SHARING ISTORICAL PREFACE By Dart Sipious FOR IT With THE CouneL. —Lu my DECADE jer, With Jedi agent Quinlan Vos in an ill-conceived ter to apprentice for generations. During the Clone Wars, my servant Count Dooku shared the book gut THATS effort to lure and corrupt him. Count Dooku’s fail- eonTee™™Fire is no longer important, for my clone troop- 1's NX 6 a a tr yn wow ers rectified that breach and eliminated Vos while one Dee carrying out Order 66. Hapeicr, THE Ereror stems to se Have SOT TEN THIS ONE WRONG. IE Bane READ ACCOUNTS THAT QUINLAN Ves _Luse gig a me ee ee SURVIVED Lt Most texts I recovered were penned by Sith, but “Lup wert inte. iD, side group—the Nightsisters. Although Talzin’s text purine . . THE DARK expounds on her misguided reverence for nature “.,, spirits, it does possess a shrewd pragmatism I admire. —LUS® Wild Power by Mother Talzin relates to another dark “THe ciaenaLoey of THE CLons Wares if conmusines | any e SE MORE PRECISE THAN To STATE THAT TALaIN'S WRITINGS AND VENTRESS'S EOMMENTS DATE FROM THE TIME FRAME OF THAT CONFLICT:The members of her Nightsister clan became mer- chants for the galaxy’s finest dark side mercenaries during the Clone Wars. Asajj Ventress, a Nightsister, by birth who served Count Dooku until I pried “\ > otherwise, appears to have added her commentary he after she slinked away to Dathomir to become member of the tribe once more. One of my Inqui tors recovered this book while raiding the planet to 13 of Yee 2 ee i capture Force-sensitive slaves. ll in 32. B.B Aen IT IS PALATINE c&ME TO STURT Tue wares on THE Siv# UNDER HM] Ue p noun 45 28 4s DEATH MAN NOT H cz: he a) publivolume Dork Sick My Master, Darth Plagueis, recorded his own mus- Uh ings on what he believed to be the true nature of Nasoo euEss- the dark side. Although he had a fatal blind spot, he revolutionized Sith understanding of the relation- ship between biology and the Force. The pages of this text still bear the comments I made after tak- Ue ocala eee me, these Yoree ing Darth Plagueis’s place as Master and making his possessions my own, Ta fea t nt The stories of the previous authors ended, but my fi d 9 7 reign is just beginning. By melding the core truths kM bry ce of the dark side found in these texts, I have set forth: The Book of Anger, The Weakness of Infer suT THAT'S ONL" AN EDUCATED 6ccURRED UNTIL THE BATTLE OF 7 Daemt Pracucisls TEXT MATT DATE FR: ree are th cornerstone ors, and The Manipulation of 1 A, mi Yo PaLeATINE DIB comecere These establish the erue knowledge of the dark side wHEs= and make plain the tasks required to implement a vel sith Ord Sith Order. enat sy 1 ene ner MADE m LET OF PROGRESS. DURING MY TIME on Brrssy Wie MANIFESTS INTHE RECORDS LIBRARY BUT ONLY PARTING copies SEEM To HAVE suaviven Bryss!s DESTRUCTION: —LUCE STILL SOMETHING OF A MISTER How