Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Sidious the Proud?
I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend.
Darth Sidious was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so proud he could manipulate anyone to do anything he wanted. He could fool Jedi, soldiers, politicians…even his fellow Sith. And he used them all to make himself the most powerful being in the universe. He had such a knowledge of the world and people around him…he could even use them to keep himself from dying.
He became so powerful and so obsessed with immortality. The only thing he was afraid of was, well…dying. Which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he believed his apprentice to be under his control. Then, his apprentice killed him to save his own son.
Luckily though, he had a plan in case he were ever to die. He had himself cloned and, upon his death, transferred his essence to one of his clones. He tried to rebuild his Empire and even went as far as to turn the grandson of his former apprentice to the dark side. He had everything he needed to retake the galaxy once and for all.
But sadly, one of his clones escaped and fell in love. Then, their daughter became a Jedi and turned his new apprentice against him as well. He tried to kill them both and claim the galaxy for himself. But in the end, he was destined to fail. Because by that point, he was no longer himself.
His mind was gone. His soul was weak. His body was falling apart. By that point, he was nothing more than a shell of his former self. A shadow. A relic. A phantom.
He had tried to live forever. But in the end, he had only degraded himself.
And so, Darth Sidious died at last. Destroyed by his own pride.
I suspected this would happen since the night he struck me down in my sleep. Now, my fellow Sith and I can only watch as the last of our lineage is reduced to dust.
Darth Sidious. The last Sith. The man who fooled everyone as well as himself.
Unable to admit defeat. Unable to accept death. Unable to grow up.
A stubborn old man stuck in the past.
A fool in a line of fools marching into oblivion.
That is the legacy of the Sith.
A shell of a title upon a shell of a man too easily slain by Jedi.