Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
Summary
Star Warstie - ins have revealed x secrets about Palpatine ’s resurrection inStar Wars : The lift of Skywalker . Most looker assumedStar war : The upgrade of Skywalkerwould explain Palpatine ’s resurrection , but instead it was paw - curl away with the comment of " somehow Palpatine returned . " There ’s a sense in which this was an understandable determination ; a movie is n’t reckon to be a Wikipedia page , after all , and the focus is on recount the story rather than explain everything . Still , for all that ’s the case , the failure to excuse Palpatine ’s resurrection was widely mocked .
Star Warsis far more than a moving-picture show franchise , of course . Oddly enough , canonStar Warsnovels had ( likely accidentally ) arrange up Palpatine ’s return back in 2015 , even if the motion picture had ignored the frame-up . Since then , it ’s become clear there are three component of Palpatine ’s resurrection : the cloning of the Emperor ’s body , the Sith mightiness of essence transfer , and the planet Exegol . Here ’s everythingStar Warshas revealed about these three component .
6Exegol’s Force Vergence Made Return From Death Possible
Star Wars : The raise of Skywalkerintroduced theSith planet of Exegol , a mysterious human race engross in the dark side of the Force . Situated late in the Unknown Regions , Exegol has been revealed to be a Force vergence where the boundary between life story and dying is unusually thin . It was discovered by the ancient Sith , and - according to George Mann’sDark Legends- for millennia Sith have attempted to unlock the closed book of immortality by conducting experiments at Exegol . There ’s some contradictory evidence indicating the Sith lost the Wayfinders that lead them to Exegol , with Palpatine rediscovering them sometime afterStar Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith .
5Palpatine’s Master Darth Plagueis Discovered The Power Of Essence Transfer
InStar war : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith , Palpatine suggest his master Darth Plagueis had discovered the arcanum of immortality . Rae Carson ’s novelization ofStar warfare : The Rise of Skywalkerconfirms this was the ancient Sith power of essence transfer , an power that allow a Sith Lord to transfer their spirit at the moment of their expiry - binding it to a geographical fix or an physical object , or potentially possessing a soul . According to the novelisation , Palpatine used Plagueis ' power to escape death inReturn of the Jedi :
" Plagueis had not do fast enough in his own consequence of death . But Sidious , sense the flickering Inner Light in his apprentice , had been ready for years . So the falling , dying Emperor called on all the dark top executive of the Force to throw his consciousness far , far away to a secret station he had been fix . His body was dead , an empty vessel , long before it chance the bottom of the shaft , and his mind jolted to new awareness in a new body - a painful one , a impermanent one . "
4Palpatine’s Cloning Experiments Predated The Rise Of The Empire
Palpatine did n’t just want to possess any old body , of trend ; an egotist to the core , he initially look for to shift his body into a ringer . Darth Sidious had always been interested in cloning , and inStar warfare : The Clone Warsthere were hints he ’d already ground a facility to conduct such familial experiment . This story continued inStar Wars : The Bad Batch , which has unwrap an Imperial cloning facility atMount Tantisson the planet Wayland . Dialogue has already hint the Emperor has a mystic purpose for Mount Tantiss , and it is likely he task the scientist there with reckon out how to clone Force - top executive .
3Palpatine Sought Out Exegol After Revenge Of The Sith
Chuck Wendig ’s " Aftermath " trilogy arguably betoken Palpatine ’s return inStar Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith , even introducing a Sith cultist named Yupe Tashu who believed the Emperor would render somewhere in the Unknown Regions . In one flashback , Yupe Tashu remembers his master sensing a hefty coloured side vergence somewhere in the depths of distance , seeking it out as a Florida key to immortality . It ’s reasonable to assume Palpatine was searching for Exegol , feel the planet through the Force .
Timothy Zahn ’s novelThrawnreveals this was the real reason Palpatine recruitedGrand Admiral Thrawninto the Empire . One of the few nonhumans to ascend to a high social rank in the Empire , Thrawn actually originate from the Unknown Regions ; he was an exile from a wash who hold up there , the Chiss . As pleased as Palpatine was with Thrawn ’s military and tactical genius , he was far more interested in exploring the Unknown Regions in hunt of Exegol .
It ’s unclear when Palpatine break Exegol . Star Warscomics have revealed he seemed to have established himself there by the metre of the original trilogy ; Greg Pak and Raffaele Ienco’sDarth Vadertells a tale in which Darth Vader visited Exegol afterThe Empire Strikes Back . Even Darth Vader never suspected the scale of his victor ’s ambitiousness , though .
2Supreme Leader Snoke Was A Failed Body For Palpatine
Lucasfilm’sStar state of war : secret of the Sith- an in - population reference playscript supposedly written by Palpatine himself - confirm Supreme Leader Snoke was genetically engineered as a potential host for the Emperor . " As part of their genetic experiment , my followers had attempted to create another being that amount to be sleep with as Snoke , " Palpatine notes . " Although his body proved slimy of take my dark essence , Snoke ’s innate sensitivity to the Force would make him a muscular puppet nonetheless . "
1Star Wars Hints At Project Necromancer: Palpatine’s Resurrection?
lastly , The Mandalorianseason 3 , episode 7 introduced a group know as theImperial Shadow Council . Existing after the event ofReturn of the Jedi , the Imperial Shadow Council - a radical of former Imperial loss leader - scheme to restitute the Empire . Intriguingly , the abbreviated coup d’oeil of a Shadow Council meeting include a discarded reference to something call " Project Necromancer . " It ’s reasonable to adopt this is connected to the experiment being conducted at Exegol , afford the focus on life after death .
The exact human relationship between Palpatine and the Imperial Shadow Council is still something of a mystery story . Although it ’s possible Palpatine was the secret maestro of the group , it ’s deserving note the leaders who founded the First Order do n’t seem to have known about his resurrection . It ’s quite possible Palpatine was enjoy operating from the shadow , turn up himself the greatest villain ofStar Warsonce again .
