After taking the reign as Palaptine’s new Sith apprentice Darth Tyrannus or Count Dooku
began training many dark disciples of his own and teaching them in the ways of the dark
side.
These included Asajj Ventress, Savage Opress and even Quinlan Vos himself near the end
of the Clone Wars…
But what did Palpatine think about Dooku taking all of these acolytes under his teachings?
Well we now know exactly what he thought with words directly from his mouth…
So lets break it down!
So Lucasfilm recently released a book called Secrets of the Sith, which is basically the
personal Journal of Palpatine, where he collected his thoughts about everything from the rule
of two, the force dyad, his apprentices and even his cloning.
The following entry contains his thoughts on Darth Tyranus’ apprentices and why each
of them had to be swiftly eliminated... so I’ll read that for you now:
Darth Tyranus took on many students despite the Sith’s Rule of Two.
He believed me unaware of his desire to usurp my power and position.
But such ambition does not go unnoticed by a Sith Master- nor does it go unpunished.
Though Dooku trained his students well, none would rise to join the ranks of the true Sith.
Of that, I would make certain.
After that, he goes on to deliver his thoughts about the swift and deadly asajj Ventress,
realizing that she was probably Dooku’s best ever trainee and probably posed the biggest
threat to him out of any of them.
He says: Asajj Ventress.
Dooku’s first disciple was perhaps his most impressive.
Sold into slavery as a child, this Dathomirian found her way into the care of an accursed
Jedi Knight.
She trained as his apprentice, but her master’s death drove her to the dark side.
This led her to Darth Tyrannus.
Though Asajj Ventress proved a formidable assassin, I sensed the dark power growing
within her could be used against me.
And so, I ordered Tyranus to kill Ventress - but the girl escaped with her life…
She spent most of her remaining days seeking revenge against her former master.
So right there we see that Palpatine even has some very small amount of Respect for
ventress, certainly enough to consider her a threat and order her assassination during
the Clone Wars.
The master that Palpatine is of course referring to here is Ky Narec, the man who trained Ventress
before his death which eventually pushed her to the Dark Side.
Now after that, Palpatine moves onto his thoughts about Savage Oppress.
He says: Savage Oppress.
The Next disciple of Lord Tyranus was the brother of my own fallen apprentice Darth
Maul.
Savage opress first allied with Tyranus as part of a scheme of vengeance concocted by
Asajj Ventress.
But Opress’ rage proved too strong to be contained.
He betrayed both Ventress and Tyranus, joining forces with Maul instead.
Steered in secret by Mother TAlzin, the brothers believed themselves capable of overthrowing
my reign and supplanting the Sith Order.
It was a delusion I dispelled single-handedly when I defeated them in combat, slaying Opress
in the process.
And this is of course referring to their battle on Mandalore, where Palpatine absolutely demolished
the two brothers, quickly killing savage and capturing Maul, imprisoning him in the galaxy’s
toughest prison on Stygeon Prime, called the Spire.
If you want to see how he escaped from that Prison, you can check the pinned comment below
where I have full video covering the Son of Dathomir comic.
It’s an awesome story!
Now moving on from that, Palpatine gives his thoughts on the final of Dooku’s disciples,
Quinlan Vos, The Legendary user of force psychometry and survivor of Order 66.
Palpatine goes on to say: Quinlan Vos.
Darth Tyranus found his final apprentice in the unconventional Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos.
on a clandestine mission to assassinate tyranus, Vos forged an alliance with Asajj Ventress,
and the two became romantically entwined.
Vos was captured and turned to the Dark Side by Lord Tyranus, becoming his dark disciple.
It was a fate that Ventress could not accept.
She gave her own life to help Vos escape her former master’s influence.
How fitting that the Death of Lord Tyranus’ first apprentice would lead to the loss of
his last.
And this is referring to the novel Dark Disciple, where Ventress is forced to jump in front
of Count Dooku’s lightning to save Quinlan Vos’ life, putting an end to her own.
Sadly at this point she is then buried on Dathomir…
We know how Dathomir Witches can technically come back to life in an undead state, but
I doubt something like this would work for Ventress to bring her back…
So let me know if you enjoyed hearing words directly from Palpatine’s mouth and I’ll
cover more content from his diary.
Thanks so much for watching, I really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!