re: 'The Acolyte' Megathread: The Grand Finale is now streaming

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I think what this show was aiming for was that Plagueis saw that the twins were created with The Force and took that as inspiration to make his own attempt at it. Which failed and the Force responded by creating Anakin.

The show including Plagueis slaps the cannon and the character in the face. It makes a former wise and powerful Sith look like a stalker who took inspiration for his actions from another entity rather than him having the agency to do what he did on his own.

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Is it fact/canon that he never created life?

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It wasn't done for the audience to hate Sol...it was a coverup that the audience knows about. Generally speaking, the audience is going to side with Sol here.

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Yoda now has gotten his character assassinated like Luke did in TLJ. Either he's complicit in the cover-up

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Yoda now has gotten his character assassinated like Luke did in TLJ. Either he's complicit in the cover-up, or he isn't smart enough (or the Force doesn't show him) to figure it out.

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That's one interpretation.

My first thought is if Yoda wants to keep this from the council then that means the council is probably corrupt.

That seems much more likely than to me than Yoda being the bad guy and the council being full of great people.

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"Since kyber crystals are naturally attuned to the light side of the Force, those who serve the dark side must follow a different path. First, they must seize a pure crystal from the lightsaber of a Jedi they have vanquished in combat—for the saber of a Sith is not given. It is taken. Then, they must infuse that crystal with their pain, anger, and hatred, bending it to their will. This corrupts the crystal, aligning it with the dark side and making it bleed with unbridled crimson power. The bleeding process can yield unpredictable results. Some crystals shatter, making their energies unstable and unpredictable. Others resist their realignment, refusing to be bent toward the darkness. Once a crystal has been properly bled, the primal power it releases becomes not only a deadly instrument in the hands of a Sith Lord, but a symbol of their true strength in the dark side."
-Darth Sidious

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Bleeding was accomplished by pouring rage, hate, fear and pain into a kyber crystal by means of the dark side of the Force, until the crystal changed, resulting in the crimson-bladed lightsabers associated exclusively with dark side adepts. Since kyber crystals were inherently aligned with the light side of the Force, they could attempt to resist the forced corruption. When Darth Vader first attempted to bleed a kyber crystal, he experienced intense light side Force visions urging him to return to the light side.The procedure could also damage the crystal as was the case with the kyber crystal at the heart of Ben Solo's Jedi lightsaber; Solo's attempt at bleeding it resulted in the crystal cracking and forced Solo, now going by Kylo Ren, to modify his lightsaber into a crossguard model in order to vent the excess energy from the unstable crystal.

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Shortly after the formation of the Galactic Empire, Dark Lord of the Sith and Galactic Emperor Darth Sidious explained the bleeding process to his Sith apprentice Darth Vader. Having lost his Jedi weapon on Mustafar, Vader was in need of a new lightsaber. Sidious tasked his apprentice with tracking down and killing a member of the Jedi Order, as Sith tradition dictated that the kyber crystal of a Sith lightsaber must be taken from a Jedi they killed. Vader, having accepted his mission, located Jedi Master Kirak Infil'a on the river moon of Al'doleem. After killing Infil'a, Vader took his lightsaber with him when he departed.

On his master's orders, Vader traveled to Mustafar, where he had recently suffered his greatest defeat. Sidious wanted the Sith Lord to bleed Master Infil'a's crystal on the surface of the planet. Upon reaching the planet's surface, Vader entered a cave that was strong with the dark side. He dismantled the curved-hilt lightsaber and placed the Jedi Master's kyber crystal on a rock.

Using the Force, Vader began subjecting the crystal to the bleeding technique. However, the crystal resisted, subjecting Vader to Force visions of what his life could be if he chose to abandon the dark. In a vision, Vader returned to the light side of the Force and killed his Sith Master, before returning to his Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and begging for forgiveness.

Vader, having been thrown against the wall of the cave by the living crystal, returned to his feet and refused to give in. Grasping the crystal with both hands, Vader unrelentingly subjected the crystal to his pain and regret. Vader screamed as the cave erupted in a stream of Force energy. Eventually, the crystal's will was shattered by the Dark Lord, who subsequently returned to Coruscant and presented his efforts to his master. Vader later traveled to Galen Erso's Office on Coruscant, where he found a stash of kyber crystals left behind by Erso and bled them.

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