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Contains spoiler for Star Wars ( 2020 ) # 42!Emperor Palpatinehas already give from death once inStar Wars , but a newly introduce part of Sith refinement could have just created a loophole for him to come back again . With the knowledge of this method of life preservation a rarified secret in the galaxy during the metre of the Empire , it could be up once again to the same grinder who help vote down Palpatine the first clip to discontinue the Emperor from make yet another comeback .
Palpatine is shown to be intimate with ways to wander death , having studied under Darth Plagueis , who was obsessed with becoming immortal . afterward , inStar Wars : The boost of Skywalker , Palpatine riposte from the dead with basically no explanation , though this return is flesh out on in the film ’s novelizationRise of Skywalker : expand Editionwritten by Rae Carson . The novel give away that Palpatine in reality render in a clone body , which is own by the original Palpatine ’s spirit .
Now , Star Wars ( 2020)#42(written by Charles Soule , penciled by Steven Cummings , ink by Wayne Faucher , colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and lettered by VC ’s Clayton Cowles ) has shown another way that Sith can survive after expiry . This go forth the room access heart-to-heart for one more shocking return for the Sith Lord .
Palpatine Could Return Through His Lightstaber’s Crystal
The issue explains that Sith can last through their reddish Kyber crystals , the mineralthat forms the heart of a ruby-red lightsaber . Set beforeReturn of the Jedi , the currentStar Warscomic serial has latterly followed Luke Skywalker after he ’s suck into a Sith - controlled public within such a crystal . Now , inStar Wars # 42 , new character Auntie Feez , one of the few surviving practitioners of the ancient Force - based religion the Fallanassi , explains , " When a Force exploiter creates a reddish crystal , the terrible upshot in their past are encoded into the Kyber ’s very substance . The experiences , the memories … remain inside the crystal . "
As proven by the Sith cognisance inside Luke ’s red crystal , a Sith can live through a red crystal in all the ways that matter . It ’s therefore not heavy to imagine a survival - obsessed Sith like Palpatine using this to cheat last yet again . As Feez and the Sith inside Luke ’s crystal both express , the awareness inside a Kyber watch crystal is all but indistinguishable from the veridical mortal , and the status of Palpatine ’s various crimson lightsabers are n’t known . If Palpatine ’s soul could jump into clone of himself , then why could n’t a copy of it find out a style to escape its crystal and do essentially the same thing ?
Palpatine Has Returned To Life In The Comics Before
This would n’t be the first time that a interpretation of Palpatine yield in comics either . In the pre - Disney acquisition Legends canyon , Palpatine also uses ringer to returnin theDark Empiretrilogy ( written by Tom Veitch , illustrate by Cam Kennedy and Jim Baikie ) . After coming back from death , he set about to sway Luke to the drab side one terminal prison term before break down for genuine . Now , Luke is one of the few people leave in the coltsfoot who knows what potential dangers lurk within a ruby-red Kyber crystal . But since Luke himself has died in currentStar Warscontinuity , ifEmperor Palpatinedid leave a copy of himself within a Kyber quartz , it ’s unknown who would be able to stop him from take back to life once again .
Star Wars ( 2020 ) # 42is on sales agreement now from Marvel Comics
