In Legends, the night before Darth Sidious was elected Chancellor of the Republic, he
and his master, Darth Plagueis, retired to Plagueis' penthouse on Coruscant to celebrate
Palpatine's imminent victory.
Having given his Sun Guards the evening off, the only other intelligence in the sprawling
apartment was Plagueis’ personal droid, one one four dee, who served half-century
old Sullustan wine to the two Sith Lords.
As Plagueis and his apprentice began drinking, Sidious complimented Plagueis for his part
in bringing the Sith Grand Plan that much closer to fruition, as the blockade and invasion
of Naboo would lead to Sidious’ almost certain victory in being named Chancellor, thus bringing
the Sith one step closer to toppling the Republic and Jedi.
Sidious explained to his Sith Master that he would endeavor to live up to Plagueis'
expectations and fulfill his responsibility in ensuring the Sith’s return to dominance
across the Galaxy.
At the request of Plagueis, Sidious then began to rehearse his victory speech he’d give
the following day to the senate, once elected chancellor of the Republic.
In his speech, Sidious planned to discuss how the Senate had managed to keep the Republic
intact for a millennia, but that the Senate couldn’t have accomplished that feat without
the help of a few beings, largely invisible to the public eye, beings whose accomplishments
needed to be brought to the light of day, such as Hego Damask II, which was Plagueis’
public name.
As the night wore on, Sidious continued working on his speech, amending and improvising lines
that needed it, while also removing controversial topics such as bringing up Plagueis’ relationship
with the Trade Federation.
The Sith apprentice continuously practiced his victory speech and reworked and refined
it, all while his Sith master imbibed more and more of the delicious Sullustan wine.
After one one four dee had brought out the fourth bottle of wine, Plagueis was pleasantly
intoxicated, having wanted nothing more than to revel in the sweet taste of victory, to
bask in the gratifying realization that, after decades of tireless work to see the Sith Grand
Plan come to fruition, the Sith were on the precipice of Galactic domination.
Exhausted by his collaborator’s performance and rehearsal of his speech, Plagueis wanted
nothing more than to close his eyes and drift into imaginings of his march into the Senate
Rotunda, to see the looks of astonishment on the faces of the gathered Senators, and
to delight in his ascension to galactic power from his long-awaited emergence from the shadows.
But unbeknownst to Plagueis, Sidious had other plans.
Seeking one final practice run of his speech, Sidious beckoned his master to join him one
last time before evening's end.
Plagueis consented, prompting Sidious to instruct one one four dee to fill their glasses with
more wine.
With a dreamy weariness beginning to overtake him, Plagueis struggled to lift the wine glass
to his face, before setting it down and spilling the fine libation.
Sidious then came to a halt and gazed at his master for a long moment, as though making
up his mind about something.
The Sith apprentice started for the door, but stopped himself, and began reaching out
with the Force and scanning the room, as though he sought to fix a memory in his mind.
Sidious then moved in a blur.
Crackling from his fingertips, a web of blue lightning lashed at Plagueis’ respirator,
prompting the Sith master’s eyes to snap open.
Although the Force gathered in him like a storm, Plagueis stopped short of defending
himself, confident that he could not be killed and seeking to challenge his apprentice.
Taken aback by his master’s denial that he was slowly suffocating, Sidious stood momentarily
still, before his resolve was restored and he drew upon the dark side more deeply, unleashing
another tangle of Force lightning.
Sidious then began to mock and scold his master, deriding him for manipulating a young Sidious
into killing his entire family, for withholding his most powerful of Sith secrets as a means
to control his apprentice, all while turning away from the Grand Plan to focus on an egotistical
quest for immortality.
Sidious continued levying insults at Plagueis, chiding his master for his derision towards
him for taking pride in the training he provided to the Sith Assassin, Maul.
As the Sith Master struggled to breathe, his apprentice reminded him that he failed to
realize that he was not excused from the Rule of Two, regardless of the fact that the Plagueis
had thought he superseded its tenants, and that he had forged the most powerful Sith
Lord the galaxy had ever known.
Clinging to life and working to gather his midi-chlorians, Plagueis fought to keep himself
alive as his apprentice continued to choke the life out of him.
Amused by the sight of his master and by the thought that Plagueis had lost on the very
first day he chose Sidious as his apprentice, the young noble from Naboo took the opportunity
to thoroughly disparage Plagueis, telling him that for the whole of their relationship,
the apprentice had ever manipulated the Master, playing him like a pawn.
And throughout the relentless derision, Sidious sent forth additional blasts of lightning,
causing the Muun immense pain as he slowly suffocated.
Strangely, but perhaps merely reflecting that early psycho-emotional conflict and trauma,
Sidious then expressed to the senior Sith his genuine gratitude for the teachings that
Plagueis had passed on to him Nearing death’s final embrace, Plagueis
listened helplessly as Sidious explained that he could save his Sith master from the brink
of death, just as Plagueis had done with Darth Venamis, and that he could retask Plagueis’
body to repair the damage done to his master’s lungs, heart, and brain
However, Sidious planned to do no such thing and would make sure to bring his master to
death’s door and shove him through the other side.
And in Plagueis’ final moments, Sidious proclaimed that it was such a tragedy that
for all of Plagueis’ wisdom and his ability to oversee the life and death of so many beings,
he failed to prevent his own death.
Sidious continued on and explained that just as he and Plagueis clouded the minds of the
Jedi, he had clouded the mind of his master, that he never had any intention of sharing
power with Plagueis, and that his Master was nothing more than a pawn in a game played
by a true Master.
And just before Plagueis slid to the floor and death rattled his lungs as he died, Sidious
told him he could rest easy, as the Sith will have had their revenge, and that his apprentice
would soon be proclaimed Emperor and would rule the galaxy.
As the stricken Darth Plagueis finally succumbed to death, Sidious felt a monumental shift
in the Force, which he interpreted as the dark side anointing him as the tool it would
use to take over the universe.
With Plagueis dead, Sidious then inform the droid, one one four dee, that he’d need
to find him a new home and a new body, as the first rays of sunlight gilded the summits
of the tallest buildings outside the penthouse windows.
Following the death of Plagueis and Palpatine’s successful election as the new Chancellor
of the Republic, the Dark Lord of the Sith’s first order of business as a Sith Master and
leader of the Republic was to travel to his homeworld of Naboo.
There, he congratulated Queen Padmé Amidala and her allies on their surprise victory over
the Trade Federation.
Shortly thereafter, he stood amongst Jedi such as Yoda, Mace Windu, and other Jedi Masters
and watched the funeral pyre for the fallen Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn.
As the Sith Master watched Jinn’s body reduced to ash, he watched with great pleasure knowing
that the Jedi was just the first casualty in a war that had been declared but not yet
begun.
One in which ten thousand Jedi would follow Qui-Gon to the grave.
And just as Plagueis, Sidious, and all of the Sith of the line of Darth Bane had planned
and foreseen, Darth Sidious would go on to successfully topple both the Republic and
Jedi, and, in their place, create the Galactic Empire and bring about Sith dominance across
the Galaxy.
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