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Originally Posted by MattyC
What you're saying makes sense for sure. But doesnt the same logic mean that he should have been able to sense the Grandmaster of the Jedi, Yoda? It's most powerful warrior in Kenobi? You'd think he would have scanned the Force for those two specifically, no?
Palpatines great evil was playing both sides and creating a galactic-wide civil-war purely so he could end up as the Emperor. It's not far fetched that he could have been as blinded by his need for power as Plageuis was by his need for immortality.
Also, perhaps Plageuis was able to become one with the force ala the Jedi, and that WAS his immortality. And therefore, Palpatine may have not been able to sense him.
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One thing that was clear in the Prequels was that the Dark Side of the Force clouded the ability for the Jedi to sense someone like Palpatine, however Palpatine didn't seem to have that problem when he felt the movement of Anakin to the Dark Side.
"I can feel your anger, it gives you focus, makes you powerful"
Later on we saw that with the rise of the Lightside of the Force Palpatines ability to view the Force was compromised, he couldn't see the betrayal of Vader coming, and physically had to ask Vader about his loyalties when it came to his son.
You have a valid point about Yoda and Kenobi, but they were maybe shielded by the affect of the Light Side on the Darkside, I feel that Palpatine because he was so attuned to the Darkside (ROTS novel described him as an embodiment of the Darks Side) would have felt the dilution of the Darkside of the Force to another Darkside user (plageuis).
Palpatine was blinded in the later part of his life, because the Lighside of the Force fogged the Darkside, similar to how the Darkside of the Force clouded the ability of the Jedi to use the Light side.
As for the ghost thing, the prevalling feeling was that the Sith who were obsessed with power and holding onto it would never surrender to death or letting go of their physical self to become a force ghost. Its a selfless act based in sacrifice to become one with the force, the giving up of Self, which a Sith would never do. Instead they tended to rely on medical science to preserve their lives. Kenobi gave up his self and sacrificed himself because he felt he would become more powerful as a guide for Luke. Yoda was old and just gave up on living, thus releasing Self, but he wasn't a ghost guide, but showed up in the end.
Vader when he died sacrificed himself and gave up on self and became a ghost. Qui-Gon was willing to let go, and asked Obi-Wan to take his mantle and train Anakin, and he became a ghost if TCW was to be believed, however that he might have been an illusion created by the Father.