remnants of revan's sith empire, lead by the sith triumvirate, consisting of darth traya, darth nihilus, and darth sion, began a shadow war against the jedi. this first jedi purge, brought the jedi order to the brink of extinction. their downfall came about when meetra surik, a jedi who was exiled after the mandalorian wars, returned to known space. she defeated the three sith, and without the sith leadership, and the destruction of their base of operations on malachor v, the remaining sith forces faded into obscurity.