Jump 166: Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Jump 166: Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Location: Korriban, Golden Age of the Sith Empire
Age: 22
Identity: Sith
Drawbacks: [+600] Tales of the Jedi, Knights of the Old Republic, Political Entanglement, Bounty, Indebted, Hyperspace Woes

[200/1600]  Force Sensitivity
[600/1600]  Lord Master
[800/1600]  Having Your Cake And Eating It Too
[Free]      Uncontested Might
[950/1600]  Reality Ensues
[1050/1600] Understanding
[1250/1600] Unaffiliated
[Free]      Lightsaber
[1300/1600] 50,000 Credits
[1500/1600] Jedi Holocron
[Free]      Sith Attire
[1600/1600] Sith Holocron of Rituals

Imagine if you will, a group of people who were all about helping folks out. And then some of them figured out how to make drugs out of thin air, promptly getting high on their own supply and fighting with everyone else who disagreed with them, then getting exiled in the hopes that they might see the folly of their way. By way of giving these drug addicts a bus ticket to the next state in hopes that it would cure their addiction. Yes, a busload of addicts that could make their own drugs out of thin air. Of course they ended up getting basically everyone hooked on these drugs, then taking the place over while everyone is strung out because they were the ones who knew how to make the drugs.

This is how Sith Lords do.

And how they did.

The Jedi, with a ideological split between light and dark, exiled a dozen dark siders after their insurrection in the hopes that they would return to the light. Instead, they sought out the Sith Empire they had heard of in legends. They killed its leader, took it over, and rebuilt it anew based on the principles of the dark side, such that the Sith species and the dark side were one and the same - the Sith empire, the Sith order, and all led by the Sith Lords. Of course the competition between the Sith was cutthroat, for those who did not want to live a life of mediocrity. It may have forsaken safety, but it was a very effective way to not find your end at the hands of an angry dark sider when you didn't jump quickly enough to satisfy them.

Some of the graduates of the academy at Korriban were mediocre. Some lost themselves to the dark side in a hurry. But a lucky few balanced on that knife's edge of sanity, able to master the dark side instead of letting it master them. One such individual was happy to dance in and out of the grasp of the Sith, not doing any harm to them but ensuring he was out of their range. Instead, he simply elected to pursue his studies outside the purview of the empire proper, while still being useful enough that he was .. at least rarely targeted by other Sith. Despite his best attempts, though, he could not avoid being swept up by some of the higher ranking Sith in their power games, though he did typically come out ahead. Whether it was his intention or not.

What made this a bit more unusual is that, for a pureblood Sith, he seemed to have a remarkably long lifespan. He was after all distinctive in appearance, and had a habit of poking his nose into matters at opportune moments, but the fact that he survived long enough for others to notice that he was still hale and hearty after a half dozen centuries raised eyebrows. Of course, there were any number of short-lived idiots who thought they could somehow take advantage of him or kill him to usurp the meager holdings on the fringes of the Sith empire that he ended up controlling. But more importantly, that got him a handful of disciples over the years, and as a rule they seemed to be better adjusted than most. Though that meant they also didn't typically participate in the greater empire's foolishness, the handful who did went on to make greater names for themselves.

In the end, his legacy was less a matter of being one who was breaking new ground, as opposed to refining existing techniques and alchemy; early on he was known derisely as "the Sith Librarian", but when he began releasing holocrons, the moniker was less sarcastic and more accurate, even if his techniques tended to rely less on the easier-to-reach emotions and more on simply having strong emotions.

Though another facet of his legacy was his habit of infiltrating Republic worlds and leaving copies of Jedi philosophy where they could be found easily - and while this tended to bolster their numbers slightly, the fact that each version was slightly different, and annotations about a Master Odan-Urr changing the code to fit his own personal preferences while discarding the rest tended to cause... more than a small bit of internal strife.

Sure, there was more to the story there, but the best lies are those that are the truth.