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Chapter 1
'Never pick your fights. Let the fights pick you.' That was something they had forgotten, Alexandre Kodiak thought as he stood atop a mountain overlooking the valley and cliff face that held the entrance and training grounds of Korriban's Sith Academy. What he saw below sickened him to his core.
Hopeful inductees stood by the main entrance, their naïveté a leading contributor to the torture currently raping their bodies. The chasteners, Sith Apprentices or full-fledged Dark Jedi, came and went as they pleased, taunting them with the one thing they wanted most - acceptance to the dark order.
So much blind, hopeful ambition was squandered there on the field before the massive stone doors of the academy. Each stood there ready to prove their worth, following any advice or order given them. Many would die there, having starved or suffered far more torture than their minds could take. Not a single one of these hopefuls would ever make it into the academy.
The true key lay deep within one's self, a part of you that you would normally never know was there unless someone pointed it out to you. That key was sensitivity to a force that defied scientific or religious explanation. A force that seemingly chose its representatives at random and then sometimes allowed them to live out their entire lives in complete ignorance of it.
Cross the paths of a Jedi while still young and that order may recruit you, effectively changing your life forever. Fail to cross the path of the Jedi and there was always the Sith.
Very rarely do the Sith prefer young apprentices. Instead, they prefer you at the peak of your young adult life. To them, a person who has gone without many things and known desire, lust, love, hate, fear, ambition, and strength is a prime candidate. These emotions can be used. They can be focused and forced upon anyone who would dare stand in their way.
While those before the gate met half of the requirements, they failed in force sensitivity - the most crucial of all aspects to becoming a Sith Apprentice.
Their own ignorance would be their death.
THE AUTHOR IS A FIRST TIME POSTER TO A PUBLIC FORUM - OR ANY FORUM FOR THAT MATTER - AND IF SO KIND, PLEASE POST REVIEWS.
Chapter 1
'Never pick your fights. Let the fights pick you.' That was something they had forgotten, Alexandre Kodiak thought as he stood atop a mountain overlooking the valley and cliff face that held the entrance and training grounds of Korriban's Sith Academy. What he saw below sickened him to his core.
Hopeful inductees stood by the main entrance, their naïveté a leading contributor to the torture currently raping their bodies. The chasteners, Sith Apprentices or full-fledged Dark Jedi, came and went as they pleased, taunting them with the one thing they wanted most - acceptance to the dark order.
So much blind, hopeful ambition was squandered there on the field before the massive stone doors of the academy. Each stood there ready to prove their worth, following any advice or order given them. Many would die there, having starved or suffered far more torture than their minds could take. Not a single one of these hopefuls would ever make it into the academy.
The true key lay deep within one's self, a part of you that you would normally never know was there unless someone pointed it out to you. That key was sensitivity to a force that defied scientific or religious explanation. A force that seemingly chose its representatives at random and then sometimes allowed them to live out their entire lives in complete ignorance of it.
Cross the paths of a Jedi while still young and that order may recruit you, effectively changing your life forever. Fail to cross the path of the Jedi and there was always the Sith.
Very rarely do the Sith prefer young apprentices. Instead, they prefer you at the peak of your young adult life. To them, a person who has gone without many things and known desire, lust, love, hate, fear, ambition, and strength is a prime candidate. These emotions can be used. They can be focused and forced upon anyone who would dare stand in their way.
While those before the gate met half of the requirements, they failed in force sensitivity - the most crucial of all aspects to becoming a Sith Apprentice.
Their own ignorance would be their death.
