New Sith Wars

The New Sith Wars, also known to the Sith as The War of the Fittest, The Betrayal, and The Curse of Qalydon, was the name given to the thousand years of conflict between the Jedi and the New Sith, which lasted from approximately 2000 to 1000 BBY. As an era, the New Sith Wars were characterized by a spectacular rise of the Sith, the decline of the Galactic Republic, and a growing militancy in the Jedi Order. The balance between the Sith and the Republic fluctuated during the period, and at several periods, especially after the pivotal Battle of Mizra, the Republic was in danger of being overwhelmed completely.

Coinciding with the Draggulch Period of galactic history, the New Sith Wars were usually divided by historians into a series of shorter conflicts for convenience, such as the Sictis Wars. The last century of the conflict was commonly known as the Republic Dark Age, with the Republic temporarily disbanding, and the name Light and Darkness War was sometimes specifically applied to the final series of battles between the Sith Brotherhood of Darkness and the Jedi Army of Light.

The wars themselves ended on Ruusan, where the Sith were presumed to have been wiped out to the last person and the Jedi felt themselves to be victorious. With the return of the Republic once again, the Jedi prepared themselves for a future of peace and prosperity, with the Sith nothing more than a painful memory of the past. This, however, was a dangerous delusion, as a single Sith, Darth Bane, had survived and deceitfully caused the Brotherhood's destruction to reshape the Sith Order. Bane formed a new Sith Order and he and his successors spent the next thousand years in hiding, waiting to topple the Republic once and for all.

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