Tehkyram
Character
To Arms!
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
"It does not so much speak the quiet parts of Imperial dogma loudly, it sings them proudly and triumphantly... ...Any sentient with an ounce of decency will not see the title so much as a call to take up arms on behalf of the Sith Empire, but rather to take up arms against them." -Jedi Master Vinna Nalle (or any other Jedi who wants to make a comment)
CONTENT INFORMATION
Similar to its ideological predecessor To Oblivion, To Arms! is a collection of eleven free-verse poems, structured in a way reminiscent of prosaic essays. Unlike To Oblivion, however, To Arms! is devoid of classical linguistics, almost stark in its reliance on contemporary basic. The language is marginally simpler, presumably to ease access for more readers. The overall collection begins with flowery praise of Sith-Imperial atrocities before re-aligning the atrocities to form Tehkyram's thesis: brutality is not the means to an end, but the all-encompassing end and means. With tactful iconoclasm Tehkyram deconstructs the egotistical ambitions of prior Emperors and Sith Lords, only reserving special praise for the unmitigated cruelty of Palpatine and his Empire. Central to this historical critique is a focus on the integration of brutality into the Empire: Palpatine's true triumph over the grave is not his perpetual reincarnation but his Empire's continued existence and terrorizing of the galaxy in the decade and a half following his fall. Tehkyram concludes his treatise with an exultation to limitless violence and war until the Galaxy has finally been "perfected" through the total and complete annihilation of everything (save perhaps the Sith, though their inclusion as lords of the galactic waste feels very much like an afterthought.)
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
In the aftermath of To Oblivion's limited appeal among intellectuals and academics, Tehkyram felt a need to reach out to a larger audience. At the same time he became frustrated with the decadence on display at the highest levels of the Empire in Bastion, and felt a need to urge the Sith Empire to what he believed was its true calling- the total scouring of the Galaxy. Initial drafts of what would be To Arms! began while Tehkyram was residing temporarily on Bastion, in between helping maintain the planet's Sith Library. Later, while recovering from his wounds following the invasion of Mandalore, Tehkyram's regimen of medicinal meditation allowed him to properly refine and finish the work.
(more history to be added)
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: An achievement for Tehkyram and the Empire as a whole
- Links: (None yet, may put some in or may not)
- Media Name: To Arms!
- Format: Initially published in print, later published as holobook.
- Distribution: Inter-planetary (Sith Empire)
- Length: Medium
- Description: A collection of free verse poems.
- Author: Tehkyram
- Publisher: Privately published among the Brotherhood of the Sith, later received wider distribution
"It does not so much speak the quiet parts of Imperial dogma loudly, it sings them proudly and triumphantly... ...Any sentient with an ounce of decency will not see the title so much as a call to take up arms on behalf of the Sith Empire, but rather to take up arms against them." -Jedi Master Vinna Nalle (or any other Jedi who wants to make a comment)
CONTENT INFORMATION
Similar to its ideological predecessor To Oblivion, To Arms! is a collection of eleven free-verse poems, structured in a way reminiscent of prosaic essays. Unlike To Oblivion, however, To Arms! is devoid of classical linguistics, almost stark in its reliance on contemporary basic. The language is marginally simpler, presumably to ease access for more readers. The overall collection begins with flowery praise of Sith-Imperial atrocities before re-aligning the atrocities to form Tehkyram's thesis: brutality is not the means to an end, but the all-encompassing end and means. With tactful iconoclasm Tehkyram deconstructs the egotistical ambitions of prior Emperors and Sith Lords, only reserving special praise for the unmitigated cruelty of Palpatine and his Empire. Central to this historical critique is a focus on the integration of brutality into the Empire: Palpatine's true triumph over the grave is not his perpetual reincarnation but his Empire's continued existence and terrorizing of the galaxy in the decade and a half following his fall. Tehkyram concludes his treatise with an exultation to limitless violence and war until the Galaxy has finally been "perfected" through the total and complete annihilation of everything (save perhaps the Sith, though their inclusion as lords of the galactic waste feels very much like an afterthought.)
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
In the aftermath of To Oblivion's limited appeal among intellectuals and academics, Tehkyram felt a need to reach out to a larger audience. At the same time he became frustrated with the decadence on display at the highest levels of the Empire in Bastion, and felt a need to urge the Sith Empire to what he believed was its true calling- the total scouring of the Galaxy. Initial drafts of what would be To Arms! began while Tehkyram was residing temporarily on Bastion, in between helping maintain the planet's Sith Library. Later, while recovering from his wounds following the invasion of Mandalore, Tehkyram's regimen of medicinal meditation allowed him to properly refine and finish the work.
(more history to be added)
