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Palpatine , the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious and former Emperor of the Galactic Empire will make a baleful tax return inStar state of war : The Rise of Skywalker , and odds are his plan will involve a superweapon again . We ’ve known trouble was coming the very second his menacing jest was heard at the terminal of the first laggard forStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalkerat the Star Wars Celebration in Chicago originally this year . The laughter , coupled with the appearance of Sheev Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid at the event , facilitate prepare fans for the eventual return of one of the greatStar Warsvillains as the Skywalker Saga comes to a last .
There are still six month left to determinehow Palpatine will cypher intoStar Wars 9,but we already know two things to be true about Palpatine : One , he ’s obsessed ( and experienced at ) seducing Skywalkers , and two , he ’s always building new superweapons .
Palpatine , has been the big unfit ofStar Wars ' Skywalker Saga from the very first . With a Christ’s Resurrection in some form and the penury for a new pupil to help him enact his plans in place , Kylo , the only remaining Skywalker other than Leia , has always want to walk in Vader ’s footsteps , and Vader was Palpatine ’s apprentice . At the end ofStar Wars : The Last Jedi , Kylo Ren was get done for . Having shoot down Snoke during a battle with Rey at his side but still bent of killing Luke Skywalker and destroying the Resistance , Kylo was caught between the light and fark side , but seemingly embraced the darkness fully at the end of the movie . WithPalpatine ’s restitution loom , it might be time to start up preparing for the possibility of Kylo shape alongside the resurrected Sith Lord to villainous ends inStar Wars 9 .
Palpatine Had a Clear Plan For His Resurrection
Palpatine ’s laughat the end of theStar war : The hike of Skywalkertrailer is our first and only hint that the swell Sith Lord will be back in full villainous fashion . It may have surprised manyStar Warsfans but for those who have been observe cut of both the picture show and officialStar Warstie - ins , the implication that Palpatine has always had a plan for his eventual resurrection has been there .
In Chris Soule’sDarth Vadercomics , Palpatine was focused onresearching resurrection possibilitiesin the result of his death . Palpatine have it off it was possible for a Sith to survive after destruction , as manifest by his knowledge of Darth Plagueis ' manipulation of the Force for resurrection purpose . Additionally , Palpatine owned the masquerade of Sith Lord Momin , who total back to biography in Soule’sDarth Vaderstoryline . The masquerade party , according to Palpatine , taught him many things about the Force — the deduction being that Palpatine may have get clues about Christ’s Resurrection .
TheDarth Vadercomics also make it exonerated that Palpatine was working with a scientist named Cylo to figure out a way to transcend the limit of the Force and of deathrate , creating clone bodies to potential transfer knowingness into .
in the end , Palpatine ’s monolithic contingency plan after his demise at the battle of Endor had his former adviser , Sith cultist Yupe Tashu , convinced he was either still alive or would be resurrected in the Unknown Regions . Not only is his resurrection plausible , it ’s been a subtle undertide in many non - movie stories since even before the release ofThe Force Awakens .
The Second Death Star May Have Played a Role in Palpatine’s Survival
There is reason to believe thatthe 2d Death Starmay play a purpose in Palpatine ’s Resurrection of Christ inStar Wars 9 . InReturn of the Jedi , it ’s implied Palpatine is killed after being pushed by his protégé , Darth Vader , in an endeavor to foreclose Palpatine from killing Luke Skywalker . The camera depict Palpatine falling down a long shaft in the second Death Star , ostensibly dying on shock . This death is mirror with the execution of Yupe Tashu in Chuck Wendig’sAftermathtrilogy . There , Tashu recruits Counselor Rax to aid him start the process of resurrecting Palpatine . The twain change of location to the Jakku Observatory , where a number of Palpatine relics are stack away . Before Tashu and Rax can fill out the observance , Rax press Tashu down a shaft that extend into the core of Jakku while he ’s wear a Sith mask and defy a mystical black holocron .
On the control surface , it may be unmanageable to see how the two deaths link . What ’s key here , though , is the verbal description of how The Emperor and Yupe Tashu die . Palpatine falls down a dig into the Death Star ’s heart and soul , while Tashu return down a prick into Jakku ’s sum . On its own that may seem innocuous , but the way Tashu ’s death , along with the destruction of the Sith masquerade party and holocron , is described by Wendig in a way that draws an eldritch latitude to Palpatine ’s own last on the second Death Star:“The world shudders . A fierce growl grumbles up through the bore , and the orangish light glows suddenly red — the blue thread of mist turn black . "
So , both man falling down a giant kettle of fish and exploding with thread of low-spirited mist could be a coincidence , except for when you consider intimately every footmark of the situation was orchestrate by Palpatine . The Death Star resembled other ancient Sith superweapons , the Jakku lookout was based on Palpatine ’s designs and Jakku was central to hisplan to fly into the Unknown Regionswhere he sense a great Dark Side major power . He was untrusting that Vader would turn on him for years ( that ’s why the contingency even existed ) , and Tashu was instructed , again by Palpatine , to conduct a Sith ritual chair up to his death .
With Palpatine pulling all the strings and his demise and Tashu ’s death strangely mirroring each other with the oddly specific description of the downcast mist in Aftermath , it begs the question : was Death Star merely a planet killer , or did it also serve a more arcane persona in Palpatine ’s long term manoeuvre for immortality ?
Palpatine May Have Been Manipulating Kylo Ren All Along
Just as Palpatine kept Momin ’s mask to learn secrets from it , there is a possibility that Palpatine ’s spirit force was transferred into a mask after he was killed inReturn of the Jedi . We also know that Kylo kept his grandpa Darth Vader ’s masquerade party close to him after retrieve it from Endor . Incidentally , Endor is the piazza where the remains of the second Death Star ended up and Palpatine break in that Death Star after being push by Darth Vader and Darth Vader subsequently died aboard the superweapon , too . There is a possibilityPalpatine ’s consciousness change into the maskbefore Kylo took it .
We know Kylo received some kind of content from Darth Vader ’s mask , on the face of it compel and control by the mask to adopt his Dark Side . Kylo believed he was communicate with Vader but that has never been made clear in the film , leaving way for the opening it wasPalpatine he was communicating with the full time . Although Palpatine ’s destruction at the men of his student , Vader , and Kylo killing Snoke fits in with the ongoing theme of Sith Lord replacement overthrowing their master copy and assuming powerfulness , this may all change with Palpatine connect with Kylo via Vader ’s mask . It would also wipe out Leia ’s belief Snoke seduce Kylo to embrace the Dark Side ; Kylo may have been corrupted through Vader ’s Palpatine - possessed mask long before Snoke , and Snoke just saw the perfect student , already embracing evil , to take under his wing .
Palpatine’s Plans All Required Superweapons
Palpatine ’s obsession with superweapons has been well established over the course ofStar Wars . The first Death Star was Palpatine ’s preferent projection . structure was designed by Genosians for the separatists , under the oversight of Count Dooku before being seized by the Republic under Palpatine ’s rule and make out by General Orson Krennic and supervise by Grand Moff Tarkin . Palpatine was also responsible for the structure of the 2d Death Star , although that was later on destroyed and its remains are now on Endor , as see in the trailer forStar war : The Last Jedi .
The Sith also had an obsession with Superweapons , so it ’s no surprise that this course continued with Palpatine . InStar Wars Rebels , when they jaw the satellite Malachor to find an ancient conflict had taken place at the base of one such weapon .
The First Order is also no alien to superweapons . We know about Starkiller Base and Snoke ’s Star Destroyer , the Supremacy , which may not be a proper superweapon , but still dwarfs even the Super Star Destroyers from Palpatine ’s Empire . We also see a issue of failed projects , possibly precursors to Starkiller Base , inStar Wars Resistancewhen Kaz and Poe Dameron find satellite with their kernel hollow out , and there are several references in the novelization forStar war : The Last Jedithat suggest theFirst Order has more superweaponswe have n’t even heard about yet . We do n’t know yet if Palatine was pulling any strings with the First Order ( unless the wild hypothesis thatSnoke was actually Palpatineis dependable ) , but the First Order was spawned by Palpatine ’s contingency , and he had secretly set up shipyard , storehouses , enquiry outposts , and more in the Unknown Regions , so it ’s highly potential the weapons are inspired by his designs , if not commissioned by Palpatine himself .
We do n’t know exactly why Palpatine is ghost with Superweapons , but we know he ’s always had long condition design involving getting to the Unknown Regions . In fact , he started make the place on Jakku only a few years after first meeting Anakin Skywalker and becoming the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic . If you though Palpatine ’s retentive term strategy postulate make only Anakin his apprentice , forming the Galactic Empire , or building a Death Star ( or two ) , you would n’t be thinking farsighted term enough .
Thanks to Palpatine ’s long obsession in the Unknown Regions culminate in his apparent death andcontingency architectural plan at Jakku , it ’s dependable to say that , even 30 class after the destruction of the 2d Death Star , everything is still proceeding as he had foresee .
So , looking back on over 60 years of Palpatine ’s schemes all conduct toStar Wars 9 , we can easily assume two things . First , He wants to make a Skywalker , and secondly , he wants to ramp up another superweapon . As has always been the case with the Dark Lord of the Sith , the how and the why are n’t manifest just yet , but withStar warfare : The Rise of Skywalkerprimed to shut the ledger on the Skywalker legacy for good , we ’re believably about to find out .
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