{"id":645460,"date":"2026-05-15T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:46:11","slug":"star-wars-confirms-darth-vader-kept-one-secret-from-palpatine-was-he-planning-to-betray-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645460\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Confirms Darth Vader Kept One Secret From Palpatine (Was He Planning to Betray Him?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sith are notorious for their lack of loyalty to others in Star Wars<\/a>, including (if not especially) when it comes to their Sith masters. That is in part what makes the Sith Rule of Two<\/a> so precarious. That is, because there is only ever one master and one apprentice, it is all too easy for the master to be usurped\u2014which then means that new Sith master must find an apprentice, and the cycle continues.<\/p>\n

Perhaps no Sith in Star Wars movies and TV shows<\/a> understands this better than Palpatine, as he killed his own Sith master, Darth Plagueis, and then had a series of apprentices, ending with Darth Vader. Vader, interestingly, never made a direct play to usurp Palpatine. However, new details about the fan-favorite Sith\u2019s lightsaber just suggested that he may have been plotting Palpatine\u2019s demise all along.<\/p>\n

Darth Vader Had A Major Lightsaber Secret<\/p>\n

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In a brand-new book, Star Wars: The Secrets of the Sith: The Chronicles of Emperor Palpatine<\/a>, the text reads, \u201cWhen [Jedi Master Kirik Infil\u2019a\u2019s] weapon was destroyed, Vader salvaged its crystal and constructed his own lightsaber, simple in design but devastating in function.\u201d Notably, this book is written from Palpatine\u2019s perspective\u2014meaning this is Palpatine\u2019s understanding of Vader\u2019s lightsaber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s already been confirmed in Star Wars canon that Vader had a dual-phase saber. Given that Palpatine believed Vader\u2019s lightsaber was \u201csimple in design,\u201d which contradicts this dual-phase construction, it\u2019s safe to assume that Vader had intentionally concealed this aspect of his lightsaber from Palpatine. That, alone, suggests that Vader had at least considered eventually betraying his Sith master, as he wanted his weapon to be more powerful than even Palpatine knew.<\/p>\n

The dual-phase lightsaber design is an interesting choice in particular in this context, as one if its features was that it would allow the wielder to extend or shorten the blade mid-battle, which would have given Vader a clear advantage, especially if he could have taken Palpatine by surprise with it. <\/p>\n

\"Anakin<\/p>\n

The fact that Vader had kept such a secret from Palpatine reasonably raises questions about whether he indeed intended to eventually attempt to overthrow Palpatine. However, this is far from the first sign that Anakin\/Vader was contemplating that very thing. In Star Wars: Episode III \u2013 Revenge of the Sith, when Padm\u00e9 arrives on Mustafar, Anakin already told her that he could overthrow Palpatine and rule with her. Yes, Anakin was deluded in thinking this was possible, but clearly, it was an option in his mind.<\/p>\n

Yet, Padm\u00e9\u2019s fate may have been the very thing that prevented that from happening. After losing Padm\u00e9, which he believed also meant the death of his children (who he thought was just one baby), Anakin felt that he had lost everything\u2014and that was no doubt Palpatine\u2019s plan. With that context, it makes complete sense that the fight would have been taken out of Vader, at least until he met his son. Based on this detail regarding his lightsaber, though, it seems he still left the door open to usurp Palpatine.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below\u00a0and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sith are notorious for their lack of loyalty to others in Star Wars, including (if not especially)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[133075,134703,88,206,5295],"class_list":["post-645460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-answer-feature","tag-darth-vader","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}