when we first encountered Count Dooku and Attack of the Clones
it might be hard to remember but up until then he had already trained and
served under Darth Sidious as his Sith apprentice for 10 years even before
Count Dooku began his Dark Descent he was considered one of the most powerful
and revered Jedi in the order so how did Sidious turn him and instruct an
apprentice who is already a master of the force and given that Sidious was
actually the Republic Supreme Chancellor and couldn't just disappear for days at
a time where did the two Sith meet to train and plan their next moves as I'm
sure many of you have already guessed I'm going to attempt to shine some light
on those questions by reading from another passage in James Luciano's
labyrinth of evil the legends prequel book to Revenge of
the Sith now at this particular juncture in the story Dooku has returned to
coarsened in secret to a place where bodies go to disappear a mostly
abandoned and burned-out industrial district known as the works the entire
sector might have been demolished if it could have been determined here's the
excerpt from the novel and then we can talk about it the entire sector might
have been demolished if it could be determined with any certainty just who
owned what rumors persisted that hired assassins and crime syndicates had
buried so many bodies in the works that it should be considered a cemetery and
yet Dooku loved the place the antithesis of his native Serrano the works was very
much a home away from home for the human who had earned the title Darth Tyranus
one structure in particular column R and shape round-topped propped by angular
ramparts rising from the defiled core of the works like a stake driven into its
heart strong in the dark side made so by Darth Sidious the building had been the
place of Dooku's apprenticeship just as it had served as a training ground for
Darth Maul before Dooku and who knew who or how many other sit disciples before
Maul during the ten years preceding the outbreak of the war when Count Dooku of
Serenno was believed to have been peddling his separatist agenda to
disenfranchised worlds in the mid and outer rims he had in fact spent long
periods of time in works coming and going at will or as required of him
by darth sidious even in the three years since he had been able to visit
coarsened without fear of detection thanks in part to unique countermeasures
the Janoskians had engineered into his interstellar sloop Dooku surveyed the
docking bay with a certain fondness recalling the years he had spent under
cities as tutelage learning the ways of the Sith practicing the dark arts
perfecting himself mastering evil Yoda would have said the problem was partly
semantic in that the Jedi Order had seen to it that the dark side of the force
had become equated with evil but was shade more evil than stark sunlight
recognizing that the dark side was on the ascendant the Jedi in service to the
force should have known enough to embrace it
to ally themselves with it after all it was all a matter of balance and if the
preservation of balance required the dark side to be on top then so be it
with Dooku Sidious hadn't had to waste precious hours on lightsaber technique
nor on ridding Dooku of ill habits born of a lifetime spent in the Jedi Temple
for Dooku had long before rid himself of those instead cities had focused on
giving Dooku what had amounted to a crash course in tapping into the power
of the dark side a mere taste of which had proved intoxicating enough to
convince Dooku that no course was left open to him but to abandon the order
more that his entire life had been preparation for his apprenticeship to
Sidious that at long last he had found a true mentor the Sith son no need to take
on only young disciples the way they often did sometimes the training went
smoother with disciples who had lived long enough to grow disillusioned or
angry or vengeful the Jedi by contrast were shackled by compassion their
penchant for showing mercy for granting forgiveness for heeding the dictates of
conscience prevented them from giving themselves over to the dark side from
becoming as a force of nature itself they are normally strong and quick
capable of conjuring Sith Lightning of exterior izing rage all without the need
for the magic hand passes the Jedi were so fond of employing the Sith understood
that the elitism and mobster ism of the Republic could be ended only by bringing
the diverse beings of the galaxy under the control of a single hand
the galaxy could only be saved from itself by the imposition of order what
fools the Jedi were to not see it lined to their own downfall the coming of
their end time what fools now it might be a bit harsh to call the Jedi fooled
but I mean well maybe either way he was right they were blind to their downfall
they were definitely shackled by all of their rules no compassion no attachments
this and that a downfall that began the moment he embraced the dark side
for Dooku that is and that's really all it had taken a mere taste it's all he
needed to convince him to abandon the light and the Jedi I wonder if the Sith
could have been training their apprentices in the works right under the
Jedi's noses for thousands of years maybe the works history with the Sith is
even older than that much older but I'm curious who those other disciples that
City is trained could have been if there weren't maybe him and plague his train
there did you know that Plagueis had seven other potential apprentices
throughout the galaxy I've covered that in another video
what do you guys think of Dooku's view about the force that the dark side is a
literal force of nature and thus can't be any more evil or good than the light
is the dark side really evil or is its power so intoxicating that it's the evil
within its practitioners that causes evil things could there be and herein
lies the theory who is so incorruptible that they can use the dark side for good
also was Dooku right could there be balanced with the dark side on top why
does it have to be the light and if so did Anakin bring the force into balance
twice first to the dark then to the light I thought it was also interesting
that Dooku received a crash course in to the power of the dark side now in many
ways that was the nature of how Luke Skywalker was trained to in the light a
crash course to become a Jedi if a being is sufficiently powerful enough in the
force they can ascend through more unorthodox means it seems so it kind of
makes me wonder just how powerful Dooku would have become via trained under
Sidious from the very start hope you enjoyed this video
catch you in the next one thanks for watching and until then remember the
force will be with you always
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