancient Star Forge to wage war on the Republic, but Malak eventually betrayed Revan and ordered his soldiers to fire on his ship during a battle against the Jedi. The wounded but still alive Revan was then captured by the Jedi, who erased his memories and gave him a new identity so that he could fight on their side once again. In the end, Revan defeated Malak and his Sith Empire and was regarded as a Jedi hero once more but was later captured by the Sith Emperor again and his psychic broke into a lighter half and a darker half. After being rescued by his descendant Satele Shan 300 years later, Revan's darker half sought to resurrect the Emperor's physical form so that he could kill him for good, but was defeated by the combined efforts of the Jedi, Sith, and his lighter half. The two halves of Revan then merged in peace and died for the final time. •
Darth Andeddu – Ancient Dark Lord of the Sith mentioned in
The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary as the namesake of the 5th Legion of Sith Troopers from Darth Sidious's Sith Eternal cult. Darth Andeddu is a more important figure in the
Legends continuity, where he is one of the first known Sith Lords to have lived, as he preceded the creation of the "Darth" title. After being forced to flee from
Korriban, Andeddu created the world of Prakith, over which he ruled as a deity for several centuries, before entombing himself to prevent his followers from stealing his secrets after his death. During his life, he created the first ever Sith holocron to store his knowledge, and discovered the ability to cheat death by transferring one's essence into another vessel. •
Darth Tenebrous – Dark Lord of the Sith mentioned in
The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary as the namesake of the 26th Legion of Sith Troopers from Darth Sidious's Sith Eternal cult. Darth Tenebrous is a more important figure in the
Legends continuity, where he was Darth Plagueis's master and possessed an unusual ability to foresee the future, including his own death. He maintained a public persona as Rugess Tome, a legendary artisanal starship designer, and was forced to wear a breathing apparatus. Tenebrous hoped to possess the Chosen One once they would be revealed and gain immortality, but he was eventually betrayed and killed by Plagueis. Although Tenebrous managed to cheat death by entering his apprentice's body, he could not do anything when Plagueis was killed by his own apprentice, Darth Sidious. Unable to return to his original body or possess another person, Tenebrous was cursed to remain a vague spirit for the rest of eternity. •
Darth Phobos – Ancient Dark Lady of the Sith mentioned in
The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary as the namesake of the 39th Legion of Sith Troopers from Darth Sidious's Sith Eternal cult. Darth Phobos also exists in the
Legends continuity, where she was a seductive Theelin Sith with mind manipulation abilities. She killed many of her fellow Sith in a bid for power and formed a cult to worship her but was ultimately killed by the combined forces of the Jedi and Sith. Her image was later incorporated in the training simulations at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. This virtual representation of Phobos was fought by Starkiller in
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. •
Darth Desolous – Ancient Dark Lord of the Sith mentioned in
The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary as the namesake of the 44th Legion of Sith Troopers from Darth Sidious's Sith Eternal cult. Darth Desolous also exists in the
Legends continuity, where he was a
Pau'an warrior expelled from the Jedi Order due to his violent nature. He trained an army of fellow Pau'ans to fight them, but ended up falling into a trap set by the Jedi and perished in battle. His image was later incorporated in the training simulations at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. This virtual representation of Desolous was fought by Starkiller in
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. •
"Qimir"/The Stranger – A High Republic-era Sith appearing in
The Acolyte, portrayed by
Manny Jacinto; the first apprentice of Darth Plagueis and the master of Mae-ho "Mae" Aniseya, he takes her on as an acolyte and has her enact her revenge upon the Jedi she deems responsible for the deaths. While posing as her own helper while hiding his face from her mind, Qimir attempts to execute Mae after she elects to betray him, slaughtering the squad of Jedi who had searched for her across the galaxy before looking after Mae's unconscious twin Osha.
Legends Sith Lords Following the 2012 acquisition of
Lucasfilm by
The Walt Disney Company, Lucasfilm rebranded most of the licensed
Star Wars novels, comics, and other fictional media published since the
original 1977 film (previously identified as the
Star Wars Expanded Universe) as
Star Wars Legends and declared them
non-canonical to the franchise in April 2014. The Sith feature heavily in many stories of the
Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU), appearing in a variety of media created prior to the advent of the 2015 feature film
Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Future authors and screenwriters are not required to honor all of the events depicted in this material, but the Expanded Universe has remained a source of creative inspiration. The EU thoroughly details the schism between the dissident "Dark Jedi" and the Jedi establishment that led to the creation of the Sith Order, as well as a series of conflicts between the Sith, Jedi, and the Galactic Republic spanning the millennia prior to the events of the
Star Wars motion picture series, and certain events thereafter. In the EU, the Sith trace their origins to the followers of a dissident Jedi named Ajunta Pall, who endorsed the use of the Dark Side of the Force, contrary to Jedi orthodoxy. After Pall and his "Dark Jedi" followers were exiled for their practices, they eventually settled on a planet named Korriban, which was occupied by the "Sith," a red-skinned humanoid race with a high prevalence of Force-sensitives. Over the course of centuries of intermingling between the ethnic Sith and Dark Jedi, the name "Sith" would come to apply to the martial philosophy and political affiliation created by the former Jedi exiles on Korriban, rather than a specific race. This Sith regime would strike out at the Galactic Republic and Jedi on numerous occasions. Notable conflicts between the Sith and the Galactic Republic include the "Great Hyperspace War," in which the Sith would launch a massive invasion of the Republic but succumb to infighting, and the "Sith Holocaust," in which the Galactic Republic failed in its attempt to exterminate the Sith from known space. This resulted in the Sith survivors taking a vow of eternal vengeance on the Galactic Republic. The EU also describes the exploits of Sith characters following the collapse of Emperor Palpatine's Galactic Empire and the restoration of the Republic, such as the attempt by "Darth Krayt" to establish a New Sith Order on Korriban. The first Expanded Universe novel was ''
Splinter of the Mind's Eye, written by Alan Dean Foster and published in 1978. The setting for the novel takes place between Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back''. It provides a new adventure that includes
Princess Leia,
R2-D2,
C-3PO,
Luke Skywalker, and
Darth Vader. In the story, Darth Vader tries to get the kyber crystal to use it for his evil schemes. Other novels that depict Sith characters are
Darth Maul: Saboteur and
Cloak of Deception by
James Luceno.
Cloak of Deception describes the political background surrounding the Republic in the period before
The Phantom Menace, as well as Darth Sidious's plans to rule the galaxy, starting with the blockade of Naboo. In
Darth Maul: Saboteur, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious sends Darth Maul to destroy InterGalactic Ore and Lommite Limited. In
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, by
Michael Reaves, Darth Sidious sends his apprentice, Darth Maul, to investigate the traitor who leaked the secret of his plan to take down the Republic.
Shadow Hunter provides insight into Sith psychology and details the manner in which Darth Sidious executed his plan of usurpation.
Dark Horse Comics purchased the copyrights to several Star Wars stories. With their publication of
Star Wars: Dark Empire #1 in 1991, they initiated what has become a large line of
Star Wars manga and comics. The Sith appear as major antagonists throughout this story's plot.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords, released in 2004 and
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, released in 2008.
Darth Caedus Darth Caedus (Jacen Solo) was a Dark Lord of the Sith born as the oldest son of
Han Solo and
Leia Organa Solo. A Jedi hero of the Yuuzhan Vong War, he eventually fell to the dark side years later and masterminded the Second Galactic Civil War. He was eventually killed by his twin sister Jaina for his actions.
Marka Ragnos Marka Ragnos was an ancient Sith-human hybrid who lived during the time of the first Sith Empire and seized the title of Dark Lord of the Sith, serving as the ruler of the Empire. After his death, two Sith Lords, Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh, fought to occupy his throne, only for Ragnos's spirit to appear before them and claim that only the most worthy should succeed him. Ragnos lived on as a Force spirit after his death, trapped within his tomb in the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban. A thousand years after the Dark Lord's death, Exar Kun summoned Ragnos from his grave through the use of talismans. Ragnos crowned Exar Kun as the new Dark Lord, with Ulic Qel-Droma as Kun's apprentice, as an attempt to resurrect the lost Empire thousands of years prior. Several thousand years after that, in the video game
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (set during the New Republic era), a cult dedicated to Ragnos, led by the Dark Jedi Tavion Axmis, intended to resurrect the Sith Lord using an old artifact called the Scepter of Ragnos. After absorbing Force energy from numerous locations across the galaxy using the scepter, Tavion and her cult traveled to Korriban and almost succeeded in resurrecting Ragnos but were stopped by Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order. Inside Ragnos's tomb, the Jedi Knight Jaden Korr defeated Tavion before Ragnos's spirit possessed her body, attempting to kill the Jedi himself. However, Jaden was able to defeat Ragnos, whose spirit left Tavion's body and returned to the depths of the Force, swearing revenge against the Jedi.
Darth Malak Darth Malak (Alek) is the main antagonist of
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Once a Jedi Knight and
Revan's best friend, he fought alongside him in the Mandalorian Wars. Later, Alek and Revan unwittingly discovered the Sith Empire in the Unknown Regions and were captured by the Sith Emperor, who, using Sith sorcery, turned them to the dark side, but the two broke free from his control and formed their own separate Sith Empire using the Star Forge to wage war on the Republic, with Revan as the leader and Alek, now Darth Malak, as his Sith Apprentice. At some point, Malak attempted to kill Revan and take over the Sith Empire for himself but was defeated and had his entire lower jaw cut off, forcing him to don a prosthetic jaw instead. Later, when Revan prepared to battle the Jedi who boarded his flagship, Malak betrayed him, ordering the ships under his command to fire on Revan's flagship's bridge so that he could take over the Sith Empire for himself. However, Revan survived the ordeal and was taken to the Jedi Council Enclave, where he had his memory wiped so that he would become a Jedi once again. Eventually, Revan faced off against Malak, who revealed the truth of his identity but was ultimately killed by him, which also led to the downfall of his Sith Empire.
Darth Traya Darth Traya (Kreia) is a mentor to the "Jedi Exile" and the hidden main antagonist of
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords. She is revealed to have been a Sith Master at the end of the game, and is ultimately killed in battle.
Darth Sion Darth Sion, also known as the Lord of Pain, is an antagonist in
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords. Alongside Darth Nihilus, he served as one of Traya's apprentices until ultimately betraying her and driving her into exile. Sion managed to achieve immortality by calling on his pain, anger, and hatred every time he was facing certain death, at the expense of all-consuming agony, which also led to his extremely disfigured appearance. The player's character eventually defeated Sion, and was then given the option to turn him back to the light side. Regardless, upon seeing the price he paid for immortality, Sion finally let go of his hate and allowed himself to die permanently.
Darth Nihilus Darth Nihilus, also known as the Lord of Hunger, is an antagonist in
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords. Alongside Darth Sion, he served as one of Traya's apprentices until ultimately betraying her and driving her into exile. Nihilus imbued his dark soul into his mask and robes and had the power to drain the life force out of any living thing. Following the betrayal of his master, Nihilus used the might of the Sith Armada not to conquer planets, but to contain them so that he could "feed" off the Force energy of each planet's lifeforms, wiping planets of life. However, Nihilus was later drawn out and tricked into launching an attack on Telos, believing it to contain the last Jedi. The Exile confronted Nihilus on his ship, and Nihilus was killed either after his former slave Visas sacrificed herself due to their shared link in the Force or after his attempt to feast on the Exile's connection to the Force backfired and weakened him. Despite his death, Nihilus's soul would continue to live in his mask and robes for millennia to come, as well as inside his own Sith holocron.
Lord Vitiate Known for much of his 1300-year life as "the Sith Emperor", Lord Vitiate was a sociopathic young Lord in one of the earliest iterations of the Sith Empire. When that empire fell, he led an exodus of survivors to the other side of the galaxy to establish a continuation of it, with himself as Emperor. It was Vitiate who corrupted Revan and Malak, but Revan's redemption and Malak's defeat seemingly derailed his plans. Three hundred years after Revan's disappearance, the Emperor launched a surprise attack on the Republic, setting the stage for the video game
Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Darth Malgus Darth Malgus (Veradun) is a major antagonist in
Star Wars: The Old Republic. A human Dark Lord of the Sith who trained under Vindican, Malgus served the Sith Empire during the Great Galactic War against the Republic. Following the recapture of Korriban from the Jedi, Malgus killed his master and later led a surprise assault on Alderaan, only to be defeated by his nemesis and former opponent from Korriban, Satele Shan. Malgus was severely injured in the fight against Shan, forcing him to wear a respiratory apparatus for the rest of his life. Sometime later, Malgus was tasked by his superior, Darth Angral, with leading an assault team on the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, which Malgus and his forces destroyed, disgracing the Jedi Order in the eyes of the Republic. Although Malgus believed that the Battle of Coruscant was the first step in destroying the Republic, it only served as leverage in the peace negotiations that took place on Alderaan. While the Alderaanian summit progressed, the Sith settled into an occupation of Coruscant. Malgus was placed in charge of orbital security, but the Sith Lord defied his orders and traveled back to Coruscant's surface to strike against the renegade Jedi Aryn Leneer, who wanted to avenge her master, Ven Zallow, killed by Malgus during the attack on the Jedi Temple. Although Leneer ultimately failed, the conflict caused Malgus to become disillusioned with the Empire and to kill his lover, Eleena Daru, seeing their relationship as a weakness that prevented him from preserving his position of power, which he later used to cleanse the Empire of the politicians whom he blamed for allowing the Republic to survive. During the Cold War years that followed the successful peace negotiations, Malgus led Sith forces into the Unknown Regions, claiming previously unknown territories for the Empire. Towards the end of the war, following the presumed death of the Sith Emperor and his service on the Dark Council, Malgus formed his own empire, free of the infighting of the Dark Council. However, the Republic and the Sith Empire forces soon teamed up to fight against Malgus's empire and managed to track him down to his secret base, where they defeated him. Despite his apparent death, Malgus later resurfaced during the Invasion of Ossus at the start of the Third Galactic War, once again serving as a commander within the Sith Empire. However, following the Battle of Corellia, Malgus went rogue, determined to expunge all physical and mental restraints used to keep him under control. Thousands of years after his death, Malgus was still remembered as one of the most powerful Sith Lords to have ever lived. At one point, Darth Sidious acquired some surviving excerpts of Malgus's journals, which he bound into his
Book of Sith, an anthology of Sith historical writings.
Sith Affiliates Dark Side Force-wielders who use the dark side of the Force but do not follow the Sith ideology and, therefore, are not considered official Sith. Some can be trained by a Sith master as an informal apprentice or assassin, in which case they are called
Sith Shadow Hands.
Canon Asajj Ventress Asajj Ventress was a Dathomirian Sith Shadow Hand trained under Darth Tyranus (Count Dooku) and an antagonist in
Star Wars: The Clone Wars. She first appeared in the 2003 microseries
Star Wars: Clone Wars, in which Darth Sidious assigned her to kill the then-Padawan Anakin Skywalker. After tracking the young war hero to the planet Muunilinst, Ventress engaged Anakin's Republic fighter forces fighting above the Separatist-occupied world and baited him in a chase to
Yavin 4, where a fierce battle from the forest to the Massassi temple took place. Though she initially gained the upper hand in the ensuing lightsaber duel, Anakin called upon his immense connection to the Force to brutally overpower her, causing the Dathomirian to fall over the edge of a cliff. However, she survived the landing and continued to serve her master throughout the Clone Wars on several occasions. In
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ventress was a recurring antagonist during the first seasons, as she assisted Dooku with several schemes, most of which were thwarted by the Jedi. After being replaced with Savage Opress for her failures, Ventress returned to the Nightsisters until General Grievous led a massacre against them, which only she and Mother Talzin survived. From there, she helped
Boba Fett's team of bounty hunters on a dangerous mission, which thus marked the start of her own bounty hunting career. Ventress later appeared in the novel
Star Wars: Dark Disciple, which was intended for a story arc in the TV series. In the novel, she teamed up with Jedi
Quinlan Vos to assassinate Dooku, and, along the way, the two fell in love. However, their attempt to kill Dooku failed, and Dooku captured Vos, turning him to the dark side. Ventress managed to turn Vos back but died saving him from Dooku. She was buried on Dathomir, amongst her fallen sisters.
Savage Opress Savage Opress was a Dathomirian
Zabrak Sith Shadow Hand first trained under Darth Tyranus (Count Dooku) and later under his own brother, Darth Maul, as well as a major antagonist in
Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Originally a Nightbrother under Mother Talzin on Dathomir, he was handpicked by Asajj Ventress as part of her scheme to kill Dooku for the attempt on her life. He was eventually altered by the Nightsisters, making him more of a
berserker on Ventress's call to the point of killing his brother Feral without remorse. Opress managed to become Tyranus's new Shadow Hand and learned only a little about the ways of the Sith before Ventress had him help her fight their master due to his actions under him getting unwanted attention from the Jedi. However, in the heat of the moment and provoked by both of them, Opress tried to kill both Tyranus and Ventress before escaping back to Dathomir. There, he was instructed by Mother Talzin to find Maul so that he could complete his training to defend himself against the numerous enemies he had made. After finding his long-lost brother as a shell of his former self on a junk planet, Opress managed to stir up Maul's grudge with Obi-Wan Kenobi to aid him in his revenge against the Jedi. From there, the two Zabrak brothers were able to set up a Confederacy against the Republic separate from the Separatists and soon took over
Mandalore. However, Darth Sidious, who considered Maul's sudden rise to power a threat to his rule, arrived on Mandalore and fought Maul and Opress. The latter met a quick demise as he was stabbed by Sidious's two lightsabers and died in his brother's arms moments later.
Quinlan Vos Quinlan Vos was a
Kiffar Jedi Master during the Clone Wars. Near the end of the war, he partnered with Asajj Ventress (who was working as a bounty hunter at the time) to assassinate Count Dooku. After being captured by Dooku, Vos willingly turned to the dark side and became his apprentice, in hopes he could discover the identity of Dooku's master, Darth Sidious. During his time as an agent for the Confederacy of Independent Systems, he became known as "Admiral Enigma". Vos was eventually turned back to the light side by Ventress, at the cost of her own life. After respectfully burying Ventress on her homeworld, Dathomir, Vos was reinstated into the Jedi Order and continued fighting in the Clone Wars on the Republic's side. He later presumably survived the Great Jedi Purge.
Inquisitorius The Inquisitorius, formally known as the Inquisitors, were an organization of Force-sensitive warriors in the service of the Galactic Empire that became defunct at some point before
A New Hope. All of them were former Jedi, who had lost their faith in the Jedi Order and succumbed to the dark side, during or shortly after the Clone Wars. They were all trained by the Sith Lord Darth Vader, who tasked them with hunting down other survivors of the Great Jedi Purge, as well as other Force-sensitive individuals, mostly children, to prevent them from becoming future Jedi. •
The Grand Inquisitor – The individual who would become known as the Grand Inquisitor was originally a
Pau'an Jedi Temple Guard during the Clone Wars. After losing his faith in the Jedi Order and falling to the dark side, he came into service of the Empire and worked his way up its ranks to become the leader of the Inquisitors. The Grand Inquisitor was introduced as the main antagonist of the first season of
Star Wars Rebels, where he was assigned to hunt down
Kanan Jarrus and
Ezra Bridger. He was eventually defeated by Kanan and chose to commit suicide rather than face the infamous wrath of Darth Vader for his failure. His light side essence later helped Kanan pass his final trial to become a Jedi Knight. In the
Star Wars comic series, it was revealed that the Inquisitor's spirit was somehow tied by Darth Vader to an abandoned Jedi outpost on Tempes, where it briefly fought Luke Skywalker and where it was cursed to stay forever, unable to pass on and become one with the Force. •
The First Brother — Marrok was a former humanoid Jedi who lost his faith in the Jedi and became an Inquisitor known as the First Brother after the rise of the Empire. Marrok was introduced in
Ahsoka, portrayed by Paul Darnell, where he became a mercenary working for the Nightsister
Morgan Elsbeth, after the fall of the Empire. During his time with Morgan Elsbeth's forces, Marrok worked with former Jedi General
Baylan Skoll, and his apprentice
Shin Hati, and aided Elsbeth in her quest to find
Grand Admiral Thrawn. He engaged Ahsoka Tano in a lightsaber duel during a mission on
Corellia. Later, Marrok confronted Ahsoka once more on Seatos, where the former Jedi hunter was killed by Tano's blade. •
The Second Sister – was the Padawan of Jedi Knight Cere Junda and one of the few survivors of the Great Jedi Purge. After Cere was captured and interrogated by the Empire, she betrayed Trilla's location, leading to her being captured and tortured by the Empire as well, until giving into the dark side and becoming the Second Sister Inquisitor. She initially made a
cameo appearance in the comic book
Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, and later served as the main antagonist of the video game
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, where she was tasked with hunting Jedi Padawan
Cal Kestis, as well as a holocron containing a list of Force-sensitive children. Although she succeeded in securing the holocron, she was eventually defeated by Kestis and Cere at the Inquisitor headquarters on the planet
Nur. Cere then attempted to make amends with her former Padawan, but Darth Vader appeared and executed Trilla for failing her mission. •
The Third Sister – was a
youngling of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and one of the few survivors of the Great Jedi Purge. Reva was introduced as the main antagonist of the first season of
Obi-Wan Kenobi, portrayed by
Moses Ingram, where, recruited to the Inquisitorius after living on the streets, she secretly plots revenge against Darth Vader for killing her peers during
Order 66, having survived being stabbed through the stomach by him during the Purge, seeking to track down and kill Vader's former Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi for allowing his apprentice to fall to the dark side, and arranging the kidnapping of
Leia Organa to lure Kenobi out of hiding. After the Grand Inquisitor attempts to take credit for her tracking down of Kenobi, Reva stabs him through the stomach, apparently killing him, and convinces Vader to appoint her as the new Grand Inquisitor in his stead. After Kenobi rescues Leia from Reva's forces before the inquisitor can personally torture her for information, Reva tracks down Kenobi again, who surmises her past as a youngling and offers her an opportunity to take her revenge on Vader. When Reva attempts to engage Vader in combat, he effortlessly disarms her without using a lightsaber before stabbing her through the gut with a lightsaber again. The Grand Inquisitor, revealing himself to be alive, takes back his ranking before leaving Reva in the gutter to die. However, after Vader and the Grand Inquisitor leave, Reva finds a message left for Kenobi by
Bail Organa, revealing to her that Vader's son,
Luke Skywalker, is hidden on
Tatooine, under the protection of
Owen Lars, whom she had previously met there while hunting Jedi. Proceeding to Tatooine, Reva attempts to kill an unconscious Luke, but, reminded of her younger self, elects to spare him. On Kenobi's return, he forgives Reva for her actions, informing her that she can do whatever she wants with her life. •
The Fourth Sister – The Fourth Sister is an Inquisitor appearing for the first time in
Obi-Wan Kenobi, portrayed by
Rya Kihlstedt. She participated in the pursuit of Obi-Wan Kenobi. •
The Fifth Brother – The Fifth Brother was a former green-skinned humanoid member of the Jedi Order who eventually lost his faith in the Order and became an Inquisitor sometime after the rise of the Empire. He was introduced in the second season of
Star Wars Rebels, where he and the Seventh Sister were tasked with hunting the
Ghost crew after the Grand Inquisitor's death, during which they also competed against each other to become the next Grand Inquisitor. The Fifth Brother was eventually defeated after dueling Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, Ahsoka Tano, and Maul on
Malachor, being disarmed by Ahsoka and subsequently killed by Maul. •
The Sixth Brother – Bil Valen was a former humanoid Jedi Knight who eventually lost his faith in the Jedi Order and became the Sixth Brother Inquisitor sometime after the rise of the Empire. He was described as tall with unnatural-looking grey skin, piercing ice-blue eyes, broad shoulders, and distinctive scar/tattoo-like markings, and was also shown to have lost an arm to Darth Vader during one of his training sessions. The Sixth Brother was first introduced in the
Ahsoka novel, where he was tasked with hunting Ahsoka Tano but was ultimately defeated by her after she caused his lightsaber to overload and explode, killing him. He later appeared in the comic book
Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, set before the novel. •
The Seventh Sister – The Seventh Sister was a former
Mirialan member of the Jedi Order who eventually lost her faith in the Order and became an Inquisitor sometime after the rise of the Empire. She was introduced in the second season of
Star Wars Rebels, where she was shown to be using small droids to help her track down her targets and was also working closely with the Fifth Brother, as they were both tasked with hunting the
Ghost crew after the Grand Inquisitor's death, during which they also competed against each other to become the next Grand Inquisitor. The Seventh Sister was eventually defeated by Maul on Malachor and subsequently killed by him, after Ezra Bridger refused to do so. •
The Eighth Brother – The Eighth Brother was a former Terrelian Jango Jumper member of the Jedi Order who eventually lost his faith in the Order and became an Inquisitor sometime after the rise of the Empire. He was introduced in the second-season finale of
Star Wars Rebels, where he was tasked with hunting the former Sith Darth Maul, eventually tracking him down to Malachor. He dueled Maul, Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, and Ahsoka Tano alongside his fellow Inquisitors, the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister, but the latter two were ultimately killed by Maul. Cornered, the Eighth Brother then attempted to escape, but his lightsaber had been damaged during the battle and exploded in his hands when he tried to use it to fly away, causing him to fall to his death. • ''''
– was a former Dowutin Jedi Knight who eventually succumbed to the dark side and became the Ninth Sister Inquisitor after intense torture at the hands of the Empire. She first appeared in the comic book Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith
, where she assisted Darth Vader, the Sixth Brother, and the Tenth Brother in hunting the Jedi Ferren Barr on the planet Mon Cala. After Barr used the Force to turn the Imperial stormtroopers present against them, the Ninth Sister was betrayed by the Sixth Brother, who severed her right foot and left her behind to die so that he could escape, although she managed to survive. She later appeared as an antagonist in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, where she joined the Second Sister in the hunt for Cal Kestis. The Ninth Sister was ultimately defeated by the Jedi Padawan on Kashyyyk, who severed her right hand. However, she survived to the death once again. She was later killed by Cal Kestis on Coruscant during the events of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor''. • '''''' – was a former Miraluka Jedi Master during the Clone Wars who eventually became disillusioned by the Jedi's role as protectors of the galaxy. He first appeared in the comic book
Jedi of the Republic - Mace Windu, where he tried to kill
Mace Windu during a mission on the planet Hissrich. He was defeated and subsequently expelled from the Jedi Order for his actions. Dibs later became the Tenth Brother Inquisitor in the service of the Empire and appeared in the comic book
Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, where he assisted Darth Vader, the Sixth Brother, and the Ninth Sister in hunting the Jedi Ferren Barr on the planet Mon Cala. After Barr used the Force to turn the Imperial stormtroopers present against them, the Tenth Brother was killed in the ensuing fight. • ''''
– The Eleventh Brother was an Inquisitor who searched for Ahsoka Tano. He is defeated by Ahsoka with his own lightsaber, after she disarms him. Clancy Brown voices the Eleventh Brother in "Resolve", the first-season finale of Tales of the Jedi'' (2022). • ''''
– Iskat Akaris was a red-skinned Inquisitor appeared in the comic book Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith'', where she assisted Darth Vader, the Fifth Brother, and another black-skinned
Twi'lek Inquisitor in hunting Jedi Master
Eeth Koth. While Vader dueled and killed Koth, Iskat found his wife and baby daughter but refused to kill them, instead taking the latter and bringing her to Vader, who then left her in the care of some nursemaids. Later, the Fifth Brother informed Vader of her actions, and, believing it to be an act of treason, he tried to kill her in front of the other Inquisitors. She managed to escape with the help of her fellow Twi'lek Inquisitor, but they were both eventually caught following a chase through Coruscant. Vader froze them with the Force and killed them. Iskat is the protagonist of the novel
Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, which reveals her backstory as a Jedi who is recruited into the Inquisitorius. • '''''' – Tualon Yaluna is a black-skinned
Twi'lek Inquisitor who appeared in the comic book
Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, where he assisted Darth Vader, the Fifth Brother and Iskat in hunting Jedi Master Eeth Koth. Later, when Vader tried to kill Iskat for treason, he helped her escape, but they were both eventually caught following a chase through Coruscant. Vader froze them with the Force and killed them. Tualon appears as one of the central characters in the novel
Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade.
Snoke Snoke was a Force-sensitive artificial being created by Darth Sidious and his Sith Eternal cult on
Exegol and a major antagonist in the
Star Wars sequel trilogy. After Sidious's death and the fall of the Empire, Snoke became the Supreme Leader of the First Order and seduced
Ben Solo to the dark side, training him to become his apprentice, Kylo Ren. He was also behind the destruction of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Temple and the deaths of most of his students in an attempt to wipe out the Jedi Order once and for all. He was ultimately killed by Kylo after failing to foresee his betrayal. Following Snoke's death, Kylo took over as Supreme Leader of the First Order until he redeemed himself like his grandfather before him.
Kylo Ren Kylo Ren (Ben Solo) was a former Jedi and powerful dark side wielder, and the secondary antagonist of the
Star Wars sequel trilogy. He was born as the son of
Leia Organa and
Han Solo, and trained under his uncle, Luke Skywalker, to become a Jedi, but was seduced to the dark side by Snoke. Adopting the alias Kylo Ren, he helped eliminate his uncle's new generation of Jedi and became the leader of the Knights of Ren and a high-ranking member of the First Order. He trained under Snoke to become a powerful dark side wielder, and later proved his loyalty by killing his father when he tried to help him get redeemed. However, Kylo eventually betrayed and killed his master after siding with the Jedi Padawan
Rey, with whom he shared a unique connection called a "dyad in the Force". However, instead of turning back to the light side, he took over as the new Supreme Leader of the First Order, and invited Rey to join him, but she refused. Later, Kylo confronted Luke, only to discover that he was a Force projection, meant to distract him and allow the Resistance to escape; nonetheless, Luke died as a result of the effort to create the projection, leaving Rey the only living Jedi. Eventually, Kylo discovered that Darth Sidious was alive and plotted to kill this potential rival but instead sided with him after the latter revealed the Final Order, a massive fleet of
Xyston-class Star Destroyers built by the Sith Eternal, which he promised to give Kylo control of in exchange for killing Rey, revealed to be his granddaughter. However, Kylo planned to have Rey join him so that they could kill Sidious and take over the galaxy for themselves, but she refused and attacked him. During the duel, Kylo was distracted by his mother reaching out to him through the Force (at the cost of her life), allowing Rey to defeat him. After a conversation with a memory of his late father, Ben Solo was redeemed and came to Rey's aid in defeating Sidious. After Rey died killing the Sith Lord, Ben revived her using the Force, at the cost of his life.
Knights of Ren The Knights of Ren were an organization of masked Force-wielding warriors who serve as antagonists in the
Star Wars sequel trilogy. The Knights were neither Sith nor Jedi but a new generation of dark side warriors that emerged to fill the void left by the supposed demise of the last Sith Lords, Darth Sidious and Darth Vader. The Knights of Ren did not adhere to any code, willing to do anything to triumph. Their name came from a lightsaber called the "Ren", which could only be wielded by their leader. The Knights consisted of ten individuals named
Marinda,
Massif,
Fyodor,
Bazzra, '''Ap'lek
, Cardo
, Kuruk
, Trudgen
, Ushar
, and Vicrul
and were originally led by a man named Ren''', who knew Supreme Leader Snoke. After Ben Solo's fall to the dark side, they allowed him to join and demanded that he get one "good death" to prove himself. Ben eventually killed Ren himself and became the new leader of the Knights, Kylo Ren, in addition to killing fellow former Jedi Padawan Voe. In
The Rise of Skywalker, six remaining Knights (Ap'lek, Cardo, Kuruk, Trudgen, Ushar, and Vicrul) join Darth Sidious's Sith Eternal following Kylo's redemption and are killed by the latter on Exegol.
Legends Starkiller Starkiller (born Galen Marek) was the informal apprentice of Darth Vader, and the protagonist of the
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video games and literature. Born to a fugitive Jedi Knight after the Clone Wars, he was unnaturally strong in the use of the Force. Vader realized his potential when he came to kill his father, and subsequently raised him as his secret apprentice, giving him the code name "Starkiller". When he reached adulthood, Starkiller was sent to eliminate several fugitive Jedi, only to then be betrayed by Vader. Eventually, Starkiller turned to the light side and assisted in the formation of the
Rebel Alliance, before defeating his former master and sacrificing himself for the Rebellion in a fight against Darth Sidious. Vader later cloned Starkiller in hopes of creating the perfect apprentice, but the clone followed the same path as the original Starkiller: turning to the light side and joining the Rebellion.
Tol Skorr Tol Skorr was a human former Jedi Knight that was trained under Darth Tyranus (Count Dooku). He served as Dooku's bodyguard during the Clone Wars and was very much disliked by Quinlan Vos. When Vos was revealed to have been spying on Dooku, Skorr and Asajj Ventress were sent to kill Vos. Skorr was ultimately killed by Vos, who Force-pushed him into lava.
HK-47 HK-47 was a Hunter-Killer-series assassin droid introduced in the video game
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. He was constructed by
Darth Revan in the aftermath of the Mandalorian Wars and was sent throughout the galaxy on missions by the Sith Lord and assassinated those deemed by Revan as threats to galactic stability.
Bastila Shan Bastila Shan was a
Jedi Master introduced in the video game
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Shan used the Force to stabilize Darth Revan, who was near death after his ship had been fired upon in an act of betrayal by his apprentice
Darth Malak. This act created a bond between Shan and Revan, and Shan eventually fell in love with Revan while they were tasked with finding the Star Forge shipyard (Revan was retrained as a Jedi after his memories were erased by the
Jedi Council). While hunting for the shipyard, Shan and Revan, who were accompanied by
Carth Onasi, were captured by Malak. After escaping their cells aboard Malak's flagship, Shan was imprisoned by Malak after a duel to allow Revan and Onasi to escape from the Sith. After a week of torture by Malak, Shan fell to the dark side and took her place as Malak's apprentice. In time, Shan would duel Revan, Jolee Bindo, and
Juhani (Star Wars), and, while she was no match for the Jedi, attempted to convince Revan to join her to become the Dark Lord of the Sith. Revan rejected the offer and made the choice of a true Jedi. Later on, after being defeated by Darth Revan in a duel on the Star Forge, Bastila was convinced to return to the path of the light, renouncing the dark side and confessing her love for Revan. Revan went on to defeat Darth Malak upon the Star Forge before he and Bastila were married on
Coruscant.
Sith Eternal The 2019 film
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker depicts thousands of Sith cultists and loyalists known as the Sith Eternal. They are the overarching antagonistic faction of the
Star Wars sequel trilogy. They are located on the Sith planet
Exegol, which is described in the film as the "hidden world of the Sith". whom a resurrected Sidious uses as a
puppet to control the
First Order and seduce Kylo Ren to the dark side. The Sith Eternal cultists are crushed to death after the explosion following Sidious's death. The
novelization of The Rise of Skywalker develops the story of how Sidious transferred his consciousness into the cloned body the Sith Eternal prepared for him. ==In popular culture==