Palpatine first met Anakin in Revenge of the Sith. He was the chosen one for the Jedi and now, for Palpatine. Palps coerced anakin patiently into the dark side since he first met him. Strategically planting seeds into his mind until the time came to do what must be done and execute order 66. Anakin was Palpatine’s protoge, he was everything to him. He was to be more powerful than Sidious, and to rule the galaxy with his powerful apprentice.

However, when Anakin fell to Obi-Wan, or rather, to his own arrogance in thinking he could defeat his former master atop a less favourable position, against the high ground, Sidious was devastated. In the film, Revenge of the Sith, we see Vader being put together in Palpatine’s medical facility on Coruscant. The best medical droids at her service, applying an out of date suit so Vader would live with the pain of his failure, mentally and physically, forever. But did you ever wonder, what was Sidous thinking while Vader was being put together? His prize new apprentice, the one he had tried to turn to the dark side, had now just become a fraction of the man he almost became.

How did Sidious take it? How did he feel about it? What did he think of Vader now? The following excerpt comes not from Matthew Stover’s Revenge of the Sith novelization of the film, but rather Patricia c Wrede’s junior novelization of revenge of the sith, and it’s quite interesting what Palpatine’s thoughts were. Here we go…