Originally posted by S_W_LeGenD
Read this;Should he succeed his plans, the Emperor will conquer death itself and become the most powerful being in all of galactic history. (SWTORE, Page 160)
Vitiate's ultimate plan was to transform himself in to a omnipotent godlike being with the capability to create the space matter himself. No one can get better then this and no Sith in history possessed sufficient knowledge of the dark arts to make this kind of transformation possible barring Vitiate himself.
What???
"Knowledge in the dark side" is pneuma, which is the power of one's essence in this sense, separate from, and transcendental to, their midi-chlorian counts/anima.
Anyway, the Dark Empire Sourcebook writes this:
As soon as Skywalker’s dream of conquering the Darkness from within was crushed, the next
stage in his training began. Fully under Palpatine’s
power, the boy would make a worthy disciple, as
would his sister and her children in time. Perhaps
he would enter the new unborn life and regain real
flesh, but he would need preparation first. With
the knowledge gained from his Dark Side Compendium, he would create an eternal dynasty, with
the descendants of Skywalker as its nobility, and
Palpatine himself as its omnipotent ruler.
As Plagueis explains, it is not easy to dominate a being with a greater amount of midi-chlorians, you'd have to dominate the midi-chlorians for them to allow acceptance.
"READ THIS." 😛
Good point! Vitiate sought to address this matter through his ultimate plan. Fortunately for all, he was stopped.
And yet he never matched Sidious' accomplishments, he was less clever and ultimately possessed less influence over the dark side, and his spirit possessed less power because of it.
Sidious certainly maintained a huge reservoir of Force reserves for himself from Byss? Vitiate did something similar for himself form Nathema. Difference is that Sidious was siphoning energies of living individuals whereas Vitiate was siphoning energies of (mostly) souls he trapped.
Whereas Sidious absorbed MORE life because he took a lot less from more WAAY MORE subjects. He literally coordinated an overpopulation of Byss' inhabitants, "drawing travelers to become denizens of Byss' capital city" and consumed these life forces over a six year period of a time, whilst commanding immigrants for an increasing population to benefit from.
When the Emperor chose this world for his
private reserve, no expense was spared. His personal architectural staff was granted carte blanche
to build a citadel to Palpatine’s hubris. Slaves and
machinery were brought by the specially trained
space pilots using encoded astrogation systems
to reach Byss. It took years, but soon the planet
gleamed with oddly shaped and ornate towers and
complexes.
Of course, this world was not to be only
for Palpatine’s use. Quite the contrary: enormous
leisure and habitation complexes were included in
the original designs. Incredulous as the designers
were, his orders were obeyed. Soon, enormous cities and resorts spread across the planet. Little
could they suspect the true purpose behind this
largess — Palpatine planned for millions to permanently reside here, where he and his minions
could use their Dark Side skills to feed off their life
energy.
Accordingly, a legend was created. A legend
of a mystic siren world, whose surreal shores and
glimmering oceans held the promise of contentment unattainable anywhere else. Millions applied
for visas to this mysterious world, but few ever
suspected Byss lay in the Deep Core itself.
Meanwhile, Imperial Intelligence painstakingly sifted innumerable dossiers to find those
most suited to the Emperor’s needs. Of these, a few
million per month were chosen and transported to
Byss in secret.
Upon arrival at Byss, they live out the rest
of their lives in harmless amusements and pageants. All communications to loved ones are censored to perpetuate the myth and secrecy of this
distant world
Compounding this, Vitiate never displayed the influence over the dark side necessary for something like dark side wormholes that tapped into its infinite aperion. Sidious wasn't even drained from it. He just did it instantly, without a ritual. Now that's a command over the dark side only Nihilus came close to. Nihilus was eventually able to Force drain a planet of his own volition instantly and without effort. And Nihilus was more parasitic in nature than any of the others. A wound that deep happened to pull more immediate pneuma from aperion than Vitiate, and Sidious more so than that. Sorry.
I have a question though: When Sidious ventured outside Byss, could he maintain his huge reservoir of Force reserves? If he could do so then this explains that how he was able to unleash Force Storm at will.
Yes, he could.
Yes, the energies of the Force are explained as aperion, normally a sentient's physical form interacts with this energy field through anima by willing the midi-chlorians. But a command that becomes apart of that sentient's very essence, transcendental to it's anima, is known as it's pnuema. This is explained in the Darth Plagueis Novel and in the Book of Sith.
Sidious's supply of Force reserves was based on billions of living individuals, which is ridiculously high number.
Exponentially more than Vitiate to be assured.
Though keep in mind that much of the Vitiate's capabilities are shrouded in mystery.
More vagueness than mystery. Although it doesn't take much to put two and two together.
Sidious wanted to acquire Anakin Solo because he wanted a durable body for himself; clones were a temporary arrangement. Solo's body wouldn't have increased his personal power but would have been good enough for his bodily requirements.
That was only AFTER he traveled to Korriban to seek other solutions. The Oracle Stone, which literally communes with the dark side itself, wished it. Perhaps because as a Skywalker, the most important element of the Rebellion, Sidious would be at a massive strategical advantage. Thus the dark side would compensate, aperion energies would flood Sidious' pnuema, increasing his powers greater than Vitiate's Force ritual which would ultimately leave the dark side's power over the light side stagnant as opposed to Sidious' alternative progressive improvement in the dark side's power over the light side.
Sidious will always be the greatest Sith in history. In both power and success. He was practical, and because of that he turned out more results than plotting, forceful military might, or inquired speculations.