Someone should say that nothing can be learned from books. The official novel adaptation of Star Wars 9: The Rise of Skywalker contains piquant details about Emperor Palpatine that did not make it into the theatrical version. It finally explains how the Dark Lord the Sith was able to return after his demise in Star Wars 6.
The novel version will officially only be released on March 17, 2020, but there have already been insights at the C2E2 trade fair in Chicago that the Screenrant colleagues have captured. And enough of the preliminary skirmish – we move from the next subheading in the spoiler territory, you were warned!
How Palpatine could return
The Star Wars 9 novel leaves no doubt: Emperor Palpatine's new body is that of a clone. In the book version, Kylo Ren arrives at the beginning of the story on the Sith planet Exegol and meets the Lord of the Sith. Unlike the film, the novel version shares his thoughts on the machineries that keep Palpatine alive. Literally the book says:
"All the vials had already used up their liquid, except for one that was almost empty. Kylo took a closer look. He had seen such a device before when he was a boy studying the Clone Wars. The liquids that existed in this living nightmare flowed in vain, fighting in vain for the preservation of this putrid body.
"What can you give me?" Asked Kylo. Emperor Palpatine was apparently alive, and Kylo could feel in those bones that the clone body contained the real spirit of the Emperor. However, it was an incomplete vessel that could not really hold this immense power. This could not last. "
So far, there has only been speculation that Palpatine's new body was a clone. Now we know that Star Wars 9 actually does it like the 30-year-old comic Dark Empire: The Emperor returns in a clone body that carries the Emperor's "original soul" like a container.
