Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
The novelization ofStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalkersubtly restores an Expanded Universe Sith into the canyon . TheStar Warsnovelizations are always thirstily anticipated ; in the example ofStar state of war : The hike of Skywalker , there was a general Bob Hope it would settle some ofThe Rise of Skywalker ’s many plot holes .
course , all aid is on the riposte of the Emperor Palpatine , which went entirely unexplained in the movie itself . Rae Carson ’s novel break the resurrectedPalpatine is actually a dead ringer ; after the Emperor ’s decease inReturn of the Jedi , the Sith Lord reassign his spirit into a clone body . unluckily for Darth Sidious , the sheer office of the dark side was too much for his new body , and it began to decay . He was only kept alive by Kaminoan nutrient , and his body was for good attached to some variety of Harold Hart Crane chemical mechanism . The novelization describes this Harold Hart Crane as an Ommin harness , and that ’s an significant detail .
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Ommin was an ancient Sith Lord introduced in the one-time Expanded Universe . TheStar WarsExpanded Universe refers to the books and comics that populated much ofStar Warsmedia between the outlet ofReturn of the Jediand the prequels , and it was declared non - canon after Disney purchasedStar Wars . Ommin play a major role in Tom Veitch ’s popularTales of the Jedi : Knights of the Old Republiccomics , which were place 4,000 years before the events of the firstStar Warsfilm .
Ommin became king of the satellite Onderon , and his obsessional studies of the dark side led to the accelerated decay of his body . He faded from visibility , allowing his people to trust him deadened and his wife to rule in his place . The harness Ommin wear off is visually identical to Palpatine ’s inStar war : The Rise of Skywalker .
It seems King Ommin is canon once again and that the Sith engineers of Exegol reproduced the harness he wore all those millennia ago . Interestingly enough , it ’s progressively looking as though almost every element of Veitch ’s comics have been absorbed into the canon . Onderon itself appeared inStar Wars : The Clone Wars , the homeworld ofSaw Gerrera , who has become a key material body in the Disney era . The dark side creatures create by the Sith on Onderon were canonise in Cavan Scott ’s audiobookDooku : Jedi Lost , which subtly referenced those ancient state of war .
Of course , there ’s a sure degree of satire to Lucasfilm drawing such a small-scale plot ribbon from one of Veitch ’s storey . Palpatine ’s regaining - indeed , the very estimate of his purport have a clone body - islifted from theDark Empirecomics , which were also written by Veitch . It seems he had a surprisingly profound influence onStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalker .
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