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Probably proxies manipulated by the Sith.
Might be but it doesn’t sound like their style. They want to be in the shadows; out of sight from the Jedi until their plan is fulfilled. Having people going around using the dark side and having red sabers seems too much on the nose.
We don't know that the Sith are the only ones using such weapons.
There is also the possibility that anyone who knows whomever this is is a Sith, dies by the end. And/or the "Sith" also dies so the Jedi Council decides to cover this up as best as possible. With probably only Yoda and a few older council members knowing about it. Might even be why the Jedi would know of the "Rule of Two" at all. Unless Darth Bane was just recodifying something the Sith always did in a stricter fashion, why would the Jedi know about that? (Though as we saw in Rebels, the Sith Temple seems to also follow the idea of two Sith required to do things, much like some of the old Jedi Temples requiring a Master and Apprentice work together to gain entry.)
I've often thought that the simplest solution to this persistent question is that contrary to how it was depicted on Legends: Bane wasn't the Sith Lord to take the order underground, just the one to implement the "Rule of Two". His Empire could have lasted centuries, proving the long term stability of that structure. After all, logically it would have been the one to finally topple the Old Republic an rule the galaxy for a time, and that it was one of his inheritors that convinced the Jedi the Sith were finished when the whole thing came crashing down.
This also explains how Yoda would know Bane on sight, how her knew specifically that it was him that created that rule, and how he would even have a tomb on Moraband in the first place.
Indeed, when they inevitably get to telling that story, part of me wants to see them dust off that abandoned idea for a dark ending for RotJ where Luke actually falls and becomes the new Sith Lord. What if the reason the Jedi were so convinced that both Sith were slain is because they were . . . except the Jedi that slew them had unbeknownst to the rest of the order already been corrupted and recruited, thus the seed was planted.
Side note: The idea of the 'Rule of Two' being a stricter implementation of an existing principle is already implied in TPM. Only it's not a Sith principle, but a Jedi one. It's said outright that the code forbids a Jedi taking on more than one apprentice at a time. The Sith were intended by GL to have originally been a splinter faction of the Jedi; hence a lot of the same training. Even Palpatine remarks of their almost identical practices. So it's a fairly safe bet the Sith (mostly) stuck with that part of the code too.
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From the promotional stuff it definitely appears to be The Sith, but I'm assuming by the Jedi will either never find out they're actual Sith or everyone who does will be dead.
EW.com has some new pictures of Jeki Lon and an interview with the actress who plays her, Dafne Keen. Keen was great in Logan and His Dark Materials, so I'm really looking forward to seeing her in this.
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Our first look at a Neimoidian from the period of roughly 132 BBY.
Even in TCW some had different accents. Didn't George Takei's Neimoidian character basically just use a modified Sulu voice?
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Can we say "Late model Jedi Vectors"?
Also that box thing by his head is a "pocket droid". Autodesk has a cross-promotional thing gong on with it.
- Oh that's so weird. The Temple is up higher . . . or rather, the city surface is lower at this point. I don't recall seeing it depicted that way in any other High Republic material, but I could be wrong.
- "That peace is a lie." I see what they did there . . .
- I'm assuming that glowy green thing on her necklace is her old kyber crystal? If so that's getting lightsaber-hilted up before the finale.
- At this point, I almost hope that's not a Sith. Not a modern one at least; some undead pre-Bane zombie Sith is within the bounds of possibility, and would be more interesting IMO.
Can we say "Late model Jedi Vectors"?
Also that box thing by his head is a "pocket droid". Autodesk has a cross-promotional thing gong on with it.
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Not explicitly, but I thought it is implied by the rising surface and the omission of any changes to the temple. Then again, the Umate is described in the same way as in The Mandalorian (but everything around is is very high in Mando).
Yes explicitly. In every other depiction the surface level of the temple district comes right up to the base of those grand steps before the entrance. In the trailer you can clearly see those same steps leading to a (huge) suspended walkway and mid-air landing pad, and under it all there's a whole extra cut-in step to the ziggurat (that presumably gets covered over in the next century.
Perhaps over the centuries the construction of buildings on Coruscant is like the accretion of geological layers?
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