Sith between Bane and Sidious

Yoda born 896 BBY. Palpatine born 82 BBY on Naboo.

 

Palpatine is 62 during TPM?

 

BBY= BEFORE BATTLE OF YAVIN

Palps was in his fifties in TPM; he's 82 as of ANH.

 

Chances are they'll be a story where Yoda meets Bane, perhaps Bane slayed Yoda's master or something.

Yoda was born over 100 years after Ruusan; I don't think Bane was alive by then.

Besides, Qordis, Bane's Master, was already dead.

 

Around 50 then.

 

The TPM novel says the apprentice was male.

 

The novel could just as well be using the male pronoun as non-gender specific.

 

I doubt it. It wasn't just speculating about his apprentice. It was saying his apprentice as in being certain it was a he.

He is only used as a pronoun of unknown gender when you are uncertain of the gender, The book was pretty sure of thegender I'm sure.

 

It also didn't mention Lord Kaan or the fact that the Sith were MOSTLY killed by Jedi on a planet filled with sentient koosh balls.

 

No. It's not "pretty sure" of the gender at all. It speaks in a vague way.

Observe:

When it was believed all the Sith were destroyed, he emerged from his concealment. At first he [Bane] worked alone, but he was growing old and he was the last of his kind. Eventually, he went out in search of an apprentice. Finding one, he trained him to be a Master in his turn, then to find his own apprentice, and so to carry on their work. But there would be only two at any one time. there would be no repetition of the mistakes of the old order, no struggle between Siths warring for power within the cult. Their common enemy was the Jedi, not each other. It was for their war with the Jedi they must save themselves.

There. Only one pronoun refers to the unknown apprentice - "his". It's not meant to making a specific statement. Its meant in a non-gender specific sense.