“I tried my hardest to convince you that you should take a more diplomatic approach”

“I will stop at nothing to get power!” said the dark figure as he paced around his tiny, dank cell. He muttered the words to himself over and over again as he tried to rein in his anger, if only just enough to get through the day without being consumed by the dark side of the Force.

“I will have my revenge! I will annihilate them all!” he shouted at the two armed guards who were standing outside his cell, not daring to give him an inch or even a fraction of a second of slack. The desperate prisoner had been chased out of his tribe and sent to exile on this miserable Imperial-held planet by his own apprentice, in exchange for being recognized as the new leader of the Sith by the rest of the tribe. “I will show him! I would have killed every last Jedi on his planet using his own father but my own apprentice turned against me and betrayed me” , the former powerful figure mumbled to himself, endlessly repeating every single word he spoke in his mind as if trying to burn them into his memory. He knew that the man who called himself Dooku was behind it all. He could still remember how defeated he felt when his apprentice had stabbed him through the chest while telling him that their master was of course Dooku himself… After chopping his apprentice’s head off of his shoulders with a single lightsaber strike from his Force-infused hand, he managed to enter hyperspace on one of the enemy starships that had ambushed his flagship and escaped to a nearby planet in an attempt to escape Dooku’s wrath.

“Do you think Master Tyranus will kill him?” one of the guards asked the other with a slight twitch in her voice. “I don’t know… I really can’t say for certain…” replied the other guard after taking a pause to think about it for a second or two. “All I can tell you is that our master is so strong in the Force that he can wipe out three of your life-times with just a flick of his wrist!” Suddenly the door to what had been a completely locked cell opened without warning and a stern man stepped into the cell with his lightsaber ignited, drawn all the way up. The guards outside the door had already fallen to their knees out of fear at what they were certain would be their own death but nothing happened to them after all.

“This man has been found guilty of attempting to take over the galaxy, and murdering hundreds of thousands of its citizens. He is hereby sentenced to be blinded and exiled on this planet for the rest of his natural life,” Dooku told the guards as he lit up a cigar and slowly walked up towards the prisoner who was still backed up into a corner as if he was trying to hide in plain sight.

“Why did you all have to do this to me? I was such a great leader. I would have been an even better ruler!” the prisoner screamed at his former master as he finally gave up on his efforts to blend in with the wall and stood there with his arms outstretched towards the man who had just sentenced him. “The answer to your question is that you were always too ambitious, too megalomaniacal and too trigger happy. I tried my hardest to convince you that you should take a more diplomatic approach but you wouldn’t listen, and frankly I’m glad that you didn’t”, Dooku said as he reached his prisoner and removed the hood from his head. Dooku proceeded to place his hand over his former apprentice’s eyes, causing the victim to scream in agony as white-hot pain ripped through his being. “Go with the will of the Force, my old apprentice” Dooku said as he let go of his apprentice’s face and left him to rage in front of the guards who were still kneeling on the floor outside, completely frozen in fear by what they had just witnessed.”

Prompt: ‘Write a story about an old Sith getting exiled from a planet:’

Manuel Fixes: Changed ‘him’ to ‘me’ twice. Added newlines to fragment the text into paragraphs. Removed part of a sentence three times because it was grammatically wrong.

Author comment: The third of most likely many more short stories that I co-authored using the OpenAI GPT-3 Algorithm. The Idea is to give the AI as little context as possible (in this case only a short instruction for a story) and see what kind of setting and character development it comes up with.