Hold up, Darth Plagueis was still alive during the events of TPM? I always assumed that Sheev must have killed him before he took on Maul as an apprentice. Rule of two, and all that.
Plagueis didn’t believe in the rule of 2 and allowed Palpatine to take an apprentice. He thought they should use whatever strength they could get.
Palpatine also didn’t believe in the rule of 2, but instead followed his own rule of one: he planned on becoming immortal (which the whole coming back was a part of). So he’d take apprentices knowing that they might come for him eventually, and just planned on killing them and replacing them. Like with Vader’s apprentices, he just needed to discover them and make Vader turn on them because he wasn’t confident enough to confront him directly until RotJ when he was killing Luke (after openly offering him Vader’s spot… He hated Vader being broken right from the start, but no one else held a candle to him other than Palp himself).
Hold up, Darth Plagueis was still alive during the events of TPM? I always assumed that Sheev must have killed him before he took on Maul as an apprentice. Rule of two, and all that.
Plagueis didn’t believe in the rule of 2 and allowed Palpatine to take an apprentice. He thought they should use whatever strength they could get.
Palpatine also didn’t believe in the rule of 2, but instead followed his own rule of one: he planned on becoming immortal (which the whole coming back was a part of). So he’d take apprentices knowing that they might come for him eventually, and just planned on killing them and replacing them. Like with Vader’s apprentices, he just needed to discover them and make Vader turn on them because he wasn’t confident enough to confront him directly until RotJ when he was killing Luke (after openly offering him Vader’s spot… He hated Vader being broken right from the start, but no one else held a candle to him other than Palp himself).
Huh, thanks for the info!