User blog:Skyrocket/The Dark Side for Fun and Profit

Trying to come up with motivations for characters is hard. Especially Sith since it so often is just "Take over the galaxy."

I've found the few Sith in the EU who don't go for that to be really interesting. So I wanted to play with that with Darth Mara. She's fine with taking over some planets. But she knows that trying to have it all has ruined better Sith than her. So her just wants her own slice of the galaxy to have as her queendom and to spend the rest of her days in wealth and luxury. Of course, since she's a Sith the galaxy isn't going to let that just happen.

In coming up with her I based Darth Mara on those family matriarchs that were always big part of 80s TV. Darth Mara would be like if you pulled the mom from the super rich families on shows like Falcon Crest and Dynasty and made them a Sith. While other Sith are plotting to destroy the Jedi once and for all she just sits around drinking fancy wine and plotting some behind the scenes manipulation that would bring down some royal family.

Plus, bad guys who are snobs and endlessly entertaining. God, now I want to write Frasier and Niles Crane as Sith...