Dark. Foreboding. Powerful. These are common terms those used to the Star Wars mythos associate with the Dark Side of the Force. Black cloaks, masks, sneering, there is a mythos around the concept. But what does that mean outside of roleplay? It means power, which has ample reality to occupy a lifetime.

Power is the degree to which you get what you want.

That simple definition sets the stage here, and offers a deceptively simple goal that spawns complex questions. If you wish to gain power, how can you if you don’t know what you want? What if you think you do, and once gained, at cost, it’s not what you wanted? Is it power over others, or power over yourself?

These are the foundations of the Dark Side here at the Force Academy. Here, we talk and learn about gaining power that can be used in the real world, not just the world of the Internet. If you choose to join us, you will find that the journey to true power is difficult, painful, and slow… though done incompletely, it may seem not. The Dark is deceptive, just as the human mind is deceptive to itself. Are you strong enough to seek this power?

Over the years, the Star Wars™ canon has developed a rich culture around those who reject the Jedi Order and strike out on their own. For the purposes of our work here in employing the mythos for advancement in the real world, we take the official canon definition that “a dark Jedi is anyone who practices the dark side of the Force whether or not they were a former Jedi.” A dark Jedi is someone who feels and uses the Force without observing the rules and code of the Jedi Order, and that is an extremely important point in what we do here at the Force Academy.