Order of the Sith Lords (AscendedAlteran)

"We are the select few who refuse to be carried by, and who carry it instead. Thirty in a millennium, rather than the tens of thousands fit to be."

- Darth Plagueis

The Order of the Sith Lords, also known as Bane's Sith Order, Banite Sith, or simply the Sith, was an ancient organization of s who utilized the of. Founded by the Darth Bane, it was intended to replace the Brotherhood of Darkness and institute a rebirth of the Sith. The guiding principle of the Order was the, which was developed by Bane through the teachings of 's. Under this new tenet, only two Sith Lords were allowed to exist at any given time; a and an. The Rule stipulated that after learning everything the master had to teach, the apprentice would kill the master and take an apprentice of their own, ensuring that each successive master would be stronger than the last. Ultimately, Bane's successors would be able to amass enough power in secret to engineer the fall of the Republic and the destruction of the Jedi Order, subjecting the galaxy to the rule of the Sith.