Reverend Greg

Note to self; get new minion

So it turns out Senator Palpatine is secretly a Sith Lord….

“An ancient order of Force-practitioners devoted to the dark side and determined to destroy the Jedi, the Sith were a menace long thought extinct. The current incarnation of the Sith is the result of a rogue Jedi dissident from the order. Two thousand years ago, this Jedi had come to the understanding that the true power of the Force lay not through contemplation and passivity. Only by tapping its dark side could its true potential be gained. The Jedi Council at the time balked at this new direction. The Dark Jedi was outcast, but he eventually gained followers to his new order. Awakening beliefs from the dark past, the new Sith cult continued to grow. With the promise of new powers attainable by tapping into the hateful energies of the dark side, it was only a matter of time before the order self-destructed. Internecine struggle by power-hungry Sith practitioners dwindled their numbers.

One Sith had the cunning to survive. Darth Bane restructured the cult, so that there could only be two -- no more, no less -- a master, and an apprentice. Bane adopted cunning, subterfuge, and stealth as the fundamental tenets of the Sith order. Bane took an apprentice. When that apprentice succeeded him, that new Sith Lord would take an apprentice.”

Darth Sidious seeks to rule his known Universe, by power. To accomplish this he needed a plan that would take decades to unfold. The plan was simple; get an army, become Supreme Chancellor, and most important of all, kill all the Jedi. Sounds simple really when you look at it in those terms. The problem was how to do it without alerting anyone to his plan until it was too late. Isn’t that how all schemes work though? Timing is everything.

Darth Sidious schemed to manipulate a Jedi named Sifo-Dyas to commission to have a clone army created, one big and powerful enough with which to achieve and maintain forced military control. The only way to do this was to create the threat of some future conflict, get a Jedi to do it (someone above suspicion) then kill the one who did it. Leave the army to grow for some later date and tend to other matters.

Then he could manipulate the trade Union into some sort of conflict under the secret identity of Darth Sidious while fighting the conflict under the identity of Senator Palpatine playing both sides against each other, while at the same time training his personal minion, Darth Maul, to kill everyone in the Jedi order. Further conflict forces the Republic to elect Palpatine Supreme Chancellor (just for the duration of the conflict) and so a project milestone is accomplished.

Problem no.1- Maul gets his ass killed. Crap. This is a BIG unforeseen problem.

*Note to self – get new minion*

Well, you know the rest, if you’ve been watching. Sidious is unveiled, and indeed too late. His new apprentice, Anakin, is trained and ready to wreak havoc amongst the peaceful Jedi. Sidious has his army, which he will command from his alter ego Palpatine until the right moment finally approaches.

Sure, Anakin gets thrashed within an inch of his life, but enough is left to resurrect. Darth Vader will kick some ass. No wonder he’s in such a bad mood all of the time. His very life hangs on the life-support suit and the dark-side life support of the Emperor. It’s a bum deal. You know he knows he’s been had. He got what he asked for, but the price was wayyyyy more than he may have originally been willing to pay, had he known.

But you see, the perfect minion is one that can’t change his mind and break his contract and so I wonder if indeed the Emperor foresaw Anakin’s little “mishap” with Obiwan.

If nothing else, ya gotta admit the Sith’s project management skills are truly something to behold. If we had him running the war in Iraq, we’d already have ourselves a lot more cheap oil and a brand new parking lot the size of – well – Iraq.

At what cost though…. That’s another blog…

Rev. Greg

Posted by revgreg at May 11, 2005 05:02 AM