To begin with, I’d like to address those of you who read the title and immediately said; "There’s no Thanksgiving in the Star Wars Universe". To you I say, ZIP IT! Before I have you busted back to apprentice. To continue, at this time of year we as Dark Jedi should take account of our lives and surroundings and give thanks for the things we cherish.

For me, I look around and have much to be thankful for. I’d like to take this opportunity to share these things with you. The things I’m thankful for most but often take for granted are the many objects that surround us every day. These are in no particular order:

• My light saber (not only a trusty weapon, but useful for carving the roast gandar on Thanksgiving Day).
• My blaster (not the kind like Princess Leah fires in "A New Hope-SE". Ya know, the one that sounds like a .45 magnum. A good old fashioned sidearm.)
• High powered laser rifles.(for when you need to reach out and touch that special Rebel)
• Thermal detonators. (good for getting into those hard to reach places)
• Ewoks (now them’s good eatin’).
• The Dark Side in general (Show me someone who doesn’t love the ability to choke the life out of someone at will and I’ve got a prime vacation villa to sell you on Coruscant.)
• Dark Robes (They go with anything really. And they’re so easy to accessorize.)
• The Dark Hall (What other group of people in the galaxy have a cooler place to party?)

The thing I’m most thankful for is the Brotherhood of the Dark Jedi as a whole. Where else could a sick twist, such as myself and many of you reading this, go where you wouldn’t be persecuted (or prosecuted for that matter). When you find the need to vent your anger, are you punished? No. When you absolutely must lash out for no apparent reason, are you shunned? No. When have the overwhelming desire to use the force to crush rebel skulls by the dozen; are you called mean and insensitive? Of course not. The Brotherhood understands and welcomes you with open arms. It say’s "Come my fellow Dark Jedi, be not outcast from the galaxy. You are welcome to be as nasty as you want to be, here with us."

And while I’m on the subject, you can’t tell me that even Light Jedi (which of course as we all know have fewer calories than a regular Jedi) don’t feel anger sometimes. Can you imagine not ever feeling anger? Or worse yet, feeling anger but being forced (by the company you keep) to bury that anger and hatred that wells up in all of us. Although not yet scientifically proven, it is my firm belief that this is the major reason why so many Light Jedi die of cardiopulmonary diseases.

This is why I’m most thankful to the Brotherhood and the Emperor’s Hammer as a whole. It is because of this group that I have a place where I can call home.

By the way. Have you ever typed the name Veelon and seen what Microsoft Word™ gives you as a suggestion for replacement? Interesting, isn’t it? Oh the bitter irony.

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