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Re: Ep1 peeves (includes episode 2 spoiler-maybe)
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Fri, 28 May 1999 23:03:29 GMT
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On Thu, 27 May 1999 13:44:46 GMT, Richard Hrynyszyn uttered the following
profundities...
> In lugnet.starwars, Jonathan Little writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > In lugnet.starwars, ljorgensen@uswest.net (Lee Jorgensen) writes:
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> > > > May include book spoilerage!!!
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> > > > At the end of TPM, Yoda and Mace were discussing the Sith, and I believe
> > > > that Yoda said "There are always two, a master and an apprentice."
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> > > > So what about the end of RotJ, where both Vader and the Emporer (I don't
> > > > remember his name), both die? Does this mean that the Sith are 'extinct'
> > > > again?
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> > > I don't think they meant that there were always supposed to be exactly two
> > > Sith...I think they meant that whenever there was one, there was another --
> > > meaning Sith in pairs rather than alone.
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> > > --Todd
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> > The way it's explained in the novelization of ep 1 (and may be common • knowledge
> > to the real SW fans) was that a billion years ago, or something, one rebel • Jedi
> > pulled toward the dark side, and began recruiting followers. The numbers grew
> > very fast, and before long there were a couple hundred in the ranks. Then they
> > all turned on each other, killing the entire group. Since then, there have • been
> > only and exacly two members: the master and the apprentice. I may have flubbed
> > the telling of this a bit, so if anyone wants to clean it up, go right ahead.
> > -Jonathan
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> Below is a small excerpt from the EP1 Novelization by Terry Brooks that
> explains the Sith:
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> The Sith had come into being almost two thousand years ago. They
> were a cult given over to the dark side of the Force, embracing fully
> the concept that power denied was power wasted. A rouge Jedi Knight had
> founded the Sith, a singular dissident in an order of harmoniou
> followers, a rebel who understood from the beginning that the real power
> of the Force lay not in the light, but in the dark Failing to gain
> approval for his beliefs from the Council, he had broken with the order,
> departing with his knowledge and his skills, swearing in secret that he
> could bring down those who had dissmissed him.
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> He was alone at first, but others from the Jedi order who believed
> as he did and who had followed him in his study of the dark side soon
> came over. Others were recuited, and soon the ranks of the Sith swelled
> to more than fifty in number. Disdaining the concepts of cooperation
> and consensus, relying on the belief that acquisition of power in any
> form lends strength and yields control, the Sith began to build their
> cult in opposition to the Jedi.
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> Their war with the Jedi was vengeful and furious and ultimately
> doomed. The rouge Jedi who founded the Sith order was its nominal
> leader, but his ambition excluded any sharing of power. His disciples
> began to conspire against him and each other almost from the begining,
> so that the war they instigated was as much with each other as with the
> Jedi.
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> In the end, the Sith destroyed themselves. They destroyed their
> leader first, then each other. What few survived the initial bloodbath
> were quickly dispatched by watchful Jedi. In a matter of only weeks,
> all of them died.
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> All but one.
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> Darth Maul shifted impatiently. The younger Sith had not yet
> learned his Master's patience; that would come with time and training.
> It was patience that had saved the Sith order in the end. It was
> patience that would give them their victory now over the Jedi.
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> The Sith who had survived when all of his fellows had died had
> understood that. He had adopted patience as a virtue when the others
> had forsaken it. He had adopted cunning, stealth, and subterfuge as the
> foundation of his way -- old Jedi virtues the others had disdained. He
> stood aside while the Sith tore at each other like kriks and were
> destroyed. When the carnage was complete, he went into hiding, biding
> his time, waiting for his change.
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> When it was believed all of the Sith were destroyed, he emerged from
> his concealment. At first he worked alone, but he was growing old and
> he was the last of his kind. Eventually, he went out in search of an
> apprentice. Finding one, he trained him to be a Master in his turn,
> then to find his own apprentice, and so to carry on their work. But
> there would only be two at any one time. There would be no repetition
> of the mistakes of the old order, no struggle between Siths warring for
> power within the cult. Their common enemy was the Jedi, not each
> other. It was for their war with the Jedi they must save themselves.
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> The Sith who reinvented the order called himself Darth Bane.
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> A thousand years had passed since the Sith were believed destroyed,
> and the time they had waited for had come at last.
Thanks for the extract.
It strikes me as odd, when in five and six, they always
detect the most minor disturbance in the force. Is it such
that in one that there are then so many that they cannot
sense the dark-side disturbance and know the Sith have
reappeared?
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