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re: Question on the Star Wars PT
Posted on 4/3/18 at 10:40 am to BulldogXero
Posted on 4/3/18 at 10:40 am to BulldogXero
It shows how good Sith are at deception and manipulation. It's a carefully crafted master plan with every step happening because of palpatine wanting it that way.
They go to arrest him, not kill him. He calls it treason and attacks. He was going to be arrested because he refused to give up his power once the conflict was its end, like he stated he would. They didn't go to the Senate because he had control of it and the courts. It's mentioned at some point that he has the beaurocrats under his thumb. If he escaped, he would have the jedi framed as traitors, which happened.
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Then, in Revenge of the Sith, when they Jedi find out that Palpatine is a Sith lord, they immediately go to his office to try to kill him. First off, is it a crime to be a Sith lord? Do they have evidence to link him to any actual crimes such as treason against the Republic? What if the Jedi had simply stood back and not done anything about Palpatine? Why not go to the Senate first and ask Palpatine to give up his emergency powers now that the war is over?
They go to arrest him, not kill him. He calls it treason and attacks. He was going to be arrested because he refused to give up his power once the conflict was its end, like he stated he would. They didn't go to the Senate because he had control of it and the courts. It's mentioned at some point that he has the beaurocrats under his thumb. If he escaped, he would have the jedi framed as traitors, which happened.
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Posted on 4/3/18 at 11:08 am to JetsetNuggs
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They go to arrest him, not kill him. He calls it treason and attacks. He was going to be arrested because he refused to give up his power once the conflict was its end, like he stated he would. They didn't go to the Senate because he had control of it and the courts. It's mentioned at some point that he has the bureaucrats under his thumb. If he escaped, he would have the jedi framed as traitors, which happened.
He had the Jedi framed as traitors because they attempted to assassinate him.
The fact that Mace wanted to kill Palpatine is also a pretty big reason why Anakin chose to turn to the dark side. If the Jedi chose not to act so quickly or attempted to go through the Senate first, I think Anakin would've had a much harder time reasoning in his mind that the Jedi were evil.
I get that they didn't attempt to kill him until they saw he was pretty good with the light saber, but shouldn't they have been a little more pragmatic? Palpatine was Chancellor over 10 years by the time of Episode 3, and he never framed the Jedi.
Posted on 4/3/18 at 11:20 am to JetsetNuggs
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It shows how good Sith are at deception and manipulation.
This, and Palpatine was extraordinary with this in particular. If you read some of the books, namely the X-Wing series of books, they talked about how he was able to construct the Lusankya and bury it under the surface of Coruscant with tunnels connecting it to the Imperial Palace and then wipe its existance, construction, and burial from the memories of EVERYONE ON CORUSCANT save for the crew working on it. His force powers in this area were beyond comprehension.
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