50 Fun Facts About The Sith

What colour is a Sith Lord's lightsaber blade, almost without exception?

Jedi blades run blue, green, purple, white and yellow; the Sith colour also gives ignition a harsher hiss.

In the Disney canon, a kyber crystal turns red when the dark side forces it to do what?

The older, still popular explanation is that the Sith simply used artificial crystals.

Who established the Rule of Two?

He was the sole survivor of the ancient Jedi-Sith war and remade the order as a secret pair.

Under the Rule of Two, the master embodies power and the apprentice does what with it?

The tradition expects every apprentice to eventually murder the master and take a pupil of their own.

After which battle, a thousand years before the Galactic Civil War, did the Sith nearly go extinct?

From then on they survived in secret as two Dark Lords at a time until their resurgence.

How did George Lucas originally conceive the Sith?

He compared them to the SS under Hitler, then condensed the idea into a single character, Darth Vader, for Empire.

The Code of the Sith opens "Peace is a lie. There is only" what?

Each line feeds the next, from strength to power to victory, until the Force shall free me.

What physical change commonly marks a Sith steeped in the dark side?

Sidious in Return of the Jedi and the freshly fallen Vader in Revenge of the Sith both show it.

Which telekinetic technique was Vader infamous for using as execution or intimidation?

He used it on at least two Imperial officers and on Padmé, though whether it caused her death is left unclear.

Who was Sidious's first apprentice?

Sidious had three in all; the second and third were Dooku and Anakin Skywalker.

Who replaced Maul as Sidious's apprentice by the time of Attack of the Clones?

The former Jedi Master had once mentored Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan's own teacher.

What species is Maul?

His mother Talzin leads the Nightsisters, who later fit him with new robotic legs.

On which junk planet did the halved Maul end up, becoming a cyborg and going insane?

He spent about twelve years there before anyone came looking.

Who rescued Maul from his exile twelve years after his fall on Naboo?

His brother had been Dooku's secret apprentice before betraying him.

Who is Maul's mother and leader of the Nightsisters?

Her witches rebuilt his legs, setting up his revenge campaign against Obi-Wan.

After seizing Mandalore, Maul kills which woman whom Obi-Wan loved?

The killing was the point: he wanted Obi-Wan to watch and suffer.

Which crime syndicate did Maul run from the shadows during the Empire's reign?

That is why he turns up as Dryden Vos's boss at the end of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

On which forbidden Sith world was Maul stranded until Ezra Bridger arrived?

Its ancient temple hides a super-weapon that can only be armed with a Sith Holocron.

Dooku was born to the royal family of which planet?

His father feared the boy's Force sensitivity and handed him to the Jedi as an infant; he reclaimed the title later.

Which bounty hunter did Dooku recruit as the template for the clone army?

Dooku also assembled the Separatist Confederacy, the other half of the war Sidious needed.

What Sith name did Dooku take?

In his final moments he grasped that Sidious had always planned to replace him with someone stronger.

Which limbs did Vader lose in his duel with Kenobi on Mustafar?

He had already lost the other arm to Dooku on Geonosis; the burns finished the job and the suit followed.

What species was Plagueis, Sidious's master?

In Legends his public face was Hego Damask II, a magnate of the Intergalactic Banking Clan.

Who was Plagueis's own master, in the Legends continuity?

He could foresee his own death and posed as starship designer Rugess Tome, but still got murdered by his apprentice.

How did Sidious kill Plagueis?

Palpatine tells Anakin the tale in Revenge of the Sith as a lure: the Sith who could stop death could not save himself.

What was Bane's name before he became a Sith?

Drew Karpyshyn's Legends trilogy follows him from miner to the last Sith standing.

The Rule of Two is described as a pale imitation of which older Sith concept?

A Force dyad bonds two beings so tightly they become one in the Force, which is what Rey and Ben turn out to be.

What was Darth Momin before he became a Sith?

His terrifying creations got him jailed; later his mask helped build Vader's fortress on Mustafar.

In The Acolyte, Qimir is the first apprentice of which Sith?

The High Republic-era Stranger takes Mae Aniseya as his own acolyte and turns her on the Jedi.

Who plays Qimir, the Stranger, in The Acolyte?

He slaughters the whole Jedi search party before tending to Mae's unconscious twin Osha.

In Legends, who was the first to hold the title Dark Lord of the Sith?

He was the strongest of the exiled Dark Jedi who settled among the native Sith species.

In Legends, the exiled Dark Jedi settled on which planet, home of the Sith species?

The natives were ape-like humanoids with chin tentacles whose culture echoed ancient Egypt and a rigid caste system.

In Legends, who launched the first great invasion of the Republic by the dark order?

His illusions, projected from a meditation sphere, collapsed when his apprentice turned on him.

Which ancient Rakatan weapons factory did Revan and Malak seize to build their fleet?

Knights of the Old Republic ends with a redeemed Revan defeating Malak and destroying it.

Which member of the Sith Triumvirate could absorb Force energy to wipe out a planet of Jedi?

Traya was Revan's old teacher and Sion a walking wound; the exile Meetra Surik beat all three.

Who was Bane's apprentice and successor in the Rule of Two?

Her own pupil, Cognus, carried the line on; more than thirty Dark Lords followed over the millennium.

What type of Star Destroyer makes up the Sith Eternal's Final Order fleet?

The cult also grew Snoke in a vat as Sidious's puppet for the First Order.

The Sith Eternal's 3rd Legion of Sith Troopers is named after which ancient Dark Lord?

The Knights of the Old Republic hero-turned-villain gets a canon nod only through The Rise of Skywalker's visual dictionary.

Which dark-side group led by Kylo Ren is explicitly not part of the order?

Snoke and Kylo filled the vacuum the Sith left, but neither was an official member of the order.

The Sith were first mentioned in A New Hope in what kind of scene?

They were fleshed out in books and comics for two decades before their formal screen debut.

In which film were the Sith formally introduced on screen?

They arrive as a shadowy martial order steering the film's political factions toward civil war.

Sith rhetoric mirrors which Nietzsche concept, valuing pride and power over kindness?

Sith prize the master virtues; the Jedi's compassion is, in Sith eyes, slave morality.

The Jedi-Sith split is compared to which pair of Greek concepts?

Order versus chaos, reason versus instinct, except Star Wars casts the chaotic side as villains destined to lose.

In Rebels, the ancient temple super-weapon is armed by placing what in an obelisk?

Ezra and Maul retrieve it together before Maul turns on his allies.

Whom does Maul blind after betraying his allies in "Twilight of the Apprentice"?

The sightless Jedi still defeats him, while Ahsoka stays behind to duel Vader in the collapsing temple.

What do both Jedi and Sith shun, for opposite reasons?

Jedi fear attachment breeds selfishness; Sith fear it blunts their ruthlessness.

Asajj Ventress, buried on Dathomir, returns in The Bad Batch thanks to what?

Dooku had taken her as an informal apprentice before dropping her for Savage Opress.

In Legends, Exar Kun made his last stand at an older Dark Lord's stronghold on which moon?

Sadow had fled there in exile centuries earlier and taught Freedon Nadd before being murdered by him.

In Legends, which clone did Mara Jade kill to fulfil Palpatine's psychic command?

The reborn Emperor had grown the clone to use against the real Luke, who was briefly turned to the dark side himself.

In Legends, who led the Sith into hiding after the Great Hyperspace War, living for centuries?

The seemingly immortal Emperor re-emerged some 300 years later to start the Great Galactic War.