Sith Order of Decreto

"We are the future the Sith"

- Unknown Decreton Knight

The Sith Order of Decreto, also known more commonly as the Decreton Empire was an ancient and powerful faction of the Sith Empire. Designed to be the shadow force of the ancient empire. During the Great Hyperspace War of 5,000 BBY many of the Order's ranks were destroyed in battles of Koros Major, Kirrek and Battle of Primus Goluud, in which the Sith warship Devastator&mdash; flagship of the Order of Decreto&mdash; was destroyed, drastically thinning their ranks.

They later went on to rebuild their forces and conquer the galaxy under the command of the Dark Lord Darth Abeonis, and would rule it for almost two-hundred and fifty years before they were eventually forced to withdraw.

History
The Order disappeared completely following the defeat of Naga Sadow&mdash; their master&mdash; at the hands of the Koros fleet. Many fled the battle with their master but many more fled to the planet below, remaining hidden from the pursuing Republic and Koros forces.

Many hundreds were captured, but many more escaped off-world and fled throughout the galaxy; turning to piracy and mercenary ways. This disgusted many of those that considered themselves loyal to their fallen master and they made it their mission to wipe out the "disloyal".

Using their perfected art of subterfuge and assassination the Decreton Knights eliminated all the disloyal and cleansed their ranks, finding permanent refuge on an unknown world within the Unknown Regions in the process.

Rebuilding their forces the Sith Order of Decreto sound found that their skills in the dark arts were well heard off, but little else was known of them. "Sith pretender" such as Exar Kun and Darth Revan constantly sought out the Decreton Knights and, from time to time they saw themselves fit to intervene in the affairs of the galaxy; all the meantime remaining hidden from their enemies, and their supposed allies. None knew who they were, but all knew of their power.

Post-Jedi Civil War
Following the defeat of Darth Malak's forces at the Battle of Rakata Prime many Sith pretenders retreated into the far reaches of the galaxy. The Decreton Knights, seeing an opportunity to increase their power sought out and recruited all they could find; those who refused were eliminated.

Over time events in the galaxy began to stir once more when the new "Dark Lord of the Sith", Darth Nihilus and his apprentice Darth Sion wrestled power from their former master and began a purge against the Jedi.

The Sith Order of Decreto however refused to assist the Sith Lords Nihilus and Sion despite pleas from many of it members who had previously served under Malak. The core group of Decreton Knights saw Nihilus as nothing more than a rampaging beast that cared nothing for the way of the Sith; and Sion as a broken warrior that wallowed in eternal hatred off himself. They predicted that it would not be long before a Jedi warrior overcame the scheming Sith Lords and returned the Jedi to their former glory, and the Jedi Exile fulfilled this prediction.

The New Sith Wars
For many thousands of years the Sith Order of Decreto continued to meddle in the affairs of the galaxy. They were successful in forcing the Hapes Consortium to close its borders to the rest of the galaxy, making exploitation of this powerful race all the more easy. A single Sith assassin was sent to kill Saalo Morn who threatened to coerce the Galactic Republic into searching for rogue Sith. The Sith Order of Decreto continued to expand, wiping out much of the Paecian Empire and absorbing its colony worlds. By the year 2,000 BBY, the Sith Order of Decreto belevied it was time once again to strike against their enemies – the Jedi. Seducing the Jedi master Phanius, the Decreton Knights instigated the formation of the New Sith Empire and began the New Sith Wars. For the next thousand years the New Sith War ravaged the galaxy, and the Sith Empire that began with Phanius expanded slowly, but surely; deep into the heart of the galaxy. But, as the millenia drew to a close the Decreton Knights began to fear that the Jedi were beginning to succesfully counter the weakling Sith Lord Kaan, and so a new Dark Lord of the Sith was chosen; the newly incorperated Dessel. In just three short years Darth bane, being secretly guided by the Sith Order of Decreto made his way though the ranks of the New Sith Empire and took it to the very edge of extinction, only to rebuild it in his own vision – as a secret order of Sith Lords.

Between the wars
After the New Sith Wars the Sith Order of Decreto realized that the Sith Order of Darth Bane would be the one to finally wipe out the Jedi, but in many centuries time. In the meantime however, many galactic powers could be influenced.

The Chiss Ascendancy was convinced into passing the Non-Aggression Law which forbade any preemptive strikes, thus preventing any possible war between the two powers; both of which lay within close proxemity with one-another.

Rise of the Galactic Empire
And then, after almost another millenia of waiting, the Sith Order of Darth bane struck, in the form of Darth Sidious. Remaining hidden throughout the Clone Wars, the Sith Order of Decreto beleived they had finally found a Sith pretender worthy of entering their ranks. And so, after many years of war, Emperor Palpatine was confronted; and inducted into the Sith Order of Decreto. But in the year 4 ABY the Sith Order of Decreto, and the Sith Order of Darth bane both suffered a grevious defeat, in the form of Palpatine's death.

However, the Sith Order of Decreto was not one to surrender to fate and slowly began to take a more active role in the affairs of the galaxy, even going so far as to ignite the Black Fleet Crisis of 16/17 ABY, hoping to devastate the New Republic and eliminate the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. Once again, the Order of Decreto found itself defeated by the Jedi warrior, but they wouldn't give up.

Return to the galaxy
The Decreton Sith Council had decided tht the time had finally come for the Sith to make their presence known in the galaxy and begun a systematic; empire-wide ship-building programme designed to reinforce and develop the Sith fleet. And by the year 41 ABY they had made serious advances in starship technology. However, in that very same year a Galactic Alliance warship called The Soiyo happened upon the ancient, and desolate world of Nerezza on the edge of the Unknown Regions, and in the outskirts the of Decreto Empire. Nerezza, being an ancient Decreton Sith world, had a strong dark side aura which the Jedi on board The Soiyo found impossible too ignore. The Jedi, under the command of Jedi Master Jasca Ducato made their way down towards the planet and discovered the Sith Temple in hiding there. The battle of Nerezza had begun. The Sith force on Nerezza repelled the Jedi attack force and captured many of it participants, including Ducato himself; but the battle was only the beginning and the Sith soon found themselves on the run. Guerreiro, then-Dark Lord of the Decreton Empire, who had been present at the battle ordered his warships to destroy the Jedi starship, but to no avail. The Jedi mercilessly persued Guerreiro for five years before Jasca finally executed his own escape, and his captor. Claiming the mantle of Dark Lord, Jasca corrupted the crew of The Soiyo and set about conquering the entire Decreton Empire.

It took almost thirteen years but the coup was a success. Darth Abeonis and his crew conquered the Sith Order of Decreto and, upon hearing of the wish of the Sith Council to invade the Galactic Alliance decided upon taking up the idea.

Sith Crusade
In 56 ABY the Sith Order of Decreto invaded the Chiss Ascendancy and conquered the capital Csilla. They then moved on to claim the entire realm before deciding to invade Imperial Remnant.

With the conquests complete the Galactic Alliance was well aware of the new Sith threat. Three years after the start of war the Galactic Alliance entered peace negotiations in order to appease the Sith, and at first it was a success; but after two years of peace the Sith decided to refute the treaty and invade the Galactic Alliance once and for all.

It would take five years for the Sith to conquer the Galactic Alliance, and a further eight years before the conquered Coruscant but eventually the Sith were victorious.

Post-war years
In the years to follow the Decreton Empire would flourish; reaching their height of the power under Darth Abeonis and later Darth Krayt following the Successors War. By the year 231 ABY they had taken the name of The Empire of the Sith Order of Decreto, but it would not be long the Sith finally meet their match.

Decline
By the year 1,400 ABY the Sith Order of Decreto had pretty much retreated within it's borders, having been severely weakened by almost two hundred years of continuous warfare (56 &mdash; 246 ABY); but it still remained a power to be reckoned with, depsite taking no part in the Restoration War.

The Sith Order continued to grow in power and strength, once again remaining hidden from the galaxy. But, with the close of the Second Galactic Civil War and the total collapse of the galaxy's infarstructure the Sith Order of Decreto beleived the time had finally come to make their return.