[Fozzie_DeBear]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

To be honest, the Bane Books, the Darth Plageous books and even the Return of the Sith novel realy gie a sense that the whole Sith thing is more then a person merely falling to the dark side of the force and going all evil


Out comes my nerd shirt.

First and foremost the Sith don't see themselves as evil. They see the universe as what it is, the weak get crushed by the strong. The weak should serve the strong.

they also see the Sith code as a truism, Peace is a lie, and the final part through victory my chains are broken.

In other words they see the universe for what it is, they see the Jedi as entirely flawed because they serve the force instead of using the force for what it is.

Remember also that the Jedi gain power through knowledge whereas the Sith gain knowledge through power.

The Jedi believe in peace and justice.

The Sith believe in order and justice.

Why I stand on the Sith being gone.

If you look at the philosphy of the Bannite rule. Two there is a master and a apprentice, one to embody the power and one to crave it.

Basically the Sith feel that the dark side of the force is at its most powerful when its concentrated on the fewest worth individuals as possible.

The Master apprentice dynamic is also incredibly facinating. The Master takes all fo the information that he learns from his previous master and continues to add new knowledge which he passes down to his apprentice. Once the Apprentice becomes powerful enough to surpass his master, he or she will rise up and kill the master and take all of the knowledge gained and pass it onto a new apprentice while continuing to learn more.

At the same time instead of actively confronting the Jedi, they work from the shadows and set about actively causing the republic to rot until they're smart enough and powerful enough to reveal themselves, destroy the Jedi and take over the galaxy, not to destroy it, but to run it.

With all the knowledge passed down from Bane to Zannah to Cognus and all the way through to Plageous and Sideous with thousands of years of learning and culling the weak, Palpatine was pretty much a pure embodiment of thousands of years of learning and concentrated dark side.

When he died and Vader was killed, that knowledge was lost, it was interesting in the Bane books as it sounds like most of the Sith Holocrons were one use only and destroyed once a Sith used it and added its knowledge to his to protect the information.

Even though there might have been a Darth Sideous Holocron, it would take someone several life times to absorb all of that knowledge and pass it on.

You could have a dark Jedi threat in the movie, but Dark Jedi are not Sith, they're usually just evil demented hate filled former Jedi driven by the thought of revenge and destruction.

But they are nowhere near a Sith.

Sounds like Ayn Rand is a Sith