Anna Daniels
According to Screen Rant, the novelization has once again been used by Disney to “tie up loose ends,” something they’ve done with all three of the sequel films since taking over the franchise from Lucasfilm. With the book set for release on March 17, Lucasfilm Publishing decided to surprise fans who attended C2E2 in Chicago over the weekend of February 1 with some copies they released early. Naturally, passages from the book have since started to make their way online, including one that explains Palpatine’s nightmarish reappearance in that galaxy far, far away.
In the book, it’s Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) who deduces that the Emperor Palpatine he meets on the Sith planet of Exegol is actually a clone, not the Emperor somehow back from the dead. Kylo, who studied the Clone Wars as a child during his training under Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), recognizes the machinery keeping the ghastly shell of Palpatine alive.
“All the vials were empty of liquid save one, which was nearly depleted. Kylo peered closer. He’d seen this apparatus before, too, when he’d studied the Clone Wars as a boy. The liquid flowing into the living nightmare before him was fighting a losing battle to sustain the Emperor’s putrid flesh … Emperor Palpatine lived, after a fashion, and Kylo could feel in his very bones that this clone body sheltered the Emperor’s actual spirit. It was an imperfect vessel, though, unable to contain his immense power. It couldn’t last much longer.”
Written by: Looper
