01 · Orientation
Summary
The Sith are a dark-side tradition whose organizational form changed repeatedly across history, from larger orders and empires to the secretive master-apprentice system associated with Darth Bane's Rule of Two.
02 · Organization
Structure and membership
Sith organization varied by era. Earlier Sith institutions could include academies, armies, aristocracies, and competing lords, while the Rule of Two concentrated recognized Sith authority into a lineage of one master and one apprentice.
03 · Ideas
Ideology and legitimacy
Sith traditions place exceptional value on power, ambition, personal will, mastery, and the use of conflict as a source of transformation. Specific doctrines differed across time, and Sith politics frequently turned succession into a central organizational problem.
04 · Practice
Methods and power
Sith influence operated through direct conquest, secret apprenticeship, political manipulation, assassination, warfare, cult practice, and control of other institutions. Darth Sidious used both Sith succession and Republic government to build Imperial power.
05 · Change over time
Historical development
Sith orders rose, fragmented, disappeared, and re-emerged across galactic history. The Rule of Two responded to earlier internal conflict by making secrecy and controlled succession central to the later Sith project.
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