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Lootryx
I guess during, but I don't think he became active until after Malak died so he's not important right now.
tylermech66
The pace will slow down a bit now as things are getting busy at work. And yes there will be lots of sex in this story due to Gothic making Force Bonds with women and he uses lust as a way to call upon the Dark Side.
CookieMonsta1233
Well I don't plan to turn him into a total psychopathic Sith but he's going to be dark that's for sure. But its not going to happen overnight he needs to go through some things first.
There will be more than one child, but Gothic won't be killing any of them because they won't be a threat until their adults and that's like twenty years into the future.
RedtheBattler
Sith Gothic's high midi-chlorian count is due to the fact that he didn't have any naturally. But since midi-chlorians exist in all cells and cells can be airborne Sith Gothic was exposed to them as soon he breathed the air of Korriban.
The midi-chlorians reacted to finding a living thing existing without their presence by multiplying rapidly within his body in order to correct the wrongness of him. The Force tried to make him fit in the environment as it were.
At that point he was like a Yuuzhan Vong which was why the Sith student who found him took him to a medic because he was dead in the Force but clearly alive. This peaked Sith interests and is why he wasn't left to die.
Had he arrived say on Taris things would be different because he'd only need a count of two and half thousand in order to fit in. But on Korriban the midi-chlorians had all the energy they needed to keep multiplying.
Plus he was found in the Valley Of The Dark Lords which is a place so tainted by the Dark Side that animals mutate into monsters. Thankfully for Gothic he couldn't mutate too much as his DNA can't twisted the same way a local Humans could be by exposer to the Dark Side. He doesn't have the right genes for that sort of thing as Humans from Earth are different that the Star Wars Humans as has been noted. This is very important to the story.
As for what you said about the Jedi at the end of the Old Republic, don't forget that Bane's line of Sith spent a thousand years slowly corrupting the Force in order to weaken the Jedi. Plus the Jedi after the Ruusan Reforms started to weaken themselves by only taking in infants and those Jedi didn't have children.
Yes they weakened themselves as well but the Jedi killed during the Clone Wars weren't to blame as they were a product of the last thousand years of Sith interference and Jedi could be blamed as he was around long enough to have seen the problem yet he did nothing to fix it.
However The Force was out of balance and only Anakin could fix that, which he did by ending both the Bane line of the Sith and the Jedi Order of the Old Republic. If this was the 'will of the Force' then there was nothing the Jedi could of done since they are somewhat controlled by the Force.
After things got sorted out this left Luke Skywalker who stopped the New Jedi Order from repeating these mistakes, at least for the most part, by remaking the Jedi Order into something that was less cut off from ordinary people. The problem with that Order was that they had to start over and a lot of knowledge was lost.
But that doesn't mean their connection to the Force was weaker than those of the ancient Sith and Jedi, its just that a lot of knowledge has been lost and that Force Users weren't having children.
Kreia is a lying bitch so take anything she says with a pinch of salt. Also just because Tulak Hord could kick the Exile's ass with a lightsabre doesn't mean that the KOTOR Force Users were weaker in every respect. Being good with a sword doesn't mean much if the Jedi Exile could simply fried Hord with lightening before he could activate his weapon.
Also having a high midi-chlorian count isn't everything. Obi Wan beat Anakin at the end of Revenge of the Sith despite the fact that Anakin likely had a midi-chlorian count twice that of Obi Wan's. Raw power isn't everything.
In any case its doubtful that the Sith of the old empire had higher counts. The Lost Tribe on Kesh are directly descended from the Sith who were around when Naga Sadow was making stars go nova and yet Skywalker's Jedi beat them time and time again.
So if the Jedi/Sith of KOTOR are stronger than the Jedi/Sith of thousands of years later its not the Force Users that are at fault. It could be a problem with the Force itself. Or it could be that there is a limited amount of power to go around and there are more Force Users than there use to be.
Maybe there are meant to be lots of Force Users around so that power gets spread about and doesn't give them to much of an advantage over everyone else.
The odd things is that evolution tells us that the whole of that galaxy should inhabited by Force Users (even just weak ones) as nature favours the strongest, although that doesn't mean physical strength, but the infighting seems to be preventing evolution from taking its course.
As for Gothic, well has the potential to be more powerful than Revan but that doesn't mean that Revan would ever lose to Gothic. Sith Gothic is decades behind Revan in training and if he doesn't want to beat Revan he never will. There are plenty of other factors to consider.
One of those factors that you have to consider is the fact that KOTOR 1 and 2 are video games. Your characters need to become more and more power as the game progresses because your always outnumbered and there are boss fights.
Remember that in the Force Unleashed Starkiller looks to be more powerful than any KOTOR character but that doesn't mean that he actually is its just that the game required him to look more powerful.
Selias
I've created a few Force Powers in my time so there is no reason why Gothic can't develop some. There are abilities that only certain Jedi and Sith have shown so Gothic could have something unique to him. If you have an idea for one let me know as I like using ideas from my reviewers.
Maybe something that isn't just a type of TK or lightening.
I do plan on him being a life drainer but not like Darth Nihilus it would be more about harnessing life energy rather than consuming it. He could take life from a bad guy and put into an ally who is dying in order to heal them. He'd be more about extending his own life than becoming a black hole of death.
Winter Feline.
Thanks I hope you continue to enjoy the story.
Gothic is just using lust to better connect to the Dark Side but that's not why he can influence other Sith. Force Bonds are the key the sex is just how the process starts. He could get the same effect if he was a leader who inspired others like Revan and the Jedi Exile. If you read Darth Gothic parts in the Odds and Ends I've posted you'll discover that Gothic has the power make others loyal to him. He's just using a different method than the Exile to form connections with others.
We know that Bastila, who is the main romantic interest for Gothic in this story, isn't going to jump into bed with a Sith she's to self controlled for that but the Sith like passion so lust is working on them.
Gothic being able to have healthy Force Sensitive children is a major part of the plot.
Balance between light and dark is possible for Gothic because he's is a product of a world where few people are pure evil or pure good. I've found that most people are shades of grey were as in Star Wars Force Users tend to be one or the other but as I said Gothic isn't a Star Wars native for him a balance between light and dark could be reached.
However this Gothic is a Sith in training so finding that balance will be hard. For now he is dark because he needs to be in order to survive. And with his concerns for the future he's not going to be trying to find that balance he needs power and that's what the Sith offer.
Sith Gothic. Part Four.
Wynn's Office. The Sith Academy. Korriban. Revan's Sith Empire. Star Wars KOTOR Galaxy.
Now this hadn't happened for a good long while. I had been sent to the Headmaster's office for being a naughty boy.
Well if throwing a fellow student into the wall with anger driven Force Powers was considered bad form around here then indeed I was in trouble, however I doubted that was the reason as to why I was in Wynn's office. Given that no one had batted an eyelid when I shot a student just yesterday they weren't likely to care about little telekinetic pushing.
No it was far more likely that Wynn had simply left orders with the staff that I should be sent to him if I displayed any use of the Force. That made far more sense as the staff here always turned a blind eye to infighting.
I'd been left alone in Wynn's study which was a remarkable act of trust for a Sith so naturally I assumed that there were recording devices and hidden cameras scattered around the room
With this in mind I made no attempt to pry into the Sith Master's business by touching any of his possessions, yet I could help but admire the various artefacts and other treasures on display. I badly wanted to examine some of the books in the room as I knew they would each contain a wealth of information but I could only look. I didn't dare to touch.
Each of the books was bound in leather or some other kind of hide and if I was any judge I'd say some of the books were even bound in the skin of thinking creatures rather just that of simple beasts. Oddly this didn't concern me too much. I wasn't even that bothered when I noticed a Human skull staring at me from one of the shelves.
"You found the Force far sooner and more easily than I would of guessed" said Uthar Wynn as he appeared out of the shadowy doorway to his office.
Quickly, yes I agreed with the quickly part, but it hadn't been as easy as it may have looked and in my view I hadn't really found the Force I'd just learned to use it.
I hadn't gone on any sort of amazing spiritual journey which involved great amounts of self discovery no I'd gotten attacked and the gotten desperate. In that moment of need the Dark Side had come to me, but I didn't feel good about it.
In fact I'd started to wonder if the Force was just some energy field that people with an over abundance of certain symbiotic organisms could simply tap into when they required as long as they had the right training.
This realisation disappointed me in so many ways. I'd really wanted the Force to be more mystical. I'd wanted to find some great truth in it. I'd wanted the Force to led to some sort of enlightenment that would perhaps allow me to finally understand that there was a point to my life.
Perhaps that was the real difference between a Jedi and a Sith. Maybe it wasn't ideology that had the two groups at each others throats. Maybe the Sith were in fact on some level jealous of the Jedi because they had a connection to the Force that was more meaningful.
Being a Sith seemed to mean that the Force was nothing more than exotic energy source that they could tap into, not by becoming connected to it but by aggressively demanding that it serve them.
Maybe this was also why those who followed the path of the Sith were so driven to obtain power, status, and control. They were empty inside so they attempted to compensate for this by seizing gains that were more material than spiritual.
For the first time since I was a child the idea of becoming a Jedi appealed to me. But sadly there was no hope of that ever happening. I was a student of the Sith and therefore an enemy of the Jedi Order.
Even if by some miracle a Jedi Master agreed to train me there'd always be a part of me that was Sith and that was my fault. Because I'd begun to embrace the Sith way, if only to survive, and since I had started down the dark path I'd never be free of it now.
Plus I had to consider the fact that the Sith were very unlikely to let me just leave Korriban. I had to much potential and if I defect to the lightside I'd be a great risk to them. Only a fool would let an asset like myself run lose in the galaxy.
As Uthar Wynn took his seat on the other side of his stone desk I started to feel sorry for myself but I stamped out those feelings and took control of my emotions.
Truthfully things weren't really that bad. Sure I'd not obtained some state of spiritual well being but in that respect I was no worse off that I had been when I'd first arrived on Korriban.
In fact I was actually better of because at least now I could defend myself, and with the power of the Dark Side at my command. I wouldn't end up at the bottom of the pecking order around here. Even a trainee Sith was feared and respected by those who could not use the Force. Well at least in the empire they were.
So if I couldn't have a spiritually fulfilling life, then at least I could have life with some sort of meaning. Granted it might be a life were the only thing that mattered was prestige, power, wealth and conquest of the galaxy, but hey at least I wouldn't be bored or ever again feel as if I didn't matter.
Master Wynn was starting to stare at me again. I guessed that he was assessing me but he wasn't using the Force as far as I could tell or if he was then I couldn't detect it. The whole effect was disconcerting and I involuntarily shifted in my seat.
"You are different that the other students under my care" stated the Sith teacher.
He was right about that as well. I was very different. But I very much doubted that he cared about anyone other than himself.
"You are different because you never knew the Force before coming here. Even the weakest students here have known the Force their entire lives, even if they no clue as to what it was".
Well I'd always had some knowledge of the Force but it had all been theoretical and therefore of little help.
It was as if I'd been born without hands and had always had an interest in painting, then suddenly I'd been given hands but just because I could now hold a paintbrush that didn't make me a great artist. I might have been given the tools but that hadn't given me the talent needed to use them. That was something I had to get for myself.
"Now that you know how call upon the Force I can aid you in perfecting its use".
At once I started to wonder what was in this for him, but I gave no voice to my thoughts. Instead I attempted to look far less interested than I actually was, so that Wynn wouldn't think he could control me with promises of knowledge that would, in time, led to power. That was how things worked between the Sith.
When I gave no answer to Wynn he pressed on, assuming that my silence was consent.
"You already understand that passion is the key. Now you must learn to harness your emotions, so that you can unleash them when it suits you best and not simply when someone upsets you".
In my defence the guy I'd thrown into the wall was a complete jerk and I was starting to give real thought to the idea of gaining prestige via social acceptable murder of my fellow students. Well it was only acceptable here and only if done discretely, but I was pretty sure that unless I went and knifed the bugger in the canteen that I was going to get away with it.
Of course that could led to my fellow Sith in training becoming fearful of me. One of them, or even a group, might decided to take me out of the picture in order to protect themselves, so perhaps that wasn't such a good idea.
Wynn seemed a little perturbed that I wasn't hanging on every word he said like most of the students would be if they were being offered private tutorials by an accomplished Sith Master, but that had a lot to do with that fact that I didn't really want to be taught by the Headmaster. He was mostly an unknown entity to me so I rather be taught by Ban, and not just because she had come back into my life for another bout of sex.
"It is time for you start learning how to use a sword" informed the high ranking Sith "you will discover how to focus your passions as you fight so that your connection to the Dark Side can be strengthened. This will take some time but should you show skill and work hard you will rewarded.. with a lightsabre".
Now that got my attention. Which I suppose was why he had said it. But despite the fact that it was mostly a transparent attempt to make me accept his teachings it was nonetheless a very effective attempt. And who would blame me for following his led when the reward could be my very own lightsabre. There wasn't a Star Wars alive that wouldn't jump through hoops like a performing dolphin if it meant getting his hands on a real life lightsabre.
The Sith Master smiled just a little when he realised that he had finally found away to control me even if it was just a small way that would only give him little control.
But I guessed that it was more than that. Using my own desires to motivate me was a good teaching method and by the standards of Dark Siders it was a rather benign way to teach.
I wasn't foolish enough to think that Wynn was going to all this trouble just because he wanted me as his student. That was part of it at least as Wynn would soon need a new apprentice (or possibly Ban would) so having me in place ready to take what soon could be a lucrative job opportunity was a good idea. But I sensed that there might be more to this, as if I did become a success not only would I owe it all to him he'd also be responsible for bringing a powerful Sith in the empire. He might be rewarded for such a deed, or at least gain a reputation as an excellent teacher.
"Have you trained with a sword before?" questioned Uthar.
"No?" I admitted honestly, knowing that lying would not benefit me at this time.
Wynn didn't seem surprised to hear that.
"You needn't worry I will teach you everything you need to know" he assured.
I didn't feel very assured but I gave no voice to that concern either. Instead I simply sat in my seat as my new mentor began to spout endless amouts of Sith propaganda.
No wonder my mind kept wandering. Hopefully we get to the sword fighting soon.
A Vision Of The Future.
"You say that as if the dark side is some terrible entity. The Jedi Council has brainwashed you like all the others—like they once did with me. They speak of the dark side as something to be feared, but in reality their only goal is to manipulate those who are strong in the Force. The fear of the dark side is a tool to maintain control."
To one member of the group of Force Users these words were oh so very familiar but still they had an effect.
"Why do you think the Jedi forbid you and Malak from joining the Mandalorian Wars? They knew you would realize your true potential and break free of their domination. Malak has shown me how the Jedi Council has been using me the same way they once tried to use you. They've been holding me back because they knew one day I would surpass them all."
Revan shook her head, trying to reach out to her friend through their Force bond, but it was futile effort.
"No—I don't believe it! How could you betray us like this, Bastila?"
"I resisted at first, Bastila answered "I endured the Sith torments with the passionless serenity of a true Jedi. But after a week of endless torture I finally saw the truth. Malak forced me to acknowledge my anger and my pain. He showed me the liberating power of these emotions. Then he made me see how the Jedi Council has denied me what is mine by right!
"He brainwashed you" stated another Jedi this one an alien.
"The Jedi Council gladly used my Battle Meditation in their wars, but they still treated me like a child—like an inferior! They were jealous of my power…of what I could become! They wanted me to bow and call them Master and follow their Code and obey their every order. But all the while they were using my Battle Meditation for their own use!"
"Don't be lured in by these Sith lies, Bastila," Revan pleaded, but this too fell on deaf ears".
"Lies? You are the one living the lie, Revan. The Jedi Council turned you into something you are not; they programmed you to be their slave. You used to be Revan, Master of the Sith, but no longer. You are simply a pawn of the Jedi Council and the Republic they serve…like I was until Malak freed me from their shackles!"
"And you!" the fallen Jedi spat with distaste as she turned her words on the dark haired Human who carried a lightsabre but was no Jedi "you are stronger than Malak. You could of destroyed himself but you'd rather hide behind Revan skirt and let her do the work".
These words weren't as elegantly put as the others as they hadn't been rehearsed but still they stung the pride of the man in black. When he didn't respond Bastila kept verbally attacking.
"Revan, at least has the excuse that she has been brainwashed but you are worse, you are lying to yourself," Bastila accused. "I know the truth. I know what you have planed. And I know you, Lord Gothic".
There was a rising level of tension in the air as the Jedi noticeable backed away from the one called Gothic.
"Your a Sith" the fallen Jedi reminded "and more powerful than Malak could ever hope to be, perhaps you be even greater Revan one day. There is still a chance for you to claim what could be yours".
The words were carefully chosen. Bastila had wounded Gothic's pride and was now offering him away to restore the respect he had lost. The newly made Sith knew how to manipulate the Lord.
"Learn from my mistakes," Revan still trying to reach out to her friend. "It's not too late to come back to the light!"
"You are a pathetic fool, Revan!" Bastila said with a sneer on her face "Together we could have defeated Malak and ruled over an Empire with me at your side. Now you will be crushed with the Republic and all the fools who bow down to the Jedi Council! No one can stand against the power of the Dark Side".
Bastila once more turned to Gothic.
"I still love you, but I will only serve the Dark Lord. And since Revan is a lost cause that leaves only you and Malak. So if you want me you will have to come and claim me".
It was easy to tell that many words had been programmed into the lost Jedi and what words were really hers, however they were all effective and held a subtle hint of the Force. But those weren't the only reason why they worked so well.
Twin red blades came to life and Bastila made her move, as did Gothic his blade stabbed through the back of the Calth Jedi and then it was turned on Revan.
Personal Chambers. The Sith Academy. Korriban. Revan's Sith Empire. Star Wars KOTOR Galaxy.
Running into the en suite bathroom I switched on the sink and splashed cold water over my face in order to fully wake myself up.
That had been one hell of a dream, even if it had been cut short.
Or had been a vision of the future? A warning about things to come from the Force itself?
My connection to the Force was growing stronger all the time. I'd just spent a good part of the day learning to sustain my connection to the Force when in combat so it was possible that the connection had strengthened enough that the Force itself had spoken to me.
Then again that could be wishful thinking. I had just this morning been lamenting the fact that the Force seemed to be nothing more than power source for certain special beings. So it was possible that my own mind had concocted what seemed to be a vision of the future in order to satisfy my longing to think of that Force as something more spiritual than it actually was.
Grabbing a towel I dried my face and thought more about the dream/vision.
Chances are that it was nothing more than a bad dream. A dream created by my concerns about what I planned for the future and the concerns had I had about the present. But it would be extremely foolish of me to not consider the possibility that it had in fact been a vision of what could come to pass.
After all I did plan on joining up with Revan's group, and if I was successful in doing so then I could be on the rooftop of that temple.
Why I'd be tempted by Bastila's offer was a question I didn't have an answer for. I could only speculate that at some point we'd become lovers, which was a weird thing to think about.
Bastila and I had no connection and given that I was Sith in training if ever met the best I could hope from her was tolerance, at worse she'd despise me or even go as far as to try and kill me. Really I had a better chance of seducing Revan and he was a...
Oh yes I'd monumentally forgotten that Revan was a girl that was... well that was actually okay as her gender didn't really change much as long as Malak died.
Malak really did have to die. He was unstable leader who would drown the Republic in blood rather than conquer as Revan was currently doing.
Also Revan had to beat Malak and live in order to play his.. I mean her part in taking down the Sith Emperor. For that alone Revan had to live, as did the Jedi Exile when the time came.
As powerful as I might one day become I had no hope of taking down the Emperor. Although perhaps if I was there with the Jedi Exile and Revan when they confronted the immortal Sith he might be defeated. That however was something I could worry about later. The event was years away and I was still new to the Force.
However I did need to worry about meeting up with Revan. My possible vision didn't assure that I would actually even make it onto the Ebon Hawk. Then again I wasn't too worried about being invited to join the team. I knew enough about the Starforge to ensure that Revan would want me close if only to pump for information.
I started to calm down and let go of my concerns because they wouldn't help me right now. I had to prepared for any future and do that I needed the training that was being offered by Wynn.
The lessons would continue in the morning and I still ached a little from today's workout. If I was going to have any chance of becoming the warrior I would one day need to be then what was required now was training. Everything else could wait until later.
With that in mind I went to bed and got some rest.
Author Note: shorter than I had hoped for, hopefully the next chapter will be longer.