Okay, I missed the question about the Sith. They were originally a band of renegade Jedi who left the order behind when they were forbidden to study the dark side. They found a planet where they could hide and study, whose inhabitants, the Sith race, worshiped them as gods pretty much, and they took over and ruled the Sith. (Hence the title Dark Lord of the Sith.) Eventually, they mixed the Sith religious beliefs with their own philosophies. If you go to your local hobby or book store, you can probably still find the Dark Side resource book for the Star Wars role playing game, which fills in some blanks and collects information from a bunch of the different writers in one place. The core rule book has a lot of interesting stuff abou the Jedi, and they’ll probably come out with a Light Side resource book that will have more.
If you listen carefully in Phantom Menace, Qui Gon explains midichlorians. They are a symbiont life form that dwells within all living things.
Someone once told me that there can only ever be 2 Sith Lords, a master and a student, because if there are more then they will fight amongst themselves until there is only 2. Kinda like what was happening at the end of ROTJ when Luke is fighting Darth Vader and Palpatine is egging him on. Darth Vader then exhorts Luke to kill the Emperor so that they can rule the galaxy as father and son.
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“someone once told you…”?
yeah, that was yoda , dude!
what , you’re on a first name basis, hangin’ out down the jedi pub, rappin with samuel l jackson?
bloody name dropper!
___________________________________________________________________________ “I’m just trying to lull you into a genuine sense of security!”
If you must know, yes it was Yoda. There we were, sitting in his little hut on Dagoba eating some brown slop, when he decided it was time for me to learn about the history of the Sith.
Samuel L. was there too but he was too busy killing some motherfu(ker to care about what Yoda was saying.
You’re just jealous cos you didn’t get an invite to the Jedi ball 
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Wow, Sam you’re a master Jedi!!
I never read any Star War books and haven’t seen the original trilogy in a LLOOOOONNNNNGGGGG while…I wasn’t aware that all these aspects had already been developped in the books…so you mean that everything from the phantom menace to the attack of the clones to the destruction of the jedis is already described? It makes the current trilogy even more useless then…
Dang, so Anakin is going to do Amidala (she liked him a lot in episode 1 heheheh)??? So that’s why Leia is a princess, I see!!!
Do the books answer my questions about Palpatine??
Just wondering, but I’m amazed at your knowledge of Star War!!!
and who is Mara Jade again? Where does this character apppear??
I live with a Star Wars nut, and most of my friends are Star Wars nuts, so I get a lot of useless info coming in here. Anyway, it was Lucas who described everything that came before. “you helped my father during the clone wars,” referring to Obi-wan. Etc…there’s a whole bunch of stuff in the first three movies that people tend to overlook. The Emperor even tells Luke his destiny is to take Darth Vader’s place at his side. But, yeah, pretty much any question you can think of is either answered in the novels or in the role playing rulebooks.