The menacing Sith emerge again and again through the centuries, teaching each generation their dark secrets. Thousands of years before the Battle of Yavin, Darth Nihilus blights whole worlds in his desire to destroy the Jedi. His legacy is carried on by Darth Bane, who brings the Sith Order back from near extinction in his quest to regain their glory. Darth Maul serves a power-hungry Sith Lord who plots the elimination of the Jedi.