The Sith Wars

The Great Schism was only the first of many great and bloody wars among the Sith, the Jedi, and the Galactic Republic. In every other instance, the Jedi would defeat the Sith at great cost. The Sith always managed to reemerge hundreds, sometimes thousands of years later to start their campaign against the Jedi once again.

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The following sections are brief accounts of some of the more significant Sith wars.

Dark Lord of the Chimp The Emperor first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back. He was portrayed by compositing the image of an old woman wearing prosthetic makeup with the superimposed image of chimpanzee eyes. In the special edition of Empire, this bizarre visage was replaced with the image of actor Ian McDiarmid who plays that character in four other Star Wars movies.