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welcome everyone it's become a meanness and part of internet culture but one of
the most iconic scenes in a film full of iconic scenes in the matrix is when neo
is offered the blue pill and red pills one to remain in the illusion and the
other to wake to the horrific reality of being a flesh and blood battery for
giant machines everyone has a bad day once in a while right but the reason I
bring this up is because I've been going through the old legends materials as of
lately and I started reading the Star Wars book Darth Bane path of destruction
by drew car person it's the first book in the Darth Bane trilogy which I might
start going over with you guys but in the story which follows how a court OSIS
miner named daesil rose to become Darth Bane the originator of the rule of two
there is a moment where the future Sith Lord faces a very similar choice to neo
his decision would affect the galaxy for the next thousand years and possibly
beyond daesil had left the life of a miner and joined the ranks of the sith
army as a sergeant after an incident with his squad the gloom walkers he has
come to the attention of the Sith Lords in the Brotherhood of Darkness which are
waging a war across the galaxy with the jedis army of light one of these sith a
Twi'lek named kopecks offers two paths forward for the young daesil here we
learn how daesil or des decided to become a Sith and took the derogatory
term that his abusive father had always called him and discussed as his sith
name of Bane and what do you know of the Jedi I know they believe themselves to
be guardians of the Republic dezz replied making no attempt to hide his
contempt I know they wield great influence in the Senate I know many
believe they have mystical powers and the Brotherhood of Darkness Dez
considered his words more carefully this time you are the leaders of our army and
the sworn enemy of the Jedi many believe that you like
havin a chiral abilities but you do not des hesitated struggling to come up with
the answer he thought Co pecs wanted to hear in the end he couldn't figure out
what his Inquisitor was looking for so he simply told the truth I believe most
of the stories are greatly exaggerated Co pecs nodded a common enough belief
those who do not understand the ways of the force regard such tales as myth or
legend but the force is real and those who wield it have power you can't even
imagine you have seen many battles but you have not experienced the real war
while troops vie for control of worlds and moons the Jedi and Sith masters seek
to destroy each other we are being driven toward an inevitable and final
confrontation the faction that survives Sith or Jedi will determine the fate of
the galaxy for the next thousand years true victory in this war will not come
through armies but through the Brotherhood of Darkness our greatest
weapon is the force and those individuals who have the power to
command it individuals like you he paused to let his words sink in before
continuing your special des you have many remarkable talents these talents
are manifestations of the force and they have served you well as a soldier but
you have only scratched the surface of your gift the force is real it exists
all around us you can feel the power of it in this room can you sense it des
hesitates only a moment before nodding I feel it hot like a fire waiting to
explode now this is a part that I really enjoy because you know we see the force
used in both the light and the dark and sometimes in between like in the sequels
but what we never really get to understand is exactly how it feels and
one thing I really appreciate about this excerpt here is that you get to see your
action you get to kind of feel how the force or the dark side feels for someone
who has a lot of it I feel it hot like a fire waiting to explode so it's like
this pent-up aggression and emotion that's waiting to just ignite or be
ignited and blow up at whatever is around him or whatever it's directed to
and I think the Sith had a major problem with the ability to maybe control their
anger because if they did they'd be more like a sniper shot versus just a shotgun
both equally powerful maybe but one is more directed whereas the other one has
no direction and I think this really separates the differences between
regular Sith and those who are more power
for like Sidious for example the power of the dark side the heat of passion and
emotion I can feel it in you as well burning beneath the surface burning like
your anger it makes you strong kopecks closed his eyes and tilted his head back
as if basking in the heat the tips of his head tails twitched ever so slightly
the only sound was the faint crackle of flame from the torches a bead of sweat
rolled down the crown of Dez's bare scalp and along the back of his neck he
didn't wipe it away though he did shift his feet uncomfortably as it trickled
its way between his shoulder blades the slight movement seemed to snap the
Twi'lek out of his trance he didn't speak again for several seconds but he
studied as intently with his piercing gaze you have touched the force in the
past but your abilities are an insignificant speck beside the power of
a true Sith master he finally said there is great potential in you if you stay
here in Corbin we can teach you to unleash it des was speechless you would
no longer be a trooper on the frontlines kopecks continued if you accept my offer
that part of your life is over you will be trained in the ways of the dark side
you will become one of the Brotherhood of darkness and you will not return to
the gloom walkers des felt his heart pounding his head swimming as long as he
could remember he'd known he was special because of his unique talents and now he
was being told that his abilities were nothing compared with what he could
really accomplish still part of him Bakht at the idea of leaving his unit
without even having a chance to say goodbye he considered a dinar lúcia and
the others is more than just fellow soldiers they were his friends could he
really abandoned them like this even for the chance to join the Sith masters he
recalled one of the last things gross shik had ever said to him don't count on
others for help in the end each of us is in this alone the survivors are those
who know how to look out for themselves everything he'd had he'd given to his
unit he'd saved their lives too many times to count and in the end when the
enforcers had come to take him away had been powerless to save him they would
have tried if he'd let them but they would have failed
des realized the truth his unit his friends could do nothing for him now he
could rely only on himself like always he'd be a fool to turn this opportunity
down I honored master copics and I gratefully
accept your offer the way of the Sith is not for the weak the big twi'lek warned
those who falter will be left behind there was something ominous in his tone
I won't be left behind des replied unfazed that remains to be seen
kopecks noted then he added this is a new beginning for you des a new life
many of the students who come here took a new name for themselves they leave
their old life behind des had no desire to hang on to any parts of his old life
an abusive father their brutality of working the minds on a patrol he had
been seeking a new life for as long as he could remember the gloom Walker's had
offered an escape but it had been a temporary one now he had a chance to
leave his past behind forever all he had to do was embrace the Brotherhood of
Darkness and its teachings and yet for reasons he
couldn't explain he felt the cold grip of fear closing in on him but fear made
him hesitate do you wish to choose a new name for yourself des kopecks asked
possibly sensing his reluctance do you wish to be reborn des nodded kopeck
smiled once more and by what name shall we call you now the fear would not stop
him he would seize the fear transform it and make it his own he would take what
had once made him weak and use it to make himself strong my name is bane bane
of the Sith and here we go that's how the first lord of the order of two
became a sith very different from the violent and desperate method that turned
the last member of their order Darth Vader what cope ex and the rest of the
Brotherhood don't realize is that it's not the Jedi that will destroy them but
their newest recruit Bane though at this point Bane doesn't even realize that now
one thing with the say that this time period is that there were so many of
them and they would all kind of just have a civil war between each other many
of them would kill each other for no real reason and this is something that
Bane saw and he thought he could do better but Bane chose to leave this life
behind just like neo did unlike neo though what he left behind would
probably have been the only life that would ever have given Bane happiness he
was abused in the mines the Sith will make him Amon
but his unit the gloom walkers will be the only moment in Bane's life that he
will ever have a family and camaraderie there is a timeline out there that where
he went back to them instead of going to Corbin where he took the blue pill in
that world I see him having a successful military career and retired to a nice
planet to raise a family and enjoy life with his friends or maybe he would have
just died in some battlefield somewhere there is that possibility too but he
would have died a man surrounded by comrades not minions
that's a fan fiction for a different time and it's also something that Anakin
hypothesizes for himself our theorizes for himself I should say in a video that
I've done in the past where he thinks what if qui-gon ever found him and in
that little fanfiction if you don't remember the video or if you haven't
seen it and it can realize is that he would have become an amazing pilot the
best pilot in the galaxy and he would have made millions and billions of
credits and become extremely rich with his aptitude for flying and racing hope
you enjoyed this video let me know if you want me to cover more stuff from
legends and from the Bayne trilogy I think they're really interesting books
and it's refreshing to get some kind of a different character going on I have an
awesome rest every day and I'll see you in the next one until then remember the
force will be with you always
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