Why Were Ancient Sith Lords So Much More POWERFUL?

Why were ancient sith more powerful?

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The dark Lords who reigned during the days of the old republic made the sith of the rule of two era look weak and pathetic. With the exception of Palpatine and possibly Vader, almost all of the ancient sith outranked them both in skill with the lightsaber and the force. Ancient Sith could raise armies of the dead, create monsters of pure dark side energy and at least a few sith lords were capable of destroying entire planets using only the force. One of the main reasons for this was the loss of knowledge through the ages, largely due to the inheritant weaknesses of the sith ideology.

The great hyperspace war saw the sith species strike the Republic for the first time, starting the conflict between the sith and the jedi that would last for millennia. After the sith were defeated, the Jedi enacted a genocide against the sith Species, destroying much of their knowledge on more advanced dark side abilities.

However, Lord Vitiate maintained knowledge and rediscovered many of these abilities, hiding the sith empire in the unknown regions for over a thousand years. Again though, this would not benefit the sith as a whole. In a bid to prevent his followers from ever overthrowing him, he kept most of this knowledge for himself. This meant that when he was finally defeated, the knowledge of these powers was gone forever.

After the death of Vitiate, the sith would further be weakened by infighting. Often many lesser sith would team up to destroy the more powerful dark lords, weakening the order overall in power.

While the rule of two did fix this issue, it added the problem that if one sith died or turned to the light before fully training an apprentice, vital knowledge would be lost forever.

A great example of this was with Darth Gravid. Gravid sought to intergate Jedi teachings of compassion into the Sith teachings. However he would be driven insane in the process and sought to destroy much of the Siths knowledge. He would be stopped by his apprentice but not before he had destroyed many Holocrons pertaining knowledge of the most powerful dark side abilities. As Darth Plageius would note, Gravids actions set the Sith back centuries.

However it was not just Darth Gravid that slowed the progress of the sith. Due to their sith ideology, rule of two sith continued to jealously guard secrets from their apprentices.

Plageius would kill his master before finding out about tennenbous study of maxi-chlorians, a way to grant eternal life. Palgeuis too would be killed by his own apprentice, Sidioius before he could pass on the knowledge of how to gain immortality.

And this is the ultimate reason why the sith became less powerful over time. While the Jedi worked together to share secrets about the force, the sith jealously guarded their newfound abilities from other sith and more often than not, they would take their dark side knowledge to the grave. This prevented the sith order as a whole from benefiting from advancements, Ultimately leading to their power diminishing over the ages.

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[VadersFortress]

Who was the most powerful Sith? Find out in my latest video! ⬇️

[tsunamifoxy]

The Old Republic: Sith Lords are our speciality!

[TetsuShima]

*Fun fact:* In the final duel against Vitiate, you can ask Tenebrae, who wears his torso uncovered, to put more clothes on. Sounds familiar, right?

[UrbanArmada]

Makes sense to reduce the amount of homicidal dark force users and make use of cloned mooks with guns who can be easily controlled. The Jedi order was wiped out in one move with normal clone troopers shooting them in the back and Palpy did it all without involving himself too much.

[_TheHighlights_]

Sith 1000’s of years ago: We have 1000’s of Sith each as powerful as Vader
Sith now: Haha stormtrooper go

[naterk]

Sith in the past: OP af
Sith of the present: Nerfed, but still packs a punch
Sith of the future: "How do I turn this lightsaber on again?"

[TetsuShima]

And think that, if the old Sith Lore would have not been destroyed by a redeemed Darth Gravid, Palpatine and Vader would have been UNSTOPPABLE

[SithLordZanetti]

Excellent video! As a Sith Lord myself, I praise this video for helping to promote the Sith and the Dark Side! Thank you! 🔥🔥🔥

[th_century_Ghost]

I still would love to see a fan made film about Kreia's fall to the dark side; She is by far the most complex character in Star Wars, in my opinion.

[sweatpantsninja]

I don't know how many comments you read but I love your channel. A video on planets beyond the outer rim that aren't mapped would be awesome.

[unreleasedradar]

You make the most interesting videos rn I’m glad I found you 🖤

[mattco]

As powerful as the Sith are.. they are truly self destructive.

[darthsquid]

There should've been someone or something immensely powerful kept to guard all that knowledge

[DefecTec]

Anakin Skywalker is the most powerful force sensitive in Star Wars history since he has twice the midichlorian count as Yoda and Palpatine, in the clone wars for some reason Filoni nerfed all force users so we don’t see their true potential

[Burgermeister]

Vitiate was just a Warhammer 40k character dropped into Star Wars for the lulz.

[irgendwas]

how tf did the jedi even win ? plot armor ?

[OnyXavier]

Other than powerful, they were also interesting. I find Palpatine to be so...one-dimensional and boring. (Then again I haven't read the comics, which I'm sure makes up for it and makes him at least more interesting).

[adriangamboa]

wait so gravid became mad Because of the knowledge he was intending to make or just for some unrelated reason of coincidence

[newhybrid]

They weren't.
Sidious scales above Vitiate who scales above Nihilus.
TPM Maul was stated as evidence the Sith had returned stronger than since they disappeared which many point out implies he was above Malak and Malgus
Darth Bane is by default of how the Banite order works, by far one the weakest of his own order.
Count Dooku was considered capable of replacing Palpatine at a time where he was only slightly weaker than Plaugeis(he got a huge power boost upon killing his master).
I also heard Darth Krayt was stated by a writer as being stronger than sidious around the time he was fighting on a similar level alongside grandmaster Luke against Abeloth, this Luke being dimensions above the one that beat DE Palpatine(Leias harmony helping him in the duel has been debunked, it merely helped them cut of his connection to the Force Storm)
Darth Caedus was stated the strongest Sith at the time, putting him above Krayt and he also was constantly depicted as serious threat to Luke and matched him a lot of the time(sometimes he got owned yeah), he also may have surpassed Luke towards the end of his life and let's not forget his Total Oneness, which canonically according to Galactic history is the most powerful showing of the Force

[mr.sand]

Yeah Luke Skywalker might be powerful. But if you put him against someone like Vitiate Luke is getting killed. You see Luke was powerful compared to the people he was facing for him time. But if you were to put him against someone from the Old Republic era he would be weak.