

The leader of the exiled Dark Jedi, Ajunta Pall, became the first Dark Lord of the Sith and the ruler of the newly-created Sith Empire. Thus was the Sith Empire born, with Ziost becoming the capital, while Korriban became a sacred mausoleum-world. This intermingling between the two species continued across hundreds of generations, and the hybridized offspring of this union became the new ruling class of the Sith. Over the next two thousand years, interbreeding occurred between the fallen Jedi and the Sith by means of Sith alchemy, which led to the term "Sith" being used to identify not only the original inhabitants of Korriban, but also their fallen Jedi masters. Using their training in the Force, the Dark Jedi amazed the Sith, and elevated themselves to god-like status on Korriban, becoming the rulers of the Sith people and taking the mantle of the Lords of the Sith. The Sith attempted to protect their secrets, but they fell to the superior training and technology of the Jedi invaders.

Upon arriving, the Dark Jedi attempted to subjugate the Sith and take whatever knowledge they possessed. In 6900 BBY exiled fallen Jedi fleeing from the Battle of Corbos, which concluded the Hundred-Year Darkness, landed on Korriban, a desolate world inhabited by the relatively primitive but unusually Force-sensitive Sith species which practiced arcane dark side sorcery.
