Record Begins
I am Sith Lord, Darth Sadas, or "Swift as Sky," and I am creating this record because I received a vision from the Force. The vision was of a great darkness falling upon us, with sadly little light escaping. I fear that our society, one of peace and honor, will fall to the Darkness. I sense it coming. It will be a doom the Sith will not escape. It may have already started. Some of the apprentices have not been following the code as closely as is normal, neglecting the Ways of Honor.
5 Moons later
The disregard of the apprentices for the Ways has grown. I sense a shadow has fallen upon us, that the Darkness has been used and the balance in the Force is very slowly shifting. I have spoken of my fears to a few trusted lords and we agreed to try and stop the shift, to reinforce the paths of light upon the Sith and apprentices, but my vision makes me wary. I have had no more messages from the Force, but the first was very clear.
2 Cycles and 1 Moon later
Fighting has begun. It is hidden, limited to back rooms and empty halls, but one can tell, especially one sensitive to the Force. Anger grows among the apprentices. Unrest has reached the Lords, my peers, as was bound to happen. The shadow deepens, but still it is merely a shadow, not the powerful Darkness that I saw.
14 Moons later
Use of the Dark Side has become more widespread, and apprentices have been attacking lords as well as Sith, who have been fighting amongst themsleves. Red lightsabers have become more common among the ones losing their way. I have put away my own red lightsaber crystal in exchange for a blue one because of this trend. Others who are still with me have also been disgarding red lightsaber crystals if they have them. We Sith Lords who have not yet lost sight of the light have grown fewer. Darkness has tainted the Force that has gathered around the temple over many years and it is no longer pure.
3 Moons later
One of the apprentices who has fallen furthest to the Darkness has killed his master, one of our Lords. The other Lords who have fallen are considering raising him to Sith status. That worries me, more than other events. I also believe that open fighting will begin soon because it's been hidden so far. We have begun to consider leaving the Sith Order if the situation grows desperate, which I feel, and fear, it will.
4 Cycles and 3 Moons later
The lines have been drawn. We have fought openly for a few years now. None of the remaining followers of the Ways of Honor have fallen, but the Dark Side has grown stronger each moon and they have focused on killing us instead of fighting amongst themselves, which they still do but not to as great a degree. We Lords have decided to leave and will be telling the other Sith and Apprentices soon. In days long past, there were always more Sith and Apprentices than Sith Lord, but the Dark Side claimed so many that there are now more Lords than either Sith or Apprentices. Apprentices are fewest in number, when they should be greatest.
2 Moons later
We have left our temples, which have fallen to the Sith of the Dark Side. A few have left us to drift as loners, Sith rank only, but most of us are still together. We no longer call ourselves Sith because that name has been tainted by the many fallen Sith. Our council of Lords has decided to call those of us who still follow the Ways of Honor, the Jedi. In the old language, it means "Warriors of Honor," for that is what we have become. I will be one of the last honorable Sith, one of the last honorable Lords to bear the title Darth. We are in hiding because the Sith hunt for us. Full out war will begin soon. I had the same vision as long ago, and it has told me that the war will last countless years. Centuries, millenia even.
3 Cycles and 11 Moons later
They keep finding us. The council has decided to decieve the Sith. For Moons we have been giving the younger Jedi, few of whom remain Apprentices, intense training to teach them everything we can. They will leave our current base on the small moon and travel as far as possible, beyond the current range of the Sith. The oldest of us, about half the coucil, will stay behind to fight a last battle to make the Sith think we are finally defeated. Hopefully this will gain the Jedi enough time to flourish and grow strong in numbers, enough to survive against the Sith. The two very oldest lords who cannot fight well any longer but will survive several more years will go with the young Jedi to guide them and provide what wisdom they can.
6 Moons later
The others left about a moon ago, as planned. We have fallen under attack. I was captured once but escaped to give one last message for these records. I have included as many supplementary files as I possibly could, about our Order and the Ways of Honor, about the Sith culture before the Fall, about our history, and more detailed accounts of the developing war. This is in the hope that Jedi will someday find this place to recover the information that those who left could not take with them. The Force barrier I constructed will prevent access by the Sith. If they found the secret records, they would be gone forever and Jedi would never recover this information. My escape won't last long and I must leave this place soon. When they find me again, I will be frozen. They told me this when I was captured, probably as a terror tactic, though it does not frighten me. They even told me where they'd put my body. I included the coordinates so that, if anyone finds them, they can save me and others who were captured and frozen as I was, if they were frozen and taken to the same place. If not, then the coordinates lead to a central Sith base. Use the information how you will. Goodbye. I hope the Jedi survive.
End of Record
(12 Cycles, or years, have passed in total. Each Cycle is 15 Moons, or months, long. 1 Cycle for them is about 2 years for us.)