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Sith Lord Chronicles
date posted: May 26, 2005 12:24 AM  |  updated: Mar 26, 2006 1:57 AM
Chronicle 2
First and foremost I would like to meet
Exar Kun: The man was the first dual bladed Sith saber user and almost destroyed the Old Republic. He also had a race of Sith users worship him and build temples for him to harness their force energy on Yavin 4. He turned many of the Jedi of his age to the dark side and he had the knowledge to spawn creatures created solely from the energy of the dark side. Also it took the ENTIRE Jedi order during his time just to BEAT him finally! The man is the uber god of Sith Lords.

Next would be Naga Sadow: He pretty much conquered Korriban and then when a Republic vessel made the casual mistake of landing there, he exacted his revenge on the Republic and caused the Great Hyperspace war that almost left the Jedi and the Republic in ruins. The Sith of Korriban were strong in the force naturally. The Dark Jedi who were banished then bred with the natives and blurred the line of what a Sith was until we got the modern incarnation of Sith to describe all dark side force users.

Freedon Nadd: He is another great Sith Lord whom I like. The man created a royal line of dark side adepts on Onderon and was buried on Dxun! No telling how much carnage he inflicted on the Mid-Rim.

Darth Bane: He doesn't have much info at present about him anywhere but to survive a war between the ultimate Jedi and Sith of his time to rebuild the order to have secrecy and stealth as it's philosophy is genius. The numbers were whittled to the point that the Jedi mistakenly believed them to be extinct for a millenium.

Question for though: Is it possible that Jedi Master Sifo Dyas was in fact Darth Plagueis? After all Sidious does kill his master and the power that the Sith were looking for (the power to influence midchlorians to gain immortality in essence or as the Jedi like Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Qui-Gon Jinn have shown the ability to become one with the force and merge with it after death in spectral form) was available only to Jedi because of the Siths greed. Isn't it quite possible that Sifo Dyas (if he was Plagueis) learned this technique as a Jedi and retained the knowledge but never had the opportunity to tell the rest to Sidious since he was murdered?

Darth Sidious: The man came up with the grandest of plans to destroy the Jedi and the Republic from within. He corrupted the Senators, he had a blockade and invasion of his own home planet, he PLAYED the "Chosen One" into betraying all he loved and was the most powerful modern Sith and possibly most powerful modern Force User in the PT and OT events. Anyone who can stand toe to toe with Yoda is a bad mofo.

Darth Maul: My personal favorite since he's the only modern dual blade user (yeah I know he got punked by Kenobi but it was more with the Sith fault of overconfidence than skill, I know Kenobi got LUCKY). The man was nothing short of a killing machine, endured the pain of Sith tatoos over his body,and handled the blade against a Jedi Master and a Jedi Padawan (who had Knight skills regardless of his rank in the movie) and nearly beat them both WITHOUT breaking a sweat!!! The man is evil personified almost in the Vader/Sidious category.

Darth Vader: What can I say about him? The suit is scary like a mofo, the breathing is spine chilling, and what command of the Force he has left for someone mostly machine is downright bone chilling. The man is 20% of what he was as a human being and still he wreaks havoc. Force choking the guy he grabbed on the Tantive IV, Admiral Piett, Captain Needa, and Admiral Motti, who had the audacity to say the force is an ancient religion. The man even used the force as a projectile weapon in a battle versus Luke (the one from the book, can't remember the name, where Luke is helped by Obi-Wan to cut off Vader's hand before the events of ESB when he and Leia go to search for the Kaiburr crystal) and even was willing to have his son or himself killed to rule the Empire. The man is ultimate evil personified.

Love or hate them I admire the Sith for the counter balance they bring to the force. It's nice to see the bad side of things but I don't like that we always have to end up with happy endings. I love ESB in the OT for this reason: The good guys lost!! If ROTS is as good a dark movie as you guys are saying it could be my second fave of the entire series.

Random Factoid: The Los Angeles Lakers became the first team to clinch an NBA title in Boston Garden by defeating the Celtics 111-100 and winning the 1985 NBA Finals 4 games to 2.

So long and I'll see you all tomorrow!