PALPATINE'S THE SITH LORDE AAAAAAHHH DON'T KILL ME
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ILL TESTIFY I SWEAR, I RECORDED OUR CONVERSATIONS
All according to plan.
Don't snitch
If he had lived he would've been hunted down by other sith
Palpatine used Force Silence, a prominent and well-established force ability before this point. DUHHHHH.
>I don't believe you.
SWISSSHH
What other sith? There's only Palpatine.
he believed in the cause
I always thought the "rule of two" made no sense. All those Jedi balanced out by two people. Ridiculous.
seriously why didn't he say that? you were just betrayed after serving loyally to your master. there's no shame or dishonor in betraying him back. there was plenty of time to think of something to say while he was deliberating on killing you.
>Implying the Sith want balance
>Implying balance isn't an abscence of the Sith to begin with, just because Disney shitters don't get that Jedi aren't yin or yang to the Sith's opposite
it's annoying that the lightsabers never cast light on the characters in the prequels. the sabers are right next to his face, yet cast no light on them...
>*several scenes later*
>Sith hiding in the Senate huh...no way
>Hey who had the order to make the clones? Oh Palpatine weird
>Hey who is charge of the republic as a whole? Palpatine huh..
>Hey why didn't Greivous kill him when he captured him...what was the benefit of keeping him alive
>Come to think of it didn't Dooku used to be a jedi? Kinda weird to lie about something so silly
>Oh cool Palpatine is running for supreme ultimate ruler of the galaxy with infinite terms! Hey..wait a minute...
>Became sith because of corruption in the senate and the Jedi order
>Serves the man responsible for it
What was his end game?
Rule of two is what the sith want you to believe. There's lots of them out there scheming and shit. They just don't form faggy councils like jedi losers who advertise. Also Lucas is a fucktard.
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read the book, it explains why Dooku didn't confess to Anakin
i legitimately think you may be blind if you cant see the red and blue on his face
>A little heads up would have been nice Sheev
>heads up
Why the fuck would Anakin believe Dooku, a man who cut off his hand and murdered several Jedi and, as far as Anakin knows, is the driving force behind the war, over Palpatine, a man who Anakin has known personally for years and has been a great mentor to him.
Which was because...?
Its possible not even Dooku knew exactly why Darth Sidious was
He begged for his life in the book:
>"Chancellor, please!" he gasps, desperate and helpless, his aristocratic demeanor invisible, his courage
only a bitter memory. He is reduced to begging for his life, as so many of his victims have. "Please, you
promised me immunity! We had a deal! Help me!"
they tried having a bunch of equal partner sith, it didnt go well
He trusted Palpatine to reveal his identity to Anakin until the last second. Basically, Palpy betrayed him.
Did he even know Palpy was actually Sidious?
NO IM A VIRGIN!!!
Yes, it is fucking stupid
>durr we have lots of infighting in our massive empire
>let's reduce our numbers to just 2 people!
Only took them thousands of years to regain control of the galaxy, for a short period of time. Truly a winning strategy!
>it's better to stay silent and get your head chopped than to at least try to talk your way out of it even when you know the person doing it is clearly conflicted
Saved.
>Ending your religion for grudges
The rule of two existed to push the sith away from this behavior.
I guarantee you OP and most people who like this stupid meme think that Anakin would have believed Dooku and killed Palpatine on the spot.
Doku is pretty clearly described throughout the movies and extended media as a Sith, isn't he? I'm not sure what else he could even be described as?
It makes sense from a dark side perspective. I mean, they're all about being selfish and coveting power, yeah? That pretty much precludes them from being able to work together on any larger scale. How exactly do you form Sith academies with that sort of attitude? How do you effectively pass down teachings to new Sith if none of the "Sith Professors" want to work together, and if all the students are just constantly trying to fuck each other over? The Rule of Two, at least, keeps propagating the historical teachings and instruction of the Sith, while also providing some final test whereby the student must be able to defeat the master, ensuing they're strong enough to continue to propagate the teachings.
Perhaps they are just abusing the Force's self-balancing nature?
This is great.
Bullshit, at the very least he would've taken Dooku prisoner. Him not speaking out is such a contrivance.
Anakin acts purely on emotion.
Nothing Dooku said would have mattered.
I'd hardly call waiting for thousands of years something that can be abused.
Again, why would he believe Dooku? Dooku is a known Sith who would do or say anything to live. Dooku's words would mean nothing to him.
>when palpatine low key thicc
Again you're saying there's no reason Dooku shouldn't have tried, which is just retarded. You're literally saying silence was his best option even knowing how that ended up.
Dooku doesn't have to convince him that he's innocent, he just needs to stay Anakin's hand.
I mean, Anakin is hesitant and questions whether he should kill him or not. He's goaded into it by Palps, it's not at all clear that he would have killed Dooku if he hadn't been encouraged (he probably wouldn't have). Dooku had a chance to sway him in the other direction - "take me captive and I can provide battle plans to the Jedi council" ... but he didn't do anything, he just sat there dumbfounded.
If he had been a little more ahead of the situation he probably would have been able to convince Anakin to stay his hand, even if only for long enough to get a few key sentences out. Hell, even a full "Old Man Palps is the Sith" probably would have worked this early on in the story, because at the very least it would have gotten Anakin to pass this information on to the council (whether they believed it or not), sparking an investigation.
There are only two sith at a time, so if he snitches and gets sheev locked up (but not killed) he is permanently safe.
This. I get Dooku maybe freezing up in a moment of moral hazard, but it seems weird for the carefully calculating Palpatine to have taken the risk of being exposed like that.
quality over quantity.
>It's Always Sunny theme starts playing
Perhaps Sheev held his tongue down by the force
>MMmph! Mmph!
Why doesn't Grievous count as a sith?
Darth Vader is smarter than that though, only a little piss baby would act so childish, is Darth Vader a piss baby? I well aware of the dissociation between Anakin and Vader the ultimately was never able to be bridged, but hey,
the third movie was as good a place as any to fix it.
hes just a good general in a sweet robot body
He's not even force sensitive, is he? He's just a dude high up in the military, who happens to be good at fighting because of training and his robotic augments.
treachery and betrayal are literally the forte of shitlords
hed be more respected by taking down a more powerful lord if this was a time where there were more of them
>THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING, I'M IN CHARGE HERE
The "canon" explanation is, I believe, that with there being less sith, there can be stronger sith.
The jedi amass numbers, and so, the light side of the force is diminished as it is spread between so many of them.
The sith care much more deeply about power which led to them finding more ways to gain power, one such being that they could have more of it if they were to concentrate the dark side of the force within them. With less sith, there was less of the Dark side of the force spreading itself thin.
Think of it as butter on toast.
You could spread it on an entire loaf of toasted bread and you would technically have buttered toast, OR you could put it on one delicious slice of toast.
In addition, it was a safeguard against themselves. The sith, as I said before, wanted power, and so would stop at nothing to gain a higher status. Sure, some sith might have the idea to attain an army of sith apprentices and take on the rest, but that is a double edged sword. A sith lord and an apprentice is balanced out because the apprentice could not kill or take on the apprentice. However, if there were multiple, even as much as 2 might be able to take on the lord and kill him. While this would create more sith lord, they would be weaker as they had to rely on each other and teamwork, as opposed to having one ultra powerful dude. If this continued, the sith line and dark side would just get weaker and weaker as time went on. In my opinion, this makes sense from their perspective.
But hey, at this point, I'm pretty sure this shit doesn't fucking matter anymore. It's the rule of two because it's the established meme.
>i have information regarding the Clinton Foundations criminal recor-
it all make sense now
In fairness everyone was suspicious but Anakein.
the sith had the clone army so that's a thing
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Bullshit. You can obviously tell Dooku realizes Sheev betrayed him.
He had to have him killed there or he risked Dooku revealing everything to everyone else. Plus it was an opportunity to push Anakin more towards the dark side. The rest of the movie shows him getting bolder in the things he says to Anakin, so I fully believe he had a plan to talk Anakin over to his side if Dooku spilled the beans. Worst case scenario, he kills Anakin there, disposes with the already defeated Dooku and Obiwan, and continues his plan.
Dooku saw in that moment that Sheev was the better choice for the galaxy and gladly kept quiet.
>anakin: I really don't think we should kill him
>palpatine in a voice like audio is: do it
>anakin does it immediately
>anakin right after he does it: I really dont think we shoulda killed him
Am I the only one seeing that Palpatine actually exerts force influence on him?