Book description
Thousands of years before the rise of Darth Sidious and Darth Vader,
the Old Republic was rife with the evil Sith, who were a constant
thorn in the side of the Jedi. But greed and hunger for power were
eating away at the Sith Order, destroying it from within. In the midst
of this rose a new Sith, Darth Bane, who recognized that the Sith
Order would fall if nothing was done. Thus it was he who, learning to
cultivate patience and cunning, hid from the strife until it was over,
and then rose to become the most powerful Sith Lord ever.
This is the story of the transformation of Des, a young miner, into
the legendary Sith Lord Darth Bane. Des - like many of the
disenfranchised who live on the Outer Rim - is disillusioned with the
stagnancy of the Old Republic. When the Sith unite to bring the
Republic down, Des is one of many to join their cause. His heroism and
skill in battle - along with his remarkable connection to the Force -
draw the notice of the Sith Masters, and Des eventually finds himself
studying at the Sith Academy on Korriban. He takes the name of Bane
and, amidst the deception and back-stabbing of the other students, he
learns to unlock his latent dark-side talents. As his power grows,
Bane realizes the Sith have lost their way. Under the leadership of
Lord Kaan and his Brotherhood of Darkness, the Sith have turned their
back on the true nature of the dark side. Through manipulation,
cunning and strength, Bane destroys Kaan's Brotherhood and wipes out
all the other Sith so he can found a new Order based on the rule of
two: one Master, one apprentice.
It effortlessly explores the way in which the class system and worker
oppression can make the dark path look attractive...a well told
filling-in of Sith history Dreamwatch A solid space adventure [that]
charts the evolution of an anti-hero almost as chilling as Darth Vader
Publishers Weekly Drew lives in the hinterlands of the Great White
North of Canada with his loving wife Jen and their cat, Roxy - because
everyone knows you can't be a real author if you don't own a cat. When
not penning fantasy and sci-fi novels he is a writer/designer for
Bioware, where he has worked on a number of award-winning computer
games. During the all-too-brief Canadian summers he works dilegently on
his golf game, though he has yet to taste the sweet victory of shooting
under par for a full 18-hole round.
