With it he is able to control the essence of life. This is power that Palpatine believes is directly tied to his inward sight. He can save others from death, kill others by making there midi-chlorians return to the force and when his power is applied to the extreme he can create new life from the midi-chlorians found in all lifeforms.
Plagueis proved to be a master manipulator of both the Force and politics, manipulating the inner workings behind the scenes for years in order to achieve the goal of eventually taking control of the galaxy. Plagueis was obsessed with the prospect of immortality, and performed experiments on countless subjects and species in order to fully understand midi-chlorians.
Possessing power is all he desires. Losing it is the only thing he fears. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. And when the time is right, he destroys his Master—but vows never to suffer the same fate. For like no other disciple of the dark side, Darth Plagueis learns to command the ultimate power.
Under the guidance of his Master, he secretly studies the ways of the Sith, while publicly rising to power in the galactic government, first as Senator, then as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor. Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, Master and acolyte, target the galaxy for domination—and the Jedi Order for annihilation.
But can they defy the merciless Sith tradition? Or will the desire of one to rule supreme, and the dream of the other to live forever, sow the seeds of their destruction? This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Originally, he thought it was a Jedi, but was proved wrong when attacked by a Bith wielding a crimson-bladed lightsaber.
Caught by surprise, Plagueis momentarily believed this to be his deceased Master Tenebrous, and then mused that he might be an artificially created offspring, but the Bith claimed to have been selected by Tenebrous as his Sith apprentice under the moniker of Darth Venamis.
Venamis told Plagueis that he planned to execute his Master's last command—to kill Plagueis, and legitimize the title as Darth. There was a short but fierce duel; so as to better prepare his apprentice for the fight against Plagueis, Tenebrous had taught Venamis the same fighting style the Muun was proficient in so that he would have an advantage when they faced each other. Damask originally had trouble fighting this new foe, but eventually gained the upper hand and disarmed Venamis, using both his and the Bith's weapon to force him to his knees.
Darth Venamis then offered to apprentice himself to Plagueis, but the Muun had other plans for him: he forced Venamis to poison himself by ingesting a coma-bloom. He then ordered his Sun Guards to locate the infiltrator's ship and move his body to Aborah , with the intention of using the Bith as a test subject in his midi-chlorian experiments. An investigation of Venamis's ship revealed that he had kept his eye on several Force-sensitive troublemakers as potential apprentices.
With the comatose Bith safely inside a bacta tank in Aborah, Plagueis set out to eliminate them and secure his position as the reigning Dark Lord. Accompanied by D, he traveled to Lianna and Colliders Casino in Lianna City to deal with a Shi'ido skinshifter whom he allowed to live , to Saleucami where he killed an Iktotchi prophetess, then Bedlam and its sanatorium , and finally to Abraxin.
He confronted Naat Lare and tasked him with the elimination of the Jedi. Hiding, Plagueis watched as the Jedi struck Lare down. During this time, Naboo was at the peak of election season, and the candidates for the throne were divided between a conservative faction which wanted Naboo to remain an isolationist Republic member world, its resources exploited only internally and not by external megacorporations, and a liberal faction which wanted to fully integrate Naboo into the Galactic Republic.
The candidate of the latter faction, Bon Tapalo , secured the endorsement of both Damask Holdings and the Trade Federation by promising to open Naboo to trade, which would allow them to profit from the plasma resources: Plagueis explicitly involved the Trade Federation in the construction of a new spaceport for Theed to export the plasma to reconcile them to the earlier Free Trade Zone Deal. He also sought to use the planet as a future base of operations.
Bon Tapalo's opponent was supported by staunch royalists and traditionalists such as Cosinga Palpatine , patriarch of House Palpatine , and Naboo representative Vidar Kim , influential figures in Naboo politics both. Plagueis eventually learned that Tapalo had an informant in the rival campaign who provided him with vital information.
His agents discovered that the informant was a seventeen-year-old student in the Legislative Youth Program called Palpatine , the son of the man who stood most fervently against Tapalo and his ilk, Cosinga Palpatine. Eager to know more about the young man, Plagueis convinced him when they met at the Legislative Program's Theed headquarters to give him a tour of the town in his prized speeder.
From this first encounter, Plagueis learned much about the young aristocrat: he was interested in politics but was shy to admit it; had a modest fondness for art and desired for his homeworld to be opened to the wider galaxy. Most notably, Plagueis learned of the young man's severe estrangement with his father which had been going on for years and years.
Impressed by the young man's ambition, intelligence and motivations, Plagueis offered to use him as a spy to secure Tapalo's election and Damask Holdings' interests on Naboo. Palpatine accepted the offer on one condition: he would report to Plagueis alone and directly. This led Plagueis to consider that Palpatine saw him as the father figure he never had. But he too was intrigued by the young man. For two standard days after leaving Naboo, Palpatine was constantly in Damask's mind.
After a falling out with Senator Pax Teem of the Gran Protectorate over Damask's support of Gardulla during the Phoebos Memorial Run on Malastare , Plagueis began to consider Palpatine for the role of figurehead Supreme Chancellor that would bring the galaxy under the rule of the Sith.
Immediately after landing on Naboo a standard month after his first visit, Plagueis and his retinue of Damask Holdings and IBC members were detained by a group of security guards. The Muuns were forced to remain in one of the spaceport's holding areas for about an hour, after which time two Palace Guards arrived to escort the Magister to a waiting Gian speeder.
Cosinga, who had noticed the friendship between the Magister and his eldest son, demanded that the Muuns stay away from Naboo, and that Damask specifically stay away from his son. Plagueis, undeterred, traveled to Hanna City on Chandrila to meet with Palpatine, who was on the planet participating in a month long retreat sponsored by the Legislative Youth Program at the time, and updated him on the situation.
The young man was furious at his father's attempt to meddle in his affairs, and his fury buffeted Plagueis as he felt it in the Force. Palpatine demanded help and advice, to which Plagueis replied that the young Human could use this incident as a means of emancipating himself.
After some back-and-forth palaver, Palpatine revealed to the Magister that he sought ultimate power, and Plagueis told him that he was willing to be his ally in this quest provided that he free himself of all restrictions, chief among them his family.
The Muun then related the story—a carefully put together amalgam of fact and fiction—of his own emancipation: he told Palpatine that, following his father's deathbed advice to use whatever means were necessary to protect his interests from less enlightened beings, he had orchestrated an elaborate ruse to poison his family and inherit the Damask fortune in its entirety.
In reality, Plagueis was coaxing the young Human to confront his father and break the barriers he had built to hide his true nature. In fact, he had approached him on Chandrila so that Cosinga's spies would spot them together, making the confrontation between father and son inevitable. All went according to Plagueis's plan, and as Palpatine was preparing to leave for Naboo aboard the Jafan III , one of his father's security guards came to escort him to the family starship.
Palpatine murdered his family soon after the starship entered hyperspace , and contacted Damask, who promised him that all evidence would be destroyed, leaving nothing to link Palpatine to his family's disappearance. Plagueis now saw the young man as insidious, ambitious and arrogant by nature, as well as completely lacking in empathy, ready to join the Sith as his apprentice. In a cabin aboard the starship Quantum Collosus , Palpatine knelt before his new Master and swore his loyalty to the Sith Order, and Plagueis bestowed upon him a new name: Darth Sidious.
Soon after the murder of his family, Sidious began the first stages of his training, designed to "break" him as an individual in order to remake him as a Sith, under Darth Plagueis. Breaking the cycle enacted by Darth Bane, they would neither harbor any secrets from each other, nor experience any jealousy or mistrust in their relationship, thus serving the dark side in concert. Sidious learned from Plagueis over the course of decades, [3] during which Plagueis taught his apprentice everything he knew to prevent the power he had amassed from being lost forever.
Plagueis's lessons involved forcing Sidious to face his fears, denying him pleasures, and taking from him the things he loved. He taught Sidious that emotions such as envy and hatred, though necessary to master the dark side, were simply means to the end of casting aside usual notions of morality for a greater goal. Plagueis also lectured his apprentice on the means of taking power, with the eventual goal of control over the galaxy.
Sidious would not kill his master, however, until he understood the lessons of Plagueis [8] and had become powerful enough to defeat him. By 54 BBY , Plagueis and Palpatine were maneuvering to raise Ars Veruna to the throne of Naboo, encouraging his plans to establish a space fighter corps to allow Naboo to deal with the Trade Federation from a position of strength. When Veruna became king, Plagueis planned to lead him into a destabilizing confrontation that appeared to be of his own making.
However, Veruna and Bon Tapalo's policies were still fiercely opposed by Senator Vidar Kim , who planned to vote against a bill to seat numerous Trade Federation-controlled star systems in the Senate. Kim's behavior became more intense and erratic after the death of his entire family in an airspeeder accident on Kaadara. Kim became convinced that his opponents Tapalo and Veruna had been behind the deaths of his family to force his early retirement.
He even devised a far-fetched plot to lead his only living son, the Jedi Knight Ronhar Kim , away from the Order and to carry on the family lineage. Returning to Coruscant within a month of his family's accident, Kim was angered when his only remaining son refused him, reaffirming his oath to the Jedi Order.
While on Coruscant, Kim had arranged a meeting with his son with the intention of swaying him to his cause and getting him to investigate on Naboo. Plagueis and Sidious came to the conclusion that the Senator had become too much of a liability: Plagueis saw Kim's death as an opportunity to send a message to the Galactic Senate of the growing disenchantment in the outer systems.
A week later, Kim was riding in an open-air speeder with his last remaining heir when the hired assassin fired a round at the car, killing Kim before committing suicide to evade capture and interrogation by the Jedi.
In 52 BBY , Plagueis was involved with discussions with the Kaminoans about the possibility of creating a clone army to one day destroy the Jedi Order. Plagueis had initially hoped to produce Yinchorri soldiers, believing that their immunity to many Force powers would give them an advantage over the Jedi.
However, the Kaminoan geneticist Ko Sai pointed out that the Yinchorri's natural aggression would be extremely difficult to control in a military environment and interfere with their ability to obey orders. Celanon and Serenno were in a dispute over the placement of a new hyperwave transceiver in Celanon space that would expand the reach of the HoloNet into the Corporate Sector.
In compensation for the fact that placement of the repeater would necessitate changes in hyperspace trade routes, Celanon had announced that ships entering Celanon space from the systems of the upper Hydian Way including Serenno would be required to pay substantial transit taxes.
Plagueis privately hoped that the mediation would fail: citing controversy, Damask Holdings would then withdraw from funding the transceiver and the project would collapse, leaving systems in the Tingel Arm feeling victimized by a disagreement between two wealthy Republic worlds and intensifying disenchantment in the Outer Rim. Plagueis was more interested in taking the measure of Master Dooku, who was an increasingly dissatisfied critic of the corruption of the Galactic Senate.
Plagueis felt he could recruit Dooku as an insurance policy against the possibility of losing Sidious. After hours of talk, a brief recess was called for. Plagueis took the opportunity to speak with the Jedi, engaging in a heated debate with Qui-Gon Jinn, who accused Damask Holdings of fomenting discontent in the Outer Rim in the name of profit. To Sifo-Dyas and Dooku, he spoke of impending conflict for the Republic in the future, discussing the possibility of a split in the Republic between the Core and the outer systems.
Dooku admitted to the Senate's corruption and despaired for the possibility of correcting it. Sifo-Dyas was circumspect, not wanting to admit to the possibility of war out of his loyalty to the Republic. Plagueis realized then that to destroy the Jedi the Sith must exploit their sense of righteousness and obedience to the Republic, making them appear to be the enemies of peace and justice rather than the guardians.
He then considered that rather than create an army to fight the Jedi, he might instead have the Kaminoans create an army that would fight alongside the Jedi before betraying them. Preparing to exploit Sifo-Dyas' fears about the future of the Republic, Plagueis was about to tell him about the cloners on Kamino that could rapidly raise an army for the Republic. However, upon seeing Jocasta Nu approach, Plagueis felt the dark side warn him not to speak of it, and he quickly ended the discussion.
A short while later on Coruscant, Plagueis introduced Dooku and Sifo-Dyas to his apprentice, Sidious, prior to the latter's address to the Senate in his public persona of Palpatine during a vote on sitting several client systems of the Trade Federation. During their discussion, they were spotted by Senator Pax Teem , who realized that Palpatine and Damask were working together. Teem had just expected Palpatine to vote against the Trade Federation, but on orders from both King Bon Tapalo and Plagueis the former wishing to placate domestic critics of Naboo's deal with the Trade Federation, the latter planning for the new member-worlds to be caught in between a Republic that heavily taxed them and a Federation that exploited them to foment discontent and pave the way for a future secession crisis that would destroy the Republic , Palpatine declared that Naboo would abstain from the vote, tipping the Trade Federation towards victory.
The Maladian attack was preceded by Palpatine's kidnapping by members of Santhe Security, which Damask had made sure would occur by acknowledging his apprentice as an acquaintance in public with Teem as a witness. Teem had been waiting for nearly ten years to exact retribution after Plagueis's support for Gardulla the Hutt's new podrace course and Naboo's plasma reserves, both of which threatened to seriously affect Malastare's finances.
Meanwhile, Santhe Security's leader Kerred Santhe the Second appeared to have discovered that Plagueis was responsible for his father's death and joined with Teem.
As Plagueis focused his efforts to foil the kidnapping attempt and use it to locate Teem, he was not aware that a second attack had been planned against him.
Pestage was contacted by Maladians with the information, who were embarrassed by the complications surrounding the death of Vidar Kim, and he immediately notified Sidious. The two arrived at the Fobosi Lodge as Plagueis, gravely injured and barely holding himself conscious, was lashing out with the dark side against his attackers. All the others, including the Muuns who made up Damask Holdings, had been killed.
Hill was the first victim of the attack, his head sliced from his neck. The police were unable to find any culprits behind either incident, even though the Senate Investigatory Committee formed a special task force to look into the matter in the wake of Senator Kim's assassination.
Damask Holdings was not reformed, and Hego Damask II retreated from the affairs of the galaxy, with some believing him dead. He would still continue business in the Banking Clan, all the while grooming the late Larsh Hill's son, San , to become the next Chairman.
Darth Plagueis had survived the Maladian attack with grievous injuries—a considerable part of his lower face had been taken off by a decapitator disk that had also severed his trachea and several blood vessels. In order to survive, the Dark Lord had been forced to wear a type of transpirator which covered his face below the nose. One standard month after the attack, Plagueis summoned Sidious to Aborah to reveal the true nature of his studies and experiments to his apprentice.
For the next twenty years, Damask lived an eremitic life in his laboratory, devoting all of his energy to the study of the midi-chlorians, while Palpatine devoted himself to the political machinations that the last stages of the Grand Plan entailed.
Additionally, Sidious began training his own apprentice, Darth Maul , under Plagueis's watchful eye. The Muun found the Dathomirian Zabrak to be useful to the Sith since he had been brought into Sidious' hands by his mother as a baby. At some point after Plagueis exclusively devoted himself to his studies circa 45 BBY by Luke Skywalker's estimate , he put some of his theories and experimental results on paper.
Darth Plagueis sought to understand the Force in a purely scientific context, doing away with the trappings of mysticism he believed the Jedi had corseted it with. He accepted the classification of the Force's aspects into three categories: the aperion equivalent to the Unifying Force , the anima equivalent to the Living Force , and the pneuma conscious thought as expressed in the Force.
His focus was midi-chlorians, which he believed benefited from a uniquely strong connection to all three aspects and could be used to master life and death. Apart from the extension and creation of life through midi-chlorians, Plagueis sought to explore such extreme and unusual applications as the direct manipulation of space-time and continuity of consciousness after death going as far as to discuss the essence transference technique.
He traveled to the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban , seeking contact with long-dead Sith, but found none in the tomb of Hakagram Graush or on the throne of Sorzus Syn. As he boarded his ship to leave the planet, however, he had a vision of the admonishing spirit of Marka Ragnos.
The long-dead Dark Lord challenged Plagueis's claim to the title, and railed against his plan to dismantle the traditions of Korriban, but offered no answers to any of the Muun's questions and inquiries.
After this experience, Plagueis remained unconvinced about the reality of life after death of the body. The manuscript also included his thoughts on the Mortis legend, in which section Plagueis claimed that creating the Chosen One—not to save the Jedi but to be an extension of his will—would be a trivial matter once he had mastered the art of manipulating the midi-chlorians.
The surviving manuscript concluded with Plagueis's interpretation of the Sith'ari prophecy as a description of his achievements, even though he rejected the concept of prophecy. He then resurrected him and killed him again, repeating the process until the Bith's organs gave out, and he finally died. Both Sidious and D were present. Sidious and Plagueis then entered a meditative trance and managed to tip the scales of balance in the favor of darkness.
Plagueis attempted to go one step further and attempted to create life by mentally reaching out to the inhabitants of the galaxy.
An act in direct violation of the nature of the Force, Plagueis and Sidious attempted to will a being of their own design into creation, pouring their malicious intent into waves through the Force to the countless midi-chlorians spread across the galaxy. The experiment did not yield fruit, however, as Plagueis perceived the Force growing silent to his probing.
Immediately afterwards, Plagueis's test subjects began to succumb to various diseases, and he set most of the survivors free; some of the animals he had experimented on adapted to the forests of Sojourn. Plagueis had developed a theory that the Force was actively opposed to the Sith's efforts, and he saw each setback in this light.
Darth Plagueis at some point after the assassination attempt, wearing his transpirator mask. They urged the Yinchorri, themselves new admissions to the Republic, into an aggressive war which concluded with multiple victories for the Sith plan. The Yinchorri, a race immune to mind tricks, were thought by Plagueis to be good potential hosts and trainers of a secret cloned army, which he planned to use to destroy the Jedi.
Though this would not ultimately be the case, the resolution of the Yinchorri Uprising still proved to be of great benefit. In terms of simple bloodshed, the conflict saw the deaths of seven Jedi; one of whom was a member of the Jedi Council. But of greater long-term value, the telepathic manipulative-immune Yinchorri were eliminated as a threat to the rise of the Sith by seeing them defeated and isolated to their own world.
A few hard facts are established in canonical sources. He was regarded by his former student as "The Wise" without a hint of irony. Additionally, though Palpatine claimed to have learned all Plagueis had to teach about the Force before murdering him, he later admitted to Anakin Skywalker Plagueis' power over life was lost. Some have speculated based on these hints and now-defunct Legendary material that Plagueis might have had a role in he inexplicable birth of Anakin Skywalker , though this is not a verified canonical perspective.
Darth Plagueis does not make any appearances throughout the current film canon, but is mentioned when Palpatine explains his story to Anakin Skywalker about how Darth Plagueis could save those he loved from death with his knowledge of midi-chlorian manipulation. Muun's are tall and thin humanoids with elongated bald heads. Darth Plagueis wore a dark cloak and a mechanical breathing apparatus after he was injured in an assasination attempt.
Darth Plagueis was born on the planet Mygeeto to his father Caar Damask, who worked as a mid-ranking agent for the Intergalactic Banking Clan. Tenebrous compelled a force-sensitive Muun female to seduce Caar and thus create a child strong in the force, Darth Plagueis. Growing up on Mygeeto young Hego knew from an early age that he was unique.
His mother would set him up on playdates with other younglings and then intensely grill him on his views of the other children. Hego's first major brush with the Dark Side came when he compelled a youngling he did not like to jump from a great height, resulting in the boy's death. Eventually Darth Tenebrous would come to claim Hego as his apprentice, cultivating his Force powers including the manipulation of midi-chlorians.
During his time under Darth Tenebrous, Plagueis established a powerful and influential banking corporation, Damask Holdings. Eventually Plagueis' and Tenebrous' travels would take them to the planet Bal'demnic, home of a rich deposit of Cortosis ore.
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