#sith

[paulgadzikowski]

This is why I refer to Kylo Ren as Darth Sipid

the template would later branch out to any negative word, but the original naming scheme for sith lords was darth + a negative word starting with 'in', with the front cut off. e.g. Darth (In)vader, Darth (In)sidious, etc. in a return to tradition, my star wars property centres the fearsome Darth Cestuous

[hawkins-batman]

I’m a day late for Will’s birthday, but here’s a sneak peak of the top half a what will be a larger piece of a Byler x Star Wars crossover I’m commissioning from @lovetositinsilence!

Mike Wheeler tries to save Possessed!Will Byers but make it Star Wars! Full piece coming soon! ❤️💙💛💙

In the meantime, you guys go check out his art! Especially you Arcane fans! It’s incredible!

[david-talks-sw]

Crazy to me that this of all things is what makes me type out a post when I have so many in drafts just waiting to be completed but hey. Gotta vent. Here goes.

Everyone was commenting in bad faith, in the comments and X is where intelligent discourse goes to perish, so taking this seriously (or as seriously as a "who would win" debate can allow):

This could go either way!

On the one hand, yes, Maul is the more skilled fighter.

Sure, technique-wise, Qimir is very skilled... but he fights like "a mean Jedi who cheats in a fight."

Maul-- *Darth Maul fights like a Sith Lord. He's been trained the old fashioned Sith way from a very early age.

From a narrative POV too, this tracks.

Qimir's master is Plagueis, essentially a Sith whose interest and focus is in science and the occult. He taught Sidious just enough for the latter to master the seven forms, then went back to his research.

Sidious, on the other hand, was a political animal who NEEDED a more fighting-savvy apprentice to do the dirty work in the shadows, and thus molded Maul to be such a weapon.

And you see this too in how either fighter maintains control of a duel.

I'd rank Sol and Qui-Gon at a comparable level.

We see that when Sol gets either angry OR focused, Qimir finds himself at a disadvantage and begins to falter, either retreating or drastically changing tactics. Qimir loses both those fights.

Compare with how Maul handled Qui-Gon in either of those states. He lets Qui-Gon rush at him, then resorts to dirty tricks when Qui-Gon is in a more defensive state. That's how a Sith does it. That's why Maul wins.

HOWEVER! Maul has a flaw that he never, ever outgrows.

In a situation where he's superior, he gets arrogant. He gets cocky. He takes his sweet time to gloat and do the flips and whirl the saber and taunt his prey.

It's why Obi-Wan almost always beats him. It's why Ahsoka, an inferior fighter, beats him too. It's why he didn't see Sidious coming.

Like a true Sith, Maul's overconfidence is his weakness.

You know who doesn't have that weakness?

The guy who does have Jedi training. Who put in the work and already outgrew his own ego and arrogance.

Friggin' Qimir.

Who is seen pulling off no-bullshit kill after no-bullshit kill. Screw the pageantry, screw a clean win.

Padawan breaks his mask? Stabbed in the heart.

Jedi attacks him by surprise? Breaks his neck.

Multiple Jedi attack him? Trakata moves left and right until they're all dead.

So Qimir is a more calculating and focused fighter.

Which means that what a duel between the two comes down to is external circumstances. Their levels aren't so distant that Maul would blitz the Stranger, this would be a long duel.

That said, Qimir is more likely to die in the heat of battle.

But if Maul merely wounds him? Then 9 times out of 10 he'll hang around and gloat, which is something Qimir would capitalize on to deliver a killing blow.

Procrastination over, venting complete.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I was gonna say that the Sith are a sci fi invention in that philosophies and religions that are 100% evil don’t really exist in real life, but then I remembered that Objectivism exists.

[mademoiselle-cookie]

Also, Sidious is a space racist, why would he listen to a non-human ?

Thrawn would not have saved the empire had he been around during the original trilogy

This is such a common line of thought I see, that his presence single handedly turns everything around (literally this is just the qui-gon lives thing but evil except the people who push this idea are thrawn stans who can never acknowledge that he is evil), usually because "tie defender is better ship therefore victory inevitable"

There are a few things wrong with this

Regarding the tie defender, aside from the fact that it was still in development a year before Yavin and that even when development was done it would take time to mass produce the craft and train pilots for it, a single weapon does not win a war, not even a "superior" one (see the tiger tanks of wwii), how you use it matters, sure thrawn could use the defenders effectively, but not every imperial commander could, and that's not even addressing how rotten to the core the empire is as a system, or how having small ships without hyperdrives is a deliberate choice by the empire to breed dependency and curb independence in pilots and that the defender flies in the face of this foundational mindset of the empire

Secondly is the nature of the fight against the empire itself

This is not a conventional war, this is a fantasy war (dressed in Sci fi), the way to win is via heroes defeating the evil overlord with friendship, trust, and a little magic

And that precisely why Thrawn lost in Rebels!

He only looked at things as a military conflict, a war of resources, strategies, and tactics, that is why he dismissed Ezra acting as a Jedi to be a losing choice, and why he was so blindsided by the end result

[darthdori]

1 year since i started playing swtor and made her🌈

[alding-art]

Zarrik, my Sith Warrior from the Old Republic era. I've gone back and given him an armour upgrade so he is better protected and a bit more cohesive in terms of design.

[samanthadoodles]

Anakin Skywalker 💔

Print made for Fan Expo Chicago 2024. Signed by Hayden Christensen at the event.

[oooklathemok]

[tesb]

Osha bleeding a kyber crystal in The Acolyte – 1.08 (2024)

[oonaluna-art]

Anakin's corruption to the Dark Side.

These are some text-free panels from my comic-format fanfiction! [You can read it on AO3!]

[no1kylorenfan]

creds: people on pinterest

[whitejays-galaxy]

I had to

Meanwhile Dooku and Palpatine

[vharax]

Even Jedi need furry friends✨

[loverboy-havocboy]

i think it's great that people who've suffered religious trauma feel a connection to anakin. i also think it's deeply troubling that the majority of them are either unable to recognize or unwilling to admit that the religion he was indoctrinated into and abused by was the sith and not, in fact, the jedi.