Why were the Sith so powerful if there were only ever two at a time?
Is the light side of the force that weak?
Also, video related. (see how long you can make it)
Your average worshiper of the dark side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQ61atO_kQ
One Sith managed to BTFO the entire Jedi Order and Republic just by sacrificing two easily-manipulated apprentices. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to run an evil empire if there were hundreds of these assholes clowning around space? The rule of two's entire purpose was self-regulation so the Sith could get shit done.
>>63122980
this tbqhf.
For years and years the Sith dwindled due to constant in-fighting. They would so preoccupied with fighting each other for power that they couldn't really accomplish anything.
>>63122980
Most Sith throughout history were hedonists drunk on power; even Exar Kun was looking for power for its own sake rather than a purpose. Bane restarted the Shit with a clear goal of destroying the Jedi in mind, even if it took thousands of years. Revan was up to something, which is why he was winning his war, but his apprentice was another jackass drunk on UNLIMITED POWAH!
You can't be very powerful if you have to share with dozens or hundreds of others. The Sith are powerful individually, the Jedi are powerful collectively. That is basically the core of their ideological differences.
>>63123589
This, and the Rule of Two stated that the apprentice had to eventually overpower and kill the master and find a new apprentice, so doing this shit for a thousand years made them progressively more powerful.
>>63122851
holy fuck that video
>>63122851
the rule of two is stupid
Jedi and Sith just happened to be rare in the original trilogy. rule of two is just retarded as fuck EU reasoning where the entire culture of a people is completely decided by the qualities exhibited in their scant appearance in the movie.
>Character pulls out a thermal detonator
>his entire culture worships thermal detonators
>guy happens to be a bounty hunter
>his entire culture is filled with mercenaries and bounty hunters
>guy is a smuggler
>comes from a planet of smugglers
It's all retarded bullshit
>>63124720
In the EU there were times with a shitload of Siths too.
>>63123589
if they're powerful collectively then why did Sheev take them all out in 6 v 1
why did Mace Windu only start winning after Sheev killed his friends
Why are Jedi constantly putting themselves in situations where they're completely surrounded and end up winning?
>>63124861
this.
there's an entire fucking sith academy.
>>63123653
but then all you would need to do is kill the master after he kills his failed apprentice, or kill the apprentice after he kills his master and the entire sith lifestyle comes crumbling down.
>>63122851
Dark side energy is shared among all Sith, by there only being two it concentrates their power and makes them almost invincible.
>>63124864
It's hard as fuck man, in the entire saga really only three Sith have been killed: Maul, Tyranus, and Sidious. (Vader died a redeemed Jedi).
>>63124926
>Apprentice kills master
>Only Sith left in galaxy
>Has a heart attack or dies in an aerial traffic accident in Naboo
There goes the Sith tradition
>>63124864
He had the high ground, was spinning and was a big guy.
>>63124922
>>63124861
see that makes sense, but the 1 on 1 shit is stupid and is only extrapolated from the Emperor and Vader.
The Emperor was just trying to replace Vader and Vader was just trying to overthrow the Emperor so he could rule. It wasn't some cultural rule that they had to do it, it was just them being evil and trying to backstab eachother.
The Emperor encouraged Vader to turn Luke under the idea that they would all 3 still continue to be alive, there isn't any kind of "oh haha your gonna kill me lol, you kids grow up so fast"
>>63125056
this comment was meant for
>>63124926
All I see in this post are ppl who don't understand the rule of 2.
not gonna explain shit either..
>Kill the younglings
>Murder the sand people
>Blow up a planet with billions of people living on it
>Gets to chill with the good guys in the afterlife
>>63125335
"The Rule of Two was instituted by Darth Bane, once a student at Kaan's Sith academy, in response to what he viewed as inevitable, self-destructive infighting within the Sith Order. The Rule of Two states that there would be only two Sith at one time, a Master and an Apprentice, guaranteeing that when the Apprentice becomes powerful enough in the ways of the dark side to take the title of Master, only then would they be worthy of the title. This transfer of power would only take place when the Apprentice takes their Master's life and finds a worthy student to repeat the cycle. Both Master and Apprentice were considered to be Sith Lords."
not sure what's so hard to understand about that
>>63124926
that was also why they chose to remain hidden for so long, corrupting and manipulating the Jedi Order in secret instead of in an open war.
"HE IS THE TRAITOR, AHHHHHH!"
>>63122851
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