Originally posted by EmperorSidious2Maul is still a rival according to Palpatine. Palpatine was better than him but I never disputed this. Dooku wasn't a rival to Palpatine but Mauk was as proven by his words and the time length it took for the win,
He's a rival faction. He said he was a rival but he didn't say in what though. However the evidence left was he said that he was trying to deceive him after looking at savage, and then goes on to,state the rule of the rule of two that there can only be two,and you have been replaced. And then we go on to see that maul is clearly no match for,Sidious in dueling and in the force so he definitly isn't a rival.Yes.
He could have killed windu when he had him at sword point and many other times, and wanted to,convert Anakin and already put his life in danger to do it already, knows about Padme, knows that Anakin knows that he is the only way to save Padme, knows the Jedi are coming, killed Fisto, kolar, Tinn in 10 seconds flat, Aankin arrived the moment he was disarmed and the moment he was in the correct position. Plenty of evidence. Also you yourself say windu crushed Sidious. If he crushed him than he would have outright defeated end him earlier on. However he didn't and lasted until anakin got their which shows that he was able to hold him off long enough for his plan to work. Also palpatine had time to make a well devised plan for this. He also had a second blade aswell and we have seen it doesn't take him long to take out a lightsaber and in the shot when Anakin comes in he has plenty of time to whip it out and use the force to,push windu back or just roll over and get back up and start fighting.
You are speculating again. You need to prove it not theorize.