Why The Sith FINALLY Went Extinct [150 Years AFTER Sidious] - Star Wars Explained 

The Sith have always been reborn from the ranks of the Jedi. - Darth Krayt

The Sith are never extinct. As long as Passion, fear, hate, anger exist, it's merely a matter of time. Besides, the force demands balance afterall and the Dark is very much part of the force.

Let's be honest - Rule of Two started failing once Sith Lords no longer felt like adhering to it's strict rules. Not only Plageuis killed his master in cowardly manner, but Palpatine started with taking apprentince before his own masters death, and then made a habit of taking temporary apprentince, without eventual succession in mind. This game of switching was what costed him his life on board of second Death Star. And then Krayt decided to be a moron and did exact same thing but on greater scale + trying to win a Skywalker to his side. Oh yeah, also getting a parasite armour that Darth Bane fought for good part of his life to get off himself - minus protective helmet that Bane had. BRILLIANT. It's a miracle did guy did not burn his brain out doing all those fancy lightsaber poses for the comic covers with that level of intelect.

Luke : Your overconfidence is your weakness.

Honestly, I think the Sith finally kickin the bucket in a unflattering way is the most appropriate for them; they've caused and took *so MUCH* away from others and themselves that it makes sense that they lose EVERYTHING to them, including a memorable end.

Didn't the remaining Rule of One Sith go undercover and hide amongst the general population? History shows that it doesn't really take more than one Sith (living or dead) to restart things. For example, in Tales of Jedi, the Sith as an order were largely gone at first. The King and Queen of Onderon were acolytes of the Force Ghost of their ancestor Freedon Nadd. Nadd's ghost continued to guide his descendants, but he eventually allied himself to Satal and Aleema Keto, young royals from the Empress Teta system. They went on to form the Dark Side cult known as the the Krath. But it was Exar Kun, a disaffected and ambitious young Jedi, that Nadd turned into a true Sith Lord from beyond the grave. This was serious enough that the ghost of Marka Ragnos appeared and anointed Kun as the Dark Lord, with fallen Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma as his apprentice in an ancient prototype of the Rule of Two. So a prior Sith Lord need not even be alive to resurrect the Sith Order - albeit often in different forms.

I always felt like Sidious destroying the jedi was an act of pulling a Bane, except on the jedi. The rule of 2 eventually gone done did a paradigm shift, and the sith were ultimately annihilated instead of the jedi.

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Only takes a force sensitive to walk on Korriban and we are back in business. That also works on other Dark Side Nexuses, they don't just cease to exist, as the Jedi had to find out the hard way with the Dark Shrine under their Temple on Coruscant.

“Give me the knowledge of essence transfer” said the Soy Lord Krayt. “Lol” said the Chad Lord’s of the Ancient Sith. “Lmao”.

Thanks for doing this! Disney SW is whatever, but I really miss Legacy, and some of the other, older content. As for Krayt, I think he mostly just suffered from a case of "work of fiction means villain will always author their own defeat, so Good can win, and story is fun". I think he easily could have withdrawn into the shadows,, ala Plagueis, and maybe let his Hands, like Talon and Nihl, "take over", and appear as in charge, but I think that the appearance of his own diminishment, in allowing that, and not remaining the VISIBLE godlike figure of the cause, would have ruined that cause, and his eventual return would then be met with people who doubted his divine right to rule. This happens in Stargate, too. When the Gao'uld decided to purport themselves as deities, it demanded a certain amount of their presence; of ignorant people SEEING their miracles, which could be described as divine. To see them as everlasting, and immune to harm, thanks to their long lives, sarcophagi, and ribbon devices/Kara Keshia. Maybe after centuries, even millennia, it gad become so ingrained in the sheeple that they just accepted "God is real, and His power is absolute", like some real people do today, but there had to be a long window of time where they had to build that up, and Krayt needed to, too. Enough other mighty Sith, and their empires, gad fallen, and enough people had sone grasp on what these powers were; their limits, and that they were not heavensent, that to set himself up as some greater than mortal, messianic figure, would take ages, and Krayt didn't want to wait. Unfounded opinion ends here!😁

Sith are like Borg in Star Trek: Gone away for periods of time, then emerging anew and stronger.

One of the reasons the Sith continued to exist was because of the short comings of the Jedi Order. Luke helped fix that when he reestablished the order. There will always be a chance that the Sith return as long as those who wield the force are susceptible to the dark side emotions. Also the galaxy/universe is large, there could be Sith out there that nobody has ever encountered.

I agree with your opinion about Darth, Krayt. Maybe he could’ve trained a successor like you said, and passed his knowledge on to him or her so that the rule of one would continue even if he died, I mean it would have worked with Darth Sidious and Darth Vader, so why not here? I think Darth Sidious was eventually planning on having Vader take his place as Vader proved he was not going down easily

I don't think this is accurate. Darth Nihl succeeded Krayt as the leader of the Sith and he was never killed. By the time Legends ended, Nihl and the Sith were still alive. In fact, after the death of Krayt, Nihl ordered the Sith fleets to disperse and had all the Sith go into hiding so they could infiltrate the governments of planets all across the Galaxy and take over in secret.

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I believe that in the Ninth Jedi universe, in theory, when the Sith thought to be extinct after the Battle of Exogol, reminants of the First Order and the Sith Eternal went into hiding into unknown space far away from the Unknown Regions and never been seen ever again. Though there are many people who wanted to learn about the dark side in secret away from the eyes of the universe so that one day the Sith will return at some point prior to the events of the Ninth Jedi.

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Fascinating video! Honestly, I think the blame truly lies on the Sith themselves. Their order was never sustainable, it was always toxic and corrosive and destined for collapse. The constant pursuit of power can never be satisfied and never be sustained. Bane managed to delay this collapse with the Rule of Two, but even that failed in the end. It is the Jedi, with their focus on peace and the preservation of life that can sustain themselves. This even extends metaphorically, since it is only through the light side that one can maintain their consciousness after death

Darth Wredd brought ALL the sith and Galactic empire TOGETHER so that they would kill each other off. He HATED the Sith and wanted to kill them as much as the Enpire. He tried to get someone to kill him out of hate to carry on thr dark side before being killed Anaia Solo.

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Unless we get a blatant confirmation and not just Darth Wredd's claims, I refuse to acknowledge Darth Nihl, Talon and Maladi are gone. For me, they are still out there rebuilding the One Sith...... or Vitiate is making a comeback, you can't keep that Sith down.

Doesn't Krayt act more as a dark/fallen Jedi than a true Sith? He fell to gain vengance on Sidious, but woke up too late. Side note, I love the character designs on this era of Sith.

I think only way the Rule of One would have work is if Kryth took up an army dark Jedi work more or less like his sith did and have personsal student to one day replace him one day. The problem lies in an army of Sith not an army of Dark Jedi. Dark Jedi are not really encouraged back stab themselves, the Sith on the other hand it is second nature which why Rule of Two work until Sidious and the two masters before him ruined it with their own quest to live forever

This is more than appropiate. Sith were the greatest plague in the galaxy. Threat to everyone. The destroyed themselves. It's great how you described what Krayt should have done. Very mice :) May the Force be with you too :)

The best essays always begin with questions. You would make a great historian or journalist IRL.

I think Krayt was responsible for the extinction of the Sith Order as it existed at that time. But I can't believe the Sith were gone forever. Evil always exists, and as long as it does, there will always be dark side users who could revive the Sith Order. 🤔

The fact that the 12 last dark Jedi and the first Sith Lords were the most powerful of their Order probably verified their ideal mindset of Power winning out rather than taking the lessons🤔

The Sith aren't extinct. Darth Nihl, Darth Talon, and others from the "One Sith" went into hiding after the death of Darth Krayt. Just as Darth Bane went into hiding. Also, there is an entire society of Sith on Kesh in Wild Space.

The Sith are NEVER gone for good. They always find a way to come back. The problem is that no more legends material was written so nothing was written about a new Sith order after Krayt, but that doesn’t mean they won’t return at some point

The Sith may die. But one thing always remains: The Dark.

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I believe that Darth Krayt possessed the same level of arrogance as Anakin when he had just become Vader before his injuries on Mustafar. Anakin believed in his own power was all he needed and did not consider the future, and paid the ultimate price.

Every Sith Lord's Achille's heel: ego & vanity. _Strong we Sith are. Think, we do not. Anger persists all._ -Darth Frog, Yoda's lost cousin A Jedi's main strenght when all else fails is Hope. Without it, they'd had given in to fear the first time they went up against the Empire.

Tbh. Would be cool if the Rey movie shows them establishing a school but find out sith were also growing their own numbers by having an empire in the unknown regions.

Accepting death with open arms? That sounds like a Jedi trait.

There was a proficy that existed in legends that said the sith would eventually be led by the original sith species

Had Darth Red accepted the Rule of 1, Crate would've had the time needed to become powerful enough to be immortal.

The Sith will always exist in one form of another, where there is light there must be dark. There must always be balanced in the force.

Darth Krayt The chosen one. A true Jedi

Krayt is such a flawed individual. Most he did was aid Luke in banishing Abaloth. He was never a Darth; because if the Sith'ari himself said he's a "pretender" then he was, no more no less.

Every time the Sith ends, they rise from the ashes again in a different form, the end of Krayt is no different, since Darth Talon is still alive and it's only a matter of time until some Jedi decides to touch some ancient evil box of some kind. Siths will exist as long as Jedi do,

Idk where your getting the idea that maul was explicitly a sith assassin. He was sidious’s first intended apprentice and also attempted to carry on the rule with his brother. If anything he was more faithful to the code than dooku, and sidious never intended for dooku to truly be his apprentice like he did with maul and anakin. He stole maul from Talzin being the only natural force sensitive male, maul was valuable. It wasn’t until after he had trained maul from childhood that he found anakin and used dooku as a tool to get to him. Maul was more of a sith than dooku, you can’t change my mind. Because sidious didn’t make dooku his apprentice with the intention of dooku succeeding him. However with maul this was the case, until sidious met anakin. Who truly took mauls place. Not to mention dooku was just a PLACE HOLDER for maul who killed dookus apprentice. Making dooku and easy target to convert. Dooku was a stepping stone for sidious. Maul and anakin were intended to be genuine successors.

Darth Krayt didn't think much of Lumiya's Sith using the Rule of Two. Lumiya didn't think much of Krayt's Sith using the Rule of One.

The rule of one master and one apprentice worked as well as chinese one child policy did

When Palpatine died in legends, so did the legacy of the Sith. While other Sith Lords came to prominence like Lumiya, Darth Caedus and Darth Krayt, they were still far from the Sith Palpatine was, despite being powerful and infamous in their own right. But Palpatine represented what the Sith were all about. In fact, it greatly shows the Dark Side greatly falling into decline and the Jedi ending up winning yet again. While Krayt, Lumiya and Caedus were powerful and successful in their own rights, they still fell short of doing what Palpatine did what many other Sith failed to do, destroy the Jedi. After Krayt’s death, it was truly the final nail in the coffin for the eventual extinction of the Sith Order. The Jedi won.

The rule of one was basically "this guy is the god of this religion, worship him and don't fail him ever", which is basically instituting someone like Stanlin in power not caring how it falls apart when he dies since the very system states he is irreplaceable, when it should have been something like "this is your king, there may be more exceptional kings before or after but none who can challenge him in his time", so obviously his rule of one was doomed since he set himself to fail by overestimating himself and not leaving any place for contingencies or any system for establishing a new "one". I'd personally assume a rule of one would work by Sith standards if the one was either a war hero or a puppet..

Based on the information you gave me here and my own limited knowledge of line of the Sith as a whole, including Darth Krayt, I'd have to say that Darth Krayt is responsible for the last fall of the Sith. But as I said in the beginning, I have limited knowledge about the subject. I'm sure that there are more underlying factors here.

Loving the krayt content

If Krayt dies, nothing worse happens than what happened to the ancient Sith after the deaths of Pall or Sadow (even Marka Ragnos on a smaller scale), or later Vitiate. A ragtag group of Sith fighting for dominance until the next Dark Lord appears and a period of peace for the rest of the galaxy. Still a better chance for the order as such to survive, than the exact TWO Bane's rule would dictate.

The force will always have balance. There will always be sith. They’re just waiting on the right time.

Krait looks like an old He-Man villain

As long as force exists, dark side will exist thus sith will always be reborn

As long as Force users are about theres potential Sith about how many Jedi turned into Sith Lords because the first Sith were a group of splinter Jedi that wanted more power

There are still sith purebreds as a sith army as seen in star wars empire at war forces of corruption and sith such as Darth malgus, and Darth glovoc all capable of returning. It just takes 1 curious fool to revive the sith.

Your opening always makes me feel like im entering some cult but I am just here for a bit of lore

He should have just made millions of clones of himself. Then it would cover all his bases. 1 sith everywhere following 1 leader and clones would be a great distraction for his enemies.

If u think about it just a second, being DEVOTED to whatever, is the absolutely unsithest state of mind at all. That would mean to find pleasure in weakness rather in power. If there is nothing other to gain (like more knowledge) a sith has no reason to remain devoted. It would basicly mean giving up, like vader once he was convinced to b unable of ever replacing his master. It is the mindset of a slave - literally the opposite of the sith code. To welcome death with open arms, therefore really is heracy no matter in which era.

what is the outro music? it's so catchy!

I don't think that's the end of the Sith as such, but we'll see I suppose. Or not... 🤷😅

We did not die off , we moved on .

Well it's possible that a Sith could've survived and reinstated the Rule of Two. Bane certainly did it. So it's possible another Sith could too.

I think earth crate should have understood wisdom is more important than power. And he should have listened to the sith spirits.

No wonder the Sith went extinct, they never worshipped the dark as we have. They where children who played with power, they never knew the true dark. "Only power is real and the only real power is the power to destroy Existance is fleeting Destruction is eternal."

he should have focused on finding knowledge on how darth revan did things as the dark lord, he could have become the second true master of the force in balance as well. krayt lacked balance as the dark lord

The sith would have met their end a whole lot earlier if Kenobi had just killed Krayt after defeating him. How many lives would have been saved if Obi Wan would finish the job for once?

The sith didn't really go extinct after Krayt. They scattered, fell to terrorism. Honestly it's a great jumping off point for table top RPGs. Hunting down wayward sith remnantd only to find a nee lord on the rise. I think a follower of Krayt would rediscover the rule of two and overcome their indoctrination perhaps even facing and overcoming Krayt's spirit.

Sith will never be extinct.

the extinction of the Sith comes with the end of the Jedi for the dark side is seductive and every Jedi will taste it in his life so as long the Jedi lives so does the sith and that's how the force was in balance all of these years

The ability to hide and adapt was the strongest trait of the Sith. Allow Darth's to keep eyes off you as the emperor, like emperor vitiate did.

Ancient sith spirits "you are stupid if you die the sith die" "Then give me essence transfer or teach me the that shit one of you did where they died but then they refused, this is on you" "... NO" I will say assuming he'd live forever is not that crazy, if you are mad enough you usually survive in star wars

All I know is Crate's parents wanted him to be either a doctor or lawyer and were very, very disappointed he chose the path he did. I believe Crate knowing his parents disappointment, and their further disappointment in Crate not marrying a nice, Jewish girl is what caused his eventual downfall. Let's face it, Crate was a silly amoretz and a bit of a goslin but ultimately, just another schlub 🙂

Darth krayt never archive pure cosmic oneness with the dark side of the force, and returned as a formless spiritual entity that's able to travel the cosmo at free will without the need of a body like vitiate exar kun and papaltine did. Others sith need to bind themselves to objects

Homeboy Krayt should have met Darth Malgus...

The sith major flaw was the obsession of power. Its one of the major flaws of the sith. Every sith originally wanted power to do something. But none of them do the thing they wanted to do this regret in it of it self creates more force power. And every sith does the same thing they live and die focusing on power. A Dark Jedi is a more pure in vision of the dark side. Use your power for that thing you wanted to do. Not to just get more power. Every one of us understand why sith begin the fall to the dark side. We have similar desires and wants. But remember the lesson of every sith. "I wanted was more power and i began to forget what i wanted power for to begin with." What do you want power for? Achieve your goals do not be that person who wants to do something but never attempts it.

The sith haven't gone extinct anybody who falls to the dark side can call them self a small sith after all there's no light with out shadow the sith and Jedi need each over to balance the force

I think Darth Vitiate was the most successful Sith Lord and he could have prevailed if he hadn't turned his own empire against him by wanting to consume all life in the galaxy.

I don’t think it’s fair to declare the Sith “a plague”. They are a natural consequence of the irresponsible use of the light side by an expansionary light-side only Jedi. The easiest way to destroy the Sith is to eliminate all the Jedi. Both groups are drinking from the same pool and perverting it for their own selfish material desires.

The Sith will never die.

I don't think Darth Redd killed all of them including Darth Nile or dark talon .....

Neither of the leading One Sith's death is confirmed, not Talons, not Havoks and not Nihls.

the sith meditation spear that featurs in the books where jasen falls to the dark side and the following book seris also called them out on it and refused to follow their comands

If memory serves, wasn’t Darth Wredd’s goal the extinction of the Sith as revenge for the destruction of his homeworld? His desire to be struck down in anger by another Force User seemed to be more of a trapping of the Sith way that had been forced upon him by his own mentor, with his death coming at the hands of Ania Solo being something he would have preferred as it finalized his vengeance, ensuring that the One Sith could not be continued through him and badly thinning their numbers to the point of ruining their plans to infiltrate and reclaim control of the galaxy. Some like Darth Talon could survive, as pointed out in this video, but given Wredd’s interference it seems more likely that they would need to default back to something like the Rule of Two, as it was best put into practice when the galaxy and the Jedi as a whole believed the Sith to be wiped out. Any plans of immediately reclaiming their old power base would be an impossibility, but a more long term and covert approach would be feasible as the Bainite Lineage had shown. As for what I think Krayt should have done… What he should have done was make the One Sith based around an order of Grey Jedi. While many might consider this heretical, the Sith way is inherently unsustainable (shown in literally every variation of the Sith Empire all the way up to Palaptine’s Empire which operated on Sith inspired philosophies and attitudes) while the Jedi way has shown that it is typically undone only by its own longevity leading to inferior leadership and resulting calamity, after which it is rebuilt from the remnants (Meetra Surik’s pupils, Ruusan Reformatiion, Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Order, etc) to adapt based on present circumstances. For example: the Imperial Knights are intended to both protect their leader and also make sure he does not stray towards the Dark Side. Krayt should have used a similar approach, ensuring that he had an army of Grey Jedi who were devoted to the ideal he aspired to under the Rule of One: uniting the galaxy under a single power. This would give him motivated followers who were not driven to reach beyond their station through treachery, murder, political power plays, etc but to instead aspire to advance within the boundaries and traditions of their Order. A person can be slain easily, but an idea is harder to kill. Krayt could have then established the Sith Lord as a position intended to be filled by someone who was not constrained by weaknesses (Compassion, unwillingness to use force, political interest, etc) and could fulfill that goal while the Grey Jedi would execute his commands dispassionately, free to do so through their own interpretations so long as the spirit of the command is fulfilled. Once the goal was reached, the Rule of One should have been adapted towards a new goal (Maintaining order, eliminating corruption, discovering lost knowledge, etc) that the Grey Jedi in service of that Sith Lord would aspire to fulfill. This would prevent much of the stagnancy that would regularly infest the Jedi Order by giving the One Sith a goal to work towards, requiring them to continuously improve and adapt rather than work to maintain a status quo (ie: post Ruusan Jedi Order). As for a line of succession, he should have established a process by which either one or several Grey Jedi (or ‘Acolytes’) would be chosen or volunteer for the chance to undertake tests in a bid to ‘ascend’ to Sithood; a series of trials testing their ability to harness the Dark Side that could include a final contending Acolyte killing their predecessor in a duel if they still live by that point, or have something else which would be considered equally suitable substituted in if they have already been slain or passed on by then. The end result would be that final Acolyte of the Sith giving themselves to the Dark Side and adopting the status of Sith Lord, breaking all of their chains and being free to dictate the future of the galaxy. And if that Sith Lord strayed from the goal established by their predecessors, their Grey Jedi servants would be obligated to guide them back to the path or see them removed and replaced by a worthy successor. Sorry for the text wall, I just ran with an initial idea and didn’t stop until I was done.

The Sith's extinction will only be possible the day the Jedi's are too.

The sith have gone extinct more than once. all it takes is one inquisitive jedi poking around old ruins or holocrons and BOOM we're back baby! Revan, Treya, Ruin, Exar Kun, Caitus, Krayt, ALL Jedi... at first... All revived the sith, or brought it back from the brink so long as the Jedi exsist the sith will always have a contingincy plan.

Sorry my eyes are old ... When you click on the video there's a opening pic of two sith to back to back amd one on the right ... Who are they? I can't see the photo that well

Darth Wredd didn’t kill Darth Nihl as far as we are shown or told. He killed his own master, but if it’s possible that Talon and Scythe and Maladi survived, then Nihl could have too. He has the potential to be a Lord of the Sith, he grew up a warlord on his planet, but Nihl wasn’t near Krayts power.

It was krayt fault he faild to understand that the dark side is a poison that consumes all sith eventually weather it be power or arrogance it will betray them.

In my opinion the Jedi were the original bad guys with their genocide of the Sith species after discovering the dark jedi who fled. They created the hatred between the two opposite orders that would last the rest of galactic history.

Well, how did the Sith rise after Kylo, Sudious and Snoke were gone? Unless this continuation is through Cannon.

I blame Hett _(Krayt)._ He was always a jerk. Even when they had a cameo of him in Clone Wars. _(Doesn't that make him cannon? Guessing they will go further than Sidious?)_

Exar Kun Because of you the teachings of the sith will never die and for this You will be the dark lord of the sith Marka Ragnos Tales of the jedi

Simply he should not pursue the Jedi in the first place. Though the enmity was still there, the Jedi during that time didn't care about politics and focused on the way of force and living. So if the Sith didn't fall completely to darkness, then the Jedi would not have the purpose to fight Sith. Sith focuses too much on the Dark side and forgets what they actually need to do.

Idk I find the idea of them going extinct sort of dumb. I mean any Jedi could realistically become a sith at any time. It’s just not logical for an idea or philosophy to go extinct. Only way that would work is if the Jedi also went extinct, or the force itself.

Amazing

At 4:44 you cite "...the spirits and holocron guardians of the ancient sith." Basically without being called Force Ghosts, that's what they were; they were able to speak and advise the Sith of any era after their death, of options to take. Why doesn't Sidious participate in their advice? The older Sith lords didn't approve of Sidious so you have a faction now and he could've given them what he, or his master (who also is mute on advice) on essence transfer?

As long there are Jedi, there will be Sith.

They don't bring worthy for us nor they have respect for the ones we get😀😀😀😀

Light must always cast a shadow…

If you don't want the top spot..... if you'll protect it for someone else, if you won't engage in whatever treachery necessary to obtain it, how can you call yourself Sith? Krayt was nothing but a pretender! A TRUE Sith seeks nothing less than God-hood! UNLIMITED POWER! Bane knew this is what would happen. Only AFTER becoming an immortal being can you even consider such ideas.