re: Supreme Leader Snoke's identity all but confirmed (spoilers obviously)

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I read the plagueis book but I need refreshing. How does it describe sidious killing him? Does it confirm it or insinuate it?

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Sidious was going over his acceptance speech that he was going to give the next day when he became Chancellor with Plagueis in which he was going to also announce Plagueis as co-Chancellor. They were celebrating reaching the goal of their Sith Masterplan and Palpatine kept going over the speech so that Plagueis would have enough time to drink to get completely drunk. Then Palpatine used force lightning on him a few times. He thought he killed him, but he wasn't sure himself and he was afraid maybe Plagueis had found a way to escape death. He took him for dead though.

Also as I saw mention a few times in the thread, Plagueis didn't abide by, or believe in, the rule of two as the Sith since Darth Bane had. He asked Palpatine to keep an eye out for force users they might could use in his travels. Palpatine even came to Plagueis and told him after he had been training Maul for several years and told him about Maul. They used Maul as their assassin so Maul could do their work while they remained hidden. Maul was never truly an apprentice, and he was only trained as a fighter, not a full fledged Sith. They also worked in concert to try to sway Dooku and Master Syfo-Dyas from the light to the dark.

Again, that's all from the book that is no longer considered canon, but clearly they have been cherry picking some info from the books to put in the movies. So I suspect that a large part of it will be incorporated since Plagueis was actually mentioned in Ep III.