We would be long and if you would join us.

I've been waiting for you for a while. We meet again at last.

The circle has now complete. When I left you, I was butler. Now I am the master.

Hey there everyone, welcome back to my Star Wars Theory podcast. The Rule of Two will always be a deciding voice within the hierarchy of the Sith, created by Darth Bane.

It basically expects and allows the apprentice to fight his master to attempt to gain control.

Bane believed that it was this act of eternal conflict that made each member of the Rule of Two stronger and more powerful.

The apprentice would gain power and courage attempting to take over his master, while the master only stayed in control if he remained powerful enough to win. This made the Sith strong, but opened up the door for a world without trust.

We see this in the relationship between Vader and Palpatine. Palpatine wanted Anakin to turn to the dark side and be his apprentice. He knew of Anakin's potential as he turned into Darth Vader.

Since the Rule of Two was in the DNA of the Sith, there was always the fear that Vader could rise up and attempt to dethrone Palps.

Therefore, Palpatine engineered a way to keep the upper hand over a very powerful Darth Vader, with a broken body. This is why Vader desperately needed his suit to be more powerful, but Palpatine only allowed Vader to be only so powerful by manipulating his suit.

Today we look at the details of Vader's suit and its limitations. Then we answer the question, what if Darth Vader had a more powerful suit?

This is such an interesting notion. We will open up how a more powerful suit would have changed Vader's trajectory and the events leading up to return to the Jedi.

These are some of my favorite episodes to do, so let's see what happened, shall we?

We've all seen how powerful Anakin Skywalker was before he turned into Darth Vader.

Prased as the Clone Wars hero and the poster boy for the Jedi Academy, Anakin was no doubt strong with the force. However, once he lost Obi-Wan Kenobi out of his own arrogance and had all of his organic limbs severed, he was turned into the iconic and monstrous Darth Vader that we all know today.

Palpatine, just like every Sith Master, knew that their apprentices will one day try to kill them and become the new Sith Lord. This was the way the Sith worked and Sidious was aware of it.

In fact, in the books it stated that Palpatine would find it odd if Vader never tried to overtake him.

Once Vader's connection to the force was reduced drastically after the loss of his limbs, Palpatine's disappointment was reflected on the suit that he made for Vader, making it extremely painful using an incorrect alloy for his legs and the handicap of his shoulder not being able to reach above his head, uncomfortable, sleep preventative and overall just limiting.

The suit was designed to allow Vader to become more powerful than Anakin was before his turn, however, never to exceed his master, being extremely sensitive to force-lankening as well. That said, in legends, Vader was given an opportunity to have a new suit built for him. This suit would have been far more advanced, technologically superior and much more comfortable than his original. However, to be placed into this new suit, Vader would have to have his prosthetics disconnected and his life support would be a little more powerful.

The support system temporarily disabled. Since the process was considered far too risky and most likely would result in his death, the idea was abandoned. On top of this, Anakin was very good at tinkering with electronics, for example he created C3PO at the age of 9 all by himself.

The reasons he never did were because the pain helped him tap into the dark side, through his misery and discomfort, and also because he was just so depressed that he didn't even care enough to have it fixed, he felt he deserved this life of pain and suffering for what he did to pat me, solidifying himself to the dark side of the force and the emperor.

But what if Vader did get that new suit? What if, in his downtime, he got the new parts, added bit by bit and tinkered with his prosthetics, making them more durable, flexible and comfortable.

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