![]() In the Dark Empire comic books, which resurrected Palpatine in a new, youthful clone body, that blue light was retconned into a representation of “the Emperor’s living energy, his conscious dark force, leaving his body.” The Emperor’s essence instantly entered the distant clone body he’d prepared for the purpose. ![]() A cloud of energy billowed up the shaft, seemingly marking Palpatine’s incineration. In Return of the Jedi, the Emperor, trailing Force lightning from his fingertips, plunged into the reactor core of the second Death Star, which the Rebels were about to blow up. Secrets only the Sith knew.” It’s probably safe to say it was at least one of those things! Let’s start with the “how.” Beaumont Kin, the late-arriving Resistance fighter played by Dominic Monaghan, lays out a few possibilities: “Dark science. How did Palpy survive, and why did he lie low for roughly 31 years before making his grand reentrance? There are two big questions to tackle here. The Emperor and his fleet have been hiding in the Unknown Regions on a world called Exogol.”Īfter C-3PO chimes in to say that Exogol is the “hidden world of the Sith,” Poe continues, not so subtly, “So Palpatine’s been out there all this time, pulling the strings.” Leia answers, equally unsubtly, “Always, in the shadows, from the very beginning.” So, definitely not a new development dropped on us at the end of a trilogy made by multiple creators who didn’t sync up their stories, then. In 16 hours, attacks on all free worlds begin. The largest fleet the galaxy’s ever known. “His followers have been planning something for years. “He’s been planning his revenge,” Poe Dameron says. In case there was any lingering doubt about this being a Palpatine pretender, Resistance leadership holds a briefing based on information from a First Order spy (later revealed to be General Hux), who’s confirmed Palpatine’s reappearance. As we later learn, though, his real goal is to lure Rey, his secret granddaughter, to Exogol and persuade her to strike him down, which would (for undisclosed Sith-related reasons) allow his power and that of the thousands of Sith spirits he carries inside him to transfer into her. And he has a giant fleet, which he offers to bequeath to Kylo if Kylo kills Rey and embraces his dark-side destiny. It’s the actual Emperor, in the pasty, festering flesh. 84 Lingering Questions After ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Didn’t Kill the Past-the Past Killed It ‘Star Wars’ Is at War With Itself in ‘The Rise of Skywalker’Īfter his absence from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, Palpy Kool-Aid Mans into the trilogy via the first two sentences of The Rise of Skywalker’s opening crawl: “The dead speak! The galaxy has heard a mysterious broadcast, a threat of REVENGE in the sinister voice of the late EMPEROR PALPATINE.” Before we have time to wonder whether an imposter has perfected a Palpatine deepfake, Kylo Ren stalks into the Sith stronghold on Exogol and comes face to face with his grandfather’s former master.
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