Why Did The Sith Obey The Rule of Two? - Star Wars Explained 

I think that the if the Sith grew into a giant clan, it would have expanded on the iconic "Star Wars" title, making a better and larger theme of good vs evil. More battles would most likely occur and possibly a bigger war than the Clone Wars/any major scale battles Pre - Star Wars Episode 1 would've happened.

As to the rule of two it was a pragmatic decision based on the needs for some stability in a world of perpetual assassination and lack of trust. By acknowledging the problem and codifying the system then some stability for the strong years of the present over lord and the provision to ensure a strong competent replacement trained in more than just fighting skills but leadership- Think of the Turkish Emirs who had their brothers strangled to ensure no civil war and social continuation and growth among'st a brutal people who could easily fall into anarchy and fail. I think the world the Prequels and the KOTOR and KOTOR II show is amazing and visionary. It is Star Wars at it's most evolved and deep, It is what most of the discussions are about precisely because there is so much to talk about rather than the original trilogy. I think even the acting is REALLY good (Palpatine!) and that the portrayal of Anakin was perfect for his insecure late teenager personality. He PLAYED HIS ROLE, perfectly. He is not Luke and this is part of why HE becomes Darth Vader not Luke The whole point about Anakin is he is really gifted but a tragic personality, not strong enough for his talents. He has a much much worse past than Luke and on top of that the wrong personality to deal with these tragedy's. He is much more arrogant AND insecure than mellow Luke and is also wrongly treated by the Jedi council with only Qui Gong being wise as too what was needed (lots of love, support AND critique) because unlike the blind suspicious Jedi Council he was open minded and in touch with what was actually going on. Yoda is not wise at this point (and later admits this) and quite blind as are the other Jedi or else they are suspicious (negative). Qui Gong loved Ani instinctively and was his father in practice if not genetically. Anakin would not have resented instruction and discipline from a secure mature loving father figure he admired rather than an 'older brother' Obi Wan to who he felt competitive. As an older man Obiwan had learned his lesson so well he forwent the traditional Jedi practice of child cult manipulation and let Luke actually have the proper family life that Anakin never had but really needed. I, myself, was less than happy when the new films came out mostly because Jar Jar was so jarring a personality. He was just an annoying clown fool I thought (like most) but now I do not think that even that is right. It is clear that either Jar Jar is a Sith himself (perhaps the senior planner who pulls the strings while being camoflaged as a fool or just a tool of Palpatine's as he is always where he needs to be to turn things Palpatine's way, including becoming THE Senator who convinces the Galactic Senate to give up liberty ala Hitler 1934 with the 'emergency proclamation' (created by the needs of the Clone wars; yet unseen by the blind Jedi and Senate). It has gotten to the point that I hardly can hardly be bothered to watch the original trilogy as they seem as the 'Hobbit' does to the 'Lord of the Rings', a simple child's nursery rhyme version of a far deeper dark complicated dangerous adult world!

Star Wars Theory if there was a rule of 2 why where there inquisitors

Star Wars Theory I love your intro dude. I wondered this too. I mean, 2 isn't exactly an order. It's a partnership. But your explanation answered my question. No there won't be a rule of two because Kylo and Snoke are not sith. Snoke told Kylo that sentiment caused the fall of the Empire. That sounds more like Yoda than it does a sith. Snoke is something else. I think he's either the shaman that taught Qui Gon part of the secret of eternal life, or a fallen angel from Millius Prime.

sorry about that

notthatinnocent86 Plagueis started doing it wrong

come one after over a thousandth years were there still just as strong as the 4 strongest jedi combined and the rule would also insure that knowledge would be lost because a apprentices that grows stronger than his master before the master could teach him all that he knows will cause a massiv lost in knowledge not to mention that if the series would be a little more realistic that would by just 2 have the sith ended a long time ago by an accident that would kill them.

Two Sith ruling the galaxy for 20 years is better than thousands ruling like half the galaxy.

that only happened because sidious chose anikan as his apprentice when he already had multiple other apprentices to choose from.

The Rule of Two is kind of stupid. I know the Old Republic era Sith were more quantity over quality, but it was much better in it's way. There probably weren't many Sith, if any, that were as powerful as Sidious and Vader, but thousands of Sith is still more powerful than just two. And with that many Sith, there's bound to be some that are truly powerful. Plus, not all of them are going to be ones that teamed up with other apprentices against their masters. It could also make some of the Sith more powerful, since they constantly would have to be fighting against their rivals in the order. The Rule of Two era Sith lacked this challenge entirely. The survival of knowledge, the discovery of knowledge, and the survival of the Sith in general would also be better off if there were more Sith. The reason for this is because there's more Sith that are researching, and more Sith to actually hold onto and protect the knowledge. And it's a bit risky having only two Sith at any one time because if those two Sith die, the whole Sith Order dies with them. That's exactly what happened in RoTJ. The Sith are much more likely to survive if there are a lot of them, even if it does cause a lot of conflict, there will always be some Sith alive.

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this is so over asked lol

"What if J-E-D-I really spelled Sith?"

+Darth Vader Sand.

that video has been done allready

Darth Bane had faced this problem before but he managed to find the holocron of Darth Andeddu to solve it. Even if age ravages the Master, they would just have to find a new vessel and make it their own. That way the Master would remain youthful and strong until the apprentice is proven the strongest.

Zannah bring my lightsaber.

Also there is zero contingency - if something happens to the master before being able to train an apprentice, the line of Sith ends. Sith Lords aren’t immortal, they could die in accidents, or what if the intended fight between master and apprentice ends up killing both? Also Sidious killed Plagueis in his sleep, meaning it’s not necessarily the more powerful fighter who continues the line. That’s why I always believed there must be some secret contingency plan, like another watcher in the background who would interfere if such a disaster happened. Not necessarily Jar-Jar of course.

@@magicmulder deep. hadn't thought about it to that extent, but that's exactly right. i see the Sith as a cross between a cult and the mafia. the only way to survive and to thrive is they have to have a code, a higher calling (that everyone adheres to) that supersedes personal interests, and puts the order's interests above all else.

Evolution doesn't weed out the weak, just the least adaptable. Tigers are in danger of extinction, while mice thrive despite humans putting consecrated effort into exterminating them.

Craig Smith more like a death babe tv series on the books they'd be awesome because the books describe the rule of two and how palpatine got so much power

Craig Smith ehhh nah but in clone wars they would give the siths their own episodes

I've always wanted a trilogy or series focused around KOTOR/mandalorian era

There is a petition on Netflix to start a to series about the old republic

Peter Bergmann lol, I signed that! 😂

Yeh I know it's so weird to look at

Did you know that if you look at the stories they are the same with new characters?

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Big Smoke hell yeah how's grove street

Big Smoke thats wgat i was just commenting lolol

That literally makes no sense. You're telling me 1000 Sith Lords is weaker than just 2?

​@@Evan8787 there is 1000 dark side points, you have an apprentice and a master, they each get 500 , you get 1000 siths they each get 1 point. That's how I interpret it, siths are selfish so they wouldn't want to share their power anyways. While jedis only use the power for protection of others.

Mosts of this is true but not because of some limit of the dark side but because the sith betrayed each other too often the dark side and the light side are no different in the level of power they have just the users. The rule of two was made because of Bane's younger life with his very abusive father and uncaring people not because of the dark side being venom it just so happened to work instead of killing the sith off.

Before Darth Bane's era, the Sith betrayed each other as compared to the Jedi weakening the Sith powers. The Rule of Two's purpose is for the Master Sith to solely train the Apprentice to become more powerful. The Rule of Two is just like the Jedi's rule of NO ATTACHMENT.

Hammerglaze I think he's already done a video about that.

Hammerglaze Spoilers bro, jeez

If you haven't watched it you shouldn't watch this video :P

unknown1233454848384 At least it wasn't a tide pod race.

Just punch Watto in the face, steal the hyperdrive and run off

Liam nah man they were like assassins kinda like asaj ventress an apprentice was like a successor

They're more like pawns.

Liam they have ties with the force but it’s minimal

They were previous jedi turned over to the dark side. In function and rank they are just force sensitive assassin's. kinda what Darth Maul was supposed to be before he became the apprentice of Darth sidious.

Nope, they're just Dark Jedi

Raja V Than we would have one more jobber Jedi to serve as cannon fodder.

Interesting! At least one more Jedi to survive during the rise of the Empire wouldn't be that bad.

Yves Heinrich and I figured he would go with Organa and maybe be trained by obi wan or Yoda and then be a master to luke

+Raja V I was thinking of that too! It really makes sense as well if it would've happened. It'd bring much more hope to the galaxy than expected.

I saw that clip the other day, but he didn't save him, he was trying to get away from the clones and Organa just happens to show up when he was making his getaway.

cant blame writers for giving an excuse as to why palpatine was all alone with his half-robo robin, i think removing rule of 2 and saying the jedi wiped them out wouldve made the jedi more imposing vs the space christians they supposedly are?

I think the implication is that the Sith were becoming weak enough due to their own internal conflicts that their end at the hands ot the Jedi was actually becoming close to inevitable. Darth Bane finished the job for them, sure, but in a way that ensured that eventually a much more powerful Sith would emerge who could end the Jedi.

Bane was the best thing to happen to the sith the brotherhood of darkness and the sith as a whole before them was destroying itself left and right with infighting and it’s a serious problem when weak apprentices can gang up on a dark lord and kill them then install a weaker substitute. The sith were still a major galactic power their enemies belived them dead but they were hiding in plain sight as politicians, artisans, builders, and prominent figures in the galaxy. Hell Plagueis himself was the former head of the intergalactic banking clan. Plus while they were in hiding they were amassing power, bane was already stronger then any of the sith that existed in the brotherhood of darkness and each successive master was stronger than bane.

Than he dies. It stops one master-apprentice line not the entire existence of the sith. There are multiple ways to obtain information about the sith way than just learning stuff from your master. There are books and holocrons, or they learn things from eachother. In the comic series ''Darth Vader'' you'll learn that Sith Masters don''t often give their students information like Jedi's give to their students. A sith student needs to obtain information through spying, threatening people or murdering them for information. There is a scene in the (I think) 1st issue where Vader asks something to Palpetine and Palpetine answers ''A Lord of the Sith asking questions and expecting them to be meekly answered? You are a poor apprentice if you think so...'' so there you go. Hope I answered that question for you.

Yeah I have to agree. Seems to me that one bad motivator in the hyperdrive when the Master and Apprentice are off to a murder world for training, and they come out of hyperspace inside a star or bounce off an asteroid.

Chris Chiss I would think that there would be Sith Holocrons that the apprentice could learn from

I know you think that with only two Sith if there was the slightest accident the Sith are gone forever, but that's not right. If a Sith Lord were to, say, wreck his Harley or get shot with a blaster, he deserved to die as it would mean he was weak/foolish and therefore unworthy of being a Sith. The rule of two was DESIGNED to get rid of the weak/unworthy/accident-prone.

Aaron Pierce I agree, that makes sense. Still incredible.

They needed to control the darkside and sith have trouble controlling it to begin with, but Lawful evil sith like Krayt showcase the potential of the sith.

Yautja Prime aren't we all slaves to something

@CoreReport Exactly, that is how I would have identified in the starwars universe.

@@drizzy6302 Anyone enslaved can be freed and most people's prisons are in their own mind.

CoreReport what are the grey jedi?

@@thejazer1580 Grey Jedi aren't really an order, so much as a loose classification for Jedi that are no longer purely aligned with the light side of the force, yet also do not necessarily embrace the dark side. They tend to regard the Force as tool, much as the Sith do; but since they do not embrace the dark side they do not fall prey to ambition or lust for power. The Jedi tend to keep as close a track on Grey Jedi as possible; as most of them are not a part of the Order, the Jedi have little authority over them, and are concerned they might become Dark Jedi (Jedi that have embraced the dark side, not entirely dissimilar to the Sith).

Yes, it horrifying

Well, it does in a way because the Master and the Apprentice could gain knowledge and power easily because of their longer lifetimes.

No, the force is within all livings beings. There is no 'light' side. The dark side is a corruption of that force, like a cancer.

Bane just wanted the sith to stop being weak and be more aware of knowledge in the force, Bane did nothing wrong.

No, it's lame and doesn't make any sense. Lucas just added it because there were only 2 "Sith" in the OT. If he added more in the prequels, he'd have to explain why they all disappeared by Ep. IV, which he clearly didn't. It was much cleaner, and easier, to make up some "rule" that keeps the Sith to 2 so that Vader and Sidious remain the only two Sith by the start of Ep. IV.

Gaming Boy Boba Fett did survive the sarlaac pit.

It says William maytook

Order 66.

Lph PhD They would’ve never pulled off Order 66 if the clones hadn’t been made

@@TheHoodedReaper yeah , and the clones were made because of palpi boy

@Basic mandalorian *Sifo Dias

Well there was a sith who himself alone killed the entire Hedi council about 5000 jedi before being killed himself So even if it's 2 or 1 vs 1000 still the sith were more powerful

Got a good point as if the master is killed before he/she can fully train their apprentice, then the entire Sith plan could be undone. Though I suppose it's deliberately a 'so stupid it just might work' kind of plan as it plays on the Jedi orders arrogance, they loved to believe that they had destroyed the Sith and that they could halt their return and that nothing would be changed by events for Republic, they were so wrong.

And apparently just 1 jedi was able to defeat him(mace windu) without much trouble according to george lucas,imagine windu plus yoda plus anyone else, it would destroy him xD

Arkeym MS windu was possibly the only jedi capable of beating him though, as his fighting form was uniquely suited towards fighting sith.

Plus it made them vulnerable to accident's, diseases etc. Sith Apprentice: "Hurray, I've just killed my master! Now I need to find dude to teach him things!" AT-AT Pilot: "Damn, I wish I don't step on any moron like yesterday. Those people just can't learn" Ground under AT-AT's leg: *Splash*

The sith were reckless and destroying themselves for power making them weak against the Jedi. It was time to start fresh, something new like the rule of two. This allowed the sith to lay low and strike when the Jedi least expect and in the end it worked. I always felt the Jedi should have followed the rule of two as we’ll or something else along those lines. It would mean less padwans falling to the dark side and less of the strict codes that’s more about keeping Jedi in line then truly enlightening them on such natures. They’re would be much more of a focus on the force and be less involved with politics as they would go planet to planet, city city learning the force and helping those in need. The large number of Jedi or sith is their own downfall as the sacred teachings of the force was spread too thin.

Neither are sith, kylo ren is a dark jedi

In Canon, the sith order (banes sith order) ended with vader. There could only be 2 siths and dark jedi are just jedi that turned to the dark side. Snoke may be something entirely else But right now we don’t know.

Cortex so what was dooku? Wasn’t he a fallen Jedi as well? We will never know about Snoke now. God i hate the last jedi

Dooku was a sith, Darth tyranus. Also, after dooku left the order he was a grey jedi before palpatine turned him to the dark side

Read the book, it wasnt because of Sith infighting that the rule was made, it was because the masters of the time were weak and ignorant of the true nature of the sith.

sorry I commented the second the video started. I know you stated this in the video, I just wanted to leave my comment because I really love talking about Darth Bane. without our Sithari, we would never have wipe the Jedi out. Kahn was leading the dark brotherhood down the wrong path. I thank our Sithari for correcting Kahn's failures.

matt.cook.oregon when will pence take over is the true question

matt.cook.oregon lol, this gonna start a civil war

Only a liberal emotional sith would skip past every president/vice president in history just to attack Trump and think you are being cool.

Holypikemanz Liberal and sith don't go together.

Wow. Just had to bring politics into this. So edgy. Even though you skipped every president in history just to bash Trump. Nice try moron

Grievous wasn´t a sith.

@@PumperKrickel true but there was ventress

@Big Dan yeah but dooku wasn’t supposed to have ventress as a apprentice, he did it behind sidious back

@@blakecarroll9518 yeah and thats what im saying, they rarely followed the rule of 2 because they usually had their own apprentice behind their masters back

@Big Dan ahh I see

It began to fall during Tenebrous/Plagueis/Palpatine´s rules as sith masters, they all craved to be immortal masters and thus ended up sabotaging their apprentices which culminated with Vader´s betrayal of Sidious, it was payback by the force for disrespecting the Rule of two.

Maybe but there´s dumber stuff like stating the sith infighting was why Bane made the Ro2.

Did you just steal that from the movie?

@@chrishugs6173 no. From a completely different movie.