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Darth Ruin was an Umbaran Jedi Master born under the name Phanius and the first person to claim the title of Lord of the Sith. He first arrived on the Sith world of Korriban after going into a self-imposed exile brought on by disagreements with the aggressive expansionism of the Old Republic on then-frontier systems. Upon his arrival, he encountered the primitive natives, who held him in revere due to his uncanny resemblance to an ancient Sith deity called Adas. Compounding his charisma with this advantage, he rallied a powerful kingdom, and quelled any opposition. In the succeeding years, his kingdom became a small empire as he annexed surrounding systems, rallied like-minded Jedi, and formed clandestine alliances with systems that had been harmed by Republic imperialism. All of this came together brilliantly as he formed a near-unstoppable armada. When it came time, he launched a war that would begin the era of Hundred-Year Darkness.
The war completely blindsided the Old Republic, whose army had been strained by the sheer mass of its boundaries and continuous conquests. Within two years, its capital of Corona Gema fell under blockade. However, rather than wait for a surrender, the Sith Empire bombed the capital into oblivion. The remainder of the Republic's armies fled to unknown space, and the Sith claimed victory. A new world at the heart of galaxy, named Coruscant by the new emperor, was chosen as the new seat of power of the galaxy and the empire ruled for twenty long years. As the Sith reveled in their power, the galaxy suffered. The emperor locked himself away, fearing both betrayal and his own imminent demise. He slowly but surely went mad and his rule only harshened as his paranoia grew. In the final years of the Sith Empire's peak, an alliance of dissenter worlds formed a rebel alliance against the Empire, secretly backed by the remnants of the Old Republic. This coalition turned out to be the deathstroke against the house of cards. However, it wasn't the Starbird Alliance that brought down Darth Ruin, but his most trusted adviser and the man who helped him build his kingdom on Korriban so many years ago: Darth Arrax.
After this grand betrayal, Arrax attempted a seizure of power, but was killed along with all but one of Ruin's most trusted Sith lieutenants. The survivor, Ruin's prodigy and sole apprentice Darth Troyer (or the Dark Underlord, as he became known to legend), rallied the surviving Sith forces as the Republic leader, General Remsha Abren, lead a ruthless slaughter of Sith forces and civilians in her retaking of the Core Worlds. The Sith fled to the Mid Rim, where they held strong, fortified on far end of the Hydian Way. However, Troyer was ultimately killed by a Jedi strike team on Myrkr, further crippling the Sith war effort with the loss of their most effective military leader.
In a desperate, last-ditch effort to avoid total defeat, the Sith Empire rallied behind a Sith under the name Lady Hadra who promised a way to destroy the Republic fleet once and for all. With a secret superweapon housed in a temple on the desolate world of Malachor, Hadra gathered the most powerful of Sith that remained in the galaxy and lured the Republic by secretly leaking information to them. The Republic took the bait and launched a full-scale invasion of Malachor led by an massive contingent of Jedi Knights. The trap had been sprung. Hadra launched her superweapon, though its effects were more far-reaching than she had anticipated. The weapon killed everyone on the planet--Jedi and Sith, including herself--and sent an electromagnetic field which disabled most of the ships surrounding the planet. In just an instant, both armies had been wiped out. The Republic was perplexed by the disaster, and whatever remained of the Sith fled back to the safety of Sith space. The event would go on to be remembered as the Great Scourge of Malachor.
Though there was never an official end to the war, the fighting ceased after Malachor. General Abren continued to hold the Republic under military rule for years after to 'oversee rebuilding efforts'. Her reign was characterized by order. Though somewhat repressive, it was seen as a necessity at the time after so many years of chaos and to many it dwarfed next to the freshly-remembered oppression of the Sith. In the years after Abren's death, the Senate was quickly restored and slowly the power of the Supreme Leader, the title which Abren claimed, dissipated as it became more invested into the Senate. The era of the Hundred-Year Darkness is said to have ended around the same time as the abolishment of that dictatorial office, when power was symbolically returned to the Senate for the last time.
In the years following the massive wars and Abren regime, many people had come to forget the tyranny of the Sith and regarded them with little importance as it seemed that had fallen to utter insignificance. However, many years later, the Sith Empire would return, with only a bulwark of Republic worlds on the frontier vigilant enough to foresee the oncoming threat...
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