Millenia ago, the discovery of hyperspace travel brought the glaxy together, giving birth to a democratic union of star systems known as the Galactic Republic. From the time of its inception, the Republic grew, over thousands of years, to encompass vast numbers of inhabited worlds.
The survival of the Republic depended on two factors: the wise governing of selfless administrators and lawmakers...an the preservation of harmony and justice by a heroic warrior fraternity the Jedi Knights.
In those glorious ancient days, a great many Force-sensitive individuals willingly entered arduous training under accomplished Jedi Masters, taking up the weapons, the knowledge and the powers of the Jedi Way. But many failed at this goal. They strayed from the light, and fell into the darkness.
So such a similiar fate begins the origins of the Sith.
The Dark Order of the Sith was founded many millenia ago. It's creator was a rogue jedi, a member of the much vaunted Jedi order who, unlike his shortsighted peers, saw that the true power over force lay in the so-called "Dark Side". Frustrated by the limitations the masters had put upon him, this Jedi could not understand whey he must be indebted to serve sociaty, when clearly, he was destined to rule them.
Bravely, this Jedi brought his views before the Jedi high council. Not suprisingly, the masters rejected him, not able to see their own foolishness. The jedi, enraged, slew his master on the council floor, over coming his weakness of servitude and vowed that he would return to jedi someday to destroy them and furfill his destiny. Pursued by jedi security, This Dark Jedi fled Coruscant. He headed out into the dangerous unknown regions of space to escape the relentless Jedi headhunters. Running out of fuel, he landed on a planet that seemed to him to radiate with dark power.
Upon landing, He was attacked by hideous dark side creatures. Using his mastery of the force, the Dark Jedi sent a wave of dark side energy at the creatures. Falling back, the monsters bowed to him, accepting his leadership and seeing his immense power. The Jedi soon discovered the horrible beasts were intellegent, and possesed a natural sensitivity to the dark side of the force, which they used instinctlvly to survive on their brutal world. communicating with the them with help from the force, he learned that this terrible world was called called Sith, and the monsters were known as Sith as well.
The dark jedi took the title "Dark Lord of the Sith" and formed a secret cult to bring the downfall of the Jedi, at first he was alone, but soon, other jedi began to see truth. With his new Dark Jedi, the Sith lord began recruiting others who were strong in the force,he and the other sith took these people as disiples and trained them in the dark side of the force, uncorrpted by Jedi teachings, these "Pure" sith rebelled against the dark jedi, all while working with them to wage a devestating war againt the Jedi,
This, was the 1st sith war, a grisly, yet short battle that has been long forgotten. Soon, through the internal squabbling of the Dark Jedi and the Sith, they destroyed each other, leaving only a token amount of sith left, which were quickly overrun by the ruthless Jedi. It appeared that the sith were extinct, and the galaxy was releived.
But no, one Sith lord, just one, had survived. This man had had the intellegence to lay low during the bloody conflict, and once the sith were all but forgotten, he emerged from hiding. Seeing that the galaxy was not ready for a true Sith order, he created a new code, in this histroric writing, he stated that for the Sith to survived to the point of time where the galxay was ready for a Dark order. Only few sith at a time could live peacefully.
This ancient brotherhood of Dark Jedi developed a hierarchy, including magicians, warriors, lords, and at the head of their organization, the Dark Lord of the Sith. Only the most powerful students in the Sith teachings were chosen as candidates to become the Dark Lord of the Sith. The laws of the Sith dictate that only one Dark Lord of the Sith can live at one time.
But this my friends is only the beginning of the evil, the damage and the history. Milleniums of Sith history, war, and growing will follow. For now I give you a chronology of when the Sith made there marks in history.