Originally posted by Nephthys
Sidious at that point has no telepathic feats to speak of. Plus wasn't Sidious able to defend against Plaguies' mental probings while barely trained, if at all? Vitiate on the other hand is superior to the Dread Masters who can enslave armies with the TP, has torn apart the minds of dozens of Jedi who got close to him and Plagueis lacks the knowledge of how to defend against his mind.
I'll propose the question I have always proposed whenever you've said something like 'mind**** gg'. When has Vitiate ever mind ****ed anyone on Plagueis' level?
I think your forgetting the whole:
All that mattered was that, almost a decade earlier, they had succeeded in willing the Force to shift and tip irrevocably to the dark side. Not a mere paradigm shift, but a tangible alteration that could be felt by anyone strong in the Force, and whether or not trained in the Sith or Jedi arts.The shift had been the outcome of months of intense meditation, during which Plagueis and Sidious had sought to challenge the Force for sovereignty and suffuse the galaxy with the power of the dark side. Brazen and shameless, and at their own mortal peril, they had waged etheric war, anticipating that their own midi-chlorians, the Force's proxy army, might marshal to boil their blood or stop the beating of their hearts.
Risen out of themselves, discorporate and as a single entity, they had brought the power of their will to bear, asserting their sovereignty over the Force. No counterforce had risen against them. In what amounted to a state of rapture they knew that the Force had yielded, as if some deity had been tipped from its throne. On the fulcrum they had fashioned, the light side had dipped and the dark side had ascended.
If they had the willpower to do that, I think they have the willpower to resist Vitiate's mind control.
Can Plagueis beat Vitiate in a pure force fight? Perhaps not (though I think he could).
But can Plagueis resist Vitiate's mind domination? I think so.