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Star Wars: The Secrets of the Jedi

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Author	Marc Sumerak
Illustrator	Sergio Gómez Silván
Publication date	November 12, 2019
ISBN	9781683837022

Star Wars: The Secrets of the Jedi is a Star Wars novel written by Marc Sumerak.

The book covers on what Luke Skywalker knew of the Jedi.

Palpatine Family

Darth Sidious, patriarch of the family.

The Palpatine family is a fictional dynastic human family in the Star Wars franchise. Within the series, the Palpatines are presented as a bloodline with strong inherent capabilities to the Force, a metaphysical and ubiquitous power to which users can match their personal wills to/exploit to try and bend it toward their destructive desires. The Sith Lord Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious is the main antagonist of both the Skywalker Saga and the franchise as a whole; First Order Supreme Leader Snoke (a strand-cast clone of Sidious), and the last Jedi Rey (the granddaughter of Sidious) are central characters in the sequel Star Wars film trilogy; of the Palpatine bloodine. Rey's father, Dathan (another strand-cast clone of Sidious) and her mother, Miramir are the only members of the family who are not Force-sensitive. The Palpatine bloodline, alongside the Skywalker bloodline, are the two bloodlines that are the strongest in the Force.

History

In terms of the series' internal chronology, the first known member of the family, Sheev Palpatine, first appeared in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. In this film, he rose to prominence through galactic politics. During the Republic Era, he represented the people of Naboo as a senator in the Galactic Senate prior to his election as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic in the year of 32 BBY. Unbeknownst to the public, the Chancellor was Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith. As the last heir of Darth Bane's legacy, Sidious endeavored to finish the work of Sith Lords by destroying their opponents, the Jedi, and restoring the Sith to power. He was the mastermind behind the Invasion of Naboo, the Separist Crisis, and the Clone Wars—conflicts designed to facilitate Sidious' rise to power. He was also the master of another Sith named Darth Maul.

In Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) , he took on another apprentice named Dooku—who was a count and was given the title Darth Tyranus—after Maul was defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi.

In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)—in the year of 19 BBY—after Dooku was defeated and killed by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Palpatine chose him as his final apprentice and gave the title Darth Vader. Sidious later systematically exterminated the Jedi for treason before claiming the title of Galactic Emperor, transforming the Republic into the Galactic Empire. From then on, Sidious ceased a double life; the name of Palpatine was largely forgotten during the Imperial Era, and the galaxy came to know him just as "the Emperor."

Sidious reigned for twenty-four years until in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), in which he was killed by the redeemed Anakin Skywalker, who sacrificed himself to save his son, Luke, and brought balance to the Force, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the Chosen One.

Obsessed with immortality, Sidious resurrected himself into a clone of his original body with a ritual known as transference on the ancient Sith world called Exegol. However, his immense power caused the body to deteriorate, leading him to seek a new body to host his spirit. Using the Emperor's genetic material, the Sith Eternal engineered various failed attempts to create a stronger body to host his spirit. However, his son, Dathan (whom he called his son and had no connection to the Force), managed to sire a Force-sensitive daughter named Rey, with his wife Miramir in 15 ABY. Sidious regarded his granddaughter as the ideal host for his spirit, but his plans were thwarted by her parents, who sold her to Unkar Plutt on Jakku to ensure her safety in 21 ABY. Dathan and Miramir were later murdered by Sidious' assassin Ochi.

In Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019)—in the year of 35 ABY—Sidious announced his return to the galaxy during the First Order-Resistance War. By then, the Sith Eternal's fleet, the Final Order, was completed and ready to leave from Exegol. During the Battle of Exegol, he tried to turn his granddaughter to the dark side, telling her that it was her birthright to rule the galaxy as an empress and heir to the Palpatine bloodline. In truth, he planned to possess her body with a ritual that he learned form his master, Darth Palgueis. However, he abandoned this plan once he discovered that his granddaughter and Vader's grandson, Ben Solo (who was Kylo Ren for seven years before he redeemed himself) were a Force dyad and realizing that the power of their bond could heal his clone body after draining some of their combined power. He was eventually destroyed by Rey with the help of the spirits of the Jedi from the past, finally ending the Sith Order once and for all, thus bringing balance back to the Force just as Anakin once had. Rey eventually died as a result, but was resurrected by Ben, who gave his life for her's. Later on, Rey took the Skywalker surname as her own with the blessings of Luke and Leia.

Members

Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious

Main article: Palpatine

Sheev Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious (portrayed by Ian McDiarmid) was the first known member of the Palpatine family and a powerful Sith Lord formerly under the mastership of Darth Plagueis. He was also the template/father of Snoke and Dathan, and the paternal grandfather of Rey (through Dathan).

Born on Naboo in 84 BBY as the High Republic Era ended, Sidious possessed a strong connection to the Force, and secretly trained in the ways of the Sith and dark side by Darth Plagueis. He eventually betrayed and his Sith Master, in order to train his Sith apprentice, Darth Maul, for the Rule of Two—a decree developed by Sith Lord Darth Bane—limited their number to two Sith any given time. As a result of the Invasion on Naboo, a crisis orchestrated by Sidious, the Senate elected Sheev Palpatine as Supreme Chancellor. The Separatist Crisis and the Clone Wars were masterminded by Sidious and his new apprentice, Darth Tyranus (the Sith title of Count Dooku), in an effort to achieve galactic control. Following an attempt to arrest the chancellor, the Great Jedi Purge began with Sidious enacting Order 66. With most of the Jedi annihilated, Sidious installed the New Order in the Republic's place, declaring himself Galactic Emperor and bringing an end to the millennia of democracy. Shortly after betraying and orchestrating the death of Tyranus, he took on a new apprentice, having lured the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker to the dark side and transforming him into Darth Vader. Their rule was virtually unchallenged for a generation until the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. During the Imperial Era, Sidious—alongside the cult known as the Sith Eternal—made a series of modified and non-identical clone called strand-casts (including Snoke (who was created by 12 BBY) and Dathan (who was created in 12 BBY)) and founded the Inquisitorius (which was under Vader's watch). During the Galactic Civil War, the Emperor planned to betray Vader by replacing him with the latter's son Luke Skywalker. However, Sidious' plan backfired when the Vader ultimately redeemed himself by renouncing the dark side and killed the Emperor to protect Luke. Therefore, with the Sith's extinction, the Force was brought to balance, fulfilling Anakin's destiny at the prophesied Chosen One. Through his master's teachings with a ritual called transference, however, Sidious transferred his spirit to an imperfect clone body that had been modeled on his original body. Predicting the possibility of defeat, he created the Contingency to destroy the Galactic Empire and replace it with a new Sith Empire, in the event of such a setback. His plans culminated in the destruction of the New Republic and the emergence of the First Order, Snoke, the turning of Ben Solo—heir to the Skywalker bloodline—to the dark side, and the establishment of the Final Order. When the Emperor announced his return to the galaxy in 35 ABY, the Resistance invaded the dark world called Exegol, Sidious' hidden stronghold in the Unknown Regions. During the battle, the resurrected Emperor discovered a Force dyad in the form of the bond between Ben and Rey, a Jedi apprentice sired from the Palpatine bloodline. His lifelong dream of eternal rule was finally ended when Rey called upon the strength of past Jedi to defeat her grandfather by deflecting his own Force lightning back at him with the lightsabers of Luke and his twin sister Leia, destroying Sidious and his Sith Eternal cultists permanently, therefore bringing balance back to the Force just as Anakin Skywalker had.

Snoke

Main article: Supreme Leader Snoke

Snoke (portrayed by Andy Serkis) was a strand-cast of the SIth Lord Darth Sidious.

Possibly unaware of his true nature, Snoke was an artificial being created on the Sith world called Exegol by the Dark Lord of the Sith and Galactic Emperor Darth Sidious and his cultist followers, the Sith Eternal during the rule of the Galactic Empire. After Sidious' resurrection, Snoke's body held no use in the Sith Lord's plan for restoration, so was instead used by Sidious for his natural Force-sensitivity as a stand-in he could control for his Contingency. Though Snoke had a free mind, he was unawarely controlled by his creator from afar. With his powerful abitlies and great foresight, Snoke eventually gained control of the First Order, a hermit state in the Unknown Regions formed from a remnant of the Galactic Empire. Despite holding total power as Supreme Leader, Snoke allowed General Armitage Hux to lead the First Order military in his name preferring to concentrate on spiritual matters of the Force. With the turning of Ben Solo—the maternal grandson of the Chosen One Anakin Skywalker—to the dark side, Snoke gained the heir to the powerful Skywalker bloodline as his apprentice. Ben adopted the identity of Kylo Ren after renouncing the Jedi Order. During the last days of the Cold War, Snoke ordered his apprentice and hunt down and destroy his maternal uncle and former Jedi Master, Luke Skywalker, determined to complete the Great Jedi Purge with Luke's death as the last Jedi. Additionally, Snoke authorized a preemptive strike with the Death Star II's successor, Starkiller Base against the New Republic that destroyed the Galactic Senate and launched the First Order-Resistance War in 34 ABY. While chasing his objectives to destroy both the Resistance and Luke, however, Snoke was assassinated by Ren, who planned to rule the galaxy as the new Supreme Leader. By dying at the hands of his apprentice, Snoke's purpose for existence was fulfilled; Kylo Ren assassinating Snoke and seizing power over the First Order as Supreme Leader was an act of ascension worthy to the Rule of Two—a decree developed by Sith Lord Darth Bane—completing the final test laid out for him by the Sith Eternal. They, alongside their master, designed Snoke to lead and groom his apprentice into a master of attack and cunning, testing his worthiness as an heir worthy of the Sith. In addition, such an event allowed Sidious to sidestep the Rule of Two, in which a dark apprentice slayed their master to obtain ultimate control and ascension within the dark side of the Force.

Dathan Palpatine

Dathan (portrayed by Billy Howle in flashbacks of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), also known to the Sith Eternal as the Abomination, was the strand-cast/son of Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious, the husband of Miramir, and the father of Rey. The son of Darth Sidious was created in 12 BBY on Exegol. An unnamed hybrid strand-cast, the infant boy was a result of the Sith Eternal's efforts to produce a body worthy of his vast power, but the only survivor of the cloning process and so was the main by byproduct of Sidious' genetic research, however he had no connection to the Force, despite his genetic connection to Sidious, and thus was deemed a failed experiment by his father. Although the boy was treated by Sidious and the Sith Eternal with disdain for his powerless nature—being referred as a "useless creature"—the excellent health he possessed nevertheless made him permitted to live as a means for continuing the Palpatine bloodline. For his father's neglect, the boy in return ultimately rejected him and the ways of the Sith in a similar fashion by escaping his homeworld with the help a Symeong administrator and slave to the Sith Eternal (who was his namesake), intent on pursuing a life away from the dark side of the Force. Dathan eventually married a woman named Miramir, who gave birth to a girl named Rey in 15 ABY. Unlike Dathan, Rey was strong in the Force, and so was deemed a viable vessel for her grandfather's spirit. Determined to claim his granddaughter at all costs, Sidious sent the assassin Ochi of Bestoon to find and bring Rey to her father's homeworld. Dathan and his family settled for a time on desert world Jakku, where he and his wife struggled to survive in the desert as junk traders during the New Republic Era. They were later captured by Ochi (alongside the twin brothers Bosvarga and Cerensco) and were murdered by him. Their bodies were later disposed of; Ochi ordered that their bodies be stuffed in a crate and sent it drifting in space. The crate was later found by Lando Calrissian and R2-D2, who recovered the bodies and took them to the frozen world of Neftali, where they buried them together with the help of Luke Skywalker and Komat, a former member of the Acolytes of the Beyond.

Miramir

Miramir (portrayed by Jodie Comer in flashbacks of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) was the wife of Dathan Palpatine, the daughter-in-law of Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious, and the mother of Rey. Miramir was born on Hyperkarn in 6 BBY. She lived with her grandmother, who she had a very close relationship with. She fell in love with the strand-cast/clone/son of Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious named Dathan, whom she later married. She later gave birth a girl named Rey, who was born on her homeworld in 15 ABY. Though Miramir's husband had no connection to the Force, Rey was born Force-sensitive as a result of her father's connection to the Palpatine bloodline. Despite their family's connection to the Dark Lord of the Sith, Miramir and her husband chose to live as junk traders on the desert world Jakku. They succeeded in hiding Rey from Sidious, who intended to use Rey as a vessel for his spirit, by leaving her on Jakku with Unkar Plutt and taking some Aki-Aki beads—which were from the dangerous world called Pasaana—that were Plutt's possession in hopes of using to trick Ochi in case he caught them. They were later captured by Ochi (alongside the twin brothers Bosvarga and Cerensco) and were murdered by him. As she had predicted, Ochi was tricked by the Aki-Aki beads and traveled to Pasaana. Their bodies were later disposed of; Ochi ordered that their bodies be stuffed in a crate and sent it drifting in space. The crate was later found by Lando Calrissian and R2-D2, who recovered the bodies and took them to the frozen world of Neftali, where they buried them together with the help of Luke Skywalker and Komat, a former member of the Acolytes of the Beyond.

Rey

Main article: Rey (Star Wars)

Rey (portrayed by Daisy Ridley in the sequel trilogy (2015-2019) and her younger self—in flashbacks—played by Cailey Fleming) is the daughter of Dathan Palpatine and Miramir, and the paternal granddaughter of Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious. Born on Hyperkarn in 15 ABY, as a child in 21 ABY, Rey was abandoned by her parents on Jakku to protect her from Sidious, who ordered an assassin named Ochi to find her and bring her to the ancient Sith world called Exegol because unlike her father, she inherited her grandfather's connection to the Force and she was therefore deemed the perfect vessel for his spirit because his clone body was weak. Fourteen years later, Rey met Kylo Ren, with whom she had a connection in the Force, in which they were referred to as a Force dyad, and she developed a romantic relationship with him despite the two being enemies at first. She also became the last Jedi apprentice of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa. At the end of The Rise of Skywalker, after defeating and destroying her grandfather once and for all, Rey adopted "Skywalker" as her surname (having considered the Skywalkers as her true family and with the blessings of Luke and Leia) despite not being part of the Skywalker bloodline, she was currently the only living person known to bear the Skywalker.

Extended family of the Palpatines

Gallius Rax

Gallius Rax, once known as Galli and code-named Operator, was the adopted son and protégé of Darth Sidious, and the Counselor to the Empire during the waning days of the Galactic Empire.

Adopted and raised by Darth Sidious—Sith Lord and Galactic Emperor—Rex rose through the ranks of the Imperial Navy, gaining command of the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Ravager. However, his true purpose as the Emperor's protégé was to ensure the success of the Contingency, a secret directive to destroy the Galactic Empire in the event of Sidious's death.

Born on the desert planet Jakku, Galli was an orphaned boy when he met Sheev Palpatine, the public persona of Darth Sidious. Adopting the name "Gallius Rax", he became a decorated Imperial officer during the Imperial Era. He was serving as an admiral when the Emperor was killed in the Battle of Endor, an event which triggered Contingency and Rax's role in carrying it out. On the surface he took steps to fix the Empire as the Galactic Civil War draw to an end, such as creating the Shadow Council. In secret, however, Rax gave information to the New Republic, further undermining the Empire. He maneuvered his way into a position of greater power by cutting off Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and Grand Vizier Man Amedda. Despite his role as an advisor to the Shadow Council, Rax was Emperor in all except name. The Battle of Jakku began when the New Republic Defense Force invaded Counselor Rax's homeworld, where the Empire rallied under the counselor's leadership. Unbeknownst to his own soldiers, Rax intended to sacrifice most of his followers while saving only the ones he deemed necessary to the Empire's rebirth in the Unknown Regions. Although Rax did not live to see his new Empire take form, the officers he sent beyond known space under the leadership of Sloane, who appointed his successor with his dying breath, became part of a movement that changed into the First Order, which ultimately toppled the New Republic thirty years after the war's conclusion.

Miramir's Grandmother

This woman was the grandmother of Miramir and the great-grandmother of Rey, who was from the Outer Rim world of Hyperkarn. Miramir had a close relationship with her grandmother, whom she missed after leaving her homeworld alongside her husband Dathan and their daughter Rey.

Legends

Legends Palpatine family tree
Great-grandfather 3 Generations 1 Generation Volpau Cosinga Palpatine Unnamed Mother Darth Sidious Palpatine Sly Moore Four Siblings 2 Generations Triclops Palpatine (renounced) Kendalina Ederlathh Pallopides Ken Palpatine
Notes:

Cosinga Palpatine

Cosinga Palpatine was a aristocrat and the patriarch of House Palpatine, one of Naboo's noble families. A violent man who was regarded by his firstborn son as both grossly inept and disproportionately prideful, Cosinga spent a considerable amount of time and credits attempting to buy both political influence and his son's obedience. Out of a minimum of five children that he begot, he hated his oldest son, but approved of his other four sons and daughters. Unlike their father's wayward heir, the younger Palpatines were subservient to Cosinga's will; something their older brother refused to become. Ultimately, the younger Palpatine used the dark side of the Force to kill his father along with his mother, his siblings, and several of the family's bodyguards in 65 BBY. His son would soon become Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith, and later Senator, Supreme Chancellor, and Emperor.

Sly Moore

Sly Moore was an Umbaran Force Adept who was employed by Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine as his Senior Administrative Aide during the final decades of the Galactic Republic. In secret, Moore was also an acolyte of the dark side, trained in the ways of the Force by Palpatine, who was in truth the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious. Following Sidious's declaration of a New Order, Moore became one of the first members of the Imperial Ruling Council and gained the nickname "Queen of the Empire" from the holomedia, with rumors spreading that she and the Emperor had a relationship. She oversaw a series of experiments on the planet called Byss studying the spontaneous generation of life, which produced the future Imperial warlord Trioculus. Moore vanished shortly into the Empire's reign, and was rumored to have perished in seclusion in the Ghost Nebula after giving birth to Palpatine's biological son Triclops.

Triclops Palpatine

Triclops Palpatine was a human mutant slave who claimed to be the son of the Emperor. It is possible that this relation may not have been in a strict biological sense, and that Triclops was the performance of Darth Plagueis' experiments in the influence of midi-chlorians, with the goal of creating a zygote solely through the use of the Force in a fertile humanoid female. Triclops was a white-haired mutant with three eyes, one being on the back of his head, and sported scars on his temples from electroshocks delivered by the Galactic Empire. He was trained to be an Emperor's eye but the Emperor considered him one of his greatest failures, and had him put in prison. He weakened for years in an Imperial prison on the planet called Kessel, fathering a son, with a former Jedi named Kendalina.

Ken Palpatine

Ken Palpatine was the son of Triclops and "Jedi Princess" Kendalina, therefore the paternal grandson of Emperor Palpatine and a "Jedi Prince." There was some uncertainty regarding Ken's true origins, as accounts of Palpatine fathering offspring were generally discounted and all records of the Emperor's family disappeared shortly after he rose to the Imperial throne.

Relatives

Kendalina

Kendalina was a Jedi Princess who served as a nurse in an Imperial insane asylum on Kessel in 7 BBY.

Volpau

Volpau, whom little was known other than that he was apparently the Emperor's third cousin.

Ederlathh Pallopides

Elderlathh Pallopides was the remote great-grandniece of the Emperor, ruler of the Galactic Empire. During the power struggle that ensued after the Emperor's death in 4 ABY, a faction of the Imperial Navy back Pallopides' hereditary rights to her great-granduncle's throne. In truth, she was a political pawn in Admiral Betl Oxtroe's plan to reunite the fractured Empire by using Pallopides as a figurehead Empress.