User:Darth Hydren

Su'cuy, ner vod, and welcome to my user page. If you have any comments, questions, or complaints, feel free to leave a message on my talk page, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

A Bit About Me
I am currently a high school student in Maryland, and as you can see from the infobox, I like writing my own fanon, and love Star Wars (that last part should go without saying). As far as fanon goes, I'm currently working on a short story featuring Direc Yarai, an Imperial Inquisitor during the early years of the Empire (19-15 BBY). If anyone has ideas about it, feel free to leave a note on my talk page, and I'll respond on yours (just be sure to sign it).

Also, I've just completed an in-universe essay describing Sith philosophy and Sith beliefs, written by an anonymous Sith Lord. The beliefs are mainly a combination of those held by Vergere, Darth Bane, and Darth Caedus. If anyone would like to read it, I'll post it here as soon as I get it typed up.

Movies

 * Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (VCR)
 * Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (VCR)
 * Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (DVD)
 * Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (VCR)
 * Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (VCR)
 * Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (VCR)

Short Story Collections

 * Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
 * Tales of the Bounty Hunters
 * Tales from Jabba's Palace
 * Tales from the Empire
 * Tales from the New Republic

Novellas

 * Omega Squad: Targets
 * Odds
 * In His Image
 * A Two-Edged Sword
 * Boba Fett: A Practical Man

Reference Books

 * The Essential Atlas
 * Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
 * The New Essential Chronology
 * The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons
 * The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
 * The Essential Guide to Alien Species
 * The New Essential Guide to Characters
 * The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
 * The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
 * The New Essential Guide to Droids
 * The Essential Guide to Droids
 * Star Wars: Complete Locations
 * Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
 * The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide
 * The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Things I like
Even though on the whole I fully support Caedus and his methods, I dissaprove of some of the things he did, like the killing of Lieutenant Tebut and continuing the attack on Fondor after they had already surrendered. I realize he was nowhere near omnipotent, has he himself realized, and he eventually fell into the trap of most Sith, that of overconfidence ("Luke Skywalker couldn't kill me; what does she expect to do?").Despite all that, Darth Caedus was undoubtably the best Sith that ever lived, one who had the strength to give up all those he loved for the sake of "tending his garden", and the Jedi were fools for killing the one person who had the ability and strength to save the galaxy from itself. The Pre-Republic era I like for a completely different reason; the mysteries of the distant past, specifically ancient cultures like the Celestials. So little has been revealed about them that I practically have a cardiac arrest every time I see them mentioned, and I almost died when they were being discussed in The Joiner King and Abyss (I could have killed Han when he interrupted UnuThul in TJK, right when Thul was going to reveal more information on the Killiks and Celestials). I'm hoping some novel or comic will reveal more (Fate of the Jedi?), but I've also been gathering all the information on the Celestials I can, from constructions and influence to relevant dates, to try to solve myself the questions of who were they, what were they like, and what happened to them (did they die out, go into hiding, integrate into other cultures, or just leave the galaxy?). If you're curious about what I've found out, go here.
 * Darth Caedus. He is both my favorite Sith and my favorite Star Wars character in general. I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I admire how he broke away from the teachings of the stereotypical Sith like Sidious to use his powers to try to save the galaxy, and the Jedi made me mad the way they were always standing in the way of a stable, orderly galaxy. Especially Jaina, when she killed Caedus and probably ended up destroying the galaxy, and Luke, whose meddling with Caedus' visions eventually led to his death.
 * Legacy and Pre-Republic eras. I love the Legacy era because, in addition to it having the best Sith ever, Darth Caedus, it also represents a new era, looking toward the future and discussing the final fate of the galaxy, where nothing has been set to happen by previous movies, books, etc. like the other eras.
 * Darth Bane. He is probably my second-favorite Sith after Darth Caedus, mainly because he destroyed idiot Kaan and his weak, shabla Brotherhood, and brought about the Rule of Two that advented the numerous Sith triumphs (most significant victories in the history of the Sith came during the Rule of Two [19 BBY, 40 ABY] with Krayt's empire being a notable exception).
 * Vergere. Since I admire Darth Caedus so much, of course I like Vergere, the Sith who first helped Jacen Solo see that the Sith are not evil, but only have corrupted members like Palpatine, and to understand that he, Jacen Solo/Darth Caedus, had a duty to make the gardener's choice: to choose the weeds, and act to dispose of themm, to allow the flowers of the garden to grow.
 * Sith. I obviously support the Sith, as you can tell by my name and the other items on my "Like" section (3 Sith, 0 Jedi). However, I support the Sith Order as a whole across history, but not many of its pretender organizations like the Brotherhood of Darkness, Palpatine and his minions, and Darth Krayt's One Sith. The "good" Sith Orders are those like Revan's empire, Bane's Rule of Two Sith, and Caedus' GA, that were on the whole not greedy, but simply trying to to the galaxy a favor by uniting it and wiping out destabilizing influences like the Jedi and democracy ("Equality is a lie; a myth to appease the masses. Simply look around you and you will see that lie for what it is!").
 * Lumiya's Sith and the Rule of Two. See above for my reasons.

Things I dislike

 * Kaan and Rule by the Strong. See "Things I Like" for my reasons.
 * Darth Krayt, One Sith and the Rule of One. See "Things I Like" for my reasons.
 * Palpatine. I dislike him for a couple reasons: one named above. The other is that he broke the Rule of Two, the guiding light of the Sith for 1,000 years and the reason for many of their successes, several times, which was the reason Vader decided to break it as well, by taking Galen Marek as an apprentice when Vader was still an apprentice himself.

Things I would like to see

 * More about Vongerella. The idea of a Force-using Yuuzhan Vong interests me, as well as her mysterious Master, who might or might not be Lumiya. The only other Force-using YV was Onimi, and he achieved that himself by reshaping himself; so how did Vongerella get Force-sensitivity, as there's no evidence of her being similarly reshaped? I hope this mystery gets resolved, and there's not enough evidence to try solving it myself, as with the Celestials (kind of like the mystery of Yoda's home planet and species).
 * More about the Unknown Regions. This is self-explanatory; I think everyone wants to know more about it, and although The Unknown Regions helped, it's still not much. I like how more books are getting into that region (Crosscurrent, Dark Nest trilogy). Tell me on my talk page if you think this is a good idea, but I thought the Crosscurrent sequel could take place in or around the Chiss Ascendancy, with the Jedi-Sith clones stirring up trouble there, and Jaden following and seeing more of the Unknown Regions along the way. Maybe even have appearances by those Yuuzhan Vong remnants referenced in Crosscurrent, and even Killiks, as in The Swarmn War they didn't die out, just reverted to their original culture. Perhaps include a return to Nirauan and the Empire of the Hand, and talk more about the "100 Terrors of the Unknown Regions". The book could be called Crossfire or something like that.
 * The fate of Xizor, based on references in Backlash. Before Backlash, I always thought Xizor had been killed by Vader in Shadows of the Empire, and never really thought about it. That brief scene in Backlash piqued my interest, and now I'm hoping FotJ or another book will resolve this (and the interesting reference to a resurgent Black Sun, which has been quiet since Czethros in Young Jedi Knights. Maybe the Black Sun in the Legacy series could even be revealed to be led by a revived/cloned Xizor.

Current Favorite Star Wars quotes
"What I want is for the trillions of ordinary people in the galaxy to be able to get on with their lives knowing that it's being run by a stable form of government. The vast majority of folk just get smashed by the fallout from the power struggles of a handful. I want to see that stop. I want to see power meaning duty, service, not a prize." -Jacen Solo to Cha Niathal

"A leader has to make tough choices for the good of the majority." -Ben Skywalker to Jacen Solo

Poll
Do you support Darth Caedus' methods to gain peace for the galaxy? Yes No

Will you be attending Star Wars Celebration V? Yes No Hopefully yes