Dude, Where's My New Apprentice?
Assuming Anakin was created by one of the Sith, how did he come to be abandoned on Tatooine instead of raised by the Sith since birth? I offer one hypothesis.
After that line in the opera, I kept wondering: was Anakin created by the Sith? And if he was, why did they leave him on Tatooine?
If Plageuis created him, I would expect Palpatine to go pick him up right away after he killed Plageuis and start training him to be the perfect apprentice instead of risking getting him messed up by a loving mother or something. He could always say he was adopting an orphan or something that would be good PR. If Palpatine created him, I would definitely expect him to do that. He could always collect Maul and Tyrannus anyway, not as apprentices but as "allies" or servants, Dark but not Sith, sort of like Asajj Ventress in the EU.
And if he didn't know Anakin existed, why didn't he know? Didn't Plageuis teach Palpatine everything he knew? And if he hadn't learned quite all of Plageuis's secrets, as he didn't if Plageuis could really stop people from dying, why didn't he wait a little longer to kill him?
So here's a stab at a workable scenario.
Plageuis figures out how to bring about a virgin birth and tries it, either because he wants a new apprentice or just because he can (in the second case, Anakin being filled to the gills with midichlorians is not part of his plan). He is preparing to break the news to his apprentice Palpatine that they have a really neat new power they can start plotting to use against the Jedi somehow. Unfortunately, Palpatine kills him first. Then he discovers his master's records of what he had just done and spends the next few decades kicking himself. Even more unfortunately--or is it fortunately?--Plageuis didn't mention the location of any living experiments. So Palpatine doesn't know Anakin exists. When Anakin finally does show up ten years later, Palpatine might connect the dots, but if he does, he naturally keeps that information to himself. When he says Plageuis taught him everything he knew, he meant it from a certain point of view: Plageuis would have taught Palpatine everything he knew if Palpatine hadn't killed him prematurely.
I think it fits. Unless Anakin wasn't created by the Sith. But where's the fun in that? I especially like the idea of Plageuis just messing around, seeing what he could do, and inadvertantly conceiving the Chosen One, eventual destroyer of the Sith.
After that line in the opera, I kept wondering: was Anakin created by the Sith? And if he was, why did they leave him on Tatooine?
If Plageuis created him, I would expect Palpatine to go pick him up right away after he killed Plageuis and start training him to be the perfect apprentice instead of risking getting him messed up by a loving mother or something. He could always say he was adopting an orphan or something that would be good PR. If Palpatine created him, I would definitely expect him to do that. He could always collect Maul and Tyrannus anyway, not as apprentices but as "allies" or servants, Dark but not Sith, sort of like Asajj Ventress in the EU.
And if he didn't know Anakin existed, why didn't he know? Didn't Plageuis teach Palpatine everything he knew? And if he hadn't learned quite all of Plageuis's secrets, as he didn't if Plageuis could really stop people from dying, why didn't he wait a little longer to kill him?
So here's a stab at a workable scenario.
Plageuis figures out how to bring about a virgin birth and tries it, either because he wants a new apprentice or just because he can (in the second case, Anakin being filled to the gills with midichlorians is not part of his plan). He is preparing to break the news to his apprentice Palpatine that they have a really neat new power they can start plotting to use against the Jedi somehow. Unfortunately, Palpatine kills him first. Then he discovers his master's records of what he had just done and spends the next few decades kicking himself. Even more unfortunately--or is it fortunately?--Plageuis didn't mention the location of any living experiments. So Palpatine doesn't know Anakin exists. When Anakin finally does show up ten years later, Palpatine might connect the dots, but if he does, he naturally keeps that information to himself. When he says Plageuis taught him everything he knew, he meant it from a certain point of view: Plageuis would have taught Palpatine everything he knew if Palpatine hadn't killed him prematurely.
I think it fits. Unless Anakin wasn't created by the Sith. But where's the fun in that? I especially like the idea of Plageuis just messing around, seeing what he could do, and inadvertantly conceiving the Chosen One, eventual destroyer of the Sith.