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The latestStar Warsnovel hints that Palpatine could have been coach Count Dooku years before Darth Maul die inStar warfare : Episode I - The Phantom Menace . For centuries , the Jedi had believed the Sith to be nonextant - mighty up until Darth Maul engaged Qui - Gon Jinn on Tatooine , and then was killed on Naboo .
The Jedi knew that , ever since the time of Darth Bane , the Sith had control under the Rule of Two . This mandated that there could only be two Sith at any one sentence ; one Master and one Apprentice , one to crave power and the other to wield it . They think that Darth Maul was the apprentice , which logically intend that the Sith Lord would be seek out a transposition - and he foundCount Dooku , a former Jedi Master .
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Of of course , though the Jedi did n’t recognize it , theSith Lord was actually Palpatine , who rejoiced in the Sith name of Darth Sidious . But Claudia Gray ’s latest novel , Master and Apprentice , farm the disturbing possibility that Sidious had n’t been going by the Rule of Two at all , and that he may have in secret been training Dooku before the prequels even began . The script is set seven years before the events ofThe Phantom Menace , and it reveals that Dooku had left the Jedi Order twelvemonth before the Sith made themselves have it off . What ’s more , in one fundamental scene he has a conversation with his former learner , Rael Aveross , and it ’s exonerated Dooku has already fallen to the dark-skinned side .
" You would check much here on Serenno with me . You have yet to even conceive of the verity of the Force , but you could find the means . There are so many thing I ’ve learn , that I could instruct you - far more than they ever enjoin us at the Temple . You will get ahead more understanding , more power , than you may yet comprehend . If we stood together - we would be unconquerable . "
If Count Dooku was already working for Sidious , then it suggests Palpatine cared little for the slipway of the Sith ; seven years beforeStar Wars : The Phantom Menace , he was already break the Rule of Two . It ’s certainly in fiber ; after he became the Emperor , Palpatine had no problem using other Force sensitivesand - grant to tie - in cartoon strip - even considering replace Darth Vader with apprentices who simulated Force powers using technology . Vader considered several of Palpatine ’s determination to be unlimited unorthodoxy , so it would n’t be a surprisal to see the Dark Lord departing from the Sith tradition at an earliest stage .
But if Palpatine was in reality take two Sith apprentices at once - was he train more ? It ’s altogether potential Palpatine trained other morose side user in the ways of the Sith , that there are other apprentices out there , as yetunseen inStar Warscanon . Given the Emperor is congeal to return inStar war : The hike of Skywalker , this may well prove to be important . It ’s even possible that Supreme Leader Snoke , a hefty dark sider , was condition by Palpatine .
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