It should be noted that Sidious also scrawled notes of his own across the pages. įollowing the end of the Clone Wars in 19 BBY, Darth Sidious compiled various seminal Sith texts into his Book of Sith, and he included Bane's text amongst its sections. Vos left many annotations in the margins. He shared this text with the Kiffar Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos in an attempt to lure and corrupt him.

After the start of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, The Rule of Two was handed to the Count Dooku, a fallen Jedi Master who had become Sidious' apprentice under the name of Darth Tyranus. Determined to excel, Bane secretly trains with the devious Githany, former Jedi turned Sith, but after she betrays. In the last decades of the Galactic Republic, it fell into the hands of Darth Sidious, the Sith alter ego of the politician Palpatine. That document was conserved in the hidden Sith Archives and was passed down from master to apprentice for centuries. As the last surviving Sith, Darth Bane promulgated a harsh new directive: the Rule of Two. To assert his views, Bane wrote The Rule of Two, a source book detailing his eponymous Sith philosophy. Darth Bane, the last surviving Dark Lord, decided to restructure the Sith into a new order, in which the practices of the Brotherhood were replaced with his own system, the Rule of Two. Darth Bane established the Rule of Two so that only two Sith Lords could exist at one time with the aim that the apprentice would kill the master and take on their own apprentice to. In 1000 BBY, the Brotherhood of Darkness, a Sith organization founded and led by Lord Skere Kaan, was defeated by the Jedi Order during the Seventh Battle of Ruusan. One Master must decide how that power should be used.' ―Darth Bane

' This is the Rule of Two: One Sith must contain all the power of the dark side.

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