I know there are a lot of theories floating around about Supreme Leader Snoke being people
we’ve seen in the movies or a certain Sith Lord mentioned in Revenge of the Sith.
I want to put forward the idea of Snoke being a new character who might be inspired by a
Sith Lord from the Legends canon.
No— He’s still not Darth Plagueis.
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I was checking Google for images of Supreme Leader Snoke last night when I stumbled onto
this article over at starwarsnews.net that was a speculation piece on What Snoke is really
up to in the new Star Wars saga.
The writer put forward this idea that Supreme Leader Snoke could be an extremely old being
who has mastered the more arcane aspects of the Force.
In Star Wars—people who deal with sorcery and the arcane secrets or “unnatural”
parts of the Force are usually drawn to the darkside.
Because Snoke’s mummified appearance is very similar to the scarring that Anakin has
when Luke removes his helmet, this article puts forward the idea that Snoke has taken
on some of Anakin’s appearance because he has absorbed some of Anakin’s residual Force
energy from the Vader helmet.
The article alleges that Snoke’s real ambitions are to train Kylo Ren to become more powerful
so that Snoke can absorb the Force from Kylo Ren and eventually from Luke Skywalker.
According to the article— the writer believes that Snoke’s general lack of interest in
the destruction of Starkiller Base gives some credibility to the thought that Snoke has
some ulterior motive for leading the First Order against the New Republic.
Now, I’m not at all familiar with Harry Potter, but the person who wrote this article
stated that they had a problem with their own theory because it sounds too similar to
what Voldemort was attempting in the Harry Potter movies.
Like I said— I’m not into Harry Potter, but this idea of Sith Lords who “eat”
the Force is not something new.
In the sequel to Knights of the Old Republic, The Sith Lords, there was a member of the
Sith Triumvirate, Darth Nihilus, who could literally drain the Force from entire planets.
The man who became Nihilus went through a traumatic experience after he watched everyone
die on Malachor V after Revan’s forces set off the Mass Shadow Generator to end the Mandalorian
Wars.
Think of Darth Nihilus as like a person who survived a hydrogen bomb explosion, but in
the process they see everything and everyone they knew get nuked into ashes.
While I’m on the topic of Malachor V, I should mention that “The Great Scourge of
Malachor” is canon.
Right now we don’t actually know if the Great Scourge of Malachor refers to what happened
in the Mandalorian War.
If it does, then this could potentially bring Revan into the canon.
Kylo Ren’s crossguard lightsaber is actually based on an ancient lightsaber design that
dates back thousands of years to the Great Scourge of Malachor.
In the Rebels midseason trailer, we saw a clip of Ezra with a stable version of a cross
guard lightsaber.
Some of you have pointed out that Kylo Ren has the cross guard lightsaber because of
the cracked kyber crystal.
I will agree that Kylo Ren went with that design because of the need to vent the quillons
from the unstable blade, but I think that someone recommended that design to him because
of his cracked kyber crystal.
Since this kind of lightsaber may not have been seen since the time of the Old Republic,
I think that only a person who lived during that time could have given Kylo Ren the design
to build that kind of a lightsaber—unless it was Ezra who later gives the designs to
Ben Solo.
Some of you don’t seem to like the thought that Ezra could have played a part in starting
the Knights of Ren, so we’ll discuss that topic in another video after season 2 of Rebels
ends.
Let’s take another look at that image of Ezra with the cross guard lightsaber.
Do you notice that weird statue to the right of Ezra?
What if the Rebels have travelled to Malachor, that statute was person, and whatever happened
to them was caused by the Great Scourge of Malachor?
If all of those conditions are met, then it is not much of a stretch to assume that someone
possibly survived this event.
The trauma could leave that person twisted and broken so that they literally become “a
wound in the Force.”
That’s what happens to Darth Nihilus.
He goes on to join Darth Traya’s Academy where she teaches him how to devour entire
planets by draining the Force from them, and he eventually becomes a Sith Lord alongside
Darth Traya and Darth Sion.
I’m not saying that Snoke is Darth Nihilus, though.
What I am saying is that based on what we were presented in that article, Snoke could
be this being who feeds on the Force.
In the video game canon, which is part of the Legend’s canon, there are dark side
abilities like Force drain or Life drain.
Some Sith Lords like Darth Nihilus and Emperor Vitiate have performed those abilities on
a much larger scale.
To further support this— this life drain or Force drain ability has made it into the
canon— in “Aftermath” it is mentioned that some Sith Lords could drain the Force
energy from their captives?
They could siphon life from them and using it to strengthen their connection to the dark
side.
They could extend their own lives, so that they could live for centuries beyond their
normal life expectancy.
I think that it would not be too difficult to take the origin story for Darth Nihilus
and apply it to Snoke.
We already have some event called the Scourge of Malachor, and Kylo Ren’s lightsaber ties
us to that event—so someone knows something about Malachor, or they were there.
Snoke could be this completely original character who was at Malachor.
Somehow through those events, Snoke manages to preserve his life and live for the next
4000 years— that’s if we’re dating the Scourge of Malachor back to roughly 4000 years
before Yavin.
Now Kristian Harloff over on the Jedi Council has a problem with Snoke being a new character
because it raises the issue of where has this powerful dark side user been all this time
who flies under the radar.
To answer that question, I’m going to have to fall back on my Taoist Neigong training.
If you’re like at say a level 20, you can only detect people at your level and below.
Someone who is a level 25 would go unnoticed.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about—just think about it like some MMO games.
If something cons grey to you, you probably won’t draw aggro unless you do something
to provoke them.
It’s possible that Snoke has been in the Unknown Regions or Wild Space studying the
Dark Side of the Force this entire time.
In the new canon, we are being presented with other kinds Force users and religions based
on the Force outside of the Jedi or the Sith.
We have Mother Talzin and the Nightsisters on Dathomir who use dark side magick.
You have the Lasan people who follow the Ashla— in the Legends canon, the Ashla is a name
for the Light side of the Force.
So if you have the Ashla, then it is possible that there are people out there who worship
the Bogan— which refers to the dark side of the Force.
Originally the first Jedi believed in balancing the Ashla and the Bogan—so they were concerned
about people being too light or too dark.
There may still be groups in the galaxy who serve both or neither— the Acolytes of the
Abyss could be one of those groups seeking to balance the Force.
It’s possible that Snoke is not a Sith at all, but he came out of one of these groups
who serve the Bogan.
I’ve been debating on doing a video on this topic, but the Ashla and the Bogan are from
the Dawn of the Jedi comic books about when the people who become the first Jedi first
come to Tython.
Since I mentioned people serving the Bogan—there are also people non-Force sensitive people
who worship the Sith’s philosophy on the Dark Side of the Force.
Palpatine’s advisor, Yupe Tashu, is one of those people.
He’s not strong with the Force, but he followed the Sith philosophy.
As a matter of fact, it was Yupe Tashu who presented the idea of the Empire retreating
into Wild Space beyond the known maps and hyper routes to seek out the source of the
dark side.
See, Tashu told a group of high ranking officers and offs that Palpatine believed the source
of his power came from beyond the edges of the known maps.
So to answer the question of how Snoke could fly under the radar all this time— it’s
possible that Palpatine sensed a strong dark side presence in the unexplored regions of
space, but he could not locate that source because he was busy running an Empire and
later fighting a Rebellion.
Could it be that this presence is actually Darth Plagueis?
It’s possible, but I doubt it.
We have no idea how long Palpatine was sensing that presence.
It is possible that even his Master, Darth Plagueis, passed that knowledge on to Palpatine.
If you’ve been following everything from the new canon, all indications are pointing
to Plagueis being dead.
I know some people like to think that Palpatine was just lying to Anakin to manipulate him;
I think there was a bit of manipulation during the scene in the opera in Revenge of
the Sith.
So let’s go back over everything to sum this up, because I’ve done a lot of talking.
Snoke could be this completely new character who has a similar backstory as Darth Nihilus.
Somehow he’s been in the unexplored regions of space using the dark side of the Force
to extend his life.
When the Remnants of the Empire retreat into the Unknown Regions, the encounter Snoke who
is elevated to Emperor status.
Snoke is serving as Leader of the First Order who want to reestablish the Empire, but his
main objective is to become the most powerful force user in the galaxy by draining the Force
from Kylo Ren and defeating Luke Skywalker.
This isn’t me presenting a theory of what’s going to happen in Episodes 8 or 9.
I’m just giving you something to chew on so that you can come up with your own theory.
So with all that being said— I’d like to hear from you all.
What do you think about Snoke being like this new version of Darth Nihilus?
Do you think that Snoke is only using Kylo Ren so that he can use a Force Draining ability
to become more powerful?
Let me know your thoughts down in the comment section below.
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