Sith powers work exactly like their Jedi counterparts do. Dark side characters have acess to the three Force skills- controll, sense and alter - upon which all of the underlying powers are based. The Sith powers are seperated from the other Force powers (even though there are dark side powers listed there) simply because they refelct a different philosophy and means of contacting and channeling the Force.

Learning Sith powers should prove extremely difficult for characters scince knowledge of thier existance, much less thier workings has only recently returned. Very few Sith Masters remain, and those who do have long ago shed thier corporeal existance, leaving them stranded in whatever vessel they were able to construct to hold thier spirits. There they lie waiting for the time for escape. Anyone who dares to explore these dark side temples, citadels and obelisks, risks releasing such a Sith specter from it's confines so that is might be free to retake all of the power is once possessed.

Like the Jedi, the Sith developed areas of study that focused on particular types of Force effects. Though these did not evolve into formal schools, personal preference caused many magicians to concentrate on those powers that most interetesed them.

Powers in this discipline run the trade route from simple healing rites to complicated rituals invalving the creation of Sithspawn-hideous monsters bred from the stock of naturally evolved creatures. Some cultures have labeled these sorcerers as necromancers, but this nomenclature thrusts the discipline into the area of superstitious alchemy-tales and legends laced with equal parts mystic blather and pseudo-scientific prattle.

The Force transcends technology based tricks and allows feats that science cannot duplicate.

Certain Force powers summon energy from the user's surroundings and direct it at a target for some purpose.The form of Energy include lightning, fire, gravity, and other naturally occuring forces.

Energy powers tend to have the most noticeable effects, preventing the user from attempting to keep his machinations secret, as he would be able to do if he were using powers from his Mind discipline. Sith interested in this area, therefore, tend to have unstable personalities, from obsessive and brooding to outright maniacal.

Typical illusionary effects employed by the Sith include the morphing of one object into another-most often a weapon into a similarly proportioned creature with deadly intent. Or the feigned presence of an individual. Or even the abscence of an object or being that is truly present.

The stand that gathers all these powers beneath the banner of illusionary magic is the manipulation of their victum's senses. Some Sith scholars continue to believe that these effects alter the patern of the Force that "connects" with the targets mind, that they somehow augment that brain's normal wavelengths or trip synapses that would not fire under the true current conditions in which that being finds himself. But since no one has yet discovered the physiclities involved in this effect-just as no one has been able to compre- hend the true nature of the Force in the first place- no definitive ex- planation can be given. Suffice it to say that these powers somehow man- ipulate the senses as opposed to the mind(which is covered under the Mind discipline).

Effect in this discipline prey on the minds of their victims, altering thoughts without without the individal's awareness. Such insidious powers allow Sith devotees to manipulate and outright control their targets, forcing them to undertake acts they would not normally perform under the given circumstances.

While the Jedi do use the affect mind power, they curtail their reliance on it, for it is far too easy to slip toward to Dark Side when you consistenly intrude into other people's minds to twist their thoughts to your will.

Thousands upon thousands of years ago the Sith discoverd how to focus the Force to affect mechanical constructs. The majority of the powers of this discipline have fallen into obscurity, however scince very few sorceres took much more than a passing interest in this erea.

But dark rumors continue to slither from Sith Holocrons and other stores of Sith lore about the creation of half-being/half mechanical creatures by magicians who had delved into more theoretical aspects of this discipline. No remenants of such constucts have ever surfaced, so comfirmation of such musing remains cloaked in mystery, but several Jedi scholars continue to search for evidence of thier existance. Thier sole warning to anyone who happens to encounter such a twisted monstrosity is to flee and report the sighting to the nearest Jedi Master.