The various villainous groups in the franchise, namely the Separatist Alliance, the First Galactic Empire, the Imperial Remnant, and the First Order, all originated, either directly or indirectly, from the Sith. The Sith Order are depicted as an ancient monastic and kraterocratic cultist organization of supernaturally gifted Force-wielders driven by a machiavellian- imperialist agenda of galactic domination and revenge against their arch-rivals, the Jedi Order. The Sith are the main antagonists of many works in the fictional universe of the Star Wars franchise.