Deception
Ancient Dark Lord
Originally posted by Darth Subjekt
I hope by saying that Ragnos was intelligent, you weren't implying that Sidious is not...but just in case, look at what he did. he started off as a senator and made his way to supreme chancellor, and cause a galaxy to wage war with each other. He's VERY smart, and patient. So waging war with people doesnt make you stupid. And if Ragnos wasnt concerned with immortality, then why try to come back later at all? Whether its by default or not, I say Sidious takes this because we know what he can do...you can assume Ragnos can summon the sun to land on Sidious and kill him, but until you KNOW what he can do, it's irrelevant.
And we're to assume that Sidious's techniques will most definitely work on Ragnos?
Precisely because we have nothing on Ragnos, we cannot use him in any form of debates, ie He may shrug of an attack with relative ease of he may get fried up by it.
You forget that although technology within the SW Universe remains remarkably similar, its evident that it does advance. Sidious's technique of using clone bodies, may as well have been a new invention as clones may have been unavaliable within Ragnos's time. Consider also that Ragnos still had the civil issues and galactical conquest to deal with. Sidious at this time, pretty much crushed everyone and was only looking for a way to maintain his power which inevitably was thwarted by Luke and his Jedi.
Again Sidious does not win by default, chances are at 50/50, hell Ragnos may have been so powerful he could crush everyone with one blow or so weak that even Obi Wan could smash him.