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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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The rule of 2 meant an apprentice took an apprentice and the two would over throw the master. That's why Dooku brought Anakin to the dark side.
If the master found someone stronger than current apprentice, that's the new apprentice.
So there were "only two"...
But they probably both had constant feelers out. Both for potential allies and rivals. An apprentice might have dozens of potentials out there that they're talking to and tempting with power, hoping one gets strong enough to kill the current master.
That's how the rule is passed down, every apprentice to a master either killed the last master with the last apprentice, or killed the last apprentice because "there can be only two".
I think:
Dooku saw that Anakin would quickly surpass himself. Even if he used Anakin to overthrow Palpatine, Anakin would immediately take out Dooku by gaining any competent apprentice. But if he just ignored Anakin, Palpatine would (and this is what happened) just replace Dooku with Anakin.
So after Dooku realized he couldn't control Anakin, he knew that he had to kill Anakin immediately because he was constantly getting stronger and Palpatine had almost certainly found him.
Palps tho had a hidden endgame, he wanted the strongest force user's body to put his own mind into. He wasn't afraid of Anakin's raw but untrained power, that was exactly what he wanted. Until Obiwan chopped off 3/4s of his body, ruining him as a host.
It can be rationalized, but I doubt Lucas did it intentionally.
Wasn't the Rule of Two meant to stop all the infighting with the Sith but that just sounds like silo'd infighting.
No. Darth Bane implemented the Rule of Two for two reasons, to ensure the Sith could stay under the Jedi's radar and operate in secrecy, and to turn the infighting from a weakness into a strength.
Prior to Ruusan, the Sith's greed and ambition often led to several weaker Sith plotting together to take down more powerful Sith in higher ranks. That meant that over time, positions of power were filled by weaker Sith then before, meaning the order bled itself out.
Bane though, as the sole surviving Sith after Ruusan, set up the Rule of Two so there was only one apprentice at a time who had to be more powerful than their master in oder to overpower said master, leading over time to stronger and stronger masters and the order again gaining strength to exact its revenge.
Same as whyy Highlander duels had to be 1v1
No, it was implemented to stop twenty weaklings from killing a strong one. Bane thought their large numbers diluted the strength of the individual.
Had no idea of any of this stuff. Is that even in the movies?
It sounds like some book stuff before Disney canon.
No. Maybe in the last one. Since I haven't seen it and just pretend doesn't exist
Well, it's the best explanation I've seen yet for that sorry ass line, "somehow he's back". (Referring to Palpatine)
Let's not pretend anything from the sequels is canon.
Maybe it was harvesting out the midichlorines to put in clones?