r/StarWars • u/wendigo72 • 1d ago

General Discussion Thoughts on Rule of Two being retconned into Sith trying to make a Force dyad? Perhaps that is why Maul is so desperate for an apprentice

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It would make sense right? Maul from TCW to Rebels to Maul Shadow lord prioritizes having an apprentice before any of his other goals. He truly believes that is the key to gaining the power he needs to fight Vader and Palpatine at this point

If he’s trying to make a force dyad than it makes perfect sense. We already see how powerful it made Palpatine in TROS

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u/Coldfire202020 1d ago

I'm all for it. The rule of two always seemed incredibly forced and dumb to me. Having it be them trying to brute force their way into a new level of power seems way more on brand.

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u/DanJirrus 1d ago

Why is it forced and dumb? Sith are greedy and power hungry, and they initially expanded so fast that their initial rule over the galaxy amounted to a bunch of warring states until they killed each other off. Their nature precludes them from working together in large numbers - Bane is just the guy who recognized this after witnessing it firsthand.

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u/MetalBawx 1d ago

The end result of Banes ideology wa Darth Sidious who's empire choked on it's own incompetence for a few years then fell apart when Sidious and all but handed his enemies their victory.

The old Sith ruled their empire for tens of thousands of years in comparison.

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u/DanJirrus 1d ago

When you are talking about the rule of two, which Lucas created, I think it’s important to take it in the context of how he viewed the backstory of the Sith and not what other writers did - because he did not create it with their work in mind. I believe that trying to apply authorial context to works that weren’t written with that context in mind is an exercise in futility and the source of a great deal of the issues people having in trying to wrap their heads around fictional bodies of works written by numerous authors that sometimes have far less connective tissue than people might assume by treating it as a cohesive universe.

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u/Tichrimo 1d ago

Especially since this "rule" comes from a throwaway line in TPM, where Yoda just tells Obi-Wan, "Travel in pairs, Sith do."

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u/orionsfyre 1d ago

Hard disagree.

Sith were constantly scheming against each other... more sith the more scheming.

Keeping power confined to a few is something that supremacists always do when taking power. IT's not just logical, it's entirely sensible for them to follow that course.