The Great Barren

In an ancient, long lost Sith Empire, there was once a planet known as The Great Barren. No lifeform inhabited the planet, which was for the most part a barren rock, an unforgiving desert sprawling for hundreds of kilometers in any direction. If there is a picture of what "nothing" looks like, it definitely would have been taken on this very planet.

By mere chance, as it is often the case, the planet received the visit of three Sith Lords during the ages, and this otherwise irrelevant fact serves to shed some light into the nature of the individual, or shall we say, into the hearts of the Sith.

The first Sith lord hit the planet when his spaceship received damage from an asteroid near its orbit. Upon setting foot on the planet, to his dismay he realized that he was to find little help in his surroundings. Being the strong man he was, he never despaired, and continued scheming his way out until he, eventually, managed to escape. And so, the world continued to be barren for another century.

The second Sith Lord willingly travelled to the planet to investigate an affair of little relevance. By luck or by negligence, the magnetic storms that happened periodically on the surface rendered his spacecraft and communication devices useless, and so he got stuck in this dead world. Unlike the first Lord, he was not strong-willed and persistent, and instead of masterminding his way out, he complained and whined until, eventually, he died of hunger. And so, the world continued to be dead for another millennia.

The last Lord travelled to the remote planet in search of an ancient artifact, rumored to have been buried somewhere in the sands of a distant planet. Upon reaching this hopeless world he too got trapped by its merciless storms, but like the first Lord, he managed to find a way out. However, unlike the first Lord, he figured that every one of the planet's hostile characteristics could be turned to his advantage, and so, he later on came back with men and material, to build there what would become the power base from which to oversee his empire. And so, the planet was allowed to live again, and it was a dead, empty barren no more.

Meditate on this story, and draw parallelisms. Be mindful of which of the three Sith lords you are impersonating. We are wise to always ask ourselves this question: "What would the third lord do with this dead, barren rock we have been given?".