Darth Plagueis was the Sith master of Darth Sidious before his rise to the position of
Chancellor of the Republic.
Plagueis was a very wealthy banker who went by the name Hego Damask, and was a member
of the one of the most powerful banking clans in the galaxy, Damask Holdings.
I’m going to break down how Darth Plagueis was almost assassinated by some of the most
skilled assassins in the galaxy, while attending a secret cult meeting for the rich and famous
people of the galaxy.
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So after many long years of performing business deals, lobbying politicians and doing very
dodgy things with his banking clan, Darth Plagueis was invited to watch one of his associates,
Larsh Hill, who was the father of San Hill from Revenge of the Sith, be invited to join
a secret cult of rich businessmen known as the Order of the Canted Circle.
Plagueis himself was invited to join the group many years prior, but declined the offer,
in fear of giving away his true Sith identity.
As they arrived at the secret cult meeting in an ancient tower near the political district
of Coruscant, something dark and chilling occurred.
I’ll read to you a page out of the Darth Plagueis novel which details exactly how Plagueis
was almost assassinated and barely held onto his life.
Just for a bit of extra context, 11-4D is Darth Plagueis' droid, who he is very fond
of, just like R2-D2 is to Anakin.
So here it is:
“From a series of arch-topped doorways lining the circumference of the room came the sounds
of solemn chanting as perhaps three dozen of the order’s black-robed members began
to file in and take their places along the perimeter of the Canted Circle.
Last to emerge was the high official, who wore a mask and carried the circular, emblematic
pendant draped over both hands, which he held as if in prayer.
Rituals of a similar sort had been enacted by the ancient Sith, Plagueis thought, as
Larsh Hill genuflected before the high official.
At the same instant Hill’s right knee touched the polished stone, a jangle of foreboding
laddered up Plagueis’s spine.
Turning ever so slightly, he saw that 11-4D had rotated its head toward him in a gesture
Plagueis had come to associate with alarm.
The dark side fell over him like a shroud, but instead of acting on impulse, he restrained
himself, fearful of betraying his true nature prematurely.
In that instant of hesitation, time came to a standstill, and several events happened
at once.
The high official gave a downward tug to the pendant he had placed around Hill’s neck,
and the old Muun’s head toppled from his shoulders and began to roll down the tipped
stage.
Wow, that’s gruesome.
Blood geysered from Hill’s neck, and his body fell to one side with a thud and began
to jerk back and forth as one after another of his hearts failed.
For those of you who don’t know, Muuns actually have three hearts, instead of one like a human
would have.
Yanking their hands from the roomy, opposite sleeves of their robes, the hooded members
of the order made sidelong throwing motions, which sent dozens of decapitator disks screaming
through the air.
Decapitator disks are disks made out of a very sharp and hard material, designed to
take a man's head off cleanly with a single throw.
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their way on to the big screen in a star wars movie.
Muuns to both sides of Plagueis fell to their knees, their last breaths caught in their
throats.
A disk buried deep in his forehead, one of the Sun Guards twirled in front of Plagueis
like a crazed marionette.
Blood fountained, turning to mist.
Struck in at least three places and leaking lubricant, 11-4D was trying to limp to Plagueis’s
side when another disk whirled into its alloy body, touching off a storm of sparks and smoke.
Plagueis pressed his right hand to the right side of his neck to discover that a disk had
made off with a considerable hunk of his jawbone and neck, and in its cruel passing had severed
his trachea and several blood vessels.
He cupped the Force against the injury to keep himself from lapsing into unconsciousness,
but he fell to the floor regardless, with blood pumping onto the already slick stone
circle.
Around him, slanted in his faltering vision, the assassins had drawn vibroblades from the
other sleeves of the robes and were beginning a methodical advance on the few Muuns who
were still standing.
A hail of bolts streaked from the blaster cradled in the arms of the remaining Sun Guard,
sweeping half a dozen hooded beings off the rim of the circle, before he himself was butchered.
Again wow, that’s… very dark.
Tricked, Plagueis thought, as pained by the realization as he was by the wound.
Outmaneuvered by a group of inferior beings who at least had had sense enough to place
artfulness above arrogance.”
When Palpatine heard the news of the shocking attack on his master, he rushed to the location
of the ritual to rescue him.
As soon as Palpatine arrived on the scene, he dropped to his knees to check if his master
was still alive.
Once he confirmed that Plagueis was barely holding onto his life, he took the lightsaber
off his master’s belt, and began to use it to slaughter every single person keeping
watch of the building, who were involved in the assasination attempt.
Palpatine absolutely destroyed all of the guards, shredding their chests open and taking
their heads off.
As I said, this book is absolutely brutal.
After killing everyone inside of the building, Sidious took his master to safety, knowing
that the Jedi would soon be arriving, because of the huge spike in Dark Side energy coming
from the top floor of the building.The huge amount of death and bloodshed was sure to
alert the Jedi, who at this point in the timeline, did not have their vision clouded by the Sith
Shrine under the Jedi temple.The huge amount of death and bloodshed was sure to alert the
Jedi, who at this point in the timeline, did not have their vision clouded by the Sith
Shrine under the Jedi temple.
After the incident, Plagueis was forced to wear a transpirator mask for the rest of his
life, as a huge part of his trachea and jawbone were now missing.
The transpirator made it difficult for Plagueis to breathe, and made his voice sound similar
to Darth Vader’s, but not altered as much as his.
So that is exactly how Plagueis lost his jaw and was almost assasinted while attending
a cult meeting.
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