The Tom Veitch Files

[margin, handwritten: 104] (3b) Are the Sith Lords masters of a certain type of Jedi studies that few others dare to learn? _____ YES [handwritten X over response line] NO If YES, can you suggest what this particular topic or area might be? (4) Do any of the following suggestions match your conception of the Lords of the Sith? _____ A coterie of secret political advisors who have been behind the thrones (or attempted to be) of rulers from the Old Republic onward. [handwritten X over response line] A secret society with a great deal of power, arcane rites, and surrounded by a lot of mystery (a little like the Masons). _____ An underground organization, like the Mafia, which manipulates galactic politics for its own purposes, unrelated to the official government of the Old Republic or the Empire. _____ Leaders of a once-great “cult” of backlash against technology; in a large movement, people discarded many high-tech conveniences (like the Amish?) and decided to go back to self-sufficiency and their own mental abilities. Some of this still survives as an obvious prejudice against droids. [In SW, Vader says “Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant to the power of the Force.”] (5) What is the “SITH”? _____ A symbol (e.g., “Soldiers of the Cross”) _____ A political philosophy (e.g., “Chairman of the Republican Party”) _____ A moral belief (e.g., “Champions of Racial Purity”) _____ A place (planet, cluster, section of the galaxy—e.g., Lord of the Seven Provinces) [handwritten X over response line] A people (e.g., “King of the Jews”) (6) Would you like to see a more detailed (1 paragraph) suggested description of the Lords of the Sith, based on the answers to these questions? _____ YES [handwritten X over response line] NO