Darth Maul's personal mantra perfectly explains why Star Wars allowed the Sith to defeat the Jedi

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Darth Maul's personal mantra perfectly explains why Star Wars allowed the Sith to defeat the Jedi

One of the most attractive and powerful Sith Lords in Star Wars, Darth Maul
is a persistent threat whose Sith Code perfectly reflects Palpatine and the Empire's rise to power. One of Palpatine's first apprentices, Maul knew enough about his master's plan to predict the fall of the Republic and the rise of Darth Vader long before Order 66. If the Jedi Order had paid more attention to Maul's creed, they might have have seen your destruction coming.

Star Wars: Darth Maul – Death Sentence – by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo – is a Legends-era comic book miniseries that follows Maul and Savage Opress as the brothers are forced to deal with the consequences of a bounty placed on Maul's head.


"We move like Sith. We move in confusion. We move in fear. We move in chaos."

Momentarily pausing their reign of terror in the Outer Rim, the Sith Lords tracked down the person who ordered the attack. After enlisting the military might of the local population, Maul and Opress devastated the enemy forces. Amid the lethal chaos, Maul proudly recites his Sith mantra to his brother:

“We move like Sith. We moved in confusion. We move in fear. We move in chaos.”

Confusion: Dooku's formation of the Confederacy destabilized the status quo

Star Wars: Darth Maul – Death Sentence #1-4 – Written by Tom Taylor; Art by Bruno Redondo; Colors by Michael Atiyeh; Lyrics by Michael Heisler; Cover art by Dave Dorman


Count Dooku promises to help Palpatine

“We moved in confusion.”

Confusion, fear and chaos. These three concepts define Palpatine's decades-long plan to

overthrow the Galactic Republic
and install a Sith-led government. Long before the rise of the Empire, Palpatine needed justification may the Republic come together to surrender peacefully. Of course this would come in the form of the Confederation of Independent Systems. Inciting a wave of revolutionary rhetoric among those who are dissatisfied with the rampant corruption Within the Senate, Dooku inspired several independent systems and banking clans to turn against the Republic.

In the galaxy's tense final moments before the start of the Clone Wars, nowhere felt safe. Neighboring Confederate systems were overrun by battle droids and previously secure hyperspace routes were cut off by Separatist blockades. companies and

governments affiliated with the Republic
They could no longer rely on the banking clans, destabilizing large portions of the galactic economy. Dating back to a single speech given by a former Jedi, the galaxy has become immersed in distrust both in the centralized government and in its militant puppies, the Jedi.

Fear: The Clone Wars turned the Jedi into official militants

The Jedi were no longer paragons of peace, all according to Palpatine's plan

“We move in fear.”

All-out war soon consumed the galaxy, as confusion turned to terror. Entire populations of clones were cultivated, bred and killed to

for the good of the Republic
. Casual genocide has become an art of war. Planetary economies have collapsed without stable trade routes. And the Jedi were perverts into war dogs. Nothing was off limits during the war and no one was safe. While movies and television shows have done a pretty fair job of portraying the slow burn

horror of the Clone Wars
comic book storytelling thrived.

All according to his plan, the Emperor wanted the galaxy to fear itself and its peacekeepers-turned-soldiers.

Legends series like Star Wars: Republic skillfully portrays the exhaustion and distrust which spread throughout the galaxy and the Jedi. The Jedi, in their teachings, They were not made for war. They are soldiers of peace, forced to throw away their dogma and lead soldiers to their deaths. Children like

Anakin and Ahsoka
they were forced to become militant leaders and turned into killers. The Jedi were made to fear the concept of the Separatist movement and the power of “fallen Jedi” like Count Dooku. Everything according to your plan, the Emperor wanted the galaxy to be afraid of itself and his peacekeepers-turned-soldiers.

Chaos: Order 66, for many, was a promise of security

Palpatine defamed the Jedi, turning the galaxy against them


Survivors of Jedi Order 66 facing Darth Vader.

“We move in chaos.”

With the issuance of Order 66, the Jedi became as Palpatine had hoped they would be. No longer arbiters of peace, the Jedi were considered powerful and violent religious fanatics.

The Jedi Order
became synonymous with war and death. Meanwhile, both the Republic and the Confederacy exhausted their resources. When it came time to blame a new enemy for both sides' failures, the Jedi were perfect targets. Order 66 made Jedi scapegoats, offering the galaxy a common enemy to unify against. Taking advantage of the collapsing pillars of galactic society, the Empire promised security in the midst of chaos.

Looking back at Maul's mantra and tactical philosophy, all the elements of Darth Sidious' rise to power can be found hidden in Maul's words. All

the Sith Lord
knew and believed it had been implanted in him by Palpatine. The Sith needed the galaxy to be confused, afraid, and disorganized to gain the upper hand to overthrow the old government and the Jedi. If the Jedi Order had been taken Darth Maul More seriously at the time, they may have seen the patterns that inevitably led to their downfall.

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