1- What does it mean to you to be a Sith?
Freedom. Having Force Sensitivity is rare, but not impossible. Though, what is the point of having Force Powers and not using them? I want to be able to choose what powers I use for myself without some "Master" telling me I can't because it's mean or bad.
2- Why did you choose to follow the darkside? Take the path of the Sith and not the Jedi or Grey?
As was stated before, I want the freedom to use the Force as I see fit. That is not the Jedi way. Could it be the Grey way? Possibly, but there isn't anyone around to learn that. For now, I want to learn all there is about the Force, and that's only possible through the Sith.
OOC: I do think I, personally, would be "Grey." Perhaps Rayne will find he truly is Grey down the road. No one knows their destiny.
3- Recite the “Sith Code”. Explain it in detail. How do you think and feel it applies to you and your characters?
Peace is a lie. There is only Passion.
Through Passion, I gain Strength.
Through Strength, I gain Power.
Through Power, I gain Victory.
Through Victory my chains are Broken.
The Force shall free me.
"Peace is a lie. There is only Passion." - to believe in peace, one has to believe that
everyone is willing to put aside personal wants and needs for a greater good. That won't happen. Never has. Never will. In any "utopia" there will always be someone willing to subvert the "greater good" for their personal gain. Usually that's the person in charge, he'll just mask that sledge hammer in silk to make the whack feel better.
"Through Passion, I gain Strength." - by believing that my passion, and others along with it, will lead to better things, I will follow what is natural and right to its own natural extension. If someone's passion doesn't pan out, it's OK. There are others passions that will carry the organization to its power. Consider in our own universe the corporation known as IBM, International Business Machines. Each division of IBM explores its own passion, trying to explore it to its own end, trying to bring it to its own power. If that division fails, the rest of the organization won't because there are other passions waiting and working to take the fore.
"Through Strength, I gain Power." - an extension of the previous concept, saying that, by working on my passion, I will eventually be able to find personal power in my expertise.
"Through Power, I gain Victory." - How does the Sith succeed? How does it gain Victory? By supplanting the Light Side as the prominent ideal in the universe. There's no real need to "replace" the Jedi. As a matter of fact, having them exist makes the Sith a stronger entity by acting as a sharpening stone.
"Through Victory my chains are Broken." - What chains? What is restraining me? What is holding me back. That would be anything where a higher-up says, "avoid that. That's a bad thing." Who defines a bad thing? I grab someone's throat and throttle them. That's a bad thing. Unless that person is a rapist or a thief. In that case, I'm acting in favor of the oppressed. This is the same reasoning as Batman in the DCU. Superman, of course, is the light sider, always being on the side of truth, justice and the American way. But what happens when that justice sets Joe Chill free on a technicality? Where's the justice then? Sometimes those chains aren't forged by bad things. Sometimes they're forged by good things, restraining our truer nature.
"The Force shall free me." - It allows us to use our natural powers to be what we can be. It doesn't tell us something is wrong or bad. It allows us to take the action we know is right because we know it's right. It allows us to be our own determiner of that right. At the same time, it allows others to be the determiner if our actions are right or true. We can be taken to power if we become the bad part of the Galaxy Far Far Away.
4- With your knowledge of the Code and your growing interest in the force. Explain to me what the force is? Where was it first seen or recognized in the galaxy? What are the earliest known practitioners of it? Light and dark.
I have always wanted to know the full depth and breadth of the Force. There is no light. There is no dark. What there is is the Force. That really points to the Grey, but they don't really exist.
5- Name your top ten favorite darksiders and Sith, for the first five, go into detail why you chose them and describe briefly their importance to the darkside, galaxy, and or Sith.
So, I approached this from the standpoint of "If I know the name, in my extensive reading, then they're a favorite." That's not really a great way to approach it since I haven't read many, if any, of the comics, but there it is.
- Plagueis - He is my ideal Sith. He believes in his Force Sensitivity and what it can give him. He wants to explore all of what it can give him. Really, he wants to be left alone to experiment with the Force. I really enjoyed reading about him capturing that assassin and torturing him to death, bringing him back and torturing him again. He wanted to see the depth and breadth of the Force, what it provide. He did participate in the long-view of the Sith, though, and raised the one who would finally defeat the Jedi: Darth Sidious. One can be an idealist and still have a forward-looking view of their ideals.
- Vestara Khai (and a good deal of the Lost Tribe) - I love Vestara. Always have. I loved reading about her in the Lost Tribe novels. I loved reading about her in the adjoining SW books. She was, in my mind, the quintessential Sith. She would smile to your face, yet slip a glass knife into your gut while you were distracted by her beauty. She not only did this more than a few times, but she did this to the Grand Master of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker. Not just once, but many times. Granted, he was blinded by the wild danger of Abeloth. But, still, he saw she was a danger and kept trusting in her, time after time. He lost control of his own power in deference of believing she could be something she was not. She was a Sith, through and through.
- Darth Vader - The reluctant Sith. Why did he join the Sith? To save his loved one. Not for personal power, for his love. He stayed with it because of the power it provided. He stayed with it to provide stability to the galaxy. He said the ruling powers should be "made to agree" by "someone wise." He found that wise one when he found Palpatine. It wasn't until much later that he saw otherwise and overthrew his former master. During that time, he was a Force. When he battled the Dark Lady, he defeated her with his overwhelming power. When he battled Darth Maul, he defeated him with his hatred of himself. He was a sad portrayal of Sith, but compelling in his complexity.
- Varner Hilts - This is a difficult choice. The way of the Sith is to desire power. "UNLIMITED POWER" as Emperor Palpatine said. But Hilts diminished himself for the benefit of the Lost Tribe. Does that make him a Sith? In name only, but he was a Sith. Let's call him a SINO. But for purposes of this list, he qualifies.
- Rain, AKA Darth Zannah - Bain's first apprentice. She was an unknown Force-sensitive that found out in a wonderful, awful way what Force-sensitivity can really do. Her first Force effort: genocide. She killed a race of beings known as the Bounders, light-side Force-sensitives who were really just a dog or a cat: pets. In her sorrow, she joined Bain in his quest to bring the Sith to their ultimate power. She lived with him and learned from him in ways that someone could not do with the Jedi. She learned the fullness of the Force.
- The Son - He was dark. Truly dark. He had his sister, The Daughter, to represent light. They were balanced and countered by The Father.
- Darth Tyranus - Elegance in a Sith personified.
- Darth Sidious - Yes, I've listed the master under two of his apprentices. He was good. Very good. He rose to power with the support of the Jedi. No small feat there. In fact, he blinded the Jedi. And, even in death, he survived. He came back in clone form to try to overthrow the galaxy again. The only reason he's not in my top five: he failed... twice.......... so far.
- Ulic Qel-Droma
- Exar Kun
The last two deserve more than just a mention. They were the real architects of what Darth Bane brought about. They represented the opposition to the Jedi and the light-sider way. Until them, the Je'daii were the only way to learn the Force, and a narrow-minded way of doing it. They became the Alpha of the Sith.
