Was Darth Nihilus' Empire the Most Brutal & Depressing in Sith History? - How Did he Run it? 

Revans mask is better

@@twinsuns6453 its debatable and revan just had a mandalorian mask

@@TheEmpireAnimations He wore it better than the Mandos did. That says a lot because Mandalorians wear their helmets well.

@@TheEmpireAnimations still cooler

I must know, how did you get a clone helmet next to your name?

Damn it. Nihilism will eventually destroy everything.

Agreed. I’d also say that he likely used intermediaries when dealing with most of his allies, so they didn’t actually know who they were dealing with. Sure, they were likely aware they were dealing with the Sith, but probably more so Sith remnants rather than Nihilus.

@@Engine33Truck I think the Onderonians don't even know if Nihilus was a man or a woman.

@@HolyknightVader999 Vaklu and perhaps Tobin might’ve had an idea of who they were dealing it, as it’s implied that Nihilus himself approached at least Vaklu. Though in all reality, he could’ve sent Visas.

@@Engine33Truck Tobin basically tells you that they don't know the Sith Lord's sex. At least on Onderon.

If Kreia' words are any indication, the remnants of Revan & Malak's Sith Empire rallied under the Sith Triumvirate with the sole purpose of destroying the Jedi. _"For them, it's all that matters. All that ever mattered..."_ They didn't actually care what Nihilus, Sion, Traya or even Vitiate hiding in the Unknown Regions would to the Galaxy. All they cared about was destroying every last Jedi. Once all Jedi are gone, as Kreia herself states, the galaxy would be theirs one way or the other. They could topple the Republic entirely or do an Exar Kun Meets Palpatine and control the Senate from the shadows. "Oh, so our Sith Lord can and will eat a few planets? Whatever, so long we can rule the galaxy in the end..." It's also important to note that Nihilus could at least communicate in some manner to pass on commands, such as he did to Visas Marr in their introduction scene, and his talks with Sion. Whatever his true intentions were, he COULD at very least convince people to join him through telepathy as well as deceptively claim he was Darth Revan 2.0 creating a New Sith Empire. As eldritch and lovecraftian he might have become, he could still address people on a human level, if only to lie to and use them. I mean, just look at Vitiate/Valkorion/Tenebrae. Many know that he's an Omnicidal Maniac, yet they still follow him because they equate him to a God and believe his genocide won't include them.

Darth Kabuki

Not necessarily my favorite. Mine's Darth Vader. Gotta stick with the classics. Though Nihilus is up there, right after my 2nd favorite, Darth Revan.

@@HK--nf1sc darth nihilus was born before darth vader so technically nihilus is the classic

@@TheEmpireAnimations True, chronologically in regard to the passage of time in the Star Wars Universe. But I was referring to the first Sith Lord ever known in this existence we live in as classical.

he is my fav too no one can compete

Who needs a death star when you got nihilus

Very good. KOTOR & 2 are a few of the games I’ve revisited as an adult.

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Meetra Surik: How can you serve a monster like Nihilus?! Sith Officer: Lady, the guy lifted a wrecked starship from a gravity-crushed dead world and made it into a ghost ship that he flies with _his face exposed to the vacuum of space like he's basking in the wind,_ then parked next to a planet full of Jedi and *ATE IT.* Do I LOOK like I have an argument against THAT, OR that I can survive long enough around him to make the case???!!!

Dude was more of a junkie than anything. His "hunger" was basically an addiction.

Something something politics

Who said that again?

@@michaelandreipalon359 a JoJo reference

Something, something, something Dark Side

you're actually right, its the first time where sith , jedi, and mandalorians united to stop a threat they knew if not douing so was their end, imagine nihilus not as a galactic threat but universal, as kreaia said: "he is already dead, it is a matter of how many he kills before he falls, and he leaves nothing to conquer on his way" if not stopped, nihilus was the end of life in all the galaxies.

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We don't need disney ruining him too.

@@jamesleduke873 facts

@@jamesleduke873 The most terrible and despicable villain in the SW Universe will always be Darth Rat!

Like the exile, they are a walking wound of the Force. The difference is that the echo forcefully put into his body whereas the Exile chose to abandon the Force. While he is a darksider, he is no Sith as he wish to merely satisfy his hunger and instead seek freedom by taking control of the Force. No matter how powerful he was, he is still a slave to his hunger. And to Kreia, it was heretical to her as true strength is abandoning the Force and rely on your own strength without relying others

Valkorion and the eternal empire didn’t exist because they were retconned in by SWTOR, so easy answer, nothing would happen

That is an interesting question. I’d probably say the eternal empire as the fleet and armies were just unopposed.

@@chalk1415 From my knowledge Nihilus draining powers have never been fully explain have they? So speaking hypothetical here, since he could drain the life force of an entire planet, we can state the distance of him from space let's say above the north pole to the south pole would kill anyone who come into that proximity in a radius around him. So no space fighters would reach him, no ground force, and maybe no battle cruisers as well no? I also don't know the speed of his draining power either I don't know if it takes 10 minutes to drain someone so like I said my comment is all hypothetically.

@@lorenexus4917 that's fair and a very good point.

@@chalk1415 did you check out that video I linked?

Nihilus was a primal being of instinct in sentient form. He lost his humanity and sanity after the battle of malachor V.

Traya had something the other two never had… An apprentice called the Player Character

It's all about grandeur. The flashiness and having a visible and tangible force

@@kanekikingstorm2113 And then the good guys find you and wipe you out. There's a reason Palpatine was the only Sith who succeeded in destroying the jedi order

Because that is who and what the Sith are. The whole crux of Sith ideology is the selfish and endless pursuit of power: economic, political, military, and of course, power in the Force. Anything and everything that might get in the way of that goal is either a weakness or an obstacle, up to and including logic, restraint, and rational thought. There's also the effects the Dark Side have on the mind: it functions much like a strong addiction to a narcotic drug, creating psychological and physiological dependency and a desperate craving for the next big high. Once you get a taste of that sweet, sweet Dark Side and the power it brings, you want more, NEED more, and after a while you just can't bring yourself to stop: there's nothing but the chase for more power.

@@zacharyweaver276 yea, because the sith adapted. Less of the flashy gold and purple robes of the ancient sith, and forgoing the bulky armors of the reconstituted sith. They found the cracks in the foundation of the republic, and slip into them.

@@kanekikingstorm2113 True my idea would probably work for a regular dark sider who would undoubtedly have some jedi or other important character end up on their planet and then destroy them when they saw the off worlder as a threat to their power or got found out as a dark sider

Was he even human? Or alien?

+David Ordaz he was. Without any doubt

@@thedoruk6324 would be interesting to see what would happen if nihilus return during the clone wars since he is a wound in the force so would be cool

@@davidordaz5251 perhaps if somebody put the mask on

@@thedoruk6324 yeah than the galaxy would be screwed

@@davidordaz5251 exactly would be equavilent to introducing tsar bomba to galaxy

Abeloth would probably die

Palpatine conquered the Galaxy... and actually achieved what he wanted :))

I agree my lord, you are misunderstood. I'm still learning the ways of the Dark Side

@@spiffygonzales5899 and I had no desire to rule the galaxy I already live on Malachor I got a whole planet to myself a beautiful ship and that’s it my Empire was basically a one man government I did all the work and I didn’t have an army either whoever those were they must’ve been fan boys playing dress up

@@madisonsosa21 continue to learn my friend and it will reward you

@@GalvatronStudios Sir, we have two and half death stars, a shawkin device, a Galaxy gun, a numerous world devistators, a sun crusher, and numerous other world ending items. Not to mention the millions upon millions of Star destroyers, 480 quadrillion sentients with hundreds of quadrillions of droids, 70.5 million inhabited systems, an emperor who can create vortexes that swallow planets (and possibly solar systems), and a machine man who brought down two of the ones. I ask you, who is THE REAL dark Lord of the sith?

The exilenks the only one who could truly beat since she's also a wound in the force, pretty much the opposite of nihilus

Wasn't he killed by somebody who cut themself off from the force

@@gordonf5553 yes the exile did who u play as in kotor 2 but they became able to use the force again by essentially siphoning it from their companions, she's the inverse of nihilus except she cut herself off to survive malachor yet still feeds on it low-key whereas he embraced the hunger and it now devours him afyer also being present at malachor. His attempt to feed on the exile is what allowed his defeat as it weakened him greatly, since he basically tried to feed on a void

He managed to keep his physical form by embedding it in his armour and mask

@@VolkovVelikan or what was left of his body.

What’s the background music at the start?

Do you think Eren would fit being a Sith? At least the post timeskip

@@yaujj65 Definitely.

Kind of. Everything must be undone, including him, but that's reserved for last. No darkness, no light. Only the endless hunger of the void.

Darth MF Nihilus!

you would see a barren rock, and possibly a few abandoned cities, maybe even some ships that were on-planet at the time, but nothing more

Both. Because he wanted the ONLY thing to exist in the Galaxy to be the Sith. In fact, he didn't need to keep his body intact, since he was more or less a puppet of actual dark energy. If anything, he WAS the Dark Side of the Force, in-person.

I think Nihilus was a firm believer in the Sith philosophy, it’s just that eventually his hunger was so strong that it became more important.