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TIL in the Star Wars universe there is a Sith lord, Darth Vectivus, who became a Sith strictly out of curiosity. He maintained the ethics he’d kept as a businessman, engaged in no extreme violence, used the Dark Side of the Force as a tool for study, and died at his home among friends and family.

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