Who Knew Chancellor Palpatine was Darth Sidious

now friends welcome back to another episode of generation tech my name is Allen and we recently just finished our coverage of the first year of the Clone Wars it seemed like everything just seemed to magically balance itself out throughout the entire war the separate has never seemed to get completely ahead and destroy the Republic's ability to fight back meanwhile the Republic is constantly having their plans disrupted by Cerberus agents now we have Star Wars fans know that Palpatine was playing both sides and had an intricate network of shadow brokers corporate and political interests this is a network that he and his late master Darth Plagueis had been setting up for decades the idea was always to use chaos in the outer rim and the separatist alliance to fuel the Republic's own militarization which would also lead to giving the executive branch far more power Sidious and Plagueis were far more cunning than the Sith Lords of old they had a political savvy and networking skills that was unrivaled in the galaxy they understood the flaws of the sips past back then everything had always been about struggle and friction the Sith clashing with the Democratic and so-called good forces of the galaxy that friction had always worn down the Sith and even when the JI were defeated numerous times thus it would find themselves fighting amongst each other but this time in order to prevents it from fighting each other Palpatine created a conflict that would wear down the Jedi only while keeping himself hidden and isolated in the shadows where he could feed off all of their confusion and growing hate and Palpatine did a great job at hiding his influence it's incredibly hard for us as viewers to see where his influence comes to play every time the server does manage to ambush a republic convoy I've wondered that Palpatine leaked the information or was this just genuine Sepphoris intelligence and that's what I kind of want to talk about who in a Republic and in the separatist alliance knew that Darth Sidious was actually Palpatine first let's start with the obvious Count Dooku or Darth Tyranus had left the Jedi Order after becoming disillusioned with the Jedi Council and their decision-making capabilities Dooku first withdrew himself from active duty after he was forced to lead a squad of Jedi into an especially bloody skirmish with Jango Fett's true Mandalorians on the world of Galla drawn and then when his former apprentice qui-gon jinn died he Fong resigned from the order becoming one of the last 20 the last 20 were the 20 Jedi Masters that had left the order in the last few millennia now prior to even leaving the Jedi Order Count Dooku had already come into contact with Darth Plagueis but this is while Plagueis was disguised as he go Damas a wealthy member of the IG BC and leader of the powerful lobbying group down the scoldings it was during these early meetings that the jaya express his frustrations about the jedi order and also the republic it was because of this that darth plagueis decided to keep tabs on the promising young jedi darth sidious as Senator Palpatine also became a close confidant of Dooku during his last years in the Jedi Order together they would develop a bond similar to the one Palpatine would have with Anakin Palpatine at the time had a spotless record and was well liked by most people in the Senate he had an uncanny ability to solve problems and approach things with rationale and without emotion he never gave away his political ideals and seemed fluid and ever able to adapt the situation at hand for someone like Dooku who was fed up with the bureaucratic mess that was the Republican individual like Palpatine was a godsend with a friend like Palpatine the Jedi could actually get things done it was around the time that qui-gon jinn died that Palpatine would also kill his master Darth Plagueis Count Dooku became the obvious choice for an apprentice initially Dooku learned of Darth Sidious through viceroy nute Gunray when he was on trial for blockade and Naboo but before Palpatine would ask Count Dooku to become his new apprentice he already had another individual he was set on Albertine has long already made up his mind about who we actually wanted to be as apprentice and I was Anakin Skywalker the young padawan was much more emotional less intelligent and easier to manipulate than the counts and outside without Anakin had a none president met him in two chlorines in his bloodstream his power was unrivaled but at the time Anakin was still too young and not ready for the grooming process so Count Dooku would have to do for now Lucas first mission as Darth Tyranus was the creation of the Clone Army on Kamino although this plan was the brainchild of Lord Sidious Darth Tyranus would do the majority of the foot work he would be the one who contacted the Kaminoans who would also be the one who was responsible for getting rid of sifo-dyas after place the order and also he was the one who selected the clone template Jango Fett's Dooku who had seen Jango Fett killed several Jedi with his bare hands during the Balam gala drawn and thought that that skill in particular would become useful for the ground army of the Republic now during this time Darth Sidious would like Count Dooku in on the plan because Count Dooku would serve as the head of state for the separatist alliance but as far as everyone else in the organization we're not really sure who else knew first there's Darth Maul who had direct contact and training from Darth Sidious after all Sidious was the one who took Maul as a child from the Death Mari witches if Darth Maul doesn't know about dark cities whose plans it's only because play gets in cities saw that Darth Maul is more of an assassin rather than a full set order during the Naboo crisis it was also very important for the sit through main in the shadows so it would make more sense to keep their true identities from Maul in case he was captured however as the war went on I'm sure Darth Maul began having suspicions of who Darth Sidious actually was when Palpatine becomes Supreme Chancellor and has no space pastes it all over the place Maul probably put the pieces together after all Maul had seen syriza's face many times but by then Darth Sidious had already discarded him but what about Count Dooku's agents like General Grievous surely the cyborg would be led in on the secret especially during the battle course on where Grievous kidnaps Palpatine but again I think this is unlikely in the same ways cities never told Maul anything Count Dooku never really trusted Grievous we look at legends the reason why Grievous becomes a cyborg is because the Sith sabotage this ship they saw him as it capable warrior and wanted to enslave him in a way it's similar to what Palpatine did to Anakin now Dooku at the time had blamed the crash on the Republic and this is a good idea because the Republic were at war with Grievous's people so from the very beginning Count Dooku and grievous this relationship was built on one gigantic fly so it won't be all that surprised that Grievous doesn't know that Dooku is a Sith let alone had a Sith master who was controlling everything behind the scenes so during the valve Coruscant is very possible that Count Dooku just told Grievous not to harm Palpatine or make them into a martyr but it should be noted that in one of the newer Disney comics Darth Maul son of Dathomir General Grievous goes on a mission with Lord Sidious so the cyborg has seen city as his face and may have been let in on the situation later on in the war now sighs Ventress is another city agent and she presents a different scenario while Grievous was completely numb to the force assad was a powerful force wielder she actually was a former jedi padawan and had two masters killed in front of her before Count Dooku got a hold of her and twisted her into a weapon like Maul Dooku considered asajj ventress as more of a tool or weapon rather than just an apprentice it also made sense for Dooku to keep us on interest in the dark brat dark cities his true identity but nonetheless Ventress does meet Darth Sidious at least on one occasion and Darth Sidious sees asajj ventress as a threat to his own power not only was he a dangerous duel or she also would go on to help train Savage Opress Palpatine a student of ancient Sith history and the rule to understands how crowded things could get when there were rival sifts taking apprentices when Ventress is eventually betrayed and Linko by Count Dooku she wanders around rather aimlessly for a while and then becomes a bounty hunter she would then go on to team up with Jedi Quinlan vos to go hunt down her hated enemy Count Dooku through their entire trial to find out where Count Dooku has gone Ventress seems to be clueless about Palpatine's real identity other than his various assassins and agents Darth Sidious also served as the point man for making contact with many of the leaders of the Cerberus council as early as the blockade of Naboo gov Sidious had contacts with Trade Federation leaders who knew him as a Dark Lord and not the senator of Naboo these exchanges weren't almost never in person and carried out by using a hologram our city has always wore a hood and concealed his face and voice so it's very possible that the Trade Federation leaders had no idea who he actually was and that makes sense because the new mode ian's are complete cowards and should they be caught for their illegal actions against the outer rim systems there was no way to guarantee that they wouldn't talk it also wasn't necessary for the Trade Federation to know who we was just the label of being a Sith Lord was terrifying you know as far as they knew Darth Sidious had a network of spies and agents infiltrating the public so generally speaking darth sidious did occasionally reveal himself to his agents and followers in the Severson alliance but as far as they knew he was a wealthy Sith Lord who was pulling the strings behind the scenes when he claims stuff like this begin landing merchants My Lord is that that just kind of makes nute Gunray assumed that Palpatine has connections within the Senate which was much easier to believe than the fact that Darth Sidious was actually a part of the sentence so it's really only Count Dooku who knew Palpatine's true identity because there's only really necessary for Count Dooku to know about the wider plan because Count Dooku was the head of state for the Cerberus alliance as much oversight as have Athene had sometimes it was hard for him to contact the separatist pavatt team was under heavy scrutiny and wants at all time so it made sense to allow someone on the server side to see the entire picture or at least enough to make decisions without Palpatine having to advise now lastly it's very possible that Palpatine's own inner circle knew who he actually was masa Mita who was the vice chairman under Chancellor valorum would go on to sir Palpatine during his chancellorship and eventually helped run the day-to-day operations of the empire he was a terrific or administrator a sycophant and very easy to control by the time of the empire mass media definitely was in on the secret but we're not sure at what point Massimino was aware of the Chancellor's true identity I mean it did have his own network of informants Otis even possible he was able to find out by himself slime or Palpatine's main assistant an aide is also rumored to have been intimately involved with Palpatine and might also know of the Dark Lord's identity she was also a for sensitive individual which is probably why Palpatine kept her around now later on in Legends and canon when Palpatine became Emperor a cult of the sith was built into the empire these were high-ranking members of the imperial government that worshipped the sith along with Palpatine you had individuals like Imperial advisor you tashu Anan force sensitive historian who was fascinated with the Sith and worshiped their power in a way these kind of guys reminded me a lot of empire thrall and there were a lot more of them than you would expect in the Galactic Empire but it's not really clear if any of these individuals were active in Palpatine's government during the Republic era it was probably too dangerous to have Sith worshipers running around the capital especially with the hundreds if not thousands that were stationed on core sides so there you have it guys that is our analysis of who we think knew that Darth Sidious and Palpatine were the same individual well guys I hope you enjoyed today's episode don't forget to subscribe hit that notification button my name is Alan running you let life as a movie and you are the protagonist [Music]

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Length: 11min 27sec (687 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 03 2019