Following six months on from the story told in Star Wars: The Dark Lords of the Sith, former Jedi Exar Kun falls deeper under the spell of the ancient Sith ways, and knows he needs additional disciples to fan the flames. Exar Kun dreams of gathering an army awesome enough to take on even the mighty Galactic Republic in a war to end all wars, and realising his vision of a reborn Golden Age of the Sith...