Disclaimer: If I don't own any other show, book, or anything else, why would I possibly own Star Wars?

So, yesterday I spent the better part of the day checking out Episode III: Revenge of the Sith stuff online and had this little idea for a story. Please feel free to ignore the fact that I seem to be obsessed with power and corruption.

Love Breeds Hate Breeds Power

I was once asked if love was forbidden to a Jedi. My answer seemed simple enough: Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is central to a Jedi's life. So you might say that we are encouraged to love.

Simple, right? Wrong. I have never been so wrong in my life that the day I said that. Love may not be forbidden, but attachment and possession aren't either. Palpatine showed me that. With his help I became the best, a position that I swore I would attain upon my mother's death. I couldn't stop people from dying then, but things are different now.

Death comes to the weak, the people who are devoid of power will always fall prey to those who do. And what makes people weak? Love, that's what. Love and all those other insignificant human emotions. They make you weak. I was once told that to feel was to be human. My response? That to overcome those feelings was to be a Jedi.

But I was wrong. Jedi feel emotion, and that will always make them weak. Pity, compassion, empathy, all worthless, all weak. The strong don't feel. We don't feel anything except the hatred and anger that drives us.

I can't believe I was once weak, that I had feelings other than the ones that drive me. They would have been my downfall, too, if I had not come to realize the truth when I did.

Without those stupid, meaningless emotions, it becomes possible to unlock potential that otherwise would have remained hidden forever. Hate and anger breed the grounds for power, the most influential thing in the universe. Nature itself has proved this through the theory of natural selection. The ones who can't adapt die while the better suited live and rise in the ranks of superiority. Can't argue with nature.

Maybe love is important, for it seems that only once a person has suffered at its hands the seed of contempt is sown. That seed will then blossom into a tree of discord, power flowing from the branches, flowers spawning of the so-called destructive force of evil.

Yes, without love there would be no hate. WIthout hate, there would be no anger. Without anger, there would be no potential for greatness. Yes, you would think that love would be forbidden as well, but it's not.

Could it be possible that Jedi are set up from the beginning to follow the path of the Dark Side?

Of course it is.

Anything is possible.