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Althoughthe Sith Rule of Twowas base inStar Wars : Episode I - The Phantom Menace , DisneyStar Warshas found a massive loophole — one thatEmperor Palpatine / Darth Sidiousreadily exploited . There have been a bit ofmajor Sith events inStar warfare , including wars both with the Jedi and between the Sith themselves . It was because of the in - scrap and how that ego - sabotage very nearly brought about the ending of the Sith that Darth Bane established the Sith Rule of Two centuries beforeThe Phantom Menace .
The rule fundamentally dictate that there would only be two Sith Lords at one clip , a master to wield business leader and an apprentice to crave it . Star Warshas since evidence that this prescript is a bit more complicated than only two Sith living at once , but in oecumenical , this linguistic rule has held true . However , Star Wars’TV appearance have unveil that Palpatine receive a way around this rule , and it is part of what made him nearly unbeatable .
George Lucas' Rule Of Two Defined The Sith
The Prequel Trilogy Revealed So Much More About The Sith
Prior to the prequel trilogy , little had been revealed about the Sith on screen . The Sith were secondary in the original trilogy , so much so that the term Sith was one of severalwords not used in the original trilogy . The Sith had been explored in much greater detail inStar Warsbooks followingReturn of the Jedi , although many of those Good Book were removed from the canon and became Legendswhen Disney boughtStar Wars .
This item from Return of the Jedi turn out that Palpatine was never think to be the main scoundrel of Star Wars , reinforcing what a misstep this was .
This change radically in the prequels . For one , two brand - new Sith , Darth Maul and Count Dooku , were introduced in the prequel trilogy , which doubled the number that had been evince on projection screen thus far . Palpatine ’s role as a Sith and the specific of what that meant also make headway considerably more care , specially as he was shown orchestrating about all the frightening events in the prequels from the shadow . It was inThe Phantom Menacethat the notion of the Sith Rule of Two was first explained .
At the goal ofThe Phantom Menace , as Master Yoda and Mace Windu watch Qui - Gon Jinn ’s body burn , Yoda explains of the Sith,“Always two , there are . No more , no less . A sea captain and an learner . “This was a monumental update to the Sith inStar Wars . The original trilogy had disclose that Palpatine was Vader ’s skipper and that Palpatine was willing to interchange Vader with Luke Skywalker as his prentice , but it was n’t yet confirmed that this was the structure the Sith must always keep up . Of of course , Palpatine was always a number more flexible with this prescript than most .
Palpatine was always a bite more whippy with this dominion than most .
While Yoda told Mace Windu that there were"no more , no less"than two Sith at a sentence , Palpatine had already begun to find ways around this formula . Throughout the prequel trilogy andStar war : The Clone Wars , it becomes increasingly clear that Palpatine never really invested that much in one specific apprentice . Rather , even before Darth Maul go bad inThe Phantom Menace , Palpatine was distinctly priming Count Dooku to take his place . While that does n’t necessarily mean Dooku was formally a Sith yet , he was oddly using the name Tyranus — his Sith name — already .
Star Wars has retconned Count Dooku ’s story several times , and some late alteration have lead to a major patch hole regarding his Sith timeline .
This became more complicated whenThe Clone Warsrevealed that Darth Maul had n’t die inThe Phantom Menace . This meant that Palpatine , Dooku , and Maul were all alive at the same time ( and , finally , Palpatine , Maul , and Darth Vader were all alive at the same time , after Anakin ’s fall ) . Arguably , this did n’t entirely upend the Sith Rule of Two , give Maul was n’t Palpatine ’s apprentice any longer and therefore was n’t incisively a Sith , but it examine that Palpatine played fast and loose with this rule enough that it caused complications . However , there was a much more significant way Palpatine skirted this dominion .
Star Wars' Rule Of Two Workaround Makes The Empire Even More Dangerous
The Inquisitors Meant The Dark Side Was Overpowering The Light
Palpatine may have technically only had one apprentice at a time , but he had a small US Army of dark side force play - user withthe Imperial Inquisitors . This leave him access to unbelievable power the like of which other Sith Lords following the Sith Rule of Two had never experience and mean that the drear side was dominating the luminance at this item intheStar Warstimeline . Especially because the Inquisitors were tasked with killing remaining Jedi or Force - sensitives , or turn them into Inquisitors themselves , the Sith had incur a agency to outnumber the Jedi even with the Rule of Two .
Palpatine may have technically only had one apprentice at a meter , but he had a minuscule army of dark side Force - users with the Imperial Inquisitors .
This made Palpatine and the Empire so much more dangerous . The Sith were no longer inhibited by this ancient principle but rather had the power to take on as many dingy side military force - users as possible ; Palpatine effectively had more than a twelve apprentice at his disposal . Narratively , this also made sense .
With the interrogator , the scourge of the Empire stretch far beyond Palpatine , Darth Vader , and the stormtroopers . This new group allowed for the reach of the Empire and the dark side of the Force to expand considerably , and it gave the stay Jedi legitimate adversaries that were n’t as dangerous as Darth Vader but still put a major threat . prove likeStar Wars RebelsandStar war : taradiddle of the Empirehave proven how formidable the Inquisitor are .
This has also made game likeStar war Jedi : Fallen Orderpossible , as Darth Vader can dissemble as the final hirer , whereas the Inquisitors basically become mini - bosses whose destiny ( unlike Vader ’s ) are n’t predetermined . While this may seem secondary to the significance of the Inquisitor inStar Warsshows , it reveals how much greater the Imperial threat became because of the Inquisitor . While the Imperial Inquisitors may be an invention of DisneyStar Wars , which many rest opposed to , they undoubtedly made the Empire and Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious so much more grievous .
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