达斯·西迪厄斯（Darth Sidious）

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Darth Sidious 达斯·西迪厄斯

Homeworld:
Naboo
母星：
纳布

Species:
Human
种族：
人类

Gender:
Male
性别：
男

Size:
1.78 meters
身高：
1.78米

Affiliation:
Sith, Galactic Republic, Galactic Empire
隶属：
西斯、银河共和国、银河帝国

电影



Behind a curtain of secrecy lurked Darth Sidious, a mysterious Sith Lord and puppet-master of the tumultuous events that brought an end to the Republic. The Sith order had been extinct for a millennium, yet somehow, two survived -- the Master Darth Plagueis and his apprentice, Darth Sidious. Plagueis, the wise, was an adept of some of the most arcane and unnatural applications of the Force. As Sidious described, Plagueis had uncovered a path to immortality through the manipulation of the dark side of the Force. Plagueis could, it was said, coax the midi-chlorians present in all living cells to create life from nothingness.
达斯·西迪厄斯暗藏在隐秘的幕布之后。这位神秘的西斯尊主操控了一系列动荡事件，最终导致共和国覆亡。西斯武士团已滅絕上千年，但不知何故，有两个西斯幸存了下来——师父达斯·普雷格斯和徒弟达斯·西迪厄斯。智者普雷格斯熟谙一些最神秘最反常的原力应用。据西迪厄斯的描述，普雷格斯发现了运用原力黑暗面实现永生的方法。普雷格斯据说可以操控所有活细胞内的纤原体，从虚无中创造生命。

But for a Sith, immortality was a futile pursuit. The secretive Sith order counted upon the death of a master and the rise of an apprentice to further itself. True to tradition, Sidious killed Plagueis upon learning his Master's secrets. It was then that Sidious took an apprentice, who would eventually become Darth Maul. Maul would be Sidious' blunt instrument, his deadly weapon to carry out his plans while he remained in the shadows, conspiring to take over the Republic in its waning years.
但对西斯而言，永生只是枉然的追求。秘而不宣的西斯武士团只能靠师父死亡和徒弟上位的方式来自我延续。西迪厄斯按照这个传统，在学到师父的秘密后，就杀死了普雷格斯。当时西迪厄斯收了一个徒弟，此人最终将变成达斯·摩尔。摩尔将成为西迪厄斯的愚钝工具，一件用于执行其计划的致命武器，而西迪厄斯则躲在暗处，密谋掌控垂暮之年的共和国。

Sidious arranged for the cowardly Neimoidians to brazenly blockade and invade the peaceful planet of Naboo in protest over increased taxation from the senate. Sidious never contacted the Neimoidians directly. Instead, he relied on holographic communication. Such long distance transmissions coupled with obscuring dark robes kept his identity and location a secret to all of his accomplices. The Neimoidians never suspected Sidious's public persona -- a highly placed Republic official who would benefit handsomely from the Naboo invasion.
西迪厄斯安排懦弱的内莫伊迪亚人悍然封锁并侵略爱好和平的纳布行星，以抗议议会的增税举措。西迪厄斯从不直接接触内莫伊迪亚人，而是代之以全息通信。如此长距离的信号传送，加上朦胧的黑色长袍，使他的身份和行踪对所有的同谋而言，都是不可捉摸的秘密。内莫伊迪亚人从来没有怀疑到西迪厄斯的公开身份——一位地位显赫的共和国官员，他将从纳布入侵事件中获益良多。

Sidious ordered the Neimoidians to kill the Jedi ambassadors sent to negotiate a settlement. When they failed, Sidious dispatched Darth Maul. Throughout the invasion, Sidious was manipulating both ends, egging on the normally non-confrontational Neimoidians into combat, and somehow stalling procedures in the Senate to keep the Republic from interfering.
西迪厄斯命令内莫伊迪亚人杀害派来谈判解决争端的绝地特使。当他们失败后，西迪厄斯派出达斯·摩尔。整个侵略行动中，西迪厄斯自始至终巧妙地操纵双方的局势，他煽动原本不搞对抗的内莫伊迪亚人投入争斗，又设法拖延议会的议事程序以阻挠共和国的介入。

Eventually, though, Naboo's young monarch Queen Amidala returned and led a resistance movement that defeated the mechanized Trade Federation army. Darth Maul was killed by Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi.
但最后，纳布的年轻君主阿米达拉女王返回纳布领导了一场抵抗运动，击败了贸易联盟的机器人军团。达斯·摩尔也被绝地武士欧比-旺·克诺比杀死。

Though on the surface it would appear the Sith agenda was defeated, the invasion had long-lasting implications for the Republic. In the resulting political upheaval, Supreme Chancellor Valorum was voted out of office, to be replaced by the ambitious Senator Palpatine. And despite the death of his prized apprentice, none of the Jedi knew for sure of Sidious' existence, or of his true identity.
虽然在表面上看来西斯的计划失败了，但这次侵略行动给共和国带来了深远的影响。在此次事件造成的政治大动乱中，最高议长瓦洛伦被投票解职，取而代之的是野心勃勃的帕尔帕廷议员。尽管西迪厄斯失去了宝贵的徒弟，可没有一个绝地能确认西迪厄斯的存在，或他的真实身份。

Having lost his apprentice, Sidious' next gambit centered not on the raising of a new apprentice, but the converting a suitable Jedi candidate. His selection was the legendary yet disillusioned Jedi Master Count Dooku. Sidious lured Dooku to the dark side, granting him the Sith title of Darth Tyranus. Unlike Maul, Tyranus possessed more guile and craft in meeting Sidious' aims.
失去徒弟后，西迪厄斯的下一步棋不是养育一个新徒弟，而是策反一名合适的绝地人选。他选中的是具有传奇经历，但理想幻灭的绝地大师杜库伯爵。西迪厄斯把杜库诱入黑暗面，授予他达斯·泰拉纳斯的西斯头衔。泰拉纳斯与摩尔不同，他更加诡计多端，更利于达成西迪厄斯的目标。

Darth Tyranus led a Separatist movement that split the Republic and created a tense era of political upheaval. He also saw to the creation of a secret clone army that would figure in Sidious' plan to destroy the Republic. When the time was right, Count Dooku emerged as the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, a militarized force of dissidents challenging the Republic for autonomy. The Republic responded with their newly discovered army, and the Clone Wars erupted.
达斯·泰拉纳斯领导的分离主义运动分裂了共和国，一时政治剧变，局势紧张。他还监督建造了一支秘密的克隆人军队，这支军队将被纳入西迪厄斯毁灭共和国的计划。时机成熟后，杜库伯爵立刻化身为独立星系邦联的领导人，率领由持不同政见者组成的武装力量挑战共和国的权威，寻求自治。共和国立刻动用新发现的军队，以强硬姿态回应，克隆人战争爆发了。

During the Clone Wars, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine seized further political power in the name of galactic security. Sidious was pleased -- for in truth, he was Palpatine, a secret he had kept from the galaxy for decades.
克隆人战争期间，最高议长帕尔帕廷以维护银河安全之名，攫取了更多的政治权力。西迪厄斯非常满意——事实上，他就是帕尔帕廷，几十年来他一直对银河系隐藏着这个秘密。

His identity was exposed during his quest for the ultimate Sith apprentice. Having closely monitored Anakin Skywalker for years, Sidious felt he was the ideal Sith to make true his vision of new society built upon Sith principals. As Palpatine, he befriended Skywalker, becoming a close friend and a fatherly authority to a youthful warrior often confused by the seemingly boundless power and abilities he had at his disposal. Sidious's silken words of advice would steer Anakin away from the guiding tenets of the Jedi Code. Skywalker grew to trust Palpatine, believing that the friendly politician had his best interests at heart.
在寻求终极的西斯学徒时，他暴露了自己的身份。在细致观察阿纳金·天行者多年后，西迪厄斯感到他就是那个理想的西斯，能够助他实现愿望，按照西斯的准则建立一个新社会。他以帕尔帕廷的身份接近天行者，成为他的密友，在这位年轻武士对自己所拥有的看似无尽力量和能力感到困惑时，给予父亲般的支持。西迪厄斯的美丽顺耳建议将带着阿纳金越来越偏离绝地信条的指导原则。天行者越来越信赖帕尔帕廷，相信这个友好的政治家是真心为他好。

Sidious carefully engineered Anakin's fall. To test Skywalker's mettle, Sidious' ruse involved the "kidnapping" of Chancellor Palpatine by his Confederacy underlings. During the mission to rescue the Chancellor, Anakin confronted Darth Tyranus. The two dueled, and at Palpatine's goading, Anakin killed the Sith Lord. Anakin had the power and was ready to use it, Sidious grinned. Anakin would be his.
西迪厄斯谨慎地导演了阿纳金的堕落。为了试探天行者的气魄，西迪厄斯的诡计之一就是让自己的邦联手下“绑架”帕尔帕廷议长。阿纳金在营救议长的任务中与达斯·泰拉纳斯狭路相逢。两人展开决斗，最终阿纳金在帕尔帕廷的唆使下杀死了这位西斯尊主。西迪厄斯笑了，阿纳金具备那种力量，而且作好了使用它的准备。阿纳金很快就是他的了。

While the leading Jedi Masters concentrated on tracking down the military commander of the Confederacy, Sidious further ensnared Anakin. Skywalker was torn by prophetic visions of his wife dying in childbirth. Knowing of these premonitions, Palpatine revealed to Anakin he was the gateway to arcane Sith knowledge, including the ability to prevent others from dying.
当几位主要的绝地大师都专注于追踪邦联的军事指挥官时，西迪厄斯进一步诱惑阿纳金。天行者因预见妻子将在生产时死去而心急如焚。帕尔帕廷对这些征兆一清二楚，他告诉阿纳金，他就是通向西斯密学的大门，包括阻止他人死亡的能力。



The Jedi eventually discovered Palpatine's Sith leanings and confronted the Chancellor. Sidious lashed out with blinding speed, brandishing a previously hidden lightsaber blade in a sudden strike that killed all of the Jedi Masters Mace Windu had assembled to arrest the Chancellor. With Anakin Skywalker's help, Sidious was able to defeat Mace, though he was severely scarred by the reflected power of his dark side lightning. To conceal his disfigured visage, Sidious returned to his simple Sith robes.
绝地们最终发现了帕尔帕廷的西斯身份，准备与议长对抗。梅斯·温杜带领一队绝地大师前去逮捕议长，不料西迪厄斯挥起事先藏好的光剑，以迅雷不及掩耳之势突然进攻，杀死了除温杜以外的所有大师。在阿纳金·天行者的帮助下，西迪厄斯击败梅斯，但自己也被黑暗面闪电反射回来的力量严重毁容。为了遮掩自己扭曲的面容，西迪厄斯重新穿起古朴的西斯长袍。

With Anakin committed to the dark side, Sidious took him as his apprentice. He renamed him Darth Vader and dispatched him to destroy the Jedi Temple. Then, using his authority as Chancellor Palpatine, he contacted the clone commanders scattered throughout the galaxy to enact Order 66 -- a secret, executive decree that identified every Jedi as a traitor to the Republic. The loyal clone troopers executed their treasonous Jedi generals in cold blood.
阿纳金投入黑暗面后，西迪厄斯收之为徒，并赐名达斯·维德。他派维德去摧毁绝地圣殿。接着，他动用身为帕尔帕廷议长的权力，联络散布在银河各地的克隆人指挥官，宣布实施66号指令——这条秘密行政命令把每一名绝地判为共和国的叛徒。忠诚的克隆人士兵冷酷地处决了叛国的绝地将军。

Sidious then concocted a tale of his disfigurement at the hands of rebellious Jedi, and went before the Senate. By the end of his rousing speech, supported by the thunderous applause of fervent patriots, the Republic was no more. Sidious had declared his new order as the first Galactic Empire. He was now known as Emperor Palpatine, supreme ruler of the galaxy.
西迪厄斯随后重回议会，捏造了惨遭叛乱绝地毁容的故事。在他发布煽动性演说后，狂热的爱国者掌声雷动，共和国终于不复存在。西迪厄斯宣布成立银河第一帝国，实行新秩序。他现在被人称为帕尔帕廷皇帝，整个银河系的最高统治者。

衍生宇宙



Darth Sidious' plans to unleash the Sith upon the galaxy and do away with the Jedi had been in development for decades. Despite the seeming setback of the death of his apprentice, Sidious continues his shadowy plots. Given his endless patience and penchant for complex schemes carried out in secrecy, it is likely the full results of his machinations will not appear for years to come.
达斯·西迪厄斯欲使西斯统治整个银河系，并赶尽杀绝绝地，这个计划已经进行了数十年。徒弟被杀后，西迪厄斯似乎遭到挫折，但他仍然继续实施他的黑暗阴谋。他有着无穷无尽的耐心，而且特别喜欢秘密实施极其复杂的计划，似乎这个阴谋还要好几年的时间才会产出最终结果。

So complex were Sidious' plans that he could not allow unwitting agents to stumble upon them or otherwise interfere. That is where Maul was best used: a stealthy assassin dispatched on missions to remove any impedance to Sidious' master plan. To that end, Sidious even sicced Maul on the greatest criminal empire the galaxy had known, Black Sun, to ensure the syndicate would not ruin what he had carefully plotted.
西迪厄斯的计划极度复杂精密，因此他不能让手下的执行者在无意中识破计划或妨碍计划实施。这就是摩尔最大的用处：派遣他作为秘密刺客，去为西迪厄斯的大计划扫清一切障碍。为了这个目的，西迪厄斯甚至派摩尔去对付银河系有史以来最大的黑帮集团——黑日，以确保该犯罪组织不会毁掉他精心经营的计划。

Sidious operated from a secret hideout on Coruscant. He seemed to embrace technology, as he equipped Maul with an arsenal of high-tech equipment -- a converted star courier as his prime conveyance, a modified speeder bike for high-speed assaults, and an array of sophisticated probe droids to help on his hunts.
西迪厄斯在科洛桑的一个秘密藏身点操控他的计划。他似乎热衷于技术手段，例如给摩尔配备大量高技术装备——一艘改装的星际快船作为他的主要交通工具、一辆改装过的飞行摩托用于高速突击，还有一批复杂精密的探测机器人用于帮他捕捉猎物。

That the Sith could stage their operations on Coruscant undetected -- the same world that housed the Jedi Temple -- is evidence of the slippery nature of the dark side, and Sidious' mastery of illusion and deceit.
西斯能在科洛桑——绝地圣殿的所在地——进行活动而不被察觉，证明了黑暗面狡猾多变的本性和西迪厄斯对伪装与欺骗的精通。

EN同学呢

普雷格斯在青少年立法计划大楼附近找到帕尔帕廷，发现这名年轻人居然能隐藏自己的原力，使普雷格斯无法判断其原力的强弱。
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他强烈鄙视自己的家人，但并不拒绝自己的家族，再加上好名想不出，因此索性放弃名字，只称自己为“帕尔帕廷”。
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帕尔帕廷一怒之下，在家族飞船上用原力锁喉把父母、兄弟、姐妹和其他船员全部杀死。远在许多光年外的普雷格斯瞬间感受到帕尔帕廷强大的原力释放。普雷格斯帮助帕尔帕廷毁尸灭迹。
一周后，在“量子巨人号”客轮上，17岁的帕尔帕廷正式加入西斯尊主会，宣誓效忠普雷格斯，被赐名“达斯·西迪厄斯”。
普雷格斯开始在麦基托的冰天雪地里考验西迪厄斯。他告诉西迪厄斯，西斯不是屠夫，是未来的创造者。从此，西迪厄斯师从于普雷格斯。
普雷格斯首先带西迪厄斯在低重力的上浮星与各种野兽搏斗。普雷格斯说西迪厄斯总有一天会被原力闪电电到，而黑暗面可能会把他变成容颜苍老、皮肤惨白、嗓音沙哑、眼睛泛黄的怪物。
普雷格斯已不满足于征服死亡，而打算征服生命。他试图通过控制纤原体，实现母体不受精怀孕。
与此同时，帕尔帕廷在达索米尔闲逛期间，撞见一位人类暗夜姐妹。她感觉到了帕尔帕廷强大的原力，于是把一个婴儿送给帕尔帕廷。这个婴儿是她的孩子，浑身布满刺青，是扎布拉克人与人类的混血儿。他的母亲跟一个已故扎布拉克人有两个孩子，由于不希望自己的孩子都受到塔尔津主母的控制，因此就把这个送给帕尔帕廷，希望他过自由的生活。她给这个孩子取名为摩尔。
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普雷格斯第一次向西迪厄斯展示自己在永生方面的研究进展，声称西斯传承已终结，他们俩将永远统治银河系。西迪厄斯则告诉普雷格斯，他在达索米尔收到一个扎布拉克男婴，打算把他训练成一名秘密杀手，而不是真正的西斯尊主。普雷格斯对此表示支持。
经过西迪厄斯22年的艰苦训练，摩尔已成长为一名忠心耿耿、武艺高强的打手。这一点连普雷格斯都赞叹不已。
普雷格斯在这22年里主要隐居在逗留卫星，潜心研究纤原体和原力的秘密，很少抛头露面。
雅文战役前42年，在西迪厄斯的配合下，普雷格斯终于掌握了通过操纵纤原体来掌控他人生死的原力技能。其实验对象韦纳米斯在经过无数次生死轮回后才被赐死。西迪厄斯回科洛桑后，普雷格斯又一个人试图通过原力直接创造生命。在几乎无人察觉的情况下，他的这次原力释放穿越时空，对银河系所有生命都产生了或多或少的影响。但至少在当时看来，这次尝试没有产生显著的效果。
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接着，帕尔帕廷以“达斯·西迪厄斯”的身份秘密联系纽特·冈雷，承诺帮助冈雷升入贸易联盟董事会，以换取冈雷的信任与合作。与冈雷通话完毕后，他马上派摩尔去熟悉多瓦拉星球。很快，摩尔就在那里执行了他的第一个任务。
与此同时，在科洛桑，杜库秘密拜访帕尔帕廷，表达了自己帕尔帕廷的崇敬和对迂腐无能的绝地武士团的不满，而且表示，只要再有一个绝地因共和国或绝地委员会的无能而牺牲，自己就坚决推出绝地武士团。他还向帕尔帕廷透露，绝地委员会现在寄希望于一则古老的预言，期待一位能给原力带来平衡的人出现。


黑戈·达马斯克移居科洛桑，把自己的“西斯渗透者”送给摩尔。摩尔将其命名为“大弯刀号”，作为自己的座驾。

在帕尔帕廷的秘密安排下，恐怖组织星云阵线的成员在埃里亚杜峰会上顺利清洗贸易联盟董事会，使纽特·冈雷成为贸易联盟当之无愧的最高领导人。星云阵线的领导人也被灭口。由于威勒夫·塔金的秘密干预，共和国不可能查清此案。帕尔帕廷还把贸易联盟被盗的奥罗德金矿石通过某个来路不明的账户转移到了瓦洛伦名下的一家航运公司，使人们相信瓦洛伦主张对自由贸易区征税是为了自己的非法勾当。


没过多久，在议长办公室里，瓦洛伦告诉帕尔帕廷，近期关于自己的腐败丑闻迫使议会极大地限制了他作为议长的权力，令他无法公开调动绝地或司法部队干预地区性冲突。他还发现，最近共和国各大军工企业产量剧增。这两件事的同时发生暗示一场更大的阴谋近在咫尺。就在这时，阿米达拉女王来电，贸易联盟的内莫伊迪亚人派别封锁了纳布！

西迪厄斯获悉瓦洛伦秘密请求绝地委员会派遣奎-冈·金和欧比-万·克诺比去调解纳布危机后，命令内莫伊迪亚人杀死两名绝地，企图重演因乔尔危机时的事态。但普雷格斯预见到奎-冈会躲开战斗机器人，并给贸易联盟的旗舰造成损害。于是，西迪厄斯命令贸易联盟提前入侵纳布。同时，普雷格斯和西迪厄斯最终决定，经过一千年的蛰伏后，西斯暴露自己的时刻到了。绝地和阿米达拉女王逃到塔图因后，西迪厄斯原计划派摩尔杀死两名绝地，把女王押回纳布，逼她签署条约，让贸易联盟重新控制纳布的等离子体矿藏。但摩尔失败了。

就在这时，杜库告诉帕尔帕廷，奎-冈把一个九岁的原塔图因奴隶男孩——阿纳金·天行者——带到绝地委员会，声称这就是预言中给原力带来平衡的“天选之子”，因为他没有父亲，由原力孕育，体内纤原体含量惊人。帕尔帕廷在震惊之余，意识到他其实在迎接阿米达拉女王时，见过这个男孩。但如同当年普雷格斯第一次见到帕尔帕廷时没有觉察到其强大的原力一样，帕尔帕廷也没有觉察到阿纳金有强大的原力。普雷格斯听到阿纳金的消息后，惶恐地跑到帕尔帕廷的住处，想亲眼见见这个男孩，但阿纳金不在那里。普雷格斯隐约感觉，贝恩派西斯的末日不远了。

普雷格斯和西迪厄斯都怀疑，阿纳金·天行者就是9年前普雷格斯那次看似失败的原力释放的产物。

阿米达拉女王发起对现任议长的不信任投票后，帕尔帕廷顺利当选为新一任银河共和国最高议长，成为当天银河政坛最闪耀的新星。

当晚，就在普雷格斯陶醉在胜利的喜悦中，做着被西迪厄斯提名为共同议长的美梦时，西迪厄斯用强大的原力闪电杀死了他。西迪厄斯声称：摩尔、内莫伊迪亚人、纳布、克隆人军队、堕落绝地杜库……所有这一切看似普雷格斯的主意，其实都源自西迪厄斯的建议。

然而，纳布危机依然朝着出乎西迪厄斯意料的方向发展。阿米达拉女王表现出惊人的勇气。她联合冈根人的大军对抗贸易联盟战斗机器人部队，最终在绝地和小阿纳金的帮助下战胜了入侵者。摩尔在杀死奎-冈后也被欧比-万腰斩。帕尔帕廷一时间成为银河系唯一的贝恩派西斯尊主。

奎-冈的牺牲成为迫使杜库离开绝地武士团的最后一根稻草。杜库回到母星塞伦诺，继承了“伯爵”的头衔。帕尔帕廷先后与杜库和小阿纳金交谈，决定今后收他们俩为西斯学徒。

以上选自小说《普雷格斯之道》