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Why are both of you missing the point? I even said they manufactured it. The point being was that they were feeding off of a miasma fueled by the psychic energy of the entire Republic. It's pretty damn insane when you think about.
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So the difference between these kinds of imbalances and the threat that Sidious posed is that by the end of TPM, Sidious was threatening the stability of the cosmic force through his mere existence even though he hadn't a fraction of the actual power and control of, say, Krayt or Revan/Malak. Likewise, prior to that Plagueis and Sidious unbalanced the Force through meditating on an island when neither of them were even among the five most politically powerful individuals in the galaxy.
So the first stages of the unbalance via Plagueis and Sidious's meditation was an act of raw willpower/exertion, the second stage was an act of influence over the source code of the Force, and the third was Palpatine just being really powerful. There's a clear distinction between this and the other Sith unbalancing the Force through fear and tyranny.
(This doesn't mean the OP isn't impressive, just adding this because some of you are making that comparison)
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In all seriousness yes, Elm is correct. Plagueis and Sheev threw the Force out of balance more thoroughly than it ever had been before, not by hunting the Jedi to nigh-extinction and ruling the entire galaxy with an iron fist, committing genocide etc, but simply by meditating against the Force. Sheev embodied the dark side and maintained the shroud with his sheer power after Tenebrous, his master and Plagueis set the stage for him.
In contrast, in the case of Revan, the Triumvirate and Krayt, the Force fell out of balance and slanted toward the dark side because of the widespread death, misery and most importantly, the annihilation of the Jedi Order. This was no personal achievement on their part, it was an achievement of their respective empires.
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As impressive as Plagueis' feat was, the Clone Wars were responsible for the shroud of the Dark side. That was the whole reason for their existence.
Plagueis' ritual took place in 42 BBY, ten years before TPM. During all that time, for all of Plagueis' grandiose notions, the Jedi hadn't sensed anything wrong. Yet Yoda immediately senses something is terribly wrong at the end of AOTC.
And at the time of TPM Maul was already a powerful Dark Sider, yet the first thing he notices after Talzin heals him is that the Force is out of balance, and immediately figures out the cause.