Darth Plagueis

Darth Plagueis, remembered as Darth Plagueis the Wise, was a male Muun Dark Lord of the Sith and heir to the lineage of Darth Bane. Plagueis mastered the art and science of midi-chlorian manipulation. Obsessed with eternal life, he experimented with ways to cheat death and create new life from the midi-chlorians. In his public guise as Magister Hego Damask II of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, Darth Plagueis backed the rise and fall of certain star systems, businesses, and crime lords, earning him many enemies and putting the Galactic Republic into turmoil.
One of Plagueis's greatest contributions to the history of the galaxy was training Darth Sidious in the ways of the Sith and the Dark Side of the Force, whom he incited to take control of the galaxy and bring about a new age of the Sith. For decades, he had helped Sidious, known publicly as Sheev Palpatine from Naboo, rise to the position of Senator and played a hand in his apprentice's election as the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic in 32 BBY. Together, they instigated the Invasion of Naboo as well as the war that would destroy the Jedi Order and the Republic in years to come.
In the year 34 BBY, Plagueis and his apprentice discovered the apparent survival of the Shan family, a lineage of powerful Force-sensitives that descended from the ancient Sith Lord Darth Revan. Hoping to gain the potential of a descendant of Revan, Sidious sent his own Sith apprentice Darth Maul to kidnap a young Jarik Shan, though he would end up being unsuccessful. Sensing danger in Revan's bloodline, Plagueis berated Sidious for not having them eliminated entirely, though Sidious angrily dismissed his concerns in his own mind.
In truth, Plagueis sensed that the young Shan was connected to the prophecy of the Sun and Moon, though in what way he was unsure; Plagueis was wary of supposed prophecies. His fear in such things only grew with the emergence of the "Chosen One" in the form of a young boy named Anakin Skywalker; Plagueis was concerned at the possibility of the boy prodigy being conceived by the Force as a means of destroying the Sith. During the Naboo Crisis, Plagueis received a vision of a cyborg clad in dark armor — confirming his fears that Skywalker would change the course of history in the galaxy. Not wanting the Jedi therefore to train the boy, he ordered Sidious to have Darth Maul kill Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in order to prevent his catastrophic Force vision from becoming a reality.
When it was ensured that Sidious would be elected to the office of Supreme Chancellor, Plagueis planned to be appointed Co-Chancellor of the Republic so that he might advise Sidious from the dark and devote himself to his own research; but his apprentice had other plans. Sidious, convinced that his master had outlived his usefulness, eventually killed the Muun in his sleep the night before his election and eventually rose to become ruler of the Galactic Empire.
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