hey guys how are you doing today so since episode 3 Revenge of the Sith the
ability to cheat death has been a power that the Sith had wanted to achieve and
we know that Palpatine wanted to live forever and Vader wanted to bring Padme
back from the dead the perfect triangle other Sith Lords in the new Canon like
Darth momen relied on something called essence transfer this was the dark side
ability to place a portion of your soul in an object so that even after you died
part of you would live on in this way you could influence somebody who has a
body during the present time to do your bidding and hopefully allow you to be
resurrected by possessing them it's very similar to Voldemort some journal in the
second Harry Potter and the rest of the Horcruxes from Harry Potter as Voldemort
tries to come back from the dead shout out to my Harry Potter theory
channel you can find that link down below Darth Plagueis knew all about
essence transfer and he despised it I mean just look how difficult it made
Baltimore's life essence transfer was Plagueis his definition of simple tricks
and nonsense and he believed it was a mere facili of what could actually be
achieved through true power and mastery of the dark side of the force
his goal was simply to live forever not as some unembodied being or as a spirit
within an object or an essence within the air but as himself he did not intend
to lie his body down when death knocked on the door his goal was to manipulate
the midi-chlorians to keep his cells alive fresh and young in the legends
book Darth Plagueis he explains his entire reasoning for not wanting to do
essence transfer and how he was trying to come to discover the secrets of how
did she death after plague has killed his master he was just beginning to
learn about the potential of the midi-chlorians and keeping others alive
in his search for immortality initially he hoped that the recent growth of his
powers after his master's death had meant that his midi-chlorian count would
increase but he was disappointed to learn that it had not after a blood test
it seems like a no-brainer but what the plague is actually know about
midi-chlorians at this point well galaxy research had long ago
established that blood transfusions from force sensitive individuals did not
confer force powers to recipients though blood with a high medical
encounter could grant temporary strength and resiliency so that's cool to know
experiments in absolute transfusion had gone horribly awry for recipients
suggesting to some that the force exact to the toll on those who attempted to
tamper with it and individuals midi-chlorians seemed to know to whom
they belonged and became unresponsive outside their dedicated vessel so
Plagueis wouldn't be able to physically admitted chlorines to his blood that
options out it's here that the book explains how the midi-chlorians worked
in his quest to extend the life of others while midi-chlorians appeared to
resist manipulation of a sort that might impair all the balance of the force they
remain passive even compliance in the case of a weak-willed being manipulated
by one who was strong in the force perhaps that explained why it was often
easier to call on the force to heal someone other than oneself extending
life then could hinge on something as simple as being able to induce
midi-chlorians to create new cells to subdivide at will increasing their
numbers into the tens of thousands to heal or replace damaged aging or
metastatic cells midi-chlorians have to be compelled to
serve the need of the body to bestow strength when needed to overcome
physical insult or prevent cells from reaching senescence if one accepted the
tales handed down in accounts and holocrons the ancient Sith had known how
to accomplish this but had sipped like nagasato and Exar Kun genuinely been
more powerful or had they benefited from the fact that the darkside had been more
prominent in those bygone eras some commentators claimed that the ability to
survive death had been limited to those with a talent for sorcery and alchemy
and that the use of such practices actually predated Dark Jedi but Plagueis
knew that this Sith sorcery had been employed less to extend life than to
create illusions fashioned beasts and resurrect the dead Darth Bane's
disciples however believed that he had experimented with the technique of even
greater significance that of esses transfer which involved the relocation
of an individual's consciousness into another body
in some cases a talisman temple or sarcophagus thus had the most powerful
of the ancient Sith Lord survived death to haunt and harass those who would
infiltrate their tombs but none of this amounted to corporal real survival which
is what Plagueis wanted Plagueis had no interest in being a lingering
disembodied presence trapped between worlds and powerless to affect the
material realm except through the actions of weak minded beings he could
coax into action nor did he seek to shunt his mind into the body of another
or some VAT grown clone as Emperor Palpatine would do years later in
legends and in cannon nothing less than the immortality of his body and mind
would suffice everlasting life sadly Plagueis could glean only so much from
the Sith holocrons and crucial knowledge that had been lost during the brief
mastery of Darth gravid who actually destroyed tons of SIF knowledge when he
tried to combine Sith and Jedi teachings that action set thus its grand plan back
centuries Plagueis could feel the shift in the force though and knew that the
hurricane of the power of the dark side was near and would be his to control so
in a nutshell it seems that Darth Plagueis wanted to go big or go home
he knew that essence transfer was really lame and it would subject him to the
whims of someone else darth moment tried to trick vader to resurrect him
but when vader realized what was actually happening he destroyed Darth
moment for good on a side note the story of Darth momen is from the Canon Vader
comics while the rest of this Darth Plagueis stuff is from legends but it's
still a good example of why Plagueis didn't want to do essence transfer now
being a Sith ments you know being in control and if you had to depend on
someone else's life to live then really you're not in control
but if Plagueis could influence the midi-chlorians to keep his cells
regenerating constantly and alive then you would need no
this is why he wanted immortality because then he would have mastery over
even the force it makes sense to me and I'm sure Lord moment would agree with
him as well what do you guys think would you try essence transfer and take the
risk or would you take the greater risk and go for gold and immortality it
really makes you realize that Plagueis had he seen his apprentices fall no pun
intended he would have been disgusted and he would have laughed at Palpatine's
failed clone i think the knowledge from the book that i've explained in this
video hopefully reaches many because it explains so much into the mind of
Plagueis and how he was so different and vastly superior mentally at least than
his apprentice Darth Sidious but in the end it was the wine that made him sleepy
and Sidious had the final attack but not the last laugh hope you guys enjoyed
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