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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Fair enough, I'm not going to argue with CC obviously. Still, it just seems like such a delicate balance. For millenia, only 2 people at a time know the craft and it somehow survives with Jedi relentlessly fighting them, outnumbering them by a huge amount most of the time? Under that line of reasoning wouldn't the whole idea of sith be dead at this point? If Palpatine and Vader are dead, and only they could teach the next generation, would that not mean that the the sith is gone forever?
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Bane basically exterminated the Sith at the battle of Ruusan as he enacted his philosophy of the rule of two.
On top of that the Sith self exiled and hid for thousands of years, working from the shadows and slowly tipping the balance of the force, but they didn't operate in the open. They spent their time learning not only everything about the darkside, but everything about the jedi so that they could someday enact their revenge and have the galaxy fall into their hands.
Remember that the Jedi had become incredibly arrogant as well, they were convinced that the Sith were destroyed at Ruusan and didn't look for them, and the Sith sat in their self exile and built intelligence network and corrupted governments, and engineered the downfall of their enemies.
Thats the purist view, that the Sith just decided to vanish and work towards one day enacting the grand plan and revealing themselves once they had the Jedi lured into their trap. In the mean time they evolved, while the Jedi were still fighting the same way and war that they had fought thousands of years ago.
That was pretty much laid into Canon in both the Phantom Menace book, and the Revenge of the Sith novel. It was also touched on in the Clone Wars series.
In terms of non canon there was another Sith group in hiding called the one Sith that were a bunch of Sith that served one lord in harmony, the redeeming factor in this one is that they eventually turned on each other 130 years or so after ROTJ and destroyed themselves.