I've avoided the topic for the most part since the relationship between Darth Plagueis and Palpatine is vague at best. However I think an original (or at least semi-original considering the incredible number of Palpatine/Plagueis blogs) thought has finally occurred to me on the topic.

So we return once again to a continuous theme in Star Wars "A certain point of view

Since Sidious represents Satan, the deceiver and all manner of evil it seems he would be even more likely than Obi-Wan, Yoda, and all our favorite lightsiders that choose their own, sometimes boarding on a lie, point of view.

However official sources now state that Plagueis was indeed Sidious's master at some point so we are left to know that Sidious is not lying about that aspect of his statements

"Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life ... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.

So what points of view are we left with here? Perhaps Plagueis could indeed create life but not create the spark of sentience. Or alternatively could only create very small lifeforms, microbes and the like. This is unimportant to my main point though.

The more interesting piece of the statement is "He could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. a certain point of view is easy to establish here. Plagueis had "such a knowledge of the dark side that he cared for no one any longer and thus had no one to keep from dying. It'd be like saying "Wise old man Jenkins was able to keep all his boats perfectly clean all the time you place inflection on the "all" to make it seem as this is a momentous task... Even if Jenkins didn't own any boats. Since he had no boats, logically all his boats, a total of zero, were clean. It may be a difficult concept to grasp like many of the "Points of view in Star Wars, but hopefully most of you caught on.

If you follow this logic then Palpatine was deceiving Anakin, true to his character, but telling the truth... from a certain point of view.

This seems directly contradicted by Palpatine's later line "To cheat death is a power only one has achieved there's not much duplicity to draw from this statement is there? Unless he wasn't referring to Plagueis at all.

Palpatine was at Qui-Gon's funeral, presumably just to give us that foreshadowy moment at the end of Episode I But what if Palpatine was ahead of the game as he often is? What if he sensed that Qui-Gon had achieved something, or started to anyway. Qui-Gon had achieved eternal life, a lofty goal for power hungry Palpatine.

Again Palpatine deceives Anakin by making him think it is the same power Plagueis presumably had, but in fact he's referring to a completely different ability. To cheat death. Not save it. Still; all of Palpatine's statements would be true from a certain point of view.

So what's your opinion? Could Sidious have been aware of Qui-Gon's transcension from the netherworld of the force far before Yoda and the rest? If you want to take the point even further could this have influenced Sidious plans in one form or another? It's not unlikely that Sidious could have pursued Anakin as an apprentice despite seemingly not really needing him to conquer the galaxy, thinking that anyone that Qui-Gon had wished to train might be gifted with the same ability as Qui-Gon himself? To cheat death.
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