Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was criticised for leaving many questions unanswered, one of which surrounded the reason behind Emperor Palpatine’s return.
Emperor Palpatine lived, after a fashion, and Kylo could feel in his very bones that this clone body sheltered the Emperor’s actual spirit.
The book will be officially released on 17 March, the same day the film becomes available to stream digitally.
Advanced copies of the official Lucasfilm book were sole in Chicago’s C232 over the weekend, and one excited reader posted an extract on social media that reveals Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) in Episode IX is a clone of the actual Palpatine from the original Star Wars trilogy.