Star Wars Inside Intel Gives Context to Palpatines Plan to Cheat Death

Currently, when I click on the link to get an explanation of how everything fits together, I get a 404 error... but quite frankly, that sort of seems right to me.

 

Back in 2015 when we were all wondering who Rey's parents were, who Snoke was, what happened to the Emperor's plan and the Empire . . . I really didn't think we would get the answers in a starwars.com article.

 

They left out the part where his broadcast was played in Fortnite.

Seriously though, I feel like all of this Snoke/Palpatine stuff will feel more natural over time.

 

If at first you do not succeed,
post, post again.

(Twenty months later. After they've finally decided upon something.)

 

I got what I needed to understand Palpatine's return in the movie from the movie. Sure there's probably a lot more background detail. But the idea that a Sith master could enjoy quasi immortality via the darkside is not so remote that it needed the movies to fully explicate this. The idea that the dark side can sustain someone's life is part of Vader's own story, and how he survived after Mustafar.

Lucas toyed with the idea of Luke becoming Lord Vader after vanquishing his father. Sith apprentices have traditionally assumed the mantle of the Sith they have destroyed. It's all just a half-step in logic away from the transference of a Sith's identity to the one who physically replaces them. And then another half step to taking possession to cloned vessels.

 

Make a tv series about it, that's how they usually sort this stuff out.