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The Battle of Ruusan is an event in the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe. It is the final major engagement of the bloody Light and Darkness War (also known as the War of Light and Dark and, less commonly, the Great Sith War), the culmination of the conflict known as the New Sith Wars. The wars began 1,000 years before the Battle of Yavin and ended after a thousand years of conflict, including internal Sith conflict, and all-out assaults on the Galactic Republic.

The conclusion of the final confrontation on Ruusan leads to the apparent extinction of the Sith, the restructuring of the Republic, and of the Jedi and Sith Orders.

The pivotal seventh battle of Ruusan results in the most powerful and last surviving Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Bane, deciding henceforth to concentrate the dark side of the Force in only one master and one apprentice.

This decision allows the Sith to hide within the Republic until their existence is finally revealed with rise of Emperor Palpatine, whose apprentices include Darth Maul, Darth Tyranus, and ultimately Darth Vader.

With the return of the Jedi Anakin Skywalker, and the eventual death of the Emperor, Darth Bane's reformed Sith Order brings to fruition the "prophecy of the Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force."

Five years after the Battle of Yavin, the Dark Jedi Jerec comes to Ruusan, where the Thought Bomb was unleashed in the Valley of the Jedi. There he dies, fighting Kyle Katarn, which results in the release of all the Jedi spirits trapped within. The second Jedi Knight game contradicts this though, as the dark jedi Desann used the Valley to empower the Force in his acolytes.

The Army of Light is the fictitious army from the Star Wars universe, comprising the combined forces of the Republic soldiers and Jedi. Led by the aged Jedi, Lord Hoth, this army opposed Lord Kaan and his Brotherhood of Darkness at the catastrophic Battle of Ruusan.

The Brotherhood of Darkness is a term in the Star Wars fictional universe. The term refers to the Sith Order that came into existence about one thousand years before the time of The Phantom Menace made up of Jedi that fell to the dark side of the force and who in the end were all but destroyed by the Jedi Knights and by their own infighting.