If the first two were followed to the letter, then the Sith would have been pretty f*cking powerful. I mean, way more so, and personally. Backstabbing or betraying the masters is clever, but over 1000 years, there's bound to have been some apprentices claiming the mantle despite being less knowledgeable/skilled/honed.
What if the Banite Sith knew flow walk and gathered Sith knowledge and other dark side sects that way? And once the Apprentice beats their master they Force drain them, absorbing their spirits and adding their masters power/knowledge unto their own. Oh, and just in case if they did kill each other or if the Apprentice killed their masters by backstabbing them, the Master had their own private cloning chamber in which they can use essence transfer to resurrect themselves.
Bane's Rule of Two proved correct,for the Sith to survive.
As for the apprentice vs the master? why not, it worked they survived.
A master without an apprentice is a master of nothing...
How else would you solve the in-fighting?
The Rule of One?After Krayt finally died,to my understanding,Darth Nihl
chose the rule of two.
Originally posted by Nephthys
At some point, one of the duels would result in both being fatally wounded, and the Order would have perished.
I disagree,The Order wouldn't have perished.If so,then the Sith who
embodied the power wasn't worthy of the title of Darth or Master.
But again Nephthys you may have something there.
Both Sidious and Vader died but Vader left a worthy apprentice behind,
to take the title of Dark Lord of The Sith.
In the end she had to prove she was worthy.
Now Sidious.....which had no intention of dying or passing the touch.
He like Plaguis and later on Bane wanted to live forever.