Once Anakin Skywalker gets roasted, he's sealed up in an artificial body and becomes Darth Vader. He becomes a servant, the chief servant, of the dark side.
What's the dark side? The universe we inhabit exists because it can support us as it is. In other universes, we couldn't exist and live. The basic primal forces make our existence possible. A basic element: information is a change in state, or a relationship between two or more things. The very basic conceptual elements of nature, like linear restoring forces, rotational motion, or more complex concepts like love or pain and life and death have a quasi independent existence from matter and energy.
The world of man, the human world is an attempt to escape natural necessity and the balance of forces and inevitable cyclicality of the natural world. The world of man is a partial, attenuated existence and a parody of nature. Physical violence and psychological manipulation (false gods) replace nature and natural law.
Anakin Skywalker becomes a false man--a part robot--and lives within an entire false and perverse world which uses the forces of nature to destroy and kill. A "Death Star" is the ultimate perversion of the natural world.
The dark side is where the lies of men and the lies of the city blot out the stars.
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