Speaking to the unpredictability of Force storms, one of the central creatives behind their "Star Wars" introduction and "Dark Empire" has shared that there's more to them than the story explains.

In Star Wars: Dark Empire, Palpatine returns just as he did in The Rise of Skywalker, only he did so much earlier in the Star ...

In “Dark Empire,” Palpatine is revealed to have survived his apparent death in “Return of the Jedi” by transferring his soul into a clone of himself that he had developed and saved in case ...

The last time the Star Wars universe revived Palpatine in Dark Empire, it did so through science—specifically, cloning, something that would become oddly prescient to the movie saga.

The Dark Empire comics are no longer canon, but they've served as inspiration for J.J. Abrams's new saga, and could contain a spoiler to the big Palpatine twist in The Rise of Skywalker.

Palpatine even manages to turn Luke to the Dark Side, forcing Leia to save her brother from Palpatine’s influence just as Luke once saved their father. The cloned Emperor in Dark Empire.

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Loyal Imperial officer Moff Gideon led Palpatine’s dark science program in the immediate years after the Empire’s fall. His main objective during that era and a major plot of The Mandalorian ...

Many fans will remember the idea of bringing Palpatine back to life originated way back in 1991's Star Wars: Dark Empire. That comic series saw Palpatine return six years after the events of ...

In the novel Dark Empire, Palpatine was shown to have a clone to live on and bring about the return of the Empire. ...

The clone, in this case, gets overwritten by the Emperor. In the sequel series Dark Empire II, Palpatine threatens to body-hijack Leia’s child, and successfully does to a few Jedi.

Along with last-ditch blitzkrieg attacks by the Empire, Palpatine also set up personal failsafes in case of his untimely demise. The death of his physical body was even part of his dark plan.