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Good is a Point of View…or is it?

When I think of the word “good” I think of justice and triumph over evil.

Well, apparently when Chancellor Palpatine thinks of the word, he imagines absolute power and a Galaxy belonging to him.

The scene this post refers to takes place in Episode III Revenge of the Sith.

The setting is at the Galaxies Opera House, one of Palpatine’s favorite venues.

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Anakin meets the Chancellor here and thus continues to be corrupted by Palpatine’s propagandist ways.

This brings me to my point.

You see, during this little meeting, the Chancellor and Anakin discuss the Jedi, the Dark Side and even Darth Sidious’ Master, Darth Plagueis.

Palpatine tells Anakin that “All who gain power, are afraid to lose it, even the Jedi”.

Anakin then goes on to defend the Jedi Order saying “The Jedi use their power for good”.

The next line in the conversation is where Palpatine shows his true colors.

His retort to Anakin’s comment is “Good is a point of view Anakin”.

Now to dissect Palpatine’s words is not too difficult. In fact in doing so allows us to see who this man is quite freely.

Normally a man of secrecy, Chancellor Palpatine shows us what he really represents…and it’s not pretty.

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You see, when it comes to getting what he wants, Palpatine will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

Whether it’s the cold blooded murder of a billion lives on an innocent unsuspecting planet (Alderaan) or the “conform or die” attitude the Empire displays.

This is what he means when he refers to good as a point of view.

In the mind of Palpatine, good means “do anything necessary to get what you want”.

To understand Palpatine’s new order and new Empire, it’s very important to understand this.

Just think about it, do you really think this man thinks it’s a “good” thing to take over the entire Galaxy by force practically enslaving everyone not named Palpatine? Of course not.

He’s a nobleman who is well educated and lived a life of public servitude as a politician.

The irony in it all is that the Jedi Order had it all in front of them the whole time.

If they only trusted Anakin as well as their own intuition, they would have sniffed out the corrupt Republic leader’s plot to overthrow the Jedi and save the Galaxy and all its inhabitants.

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As I write this, another thought comes to mind…

What if Palpatine was right when he was talking about the Jedi?

If you recall back to the duel between Sidious and Mace Windu, as the Jedi Master’s blade is at the Dark Lord’s throat, the Sith says to Anakin “The Jedi are taking over!”

Yes, they were taking over to ensure a safe transition to peace for the Republic, but does it really matter?

Was this scene foreshadowed by Palpatine’s statement of “good is a point of view?”

I think so.

It sounds hard to believe but hear me out.

What if Mace Windu killed Palpatine, returned to the Jedi Council and said it’s their time to take over.

Now let’s say, three months down the line, the Jedi are still holding the peace as they’re reigning over the Republic.

Why would they ever give it up? Would they really trust an independent politician for the post? Perhaps they would choose Senator Bail Organa.

Now here’s the problem.

If they did choose Organa, don’t you think he’d basically be a figurehead? Would the Jedi really let him be?

I doubt it.

I think they’re too bold and intricate to allow someone else to make their own decisions out of the fear (and paranoia) of another “bad egg” to come along.

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This is why I think what Palpatine said to Anakin in that suite at the opera house has a bigger meaning than just the Sith.

I believe that scene is designed to let the audience in on a little hint, no one is safe from the distinction of good or bad.

After all, a taste of power does funny things to even the most honorable individuals…

-Sith Pacify out

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Why the Emperor is the Ultimate Star Wars character

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Chancellor Palpatine, Darth Sidious or the Emperor it matters not what you call him, he is the greatest character throughout Star Wars.

A master in so many facets of life, Darth Sidious is also as good as it gets when it comes to the mastery of the Dark Side.

Follow me as I detail the life of Palpatine and his path to the overlord of the galaxy.

Early Life

Born as Sheev Palpatine to an aristocratic family on Naboo, he was always an oddball who stayed away from other kids.

He continued to live a life of luxury and nobility as a young teenager but was never concerned with material things except rare artifacts.

Rare Sith artifacts to be exact…

The best way to describe the adolescent Palpatine is indifferent. He was very often on his own and consumed by thought as if his mind was always wandering, planning for something.

It wasn’t until he met Hego Damask who of course would later reveal himself to Palpatine as the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis.

Palpatine’s relationship with his family, especially his father, was already strained to begin with but now that he had a mentor in Plagueis, things began to deteriorate further.

The breaking point finally took place when Palpatine’s father sent him away to Chandrila in hopes to break his forming bond with Damask.

However, Palpatine severely fought this and inevitably ended up murdering his mother, father and siblings as he, for the first time, called upon the Dark Side

This would begin his twisted path of evil.

Living the Double Life

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Shortly after murdering his family, Palpatine began his apprenticeship under Darth Plagueis and was thus given the title, Darth Sidious.

Living a double life, Palpatine entered politics and started his ascension to what would be a lengthy and fruitful political career.

Hego Damask was one of if not the most wealthy and influential individuals in the galaxy.

Through Damask’s status and reputation, it was Palpatine who reaped the benefits as the two planned and pooled their resources in order to attain the right path in which the duo desired.

Palpatine and Plagueis devised a strategy in which they planned on ruling the entire galaxy as Palpatine being the Chancellor and the face of their partnership as Plagueis would be the one pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Separate Ways

What makes Palpatine so great is he does what he wants, no matter what the circumstances.

Subsequently after Chancellor Valorum’s uncanny timing of being ousted from the Chancellorship, Palpatine is nominated and eventually chosen as Valorum’s successor.

Later that same night, as Plagueis and Palpatine get together to celebrate their plans coming to fruition, Palpatine decided this was the perfect time to end his partnership with his master.

Palpatine allowed Plagueis, who was celebrating their victory through drinking wine, to get inebriated.

As Plagueis was drifting into a deeper incapacitated state, Sidious began to mercilessly attack him with his force lightning.

But he didn’t stop there. No in fact Darth Sidious began toying with Plagueis, allowing him to regain his ground and then ‘zap him again.

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On his Own

As Palpatine slowly began to realize that he could carry out the Grand Plan by himself, it was only a matter of time till Palpatine forever silenced his master.

After that point, Chancellor Palpatine slowly pressed the Republic into a state of fear and paranoia allowing him to gradually strip the freedoms of the people and further cement himself as a force and eventual Emperor.

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Why is he the Greatest?

Sidious is the master of all manipulation…ever! The mix of his intelligence, his perseverance and vision are nothing short of prophetic.

His plans for himself played out almost exactly to his intentions.

We’re not talking about some small thing coming true here. No, we’re talking about a man who had aspirations to reach the pinnacle of leadership and twist and contort that seat of power into something much more dark and twisted…and achieve it!

I just love his attitude through it all.

He doesn’t fear anyone or anything. He knows he is going to succeed because it’s going to happen, what he wants to occur, will.

It’s as simple as that.

He was a leech in the side of justice that continued to fatten itself off of the trust and benevolence of others until his power was so great, that everyone, one way or another, paid in blood.

That was the Emperor, a man fashioned from pure evil itself, thrust into everyday society, with hell to pay.

But his power doesn’t just stand on ceremony and titles, no not at all.

I think it’s safe to say that Darth Sidious is the most powerful Sith Lord of all time as well.

His adeptness in the force was so insanely powerful, he didn’t even need physical advantages at all and yet, he still had the advantage!

In fact, it’s nothing short of mind-numbingly incredible the way he fights Darth Maul and Savage Opress in the Clone Wars show as well as Yoda in Revenge of the Sith. 

His abilities to use the force to augment his body, gave him superhuman strength.

The likes of which were fed through his Dark Side power supply thus making him an opposing force physically.

In the end, the Emperor had it all going for him.

The one thing he could not crack was a father-son bond that unavoidably sentenced the Emperor to his doom.

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-Sith Pacify out

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Why we are so Intrigued by Kamino

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There are many worlds in Star Wars that are interesting, but not many are like Kamino.

It is as riveting as it is compelling, yet the fascination of this rainy planet is mind boggling.

Within the six movies of Star Wars, Kamino has only about 20 minutes of screen time. It is not talked about in any other movie and yet it continues to be a point of interest.

What could possibly be so interesting about a planet in the Outer Rim that is barely seen or even talked about?

Well for starters, its legacy.

Kamino was the catalyst that Palpatine (and Darth Plagueis) needed.

It was the birthplace to the Grand Army of the Republic which in part, gave Palpatine a conquering force that allowed him to transition the state of the Republic into a land of fear and uncertainty.

That fear and uncertainty was the perfect segue into Palpatine’s master plan giving him (at the time) just cause to bring forth the first Galactic Empire

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Besides the fact that Kamino’s creation of the Clone troopers, what else makes the planet so appealing to Star Wars fans?

The obvious answer, the mystique of the planet due to its unique appearance.

I mean the planet is completely submerged in water! That’s just cool!

Kamino’s massive amount of water and menacing waves came about through climate change. At some point in Kamino’s past, the weather shifted to the point of cataclysmic proportions that melted Kamino’s mighty glaciers thus bringing the planet-wide ocean.

What’s also curious about the planet is its inhabitants.

The sentient species of Kamino are as peculiar as they are just plain weird!

They stand at 7.2 feet, their skin is bleach white with jet black eyes encompassed with a tinge of marble gray.

Besides their appearance, there is a quiet mischievous and mysterious nature to them as well, almost like they’re hiding something…

The Kaminoans are a homogeneous people since the population is 100% Kaminoan so in my opinion that just adds to the allure.

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For me, what makes Kamino so intensely interesting is the murky depths of the ocean, it’s as terrifying as it is exhilarating.

Just look at Tipoca City.

During Episode II The Clone Wars, you don’t get the opportunity to see how long and wide the city really is but trust me…it’s big.

So big in fact that Tipoca City spans more than a hundred kilometers, that’s more than four and a half times New York City!

What makes this even more impressive is how high up the city is.

In the movie, when Obi-Wan is fighting with Jango Fett, there are multiple scenes where the sheer height of Tipoca City is displayed.

What’s more, Kamino’s inhabitants used a flying creature known as an aiwha for transport on Kamino.

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All in all, Kamino is a profound planet that is as mysterious and eerie and it is captivating.

A world of constant rain, devastating waves and turbulent storms, Kamino is one of the most interesting places in the galaxy.

-Sith Pacify out

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Story Saturday: The Failure of Exile

It’s common knowledge that Yoda went into a self-imposed exile after Chancellor Palpatine betrayed the Jedi and announced himself as the infamous Darth Sidious.

What isn’t so well known however is what happened to Yoda immediately after he arrived on Dagobah.

Well, the following short story will give you a better idea.

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The premonitions were inevitable. A feeling long felt, dreamt, thought of, even daydreamed, yes he saw it coming.

Yoda, former Grand Master of the Intergalactic Jedi Order stands alone in his new home. While in exile on the Outer Rim remote planet of Dagobah, the nightmare of the demise of the Jedi replay in his head over and over.

Torture amongst solitude is enough to make even the strongest break.

But the once all-powerful leader of the respected Jedi, is now cracking under the sheer guilt and immense weight that reality has left him.

It was like a bad dream that plays over and over in his head. The faces of his slain comrades, their emotion of being caught off guard, surprised.

It was exactly three weeks since the Jedi were extinguished. To this point, Yoda’s journey to remain isolated from the rest of the galaxy has gone unexpected.

The impeding guilt of what happened mixed with the constant quiet that is Dagobah has started to deteriorate the mighty warrior’s mind.

Yoda knew being alone would certainly present its challenges but this situation he was unprepared for.

He could feel the force but it now felt different, very different.

A master of the force, a being of almost 900 years and for the first time, what he knew best was alien to him.

He felt as if all of his former padawans, his Jedi compatriots, were now submerged in a world of nothingness.

Almost as if their very existence now bear one thing in common: failure…

This “stinging wound” inflicted by the once so-called “chosen one”, Anakin Skywalker, brought Yoda unexplainable pain. The pain he felt was as if his body was impaled with a thousand singeing lightsabers held by all the former and current Sith Lords of the galaxy.

Today, Yoda woke up in the usual fashion. After intense mental clashing with his own conscience and psyche, the small creature found himself back in a deep sleep forced on him from pure exhaustion.

As if he was lifting 10,000 stones with his mind while sifting through his once vaunted Jedi archives searching for a single word of a foreign tongue in dozens of intricate yet different texts.

The short time he had been away from all he once knew had already began to deteriorate Yoda’s mind, spirit and body.

Yes the egregious results of the near past mentally scarred Yoda far worse than any physical injury could cause.

Yoda sat down on a branch gazing into the greenish gray forests as the morning sun mixed with rain sprinkled upon the trees and the moss that filled the planet’s ecosystem.

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As Yoda prepared to allow his mind to fall back into a trance of mental meditation, he froze. He could feel the prodding mind of the all powerful Emperor mentally searching every crevice and interstice around.

His gaze was expanding, filling everything with awareness.

He was searching for someone, he was searching for Yoda.

However, the former Jedi champion knew he was safe. The boundaries of Dagobah protected its inhabitants with a one of a kind force concealment.

As the Emperor’s wave unknowingly washed over the planet with Yoda unscathed, the former Jedi sat back in deep reflection of his thoughts once more.

He knew over 98% of all beings who called themselves Jedi in any capacity were exfoliated, but he also knew within that very little known 2%, some holdouts remained.

Specifically, Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Three weeks ago, the Jedi master dueled the spewing-with-hate Darth Vader on the volcanic planet of Mustafar and cursed the fallen Jedi to inexplicable punishment.

Unbeknownst to Obi-Wan, Vader survived the bout and went through emergency surgery to save and repair what was left of the once almighty body of Vader’s.

Yoda studied this new mechanical monstrosity that was now Darth Vader.

He could feel his dilapidated body stained with shame, confusion and anger. The last few months before the purge of the Jedi yielded great amounts of alienation for Skywalker.

Struggling to come to grips with his rapidly growing connection with the force and his second to none physical prowess, he became more and more unhappy with his role as a Jedi knight.

The gifted Skywalker demanded more.

More responsibility, more attention and more respect.

In the end, these feelings would push the very limits of reality and unfathomably joining the dark side of the force as Darth Sidious’s pawn.

In trying to come to grips with his situation, Yoda stretched his mind to the future.

The change of direction felt refreshing and for once in many years, the future existence of reality was no longer clouded.

Since the Dark Side had already struck, its great shadow of “unknown” was lifted.

Yoda saw decades ahead of intergalactic submission forced upon by the new regime.

However, he foresaw a meeting that shook him to the very core.

It was the offspring of Anakin Skywalker, the boy, Luke.

While Yoda was alone on Dagobah, young Luke was being carefully watched from a distance by Obi-Wan.

The boy would learn the force and eventually come to grips with his situation through Yoda himself.

This was the astronomical vision that Master Yoda could see!

As it began to fade out, Yoda regained an emotion that felt as if it was absent for centuries, happiness.

Deep in his heart and mind, Yoda knew of a secret, a new hope has arisen. Yes, Yoda knew…

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Story Saturday: Commander Cody

From now on, Saturday and Sundays will be reserved for short stories!

I sincerely hope you all enjoy them as much as I enjoy writing them.

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Millions of miles away from his home world of Kamino, Commander Cody stood on the outskirts of the gigantic structure known as Hangar 10.

Cody, a Marshall Commander of the 7th Sky Corps, 212 Attack Battalion was feeling unusually uneven.

A man of Cody’s significance and ability was used to being thrown into a war zone where thousands of his own would be killed.

But today, something was out of place.

The Commander looked down at his hands. Encased in his uniform shell, he could feel them trembling.

The night before, Cody had a dream that seemed more like a premonition.

In his dream, there was darkness, silence permeating the nothingness that surrounded him.

Cody was certain he was trapped under water since his movements were slowed by what felt like a goo.

Then it happened. Like a flash, images of rock and mountain began to spew out of his mind. Racing around his brain like flames leaping through a fire.

Normally a battle-tested veteran like Commander Cody would have his feelings and emotions under wraps but in this situation they were running free.

“Execute…execute…execute,” he kept on hearing. His mind in a flux of confusion as puzzlement ran rampant.

Suddenly more visions started to burst into his mind.

This time, Cody was standing on a landing platform.

Perfectly blue and puffy white clouds with radiating sunlight shone down past his helmet through his visor and directly into his eyes. Cody saw himself staring into a holovid of a dark shadowy figure.

A Commander of Cody’s stature didn’t get to his position without being a good judge of character and this figure he saw  emanated a pure evil and malicious hate.

Colors of light brown and tan and green and blue washed together as whatever it was he was staring at continued to move and rapidly at that.

And then he heard it. “Commander Cody, the time has come. Execute Order 66.”

Unable to decipher what he was seeing, Cody was at a loss.

Abruptly, unable to control his own movements,he raised his arm while saying “on my mark”.

Seconds passed that felt like hours then it happened. He could hear his own voice shout “FIRE!” in an even and under control manner.

At that very instant a blast from an AT-TE no more than five meters to his left rang out blasting the mountain top.

Without a second longer Cody was knocked from his vision within his dream and he was back in the liquid. The strange goo immediately started to drain and a long-necked, intense-eyed creature reached for Cody. Behind the creature there was nothing but intense white.

All at once, Commander Cody’s mind flashed back into his body. There he was again, standing on the boundary of Hanger 10. 

There wasn’t time to make sense of his memories of his dreams the night before as General Kenobi’s homing beacon was activated signaling the invasion was about to begin.

Without hesitation Cody locked and loaded his DC-15 standard issued rifle and took a leap of faith as he descended amongst his brethren.

He could feel the rush of the cool air sifting through the creases and cracks of his heavily worn uniform.

Like cool water quenching a burning flame, the Republic forces spearheaded the Confederacy with astonishing efficiency.

Quickly cutting down their counterparts the clones moved on through the several waves of oncoming droids. With renewed fire and will as well as sensing the end of the war nearing, the Clones were relentless.

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As the battle continued, Commander Cody and his forces exposed the weaker droid army. In every single way, the Clones were superior to their counterparts.

It soon became evident that the Confederacy of Independent Systems were on the edge of collapse as the battle for Utapau was closing.

Cody felt an alert on his hip as the Jedi General, Obi-Wan Kenobi attempted to contact him.

The clone commander answered instantly as Kenobi alerted Cody that he had just put an end to the droid Supreme Commander, General Grievous.

With a second wind of renewed strength, Commander Cody blasted away what remained of the Droid forces.

No more than 10 minutes later did Kenobi approach him on his dragon-running beast.

Exchanging pleasantries as well as returning the General’s lightsaber, Kenobi proclaimed victory and urged Cody to move to the upper levels as victory was imminent.

Suddenly, a weird sensation came over Cody. He felt like he had been here before. Almost as if in this very moment, he knew how it would play out exactly.

With the General racing up the mountain pass towards the upper levels, Cody was receiving an incoming signal.

As he tapped the holovid on, he was momentarily shocked to see the figure of the Supreme Chancellor. The next words that were uttered from the Chancellor’s mouth had the impact of separating Cody’s soul from his body as he heard the “Execute Order 66”

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With intense efficiency, Cody felt like he’d been here before. Then it all came back to him. This was his dream, exactly as he dreamt it.

Just like before, he raised his arm while saying “on my mark”.

The same seconds passed that felt like the same hours then he gave the order. It was his own voice although it sounded foreign to him as he heard “FIRE!” in the even and cold manner as before.

Up the mountainside he saw the effect of his actions. The AT-TE blast decimated the vicinity as the rock came crashing down.

There was General Kenobi, his friend, falling to his death.

Uncertainty clouded his thoughts but on the outside Commander Cody was resolute in his actions, the direct image of determination.

He was not sure what or why he just did what he did but he knew what’s done is done.

After all, he was a soldier. His purpose in life was to take orders, carry them out to his best ability and obey his superiors.

At that very second, Commander Cody made a very conscious decision to put his actions behind him and continue to do his duty. For his brothers. For his Republic. For his new Emperor…

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The Sad Life of General Greivous

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The legendary General Grievous. Just the very name is fearsome and evil but the man? Well, he’s all of that and more.

General Grievous was the cyborg Supreme Commander of the Droid Army of the Confederacy of the Independent Systems, better known as the CIS.

Most Star Wars fans know Grievous as the merciless, temperamental leader that preyed and mutilated Jedi and clones alike. But what’s not commonly known about him is the dismal life he was literally forced to lead.

Beginnings 

Grievous was born as a Kaleesh on the planet of Kalee. His birth name was Qymaen jai Sheelal.

On his home world, he was a major hero to his people as they battled the dreaded Huk. From the beginning, Sheelal was an exceptional warrior. So much so that his people looked at him as a demigod.

Soon after he established his reputation as a hero among his people, Sheelal met a female Kaleesh, Ronderu Iij Kummar. Kummar, a sword master, became Sheelal’s love as they fought the Huk side by side.

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Grief 

Unfortunately, Kummar would go on to be killed by the Huk.

Dejectedly, Qymaen jai Sheelal would go on to change his name to Grievous, signifying his forever lasting agony and despair for his lost love.

It was at this time that Grievous’s good times were behind him. The once proud leader of his people would fall down a path of horrific bereavement until the end.

Revenge

Grievous looked to the Huk with a burning passion of pure hatred. With the help from his fellow Kaleesh combatants, they managed to push back the Huk to their own planet.

The Kalee-born fighters engaged the Huk in a fierce and relentless assault on the Huk home world officially conquering them.

This is where the image of the General Grievous we know from the Clone Wars starts to come into picture.

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Backed into a corner, the Huk communed their struggles to the Galactic Republic.

In response, the Republic dispatched the Jedi to answer the Kaleesh and in turn, liberated the Huk planet and forced the Kaleesh back to Kalee.

The difference in this situation however was the fact that Kalee was now barren and desolate from war. With no food, the Kaleesh were left to starve.

Seemingly defeated, Greivous turned to the InterGalactic Banking Clan where he took a job as a enforcer to defend his people. Soon after, he learned that the Huk were back on the offensive and had attacked Kalee, Grievous departed for his home world.

The story gets worse as San Hill, IBC head, with support from CIS leader Count Dooku, planted a bomb on Grievous’s ship.

Mortally wounded, Grievous clung to life as he was approached by Hill. Given an ultimatum, Hill promised Grievous that they could rebuild him and make him a cyborg form of himself.

Angry and confused, Grievous had no choice.

After reconstruction, Grievous was introduced to the Count as a powerful weapon as a new conflict neared, the Clone Wars.

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Unbeknownst Torture

After Grievous was named Supreme Commander, he was subject to relentless and inequitable treatment.

Little did Grievous know, the war was staged. Darth Sidious, the Sith Lord had manipulated both sides of the struggle with Grievous enduring times of great confusion, panic and gloom.

Grievous was meant to fail. He was secretly and confidentially put in situations to fail throughout his three years in the war.

What’s more, Grievous’s master and mentor Count Dooku, secretly despised the General. Dooku in being part of the same thought process as his master, the architect of the Clone Wars Darth Sidious, hated all creatures that weren’t human. Especially droids.

Strange enough, Grievous too had a hatred for droids but even more so than Dookus. Grievous actually still considered himself a man through these harrowing times.

Dooku harbored an intense hatred for the General and looked at him as a insufficient, weak piece of meat that was meant to plummet the galaxy further into chaos.

Grievous had the ultimate loyalty to his master yet Dooku continuously put him in situations where his hands were tied and he would fail.

General Grievous was a military genius. Someone who made all the right moves but rarely saw them play out because of the nature of the Clone Wars.

As the War raged on, The Jedi Order quickly took notice of the General as he quickly became their number one target.

It’s pretty amazing that Grievous lasted as long as he did. He was endlessly pursued by the Jedi and had dozens of close calls in which he barely escaped with his life.

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End of Grievous

As the General carried out his master’s orders with flawless precision, he’d soon find out that he was doomed regardless of his actions.

It was Darth Sidious and Count Dooku’s doing who allowed Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to enter the General’s Flagship The Invisible Hand.

What many don’t know is it was Dooku’s intention to have Grievous go down with the ship and perish. In fact, some time after the two Jedi knights confronted Dooku, Grievous attempts to contact him to no avail.

Grievous discovers from the security cameras that Dooku was bested by the combatants. If not for Grievous going against his master’s orders, he would have succumbed to the fiery mess of the battle above Coruscant.

We all know he flees to the Utapau system which ultimately is his final stand.

It was all meant to be, it was all predetermined. Which unfortunately doomed the General.

What Could have been

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You never really think about it like this but General Grievous, Qymaen jai Sheelal, really had a tough life.

After his beloved was killed, everything went south and fast. He never was able to have complete control of any situation he was in from that point on.

Grievous was one of a kind. His leadership skills were unmatched, the fire in his heart burned brighter and stronger than any other and he was as fierce as anything..EVER really.

Just imagine if the Clone Wars were really a fair fight, no manipulation, no predestination, just an all out war between two sides.

The picture above pretty much sums it up with Grievous. The man is a killing machine standing at exactly seven feet and weighing in around 350 pounds.

Forget a lightsaber, the man would just tear your head off with his own claws! But you get the point.

Life was unfair to General Grievous, he never stood a chance. He didn’t start off evil but he sure ended so.

But really, can you blame him? I mean, come on. The man lost the love of his life to the invaders of his home world, was completely blown apart for just trying to return to his planet to help and was always lied and manipulated which at long last caused his death.

In the end, Grievous made to suffer.

-Sith Pacify out

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