Some Thoughts About Plagueis's Mother
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unspeakablehorrorSo, I just wanted to write down some thoughts I had relating to this brief passage in the Darth Plagueis novel:
Years would pass before Nome found Hego's mother, whom he had conscripted not as an apprentice-for she wasn't strong enough in the Force--but as a disciple...
I have a headcanon about Plagueis's mother, which is that she wasn't actually weak in the Force. The Sith are just always trying to get the most powerful Force users they can find, so Tenebrous was just like 'what if apprentice like this one But Even More Powerful' and he was also just specifically inclined to go the Build-A-Sith route. So when he saw an opportunity he took it. And that's why he had Plagueis created. Because the Sith are just like that. But if sadly unnamed mother muun was really that weak in the Force, I don't think she would have been accepted as any kind of Sith, apprentice or not, to begin with. If we look at the sheer number of apprentice candidates Venemis had stored on his computer (whom Plagueis subsequently offed), it seems that the Sith have their ways of finding other powerful Force users even when they're not Jedi. This makes sense because otherwise they'd have trouble keeping their Limited Edition Baneite Sith line going, especially seeing as since most of them actually don't appear to be fallen Jedi, so they must be finding these non-Jedi Force users somehow.
The Sith probably also have a higher cutoff than the Jedi for what they consider 'not very powerful' since there are so few of them so every individual is kind of expected to be ridiculously powerful. And if we look at Palpatine, who ended up choosing a Jedi who was also The Most Powerful Force User Alive for his apprentice, we notice that in canon he had little interest in turning Obi-Wan, who was considered quite powerful as Jedi went (in contrast to Dooku, who also had clear personal reasons for his preference).
Which brings me to my headcanon that Plagueis's mother was about as powerful as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Of course I have no textual evidence for this, but there's also nothing in the text that explicitly disproves it, and as I've explained above, a lot of reasons to think that this is also not inconsistent with the canon either.
I might end up using this idea in one or more of my stories in some way, so I wanted to write it down. I also don't think it's very spoilery, so I'm not particularly averse to revealing it in advance.
Years would pass before Nome found Hego's mother, whom he had conscripted not as an apprentice-for she wasn't strong enough in the Force--but as a disciple...
I have a headcanon about Plagueis's mother, which is that she wasn't actually weak in the Force. The Sith are just always trying to get the most powerful Force users they can find, so Tenebrous was just like 'what if apprentice like this one But Even More Powerful' and he was also just specifically inclined to go the Build-A-Sith route. So when he saw an opportunity he took it. And that's why he had Plagueis created. Because the Sith are just like that. But if sadly unnamed mother muun was really that weak in the Force, I don't think she would have been accepted as any kind of Sith, apprentice or not, to begin with. If we look at the sheer number of apprentice candidates Venemis had stored on his computer (whom Plagueis subsequently offed), it seems that the Sith have their ways of finding other powerful Force users even when they're not Jedi. This makes sense because otherwise they'd have trouble keeping their Limited Edition Baneite Sith line going, especially seeing as since most of them actually don't appear to be fallen Jedi, so they must be finding these non-Jedi Force users somehow.
The Sith probably also have a higher cutoff than the Jedi for what they consider 'not very powerful' since there are so few of them so every individual is kind of expected to be ridiculously powerful. And if we look at Palpatine, who ended up choosing a Jedi who was also The Most Powerful Force User Alive for his apprentice, we notice that in canon he had little interest in turning Obi-Wan, who was considered quite powerful as Jedi went (in contrast to Dooku, who also had clear personal reasons for his preference).
Which brings me to my headcanon that Plagueis's mother was about as powerful as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Of course I have no textual evidence for this, but there's also nothing in the text that explicitly disproves it, and as I've explained above, a lot of reasons to think that this is also not inconsistent with the canon either.
I might end up using this idea in one or more of my stories in some way, so I wanted to write it down. I also don't think it's very spoilery, so I'm not particularly averse to revealing it in advance.
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