Sidious's "Emperor's Hand" from what I understood and took from the EU were his fail-safe if anything got in his way that he needed to clean up "hush hush" style. They were trained as assassins and later Jedi killers. They did the dirty jobs behind the scenes. So no they were not true sith. The remind me more of Hitler's Youth, at least if you recall Mara Jade's near unwavering faith and admiration of Sidious. Again this just furthers my argument that Sidious was the one who corrupted and broke the rule of two. Training others in the use of the dark side out side of the true "Master/Apprentice" would be forbidden in Bane's theology.

There are a lot of good arguments for and against the rule of two. The problem is the arguments against the rule of two are all things Bane addresses as he creates it. He knew there would be other apprentices brought into the Sith but ultimately it would come down to two in the end always. It was the only way, like above posters have said, that the Sith would grow stronger and their strength would not be diluted. I think once Darth Sidious became Emperor is when the rule of two started becoming corrupted. The Separatist movement and the Clone Wars to the Jedi Purge spanned a total of 14 years at least. During that time Darth Sidious has 3 apprentices, Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and finally Darth Vader. Now one can argue Sidious was following the rule of two to the dot. He saw each of his apprentices were unworthy of the title Dark Lord of the Sith and was grooming another until his current apprentice ultimately failed. Then he just replaced them like he did with Anakin and Dooku. Now it is during his reign he becomes corrupt. He no longer finds the need for a suitable apprentice to replace him. He just wants one to be his right hand, his tool. He starts cloning himself and is set on using the dark ritual of "Essence Transfer" to keep himself immortal. No he doesn't want Luke to join the Dark side to eventually kill him and take over his Empire. He wants Luke as a tool that he can discard when he gets too powerful. Vader on the other hand does not adhere to the rule of two at all. He wants to use Luke in taking power from the Emperor since he can not do it himself. So what starts out as a "perfect" rule gets corrupted and twisted in the end like all things do under the influence of the Darkside.

Honestly, like they have been saying during this whole EGA, they are monitoring servers and populations. So what that means, most likely, over the course of the EGA they will notice trends on over populated servers and such an allocate more resources to those servers. So essentially, they are just rearranging their server resources from lower populated servers to the higher ones that way, come the offical launch their infrastructure will be inline for the flux of people who will want to play on more populated servers, like most "hardcore" players, and have the necessary resources available to sustain another wave of players entering those higher populated servers.

I'm just going to watch them all again. LOL.

I agree it is a great Series. The rule of 2 is the only way the Sith can truly survive.

I love your quote Captain_Zone. That was truly an epic rap battle in history.

Kotor was a great game and the book Revan was great as well in my opinion. It really kind of put a finality to the Kotor franchise. I thought the ending of Revan was sub par but that was to be expected. You can't take one of the most complex characters from a video game that you helped graft and make an ending that will please everyone. If you haven't read it I suggest getting a digital copy and read that while you wait for your EGA invite. It is a quick read so it will at least take up a few hours to a day. Plus it sets up a lot of lore for ToR. There is even some content in game that relates to the book from some of the companions in game and missions available at higher levels