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"If it has blood, you can make it bleed. If it has eyes, you can blind it. If it has a mouth, you can make it scream&hellip;"

- Inscription found on an ancient Sith

The Sith League, colloquially known as the Sith Empire, was the government of and its colony worlds following the fall of the Rakatan.

The Sith League was built upon the foundation laid by, the first leader of the Sith Empire and the one responsible for driving the off-planet. The League was led by a king, styled "Sith'ari" or "lord" in High Sith, who was selected by the religious legislative body, the Council of Kissai. Each Sith'ari served a half-decade term of office, during which time he or she exercised absolute control over the Sith military.

Citizenship in the Sith League was restricted to pureblood Sith alone, and all other races incorporated into League were enslaved and forced to serve the Sith as servants, miners, builders, and other such laborers. The owning of slaves was considered the mark of a truly wealthy Sith, and one who thus more closely resembled the Sith ideal of the Sith'ari. Humans slaves, particularly those with some measure of recognizable Force-sensitivity, were the most valuable on the slave markets, and many were trained as bodyguards and assassins.

The symbol of the Sith League was the traditional Sith sigil, the Quad Sun, styled black upon a blood-red field and encircled by a High Sith inscription reading thus: "Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me." This became the basis for the adopted by the Dark Lords of the  many millenia later.

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The Korriban-Ziost War was a conflict between fought between the Sith of Korriban and Ziost and the human colonists of Ziost. Lasting five years, the conflict ended in the unconditional surrender of Ziost to the Sith, and the annexation of Ziost by Korriban.

Following the fall of the, the of , previously left divided by the death of their King, , sought to capitalize upon the power vacuum left by the Rakata. Uniting under one banner, that of the, the Sith began scouting surrounding systems in the hopes of reuniting their scattered colonist kin. The world of, close to Korriban and home to a large number of Sith colonists, was the first to be courted by the Korriban Sith, who dispatched a small diplomatic escort to Ziost to broker a peace.

Though negotiations were fruitful with the Ziost Sith, relations quickly soured with the non-Sith colonists of the world, the latter of whom feared Korriban's imperialist undertones and executed the Sith diplomats on the spot. This began a civil war between the Ziost Sith and non-Sith, into which the Korriban Sith waded a year later, invading the planet and reinforcing their brethren.

After five years of fighting, the united Sith emerged victorious over the other colonists, and the world was formally annexed into the new Sith League the same year.