Post by Astroruss on Sept 22, 2009 13:49:38 GMT -5
This is the sequel to Karpyshkin's Darth Bane series. It is much shorter, and more in depth in the writing for the Sith. This story covers the aftermath of the Battles of Ruusan, when the Sith were defeated and believed vanquished. 
Bane, having become the sole leader of the Sith, takes on Zannah as his apprentice. Zannah couldn't be any more unlike Bane. Bane is huge and physically powerful and intimidating in appearance. Zannah, once she matures, is much shorter, meak and unimpressive. She uses these qualities to her advantage, however. Patience and stealth become her strongest attributes, as well as knowing how to lead her opponents to their doom rather than killing them outright in battle. Where Bane chooses to overwhelm his opponets in combat, Zannah falls back uses her foes own abilities against them. She becomes a master of Sith mental sorcery, driving her enemies insane and out of control. 
The Sith now number only two, in secret. The Jedi leave Ruusan to rebuild and reorganizae their order, at the request of the new politics. Thus, the Jedi Order evolves into the form it retains in the Prequel chapters. They now serve as guardians and advisors, not so much as soldiers and police. The sole surviving master of the Russan battle, Farfalla, believes the Sith to be gone. His padawan, Johun Othone, disagrees. He suspects the continued survival of the Sith lords, but is largely ignored.
Bane puts Zannah through a series of unorthodox tests to prove her quality to the Sith ideals, in addition to acting as his agent and emmisary for his plots. Bane also acquires a new power; he becomes infested with orbalisk parasites, mollusks that feed of the dark side energies of his form. The parasites cause him extreme pain and test his stamina, but they also give him great strength and energy, and render him impervious to physical injury from blasters and lightsabers.
Eventually, Othone is able to convince Farfalla that the Sith still exist. With a small band of Jedi they travel to the lost world of Tython, and battle the two Sith. Through Bane's imperviousness to injury and Zannah's Sith magics, the two Sith prevail over the five Jedi knights, though Bane is brought almost to death from the battle.
Zannah tricks a local healer and her kinsmin into not only healing and restoring Bane to health but also to spell their own demise against Jedi scouts investigating the reports of Sith agents on the planet Ambria. Zannah hides herself and Bane in the ground while the two healers are brought to death and insanity by the Jedi. The Jedi scouts are convinced that the Sith have been finally extinguished, so Zannah and Bane escape notice.
Throughout the book, the Sith strive to implement their master plan; to slowly control and influence many insurgencies and organizations to their due bidding, to eventually bring about the rise of the Sith to rule the galaxy. They are eventually successful; Darth Sidious later overthrows the Jedi Order and rules the galactic republic.
But this process takes nearly a thousand years to occur. The level of planning and indepth plotting is remarkable, as is the continued patience of the Sith lords. Before, the Sith Brotherhood sought to conquer the galaxy through force and numbers alone, fighting the Jedi on their own terms. Of course, this avenue fails. Bane undertakes the secret path of steallth and guile to retake the galaxy.
Where before, the Way of the Sith was to conquer the republic and bring them down by force, the Sith now strive to control the galaxy from within, and ironically with the Republic's blessings.
Bane, having become the sole leader of the Sith, takes on Zannah as his apprentice. Zannah couldn't be any more unlike Bane. Bane is huge and physically powerful and intimidating in appearance. Zannah, once she matures, is much shorter, meak and unimpressive. She uses these qualities to her advantage, however. Patience and stealth become her strongest attributes, as well as knowing how to lead her opponents to their doom rather than killing them outright in battle.
Where Bane chooses to overwhelm his opponets in combat, Zannah falls back uses her foes own abilities against them. She becomes a master of Sith mental sorcery, driving her enemies insane and out of control. 
The Sith now number only two, in secret. The Jedi leave Ruusan to rebuild and reorganizae their order, at the request of the new politics. Thus, the Jedi Order evolves into the form it retains in the Prequel chapters. They now serve as guardians and advisors, not so much as soldiers and police. The sole surviving master of the Russan battle, Farfalla, believes the Sith to be gone. His padawan, Johun Othone, disagrees. He suspects the continued survival of the Sith lords, but is largely ignored.
Bane puts Zannah through a series of unorthodox tests to prove her quality to the Sith ideals, in addition to acting as his agent and emmisary for his plots. Bane also acquires a new power; he becomes infested with orbalisk parasites, mollusks that feed of the dark side energies of his form. The parasites cause him extreme pain and test his stamina, but they also give him great strength and energy, and render him impervious to physical injury from blasters and lightsabers.
Eventually, Othone is able to convince Farfalla that the Sith still exist. With a small band of Jedi they travel to the lost world of Tython, and battle the two Sith. Through Bane's imperviousness to injury and Zannah's Sith magics, the two Sith prevail over the five Jedi knights, though Bane is brought almost to death from the battle.
Zannah tricks a local healer and her kinsmin into not only healing and restoring Bane to health but also to spell their own demise against Jedi scouts investigating the reports of Sith agents on the planet Ambria. Zannah hides herself and Bane in the ground while the two healers are brought to death and insanity by the Jedi. The Jedi scouts are convinced that the Sith have been finally extinguished, so Zannah and Bane escape notice.
Throughout the book, the Sith strive to implement their master plan; to slowly control and influence many insurgencies and organizations to their due bidding, to eventually bring about the rise of the Sith to rule the galaxy. They are eventually successful; Darth Sidious later overthrows the Jedi Order and rules the galactic republic.
But this process takes nearly a thousand years to occur. The level of planning and indepth plotting is remarkable, as is the continued patience of the Sith lords. Before, the Sith Brotherhood sought to conquer the galaxy through force and numbers alone, fighting the Jedi on their own terms. Of course, this avenue fails. Bane undertakes the secret path of steallth and guile to retake the galaxy.
Where before, the Way of the Sith was to conquer the republic and bring them down by force, the Sith now strive to control the galaxy from within, and ironically with the Republic's blessings.