#sith lore

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

we all remember this:

imma walk through it, because it's worse than you think. :)

so he tips backward, suddenly unable to feel his legs...

obi-wan is just standing there, staring, the fury on his face fading to grief as he realizes that maul is finished, but qui-gon's still dead. maul leaves that scene behind like a meteor. (for parsing his expression, it helps to cover up his brow tattoos and just look at the rest of his face.)

down he goes... falling what looks like 17+ stories into the coolant reservoir at the bottom of the shaft.

that is a long ass drop. if i've done my math right, maul fell for at least 3.4 seconds, reaching a velocity of 72 mph (116 kph).

in the comics, it appears he was awake and together enough to use the force to slow himself before hitting the coolant at the bottom. force users bounce well, but yeesh. that might have been splat and roll credits if he wasn't still fighting.

we don't know how long he was down there for. reactors use coolants for a long time, because shutting the system down to flush them is expensive. down time is credits, eh? however long it was, minutes or days, it seems he couldn't climb out in time. the coolant was flushed, and maul went through whatever series of tubes, pipes, valves, and fluid junctions to be drained into a plastisteel containment tube.

at this point... there's no air. however long it was, he had no food, questionably drinkable liquid, and a digestive system that ended abruptly with cauterization. he's trapped, with half his saber and seemingly not enough strength to escape while still on naboo.

then his tube was loaded up onto a trash barge by some automated system that didn't notice or care that there was a person in there, and the ship took off.

naboo is five hyperlane changes and eight sectors away from lotho minor. in a fast ship or a snazzy military vessel with a 1.0 hyperdrive that's a few days journey. two or three maybe. but maul wasn't in a cabin on a pleasure cruiser, he was in a space-cold transparisteel tube, on a trash barge. that thing probably had a 3.0 or 2.5 hyperdrive, more concerned with fuel efficiency than speed. he likely spent a week or more like that, possibly frozen, with no idea where he was going.

the ship doesn't even land. the reactor fluid tubes and maul are just dropped from the sky on a fly by. the tubes don't break either. they crash down, the fluid presumably begins to thaw. he wakes (?) up to air and light on the other side of a transparisteel wall. maul didn't cut it open with his saber hilt either. no, he apparently just punched through, still pissed off and still determined to live.

there's speculation that darth maul either knows morichro, is just straight up a zombie, or is maybe a ghost possessing himself. how else could he have survived all this?

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Anakin and the Force Lore

There´s a strong belief in fandom which takes for granted that Anakin was some violence inclined jock who only cared for lightsaber training without caring or getting deep into the lore of Jedi beliefs but I belive this take is wrong because canon doesn´t support this.

EP I Anakin asks Qui-Gon what a midiclorian is, how the force works, he asks Yoda what it means to be afraid and it´s interested in knowing what a chosen one is supposed to be.

In the Obi-Wan and Anakin comics he explains to Obi-Wan he sees the Jedi and the Sith as two parts or clans of the force because of their mutual origin and that they have the same problem of comunication as the people the were trying to help get along, "the open and the close" who had been fighting the same war for so many centuries that they didn´t remember why they were fighting in the first place but there was a lot of hurt for them to stop.

This may sound naive but makes sense for the jedi the sith are dead people walking with no hope of getting back to life but what the story shows us in the end is that there´s a possibility even for sith to get back if they chose to do so. The Sith are shown in some cases like Maul or Vader and even Sidious as the result of generational trauma and grooming that do evil but even them can come back.

We see Anakin talking with Padme about Jedi philosophy on EP II and actually give his own take about compassion being unconditional love which is his way of mixing his Mother guidance with Jedi beliefs.

He teaches Ahsoka the meaning of Yoda sayings and how to complement their Jedi formation with the natural worry for their men and fellow Jedi in a war. Searching to help the most people they could.

When he married Padme he knew he had to leave the Jedi Order after the war was done because they didn´t allow marriage and he wasn´t going to ask them to change this rule for his marriage and he truly wanted a life with Padme, be her husband and built a family with her.

In ROTS he wasn´t interested in the master and council post, he told Palpatine the Jedi were tired of his reforms but Palpatine imposed it on him and the Council.

What he didn´t like was the way the Council rejected him once again, showing that no matter what he did in the war for the Order or the Republic, they didn´t trust him. He tells Padmé "The Jedi Council doesn´t trust me" which is a call back to the time he was 9 and was rejected, not "The Jedi Council didnt make me a Master" his only interest in becoming a Master was getting access to the Jedi library to see if there was something there to help save Padmé.

Imo fandom listens too much to Obi-Wan´s expressions about Anakin only "thinking with his lightsaber" Obi-Wan loves Anakin but he also teased him a lot and sometimes he was also a jerk to him, Anakin was a person who honestly got into the lore of Jedi knownledge to learn their ways and understand their pov´s and even as Vader he didn´t believe the Jedi Order beliefs were wrong, he believes they betrayed their own beliefs but this doesn´t mean he doesn´t accept at least to himself, that he betrayed them.

As Vader he went so deep into the lore of the Sith he could travel in time and learned to use elemental forces as well as the link between life and death. He learned the relationship between master and apprentice and actually told Palpatine he didn´t see the need to keep the rule of Bane if that meant he had to kill him. He also developed a closer relationship with the force because he needed it to live and breathe.

No matter the side of the pendulum, Anakin simply wasn´t some brute who cared about knowing how to fight and nothing more, that´s a bad read on his character, he was very intellectually involved in matters that excited him or he felt he had a responsibility to learn.

[iamnojjedi]

The Force is not fire, it is venom.

In that simple maxim is the entirety of Sith philosophy. What Lord Kaan and my other, lesser predecessors could not understand is that such a fundamental truth is not evidence of insight on my part but, rather, stupidity on their part.

In that simple maxim is the entirety of Sith philosophy. What Lord Kaan and my other, lesser predecessors could not understand is that such a fundamental truth is not evidence of insight on my part but, rather, stupidity on their part.

The force is not fire. It cannot be passed from one user's lit torch to another's, and another's, until an entire hemisphere is illuminated with a blaze of a million lights. This is what Kaan foolishly believed, and all Sith Lords before him for the past thousand years. It is why the once mighty Sith fell apart long before the defeat at Ruusan. When all carry a flame, no matter how dim and guttering it may be, they soon conclude they are the brightest stars, around which all others must orbit. Infighting follows, and Jedi victory become inevitable.

No, the Force is venom. If it is poured into many cups, it loses its potency until it becomes so diluted it is merely an irritant. yet pour those cups back into a single vessel and you will have the power to stop a Krayt dragon's heart.

This is the secret. This is the Rule of Two: One Sith must contain all the power of the dark side. One master must decide how that power shall be used. Sharing power is an act of weakness and a violation of the Sith Code.

Yet, the Sith Order must survive after the Master perishes. For this reason, the Master must take on an apprentice. The Master instructs the pupil but never gives up the smallest sliver of power. The apprentice learns through years of study but must struggle for every achievement. if the apprentice becomes strong enough, a battle to the death will prove it. If the Master should be struck down, the apprentice becomes the Master-- and the Order continues.

Together the two may attract legions of minions, but true power will remain concentrated.

Always two–– a Master and an apprentice.

–DARTH BANE, The Book of Sith

[darkloreofthesith]

Darth Vader(2017) #1 Darth Sidious explains why Sith Lightsabers are red.

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

"The Phobis devices allowed the Dread Masters to destroy entire Galactic Republic fleets during the Great Galactic War; they had mastered the art of battle meditation to the point that they would inflict an awful, mysterious terror upon members of any given Republic cruiser."

[fox-trot]

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[howdoipost]

Looking at fleet got me wondering

How did imp fashion designers survive any of their customer? Or did the sith design their armour/gowns/looks... themselves?

Imagine fashion class on Korriban that you had to pass as a sith, and no one takes you as apprentice if you fail to design and produce at least one collection of you own sithy brand??

Actually explains a lot, yes?