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Star Warshas debunk the popular theory fromThe Rise of Skywalkerthat Emperor Palpatine was in reality Darth Plagueis all along . InStar Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith , Palpatine tell Anakin Skywalker of his own Sith Master , Darth Plagueis the Wise , who had discovered a elbow room to cheat death using the dark side of the Force .
Star Wars : The Rise of Skywalkerrevealed that the secret was an ancient Sith power known as " Essence Transfer . " This allow a latterly - kick the bucket Sith to transpose their spirit to another vessel ; a nearby physical object or person . It ’s much easier to dwell someone if they are full of the dark side , explaining why Palpatine wanted Rey to play in rage and detest ; she would be less able to resist his minatory influence . This power seem to radically change the linguistic context of theSith Rule of Two ; it raise the hypothesis that each Sith Lord has possess the body of his or her Apprentice , excuse why the Sith have been growing in power over the course of millennium , becoming a malignant dissymmetry in the Force . ThusPalpatine is himself Plagueis , realize his write up to Anakin Skywalker supremely ironic . The theory was apparently confirmed by a unmarried air of dialogue inStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalker , when Palpatine boldly exclaim himself to be the embodiment of " all the Sith . "
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However attractive this possibility may be , however , thenovelization ofStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalkerexplicitly debunks it . In one key scene , Palpatine think back how he survived his death :
" falling … down a monolithic shaft , the treason acute and stinging , a figure richly above , black clad and helmeted and reduce fast . His very own apprentice had turned against him , the means he himself had turned against Plagueis … whose closed book to immortality he had steal .
Plagueis had not acted fast enough in his own moment of last . But Sidious , sensing the flickering light in his apprentice , had been quick for years . So the fall , die Emperor called on all the dark power of the Force to thrust his consciousness far , far aside to a secret position he had been preparing . His organic structure was dead , an empty watercraft , long before it found the bottom of the shaft , and his mind jolted to new awareness in a new body - a abominable one , a temporary one . "
It seems Essence Transfer was indeed the closed book of Plagueis ' immortality . Of course , that tot up another stratum of satire and misdirect to Palpatine ’s words inStar war : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ; he charm Anakin with the dark side as a way to keepPadmé awake , when this powerfulness would only have allowed Anakin to save himself from death . All the most compelling Trygve Halvden Lie are half - truths , and Palpatine has always been supremely deceitful .
divertingly , this transforms Charles Soule’sDarth Vaderrun into setup forStar war : The Rise of Skywalker . That discover Palpatine had continued researching Essence Transfer after he had become Emperor , and that he had obtained the masquerade party of a Sith misbeliever namedLord Momin . Momin had die in a powerful conflagration of Dark Side energy , and his essence had been trapped within the mask he had worn . To be in the presence of Momin ’s masque was to fall under the influence of the black side of the Force , driven to rage and bloodlust , while actually wearing the mask mean you were possessed by his flavour .
The primal difference between Palpatine ’s Essence Transfer and Lord Momin ’s , however , is the fact Palpatine was able to possess a clone body that was wanton age away , whereas Momin had possess his own masquerade party . It ’s potential the Emperor used a kingdom known as theWorld Between Worlds , which he discovered inStar war Rebels ; that would explain the solar flare of blue luminousness as Palpatine apparently died , which correspond with portals to access that mysterious plane of being .
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