Regarding Most Powerful Accolades

For example, if an accolade states that Sidious was the most powerful Dark lord of the Sith in history does it specifically refer to his dark powers, his military powers or his political powers or a mix?

What is your view on this?

Refers to physical muscle strength.

Refers to physical strength without the aid of Force augmentation.

Context.

Originally posted by NewGuy01
Context.

Let's just says there's a picture of Sheev and a caption claiming Darth Sidious was the most powerful Sith in history and that's it.

Originally posted by JMANGO
Let's just says there's a picture of Sheev and a caption claiming Darth Sidious was the most powerful Sith in history and that's it.

then obviously its referring to his powers as a Sith Lord; anything that Sith can do, sheev can do it better in a manner of speaking

Originally posted by NewGuy01
Context.

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Originally posted by JMANGO
Let's just says there's a picture of Sheev and a caption claiming Darth Sidious was the most powerful Sith in history and that's it.

Depends on the time period. Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Volume 1 specifies Sidious became the most politically powerful Sith Lord in history only after declaring himself Emperor during Revenge of the Sith. So any statement about him being MVP before that would refer to his power in the dark side since the Epic Collections quote automatically cancels out any interpretation about politics.

I think there's another quote saying he was merely "on the verge" of becoming politically the most powerful guy ever before RotS, supporting that notion.

One of the really old west coast sw rpgs I think for Rotj has a quote for Palpatine that says he is the most powerful being in the history of the Galaxy.

That seems to refer to his political power, considering context.

Originally posted by relentless1
then obviously its referring to his powers as a Sith Lord; anything that Sith can do, sheev can do it better in a manner of speaking

Originally posted by The Merchant
One of the really old west coast sw rpgs I think for Rotj has a quote for Palpatine that says he is the most powerful being in the history of the Galaxy.

That unfortunately contains "perhaps" in its wording, so it is not definitive.

The irony of course being that Leland Chee has directly contradicted the notion of an absolute definitive most powerful Sith. Likely denoting all of these quotes in the realm of mere possibility and not insurmountable statement of fact.

Originally posted by AncientPower
The irony of course being that Leland Chee has directly contradicted the notion of an absolute definitive most powerful Sith. Likely denoting all of these quotes in the realm of mere possibility and not insurmountable statement of fact.

Palp had a bit from each. So, yeah, a mix.