• Pistcow@lemmy.world
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    Wasn’t the Rule of Two meant to stop all the infighting with the Sith but that just sounds like silo’d infighting.

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      No. Darth Bane implemented the Rule of Two for two reasons, to ensure the Sith could stay under the Jedi’s radar and operate in secrecy, and to turn the infighting from a weakness into a strength.
      Prior to Ruusan, the Sith’s greed and ambition often led to several weaker Sith plotting together to take down more powerful Sith in higher ranks. That meant that over time, positions of power were filled by weaker Sith then before, meaning the order bled itself out.
      Bane though, as the sole surviving Sith after Ruusan, set up the Rule of Two so there was only one apprentice at a time who had to be more powerful than their master in oder to overpower said master, leading over time to stronger and stronger masters and the order again gaining strength to exact its revenge.

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      No, it was implemented to stop twenty weaklings from killing a strong one. Bane thought their large numbers diluted the strength of the individual.