Image Courtesy of Lucasfilm Audiences have long suspected that there’s a reason Palpatine targeted Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace. The Sith Lord had never really seen Darth Maul as a true apprentice, more as an assassin, and Palpatine planned to use him to cull the Jedi from the shadows. Those plans failed in the end, […] The post Star Wars Finally Explains Why Qui-Gon Was Palpatine’s Greatest Threat (& Why He Could’ve Saved Anakin) appeared first on ComicBook.com .