[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

the Sith to me are the ultimate cool bad concept.

for generations you had thousands of Sith wandering around as one empire or empire wannabe after another.

Finally Reven comes to the realization that the dark side of the force which is destructive by nature will create a constant side of dark side war. He also comes to the decision that the fewer hands the dark side is in the more powerful the individual.

So he dies and 3000 years later Darth Bane rises during the war between the Brother Hood of darkness and the Jedi, he is originally trained inthe brotherhood but realizes that the Sith themselves are weak and will always fight openly amongst themselves or against the Jedi and they will never take the galaxy. He sees a group of Sith as ultimately corrupting the Sith legacy. So he betrays and murders all of the Sith but himself after finding Reven's holocron.

He decides that the Sith need to re-invent themselves, use the darkside to destroy the Jedi from the shadow through manipulation and the gaining of power. He further's Reven's teaching and decides that there should only be two Sith.

Two there are no more and no less, one to embody power and one to crave it.

The Master represents that power and passes on the information to his apprentice while continuing the grand plan of the Sith, which is to reform the republic, remove corruption create a better more ordered universe based around the rule of an enlightened few (two) since mundane people will do more harm to the galaxy then good.

The Apprentice learns, executes his masters plan and strives to become more powerful then the master at which point the master is deemed unworthy and the student overthrows him and seizes the master role and takes an apprentice of his own.

Because of the rule of two the Sith understanding gained from aquiring power is always growing and shifting until you end up with Palpatine who was the most power Sith that ever lived, he was able to step from the shadows and execute the Grand Plan of the Sith. He had an apprentice who was flawed because in his form (Vader) could never be more powerful then his master.

Realistically the Banite line died when Vader took a lava bath unless he found a way to kill Palpatine.

When Vader died there was no apprentice, when Palpatine died all of the Sith knowledge gathered over 30,000 years was pretty much lost, there was no one to step into that void.

If some Jedi turned dark and decided to be a Sith he would literally have the no knowledge of the Sith Arts and no one to teach it to him.

You would have a Dark Jedi.

What's the difference you ask? A dark Jedi is an agent of chaos driven by anger and hate and revenge.

A Sith understands that those base emotions give him great power, however the Sith also learned that they needed to use those emotions as a tool in executing the Grand Plan and not become a slave to those emotions, they had to understand them to get to a higher goal.

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