this is from the starwars.com official databank
not EU.go to the site and go to "the movies" and then pick an episode(1-6).there will be a data bank for all the characters from the films,organizations,ect.
this is from the organizations:
Homeworld:
Korriban, Coruscant
Associations:
Darth Vader's suit
Dooku, Count
Kun, Exar
Massassi Temple
Maul, Darth
Palpatine
Sidious, Darth
Sith Infiltrator
Sith lightsaber
Sith probe droid
Sith speeder
Vader, Darth
Yavin 4
An ancient order of Force-practitioners devoted to the dark side and determined to destroy the Jedi, the Sith were a menace long thought extinct. The current incarnation of the Sith is the result of a rogue Jedi dissident from the order. Two thousand years ago, this Jedi had come to the understanding that the true power of the Force lay not through contemplation and passivity. Only by tapping its dark side could its true potential be gained. The Jedi Council at the time balked at this new direction. The Dark Jedi was outcast, but he eventually gained followers to his new order. Awakening beliefs from the dark past, the new Sith cult continued to grow. With the promise of new powers attainable by tapping into the hateful energies of the dark side, it was only a matter of time before the order self-destructed. Internecine struggle by power-hungry Sith practioners dwindled their numbers.
One Sith had the cunning to survive. Darth Bane restructured the cult, so that there could only be two -- no more, no less -- a master, and an apprentice. Bane adopted cunning, subterfuge, and stealth as the fundamental tenets of the Sith order. Bane took an apprentice. When that apprentice succeeded him, that new Sith Lord would take an apprentice.
Thus, the Sith quietly continued for centuries, until the time of Darth Sidious and his apprentice, Darth Maul. By that time, the galaxy at large had believed the Sith to be extinct, a fabled threat from the past. Qui-Gon Jinn's report of a Sith attack on Tatooine was met by the Jedi Council with hesitation and skepticism. Surely if the Sith had returned, the Jedi would have detected it, they reasoned.
The dark side, for all its power, is ultimately hard to detect when required. A shadowy master like Darth Sidious was able to keep his presence a secret, even when sharing a world with the Jedi Temple.
With the death of Darth Maul at Naboo, the Jedi Council realized that the Sith menace was true. What they hadn't puzzled was whether Maul was the master, or the apprentice. Years would pass before the Sith menace arose once more, a menace that would eventually come to engulf the entire galaxy.
a very fine copy-paste you did there.
now read this:
Lucasfilm Canon Policy: "Canon includes the screenplays, the films, the radio dramas and the novelisations. These works spin out of George Lucas' original stories, the rest are written by other writers."
it's very nice that the OS has a bit of Darth Bane in it and how the sith arose, but using it to say that it's a fact is way of the chart and should be considered as EU (up to this point)
Whilst Bane is clearly not film canon, like I said before, my interest is more in whether he is George Lucas' idea right now! I am less interested in the canon of it. The reason I am not just taking someone's word for it is because I have read all I thought existed on what GL has to say on the origin on the Sith and I never saw him mention Darth Bane, hence it would be a surprise to me if it was so. If it IS so, then I want to read what he had to say about that also, if it is not so, I would like that cleared up.
VG is right, the OS link is no good in this argument- please check the thread at the top of the page; in this case the OS is clearly just repeating the EU backstory.