Does all that mean that Palpatine learned how to create life and made Anakin? Does it also mean that Palpatine was the deadly student of Plagus? Or did Palpatine have Plagus create anakin then he killed Plagus?

Something else that I still don't know is who originally found the Dark Side and began teaching it to others? I heard somewhere that the lightning used by Palpatine was possibly stolen knowledge of the Sith race not the Dark Jedi. Anyone know of this?

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I have no doubt he was the one to put all the dark visions about his mother's and Padme's dying into Anakin's dreams.

I think there was a rare moment of truth between Palpatine and Anakin/Vader when he said that only one knew how to create life, that being Plagus the Wise, but if they worked together they could discover the secret as well. I think Plagus WAS the only one to learn how to do this.

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As far as "finding the Dark Side..." goes, there isn't anything to find. I believe it is all the Force; the emotional/belief state of the wielder is what makes it dark or light.

So Sith, using it for their own selfish reasons, use passion to guide the force. Everyone knows that anger and hatred are two of the strongest emotions, and that makes the Force very powerful.

The Jedi are the opposite, and seek overwhelming love and selflessness for the good of all, which in its purest form is powerful as well.

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On Halloween weekend a group of friends and I dressed up to go downtown and try for the Big Bucks. (The local "Court Avenue Business community" offers $500 prize for best costume). Anyway, we went as a demon and the Seven Deadly Sins. (I was Wrath/Anger.)

Anywho, I was keeping in character the whole time, going up snarling at people and so on, when here comes this little threesome dressed up like Love Children from the 60's. No matter what I did, they were just like "Love you, peace out."

Yeah, yeah, I know we were all just pretending, but that did hit home. Anyone else I went up to got all dark and evil, or scared, or supercilious, or something like that. These three little chickies were the only one to offer up love to hatred.

Like I said, though we were playing make-believe, it really came through, and was a pretty powerful moment. Hehe... Anger actually felt kinda helpless! I couldn't make 'em mad!

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As for the "how you use it", that is actually a true jedi philosphy, created by Kyle Katarn (established in STAR WARS JEDI ACADEMY): "Jaden, remember, nothing is inherently evil. It is how you use it that makes it good or evil, wether you use it for the benefit of the people or for your own selfish needs."

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Takes TWO to get a correct set of chromosomes, you know...

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Well, dead.

There was no place for him to get a "Y" chromosome in order to be a guy.

I find that very strange, come to think about it, because he actually should have been a FEMALE, a clone of Schmi.

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...but if I'm a big and bad darksider who wants to create a super-powerful apprentice, I in my fat-headedness would use some of my own midichlorians and genetic make up to make that possible. And after all, Schmi was not, so far as we know, Force sensitive...

...but Plagus was.

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How the heck can manipulating what essentially is a symbiote create the species that symbiote shares its life cycle with? It's like taking mitochondria and somehow manipulating them to come up with a human being!

(For those who don't remember their biology, mitochondria are the little powerhouses in all living cells. The are not an inherent part of the cells, but began way back in the day as bacteria that moved into them. It provided the nourishment living cells needed, in turn which powered the body, while the cells provided the bacteria with food and protection. Kinda like the bacteria in termites guts that digest the cellulose of wood for them. A nice little symbiotic relationship.)

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Then again, it's quite possible Lucas really didn't think about this sort of question and didn't sit and reason it out like we're doing now. He should know better, we're Star Wars fans after all.

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