I'm sure most of the people following him didn't know his true nature. And those who do are either too stoned or too scared to do anything about it. As far as everyone else is concerned, he was just some powerful guy they can rally around. Few of his followers like Visas knew what he really believed. Few knew the man behind the mask, not that many people even saw him face-to-face. The most they see is just another powerful guy reuniting the empire they once served.
Agreed. I’d also say that he likely used intermediaries when dealing with most of his allies, so they didn’t actually know who they were dealing with. Sure, they were likely aware they were dealing with the Sith, but probably more so Sith remnants rather than Nihilus.
@@HolyknightVader999 Vaklu and perhaps Tobin might’ve had an idea of who they were dealing it, as it’s implied that Nihilus himself approached at least Vaklu. Though in all reality, he could’ve sent Visas.
If Kreia' words are any indication, the remnants of Revan & Malak's Sith Empire rallied under the Sith Triumvirate with the sole purpose of destroying the Jedi. _"For them, it's all that matters. All that ever mattered..."_ They didn't actually care what Nihilus, Sion, Traya or even Vitiate hiding in the Unknown Regions would to the Galaxy. All they cared about was destroying every last Jedi. Once all Jedi are gone, as Kreia herself states, the galaxy would be theirs one way or the other. They could topple the Republic entirely or do an Exar Kun Meets Palpatine and control the Senate from the shadows. "Oh, so our Sith Lord can and will eat a few planets? Whatever, so long we can rule the galaxy in the end..." It's also important to note that Nihilus could at least communicate in some manner to pass on commands, such as he did to Visas Marr in their introduction scene, and his talks with Sion. Whatever his true intentions were, he COULD at very least convince people to join him through telepathy as well as deceptively claim he was Darth Revan 2.0 creating a New Sith Empire. As eldritch and lovecraftian he might have become, he could still address people on a human level, if only to lie to and use them. I mean, just look at Vitiate/Valkorion/Tenebrae. Many know that he's an Omnicidal Maniac, yet they still follow him because they equate him to a God and believe his genocide won't include them.
Knowing the original idea of sequel trilogy is about discovering the cosmic side of Star Wars, feel like Darth Nihilus would fit so well to be the next big bad villain *BUT IF ONLY*
@@TheEmpireAnimations True, chronologically in regard to the passage of time in the Star Wars Universe. But I was referring to the first Sith Lord ever known in this existence we live in as classical.
Meetra Surik: How can you serve a monster like Nihilus?! Sith Officer: Lady, the guy lifted a wrecked starship from a gravity-crushed dead world and made it into a ghost ship that he flies with _his face exposed to the vacuum of space like he's basking in the wind,_ then parked next to a planet full of Jedi and *ATE IT.* Do I LOOK like I have an argument against THAT, OR that I can survive long enough around him to make the case???!!!
Basically his empire is comprised of zombie corpses, ghosts ships and remnants of the Sith masters and troopers left over from revan's hunger and so desperate for revenge and vengeance that they sell their souls to the devil in form of Nihilus to achieve it.
I’m pretty sure unions and workplace safety laws aren’t concepts that exist when working for Darth Nihilus. Otherwise, Nihilus would be slapped with all sorts of health and safety violations for turning his followers into literal zombies.
Nihilus was, in every sense, the embodiment of the Dark Side in its purest, most primitive form. Without any humanity or motivation to guide it, all he has is the greed, hatred, pain, and yawning empty void in his soul that nothing can ever fill. On the surface, he's everything that the Sith want. Looking deeper, like Traya said, he's a walking insult to the Sith as he's let himself become nothing but a puppet of the Dark Side itself. I can see how he got so many followers despite being a world eating abomination. And why even other Sith fanatics opposed him. Besides the obvious self-preservation, of course.
Like the exile, they are a walking wound of the Force. The difference is that the echo forcefully put into his body whereas the Exile chose to abandon the Force. While he is a darksider, he is no Sith as he wish to merely satisfy his hunger and instead seek freedom by taking control of the Force. No matter how powerful he was, he is still a slave to his hunger. And to Kreia, it was heretical to her as true strength is abandoning the Force and rely on your own strength without relying others
you're actually right, its the first time where sith , jedi, and mandalorians united to stop a threat they knew if not douing so was their end, imagine nihilus not as a galactic threat but universal, as kreaia said: "he is already dead, it is a matter of how many he kills before he falls, and he leaves nothing to conquer on his way" if not stopped, nihilus was the end of life in all the galaxies.
(Right after the Jedi Civil War) Sith Apprentice: Master, we lost. Sith Master: I know! But how? The Jedi and their allies are weak, we are strong, so how did we lose? Sith Apprentice: Maybe the Dark Side isn't stronger Maybe actually being nice and fighting for others and having them help you is stronger! Sith Master: Oh hell no! I refuse to accept that as reality. Let's just burn the entire galaxy down as an act of revenge because they beat us! Sith Apprentice: But Master wouldn't that kill us too? Sith Master: YES! Welcome to the Sith kid. We'd rather drown ourselves in our own anger which will kill us instead of admitting were wrong. If we Sith are known for one thing it's how stubborn we are! Sith Apprentice: Huh. Why could I have been bore a Protocol Droid? lol.
If I was a sith personally I'd have to side with Darth Sion. Nihilus was, would you believe it, a bit nuts. Sion had an actual plan to wipe out the Jedi and rebuild the empire. His plan was similar to that of the rule of two except instead of a bullshit flimsy organisation that took a thousand years to do the job and then lost, Sion's sith almost managed to wipe out the entire Jedi order in only a few years.
Here is a interesting "What if" scenario. Let's say Darth Nihilus didn't die, and he managed to defeat all those who stood before him. So the "what if" scenario would be Nihilus v Valkorion, and the Eternal Empire.
@@TheeChalk From my knowledge Nihilus draining powers have never been fully explain have they? So speaking hypothetical here, since he could drain the life force of an entire planet, we can state the distance of him from space let's say above the north pole to the south pole would kill anyone who come into that proximity in a radius around him. So no space fighters would reach him, no ground force, and maybe no battle cruisers as well no? I also don't know the speed of his draining power either I don't know if it takes 10 minutes to drain someone so like I said my comment is all hypothetically.
He didn't really run an Empire, he ran a splinter of Malak's Empire (which itself was just Revan's empire which he had taken over). Not only that, Nihilus, Sion and Traya were only leading the surviving Sith Empire left behind after the jedi civil war because at that point they were the only Sith Lords strong enough to be in the running after having fought and defeated the competition. They had small splinters of what was once a powerful empire that spanned almost a third of the known galaxy at the time, reduced heavily by infighting, and losing to the Republic at the Star Forge.
I don't see why the Sith always try to form some massive obvious empire that makes it easier for the Jedi/Republic to find and then go to war with. If I were a sith I'd just try to worm my way into a position of power somewhere isolated but doesn't have me at the head and just live like a rich senator or even be some court wizard type to the local ruler in exchange for privileges
@@kanekikingstorm2113 And then the good guys find you and wipe you out. There's a reason Palpatine was the only Sith who succeeded in destroying the jedi order
Because that is who and what the Sith are. The whole crux of Sith ideology is the selfish and endless pursuit of power: economic, political, military, and of course, power in the Force. Anything and everything that might get in the way of that goal is either a weakness or an obstacle, up to and including logic, restraint, and rational thought. There's also the effects the Dark Side have on the mind: it functions much like a strong addiction to a narcotic drug, creating psychological and physiological dependency and a desperate craving for the next big high. Once you get a taste of that sweet, sweet Dark Side and the power it brings, you want more, NEED more, and after a while you just can't bring yourself to stop: there's nothing but the chase for more power.
@@zacharyweaver276 yea, because the sith adapted. Less of the flashy gold and purple robes of the ancient sith, and forgoing the bulky armors of the reconstituted sith. They found the cracks in the foundation of the republic, and slip into them.
@@kanekikingstorm2113 True my idea would probably work for a regular dark sider who would undoubtedly have some jedi or other important character end up on their planet and then destroy them when they saw the off worlder as a threat to their power or got found out as a dark sider
If you were a follower of Revan and then Malik only to have the empire you served fall apart Darth Nilius offered a last desperate opportunity for revenge/ scorched earth policy against the Jedi and republic.
Can see how less than wealthy Outer Rim humans would enlist for Sith Lords army, promising wealth, glory, conquest and best of all evening the scale with the Core Worlds that were bleeding life out of them since they exist. Now in case of Nihilus that is a bit much, he lost the plot and stopped being Sith, even being human he once was, what dark side can do if you are unwise and fall that deep.
I'd personally like to see a video detailing the life of Tennebrae/vitiate/valkorion, as he's been touched on in other videos but never fully explored. Unless he has in a video I missed somehow.
My Empire was not brutal and depressing I actually brought order to planets that needed it most unlike Palpatine and other Sith Lords I never abided in law breaking or terrorism I gave the homeless a home I helped the hungry I even opened up a bunch new schools because kids these days can be a bit crazy when they’re not educated but they become even crazier when a Jedi teaches them how to jump off a speeder thousands of feet in the air I’m looking at you Skywalker so you see I’m not such a bad person I’m just hungry and misunderstood
@@spiffygonzales5899 and I had no desire to rule the galaxy I already live on Malachor I got a whole planet to myself a beautiful ship and that’s it my Empire was basically a one man government I did all the work and I didn’t have an army either whoever those were they must’ve been fan boys playing dress up
@@Galvatron_Studios Sir, we have two and half death stars, a shawkin device, a Galaxy gun, a numerous world devistators, a sun crusher, and numerous other world ending items. Not to mention the millions upon millions of Star destroyers, 480 quadrillion sentients with hundreds of quadrillions of droids, 70.5 million inhabited systems, an emperor who can create vortexes that swallow planets (and possibly solar systems), and a machine man who brought down two of the ones. I ask you, who is THE REAL dark Lord of the sith?
Nihilus was probably named for his intended goal of eliminating life. A very slight adjustment from the term nihilist, fitting for one whose entire existence is against life as a whole.
Bro, this is interesting!!! I actually didn't know Nihilus's faction that well, maybe because I have missed it or didn't understand it, but I would have loved to see how Nihilus's Sith Commandos would brutalize their enemies on Onderon and Telos, and to see how very extreme they are in their belief and ideology. Damn this PG rating, Kotor 2 would have been a lot more Metal AF! :D
If he hungers so badly with so much life left yet to consume, any addict knows he’s gonna go thru some really bad withdrawals after there’s no more life left. I like the way he kept the Ravager together with some Force duct tape and hanger wire. Kinda like my Ford Escape.
Geetsly's: Don't do the Dark Side, kids. It's just not good for you. Eren Yeager: I WILL KILL THEM ALL! EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM! THE WORLD WILL FALL!
In 6 minutes and 20 seconds he says the crew of earth nihulus’s fleet that knew what they were doing sounded insane dude some of them were sith and 99 percent of sith were insane so that is kinda redundant
If he could devour whole planets - how could he ever been defeated in the end? Not even Yoda had that power. Also being a zombie alike worker remains me of my own workplace.
@@gordonf5553 yes the exile did who u play as in kotor 2 but they became able to use the force again by essentially siphoning it from their companions, she's the inverse of nihilus except she cut herself off to survive malachor yet still feeds on it low-key whereas he embraced the hunger and it now devours him afyer also being present at malachor. His attempt to feed on the exile is what allowed his defeat as it weakened him greatly, since he basically tried to feed on a void
I have a dark Jedi character in a Star Wars Force and Destiny game who's obsessed with finding the mask of Nihilus and trying to resurrect the Lord of Hunger. I also am a big simp for Nihilus😅
It’s amazing Sith based Empires always are ruled by fear, and death. It would be more interesting to have Sith/Darksider Empire rule through hope, and life. At a price of course.
Darth Nihilus was powerful but that power wielded him not him wielding it. Like Kreia stated … he was already dead, it was just a matter of time before someone did him in or the hunger itself consume him. 🤷🏿
If I were a Sith who was aware of the guy, if he so much as come into my peripheral vision I'll be running for my life because Nihilus is Death and Nihilism in carnet and too be quite honest I rather live long enough too try and rebuild the Sith Empire rather than be associated with that lunatic.
4:27 - you showed the wrong Interdictor. This one is an immobilizer from the Galactic Empire era. The one from Mandalorian Wars/Jedi Civil War era was a star destroyer. Darth Malak's flagship "Leviathan" was an interdictor.
in truth if I was a Sith i would NEVER follow the lord of hunger.there is rage and then there is single minded suicidal apocalyptic destruction he embodies the second one.he also in a way also shows why I have problems with any and all organized religious views at all any idea someone fallows blindly is dangerous anyone who willingly fallow’s dangerous fanatic based ideas are to put it bluntly the few individuals in both fiction and the real world I truly fear as they do not care or make reason and simply are in my own opinion the worst kind of evil and insane.
"At least 4 Interdictor-class cruisers was under his command." *Shows image of a Interdictor-class Star Destroyer (Which wouldn't have been introduced yet) rather than the Interdictor-class Cruiser. Something a true Star Wars fan would know the difference off.
I really hope Disney never places hands on Nihilus, they will turn him into some non binary trans man turned to the dark side getting beaten by a girl that barely can handle a lightsaber, like happened to darth sidious in cannon lmfao, sidius is a terrifying sith in EU, yet gets beaten by Rey,....Disney pls dont touch nihilus
Since the Ravager is a ghost ship, held together and powered by Darth Nihilus using the force, how fast can he make it go? The galaxy is big, and he's hungry. I know if I'm driving around and are hungry, I would speed up to get to the nearest drive-thru.
Both. Because he wanted the ONLY thing to exist in the Galaxy to be the Sith. In fact, he didn't need to keep his body intact, since he was more or less a puppet of actual dark energy. If anything, he WAS the Dark Side of the Force, in-person.
An army fights on it's stomach, they better have had a fantastic Catering service...To offset that life drain, and Fascism...Brownie Sundae night is a thing...
There can be an argument made that while Darth Sidious represents the Christian Devil Darth Nihilus simply represents the finality of death which even Nihilus himself can't escape. He is definitely one of my favorite Darksiders users in Star Wars.
A lot of what we're told is Star Wars nowadays is Lovecraftian literature and even anti-cosmic occult practices repackaged. It's not Star Wars, but it's entertaining. Nihilus is a bad MF. Even his ship The Ravager sounds cool.
Meanwhile, the Sith and Eternal Empires from TOR are also the most brutal and depressing... to the KotOR fans and Mass Effect/Dragon Age: Origins afficionadoes, at least. That's what happens if you're among the blandest, cliched, and all too unoriginal factions of Star Wars (and video gaming) as a whole, all while being the reason for the decline in gaming quality for a certain third installment and the existence of two unnecessary sequels for a supposed standalone title.
Terrible working conditions, but to be fair, he's got a pretty cool looking mask
Revans mask is better
@@twinsuns6453 its debatable and revan just had a mandalorian mask
@@TheEmpireAnimations He wore it better than the Mandos did.
That says a lot because Mandalorians wear their helmets well.
@@TheEmpireAnimations still cooler
I must know, how did you get a clone helmet next to your name?
I'm sure most of the people following him didn't know his true nature. And those who do are either too stoned or too scared to do anything about it. As far as everyone else is concerned, he was just some powerful guy they can rally around. Few of his followers like Visas knew what he really believed. Few knew the man behind the mask, not that many people even saw him face-to-face. The most they see is just another powerful guy reuniting the empire they once served.
Agreed. I’d also say that he likely used intermediaries when dealing with most of his allies, so they didn’t actually know who they were dealing with. Sure, they were likely aware they were dealing with the Sith, but probably more so Sith remnants rather than Nihilus.
@@Engine33Truck I think the Onderonians don't even know if Nihilus was a man or a woman.
@@HolyknightVader999 Vaklu and perhaps Tobin might’ve had an idea of who they were dealing it, as it’s implied that Nihilus himself approached at least Vaklu. Though in all reality, he could’ve sent Visas.
@@Engine33Truck Tobin basically tells you that they don't know the Sith Lord's sex. At least on Onderon.
If Kreia' words are any indication, the remnants of Revan & Malak's Sith Empire rallied under the Sith Triumvirate with the sole purpose of destroying the Jedi. _"For them, it's all that matters. All that ever mattered..."_
They didn't actually care what Nihilus, Sion, Traya or even Vitiate hiding in the Unknown Regions would to the Galaxy. All they cared about was destroying every last Jedi. Once all Jedi are gone, as Kreia herself states, the galaxy would be theirs one way or the other. They could topple the Republic entirely or do an Exar Kun Meets Palpatine and control the Senate from the shadows. "Oh, so our Sith Lord can and will eat a few planets? Whatever, so long we can rule the galaxy in the end..."
It's also important to note that Nihilus could at least communicate in some manner to pass on commands, such as he did to Visas Marr in their introduction scene, and his talks with Sion. Whatever his true intentions were, he COULD at very least convince people to join him through telepathy as well as deceptively claim he was Darth Revan 2.0 creating a New Sith Empire. As eldritch and lovecraftian he might have become, he could still address people on a human level, if only to lie to and use them.
I mean, just look at Vitiate/Valkorion/Tenebrae. Many know that he's an Omnicidal Maniac, yet they still follow him because they equate him to a God and believe his genocide won't include them.
Darth Nihilus' empire was very nihilistic, what a coincidence.
Damn it. Nihilism will eventually destroy everything.
Nihilism? Fuck me... I mean, say what you want about the tenets of the Sith, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
He was just a lovely lad who couldn't deal with the trauma.
Knowing the original idea of sequel trilogy is about discovering the cosmic side of Star Wars, feel like Darth Nihilus would fit so well to be the next big bad villain *BUT IF ONLY*
Nihilus is easily my favorite sith of all time, love his design and how he would devour whole planets.
Not necessarily my favorite. Mine's Darth Vader. Gotta stick with the classics. Though Nihilus is up there, right after my 2nd favorite, Darth Revan.
@@HK--nf1sc darth nihilus was born before darth vader so technically nihilus is the classic
@@TheEmpireAnimations True, chronologically in regard to the passage of time in the Star Wars Universe. But I was referring to the first Sith Lord ever known in this existence we live in as classical.
he is my fav too no one can compete
Who needs a death star when you got nihilus
They followed him because his mask is awesome. That’s the only reason needed.
Darth Kabuki
To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best.
Darth Traia
Very good. KOTOR & 2 are a few of the games I’ve revisited as an adult.
He may be an eldricth abomination, but he is the most relatable Star Wars character; he just wants to be left alone and eat all day.
Just like me fr
Darh Nihilus: Horrific outer god noises!
Random Soldier: Completely understandable my lord, I'll follow your lead.
Meetra Surik: How can you serve a monster like Nihilus?!
Sith Officer: Lady, the guy lifted a wrecked starship from a gravity-crushed dead world and made it into a ghost ship that he flies with _his face exposed to the vacuum of space like he's basking in the wind,_ then parked next to a planet full of Jedi and *ATE IT.* Do I LOOK like I have an argument against THAT, OR that I can survive long enough around him to make the case???!!!
Basically his empire is comprised of zombie corpses, ghosts ships and remnants of the Sith masters and troopers left over from revan's hunger and so desperate for revenge and vengeance that they sell their souls to the devil in form of Nihilus to achieve it.
3:10 the intro to diners, drive ins and dives but it’s just Nihilus in the Ravager searching for more worlds to devour
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😂🤣
Geetsly’s: “Why did people follow this maniac?”
Me: “No one wants to become snacc.”
He thought the galaxy was an all you can eat buffet
Dude was more of a junkie than anything. His "hunger" was basically an addiction.
I’m pretty sure unions and workplace safety laws aren’t concepts that exist when working for Darth Nihilus. Otherwise, Nihilus would be slapped with all sorts of health and safety violations for turning his followers into literal zombies.
Nihilus was, in every sense, the embodiment of the Dark Side in its purest, most primitive form. Without any humanity or motivation to guide it, all he has is the greed, hatred, pain, and yawning empty void in his soul that nothing can ever fill.
On the surface, he's everything that the Sith want. Looking deeper, like Traya said, he's a walking insult to the Sith as he's let himself become nothing but a puppet of the Dark Side itself. I can see how he got so many followers despite being a world eating abomination. And why even other Sith fanatics opposed him. Besides the obvious self-preservation, of course.
Like the exile, they are a walking wound of the Force. The difference is that the echo forcefully put into his body whereas the Exile chose to abandon the Force. While he is a darksider, he is no Sith as he wish to merely satisfy his hunger and instead seek freedom by taking control of the Force. No matter how powerful he was, he is still a slave to his hunger. And to Kreia, it was heretical to her as true strength is abandoning the Force and rely on your own strength without relying others
“Don’t do the dark side kids it not good for you”- Had me cracking up 😂 😂
It's like a certain man once said - "Even evil needs It's saviors".
Something something politics
Who said that again?
@@michaelandreipalon359 a JoJo reference
Something, something, something Dark Side
you're actually right, its the first time where sith , jedi, and mandalorians united to stop a threat they knew if not douing so was their end, imagine nihilus not as a galactic threat but universal, as kreaia said: "he is already dead, it is a matter of how many he kills before he falls, and he leaves nothing to conquer on his way" if not stopped, nihilus was the end of life in all the galaxies.
Abeloth, Mnggal-Mnggal, the Maw, Starweirds, Nihilus... Man, Star Wars really is an eldritch horror mythos disguised as a space opera.
i really hope we see Darth nihilus in the future of star wars
We don't need disney ruining him too.
@@jamesleduke873 facts
@@jamesleduke873 The most terrible and despicable villain in the SW Universe will always be Darth Rat!
They practically had no choice besides that
Basic instinct for Survival
(Right after the Jedi Civil War)
Sith Apprentice: Master, we lost.
Sith Master: I know! But how? The Jedi and their allies are weak, we are strong, so how did we lose?
Sith Apprentice: Maybe the Dark Side isn't stronger Maybe actually being nice and fighting for others and having them help you is stronger!
Sith Master: Oh hell no! I refuse to accept that as reality. Let's just burn the entire galaxy down as an act of revenge because they beat us!
Sith Apprentice: But Master wouldn't that kill us too?
Sith Master: YES! Welcome to the Sith kid. We'd rather drown ourselves in our own anger which will kill us instead of admitting were wrong. If we Sith are known for one thing it's how stubborn we are!
Sith Apprentice: Huh. Why could I have been bore a Protocol Droid?
lol.
If I was a sith personally I'd have to side with Darth Sion. Nihilus was, would you believe it, a bit nuts. Sion had an actual plan to wipe out the Jedi and rebuild the empire. His plan was similar to that of the rule of two except instead of a bullshit flimsy organisation that took a thousand years to do the job and then lost, Sion's sith almost managed to wipe out the entire Jedi order in only a few years.
Nihilus was a primal being of instinct in sentient form. He lost his humanity and sanity after the battle of malachor V.
Here is a interesting "What if" scenario. Let's say Darth Nihilus didn't die, and he managed to defeat all those who stood before him. So the "what if" scenario would be
Nihilus v Valkorion, and the Eternal Empire.
Valkorion and the eternal empire didn’t exist because they were retconned in by SWTOR, so easy answer, nothing would happen
That is an interesting question. I’d probably say the eternal empire as the fleet and armies were just unopposed.
@@TheeChalk From my knowledge Nihilus draining powers have never been fully explain have they? So speaking hypothetical here, since he could drain the life force of an entire planet, we can state the distance of him from space let's say above the north pole to the south pole would kill anyone who come into that proximity in a radius around him. So no space fighters would reach him, no ground force, and maybe no battle cruisers as well no? I also don't know the speed of his draining power either I don't know if it takes 10 minutes to drain someone so like I said my comment is all hypothetically.
@@lorenexus4917 that's fair and a very good point.
@@TheeChalk did you check out that video I linked?
He didn't really run an Empire, he ran a splinter of Malak's Empire (which itself was just Revan's empire which he had taken over). Not only that, Nihilus, Sion and Traya were only leading the surviving Sith Empire left behind after the jedi civil war because at that point they were the only Sith Lords strong enough to be in the running after having fought and defeated the competition. They had small splinters of what was once a powerful empire that spanned almost a third of the known galaxy at the time, reduced heavily by infighting, and losing to the Republic at the Star Forge.
I don't see why the Sith always try to form some massive obvious empire that makes it easier for the Jedi/Republic to find and then go to war with. If I were a sith I'd just try to worm my way into a position of power somewhere isolated but doesn't have me at the head and just live like a rich senator or even be some court wizard type to the local ruler in exchange for privileges
It's all about grandeur. The flashiness and having a visible and tangible force
@@kanekikingstorm2113 And then the good guys find you and wipe you out. There's a reason Palpatine was the only Sith who succeeded in destroying the jedi order
Because that is who and what the Sith are. The whole crux of Sith ideology is the selfish and endless pursuit of power: economic, political, military, and of course, power in the Force. Anything and everything that might get in the way of that goal is either a weakness or an obstacle, up to and including logic, restraint, and rational thought.
There's also the effects the Dark Side have on the mind: it functions much like a strong addiction to a narcotic drug, creating psychological and physiological dependency and a desperate craving for the next big high. Once you get a taste of that sweet, sweet Dark Side and the power it brings, you want more, NEED more, and after a while you just can't bring yourself to stop: there's nothing but the chase for more power.
@@zacharyweaver276 yea, because the sith adapted. Less of the flashy gold and purple robes of the ancient sith, and forgoing the bulky armors of the reconstituted sith. They found the cracks in the foundation of the republic, and slip into them.
@@kanekikingstorm2113 True my idea would probably work for a regular dark sider who would undoubtedly have some jedi or other important character end up on their planet and then destroy them when they saw the off worlder as a threat to their power or got found out as a dark sider
He's also a great character to have on Galaxy of Heroes!
If you were a follower of Revan and then Malik only to have the empire you served fall apart Darth Nilius offered a last desperate opportunity for revenge/ scorched earth policy against the Jedi and republic.
Can see how less than wealthy Outer Rim humans would enlist for Sith Lords army, promising wealth, glory, conquest and best of all evening the scale with the Core Worlds that were bleeding life out of them since they exist. Now in case of Nihilus that is a bit much, he lost the plot and stopped being Sith, even being human he once was, what dark side can do if you are unwise and fall that deep.
Was he even human? Or alien?
I'd personally like to see a video detailing the life of Tennebrae/vitiate/valkorion, as he's been touched on in other videos but never fully explored. Unless he has in a video I missed somehow.
My Empire was not brutal and depressing I actually brought order to planets that needed it most unlike Palpatine and other Sith Lords I never abided in law breaking or terrorism I gave the homeless a home I helped the hungry I even opened up a bunch new schools because kids these days can be a bit crazy when they’re not educated but they become even crazier when a Jedi teaches them how to jump off a speeder thousands of feet in the air I’m looking at you Skywalker so you see I’m not such a bad person I’m just hungry and misunderstood
Palpatine conquered the Galaxy... and actually achieved what he wanted :))
I agree my lord, you are misunderstood. I'm still learning the ways of the Dark Side
@@spiffygonzales5899 and I had no desire to rule the galaxy I already live on Malachor I got a whole planet to myself a beautiful ship and that’s it my Empire was basically a one man government I did all the work and I didn’t have an army either whoever those were they must’ve been fan boys playing dress up
@@madisonsosa21 continue to learn my friend and it will reward you
@@Galvatron_Studios
Sir, we have two and half death stars, a shawkin device, a Galaxy gun, a numerous world devistators, a sun crusher, and numerous other world ending items. Not to mention the millions upon millions of Star destroyers, 480 quadrillion sentients with hundreds of quadrillions of droids, 70.5 million inhabited systems, an emperor who can create vortexes that swallow planets (and possibly solar systems), and a machine man who brought down two of the ones.
I ask you, who is THE REAL dark Lord of the sith?
Traya, sion and nihilus are by far the best sith lords to ever existed.
Traya had something the other two never had…
An apprentice called the Player Character
Nihilus was probably named for his intended goal of eliminating life. A very slight adjustment from the term nihilist, fitting for one whose entire existence is against life as a whole.
Bro, this is interesting!!! I actually didn't know Nihilus's faction that well, maybe because I have missed it or didn't understand it, but I would have loved to see how Nihilus's Sith Commandos would brutalize their enemies on Onderon and Telos, and to see how very extreme they are in their belief and ideology. Damn this PG rating, Kotor 2 would have been a lot more Metal AF! :D
If he hungers so badly with so much life left yet to consume, any addict knows he’s gonna go thru some really bad withdrawals after there’s no more life left.
I like the way he kept the Ravager together with some Force duct tape and hanger wire. Kinda like my Ford Escape.
Such an iconic video
To answer the question posed: I would be Darth Nihilus.
Nihilus sounds more terrifying than sidious and vader
+David Ordaz he was. Without any doubt
@@thedoruk6324 would be interesting to see what would happen if nihilus return during the clone wars since he is a wound in the force so would be cool
@@davidordaz5251 perhaps if somebody put the mask on
@@thedoruk6324 yeah than the galaxy would be screwed
@@davidordaz5251 exactly would be equavilent to introducing tsar bomba to galaxy
Wasn't there a Ravager ISD in the new republic? I seem to remember a Ravager in Fate of the Jedi or Thrawn novels somewhere.
He promised there would be free food! (Although he didn't mention all the food was for himself…)
40k fans: SLANNESH AND THE TYRANIDS HAD A BABY?!?
Geetsly's: Don't do the Dark Side, kids. It's just not good for you.
Eren Yeager: I WILL KILL THEM ALL! EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM! THE WORLD WILL FALL!
Do you think Eren would fit being a Sith? At least the post timeskip
@@yaujj65 Definitely.
Imagine if Nihilus went near the Maw. Abeloth…
Abeloth would probably die
Darth Nihilus is one of my favorite Sith of all time! I’ve heard the medical benefits for his followers are killer
In 6 minutes and 20 seconds he says the crew of earth nihulus’s fleet that knew what they were doing sounded insane dude some of them were sith and 99 percent of sith were insane so that is kinda redundant
If he could devour whole planets - how could he ever been defeated in the end? Not even Yoda had that power. Also being a zombie alike worker remains me of my own workplace.
The exilenks the only one who could truly beat since she's also a wound in the force, pretty much the opposite of nihilus
Wasn't he killed by somebody who cut themself off from the force
@@gordonf5553 yes the exile did who u play as in kotor 2 but they became able to use the force again by essentially siphoning it from their companions, she's the inverse of nihilus except she cut herself off to survive malachor yet still feeds on it low-key whereas he embraced the hunger and it now devours him afyer also being present at malachor. His attempt to feed on the exile is what allowed his defeat as it weakened him greatly, since he basically tried to feed on a void
I have a dark Jedi character in a Star Wars Force and Destiny game who's obsessed with finding the mask of Nihilus and trying to resurrect the Lord of Hunger. I also am a big simp for Nihilus😅
For all his power darth nihilus, he couldn't keep his body intact he and darth sion fell into the trap of the dark side.
He managed to keep his physical form by embedding it in his armour and mask
@@VolkovVelikan or what was left of his body.
It’s amazing Sith based Empires always are ruled by fear, and death. It would be more interesting to have Sith/Darksider Empire rule through hope, and life. At a price of course.
Give me the light or give me death
Darth Nihilus was powerful but that power wielded him not him wielding it. Like Kreia stated … he was already dead, it was just a matter of time before someone did him in or the hunger itself consume him. 🤷🏿
If I were a Sith who was aware of the guy, if he so much as come into my peripheral vision I'll be running for my life because Nihilus is Death and Nihilism in carnet and too be quite honest I rather live long enough too try and rebuild the Sith Empire rather than be associated with that lunatic.
4:27 - you showed the wrong Interdictor. This one is an immobilizer from the Galactic Empire era.
The one from Mandalorian Wars/Jedi Civil War era was a star destroyer. Darth Malak's flagship "Leviathan" was an interdictor.
By Fear and wearing the coolest Star Wars mask to date did he control his army.
in truth if I was a Sith i would NEVER follow the lord of hunger.there is rage and then there is single minded suicidal apocalyptic destruction he embodies the second one.he also in a way also shows why I have problems with any and all organized religious views at all any idea someone fallows blindly is dangerous anyone who willingly fallow’s dangerous fanatic based ideas are to put it bluntly the few individuals in both fiction and the real world I truly fear as they do not care or make reason and simply are in my own opinion the worst kind of evil and insane.
It would be interesting to see who would win a battle of Darth Nihilus vs. Galactus.
"At least 4 Interdictor-class cruisers was under his command."
*Shows image of a Interdictor-class Star Destroyer (Which wouldn't have been introduced yet) rather than the Interdictor-class Cruiser. Something a true Star Wars fan would know the difference off.
I really hope Disney never places hands on Nihilus, they will turn him into some non binary trans man turned to the dark side getting beaten by a girl that barely can handle a lightsaber, like happened to darth sidious in cannon lmfao, sidius is a terrifying sith in EU, yet gets beaten by Rey,....Disney pls dont touch nihilus
What’s the background song that is used in 6:45 ? It’s so soothing
What’s the background music at the start?
Since the Ravager is a ghost ship, held together and powered by Darth Nihilus using the force, how fast can he make it go? The galaxy is big, and he's hungry. I know if I'm driving around and are hungry, I would speed up to get to the nearest drive-thru.
How do you choose between a man kept alive, surely by rage and a glutton that literally gorgeous on planets
I would have almost certainly been one of his followers. I would have seen him as a g_d of death and it is unwise to make an enemy of death
Sooo.....Darth Nietzsche? The followers were Nihilists?
Everything surrounding Darth Nihilus exists in canon. The only thing that isn’t in canon is his name.
Well he was a mad lad .
The one who helped almost destroy the republic, flew around in a Republic starship
But cooler
Darth Nihilus is so wicked.
i dunno, a monstrous sith lord that eats planets and isnt afraid of anything is a pretty convincing figure
Well, I guess Nihilus promised to "Make the Sith Great Again" or was he offering to "Drain The Swamp?"
Both. Because he wanted the ONLY thing to exist in the Galaxy to be the Sith. In fact, he didn't need to keep his body intact, since he was more or less a puppet of actual dark energy. If anything, he WAS the Dark Side of the Force, in-person.
What’s the music for the first half ? It sounds eerie like darth nihilus
I will pay to know what’s the first song playing in background while discussing darth nihilus pleasese
So he is Star Wars version of Malal.
Kind of. Everything must be undone, including him, but that's reserved for last.
No darkness, no light. Only the endless hunger of the void.
We got this answer in game didn’t we? That one general who was basically
Mind controlled to some extent?
I would follow him cause if I don’t I’ll probably be killed
There are no nightmares if you can't dream. That's the core of their ideology.
The interdictor image you used was of the Imperial interdictor not the sith
An army fights on it's stomach, they better have had a fantastic Catering service...To offset that life drain, and Fascism...Brownie Sundae night is a thing...
Good video
There can be an argument made that while Darth Sidious represents the Christian Devil Darth Nihilus simply represents the finality of death which even Nihilus himself can't escape. He is definitely one of my favorite Darksiders users in Star Wars.
Nihilus was like a sith wendigo
Darth Nihilus is basically star wars version of Galactus😁 but with an army and more followers.
What does it mean he devours worlds? I know he uses force drain on them. Like what would you see if you visited a planet that he drained.
you would see a barren rock, and possibly a few abandoned cities, maybe even some ships that were on-planet at the time, but nothing more
Fear of his wrath! Plain and simple
Didn't Nihilus cut ties with the Sith?
I think Nihilus was a firm believer in the Sith philosophy, it’s just that eventually his hunger was so strong that it became more important.
But how did he die though ?
Because he's Darth Nihilus.
Darth MF Nihilus!
Think I'd rather venture out on my own.
Empire? Is that what we're calling 1 half-wrecked star cruiser that spent most of its time "roaming the borders of known space" in hiding?
I've roleplayed him before, and like him u had a far few followers
Yes
Sweet 👍
Why serve either If you can just wait to rule yourself
Darth traya is the way
Learn what he knows than get rid of him?
So I guess you could say that Darth Nihilus’ followers were fueled by… nihilism?
Do he have a face under the mask
my 4 fav Sith are 1 Darth revean 2 Darth Nihilus 3 Darth Vader 4 Darth Malgus
A lot of what we're told is Star Wars nowadays is Lovecraftian literature and even anti-cosmic occult practices repackaged. It's not Star Wars, but it's entertaining. Nihilus is a bad MF. Even his ship The Ravager sounds cool.
Nihilistic people who hated everything including themselves? Its in the name. He is basically the avatar of the quiet kid.
Meanwhile, the Sith and Eternal Empires from TOR are also the most brutal and depressing... to the KotOR fans and Mass Effect/Dragon Age: Origins afficionadoes, at least. That's what happens if you're among the blandest, cliched, and all too unoriginal factions of Star Wars (and video gaming) as a whole, all while being the reason for the decline in gaming quality for a certain third installment and the existence of two unnecessary sequels for a supposed standalone title.
We are nihilists Lebowski! We believe in NOTHING!