Many Sith apprentices-myself included-have supplanted their masters in order to ascend.' ―Darth Sidious, The Secrets of the Sith ĭarth Bane's sarcophagus on the Sith homeworld of Moraband And so began a magnificently vicious cycle.

' Lord Bane's own apprentice struck him down to claim Bane's place. The Rule of Two therefore encouraged Sith apprentices to take the power that they had been trained to covet by supplanting their masters, who were obliged to anticipate signs of betrayal while educating their apprentices through agonizing lessons. The Rule of Two recognized the ambition for power inherent in Sith philosophy and utilized it as a mechanism of succession from one Sith Master to the next. The goal of Bane's decree, and the new hierarchy that it created, was to ensure the survival of the Sith Order. Those Sith would favor the shady tactics of trickery and scheming to destroy their enemies rather than outright force. Only by slaying their master could the Sith apprentice gain that title and take on their own apprentice, or they could die in the attempt, proving themselves unworthy of the Sith legacy, and be replaced. Instead of building a new army of Sith Lords, Bane's Rule of Two mandated that there could be only two Sith at a given time: a Sith Master to embody power and a Sith apprentice to crave it. Recognizing that the old Sith traditions were a dead end, Bane created a new Sith philosophy that succeeded the older doctrine of the dyad in the Force, a rare and powerful Force-bond that existed between two individuals. Successor to the Doctrine of the Dyad, Bane's Rule of Two had ensured the rebirth of the Sith Order. One to embody power, the other one to crave it.' ―Darth Bane ' There should only be two, no more, no less. Bane was the sole survivor of the Jedi-Sith War, as he organized the eradication of all the other Sith.

The infighting eventually led to the defeat of their order at the Mid Rim planet Ruusan in 1032 BBY, as the Jedi were able to all but destroy the weakened Sith. While serving in the Sith Empire, known as the Brotherhood of Darkness, Bane realized that infighting and greed from other dark side warriors created a weakness.

However, the Sith were often fueled by their own individual lusts for power, with squabbling Sith turning against their own. The Sith Order in his time was nearly equal in number with the Jedi Order at the height of their power, the Sith's dominion had spread across the galaxy. Hailing from Moraband, the ancient homeworld of the Sith, Darth Bane was a legendary Dark Lord of the Sith who lived during the dark age of the Old Republic, a thousand years before the Clone Wars. But there was a Sith Lord who survived the culling-the great Darth Bane.' ―Darth Sidious, The Secrets of the Sith ĭarth Bane was an ancient Sith Lord from the time of the Old Republic. ' Weakened by their own hand, the Sith were nearly wiped from existence by the the opportunistic Jedi. However, the victory was short-lived, as the redeemed Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, formerly the Sith Lord Darth Vader, defeated the Sith twenty-three years later, and the order was finally destroyed upon Sidious's final death in 35 ABY. The vendetta Bane held against the Jedi was fulfilled during the Clone Wars when Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious and a follower of the Rule of Two, transformed the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY and destroyed the Jedi Order. With Bane's defeat at the hands of his apprentice, Darth Zannah, allegedly on the Inner Rim planet of Ambria, the Jedi wrongly believed that the Sith were defeated with him, as the galaxy entered a millennium-long era of peace. These new Sith would begin a plot to destroy the Jedi and conquer the galaxy in secret. To rectify this, Bane reformed the Sith and created the Rule of Two, mandating that there could be only two Sith-a Master and an apprentice-at any given time. As the only surviving Sith, Bane recognized that Sith infighting had weakened them to the point that the Jedi could destroy them. But from the ashes of destruction, I was the last survivor.' ―Darth Bane's specter - Listen ( file info) ĭarth Bane was a legendary human male Dark Lord of the Sith and the sole survivor of the destruction of the Brotherhood of Darkness at the hands of the Jedi Order during the Jedi-Sith War a thousand years before the Clone Wars.

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