Lit What did Palpatine do with all his new free time?

Of course, Sidious hadn't already won in anything but the short term. And it was because of the man's short sighted folly in assuming he had that Yoda lived to train Luke Skywalker.

And that is why the Jedi always win. Because Sith are dumb.

 

That's because they are often ex-Jedi. Whose Jedi Councils are often dumber.

 

True. But for Palpatine, it's all about having fun.

 

Another thing: When Palps fought Yoda, he didn't have all the Dark Side "infrastructure" (adepts, Hands, battle meditation, etc.) that he had in ROTJ to draw energy from. Palps was almost vampiric that way.

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"All the best people are."

 

Don't think there's any evidence to imply Sidious was drawing energy in such a way from other Darksiders in the galaxy.

 

I always took it as a secondary reason for the Rule of Two, to keep the Sith from making themselves the enemy and that it left more of the Darkside for them to feed on, increasing there individual power as well. I have no text to back it up right now, just an idea I've always had. If I think of any I'll attach it.

 

How has this thread made it to page five with no one posting this video.



Clearly he spent most of his day dithering over what to have for lunch.

 

If his apprentice took vacations I don't see why he wouldn't.

 

In terms of there being more of the Dark Side, you'd want to look at Jedi vs Sith, the comic detailing Darth Bane destroying the Brotherhood of Darkness, and Darth Bane Path of Destruction probably mentions it as well. It details Bane's conversation with Githany, in which he states that one of the reasons the Brotherhood must be destroyed is that:

The Dark Side is spread too thin. We have too many Dark Lords. Even the strongest wine cannot be felt in an ocean of weak water. For the Dark Side to be strong again it should be contained in one vessel! One Lord!

This is the only example I can think of where such an implication/statement is made, that the Force, specifically the Dark Side, has a limit to which it can be drawn from or used, and that more people/beings drawing from it lessens the amount others can draw from it. The above is a direct quote from the comic, which I have.

Personally, i've never agreed with the idea. The Force is infinite. Whether one person's drawing from it or a thousand, it doesn't matter.

 

This. Bane was right about a lot of things, but that wasn't one of them.

 

That is actually the first time I've ever seen that. Pretty funny for Palpatine.

 

Actually I can't imagine a woman that would suit Darth Sidious or please him to the full. For he is that high above with all his wits and abilities that it might be a kind of boring and annoying for him to spend much time with most people who don't carry out the missions he imposed upon them in a way he wanted them to do or to be enjoyable and to surprise him in other ways to be really interesting or even challenging for him. That is the curse or shall I rather call it bane (?) of being that outstanding and apart in a circle of people palpably inferior to him.

 

I think he's being misinterpreted. Or prefer to think he is, anyway.

The Sith are all about imposing their will on the Force, yeah? Bane's argument isn't, IMO, that the Force/dark side is finite but that if you've got bazillions of people all imposing their will on it, you're inevitably going to dilute its focus. He may well be wrong... but it's not a stupid position to take.

It doesn't matter how infinite the powers of your dog are, it's gonna get confused if it gets conflicting commands from more than one master.

 

I guess Bane is simply metaphysicising his desire not to share power.

 

Well, one thing we know he spent time doing was cloning himself...until April 25 that is.

 

Yeah, I don't think he (or his clones) got the memo.

 

I wonder what the fan reaction would be if we found Ian McDiamid was involved....

 

He may had more time to attend the shows on the Coruscant Opera, for which he has a subscription since he was the Senator of Naboo in order to make valuable networking.

Actually I found an almost perfect match for Darth Sidious. It is a former friend of mine. I broke friendship with her because she spun to much intrigues. But actually her philosophy and life-style is almost the same as Sidious'.

 

I think the path of a sith is one with little free time. Aside from the politics of running an empire, the cutthroat sith ideology requires you are always trying to strengthen yourself and watch your back to resist any attempts to usurp your power. Even then, I think Palpatine was more hands on than say, the sith emperor/Vitiate. He delegated some tasks to subordinates, but still did a lot himself.

 

Palpatine stated in his own manifesto, Book of Sith, that he was working toward achieving immortality. This requires some immense meditation and skill with the Force, so I assume his free time was spent studying and experimenting with the Dark Side. It's also a fact that he frequently visited Korriban to study and meditate at the tombs of the ancient Sith. This was combined with his search for a new apprentice to replace Vader, whom he would eventually replace and so on and so forth, if he were to actually live forever.

 

I believe it is erroneous to believe he considered himself to have 'free time'.