in exile, the dissident jedi were free to explore the relationship between passion and the force. they concluded that the martial and ethical disciplines of the jedi establishment were foolish and misguided: passion, not quietude, was the most potent means of accessing the force, and conflict, not peace, was the natural and healthy state of the universe. rejecting the self-abnegation of their forebears, the exiles now embraced ruthless personal ambition, believing that power belonged to those with the cunning and strength to seize it. in their training, the dissidents would seek to master the force by cultivating dark passions such as anger and hate, a practice anathematized by the jedi as taking recourse to the force's "dark side." guided by their kratocratic and egoistic philosophy and armed with taboo dark side techniques, the former jedi exiles would reemerge to menace the galaxy as the sith order, aiming to conquer the galactic republic and exact revenge against the jedi.