Why the Jedi Couldn't Sense Palpatine was a Sith Lord...

Darth Sidious is a monstrously powerful Dark Lord of the Sith who secretly controls both Sides of the Clone Wars and pretty much every corporation in the Galaxy... but the Jedi wouldn’t be able to tell you that, because they couldn’t work out who the mysterious Sith Lord that Dooku spoke of was until it was far too late. But how did Palpatine stay hidden for so long and why couldn’t the Jedi sense him? Well the answer goes back much, much further than you might have thought. So hit that subscribe button and lets get into it.

So the first major reason for Palaptine being able to hide is his proficient use of Buried Presence. Buried Presence was a sort of branch of the Force Stealth ability and allowed Palpatine to mask his signature in the force to anyone around him. This included the Jedi Order. It forced him to bury his Dark Side presence and force abilities deep inside of him, ready to burst out when the time came. Over countless thousands of meetings, nobody was able to identify Palpatine as the Sith Lord controlling the Senate mostly thanks to this ability. Not to mention, Palpatine always portrayed himself as weak and fragile wherever he would go. A sweet old man like him couldn’t do any harm right?

The next reason though is much darker and goes back thousands of years. Many hundreds of layers beneath the cold and creaky catacombs of the Jedi temple, laid an ancient Sith Shrine built by an unknown man. This shrine was known as the “Shrine in the Depths”, and was a tremendous source of Dark Side energy on Coruscant, spreading the darkness out over a huge area. Interestingly, it was actually built on top of a Light Side force nexus in order to corrupt the force energy flowing out of it. The plan certainly worked. For these reasons, the Jedi chose to build their own temple on top of it, in hopes of stemming the flow of the dark side... As you can imagine, this was a horrible idea, since it only served to cloud their own judgement and fuel Palpatine’s ability to hide himself.

This also compounded with the Jedi Losing their affinity for the force near the end of the Republic because of going so many years without an enemy. Mace Windu even considered going to the senate about this because it was such a devasting thing for the Jedi to face.

Now another thing that added onto Palpatine being able to hide himself was that the Jedi were just plainly unfamiliar with the Dark Side of the force by that point. Jedi younglings and Padawans had been taught for so long by that point to avoid the Dark Side at all costs and never seek it out. This resulted in a lot of the Jedi being very unfamiliar with the Darkness. By the time of the Clone Wars, the Jedi likely believed that the Sith would be bold, arrogant and flaunting their powers across the Galaxy. They weren’t prepared whatsoever for a stealth takeover. Yoda certainly learned his lesson with that after Order 66, because he allowed Luke Skywalker to enter the Dark Side Cave on Dagobah, showing him the dark side enough so that he wouldn’t be tempted by it.

[darthsidious]

Because the Dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural

[vitorpereira]

The legends version is far better. A sith temple in Coruscant really? Quoting Darth Baras: "A blind, deaf, comatose, lobotomy patient could write something better".

[KENSHIROez]

I always think Palpatine is the first Sith lord to ever find a way how to mask his essence of the dark side before the event of The Phantom Menace

[sparkraido]

They didn't know he was a sith lord because somehow Palpatine hid it
Right isn't this the superior explanation?

[karlozols]

YEAH! Exactly! They could sense everything else. You know the more I think about it (unpopular opinion, I know) I'd rather join the Sith.

[rrrmmmm]

I enjoyed this video so much. I’ve heard of reasons why Palps could deceive the Jedi before and much of what you said is not new to me but there are some elements I had not considered. Thank you for sharing those in this video 😊💎

[Kou]

Your videos are amazing dude. Just wanted to let you know. I appreciate your channel so much

[trey.]

Great video but theres a think iv wondered for a while now thats perhaps you can make a video on since i haven’t seen anything of this yet but its how did the jedi react to pong krells fall mainly the high council and perhaps clones keep up the great videos and interested in more.

[The_Lego_Dude]

Great video! That was some very interesting information! Keep up the amazing work!

[eliminator]

Why didn’t the Jedi just destroy the shrine?

[nihatio]

They couldn't figure it out because the dark side shrouds their identity. Its also why yoda said to anakin 'clouded this boys future is'

[SPAZD]

That Shroud of Darkness fooled all of the

[DanEcho]

hope we see that clone wars arc of ahsoka visiting the Sith temple one day

[ripcity]

Remember there can only be two, and you are no longer my Apprentice - Darth Sidious

[austinsnow]

I can’t believe how powerful Palpatine was because not even Luke can beat him

[raulmacias]

Clone wars series Yoda sense palpatine wen he gets interrupted Anakin and obiwan.

[thetangaledbug]

The Star wars universe, literally has evil magic catacombs in a temple of magic. but rather than showing us that, they want you to see Ahsoka

[lordsubziro]

Kudos to you for an interesting Star Wars lore video. I have another question to ask: How did Darth Vader failed to sense Princess Leia wasn't his daughter, even though she was right in front of him during her interrogation with Grand Moff Tarken on board the Death Star? I bet he was REALLY pissed off at himself when he finally discovered that Luke has a sister... HIS and Padme's daughter!!!

[elliotma]

Long story short, it's a plot hole.

[LaraA]

@StarForceOne This is a fascinating video my friend, which clarified many things for me and it made so much sense. I didn't even know about the buried presence factor.