Originally posted by Kilgharrah
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In the old Expanded Universe (now known as "Legends" and treated as non-canon by Disney) continuity it's a little different. The story in the EU/Legends is that Darth Plagueis was involved, albeit indirectly. There's a whole novel about him that runs from several decades before any of the films and runs up to concurrent with Phantom Menace.
The story in this is that Plagueis was a phenomenally powerful dark sider, who after decades of experimentation and meditation, attempted to shift the balance of the Force itself toward the dark side by influencing midichlorians galaxywide through his meditation.
It's a bit floaty and metaphysical (and infinitely better-written in the book than I'm doing here), but the gist of it is that the Force itself resisted the concerted 'dark side push' by 'distilling' the light into a person vis a vis the conception of Anakin.
Originally posted by Kilgharrah
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