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The Emporors Voice on Voss

Hi, I think it's about time for a new theorie (actually I should have posted longer ago but I haven't had any ideas and still a lot to do IRL so I hope you like it.

As I saied in the caption I thought about the reasons for the Emporors Voice to be on Voss (where you get to free him as the Sith Warrior)

First I thaugt it all was a trap to distract the Empire from Zakuul. Like the Emporor had been gone for a long time and the Sith may become suspicoust and searching for him. So if he is there but just trapped there aren't that much questions left. Except that the Discusion if Darth Baras is the Voice of the Emporor weakens the Empire from the inside and his son(s) have a easy part by attacking it (for no obvious reason. Either it is supposed to be training for a real war or the Emporor wants the Eternal Empire, Zakuul, and the old galaxy in one).

But I don't think like that anymore. I think it has to do with the Scions which prophetical powers are close to Voss ones. This might be helpful for the Emporor when it comes to difficutlt questions. On the other hand it's a thread since you can't decive the Scions as easy as the other people of Zakuul. You don't tell them, they don't know. But the Scions could have visions of the old world and find out about his secred. So I suspect the Emporor had the aim to find out exactly how SelMakor works. On Voss we find out the dark power, SelMakor, is responsible for the Visions of the Voss yet they don't know about their own history since SelMakor determins exactly what they see. If the Emporor could learn how that works he could determin that the Scions don't see any of his secrets. That also could explain why he used the body of a Voss for this time. For an outsider it is very difficult to learn the Voss rituals and get accepted in the Voss society. However he needs the rituals to actually get to SelMakor. So he just uses the body of a Voss. Now we also can see why it was so important for him to get rid of the body. If he was still in the galactic Empire he just could have explained that he uses that body to get the Voss' secrets. The Dark Council and the Hand of the Emporor would have acceped that (noboy would have dared questioning him anyway). But he wasn't able to use that body on Zakuul since they've had never heared anything about Voss (or the species Voss since they only exist on this particular planet).

Another posibile reason could be that the Emporor actually wanted to create the Scions. On Voss it's SelMakor which gives the Visons to the species. However why the Scions have their visions isn't explained yet. But it is explained that the Scions are the religious leadership on Zakuul whil the Emporor is the political one. Religions always have had a big part in the live of the Emporor. (Without religion there wouldn't be war between Sith and Jedi. Actually there wouldn't be any Sith or Jedi). But both the codex of the Sith (which ignores rationality and only focuses on feelings) and the one of the Jedi (which totally ignores feelings and only focus on rationality) have their weaknesses. So a new codex for Zakuul wouldn't be the solution. So a different solution for a religion was needed. A bunch of visionairs would be something interesting. And as I've mentioned bevore it is SelMakor to give the Voss their visions. So if the Emporor could learn how to give people visions and determin what they see would be great for the Emporor to create the Scions. (This also would explain why the Scions don't have any Visions of the Emporor just as the Voss don't have any visions of SelMakor). However that dosn't explain exactly who becomes a Scion. In the theorie bevore it actually just were some random force sensitive people. In the new vision the Emporor has to decide who recives the visions. Either he gives it to people he trusted bevore to make the religious and political leadership work together closely or it were some random force sensitive people. Since the game dosn't tell us anything here I just leave both options as they are.

Now we get to the question how and why Darth Baras has trapped the Emporor (excluding that he wanted to be the Voice of the Emporor)

As we already get to know in the begin of the story line Darth Baras talks to the Emporor (yet he is pretty much a nobody what means he is neither in the Dark Council nor is he especially influencial despide the fact he is a Darth). So why would the Emporor even bother talking to him. One reason could be that Darth Baras knew about the Voss and he was specialised in infiltrate things or people and did exactly that for the Emporor on Voss. It also could have given him the oportunity to trap the Emporor if he kept parts of the information for himself. However I don't really believe in that since the Emporor wouldn't blindly trust Darth Baras or anyone else without checking the information himself.

I rahter believe that it actually wasn't Darth Baras to trap him and rather an accident. When the Emporor got the SelMakor to find out about it's powers he just got overwelmed by them. The Emporor can't die or something due to rituals but he hasn't anything against a thing like SelMakor which isn't at least a natural being but a power which is created and strenghened by over 1000 years of war. So when the Emporor tries to find out all its secrets he gets overwelmed and captured by it. But why don't tell the Warrior? First of all it would mean to admit a weaknes and second the Sith Warrior is already hunting down Darth Baras which means he wouldn't request the Emporor at all and his secred is kept one more time while the anger in the Warrior is strengened.

However my second explanation dosn't explain why Darth Baras is talking to the Emporor at the begin of the story line. In this part it's questionable if he even saies the truth or only want to show his new aprentice that requesting him wouldn't be good. If it actually is the truth this meeting could be about anything. Maybe the Emporor really is decieving Baras by telling him he becomes the Voice of the Emporor. Therefore is the question why. The reason could be Darth Baras infiltration skills which I've mentioned bevore. If someone would find out about Zakuul it might be Baras. However if Darth Baras would be killed for decieving the Dark Council there would be nobody left who is as good infiltrating as him. That also explains why the Sith Warrior becomes the Wrath of the Emporor. He actually only is allowed to fight when the Emporor saies so. That means if the original char what it is suposed to do he won't be there when Ziost is attacked which means it would be more easy for the Emporor to consume it. And the char wouldn't be there when Zakuul eventually attacks the old world.

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koth: ---well he was good person with zakuul

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