原文剧透属性：“真正的西斯”皇帝，永生不死的原因

曾真

ave you ever heard tales of the Emperor childhood??
Scourge shook his head. don even know what planet he from.?
ew people do. He hidden his past, because if the truth came to light none would follow him.?
Scourge was interested despite himself.
e was born almost a thousand years ago,?she went on, n the decades before the Great Hyperspace War with the Republic. He spent his childhood on Nathema, a lush and vibrant agricultural world on the far fringes of the Empire.?
athema? Ie never heard of it.?
nce it went by another name, but that name has long been forgottenust like the planet itself. The Emperor erased Nathema from the history books and the astrogation charts to hide all evidence of his crimes.?
rimes??
hrough the lost rituals of the ancients, he used the dark side to conquer death and make himself immortal. But his immortality came with a cost. Telling you what happened is not enough. You must see for yourself. Only then will you understand the price the Emperor was willing to pay. Only then will you understand why he must be stopped.

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Nyriss made a few more adjustments and punched in their route, and the ship jumped into hyperspace, leaving Dromund Kaasnd Nyriss loyal followersehind.
othing I tell you can prepare you for what you will see on Nathema,?Nyriss warned him. ut I will tell you the history of the Emperor and his homeworld.?
ow can I know youe telling the truth??
She shrugged. elieve it or not as you see fit. If nothing else, it will help pass the time.?
She settled herself more comfortably, and as she spoke, her voice took on the singsong tone of children storyteller. he Emperor name was Tenebrae,?she began. hey say he was born with eyes as black as the void of empty space, and that he never cried, even as an infant. No animal would come near him, and when he began to talk, his voice carried a weight and power that should not come from a child.
t the age of six he began to manifest signs of the Force, marking him as one of the ruling elite. But his parents were simple farmers, and the Force was not strong in them. Suspicious about the boy power, his father confronted his mother, who admitted to having an affair with the Sith Lord who ruled over them.
he father flew into a rage, attacking the boy mother. Tenebrae stopped him, feeding on his father anger and hate to call upon the dark side. He snapped his father neck with a mere thought, killing him instantly. His mother died more slowly. Tenebrae made her suffer for months as punishment for betraying the family, torturing her with the Force as he honed his powers.
ow orphaned by his own hand, he made the others in his village bow down to him. Those who refused, he tortured and killed through the Force.
ver the next few years his reputation and influence spread to nearby villages, and he amassed legions of both fanatical and terrified followers. He killed thousands during his rise to power. Many died just to feed his insatiable appetite for suffering, tortured for days in public executions so he could savor their agonizing ends.?

his sounds more like a legend than a history,?Scourge remarked.
cannot guarantee the truth of this story,?Nyriss admitted. hose who witnessed the events no longer live to verify them. But if you had ever met the Emperor in person, you would not be so hesitant to accept the tale as fact.?
hat about Nathema ruler? The boy father? You claimed he was a Sith Lord. Surely he didn sit back doing nothing while a child conquered his people village by village??
enebrae father was named Lord Dramath. He heard rumors, but they came from a remote and insignificant territory. He had long forgotten the simple commoner who had borne him a son, and he considered the plight of a few small villages beneath his notice. Had Dramath acted more swiftly, the Emperor might have been stopped. But it took almost four years before he decided to go see Tenebrae for himself.
ord Dramath intended to judge the child power to determine if he was worthy of serving the Sith Lord, or if he should simply be executed. But Tenebrae had no intention of servingr of dying. When they met face-to-face, Tenebrae proved the stronger. Only ten years old, he stripped his father of his power and his mind. Lord Dramath spent his last moments weeping in terror, gazing up into the black eyes of his son.
t took Tenebrae three more years to gain control of the rest of Nathema. Dramath firstborn son fled rather than face his formidable half brother, but other powerful Sith sought to seize the empty throne. All fell before the dark prodigy, and with each victory he grew more powerful and more ruthless.
t thirteen he presented himself to Marka Ragnos, the Lord of all Sith and the ruler of the Sith Council. Impressed by the teenager ambition and power, Marka Ragnos granted him the title of Lord Vitiate. His position as ruler of Nathema officially recognized, Lord Vitiate returned to his home to conduct his research into the depths of the dark side power.
e stayed there for a hundred years. When Marka Ragnos fell, Lord Vitiate did not join in the mad rush to claim his position. He was not part of the Great Hyperspace War against the Republic. When Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh fought for leadership of the Sith, he took no side. But in the aftermath of the warfter our defeat at the hands of the Republic and our flight to escape the massacre of our people by the Jedie emerged from his solitude to call a great council of all the Sith Lords who remained. He invited them to his palace on Nathema, built on the site of his childhood home, the place where he had killed his adopted father and tortured his mother to death. He invited them to participate in a ritual to unlock the full potential of the dark side; he promised they would unleash power beyond anything they had ever witnessed or imagined.?
idn they suspect a trap??
erhaps.?Nyriss shrugged. ome refused to answer his call. But many more came. After all, what could one man do against a hundred Sith Lords? Remember, he was not the Emperor back then. He was merely Lord Vitiate, ruler of a single planet of no particular importance. He hadn fought in any battles of note or achieved any great victories or conquests beyond his homeworld. He had the reputation of a scholar, not a warrior.


nd the Sith Lords were driven by fear. Many thought the Jedi would soon wipe them all out. They were desperate for anything they could use as a weapon against the servants of the light side. Lord Vitiate played upon these fears, convincing those who answered his call to set aside their suspicions of him and of one another to join in a single glorious cause.
nce they arrived on Nathema, they quickly fell under Lord Vitiate control. He dominated their minds, crushed their resistance. He turned them into slaves to his will, forcing them to participate in the most complex ritual of Sith sorcery ever attempted. Calling on the dark side, Lord Vitiate devoured them. He fed on their power, absorbing it into himself, utterly obliterating all traces of his victims.
ut the ritual was not confined to the doomed Sith Lords. They were but the eye of the storm; the center of a vortex that spread across the entire planet. Every man, woman, and child on Nathema died that day. Every beast, bird, and fish; all the insects and plants; every living being touched by the Force was consumed. When the ritual ended, Nathema was no longer a world. It was a husk sucked dry. Lord Vitiate sacrificed millions, stealing their life force to make himself immortal. Their deaths also made him stronger than any Sith who had come before, and he ceased to be known as Lord Vitiate. On that day, the Emperor was truly born.?
Scourge wondered if Nyriss expected him to be horrified by the tale. If so, she was about to be disappointed.
he Emperor seized what was his by right,?he said. he strong take from the weak. That is our way. Doing it on a scale of millions doesn change anythingt just proves he deserves to be our Emperor.?
o I used to think,?Nyriss said, smiling ghoulishly. nd then I saw Nathema for myself.?
She didn say anything else for the remainder of the trip, leaving Scourge to wonder in silence why she was so confident he would come around to her side.
He felt the first hints of what was waiting for him when the shuttle dropped out of hyperspace. Through the windows of the cockpit he saw a gray-and-brown planet looming large before them. Gazing at it, he felt something strange and unsettling. Something unnatural.
It took him several moments to realize what was wrong, and even when he did, he didn fully grasp the implications. He wasn feeling the Force.
The sensation was completely alien. The Force was omnipresent. It radiated stronger in certain places and at certain times, and the balance of the dark side and the light constantly shifted. But it was always there in some way, shape, or form.
Now, however, he felt nothing. He had become so accustomed to the presence of the Force in the background that its complete absence was almost overwhelming, leaving him unable to speak.
repare yourself,?Nyriss said. ee going down to the surface.?
The absence grew steadily more pronounced as the shuttle approached and then landed on Nathema.
ome with me,?Nyriss commanded, rising up from her seat.
Still mute, Scourge followed her down the shuttle boarding ramp and out onto the world itself.


They had touched down at a spaceport in a city. Or what used to be a city. The spaceport was surrounded by the buildings, speeder pads, and streets one would expect to see in a planet major metropolitan center. But it was eerily quiet; the incessant murmur of the crowds and the constant hum of traffic whizzing past on busy streets were missing.
There wasn even any wind, and the air tasted stale in Scourge mouth. The temperature was neither cold nor hot, but he felt himself starting to shiver.
ou feel the chill of the Void,?Nyriss told him. he Force is energy; it gives heat to our emotions and our minds. But here it has been stripped away.?
She led him along the deserted streets as Scourge stared in fascinated horror, trying to grasp the magnitude of what he was witnessing. The buildings seemed to be almost fully intact; there was none of the damage and destruction normally associated with millions of simultaneous deaths. However, there were other signs of what had happened here.
Mangled speeders and shuttles were strewn about, the remains of vehicles in motion that had crashed to a halt when their pilots were taken by the ritual. And everywhere Scourge looked there were small piles of clothes: jackets, slacks, and boots that had survived what their owners had not. Normally these remains would have been picked over by scavengers, but on Nathema even the vermin and insects were extinct.
here are the droids??Scourge asked.
He was shocked at the sound of his own voice. It was flat and dull, as if even sound waves had been distorted by the ritual.
he ritual overloaded their circuits,?Nyriss explained, her voice as hollow and washed out as his. he damage was irreparable; even their memory cores were completely wiped out.?
Scourge glanced upward and noticed something else unusual. The sun shining down on them from above star that had appeared bright orange as they approached the planetas now a pale shade of brown. In fact, everything around them was either brown or gray, as if the colors had been leached out.
Scourge was well acquainted with death. He had no trouble understanding massacres and mass slaughter. Death and destruction unleashed powerful emotions like fear, suffering, and hatred; they fueled the power of the dark side. But what had happened on Nathema was different, and it disturbed him in a deep and profound way.
The Emperor had consumed everything. Life, sound, color, even the Forceothing remained. This wasn about conquest or domination or destroying an enemyll concepts Scourge embraced.
Everything on Nathema had simply been snuffed out, extinguished so completely that it ceased to have any meaning or purpose. It was a vacuum of existence; a blight on the natural order.
e seen enough,?he declared.
Nyriss nodded, and they turned and made their way back to the ship.
Scourge finally understood why Nyriss and the others wanted to take the Emperor down. Destroying your enemiesven destroying a planetas understandable. But this wasn simple destruction. It was annihilation; obliteration. The very fabric of the Force had been shredded. Anyone capable of turning an entire planet into a nihilistic abomination had to be completely mad. After seeing the horrors of Nathema, he truly believed the Emperor might declare another war against the Republic, exposing them to the Jedi and leading to the eventual extinction of their species.
By the time they reached the shuttle, Scourge stomach was churning. He had lived his whole life attuned to the Force; having it stripped away had left him physically ill. The shuttle shook as they took to the air, and he fought against the urge to vomit.
As they broke the atmosphere of the cursed world, some semblance of normalcy returned. Scourge felt the Force rushing in to fill the emptiness inside him; he felt its power invigorating him and restoring his strength. At the same time, he also felt something else: the presence of someone strong in the Forceomeone who was neither Nyriss nor him.




就是依靠整颗星球的吸取原力吞噬生命。
《旧共和国武士II》里，技能都被剥光，转移到“真正的西斯”皇帝身上——转移到“真正的西斯”皇帝身上后，还变成无副作用版——的尼赫勒斯可以去哭了。

suckmine

这语言表达能力

Macpilot

肯定有副作用，只要一放招就成PPT了

DIERIBURY

回复 3# Macpilot


    但是吾皇一直保持着3000年的正太脸。。。。虽然那脸可能不是他的。还有你这坟挖的。。。

bugshadow

原来是就是和龙珠里面的概念差不多

bckey

重點是,他根本沒有永生不死,不過這樣復生也有些牽強吧

无能青年

好长。。。