A dramatic new Star Wars theory suggests the Sith founded the Republic, not the Jedi, radically transforming their 1,000-year plan to ensure the dominance of the dark side. Adherents of the light side believed the Jedi and the Republic existed in a state of symbiosis, with each flourishing alongside the other. Though the Jedi embraced the Republic, the Sith ultimately came to understand politics was the greatest weakness of the Jedi. The very detachment that makes a Jedi a competent and capable servant of the Force naturally means they struggle to understand the emotional undercurrents that run through the political arena.
This weakness was, of course, ultimately capitalized upon by Darth Sidious, who considered himself the greatest of the Sith Lords. As ruthless and intelligent as he may have been, though, Palpatine profited from those who had gone before him. He was playing only the final moves in a cosmic game of chess between light and dark, one that had been running for a thousand years, since the reformation of the Republic. One shocking new Star Wars theory suggests the end had been set from that very foundation, a millennium before he rose to power.
