[CaptainCrunch]

a thought

Spoiler!

I've been wracking my brain on the Palpatine question, on how he could appear living in the future long after his death. I mean we could go with the whole Palpatine essence transfer into clones, that they did in the Legends EU which was actually really silly. I keep going back to him in a recorded message or holocron causing the deeper fall or Ren or the fall of Rey.


But what if they incorporate the story line of the World between Worlds from Rebels. We saw that Ezra traveled into the past and save Ashoka in the Jedi Temple on Lothal. We also saw that Palpatine had accessed the World between World and even managed to bring part of the temple to tempt Ezra with the ability to save his parents and change the future.


So lets say that's the theory, how does Palpatine get there when he's falling at terminal velocity into the Death Star 2's reactor?


Well we know in Star Wars dead is not always death. We saw Maul survive a fall into a bottomless pit while cut in half. There's always the theory that Bobba Fett survived his fall into the Sarlac pit, even though that's legend. Even in Legends, Palpatine found a way to treat death.


So . . . lets say that somehow Palpatine on the way down managed to release his spirit and he had taken a chunk of the Lothal temple back to his castle of doom in Coruscant. Could he access the World between Worlds and actually pull himself out during his fall down the reactor shaft? We've seen that it can be done. He could then literally pop into existence anywhere minutes after his death and go into hiding and bide his time while the First Order rises to destroy the Resistance, then with all of the stuff that he seeded through the unknown region, he could spring forth with his massive fleet of Star Destroyers and soldiers, wipe out the First Order and take over a shattered galaxy.


To Palpatine the First Order would be as much of an enemy as the Resistance, especially considering that they had failed to finish off the Resistance.