Post by Sidro Haanc on Aug 1, 2005 18:35:51 GMT -5
The Dark Side of the Force
The power of the Force does not come without a price, for with these abilities come great temptation to misuse them, and emotions such as hate, anger, and fear can cause a Jedi to be overcome by the dark side of the Force. The dark side is the easier path and at first can seem more powerful. In the words of Yoda, it is not actually more powerful, but only quicker and more seductive. When one goes over to the dark side, there is little hope of recovery. Only two Jedi have broken from the dark side - Ulic Quel-Droma (after killing his brother in a duel), and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader when he threw Palpatine into the Death Star II trench for hurting his son, Luke Skywalker.
The consequences of a Jedi falling to the dark side of the Force are quite high, not only for the fallen individual, but for many others as well. Such Jedi are normally referred to as Dark Jedi. Dark Jedi and the Sith are often confused as the same. Dark Jedi study both the light and dark sides of the Force, but devote themselves to the dark side, yet do not follow a belief like the Sith. However, some Dark Jedi do become members of the Sith Order, and are vastly superior. Sith normally use red lightsabers, but Dark Jedi can use any color for their lightsabers.
The Sith lords were said to have come into existence nearly 25,000 years BBY. Begun by a heretical Jedi called Xendor, this sect embraced the dark side of the Force as a means to power, and was opposed to the philosophy embraced by the Jedi, that is, service and justice in the defense of the common good. This caused a split with the Jedi Order and resulted in several galactic wars over the millennia, including the Great Hyperspace War and at least three Sith Wars. One thousand years BBY, the Sith Order was believed to have finally been destroyed at the Battle of Ruusan. One Dark Lord, Darth Bane, survived, however, and reformed the order, restarting the tradition apparently begun by Darth Revan of passing down the name "Darth" to his successors, naming both master and apprentice as a Dark Lord of the Sith and beginning the "rule of two." This rule would allow the Sith to remain hidden from the Jedi and would help prevent the kind of civil war within the Sith's own ranks that had led to the original Sith Empire's destruction and almost to that of the Order. For the next 1,000 years, the Sith Order carried on in concealment from the Jedi, biding their time until conditions in the galaxy were right for them to resurface.
The power of the Force does not come without a price, for with these abilities come great temptation to misuse them, and emotions such as hate, anger, and fear can cause a Jedi to be overcome by the dark side of the Force. The dark side is the easier path and at first can seem more powerful. In the words of Yoda, it is not actually more powerful, but only quicker and more seductive. When one goes over to the dark side, there is little hope of recovery. Only two Jedi have broken from the dark side - Ulic Quel-Droma (after killing his brother in a duel), and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader when he threw Palpatine into the Death Star II trench for hurting his son, Luke Skywalker.
The consequences of a Jedi falling to the dark side of the Force are quite high, not only for the fallen individual, but for many others as well. Such Jedi are normally referred to as Dark Jedi. Dark Jedi and the Sith are often confused as the same. Dark Jedi study both the light and dark sides of the Force, but devote themselves to the dark side, yet do not follow a belief like the Sith. However, some Dark Jedi do become members of the Sith Order, and are vastly superior. Sith normally use red lightsabers, but Dark Jedi can use any color for their lightsabers.
The Sith lords were said to have come into existence nearly 25,000 years BBY. Begun by a heretical Jedi called Xendor, this sect embraced the dark side of the Force as a means to power, and was opposed to the philosophy embraced by the Jedi, that is, service and justice in the defense of the common good. This caused a split with the Jedi Order and resulted in several galactic wars over the millennia, including the Great Hyperspace War and at least three Sith Wars. One thousand years BBY, the Sith Order was believed to have finally been destroyed at the Battle of Ruusan. One Dark Lord, Darth Bane, survived, however, and reformed the order, restarting the tradition apparently begun by Darth Revan of passing down the name "Darth" to his successors, naming both master and apprentice as a Dark Lord of the Sith and beginning the "rule of two." This rule would allow the Sith to remain hidden from the Jedi and would help prevent the kind of civil war within the Sith's own ranks that had led to the original Sith Empire's destruction and almost to that of the Order. For the next 1,000 years, the Sith Order carried on in concealment from the Jedi, biding their time until conditions in the galaxy were right for them to resurface.