Taking the opportunity, Grievous plunged two lightsabers into her body, eliminating the foe of Sidious. When Valorum reluctantly admitted that the Federation was within their rights to request a commission, an outraged Amidala realized that Palpatine was right; Valorum was too weak and ineffectual to provide her world with the help it needed. When Darth Plagueis betrayed him, Darth Tenebrous took his opportunity to "infect" his apprentice's body. Yet once Amidala was planet-side, she learned Farr had joined the Separatists to help his people, and she was captured by Nute Gunray's battle droids. Sensing a disturbance in the Force, Sidious traveled to Mandalore to confront Maul, his first apprentice. After Sidious terminated his communication with Gunray, Queen Padmé Amidala contacted him concerning the Federation's denial that the Chancellor had sent ambassadors to speak with them as promised. Eventually, the duo arrived at Club Kasakar. A few minutes later, the Perilous exploded. [12] Skywalker was grateful to Palpatine, and viewed the chancellor as a mentor as well as a friend. Since the Emperor was off-world, he used a hologram projection to present himself in his more benevolent, pre-scarred form. As the procedure ended and the Sith apprentice rose, the Emperor approached him. Dooku complied and ordered his troops to leave her to die during their retreat, but she survived. Though the Emperor wants to kill Rowan, Vader convinces the Emperor that Rowan can help them find more kyber crystals to power up the second Death Star. Additionally, Amidala and her retinue were captured and presented with a treaty that would bring an air of legitimacy to their invasion. He assured them that the Jedi would be at war with the Hutts as well the Confederacy. To demonstrate his seriousness, Palpatine Force choked Galli. Born [57], Sidious ordered Dooku to ally with the resurgent Zygerrian Slave Empire, explaining past Sith Empires were built on the backs of slaves and theirs would be no exception. [156] Producer Kathleen Kennedy then confirmed that Sidious' return stemmed from discussions during the development of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens[157] although original director Colin Trevorrow stated that Palpatine's return wasn't an idea presented in his original script for the film. There, with the Jedi-aspirant beaten by a precarious ledge, Vader divulged knowledge of his relationship with Skywalker, his son, and gave an ultimatum for the youth: to join forces—as said to be destiny—with his father, Darth Vader, or die. However, the plans had escaped aboard the Tantive IV, a CR90 Corvette, in the hands of Princess Leia Organa, the Imperial Senator for Alderaan and a suspected Rebel sympathizer. With his plan in tatters, the Emperor ordered three members of the Royal Guard and three stormtroopers to enter the room and execute Ezra. Hair color After discovering the sabotage and realizing that the ship was doomed, Vader contacted the Emperor. His orders were to end the Ore-dukes' rebellion and preserve the Imperial-backed government led by Queen Trios, whom Vader had placed on the throne after her father's treason.[104][106]. But Sidious had cheated death, returning to life on the Sith redoubt of Exegol -- his body corrupt and broken, but his spirit indomitable as ever. [23] Plagueis also attempted to create a Force dyad with Sidious, a unique Force-bond as strong as life itself and which inspired the Rule of Two. She also found an image crystal showing a still image of Sidious and several Imperial Guards, stormtroopers, and officials including Wullf Yularen, Dodd Rancit, Terrinald Screed, Grand Vizier Mas Amedda, and Gallius Rax. Kenobi, Skywalker, and his new Padawan, Ahsoka Tano were able to return Rotta to his father and secure a treaty with the Hutts. The villagers reacted by fleeing to a nearby mine shaft, a sanctuary in time of danger. Skywalker executed Dooku at the behest of Palpatine, taking another step in his path to becoming a Sith. After executing Belkor, Moff Mors sent her forces to rendezvous with Sidious and Vader at the Twi'lek village.[81]. After a brief moment of hesitation, Vader complied with his master's orders and massacred the villagers. He successfully manipulated the leaders of the Separatists and Count Dooku under the pretense of a better future,[source?] Palpatine made a show of concern and tried halfheartedly to convince her to stay on Coruscant. Due to Tagge's failure, the Emperor demoted him and transferred command of the Executor and its fleet to Vader. The purpose of this new military was to restore Sith rule across the galaxy in the form of a new Sith Empire, which Sidious offered to Ren along with the title of Emperor,[22] but only if he killed the Jedi apprentice Rey. The Council, however, decided to use this appointment as a chance to spy on Palpatine. The next year,[60] Maul returned to the galaxy after a decade of hiding, with his brother Savage Opress now acting as his apprentice. as it demanded only two Sith. Red, later white[1] [6], Sidious ordered the Sith assassin Ochi to retrieve his granddaughter,[8] but her parents had foreseen this scenario, and, as a result,[source?] Meanwhile, he continued mentoring Anakin Skywalker, instilling a dangerous ambitious side into the young Jedi. To the ways of the Sith. Darth Vader eventually lured Luke Skywalker to Cloud City on Bespin, where the Sith Lord attempted to capture Skywalker in carbonite and transport the Jedi-aspirant to the Emperor. Over the next ten years,[30] Supreme Chancellor Palpatine amassed a favorable reputation as a mild-mannered servant of the common good, and the public remained oblivious to his true, insidious persona. [56], During the Battle of Sullust, Sidious ordered Dooku to dispose of his general Asajj Ventress, having become aware of her growing power. Cadet Rae Sloane and Darth Vader uncovered this assassination attempt and redirected the Defiance. Luke at first resisted, but as the Emperor continued to taunt him, Luke grew angrier and then grabbed his lightsaber to strike the old man down. Driven to desperation by the inactivity of the Senate, Valorum secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights—Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi—as ambassadors to negotiate with the Federation's Neimoidian leaders. [20] In private, Palpatine expressed to Skywalker his confidence in him, including his belief that Skywalker's power would eventually eclipse the combined strength of the Jedi Order, including Grand Master Yoda.[12]. His ambition of eternal rule was finally quashed when Rey called upon the strength of past Jedi to vanquish her grandfather by turning his own power against him, destroying Sidious and his Sith Eternal cultists. "[149] When he was discovered on Exegol, Sidious, inhabiting a clone body, appeared to be in a putrid and decaying state. Despite failing to capture the Freemakers on several occasions, M-OC manages to deflect blame by pointing out that Lord Vader obstructed his efforts to obtain an XX-23 S-thread tracker. Darth Sidious bestows the name Darth Vader on his new apprentice. Chancellor Palpatine served as the judge of the trial of Ahsoka Tano, who was accused of masterminding a bombing at the Jedi Temple. [6] Sidious at once realized what was before him: a dyad in the Force, a prophesied phenomenon stronger than life itself, one which had not been seen for generations. After Piett's confirmation on the escape of the Millennium Falcon, the Grand Vizier relayed the Emperor's demand for Vader to contact him immediately, yet an officer alerted Piett of the departure of Lord Vader's shuttle as the admiral reached for his comlink to Vader. Parts of this article have been identified as no longer being up to date. In secret, Rax had arranged for himself and several "worthy" Imperials including Brendol Hux, his son Armitage Hux, and a contingent of child soldiers to flee into the Unknown Regions. A shocked Dooku looked to Palpatine pleadingly, only to be met with another, more sinister urging. [46], Sidious paid Cad Bane to steal a Holocron from the Jedi Temple's Holocron Vault,[47] which when used in conjunction with the kyber memory crystal would reveal the location of Force-sensitive infants across the galaxy. [98] The Emperor first appeared in the 1980 sequel Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, played by the experienced actress Marjorie Eaton. 75 kilograms[11] Sidious regarded Snoke as nothing more than a test to determine Kylo Ren's worthiness of inheriting the Sith legacy. [26] Following the traditions set forth by the Rule of Two and deciding that Plagueis had outlived his usefulness, Sidious betrayed and murdered his master in his sleep. Following an attempt to arrest the chancellor, the Great Jedi Purge commenced with Sidious enacting Order 66. However, something bigger was growing. The Emperor told Hydan that he had sensed that the death of Kanan Jarrus had altered the fate of Lothal. Having killed his master, Sidious trained Darth Maul as his first Sith apprentice. [95] Following his first death, Sidious still sought ways to achieve immortality and the preservation of the Sith, as was seen by his attempt to perform a ritual on his granddaughter Rey in order to transfer his spirit into her body, which would allow Sidious to continue the Sith's legacy.[8]. The doppelganger attempted to call upon his lightsaber but instead the boy commanded it and turned the saber on midflight, eventually overpowering the doppelganger when the Sith Lord's own saber struck him down. Vader recognized that, should one of his rivals had been the last one standing, the Emperor would be having the same conversation with them. Maul and Dooku flew to Dathomir, where Talzin intended to siphon Dooku's lifeforce to regain her physical body. [97], In an attempt to get Ezra to unlock the portal to the World Between Worlds, Sidious tried to tempt Ezra with the opportunity of reuniting with his deceased parents. Sidious ordered Grievous to capture Palpatine and Dooku to hold him hostage. The Emperor ordered that Eli Vanto would be transferred to Thrawn's side and that they would both undergo training at the Royal Imperial Academy.[84]. However, he also sent Cylo and his remaining subjects, apparently on Grand General Tagge's request. He then ordered Rax to take[35] the Executor-class Star Dreadnought[123] Ravager into the Vulpinus Nebula and hide until the events of this shatter point had resolved. Darth Sidious turns to Cylo and his experiments in a bid to test his apprentice. Sidious fended off a horde of lyleks with Vader's help. Scheming, powerful, and evil to the core, Darth Sidious restored the Sith and destroyed the Jedi Order. As they fought with Vader, Cylo presented to him the subjects that he had been working on over the past twenty years: Aiolin Astarte and Morit Astarte, twins born to a family which had supported the Separatists during the Clone Wars, who had been upgraded genetically and cybernetically to possess abilities similar to the Jedi and Sith of old without having to use the Force; Tulon Voidgazer, a genius scientist involved with high-level R&D development before she was upgraded with a cloud of drone-droids, connected directly to her brain, who allowed her to see and fight through them; Commander Karbin, a Mon Calamari veteran of the Clone Wars who had spent eighteen years on life support after his ship crashed, and who had been upgraded into a model resembling the late General Grievous and trained in lightsaber combat. Pleased that his plan had worked, Sidious summoned Vader to him on the shipyard where the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Executor was being built.[113][114][115][76]. Eventually, aboard the Republic's Venator-class Star Destroyer Vigilance in orbit of Christophsis, Vos, who had fallen to the dark side and tasked himself with becoming Dooku's apprentice so as to discover Darth Sidious' identity, and Dooku, held in captivity of several clone troopers and Jedi, including Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, had enlisted the assistance of Asajj Ventress in their escape. Upon finding her grandfather surrounded by the Sith Eternal in his throne room, Rey was welcomed by Sidious, who rejected the notion that he wanted her dead, rather brought to him to succeed him as "Empress Palpatine."[8]. After expressing disapproval with his apprentice's new employ, Darth Sidious listened to Dooku's plea for an evacuation ship as a second battle of Christophsis ensued with Skywalker leading the ruthless Republic onslaught. With all the elements for his plan to begin, the Emperor demanded Cylo start the presentation.[112][110]. Sidious orchestrated the Separatist Crisis to destabilize the Republic, all the while training Darth Tyranus as his new apprentice. After confirming with Thrawn that Savit had in fact been a traitor, the Emperor turned the topic of discussion to the Chiss officer's loyalties, though Thrawn insisted that his work with the Ascendancy was not treason. Through dark arts, Palpatine could peer into the world between worlds, but failed to capture Bridger or the friend he saved there, Ahsoka Tano. Ultimately, the master allowed his pupil to proceed in this plan; Ventress successfully rescued Nute Gunray, denying the Jedi and the Republic the opportunity to extract secret information from the Separatist leader, whilst also demonstrating her ability to handle a Star Destroyer's contingent of clone troopers, a Jedi Padawan, and a Jedi Master all at once.[44]. [120], Meanwhile, the Emperor had Grand Vizier Mas Amedda contact Admiral Piett by hologram. 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