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LeonhartFour posted...

Sith trying to kill each other is a known thing. This is not new information to Vader. He wanted to recruit Luke to kill Palpatine, too.

and again Vader would've had to know that trying to kill Palpatine in the middle of force lightning would kill him too so again if his goal is just not to die he did a poor job

There's a difference between knowing that Palpatine will get rid of you eventually and knowing that Palpatine has decided that "eventually" is "a minute ago". That difference is magnified when you are badly wounded and he isn't, and magnified even more when he is distracted. Given his condition Vader will literally never have a better chance of killing Palpatine than that moment, and praying he can survive doing it is his best hope of living. Like you can dispute the whole self-preservation over family concern thing but I really don't think there's an argument that Vader has reason to believe he'll survive if Palpatine wins. There's certainly less supporting that than "Vader knows how force lightning will interact with his interruption of it"
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