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The captured Padawans and survivors from the Jedi Service Corps are less gifted in the Force, but they will serve me nonetheless as Dark Side Adepts. Until I have use for them, they shall remain on Byss, where their CONNECTION TO THE FORCE will INTENSIFY the planet's GROWING nexus of DARK SIDE POTENCY.
-Book Of Sith: Secrets From The Dark Side

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Training his most select servants in the ways of corruption, he made them into Dark Side Adepts, and with them, pushed the frontiers of the “science of darkness.” They rediscovered forgotten and long taboo applications of the Force, chief among them the DRAINING OF LIFE itself from the POPULACE.
-Dark Empire Sourcebook

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What better lure for multitudes than Byss’s siren call of beauty and peace? Once there, their wills are DESTROYED by the Emperor and his ADEPTS, and replaced with an illusion of tranquility as THEY blissfully SURRENDER their life energy to sustain the Emperor.
-Dark Empire Sourcebook

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Using their "science of darkness", they learned to FEED on the life energy of OTHERS, ACCUMULATING Force energy in their own bodies. And they learned to redirect this accumulated power in many ways - either as a weapon or in the manipulation of molecular structures.
-Dark Empire endnotes[/QUOTES]

[QUOTE]In the years prior to the Battle of Yavin, Byss was known as the Emperor's Private retreat. Here he began quietly training Dark Side Adepts, initiating men of great intelligence who had committed their lives to his service. NONE WERE PERMITTED to ASCEND to his level of KNOWLEDGE AND PROEFICIENCY, but the adepts nonetheless became powerful Dark Side magicians in their own right.
-Dark Empire endnotes

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Throughout the worlds submissive to the Empire, Byss is renowned as a paradise, whose siren call multitudes to willingly apply for emigration to its shores. Once there, WRAPPED in the power of the dark side, the immigrants become completely SUBMISSIVE, their life energy forever ENSLAVED to the mind that would devour a galaxy.
-Dark Empire endnotes

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“The entire population feeds me even now… slowly surrendering their life energies to add to mine.”
-Emperor Palpatine, Evasive Action: Recruitment

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Years ago, Emperor Palpatine chose Byss as his private retreat, and Imperial architects and engineers were commissioned to build him an opulent palace. Several million humans were allowed to emigrate to the world, where the EMPEROR and his ADEPTS used the dark side to FEED OFF their life energies. The planet's population eventually reached almost 20 billion, and all outgoing communications were censored by security agents.
-The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

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Palpatine planned for millions to permanently reside here, where HE and his MINIONS could use their Dark Side skills to FEED OFF their life energy.
-Dark Empire Sourcebook

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Originally posted by Zenwolf
So what's new here? Palps and his Dark Adepts drain life energy......and? This isn't new.

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Originally posted by The Merchant
I mean they're still under the thrall of Palpatine himself when doing this.

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Originally posted by Galan007
And the point of this thread is...?

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Originally posted by Galan007
And the point of this thread is...?

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Originally posted by Freedon Nadd
it's "new" because most people here think that Palpatine single-handledly mind-controlled and drained the Byss populace.