The Tragedy of Darth Christus the Righteous
PALPATINE (with measured amusement): Did the Jedi ever tell you the tragedy of Darth Christus the Righteous?
ANAKIN (turning away from the performance, intrigued): Darth…Christus? I've never heard that name in any Jedi teachings.
PALPATINE (knowingly amused): Nor would you. Such teachings are carefully concealed—locked deep within the Jedi archives, under labels like "heretical doctrines" and "forbidden knowledge." Darth Christus was once a Jedi himself—extraordinarily powerful, unusually virtuous. Sith lore maintains that he could manipulate midichlorians directly—multiply them at will, traverse nebulae unharmed, even nourish five thousand younglings from a single ration pack—though, of course, these accounts may contain a certain poetic embellishment.
ANAKIN (skeptical, yet curious): That sounds dangerously close to heresy.