Sith question
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:30 pm
So in one of the prequels, Yoda says of the Sith "Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice."
Is this really meant to be taken completely literally? When I heard it, I figured it meant that Sith work in pairs - like says "Careful of that cop. There are always two, a cop and a partner."
But I gather that there really are just two Sith at any given time in the whole galaxy? That seem very odd to me... there were dozens if not hundreds of Jedi, it seems like the Sith are setting themselves up as permanent underdogs?
And if it is true, that would mean that the Jedi would tend to send only the best Jedi after a Sith, right? I mean, if it was your choice (and of course it often won't be), you don't send some newly graduated bottom-of-his-class type Jedi, you send your top brass.
So typically, as far as inexperienced Jedi are concerned, Sith aren't really something they're likely to have to deal with, yes? They're off doing... whatever else it is Jedi do, arbitrate trade disputes or whatever. Is that so?
Connected to that, are there "sub-Sith" ranks out there waiting to be promoted to Sith?
What I mean is, Maul gets chopped in half in Phantom Menace. So does Palpatine have to start from scratch... it must take months to recruit an apprentice, surely, so is there only one Sith for a while, in defiance of Yoda's claim? Or do Sith generally have a list of people who want to become a Sith, or at least whom they consider likely candidates that they can set out to recruit straight away?
See I had a story idea rolling around my head, and it was going to be about a young Jedi who was sent out to tackle a bad guy. I figured the bad guy would be a similar kind of deal to him, young, inexperienced, etc. But it seems like you couldn't do that story as the Jedi would never send an inexperienced person after a Sith. So I was wondering if there was some kind of "sub Sith" rank that a young Jedi might take on.
Or is there something not a Sith but like a Sith, that would be a serious opponent for a Jedi but who would be more numerous?
I really don't know Star Wars outside the movies, so a little info would be appreciated.
Is this really meant to be taken completely literally? When I heard it, I figured it meant that Sith work in pairs - like says "Careful of that cop. There are always two, a cop and a partner."
But I gather that there really are just two Sith at any given time in the whole galaxy? That seem very odd to me... there were dozens if not hundreds of Jedi, it seems like the Sith are setting themselves up as permanent underdogs?
And if it is true, that would mean that the Jedi would tend to send only the best Jedi after a Sith, right? I mean, if it was your choice (and of course it often won't be), you don't send some newly graduated bottom-of-his-class type Jedi, you send your top brass.
So typically, as far as inexperienced Jedi are concerned, Sith aren't really something they're likely to have to deal with, yes? They're off doing... whatever else it is Jedi do, arbitrate trade disputes or whatever. Is that so?
Connected to that, are there "sub-Sith" ranks out there waiting to be promoted to Sith?
What I mean is, Maul gets chopped in half in Phantom Menace. So does Palpatine have to start from scratch... it must take months to recruit an apprentice, surely, so is there only one Sith for a while, in defiance of Yoda's claim? Or do Sith generally have a list of people who want to become a Sith, or at least whom they consider likely candidates that they can set out to recruit straight away?
See I had a story idea rolling around my head, and it was going to be about a young Jedi who was sent out to tackle a bad guy. I figured the bad guy would be a similar kind of deal to him, young, inexperienced, etc. But it seems like you couldn't do that story as the Jedi would never send an inexperienced person after a Sith. So I was wondering if there was some kind of "sub Sith" rank that a young Jedi might take on.
Or is there something not a Sith but like a Sith, that would be a serious opponent for a Jedi but who would be more numerous?
I really don't know Star Wars outside the movies, so a little info would be appreciated.