Originally posted by RagingBoner
That he did all of this entirely without aid leads me to believe that he's the most powerful Sith ever through natural power and merit through dedicated training and study. [/B]
May I introduce a scan from the comic "Sithisis"?
So if the lover of our Sidious fanboy brat makes use of A ROOM SIZE SITH FOCUS CRYSTAL in order to influence the Jedi, this doesn't count as "aid"? Makes one wonder how our Sidious fanboy brat, the same guy who attempts to talk down the Ancient Sith and Exar Kun because of their gimmics, managed to ignore this. It also makes one wonder, if the other feats of Sidious, some of which we've not actually seen in any source, but have just allusions to, were likewhise performed "without aid" (Gideon style).
The Emperor was capable of Force drains on a planetary scale in a refined version of Nihilus's technique;
Since he had a fully equipped Sith laboratory on the planet, he possible made use of the alchemical apparatus in order to archive this task. Excluding this possibility is an argumentum ex silencio and counts as a logical fallacy.
he used the Force to not only transform Byss from a nascent world into one of the most powerful dark side sites in the galaxy, but he then used his powers to subjugate its twenty billion inhabitants;
Again: He had a fully equipped Sith laboratory on the planet. The same stuff that Exar Kun had access to on Yavin 4. If Kun can force drain the entire Massassi population on the planet using the alchemical apparatus, while under attack of the entire Jedi Order, I suppose Sidious can do the same without any outside pressure.
Palpatine used the Force to mentally cloud the minds of millions on Coruscant to diguise the burial of the Lusankya, a Super Star Destroyer;
Most likely, like we see him clouding the mind of the Jedi above: Utilizing his ROOM SIZE SITH FOCUS CRYSTAL.
the Emperor's powers in the dark side were sufficient to smother the senses of ten thousand Jedi Knights;
May I just point to the ROOM SIZE SITH FOCUS CRYSTAL again?
and he generated Force storms through "mere thought and inclination" that were sufficient enough to kill worlds (through the destruction of a planet's surface) and disintegrate vast fleets.
So the power he, according to our Sidious fanboy brat, drained from the inhabitants of Byss wasn't aiding him in this task? So, I suppose Unu'Thul was likewhise "unaided" during the Dark Nest trilogy, because commanding the force energies of several million other beings doesn't count as "aid" any longer, correct?
And since that ROOM SIZE SITH FOCUS CRYSTAL doesn't count as aid, we can also ignore the weapon of Sadow's ship (utilizing a far smaller focus crystal) and we can definitely ignore all hand-held Sith devices (amulets, Ragnos sceptre).
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