Life Debt and Episode VIII

I think the fact they were seriously considering this artwork for Snoke's look really narrows his possible background down a lot imo. Its basically an undead version of a snake looking being. That look almost eliminates the possibility Snoke was hanging around Ben when he was a kid without Luke and Leia knowing he was some big baddy or that he was some former politician serving alongside Leia etc. That look just screams ancient baddie just like Snoke's current very decayed/broken down look does. That is a look that would be smart to stay hidden in the unknown regions until the time was right to strike.

 

Skeletor?

 

Well the artbook with the picture of the busts made for Snoke makes me think he is probably very old also. The artist has one version where he shows Snoke with his whole left side eye socket area caving in but the injury on the top of Snoke's head is not nearly as prominent as it is in the final Snoke look but the massive left eye socket degeneration is mostly gone. The artist also talks about visualizing Snoke as being handsome in his youth but as his darkside power grew so did the toll on his body or words to that effect.

Looking at those things I don't think the damage on Snoke's forehead everyone thinks is from a massive wound is not from that at all but just what they decided to go with at the end instead of having his eye socket totally collapsing and it was caused by the darkside eating him up throughout his very long life.

 

The Ravager plummeting towards the surface during the Battle of Jakku in Star Wars Battlefront:

The Ravager in TFA.

I think in the next and final book of the Aftermath trilogy, Empire's End (February 2017), Gallius Rax will be presumed dead in the Battle of Jakku in the crash of his Super Star Destroyer Ravager and in Episode 8 we will discover that the real name of Snoke is Gallius Rax and that he survived the crash of his Destroyer with the help of the dark side but was seriously injured and burned. If Snoke is Gallius Rax he's 70 years old in TFA.

 

OMG, @The Futurition ! After reading both books of Wendig's series, I was already inclined to think of a possibility of Gallius being Snoke. But after all the connections I've seen you make, what can I say.

Either it is the biggest red herring ever (and a missed opportunity), or Rax is INDEED the Supreme Leader.

Cannot wait for Empire's End!

 

Are you guys ignoring the supposed recent leak from MSW around Snoke? They claim that there will be a practical effects Snoke puppet that's 8 feet tall (2 and a half meters). If this is true, then Rax would have to go through some sort of physical transformation for him to become Snoke. Still possible through some Dark Side shenanigans, but it increases the theory's complexity (and thus reduces its plausibility).

Add that to Chuck Wendig's making fun of this theory and my bet would be on a red herring.

Also, Empire's End will come in February right? No way that a major reveal around Snoke will happen outside of the movies, and before EP8 comes out.
So, Empire's End will either rule this theory out or ... not confirm anything

 

Neal Scanlan, chief of creature and droid effects "This character is much better executed as a CGI character. That’s just a practical reality when he’s 7-foot-something tall; he’s very, very thin."

http://people.com/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-adam-driver-gwendoline-christie-star/

Snoke is around 7 feet, he could be a tall human.

Andy Serkis "He is severely damaged. Although he's a powerful leader, he comes across as vulnerable. Very scarred and disfigured"

http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/star-wars-exclusive-andy-serkis-talks-supreme-leader-snoke/

In the crash of the Ravager during the battle of Jakku?

And there will be no major revelation in Empire's End, Gallius Rax will be "dead" in the book, the major revelation will come with Episode 8: the real name of Snoke is Gallius Rax and he survived the crash of the Ravager.

 

I see your points but there is a bunch of stuff going against him being Rax.

Rax certainly hasn't been described as being between 7 foot to 8 foot tall which is where the descriptions of Snoke's height in articles put him so far. They havent described his height but that is something that you would think would be mentioned by now since it is so much taller than the normal range.

Snoke is not human and the author said all those officers are humans. The book said he is humanoid and when it showed his backside of his neck etc. it resembled something alien big time.

The artbook is giving us a likely clue why Snoke is so damaged and disfigured and its because he is very very old and the darkside has literally destroyed his body. Look how twisted his body is in addition to his face suggesting it might not be from any outside cause at all.

I think Pablo's tweet was suggesting more along the lines that whatever happens to Rax will clear it up he isn't Snoke.

I thought at one time there was a slim chance Rax might find some Sith artifact or something similar that gives him that power and eats his body up like that but with Snoke not being human and being that tall etc. I think that is pretty much out the door. My guess would be Rax just helps lead them to the unknown regions with something from Jakku that leads them to Snoke who is there. Due to Pablo's tweet I think its better then 50/50 Rax dies at the end of Empire's End and is 100% dead.

 

The Empire had a huge research base on Jakku but didn't realize that a jedi was living in an ATAT.

 

"Rax certainly hasn't been described as being between 7 foot to 8 foot tall which is where the descriptions of Snoke's height in articles put him so far. They havent described his height but that is something that you would think would be mentioned by now since it is so much taller than the normal range."

It would be too obvious if Gallius Rax is around 7 feet in the books. All we know of Gallius Rax: he has pale skin, juste like Snoke, he looks like a "hologram", well just like Snoke in TFA who is only seen as a hologram.

Pablo Hidalgo doesn't want to confirm that Gallius Rax is not Snoke:


he has confirmed multiple times that Plagueis is not Snoke for example:




Snoke could a human damaged by an accident and the dark side, Palpatine doesn't look really human in Episode 6 but he is human.

Oh and a strange thing: Rax is an orphan from Jakku, Rey is also an orphan of Jakku in TFA, a link between Rey and Gallius Rax in Episodes 7,8,9?

 

Rey had been born around ten years after the battle of Jakku, so when she was brought there five years later, there was no Imperial jurisdiction on Jakku.

 

This is supposed to be Rax during the Aftermath books but not sure what is the original source of the picture. I think that pretty much rules him out as being Snoke since he is clearly human.

 

Snoke is "super human", yet still human. Rax might be a certain actor playing "kinda the villain".

 

Ah, the good old days when I used to pester Pablo on Twitter about Plagueis!

I don't know where I stand on this debate anymore!

 

So Rax's ship crashes on Jakku. He barely survives and wanders into a temple. Barely holding his last breath, Rax makes a pact to live and inadvertently releases an evil dark side spirit. His soul is devoured and his body possessed by none other than Darth Plagueis who has been waiting for a corporeal body to inhabit ever since he was bested by his apprentice, Darth Sidious.

Rax as Snoke confirmed!!!

Plagueis as Snoke confirmed!!!!!!