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Sith

30 entries tagged Sith, 19 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Sith and Palpatine.

Did Anakin Kill Padmé?Not with his own hands, but Revenge of the Sith makes him the cause. He choked her on Mustafar, and she died after giving birth because, in the medical droid's words, she had lost the will to live. Here is what the film shows and what it leaves to the viewer.
How Did Anakin Become Darth Vader?In two steps, both in Revenge of the Sith. Anakin pledged himself to Darth Sidious to save Padmé and was named Darth Vader that night. Then Obi-Wan left him maimed and burning on Mustafar, and Palpatine had him rebuilt in the black armour. Here is how it happened, in canon and Legends.
How Did Anakin Survive Mustafar?Obi-Wan left Anakin Skywalker legless, armless and on fire beside a lava river on Mustafar. He lived because Palpatine sensed he was in danger and got to him in time, and because the dark side kept him going long enough to be rebuilt as Darth Vader.
What Happened to Anakin's Face?Anakin's face was burned on Mustafar. Obi-Wan left him limbless beside a river of lava, the heat set him on fire, and he spent the rest of his life scarred, hairless and unable to breathe without Vader's mask. The single scar over his eye is older, from the Clone Wars. Here is every time the saga shows what is under the helmet.
Why Did Anakin Kill the Younglings?Anakin killed the younglings because Palpatine told him it was the price of the power to save Padmé. Here is what Revenge of the Sith actually shows of that night at the Jedi Temple, how the others found out, and why he went through with it.
Why Did Anakin Turn to the Dark Side?Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side because he was terrified of losing Padmé, and Palpatine convinced him only the Sith could save her. Here is how the films and The Clone Wars build that fall, from his mother's death to the night he knelt to Darth Sidious.
Did Darth Maul Become Less Powerful After His Duel With Obi-Wan?No. Maul grew stronger after losing his legs, while Vader never recovered from Mustafar, and the difference was mental rather than physical. Losing limbs did not reduce a Force user's potential. What reduced it was the confidence the injury took away, and Maul had confidence to spare.
How Did Grievous Almost Become Force Sensitive and Dooku's Sith Apprentice?Dooku engineered the crash that nearly killed Grievous, then had the dying Kaleesh transfused with the midi-chlorian rich blood of the Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. The blood saved his life. It never gave him the Force.
The Most Powerful Sith Lords, RankedSeven of the strongest Sith who ever lived, from King Adas to Darth Nihilus, measured against each other on melee skill, dark side mastery, raw Force potential and political power. One of them comes out on top.
Were There Any Sith Lords Who Used Their Powers For Good?Two Sith from the Rule of Two era come close. Darth Gravid rejected the dark side and tried to drag the order back towards the light, burning centuries of Sith lore before his apprentice killed him. Darth Vectivus kept his old moral code intact and died of old age surrounded by friends.
What Excuse Did Vader Give For His Defeat By Obi-Wan Kenobi?Vader never blames his own arrogance for losing on Mustafar. On the Death Star he frames that duel as the learner against the master, which fits the grievance Anakin had carried for years: that Obi-Wan and the Council were holding him back.
When Darth Maul Fought Darth VaderIn Legends, a cult of Sith fanatics brought Darth Maul back from the dead and sent him after Vader on the volcanic moon Kalakar Six. Maul had the duel won until Vader ran a lightsaber through his own body to reach him.
Why Did Ancient Sith Lords Hate Palpatine And Darth Vader?Some older Sith thought Palpatine and Vader were not really Sith at all. The clearest case is Darth Momin, who called the Sith of their age Jedi-obsessed weaklings and told Vader he was unworthy of the dark side.
Why Wasn't Count Dooku Deformed By The Dark Side?Dooku never went far enough into the dark side to pay for it. The disfigurement and yellow eyes came from prolonged, total immersion, and Dooku used the dark side sparingly, leaning on his Makashi lightsaber form instead. His eyes only turned during moments of real anger.
Why Didn't Darth Vader Upgrade His Suit?Vader's armour was slow, heavy and painful, and in Legends he was offered the chance to replace it with something far better. He turned it down because the procedure could have killed him, and because the pain kept him tied to the dark side.
Why Did Palpatine Love Maul's Lightsaber?Because of what it told his own master. Sidious trained Maul as an assassin rather than a Sith Lord, and the brutal, ancient saberstaff advertised exactly that. It made Maul look like a weapon instead of a successor, which kept Plagueis from noticing what his apprentice was really building.
Why Plagueis Went to Meet Anakin in The Phantom MenaceIn Legends, Darth Plagueis was still alive during The Phantom Menace. The moment he saw Anakin Skywalker arrive on Coruscant he was hit by a vision of a black helmeted cyborg, and he went looking for the boy. He was too late.
Why Was Darth Vader Terrified After His Duel With Obi-Wan Kenobi?Because the body disappeared. Vader had waited two decades to kill Obi-Wan, and when he finally did there was nothing left but robes. He suspected a mind trick, found nothing under his boot, and realised the dark side had no explanation for what he had just seen.
Anakin SkywalkerAnakin Skywalker was a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic and the prophesied Chosen One destined to bring balance to the Force. He fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader, then found redemption at the cost of his life by destroying the Emperor.
Count DookuDooku was a Jedi Master who became disillusioned with the Order and fell to the dark side as the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus. As Count of Serenno he led the Separatist movement through the Clone Wars, all the while serving as the unwitting pawn of his master, Darth Sidious.
Darth CaedusDarth Caedus, born Jacen Solo, was the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo who rose as a Jedi hero of the Yuuzhan Vong War before falling to the dark side. He seized control of the Galactic Alliance as a Sith Lord and was killed by his twin sister Jaina.
Darth MaulMaul was a Dathomirian Zabrak trained from childhood as the Sith apprentice of Darth Sidious. Cut down on Naboo and left for dead, he survived and rebuilt himself, becoming a crime lord and a relentless seeker of revenge against the Sith who discarded him and the Jedi he hated.
Darth VaderAnakin Skywalker was the prophesied Chosen One, a Jedi Knight and hero of the Clone Wars who fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader. He enforced the rule of the Galactic Empire for decades before his redemption and death at the Battle of Endor.
Kylo RenBen Solo was the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa and the grandson of Darth Vader. Turned to the dark side by Snoke, he became Kylo Ren, master of the Knights of Ren and Supreme Leader of the First Order, before finding redemption and sacrificing himself for Rey.
MustafarMustafar was a young volcanic planet of lava seas in the Outer Rim, mined for rare minerals and steeped in the dark side. It was the place of Anakin Skywalker's fall and the site of Fortress Vader.
PalpatineSheev Palpatine was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who rose through the Galactic Senate to become Supreme Chancellor and then self-proclaimed Emperor. He orchestrated the fall of the Republic and the Jedi Order, ruled the galaxy for decades, and sought to cheat death itself.
Revan: the Prodigal KnightRevan was a human Jedi Knight who led the Republic to victory in the Mandalorian Wars, then fell to the dark side and forged his own Sith Empire as a Dark Lord. Captured and mind-wiped, he was retrained as a Jedi, turned against the Empire he had built, and destroyed it. This entry describes the Legends continuity.
Savage OpressSavage Opress was a Dathomirian Nightbrother transformed by Nightsister magick into a brutal weapon. Made an apprentice first to Count Dooku and then to his own lost brother Maul, he cut a path of destruction across the Clone Wars before falling to Darth Sidious.
SithThe Sith were an ancient religious order of Force-wielders devoted to the dark side, driven by hate, anger, and the pursuit of power. Born from a schism in the Jedi Order, they warred with their rivals for millennia, reached the height of their power under Darth Sidious, and were finally destroyed at the hands of Anakin Skywalker and Rey.
The ForceThe Force was an energy field created by all life that bound the galaxy together. It granted supernatural powers to the Force-sensitive and underlay the millennia-long conflict between the light-side Jedi and the dark-side Sith.