THE DARK SIDE Letterbox Hybrid
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The cache is a small lock & lock container
painted black. This hybrid letterbox has no written directions. You
will need to use the dark force.PLEASE DO NOT
REMOVE the hand made Darth Vader stamp and
black ink pad from the cache these are not for trade. But feel free
to stamp your logbook with this stamp and if you have a personal
stamp please stamp the logbook. Thank-You. The cache contents are
Stamp, Ink Pad, Logbook, FTF Dark side Token, Small Laser
Lightsaber and a small package for Grafinator. There is really only
one trade item but generally a Letterbox has no trade
items.
Dark Side of the Force (Sith code)
Peace is a lie; there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
The dark side of the Force is innately tied to the distinctly
negative ethical paradigm of the Sith. It is largely based on
emotions and passion rather than peace and serenity which are
preached by the light side of the Force. The dark side of the Force
comes from the hate, anger, fear, aggression, vengeance, and malice
in all living things. In the Star Wars movies, the practitioners of
the dark side are Darth Sidious and his successive apprentices
Darth Maul, Darth Tyranus, and Darth Vader.
Negative emotions increase the strength and abilities of a dark
side practitioner. As a result, the dark side of the Force is
extremely addictive: every time one calls on its power, one becomes
more and more attached to it. Darth Vader desired to use this to
his advantage during his time trying to turn his son, Luke
Skywalker, to the dark side. The Dark Side can also strongly affect
the user physically, as the intense emotion and rage required to
fuel it usually corrupts the user's body; this is demonstrated by
Darth Sidious, Darth Vader, Darth Traya, Revan, a dark-sided Jedi
Exile, and in extreme cases, Darth Sion.
The corruption also extends to the personality and soul of the
Sith, as the emotions called upon eventually become the only
emotions the Sith truly feel. Eventually the original purpose for
using the Dark Side is forgotten as the emotions drive them to seek
absolute power. The soul also suffers, as in death the emotions
burn out and leave them empty. This is seen in Ajunta Pall, the
first Dark Lord of the Sith who, even centuries after his death,
lingered in his tomb, unable to join the Force because of the evil
he caused and his inability to forgive himself.
Overall, dark side relationships and organizations are inherently
unstable. For instance, the pupil-master relationship of the Jedi
is perverted under the Sith, as both the apprentice and the master
naturally plot against one other, and one will eventually kill the
other. For the Sith, this in-fighting is a positive: it guarantees
that the strongest (and thus most fit) will rule. However, every
time a Dark Side Force has risen in the galaxy, it has collapsed
from inevitable instability due to this practice. The Empire is no
exception. When Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader discovered that
Luke Skywalker was Vader's son, both wanted to turn Luke to the
dark side. Vader wanted his son to help him kill Palpatine and rule
the galaxy together, but Palpatine wanted Luke to take Vader's
place as his apprentice.
Darth Bane considered the Force to be finite, and thus best
restricted (ideally) to the use of a single Sith Lord. After the
Battle of Ruusan, he eliminated the practice of having vast numbers
of Sith at the same time and concentrated the dark side of the
Force into two individuals: a Sith Master and Apprentice. This
tradition, or "rule of two," remained in practice throughout the
Star Wars Extended Universe. One might argue that the corrupted
Jerec was an exception, as he had seven apprentices/fellow Dark
Jedi on his command when he sought the power of the Valley of the
Jedi, but Jerec was not a Sith, but rather, a Dark Jedi.
The Dark Lords Sidious, Tyranus, and Vader had each trained some
followers with dark side abilities and occasionally inducted a
member deeply into Sith lore and powers, but none of these
followers were given the full Sith rites and training; thus the
"rule of two" was consistent during the era of Darth Sidious.
Fear
"Fear is the path to the dark side..."
All sentient creatures experience fear at some point in their
lives; it is a defense mechanism designed to impel creatures away
from danger. One feels fear when they believe they may lose
something valuable to them. Fear for one's own life is the most
common motivator, but the fear can be for the lives or friends of
loved ones, or even something as trivial as the loss of a
possession or opportunity.
One acts out of genuine fear when they abandon reason and logic in
order to eliminate or escape a threat. Unreasoning fear is
characterized by desperation and frantic attempts to escape the
danger at any cost. People who use the most lethal weapon available
(regardless of their proficiency with it), attack all-out without
first determining the actual degree of danger, or abandon
threatened allies to save their own lives are almost certainly
acting out of fear. Their journey to the dark side has begun.
Anger
"...fear leads to anger..."
Like fear, anger is almost unavoidable for sentient beings. It is
symptomatic of frustration- stress without a suitable means of
release. Such tension results in violent behavior, aimed at
relieving the frustration all at once. It can be brought on by a
variety of factors, but most commonly relates to fear. The fear of
the consequences of failure can create tremendous surges of anger
in sentient beings.
Someone acting out of anger loses the ability to show mercy; the
target of his anger must feel his wrath. One gripped by anger often
takes unnecessary risks in order to punish or destroy the target of
his ire. Victory is not good enough if the foe is still moving. The
angry do not wish to address the situation when they are rational;
she needs to vent her fury now, while her blood is boiling and her
enemy is within reach. Such a person deliberately gives her anger
free rein, and thus gives in to the dark side.
Hatred
"...anger leads to hatred..."
Stress can also result in a more subtle kind of anger: hatred.
Hatred is a simmering resentment, the outward expression of which
may start small but gradually escalates into full-scale acts of
violence. Hatred festers inside someone until eventually they come
to believe that the target of their hatred somehow has less right
to exist than they do. In their own mind, they reduce their enemy
to a nebulous menace, the source of all the things they despise and
of all the ills that plague them. To their thinking, the target of
her hatred consciously attempts to thwart them. But it is not a
personal vendetta; their enemy clearly threatens all that they
touch. The hateful person has a right and even a duty to destroy
their enemy and, what's more, to undo all that their enemy has
wrought.
Hatred is often identifiable by an accompanying sense of
righteousness; the person feels that he is morally bound to
eliminate the thing that he hates. For him, considerations and
mitigating circumstances are not a factor. Lenience is not an
option. Justice is his to administer, and he does so with the
assurance that anyone can plainly see the correctness of his
decision. But whether he is right or wrong, the very fact that he
acts out of his belief and nothing else brings him one step closer
to the dark side.
Suffering
"...hate leads to suffering."
Hatred often springs from a sensation of inferiority. What one
cannot control, one frequently hates. But when a person has the
power of life and death over the object of his hatred- a single
individual, or even an entire galaxy- he can cause suffering.
Mental, verbal, and physical abuse are his tools; through these
methods, the person denigrates and depersonalizes his victims-
making them no more significant than objects, to be used or
destroyed as he likes.
Malice is the ultimate expression of hatred, because the object of
such hate invariably suffers. A person who wishes to cause
suffering has no sense of pity. He callously causes pain, injury,
and anguish, because he knows no one has the power to stop him- he
is in command. But he has graduated beyond the need to destroy what
he hates; to him, keeping his victims alive but always in fear of
death reminds them of his authority over them. As long as he can
continue to exert control over them, they feed his contempt for
them. But should they challenge him, they present a threat, and he
must destroy them. Thus, he returns to fear, and trances his path
to the dark side all over again.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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3) IVFVOYR SEBZ GUR BHGFVQR