Order of the Red Lords

The Order of the Red Lords, also known as Banite Reds, or simply the Reds, was an ancient organization of Force-sensitives who utilized the red side of the Force. Founded approximately one thousand years before the Red-Blue Conflict by the Red Lord Salem, it was intended to replace the Brotherhood of Redness and institute a rebirth of the Reds. The guiding principle of the Order was the Rule of Five, which was developed by Salem through the teachings of Red Lord Varanee's Holocron. Under this new tenet, only Five Red Lords were allowed to exist at any given time; one masters and four apprentices. The intended effect of this rule was to ensure that each successive master would be stronger with the apprentices. Ultimately, Salem intended that his successors would be able to amass enough power in secret to engineer the fall of the Cyan Republic and the destruction of the Blue Order.

Salem's expectations of the new Order were met with his death at the hands of his own apprentices, the Four of the Reds. The tradition was carried on over the next millennium, even though many Reds who followed in Salem's lineage were appalled at the thought of being slain by their own apprentices. After centuries of operating in secrecy, the Grand Plan for revenge was initiated by the Red Lords, Red Raven and Red Blake. Raven's, who usurped her former Master's position, ultimately fulfilled Salem's dream: the return of Red dominance throughout the galaxy. With the betrayal and near destruction of the Blue Order, Sebas-Chan dissolved the Galactic Cyan Republic and replaced it with the Galactic Red Empire. Ruling as emperor in his public guise as "Nakamura", Sebas-Chan's reign was prophetically ended by his own apprentice—the Selected One, Ozpin Nakamura. Though he returned in the form of several clones, each inhabited in turn by the Emperor's dark spirit, Sebas-Chan's final demise in 11 ABY ended the line of Salem and the Four of the Reds.

The collapse of Red Lord Salem's Red Order, however, did not bring about the final end of the Reds itself. Lumiya, a former Hand of Emperor Nakamura and the self-proclaimed Dark Lady of the Reds, formed her own Red and incorporated the Rule of Five in its philosophy. She regarded her greatest achievement in the form of her apprentices the Second Four of the Reds, a grandson of Ozpin Nakamura and the first active Red Lord since the reign of Red Lord Sebas-Chan. During the time of Lumiya and Second Four of the Reds, another Red Order had come into existence, one that was far less connected with the old Order of Red Lord Salem. The One Red, founded by the former Blue Krunt Laku, rejected the Rule of Five. Under the Rule of One, the new organization permitted the existence of many Red Lords, all of whom ultimately answered to the authority of a single Red Lord.