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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

So time for a wacky Captain Theory, mainly for fun. But I was thinking about this today after I got home from a Quarterback practice and a New Hope was on.


Is Rey . . .

Spoiler!

Palpatine's clone?


Here's why I think its possible. I go back to Episode 8 when Rey falls into the dark side cave, and she see's thousands of her. Now the prevailing thought is that these were her reflections. However when the original Rey moves, the other Rey's don't move at the same time like a mirror. When she snaps her finger they don't snap their fingers at the same time. So what if what we're seeing isn't a reflection of Rey, but a representation of thousands of clone attempts by Palpatine to create a force strong clone of himself.


So lets take it further. When we first meet Rey she's on Jakku. Now we know a couple of things about Jakku from the books and the solo campaign in the last Battlefront game. Palpatine had a facility built deep under ground, this facility had a duel purpose. It was a store house of Sith relics and treasures. It was also a key part of Operation cinder which was a contingency plan to destroy the Empire and the most unworthy of Imperials if Palpatine died.


But what if it was more then a storehouse for relics. What if Palpatine had a cloning lab, or had cloned himself in the form of Rey and had stored her down their in Stasis. What if after trying to create a ultimate force user clone and failing several hundred times, he'd finally stored the one that was perfect as part of his contingency.



So why do I think this is possible.


First and foremost, because I keep going back to Rey's fighting style and she incorporates a tone of the same things as Palpatine, she uses a lot of thrusts instead of slashes, she also incorporates a lot of things that look like Anakin's style when he fought Dooku in ROTS.


Suddenly this makes the Palpatine laughter make sense at the end of the trailer. What if Rey finds a holocron or message by Palpatine telling her about her past and her destiny to rule the new Empire or First Order.



This could lead to a double flip as Rey embraces her destiny and Kylo tries to stop her. I know crazy considering Disney's search for a strong female role model action figure selling hero.


We know that Palpatine was always somewhat looking to replace Vader who was a disappointment and a rival to him. Before the rise of Luke, we know that Palpatines search for an apprentice would have been a fruitless search. Obi-Wan had vanished. Vader didn't know of the existance of Luke, Ezra had vanished into the unknown reasons.


What if Palpatine had discovered Plagueis's secret around the ability to make the Midiclorians create life. A super powerful perfect force creature. Which means that Palpatine could have created Rey and had failed many times leading to the different versions of Rey. Or what if he never did learn the secret and used modern science and the Kominoians instead.


Ayways just a fun and crazy theory.

I still think the desire to have Rey be somebody in the wider context of the Star Wars story is a fruitless search doomed to disappointment. I think it is not only OK, but good for the story if there are characters that can join the action who were not involved in the personal drama of our main characters, but still effected by the galactic events. It lets the audience feel that the universe is bigger.

All of that said, I enjoyed this theory, especially for the question of Snoke. Unifies the narrative around him better, and draws another link between the events of the throne room in RoTJ & TLJ. If this theory was right, I would hope it was simply that Reys parents were killed trying to rob this facility or something.