Sith Undercover: New Sith Empire- Backstory
This is only a backstory chapter that delves you into the galaxy as it is, without telling you too much, it should be enough to give you a hint though, the real story begins in Chapter 1, the next chapter which was published with this! Please don't review until you read both! Thanks!
Korriban was the birthplace of the Sith, long ago. Over the many millennia that have passed, the world hasn't changed much. It was cold and dry, it was full of sand as it was a desert world but it was also home to many Sith artifacts, it was only fitting that it become the capital world of the New Sith Order while the New Sith Empire's capital world is Coruscant, the planet in the galactic center, the center of the galaxy.
Korriban was a red sandy world but inside the Sith Academy or inside any of the stone Sith structures on the planet were magnificent. The structures were intact and relatively new or renovated to reflect the New Sith Order. As the Republic was overthrown and the Jedi were run out of the galactic arena and forced into hiding, the Sith took over and the Sith ruled the galaxy and they reclaimed what made them great long ago.
The former Sith worlds were made into new Sith worlds as they held importance to the Sith Order and they all held Sith artifacts and other artifacts of importance to the Sith order. History was important to the Sith, you have to learn your heritage and it may not be a perfect heritage but nothing is perfect. Everything is progress, you learn from the past and learn not to make the same mistakes twice, for if you do, you are a fool. Darth Plagueis, the Emperor of the New Sith Empire and Dark Lord of the Sith is not a fool and neither is anyone on his Dark Council.
He didn't want to make the same mistakes his Master did, or his Master's Master or his Master's, Master's, Master... he learned what he could from his Master and from the Sith holochrons which were the history and knowledge of the Sith from over the many millennia that has passed.
He already had to eliminate a number of Sith, like Darth Sidious who was very powerful but ultimately too ambitious and stupid for his own good and was killed trying to assassinate the Dark Lord, he wasn't as powerful as he thought he was and paid for it. He made an example out of him to teach the Sith that this isn't the same Old Sith Order. The New Sith Order isn't like the Old, you don't kill to move up the chain of command, you are loyal to your brothers and they are loyal to you. You can't count on anyone except yourself and your brothers, everyone else is either an enemy or a nobody and people that are nobodies could be dangerous and people that are dangerous could be considered enemies. Therefore besides yourself and your brothers, everyone else is the enemy unless stated otherwise.
The Sith rule the galaxy and if you aren't Sith and you don't support the Sith or at least don't follow the law then you have a problem and the Sith will gladly show you the solution which is your execution. There is no forgiveness and there is no mercy, if you are worth a second chance, you'll get it but very few people are worthy of such and they are only Sith.
The Sith aren't the monsters they appear to be to the denizens of the galaxy but they have an appearance to uphold and they need to appear to be the monsters they portray themselves to be. People dressed in black or red armor, or black and red armor with full body armor, boots, gloves and a helmet are frightening and the being within is even moreso but the uniform works miracles as you can't see the person within but not all Sith are dressed like that. Only Sith Warriors are dressed like that and they are the ones who enforce the Sith's will through the Sith Army.
The Sith came out of nowhere and like a raging tornado, it swept through the Republic and the Republic was defenseless and as swiftly as it arrived, it disappeared leaving nothing but carnage and destruction behind. Sometimes you have to destroy, to create something better. The Republic was weak and they had to destroy what made them weak and to do that the Sith had to destroy it and create something new and that was the New Sith Empire.
You were either with the Sith or you were against the Sith and they had no problem taking out the trash and eliminating one more possible threat to their reign, their rule in the galaxy.
The Sith will rule, whether the galaxy liked it or not, likes it or not.
The Jedi were caught off-guard as their Force powers were clouded by the darkness yet they said nothing, they just kept their mouths shut as if nothing was happening, as if nothing was wrong and they paid for their silence with their demise. Not all Jedi were killed but thousands of them were for they didn't know that the Sith have amassed an Army of Sith and Clone Troopers, the Light Side was truly overwhelmed to the point of where they couldn't see the light, all they saw was storm clouds and the light was blocked completely.
Darth Plagueis eliminated the Rule of Two after killing his Master who was a firm believer in it, but he was ambitious and saw the future and he knew the Force was on his side and it was. The Force guided him and it worked with him to bring the Sith back into power, obviously the Force knew that the Light was weak and needed to be replaced with the strong and the Sith were as strong and as powerful as they come.
They were stronger than the Jedi ever hoped to be with their narrow dogmatic view and peace-loving attitude, the galaxy had no place for that not when it is full of corruption, greed and chaos, only a strong leader could achieve peace, peace according to a Sith, that is.
Sith don't know peace.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The force shall free me.
Darth Bane believed in the Sith Code wholeheartedly and he fully understood it, Darth Plagueis does as well.
Peace is a lie, there isn't any progress, there is only stagnation and no conflict. There is always conflict and you will always strive to be better than you are, but the Jedi just wish for everything to remain frozen in time like their petty beliefs which led to their demise, the Sith have adapted and have become greater than ever before, the Jedi have failed to adapt and they paid the ultimate price. Conflict is good anyway, conflict brings about change, for better or worse, change is always good, it is better than stagnation.
There is only passion, without passion there is no purpose, with no purpose there is no point in living. Without passion you can't unleash the Dark Side of the Force, if you have hate and anger, then you have passion and it only fuels the Dark Side without it you can't unleash the Force within you.
Through passion, I gain strength, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. If you have no passion in what you do or what you wish to do, then what's the point? If you don't wish to be better, if you don't push yourself then you already failed yourself and failure isn't an option, not if you wish to be a Sith.
Through strength, I gain power, strength makes you stronger and gives you power, it makes you feel alive. For a Sith, the stronger you are in the Force, the more powerful you become. If you can endure the training a Sith has to go through to pass training and pass apprenticeship and to become a full Sith, then you have strength but you will always want more and you have to constantly push yourself, become stronger and with that strength comes more power.
Through power, I gain victory, only the strong survive. If you are sent into battle, into war and its you verse them, your power will decide the victor. If you are stronger than your opponent, then you will win but power isn't everything. There is more power than just raw Force power, there is also brain power through tactics and strategies, knowing what your opponent will do and making sure they don't succeed is power and that is victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken, the more you win the more free you are. You could break your own self-doubts, equality, there is no such thing as everyone being equal, there are the strong and then there are the weak. The strong are the powerful, the powerful are victorious, the victorious are free and the free are Sith. The better you are, stronger you are, more powerful you are, the more free you are. No one really knows what freedom is but the Sith do and freedom is not having to rely on others, to be able to do as you please, when you please, this is when you bypass your limits and do the impossible.
The force shall free me, only once you have achieved your goals and overcome the barriers you placed before you, could you be free and you need the Force to free yourself. There is only passion, if you have no passion then you can't move on to gain strength and you'd never make it as a Sith. Once you have passion and gain strength then you can gain power. If you can gain power, then you can gain victory in all of the different facets of life. Through victory, your chains are broken, and once that happens, the Force will set you free and you can do anything you wish to do.
Nothing will ever be able to stop you, now that is freedom.
Every Sith learns this code and they learn to live by this code and by the time they finish their Apprenticeship, this is ingrained into their minds and they will never forget it.
The academy on Korriban is the most prestigious academy in all of the New Sith Empire and only the best can train there but they don't train you in everything. They only train the best here but they also train Sith Acolytes here and Acolytes are mostly children, Acolytes fall just below Apprentices and they learn the aspects of what it takes to become a Sith. They learn the foundation of what it takes to be a Sith and the philosophy of the Sith and only once you understand what it takes to be a Sith and the instructor is comfortable with you moving on can you eventually become an Apprentice and that is when you learn to fight, to hone your abilities and to learn the full powers of the Dark Side of the Force.
But not all people become Apprentices, you can only become an Apprentice if you are strong with the Force or if the instructor, Knight or Master believe you are strong enough to become a Sith Knight. Otherwise you could become a Sith Adept and they rank below Apprentices and do menial jobs that the real Sith can't be bothered to do.
Sith Knights are equivalent in rank and responsibility to Jedi Knights and are the backbone of the Sith Empire. They make up the bulk of the warriors, marauders, juggernauts, assassins, spies, engineers, instructors, alchemists, sorcerers and so on and this is the lowest rank of full Sith, which are those who have completed their Apprenticeship and have been Knighted but that is only a rank not a title or position.
Sith Masters are a dime a dozen, there are hundreds of them, almost a thousand and they mostly comprise of warriors, teachers and could become governor's in charge of planets or systems. Sith Masters are equivalent to Jedi Masters except more powerful since they don't believe the same thing the Jedi believe and they aren't afraid to get their hands dirty or to use the Force.
Sith Masters could be chosen to be promoted to Sith Lord's and they oversee Sith Masters, they are in charge of Sith Organizations, they oversee academies and some are Regional Governors in charge of their sector of space and all Sith within which include sector forces and planets.
Some Sith Lords sit on the Dark Council and the Sith Lord is very hard to come by and there are no more than twenty current Sith Lords, twelve sit on the Council with the Dark Lord of the Sith in charge of the Council, he is lucky number thirteen, a way to avoid a deadlock on certain matters that require a vote.
The Dark Lord of the Sith is in charge of the Dark Council, the New Sith Order and the New Sith Empire.
There are other titles and ranks used by the New Sith Order, like Blademaster who trains the Sith Apprentices in the use of the lightsaber and training lightsabers. You have Correctors who are the general law enforcement for the Sith Empire mostly having to do with crimes against the Sith. You have Engineers who make the various Sith technology and work with the private ship companies to create new ships. You have Sith alchemists, who are practitioners of alchemy. You have the Executor who is the Supreme Military Commander and also a Sith Lord and countless others.
The Sith grew over the last hundred years and in many respects it used the Old Sith ways. Hierarchy almost remained the same, society almost remained the same, culture almost remained the same, but in many respects it changed as well. Killing your superior will get you killed, failure to follow orders will get you maimed or killed, betraying your people has and always will get you killed. But New Sith are loyal to one another, in the Old Sith Order they weren't, they were only loyal to themselves.
The Sith don't mind killing, but killing their own is something they're trained never to do as that is a decision that only the Dark Council and the Dark Lord himself could make.
At first it started out rocky, but over the few generations the Sith have learned and bonded and have become one united order. The Sith were loyal to each other and had each others backs but they did have to learn to rely on themselves since in the middle of battle, your comrades may not be able to back you up if you need it and you have to trust yourself and your abilities to survive. This is why Apprentices aren't allowed in the field, not until their Knight or Master is certain that they can take care of themselves in battle without having to rely on others, everyone has their own objective and you have to carry it out but you also have to watch each others back, if at all possible.
Succeeding is important, failure isn't an option.
Failing is worse than death, and many have lost their ranks and prestige because of it and once you lose it, you can't regain it.
It is better to die in battle than to retreat and return as a failure, Sith don't accept failure, period.
Show no mercy and show no forgiveness, that is what they're taught and that is how they live.
There are very few exceptions of that rule but in the history of the New Sith Order, no exceptions were made but the option is always there but only the Dark Council and the Dark Lord could invoke the exception, no one else can.