The Sith have it easy, in the sense that the source of their powers requires a lot less concentration. And while Anakin’s turn to the Dark Side is seen as being weak and also tragic, it’s also so easy to give in to those emotions. That’s because the Dark Side used those emotions of hate, anger, and fear to fuel their Force powers and sustain them.
It was a way to focus Jedi and stop them from turning to the Dark Side.
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The Jedi Code literally says, “There is no emotion, there is peace,” among other things. As Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi told Anakin Skywalker time and again in the prequels, he had to let go of attachment and any type of passionate emotion. The Sith’s source of power is easier to wieldĪnother reason it takes a couple of Jedi to kill or maim a Sith is due to where their powers come from. And if he was, it’s just one of the reasons the Sith have the upper hand among Jedi. Was Darth Bane correct in thinking that the Force was split up too many times, weakening their powers? Maybe. RELATED: ‘Star Wars’ Has Always Been Anti-Authoritarian and Is Social Commentary that Is More Than Relevant Today And in all fairness, Maul was always working as a rogue agent after his run-in with Palpatine in Season 5 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars anyway. While there are Dark Sided Force wielders later on, like Maul or the Inquisitors, they aren’t taking up enough Sith power to affect anything, it seems. This is why Sidious was so adamant that Count Dooku kill off Ventress and why he came and killed Maul’s brother and nearly killed Maul too. He figured that the Force was being split in too many ways across all the Sith, so he made up the rule that there can only be a master and an apprentice. Then Darth Bane came around and ruled over the Sith, instating the Rule of Two that we know of today. They were around thousands and thousands of years prior to The Phantom Menace and used to be an Order similar to the Jedi. To further explain this, it’s important to know the history of the Sith. While the Jedi are powerful and good, they have to work twice as hard to achieve what the Sith can do, as the main answer explained. Someone asked on Quora, in January, asked why it takes two Jedi to defeat a Sith, and the answer, simply, is that the Dark Side gives Sith Lords something the Jedi don’t have.
RELATED: The Sith in ‘Star Wars’ Had Their Own ‘Chosen One’ Prophecy Will Fans See It In Canon? The Sith’s Force strength is only shared between two beings, not a group Maul is also a unique case, as he left the Sith Order behind, but still clung to its teachings and the use of the dark side.Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker face off in ‘Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi’ | Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images Of course, since the Sith constantly break their own rules, Darth Tyranus (Count Dooku) attempted to train his assassins as apprentices more than once. Some Inquisitors were recruited from the Jedi order, but most likely not all.īefore the Inquisitors were around, though, Darth Sidious would sometimes permit his apprentices to employ assassins who could tap into the dark side, as long as they did not attempt to train them as an apprentice of their own. During the Dark Times era of Imperial rule, Inquisitors were employed by the Emperor and Darth Vader to hunt down rogue Jedi and other Force sensitive children, to continue to consolidate the Sith Lords' use of the Force. The Inquisitors are dark side users who learn the basic methods of tapping into the dark side, but aren't allowed to learn the true tennants of the Sith.