Originally posted by Great Vengeance
You go with Bane, even though Sidious is a highly respected sith lord and Bane hasnt shown anything noteworthy at all?
Bane destroyed a very large portion of the Army of Light by adding the power of the SIth Council to his own. He bacame so strong that the other Sith came to fear him and instead decided to try and find another way to defeat the Army of Light Light, even though the Army of Light had defeated them in five of the previous battles (or was it six?).
Bane also studied the teachings of Freedon Nadd. While studying Orbalisk's attached themselves to him giving him a living armor that made him extremely stong (by giving him massive amounts of adrenaline during combat) and it also made him able to withstand getting him by a lightsaber.
On the other hand, what has TPM Sidious done? Sidious at this point doesn't stand a chance next to Bane.
Um, Bane didn't TOUCH the army of light, that's why he was so angry at the others. And at this point, Sidious only spent a large portion of time in his youth to studying the workings of the ancient Sith.
The other Sith were scared of Bane do to his fanatical beliefs about the dark side...when you join with a guy who's about to suck you dry 'for the darkside' and rants about how the DS is spread too thin...hell, Bane drinks poison willingly! The reason he was feared is because he was on par with Kaan and pretty much a mad darkside fanatic.
And Sidious has only cloaked the Sith fromt he Jedi for years, learned everything Bane taught and beyond, mastered numerous techniques of the dark side and studied the secrets of the Ancients.
Originally posted by Lightsnake
mastered numerous techniques of the dark side and studied the secrets of the Ancients.
He may have studied some techniques reminiscent of those used by the ancients, but he obviously doesn't know any of the better ones: he admits himself in DL that his mission would be made far easier if he knew some of the secrets of the Dark Lords.