History Website / NewSithBrotherhood

* RomanticismVsEnlightenment:

* BiggerBad: The Force Ghosts of the dead Dark Lords. As of Darth Xaos’ funeral it’s official Brotherhood doctrine that one needs their blessing to be Dark Lord. Some are actively involved in furthering the Sith cause in the world of the living but most prefer to lounge about in Chaos waiting for sacrifice and worship.

It's 35 years after [[Film/ANewHope the Battle of Yavin]]. The [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] were defeated 6 years ago, the Jedi Order began rebuilding, and the Galaxy started piecing itself back together after the war's end. Everything should be going fine, right? If only. During Palpatine's rule, there existed a man named Andor Vaklas, one of Palpatine's Dark Side Elite used to help manage his Empire. When Palpatine died his [[ComicBook/DarkEmpire final death]] in 11ABY, Vaklas, realising the impeding power struggles, took his forces away from the galaxy into the Deep Core in search of the mythical Avernus Station, where Palpatine was said to have stored troves of Dark Side artifacts and knowledge. After three years of fruitless searching, a disastrous defeat at the hands of [[JediAcademyTrilogy Natasi Daala]] led Vaklas to the station at last. Using the knowledge he found, Vaklas took the mantle of Darth Groznii and declared himself Dark Lord of the Sith, establishing the New Sith Order and using the information on Avernus to gather a mighty fleet. After waiting out the Yuuzhan Vong War in secret, the Sith-led forces of Groznii's Empire turned on each other, annihilating his forces and causing the deaths of both Groznii and most of his Dark Council. Out of this civil war, one man rose to prominence: Darth Xaos. Relocating from the Core to the ancient Sith world of Dromund Kaas, Xaos rebuilt the New Sith Order and began forging alliances, most notably with the Chiss Ascendancy, and gathering resources for the Sith's re-emergence onto the galactic stage.

*** Luke and Xaos' final duel happens in the statue room of Bast Castle on Vjun, and the statue is still there (albeit in pieces). The statue and castle previously appeared in both ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' and ''VideoGame/JediAcademy''. Kyle Katarn also brings up his visit to Vjun in Jedi Academy when the location is first brought up.

It's 35 years after [[ANewHope the Battle of Yavin]]. The [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] were defeated 6 years ago, the Jedi Order began rebuilding, and the Galaxy started piecing itself back together after the war's end. Everything should be going fine, right? If only. During Palpatine's rule, there existed a man named Andor Vaklas, one of Palpatine's Dark Side Elite used to help manage his Empire. When Palpatine died his [[ComicBook/DarkEmpire final death]] in 11ABY, Vaklas, realising the impeding power struggles, took his forces away from the galaxy into the Deep Core in search of the mythical Avernus Station, where Palpatine was said to have stored troves of Dark Side artifacts and knowledge. After three years of fruitless searching, a disastrous defeat at the hands of [[JediAcademyTrilogy Natasi Daala]] led Vaklas to the station at last. Using the knowledge he found, Vaklas took the mantle of Darth Groznii and declared himself Dark Lord of the Sith, establishing the New Sith Order and using the information on Avernus to gather a mighty fleet. After waiting out the Yuuzhan Vong War in secret, the Sith-led forces of Groznii's Empire turned on each other, annihilating his forces and causing the deaths of both Groznii and most of his Dark Council. Out of this civil war, one man rose to prominence: Darth Xaos. Relocating from the Core to the ancient Sith world of Dromund Kaas, Xaos rebuilt the New Sith Order and began forging alliances, most notably with the Chiss Ascendancy, and gathering resources for the Sith's re-emergence onto the galactic stage.

** A group of Sun Guard[[note]]Who get the most screentime in ''DarthPlagueis''[[/note]], set up shop in Wraith Squadron's old [[Literature/XWingSeries Hawk-bat base]], which Vanno visits. The same mission also featured a planet in the first Rogue Squadron novel where the New Republic dumped a small Imperial ship (as well as the ship itself), and the [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Mandalorian base on Dxun]], which has become a heritage site for the Mandalorians.

** The New Bethrezen Opera House features ''Palpatine'', a grueling seven-hour play retelling the life of the eponymous character. The first few hours are essentially a (highly musical) retelling of ''DarthPlagueis''.

* {{Above Good and Evil}}: Most members of the Brotherhood consider themselves to be this. Those few that do believe in good and evil think that they’re the ones who decide [[{{KnightTemplar}} what qualifies as which.]]

** Also averted in the case of the Union itself. They ''do'' have a fair bit of cash (mostly due to the membership of planets like [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lianna Lianna]] and [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dac Dac/Mon Calamari]]), but most of it is spent on lighter-class ships like patrol cruisers (so they can't afford many heavier ships), and the Galactic Alliance still has funding numerous orders of magnitude above the Union's.

* {{Back from the Dead}}: [[Literature/XWingSeries Warlord]] [[Literature/TheCourtshipofPrincessLeia Zsinj]] in the site's backstory. This didn't last; he died alongside his master Groznii at the end of the First Schism.
* BadassArmy: Pretty much the whole point of the Sith Warlord Master path. This currently consists of the Jaig Legion (Darth Reaver), with another being created (the New Alderaanian Defence Initiative, under Darth Ares).
** Additionally, a former member of the site had one (Lady Vidia's Wachetroopers), and destroying them was a major part of a past site-wide.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: The Force Ghosts of the dead Dark Lords. As of Darth Xaos’ funeral it’s official Brotherhood doctrine that one needs their blessing to be Dark Lord. Some are actively involved in furthering the Sith cause in the world of the living but most prefer to lounge about in Chaos waiting for sacrifice and worship.

* {{Brotherhood of Evil}}

* {{Church Militant}}: The New Sith Brotherhood itself. Pretty much any Order of Sith, actually.
* {{Command Roster}}: Ignoring individual ships, Union Military Hierarchy goes [[http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr323/Blade-Angel/NSB/hierarchy.png thusly]].
** Political hierachy, meanwhile, goes like [[http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j333/reaverstransportationsolutions/Xaos%20Images/Political20.png this]].

* {{Continuity Nod}}: Many, many, many. Individual characters frequently reference past events that happened in both their own personal storylines, and to the wider community. Larger site events, such as site-wides, usually have resounding effects and link to later or previous site-wides. Then there's little in-jokes in dialogue and descriptions that will go over your head if you don't recognise the reference. References to canon are also plentiful, especially when canon characters are involved. Some of the more noticeable examples:
** Wedge, seeing the Union deploy an Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer, wishes that [[ComicBook/{{Dark Empire}} Artoo was around to destroy it like last time.]]
** A group of Sun Guard[[note]]Who get the most screentime in {{Darth Plagueis}}[[/note]], set up shop in Wraith Squadron's old [[{{Literature/XWing Series}} Hawk-bat base]], which Vanno visits. The same mission also featured a planet in the first Rogue Squadron novel where the New Republic dumped a small Imperial ship (as well as the ship itself), and the [[{{VideoGame/Knights of the Old Republic}} Mandalorian base on Dxun]], which has become a heritage site for the Mandalorians.
** When faced with the emergence of an enormous load of biomechanical horrors, Reaver comments that it might be related to the [[{{Literature/Death Troopers}} Blacklight virus]] (and fortunately is wrong). Reaver as a character makes more references to canon events than most.
** The New Bethrezen Opera House features ''Palpatine'', a grueling seven-hour play retelling the life of the eponymous character. The first few hours are essentially a (highly musical) retelling of {{Darth Plagueis}}.

*** Luke mentally recalls Mara's analogy of being unable to hear the sound of birds in a factory from [[{{Literature/Hand of Thrawn}} the Hand of Thrawn Duology]].
*** When he needs to slip into Union space, he uses an old freighter that previously appeared only in [[{{Literature/New Jedi Order}} Star by Star]].
*** Jacen Solo taking Luke's son Ben on a camping trip to Endor is mentioned. This is notable because a) it actually happens about a year earlier than [[{{Literature/Dark Nest Trilogy}} in canon]], and b) ''actually happens'', whereas in canon it's a lie Jacen makes up to cover a trip to Hapes.
*** When trying to pass as a member of the Union's Dark Disciples, Luke completes the disguise by styling his facial expression to look like [[{{Literature/Jedi Academy Trilogy}} a Hutt with eyebrows]].
*** Luke and Xaos' final duel happens in the statue room of Bast Castle on Vjun, and the statue is still there (albeit in pieces). The statue and castle previously appeared in both {{Comic/Dark Empire}} and {{VideoGame/Jedi Academy}}. Kyle Katarn also brings up his visit to Vjun in Jedi Academy when the location is first brought up.

* {{Cool Ship}}: Being that this is Star Wars, there's a lot of these; however, special mention needs to go to the Ascendancy-class Destroyers. Based off of an [[http://blueroguevyse.deviantart.com/art/EVE-Online-The-Ascendancy-182561598 entry to]] {{Eve Online}}'s design-a-ship contest, they're basically flying railguns designed solely to tackle larger targets (up to Cruiser classification, with escort).

* {{Cybernetics Eat Your Soul}}: Following on from established precedent in canon (most notably Darth Vader himself), cyborg characters receive a large penalty to their Spirit (Force) stat.
* {{Darker and Edgier}}: NSB has some peers in the Star Wars Extended Universe in terms of darkness and edginess, but not many.
* {{Depending on the Writer}}: The characterisation of Jedi varies between mission runners, usually ranging from Jedi in-name-only (they're more like the stereotypical, brutish image of Sith) that attack the Sith on-sight, to the real deal who approach the Sith diplomatically, attempt to persuade them back to the Light Side and don't attack first.

* [[{{CutsceneIncompetence}} GM Post Incompetence]]
* {{Enemy Civil War}}: Or, more accurately, Protagonist Civil War; lots of those. The New Sith Order went through four different Sith Schisms before being reformed into the New Sith Brotherhood. There was nearly a fifth when Darth Byss planned to seize power in the aftermath of the Fourth Schism but, in the fashion of a true [[{{TheStarscream}} Starscream]], the plan fell flat on its ass. And nearly *again* when Lady Vidia tried to replace Xaos (whose death she had helped arrange) but failed to gain sufficient support amongst the Sith to truly cause a Schism. There have also been two Obsidian Union Civil Wars, the first of which was the same conflict as the Fourth Sith Schism while the second was the same as the second almost-Schism.
* EnemyMine: The roots of the Obsidian Union came from Xaos convincing several planets that the Galactic Alliance wasn't all that great. Things snowballed from there.

* {{Equal Opportunity Evil}}: Humans aren’t the majority in the Brotherhood, just the largest minority. In the Union as a whole it’s doubtful that they’re even that. The current Dark Lord not only isn’t human but is a member of a species that only recently returned from the brink of extinction. This is a ''big'' change from how things were under Palpatine.
* {{Evil is Not Well Lit}}: Both averted and played straight. New Bethrezen has lights which imitate natural sunlight...yet its Sith Temple never seems to get any of it.
* {{Evil is One Big Happy Family}}: Though the Brotherhood would likely take issue with this phrasing, this is the goal of the New Sith Brotherhood’s founding document: the Code of Brotherhood. Interestingly, this is both played straight ''and'' [[EvilVsEvil averted]], with the brotherhood often fighting other Dark Side force users.
* {{Evil is Sexy}}: ''Every'' female player-character and a few of the male ones as well.
* {{Evil versus Evil}}: There have been five Civil Wars so far, spurred on by real life events. See below.
* EvilOverlord: The Sith in general, from almost all viewpoints.

* {{From a Certain Point of View}}
* {{From Nobody to Nightmare}}: A sizable number of Sith start off with fairly inconspicuous backgrounds or upbringings, most of them not being particularly famous in their past. Give them a few years and they'll be pretty high up on the Galactic Alliance's shoot-on-sight list.

* {{Grey and Gray Morality}}: The Union-Alliance conflict.
* {{Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique}}: Inquisitors get a bonus to their intimidation stat if they decide to get less civil in their persuasions.

* {{Life Drain}}: Surprisingly averted; no characters actually have the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_drain Drain Life]] Force power, despite it being one of the more symbolic Dark Side powers.
* {{Meaningful Name}}: Generally speaking, a person's Sith name gives you a good idea of their personality.
* {{Melee a Trois}}: Union vs Alliance vs One Sith (who are mostly fighting the Brotherhood from the shadows).

* {{Monologuing}}: Bigger villains (like site-wide bosses) are fond of this. More savvy members of the Brotherhood usually go on the offensive the moment they go to draw breath.
** If the GM gives them the chance.
* {{Mood Whiplash}}: Due to varying levels of seriousness between characters and players, there's the occasional instance of this, sometimes in the same character. It can be very disconcerting to go from one character hacking up the body of his opponent and charring the pieces with lightning to make sure he's dead, to that same character dancing like Michael Jackson in Thriller a few months later.
** To be fair though, most of the silly, out-of-character stuff takes place in the Condor Club, which is generally taken as being ambiguously fanon at best, with the occasional obvious exception (such as two characters announcing their marriage).

* NinetiesAntiHero: Though almost never played straight (no-one bothers with excessive pouches or suffers from [[EyesAlwaysClosed Youngblood’s disease]], many of the Union-aligned characters can be seen as Reconstructions of this trope. The current Dark Lord, Darth Lucifer, fits it rather well; being a muscle-bound badass who does not hesitate to kill in battle (often in grizzly ways) and is named after the Devil. He may have also been influenced by ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', who is himself a prototypical example. Lucifer’s predecessor, Darth Xaos, may have lacked the action-movie influenced traits of a Nineties Anti-Hero but still has more than a few shades of it. Sporting a [[BaldOfEvil shaved head]] and [[BeardOfEvil goatee]] coupled with a name starting with ‘X’ are just the most superficial of these traits. Xaos managed to couple absolutely ruthless ambition and a sadistic streak a mile wide with enough [[BetterLivingThroughEvil positive effects]] on the Galaxy in such a way as to easily qualify. Lucifer’s distant relative and bitter rival, Darth Exolus, also meets many of the requirements nicely. He’s done *many* questionable or outright atrocious things (including matricide) but always in the name of his people’s benefit. Though one gets the sense that “his” is [[ItsAllAboutMe more important]] than “people” in that sentence. And anyone who has paid more than five seconds of attention to him doesn’t need to be told why Darth Reaver fits this trope. Some, such as Darth Ares and Darth Drakonis, manage to avert it though.

* {{Peoples Republic of Tyranny}}: The Obsidian Union’s idea of freedom basically boils down to the Sith being free to dominate the Galaxy.

* {{Ring World Planet}}: New Bethrezen, an enormous torus located in the orbit of a remote gas giant in a, strategically and resource-wise, worthless solar system that serves as the headquarters of the Obsidian Union.

* {{Romanticism vs Enlightenment}}: The Union and GA respectively. Of course, both governments represent a somewhat cynical take on the inevitable results of their respective philosophies (see People’s Republic of Tyranny).

* {{Running Gag}}: True to Star Wars fashion, the words "I've got a bad feeling about this" are usually uttered at least once per mission.

* {{Space Pirates}}: The Union ''loves'' these, providing them with safe haven and pointing them at the Galactic Alliance to harass and raid as much as they please. Most pirates in the Union have unified under the banner of the Brotherhood of Independent Traders, which is also tasked with controlling the flow of traffic and people to and from New Bethrezen, the Union's secret capital.
* StateSec: Union Intelligence.
* {{The Dark Side}}: Take a wild guess.
* {{The Heretic}}: The Brotherhood applies this to anyone who claims to be a Sith but doesn’t agree with its principles. These individuals in turn apply it to the Brotherhood.
* {{The Man Behind the Man}}: Sith Architects are the epitome of this trope: as opposed to Warlords (who focus on leading armies) and Priest-Kings (who take a religious angle), Architects have huge webs of contacts, influences and resources across the Galaxy, running their operations from the shadows and controlling their puppets using whatever proxy method they need.
** Then there is, of course, the Dark Lord himself, and arguably the Dark Side Spirits in this Fanon as well (Xaos certainly could be argued to still be running the Union from beyond the grave).
* {{The Red Baron}}: Higher level characters are fond of giving themselves titles; Lucifer is the "Lord of War", Reaver the "Lord of Battle", Exolus is "Emperor Narat" or "His Royal Highness" etc etc etc.
** A couple of high-level Union positions also fall into this, such as "Scourge".
* {{The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized}}: The Obsidian Union; what else would you expect from revolutionaries led by Sith?
* {{The Starscream}}: A whole truck load. Most recently there was Lady Vidia; the wife of Dark Lord Xaos who ensured that Luke Skywalker got the information he needed to slay the immortal Xaos. She assumed she could then seize control of the New Sith Brotherhood and Obsidian Union but failed due to being unable to attract any allies amongst the Brotherhood.
**Darth Nefarious only slightly fits this trope since he declared himself Dark Lord in defiance of the Sith Council rather than betraying a single {{Big Bad}}. The treachery and eventual failure of his power grab means he does fit it somewhat, however.
** Darth Raziel and Darth Unrivaled could be seen as {{Well Intentioned Extremist}} variations of this trope. Convinced he had achieved an understanding of the Force beyond that of other Sith, Raziel declared himself the leader of a new group called the [[{{TheHashshashin}} Sith’ar]] and sought to wipe out “unenlightened” Sith. His followers consisted of his apprentices, Darth Unrivaled, Unrivaled’s apprentices and much of the Union’s military (up until then commanded by Unrivaled). The conflict initiated by this is variously called the Sith’ar Heresy, the Fourth Sith Schism and the First Union Civil War and lead to the reformation of the New Sith Order as the New Sith Brotherhood.
** However, the character from NSB’s metaplot that fits this trope so well as to make its namesake seem trustworthy is [[{{SmugSnake}} Darth Byss]]. A Yuuzhan Vong with an absurdly low Presence Stat of three, Byss never made any secret of his desire for absolute power. When the Code of Brotherhood was issued after the Fourth Schism in order to turn the Sith into one, big, happy evil family it rubbed Byss’ (type four) [[{{TheSocialDarwinist}} Social Darwinism]] the wrong way. He immediately set about planning a take over. Said plan was immediately uncovered and he was forced to flee with his followers in tow. They then founded their own Sith group which very quickly fell apart due to infighting.
*** The members of the first Sith Council averted this trope by being successful in their overthrow of Darth Groznii (except for those who would go on to have it applied to them later).

* {{Your Mind Makes It Real}}: Force Illusion, with a high enough rank in the power, can be used to outright kill people with weak enough minds. There's also a school of Sith Magic which is essentially Force Illusion ramped UpToEleven, which also qualifies.
* {{Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters}}: The Union. Propanganda paints them as heroic liberators against the corrupt totalitarian regime of the Galactic Alliance. Woe to the poor soul who actually believes this is true.

* {{Back from the Dead}}: [[{{XWingSeries}} Warlord]] [[Literature/TheCourtshipofPrincessLeia Zsinj]] in the site's backstory. This didn't last; he died alongside his master Groznii at the end of the First Schism.

** If the male version of this trope is prevalent among Sith then its feminine version is nigh unto universal. Thus far Darth Amorata is the only one to have averted it completely. Admittedly, the absurd, [[Creator/RobLiefeld Liefeldian]] anatomies and beyond-scandalous outfits are dialed back to a more reasonable level (we did say ‘Reconstruction’, remember) but one has to imagine that the Brotherhood’s ladies have gotten used to dropped jaws. In fact, Lady Vidia’s early characterization was strongly influenced by [[{{Comicbook/Witchblade}} Sara Pezzini]], perhaps *the* archetypal Nineties Anti-Heroine.

** If the male version of this trope is prevalent among Sith then its feminine version is nigh unto universal. Thus far Darth Amorata is the only one to have averted it completely. Admittedly, the absurd, [[RobLiefeld Liefeldian]] anatomies and beyond-scandalous outfits are dialed back to a more reasonable level (we did say ‘Reconstruction’, remember) but one has to imagine that the Brotherhood’s ladies have gotten used to dropped jaws. In fact, Lady Vidia’s early characterization was strongly influenced by [[{{Comicbook/Witchblade}} Sara Pezzini]], perhaps *the* archetypal Nineties Anti-Heroine.

* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Sith Sorcery/Alchemy and Elemental Magic. No class is capable of using both. Not even the philosopher's stone abilities of one of the Acolyte master paths, which lets them use ''any'' force power untrained, can't let them use the elemental magic of the witches/warlocks, and likewise, the witches/warlocks are unable to use Sith Sorcery or Alchemy. [[InterserviceRivalry This creates a sizable dose of tension between the Acolytes and the Witches/Warlocks.]]

** Wedge, seeing the Union deploy an Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer, wishes that [[{{Dark Empire}} Artoo was around to destroy it like last time.]]

It's 35 years after [[ANewHope the Battle of Yavin]]. The [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] were defeated 6 years ago, the Jedi Order began rebuilding, and the Galaxy started piecing itself back together after the war's end. Everything should be going fine, right? If only. During Palpatine's rule, there existed a man named Andor Vaklas, one of Palpatine's Dark Side Elite used to help manage his Empire. When Palpatine died his [[DarkEmpire final death]] in 11ABY, Vaklas, realising the impeding power struggles, took his forces away from the galaxy into the Deep Core in search of the mythical Avernus Station, where Palpatine was said to have stored troves of Dark Side artifacts and knowledge. After three years of fruitless searching, a disastrous defeat at the hands of [[JediAcademyTrilogy Natasi Daala]] led Vaklas to the station at last. Using the knowledge he found, Vaklas took the mantle of Darth Groznii and declared himself Dark Lord of the Sith, establishing the New Sith Order and using the information on Avernus to gather a mighty fleet. After waiting out the Yuuzhan Vong War in secret, the Sith-led forces of Groznii's Empire turned on each other, annihilating his forces and causing the deaths of both Groznii and most of his Dark Council. Out of this civil war, one man rose to prominence: Darth Xaos. Relocating from the Core to the ancient Sith world of Dromund Kaas, Xaos rebuilt the New Sith Order and began forging alliances, most notably with the Chiss Ascendancy, and gathering resources for the Sith's re-emergence onto the galactic stage.

It's 35 years after [[{{ANewHope}} the Battle of Yavin]]. The [[{{NewJediOrder}} Yuuzhan Vong]] were defeated 6 years ago, the Jedi Order began rebuilding, and the Galaxy started piecing itself back together after the war's end. Everything should be going fine, right? If only. During Palpatine's rule, there existed a man named Andor Vaklas, one of Palpatine's Dark Side Elite used to help manage his Empire. When Palpatine died his [[{{DarkEmpire}} final death]] in 11ABY, Vaklas, realising the impeding power struggles, took his forces away from the galaxy into the Deep Core in search of the mythical Avernus Station, where Palpatine was said to have stored troves of Dark Side artifacts and knowledge. After three years of fruitless searching, a disastrous defeat at the hands of [[{{JediAcademyTrilogy}} Natasi Daala]] led Vaklas to the station at last. Using the knowledge he found, Vaklas took the mantle of Darth Groznii and declared himself Dark Lord of the Sith, establishing the New Sith Order and using the information on Avernus to gather a mighty fleet. After waiting out the Yuuzhan Vong War in secret, the Sith-led forces of Groznii's Empire turned on each other, annihilating his forces and causing the deaths of both Groznii and most of his Dark Council. Out of this civil war, one man rose to prominence: Darth Xaos. Relocating from the Core to the ancient Sith world of Dromund Kaas, Xaos rebuilt the New Sith Order and began forging alliances, most notably with the Chiss Ascendancy, and gathering resources for the Sith's re-emergence onto the galactic stage.

[[http://www.newsithbrotherhood.com/index.php Site link.]]

* {{All Your Powers Combined}}: Characters can, if their Spirit (Force) stat is high enough, combine several individual Force Powers and a skill into a new power with effects derived from all of them. Usually they're balanced out be being either situational or just a straight-up combination of the effects of those powers (such as using Repulse and Lightning at exactly the same time).
* {{All There in the Manual}}: A lot of information on past events, organisation of the Union, information on locations and individuals etc is contained in the Fanon section of the site, which form a significant chunk of the core of the site. Most fanon-specific information[[note]]Read as: information unique to the site metaplot and thus not on Wookiepedia[[/note]] is found here.

* [[{{Always Night}} Always Day]]: Averted with New Bethrezen. Despite being a space station (most of which are permanently day-time with some having day/night cycles in certain areas (like crew areas)), it has a fully-functional weather system and day/night cycle.
* {{And I Must Scream}}: Higher-level Brotherhood members are fond of subjecting people they don't like to this. See the characters page for more specific examples.

* {{Arbitrarily Large Bank Account}}: This is generally the case with Sith Lords, who fairly often throw around large sums of money without batting an eye. Justified in that Lords, due to their Influences path ability, usually have colossal interstellar corporations (like Kuat Drive Yards or Corellian Engineering Corporation) to pull obscene amounts of money out of[[note]]KDY, for example, once dropped enough money on the Corporate Sector (50 quadrillion credits) to cover the cost of over 3 ''billion'' Imperial Star Destroyers, going by the figures on Wookiepedia[[/note]].

* {{Awesome by Analysis}}: Everyone of Knight level and above. Once you reach level 7 and are Knighted, you can't receive training anymore. Whilst you ''can'' (and often will) receive points in certain skills or powers as mission rewards, the vast majority of your skills from that point on are going to be learned and upgraded using skill points, perks, force power points etc. Everyone is effectively teaching themselves (to potentially ''enormous'' levels of skill in certain areas) from level 7 on.

* {{Bigger Bad}}/{{Orcus on his Throne}}: The Force Ghosts of the dead Dark Lords. As of Darth Xaos’ funeral it’s official Brotherhood doctrine that one needs their blessing to be Dark Lord. Some are actively involved in furthering the Sith cause in the world of the living but most prefer to lounge about in Chaos waiting for sacrifice and worship.
* [[{{Bad Guy Bar}} Bad Guy Club]]: The Condor Club. Leave your sanity at the door and take nothing inside as canon unless explicitly stated to do so.
* {{Black and Gray Morality}}: Though they haven’t made too many appearances thus far, the One Sith make the New Sith Brotherhood seem a lot nicer by comparison. This also applies to any group of Sith who aren’t part of the Brotherhood.
* {{Boring Yet Practical}}: Pretty much every piece of equipment the Union uses. As opposed to the Empire which preceded it, the Union doesn't have access to a galaxy of resources to spew out superweapons and terror symbols, so they usually have to make do with whatever they can get their hands on. Their tech is slowly improving as time goes by though, due to increases in territory and new alliances.

* {{Chekhovs Armoury}}: Dol Gorath, a hidden world containing an arsenal of weapons and war machines left over from a bunch of Sith smashed by the Union's (at the time) Chiss Allies during the First Schism. Darth Ares and Lady Hecate uncovered it and the large quantities of vehicles and weapons it housed in its cache, a major boon to the severely under-equipped Federal Military.

* {{Nineties Anti Hero}}: Though almost never played straight (no-one bothers with excessive pouches or suffers from [[EyesAlwaysClosed Youngblood’s disease]], many of the Union-aligned characters can be seen as Reconstructions of this trope. The current Dark Lord, Darth Lucifer, fits it rather well; being a muscle-bound badass who does not hesitate to kill in battle (often in grizzly ways) and is named after the Devil. He may have also been influenced by {{Judge Dredd}} who is himself a prototypical example. Lucifer’s predecessor, Darth Xaos, may have lacked the action-movie influenced traits of a Nineties Anti-Hero but still has more than a few shades of it. Sporting a [[BaldOfEvil shaved head]] and [[BeardOfEvil goatee]] coupled with a name starting with ‘X’ are just the most superficial of these traits. Xaos managed to couple absolutely ruthless ambition and a sadistic streak a mile wide with enough [[BetterLivingThroughEvil positive effects]] on the Galaxy in such a way as to easily qualify. Lucifer’s distant relative and bitter rival, Darth Exolus, also meets many of the requirements nicely. He’s done *many* questionable or outright atrocious things (including matricide) but always in the name of his people’s benefit. Though one gets the sense that “his” is [[ItsAllAboutMe more important]] than “people” in that sentence. And anyone who has paid more than five seconds of attention to him doesn’t need to be told why Darth Reaver fits this trope. Some, such as Darth Ares and Darth Drakonis, manage to avert it though.

** It's also generally safe to assume that if you're going up a large amount of enemies you're going to be okay, whereas if you're fighting just one or two, you're in for a tough one.

*** When trying to pass as a member of the Union's Dark Disciples, Luke completes the disguise by styling his facial expression to look like [[{{Literature/I Jedi}} a Hutt with eyebrows]].

* {{Continuity Nod}}: To many to list, both to past site-events and Star Wars canon in general.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Flips around a bit, but usually if a character has some sort of extremely powerful attack, be it a high-level Force Power or a Combination Power, it's safe to assume it won't work. At least, not straight away.

* {{Back from the Dead}}: [[{{XWingSeries}} Warlord]] [[{{TheCourtshipofPrincessLeia}} Zsinj]] in the site's backstory. This didn't last; he died alongside his master Groznii at the end of the First Schism.

** Also averted in the case of the Union itself. They ''do'' have a fair bit of cash (mostly due to the membership of planets like [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lianna Lianna]] and [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dac Dac/Mon Calimari]]), but most of it is spent on lighter-class ships like patrol cruisers (so they can't afford many heavier ships), and the Galactic Alliance still has funding numerous orders of magnitude above the Union's.

* {{Continuity Nod}}: Past events (site-wides in particular) are frequently referenced and acknowledged (often to the IC confusion of others who weren't present for them), to say nothing of lines lifted from and references to the movies and canon in general.

* {{All There in the Manual}}: A lot of information on past events, organisation of the Union, information on locations and individuals etc is contained in the Fanon section of the site, which form a significant chunk of the core of the site. Most fanon-specific information[[hottip:*:Read as: information unique to the site metaplot and thus not on Wookiepedia]] is found here.

* {{Arbitrarily Large Bank Account}}: This is generally the case with Sith Lords, who fairly often throw around large sums of money without batting an eye. Justified in that Lords, due to their Influences path ability, usually have colossal interstellar corporations (like Kuat Drive Yards or Corellian Engineering Corporation) to pull obscene amounts of money out of[[hottip:*:KDY, for example, once dropped enough money on the Corporate Sector (50 quadrillion credits) to cover the cost of over 3 ''billion'' Imperial Star Destroyers, going by the figures on Wookiepedia]].

* FaceHeelTurn: These are Sith. Regardless of their current incarnation, it comes with the territory. One of the worst, in-character and out, was Lady Vidia's [[hottip:*:In character, the Union lost one of its most critical members (the direct point of contact for most planets and the Commander-in-Chief of all armed forces, save for the Dark Lord themself) which resulted in multiple planets seceding, another civil war and a long period of rebuilding and politicking afterwards. Out-of-character, her actions nearly resulted in the loss of the entire site (fortunately, the two most important parts, the site fanon and character bios, were preserved) and triggered its own long period of rebuilding.]], and all of the schisms in the site's history, both IC and OOC, have been caused by a backstab of some kind.

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* AcePilot: Reaver, Exolus and Ares are currently the Union's top guns, along with the elite NPC pilots of Razor and Wraith Squadron. There's a couple of pilots who also ''think'' they're this, but fail to grasp that a good fighter doesn't equal a good pilot.

* {{Evil is One Big Happy Family}}: Though the Brotherhood would likely take issue with this phrasing, this is the goal of the New Sith Brotherhood’s founding document: the Code of Brotherhood.

** The Chiss Ascendancy's Automated Droid Armies as well, despite being droids. The Chiss themselves also qualify, but they rarely see action. The upcoming [[{{DarkNestTrilogy}} Swarm War]] is likely to change this.

* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Sith Sorcery/Alchemy and Elemental Magic. No class is capable of using both. Not even the philosopher's stone abilities of one of the Acolyte master paths, which lets them use ''any'' force power untrained, can't let them use the elemental magic of the witches/warlocks, and likewise, the witches/warlocks are unable to use Sith Sorcery or Alchemy. [[InterserviceRivalry This creates a sizable dose of tension between the Acolytes and the Witches/Warlocks.]]