Tom Bacon is Head of Screen Rant's Star Wars coverage. Although he's now dedicated to Star Wars content, he's a lifelong fan of several other major franchises including Doctor Who and Marvel. You can find him on Twitter @TomABacon.
He may have have been trained as a Sith, but Palpatine was actually a heretic - and these ten facts prove it. The Sith suffered one of their greatest defeats a thousand years before the Skywalker saga. Darth Bane, the last surviving Sith Lord, chose to reform the Sith around the Rule of Two. The Baneite Sith would spend the next millennium working in the shadows, secretly undermining the Jedi and the Republic, preparing for the day of their revenge.
9 Palpatine Broke The Rule Of Two When He Killed His Master, Darth Plagueis He Killed Him In A Shocking Way Close According to the Rule of Two, every Sith Apprentice must one day prove themselves in battle by defeating their master. This would ensure that every generation of Sith was stronger than the one before, helping tip the balance of the Force toward the dark side. Palpatine had other ideas, though, when he learned his own master had discovered the Force power of essence transfer.
This is a technical breach of the Rule of Two. If Palpatine wanted Dooku as an apprentice, he should have pitted him against Maul, taking on whoever won - a mirror of the strategies he would later use when he had Dooku and Anakin clash in Revenge of the Sith. But Palpatine saw uses for both Dooku and Maul, and preferred to use them both for as long as possible first.
As seen in Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy, Palpatine's death triggered a series of so-called contingencies designed to bring both the Empire and the nascent New Republic to their knees. Palpatine loyalists launched a swathe of brutal attacks on the galaxy , and everything was designed to culminate in a battle over the skies of Jakku. That entire planet had been converted into a giant bomb, designed to wipe out both the Imperial and Republic fleets.
But he had first drained Momin dry of the secrets he sought. Palpatine knew of essence transfer - it was the Force power his own master had cultivated - but he needed to know more from Momin. It's striking that Palpatine claimed he never went to the Sith homeworld, and yet he learned from a heretic.
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