Jedi Civil War (Smashb1996)

The Jedi Civil War, also known as the Second Sith War, the Old Republic Insurrection, and by the Mandalorians as the War of the Star Forge, was a ravaging conflict that began when the Jedi Knight, Revan, who had led the forces of the Galactic Republic to victory in the Mandalorian Wars, founded his own Sith Empire, and declared himself the Dark Lord of the Sith.

The war began when he, along with his friend and apprentice, Darth Malak, led an invasion of the Galactic Republic in the year 3,959 BBY. With the aid of veterans from the Mandalorian Wars, and a host of Dark Jedi converts that had served with them, the former Jedi hoped to take over the Republic in anticipation of a greater threat posed by a Sith Empire that had lurked within the Unknown Regions of the galaxy for the past millennium.