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Dark Council

General information
Founder(s)	Sith Emperor
Notable members	Darth Marr^[1] Darth Jadus^[2] Darth Mekhis^[3] Darth Howl^[4] Darth Thanaton^[5]
Headquarters	Dromund Kaas Dromund Kaas Citadel
Locations	Korriban^[6]
Historical information
Founding	c. 4,970 BBY
Other information
Era(s)	Old Republic era
Affiliation	Sith Empire

[Source]

"It's a Sith's job to try and unseat us. That's why we have to keep a close eye on you."

―Darth Howl^[src]

The Dark Council was the ruling body of the Sith Empire in 3,653 BBY. Its members held the Darth title, the title of Dark Lord of the Sith and wore personal Sith armors that concealed even their faces. By the end of the Great Galactic War, there were only seven surviving Dark Councilors.

1 History
2 Members
3 Appearances
4 Sources
5 Notes and references
- 5.1 In other languages

HistoryEdit

It was a twelve-member council consisting of powerful Sith Lords that obeyed the Sith Emperor. Only the members of the Council were allowed to see the Emperor's face.

In 4,904 BBY, after the Sith began to rebuild their society, the Sith Emperor revealed his vision of a restored empire. However, the Emperor's role was simply as the visionary: he withdrew into isolation and left the logistics to the newly-formed Dark Council.

In 3,956 BBY Darth Nyriss and some other Dark Councilors were against the re-start of the war with the Galactic Republic, fearing that the Jedi would exterminate the Sith and so they plotted to overthrow the Emperor. However, they did not take any active measures, too preoccupied with power plays and double crosses to make any real progress. By 3,950 BBY, Lord Scourge, a recent addition to the conspiracy, growing dissatisfied with the conspiracy's unwillingness to act, exposed it to the Emperor, who slaughtered the entire Dark Council, including the ones who weren't involve in the conspiracy and replaced them with new, pro-war members.

In 3,678 BBY, Darth Marr, alongside two of his fellow councilors, sent Sith apprentice Teneb Kel to hunt down Exal Kressh, the Emperor's rogue apprentice. Kel completed his task, and demanded the Council to be elevated to the rank of Sith Lord and be granted the title "Darth Thanaton" in exchange for revealing one of the Emperor's secret plots. And eventually, they did.

After the Treaty of Coruscant and the conclusion of the Great Galactic War, the Emperor withdrew to pursue his own mysterious goals, deferring power over the Empire to the Dark Council. The Dark Council then oversaw the consolidation of the Empire's new domains from the citadel on Dromund Kaas.

By 3,643 BBY, there was at least one female on the Council.