ray_afraid said:
Chyron- ...I've no idea what you are talking about.
Does anybody know what/who "Sith" really is supposed to be in Star Wars? I know episode 3 was called "Revenge Of Sith" but I don't know what that's referring to and I never really cared. Then I read in the Ep. 7 thread that someone doesn't want "any more Sith in the movies!" and I suddenly realized that I didn't know Sith was ever even in the movies. Can anybody clear this one up for me?
I was just extending Harmy's joke.
The Sith are the opposite of the Jedi.
Jedi are good; Sith are evil.
Jedi use the light side of the force; Sith use the dark side.
The Sith are also generally known to only exist in pairs: one master, one apprentice. The reason why is because they are treacherous and power-hungry. If there are too many Sith, then they fight each other, drawing their focus away from the Jedi, and so they keep their numbers small. This lust for power is also evident in that when a Sith apprentice becomes powerful enough, he likely kills his master and recruits his own apprentice (just as Palpatine explained in Revenge of the Sith).
Also, if the Expanded Universe is to be believed (ie. the movies and shows don't say this, only unofficial stuff like books), a strength of the light side comes from strength in numbers (ie. friendship), and so more Jedi means more overall light-side force power. Whereas the dark side has a limited overall quantity of power, so the more dark-side users there are, the more diluted their individual powers become (I read this in the Darth Bane books). So the Sith established the "rule of two" in an effort to keep the dark side concentrated into fewer people, giving them greater individual power.
There are people who sometimes use the term "Dark Jedi". I would think the original reason was because the term "Sith" was never used in the original trilogy, and so back then "Sith and "Dark Jedi" were somewhat interchangeable terms or else confused to mean the same thing. However, it seems that the currently held stance is that the Sith have their own code and history and such, while Dark Jedi are rogue dark-side force users.