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Emperor Palpatinecheating death was one of the most shuddery aspects of theStar Warssequels , but I recently realized his return was much darker than most of us thought . The team behindStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalkerwent out of their way to really make Palpatine a"Phantom Emperor,“a ghoulish monster rotting away in the deep deepness of a dark fortress . His laboratory was riddle with other unsettling experiments to illustrate how messed up Exegol was .
I think this was as saturnine as Palpatine could get , at least until I revisited some of the recentStar WarsTV shows . One line of dialogue divulge an vista of Palpatine ’s return I had n’t think of before , probably because I had always analyzed it through the crystalline lens ofthe originalStar WarsExpanded Universe . After prying into the lore surrounding Exegol , I do n’t mean I ’ll ever look at Palpatine in the sequels the same way again .
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I’ve Always (Wrongly) Assumed That Palpatine’s Canon Return Was The Same As Legends
It’s similar but seems to have one key difference
I conceive the biggest reason I never realized how dark Palpatine ’s return was in canon is that I assumed it was like to how he came back in the Expanded Universe , now recognise as " Legends . " InStar Wars : Dark Empireby Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy , Palpatine revealed he was awake and wage war on the New Republic . He recount Luke Skywalker he cheat demise by transferring his spirit into a clone body .
The original Star Wars Expanded Universe and the current canyon both revived Palpatine , but which rendering of his Resurrection of Christ was handled better ?
Palpatine even revealed that this was n’t the first prison term he had used this proficiency , as the body that was destroyed on the second Death Star was also a ringer . Because Palpatine had hone the cloning process and instantly transferred his spirit in Legends , I ’ve always imagine he did the same thing in the unexampled Disney canon . However , one detail stick around out to me during a late rewatch , suggesting this may not be the case .
Palpatine’s “Project Necromancer” Wasn’t Complete In The Mandalorian Season 3
The Imperial Remnant hadn’t yet delivered any results
The Mandalorianseason 3 , episode 7 " Chapter 23 : The Spies " affirm that the Imperial Remnant was working on something call " Project Necromancer . " All that was get laid was that it had something to do with cloning , and since Moff Gideon was also trying to create force out - sensible clones of himself , many fans conjecture that this was an other attempt to clone Palpatine . This presumptuousness was all but confirmed in the third and final season ofStar Wars : The Bad Batch .
concisely after the birth of the Empire , Palpatine ordered his cloners at Mount Tantiss to begin work on Project Necromancer . Although a Palpatine clone was never clearly seeable , the scientists were attempting " M - tally reverberation , " meaning they want the knockoff to have enough midi - chlorians to make the body Force - sensitive . It ’s arduous to think that this could be anything but Palpatine ’s early endeavor to create a clone watercraft for himself .
However , I finally realized something aboutThe Mandalorianseason 3 … Project Necromancer was n’t ready yet . Captain Pellaeon specifically said that Commandant Hux still needed sentence to render on the project , and since the show is set more than five years afterReturn of the Jedi , this could have in mind Palpatine did n’t immediately transplant his emotional state when he died . This led me to conceive the horrifying possibleness of where Palpatine was if not in a lonesome body .
Palpatine’s Spirit Must Have Spent Years In Star Wars' Version Of Hell
He had to be brought back from the world of the dead
If Palpatine did n’t channelise his spirit to a clone trunk decent after he was destroyed , thenhe may have spend several years in Chaos , theStar Warsequivalent of hell . According toStar Wars : Dark Legendsby George Mann and Grant Griffin , Exegol was a vergence where the boundary between life and the Netherworld of the Force was by artificial means flimsy . This is likely one intellect Palpatine made Exegol his secret lair , specially if he was planning to cheat death .
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I hazard I should n’t be surprised that this was always part of something called " Project Necromancer . " After all , a necromancer is someone who conjures the liveliness of the dead , and Palpatine himself was well - versed in Sith alchemy . peradventure I don that Palpatine already had a flawed knockoff that he hoped Project Necromancer would improve on , but I never considered that it may have been all he had at that point .
If Palpatine did drop geezerhood in Chaos before being resurrected , this adds entirely raw context to some of his words and actions . He was n’t exaggerating when he separate Kylo Ren he had died before , and perhaps this explains how he seemed so much more powerful even before he sop up the energy of the Force dyad . It makesEmperor Palpatine ’s lot even obscure and give more weight to the last chapter of theStar WarsSkywalker Saga .
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