- Plagueis defeating the Woebegone's crew despite being outnumbered and still suffering from the wound he received from the mining incident on Bal'demnic.
- The lightsaber duel between Plagueis and Venamis is nothing short of epic. Both Darths battle their way through Sojourn's jungles while using their alien biologies to enhance their lightsaber forms, culminating in Plagueis' narrow defeat of Venamis.
- Pax Teem and the Gran Protectorate actually outwitting Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis, failing only due to dumb luck (the assassin order they hired wanted to make amends for almost botching a previous job for Palpy). Palpatine is actually shocked when he realizes they've been had.
- The fight between Plagueis and the assassins hired to kill him is astounding. It displays in no uncertain terms just HOW members of the Sith Order managed to survive all those centuries against an entire galaxy. Thirty-six Maladian assassins - Professional Killers known for killing multiple Jedi - go up against one Sith Lord, with the element of surprise and injurynote on their side. The Sith Lord wins.
- To be clear, Muun have three hearts, one primary and two subsidiaries. Plagueis fought off most of the Maladian assassins while the first back-up was going into fibrillation, fought through the second back-up failing despite it nearly knocking him out from pain, and was still millimetres away from probably killing all of the Maladians when Palpatine and Sate Pestage arrived. That's right, he pulls Assassin Outclassin' while he's having frickin' heart attacks. He's also using the Force to clamp his other wounds closed while killing them with Force skills, his lightsabre, and in a few cases his bare hands. Such an outstanding badass.
- Sidious' brutal revenge against Pax Teem is as epic as it's terrifying, and an excellent reminder of how dangerous it's to screw over Sith Lords. An utterly enraged Sidious effortlessly infiltrates Pax Teem and his accomplices' lair (an official embassy on Coruscant), wipes out the guards and guests alike without so much as breaking a sweat, then smashes his way into Teem's premature celebration. He proceeds to utterly terrify Teem by slaughtering the rest of his guests before him, then gives him a brutal death by using the Force to set a fire and engulf Teem in flames.
- The degree of Palpatine's manipulative skills. He began manipulating Plagueis from the day he saw him...or so he claims.
- While Plagueis never managed to acquire true immortality, he still went far in his studies of the midi-chlorians and managed to get some impressive results from his years of experiments on them, managing to heal himself partially and of regiving some youth to his damaged body, of manipulating midi-chlorians in others' bodies to either heal or kill them, though his greatest achievement is surely of being able to kill and revive Darth Venamis several times before Venamis' body reached its limits.
- The Sith Order in general is this, due to centuries of power escalation as intended by the Rule of Two. Case in point: when Plagueis first initiates Palpatine into the Order, he explains over several years exactly how much command of the Force and how many martial and manipulative skills they need to develop in order to keep the Grand Plan alive. The kind of Force power and control that would take a Jedi a lifetime to master? For a Sith, that's the price of admission.
- In a more subtle way, and possibly YMMV, but the book turns out to be a Batman Gambit on the part of the Force itself. Plagueis and Palpatine try manipulating the midi-chlorians to create their own life form... and look who they create when they do: the man ultimately responsible for the downfall of the Sith! The Force itself Out-Gambitted the Sith!
- For all his flaws and inadequacies as a Supreme Chancellor, Finis Valorum is far from being blind or stupid. Right before the Blockade of Naboo, he's able to notice and pull together some parts of the Sith Grand Plan, pointing that someone is seeding dissent and conflicts in the Outer Rim worlds and that the great corporations are arming themselves, as if heading to a great galactic conflict. Palpatine/Sidious himself is (begrudgingly) impressed by that feat of clairvoyance.
- Palpatine finally killing Plagueis. It's the moment he finally proves himself Eviler than Thou to his master, delivering him an impressive "The Reason You Suck" Speech before outlining his own plans for the future now that Plagueis is out of the way.
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