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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
The way it was described in the EU was that at one point in time, there were thousands (?) of Sith Lords but since their primary objective was to be the most powerful Sith in the galaxy, they always ended up killing each other off. So, the Rule of Two (or what ever it was) was established in secrecy, ensuring their existence.
It makes sense to me.  |
The Darth Bane trilogy makes a lot of sense out of it. The Sith before the rule of two had become a bloated, bureacratic mess. Darth Bane used a scorched earth policy to start anew and work in the background ninja-style to exert the most infuence over the galaxy. In the context of the movies, Palpatine was a master working behind the scenes to set up the clone wars as a front to kill off the Jedi and take over as Emperor.
Even with the rule of two, there were always others lurking to step in. Bane's apprentice secretly had an apprentice.