As I was researching Sidious, I actually thought he was going to win. That is, until, I dug into Revan.
Additional points:
- Sidious has the Kyber crystal, yes, but Revan also has robes crafted from the Star Forge that enhance his abilities in a fight.
- Sidious' ability to cloud the council's vision can't be entirely credited to Sidious himself. Supposedly, during the pre-trilogy, the Force has shifted to the Dark Side, clouding the Light Sider's vision; in the original trilogy, the Force has shifted to the Light Side, clouding the Dark Side's vision. This is why Palpatine cannot tell Luke was on Endor.
- Revan's mastery of the Dark Side is not based on emotion or anger. He simply controls it. Darth Traya supposedly states that she, a Sith Lord, did not even believe Revan had fallen to the Dark Side at all.
In my opinion, based on all of this, Revan has the power; Sidious has cause to be fearful.
Originally posted by Darth_Janus
You brought up my old point about Revan letting Bastila board the Ravager. Excellent, Fishy. And you're right about Revan's control over the dark side, Wanderer...
Its the only real way she could have come there... Revan isn't stupid enough to let anybody that could possibly beat him come close, he would shoot them all from a distance. Not that anybody in that time had a chance of beating him
He was probably there with the team, a cloacked agent trying to injure Revan. Possibly for support or maybe he was the one that piloted the shuttle. Staying alone on a ship when there are hundreds of Sith onboard the thing you're docked on isn't exactly a smart thing to do.
Especially not when you consider that almost every single one of them could kill him easily. And that just adds to my point. If a normal republic soldier managed to get on the bridge then it couldn't have been heavily defended.
But he was standing behind the dark Jedi that Bastila killed right before she and her three companions advanced on Revan. I have this feeling he was a corrupt Republic official either a prisoner of Revan's or working under him, and, because he could, he choked the fool to death. Although it would be neat if he sensed an approaching cloaked officer and murdered him.