Well comparing sith to real life people is a bit unfair since the force doesn't exist in real life. Dark side of the force is powered by your emotions, the more emotional you are the stronger you get, although it is just as easy to lose control over that power and become an ignorant, pridefull, idiot which, is the sith downfall they use their emotions to fuel their strenght, but eventually get too pridefull and die because of it or get mortally injured (Anakin). However that generally happens with sith who are new and more rash, the key is like a lot of people mentioned before me is to control those emotions. Fear is the most basic and the easisest emotion that you can feel so, whether you like it or not nearly all sith feel fear. At first from their masters and/if they become a master from ther aprenticesses or other masters, this keeps them focused and constantly watching their backs. Anger is the gateway to hatred which can be directed towars a lot of things, towards the enemy, towards weaker sith, even towards the sith himself/herself it doesn't really matter though, as long as there is enough emotion it is fine. You can compare it to a boxer receiving a pep talk from his coach before a match but in this case emotions are not only a drive but, also the fuel for the dark side which the sith will use. You are taking the subject of anger as we normal people do, our bodies produce adrenalin we stop getting tired but become ragefull and lash out to, eventualy get exhausted after putting our bodies through an unnessecary ordeal but, it isn't the same with sith it is more of a constant thing, they always feel anger, always feel fear and hatred, these empower them they also corrupt them and deform them in some ways, of course there are exceptions to this but im not going to disscuss them here, what i wanted to say was in essence the anger that we feel as real people is different than what the sith feel. It is more like achieving control over your anger and channelling it to a certain object or person. I guess what im trying to say is it is a means to an end not the end itself.

of course the core motivaton is fear of death but that was when he was mortal.He is or at least now he beleives he is immortal and his motivations changed. He doesn't want power though and he doesn't want to kill everyone just for the sake of killing everyone he wants to consume everyone and everything to experience them.

oh i think you misunderstood what i was trying to go for there or maybe i wasn't quite able to tell it. I wasn't saying that your interpretation was wrong or anything but there isn't anything out there canon wise stating the details i understand some events must have happened before or after one another but BW has a strange way of implementing their gameplay elements into the storyline. They may remove darth thanaton from that scene and ad your grandfather kallig to it. But this is just speculation and probably not gonna happen as i said on my first post your timeline can be accurate but a lot will change with what the game is trying to do. Secondly about the emperor well god was probably the wrong word to use there. What i was trying to say was his intentions evolve with him at first he is fueled by his fear of death thats why he tries to find immortality with this immortality though comes his hunger to consume well everything as you said he wanted to experience infinite possibilities of life but his ideas his intentions did start by saying i don't want to die... ever (this is not an actual quote) but eventually his intentions evolved into consuming everything in the universe therefore becoming the only remaining force.When i said a god i said in lamest terms the idea is that him trying to become the only being in the universe then eventually consume the universe aswell. The remarks i made after that were pure speculation but the emperors main idea in the story is not to become a being of pure power it is to become the only and every being there is. And the evilness or the dark side well i wasn't saying that he was a good person but tried to say he was neither Light side creates harmony protects life while the dark side creates chaos it's idea is to destroy life two sides of the same coin one cannot exist without the other and they are always in balance .The emperor in this case disturbs the balance of the force by trying to make himself immortal thats why we cannot clasify him as a dark side force user or even evil.

Kudos on a great job i really enjoyed reading that! Now for my opinions. Well i actually don't think that we can create a timeline of what happened after the treaty of coruscant (ATC) because of bioware's legacy system it more or less depends on the player but your interpretation of it can be accurate also we shouldn't forget the fact that all these characters are related to each other somehow they can even be spouses so until a canon for this story shows up we are left to speculation but the fact that all these characters being related (and i include nemesis as related as well) may very well mean that they may eventually have to work together or fight with each other in this case anything can happen we just have to wait and see. In my opinion BW hasn't failed in the story department in any of their games yet. As for the emperor i don't think that we will be able to kill him permenantly in this game sure he probably will show up as a raid boss but i dont think that he will be destroyed. The reason i think like this is because this game is an mmo and not just an mmo it's story based so we players need something at the end of the road a cliffhanger for us to expect new content etc. As in my case i play this game mostly for its story aspect and ending the emperor, in a raid would just be unsatisfactory for me. But of course that's just me. Now for the emperor's intentions i don't think we can classify them as evil or that he is using the dark side to do everything he does. He seems to want to become a god in lamest terms. Now his idea is to consume everything why because of power well i think one would want more of a motivation than power to consume everything in the known universe . In my opinion he is trying to become the living and the unifiying force themselves by consuming everything in the universe he will be the only one... or the one... the begining the end when i say this don't just assume planets imagine time and space itself being sucked up by this lunatic it would be nothingness and as he says i will watch the cycle begin again so in his opinion creating anew universe for himself but the idea is not to rule that universe i think the idea itself is becoming the force itself as it is the pinnacle of existance it is the goal both jedi and sith try to achive throughout their lives there is no death there is the force or my chains are broken the force will free me chains can easily be interpreded as your bond to life. The emperor though is different in one way that he wants to consume the force not become one with it but why? It can be really simple that he just wants to achieve the code but thats too lame and convinient it can be like Kreia his intentions may be good and he may want to rid the universe from the force by becoming and controlling it but thats redundant and resembels the reaper story also if you are creating the universe by using the force, wouldn't that give you a hint as by denying the universe that essence might just destroy it. Noo BW's writers are too smart for that so what else ?? Anything! The idea behind this being is that its unpredictibility and so far his amazing power for all we know this all act of jedi knight the dark counsel or the bussiness with the wrath can be his amusement to discard us when he gets bored, or he can have some form of weakness, maybe in the end he may destroy himself, maybe revan will come, maybe he will teleport himself to the future, maybe he will get what he wants bu none of us will be the wiser all we can speculate is that he plans to change something in the foce itself, witch i find fascinating beacause of how the force was implemented throughout the whole saga. With unlimited amount of options to choose from for this character im actually sad that one of them will be chosen to end his story. PS: sorry for any spelling errors i kinda got exited at some places so i may have made a few of them