When a military enhancement bill for more clone troopers was introduced, Palpatine claimed to be opposed to it. The bill encountered minor but effective resistance, although one of its greatest critics, Onaconda Farr , seemingly died of a heart failure before it could be voted on.
Palpatine attended the funeral , but, in the Chancellor's office, he and others met with inspector Tanivos Exantor Divo , who revealed a poison had actually killed the senator. As the inspector left, the Chancellor claimed that murder in the Senate was unthinkable. Later, Palpatine and the others reunited in his office, where Divo nearly arrested the false suspect, the Kaminoan Senator Halle Burtoni. However, Amidala realized Farr's aide, Lolo Purs , was the true culprit, and the Rodian was arrested.
Soon afterward, the military enhancement bill was passed; Palpatine claimed to a disappointed Amidala that he too was disappointed, but that democracy needed to be respected, and stated that, with more troops, the war could possibly end more quickly.
During the Battle of Sullust , Sidious ordered Tyranus to dispose of his general Asajj Ventress, having become aware of her growing power. Tyranus complied and ordered his troops to leave her to die during their retreat, but she survived. Sidious ordered Tyranus to ally with the resurgent Zygerrian Slave Empire , explaining past Sith Empires were built on the backs of slaves and theirs would be no exception.
Kenobi infiltrated the plot and helped the Jedi to prevent it, lulling them into a false sense of security. Dooku showed up the evening after the festival but was defeated and forced to flee.
Sensing a disturbance in the Force, Sidious traveled to Mandalore to confront Maul, his first apprentice. The next year, [67] Maul returned to the galaxy after a decade of hiding, with his brother Savage Opress now acting as his apprentice.
The Jedi were concerned but Palpatine disagreed, convincing Yoda that the Separatists should be their concern and that Maul's vendetta was a private matter for Kenobi to resolve. Deciding to end the threat personally, Sidious had his shuttle flown to Sundari , where he confronted Maul and Opress. Sidious defeated Maul and killed Savage Opress, putting an end to their challenge to the reigning Sith Lords.
Not fooled by Maul's attempts to become his apprentice once again, Sidious engaged the rival Sith Lords in combat. Sidious proved himself to be not only a match for their combined strength but also superior, as after a prolonged duel, he separated the brothers by first bypassing Savage's defense and knocking him away with a kick and then force-pushed Maul, briefly knocking him out. Sidious then briefly toyed with Savage, not even bothering to engage, before he then began battling him again and soundly slayed Opress in single combat.
Not bothering to prevent Maul from going to his brother, knowing it was too late for him to do anything to save Savage after Opress finally succumbed, Sidious taunted Maul again, reminding him of the ancient rules of the Sith and how Maul had been replaced before he then once again engaged his former apprentice. Although Sidious found Maul to be far more ferocious than Savage, he ultimately won the final blade lock and brought Maul to his knees, but chose not to kill him, foreseeing that his fallen apprentice could be useful to him in the near future.
Chancellor Palpatine served as the judge of the trial of Ahsoka Tano , who was accused of masterminding a bombing at the Jedi Temple.
Flanked by two crimson-robed guards, he listened while Senator Amidala and Admiral Tarkin made their arguments as the defense and the prosecutor, respectively. When they had finished, the Chancellor delivered a speech warning the court to beware of Separatist schemes that aimed to undermine the Jedi Order, and by extension, the Galactic Republic, from within.
Before he could announce the verdict, however, Skywalker interrupted with Barriss Offee , who confessed to the crime. Palpatine ordered Offee taken away, and Tano was acquitted. Faced with a conspiracy involving the clone army, Palpatine ordered that the evidence be brought to him on Coruscant.
During the Battle of Ringo Vinda , the clone trooper CT "Tup" suddenly faltered, becoming confused and killing the Jedi Master Tiplee , before ultimately succumbing to insanity and dying himself. This incident was instigated by a faulty inhibitor chip, inserted into clones for the purpose of enforcing loyalty to the Supreme Chancellor and which laid the groundwork for their execution of Protocol The Chancellor had his guards stage an attack, making Fives look dangerous to the Republic and discrediting him.
He then informed the Jedi that a parasite native to Ringo Vinda was responsible for Tup and Fives's behavior, for which all of the clone troopers would be inoculated against. Palpatine told her to trust Clovis while hiring the bounty hunter Embo to target them on the Clan's apparent behalf.
As Scipio fell under the Republic's control and Clovis committed suicide , the Muuns ceded control of the banks to the Office of the Chancellor. Palpatine informed the Jedi Council, who deemed it unwise, so Master Windu volunteered to accompany him. Palpatine was visited by Yoda when the Jedi discovered Sifo-Dyas ' lightsaber at the location of a distress beacon: apparently, Sifo-Dyas had died on a mission to Felucia , but details were sealed by the Office of the Chancellor.
Sidious then went to berate Tyranus via hologram over this loose end, ordering him to sort it out. Vexed by Tyranus' carelessness, Sidious Force choked his apprentice, warning him to remember the price for failure.
Dooku prevented Kenobi and Skywalker from learning who killed Sifo-Dyas, but they still deduced the Sith were responsible for the creation of the clone army. Sidious and Tyranus used Sith sorcery while attempting to undermine the resolve of Grand Master Yoda.
Greeting his apprentice once he arrived, Sidious led Tyranus to the tower's ceremonial chamber. Using Sifo-Dyas' visage, he offered to reveal his identity if he would join him, but Yoda refused. Sidious dueled Yoda on the catwalks outside the tower, with Skywalker arriving outside shortly after. Sidious rendered Skywalker unconscious with Force lightning while he continued fighting Yoda.
As the illusion unfolded, Yoda refused to sacrifice Skywalker to pursue Sidious, and instead demonstrated he was willing to sacrifice himself to save the Chosen One.
Sidious's illusion faltered: the Jedi Master won. Defeated, Sidious stated that they would need more time to defeat the Jedi. When he learned the otherwise unremarkable planet Utapau had produced a massive kyber crystal , the world became of interest to Sidious, as he wanted the large crystal for his battle station project. Nevertheless, Yoda feared that Sidious was planning to create a superweapon, [80] and Sidious remained interested in Utapau. Thus, the planet was targeted to be occupied, which would allow a crystal search to begin.
Meanwhile, Sidious wanted to use Maul to draw out Mother Talzin, the Nightsister witch who could pose a threat to his plans. His operations against Talzin began when Mandalorian super commandos broke Maul out of his imprisonment in the Spire on Stygeon Prime. Talzin foresaw this and ordered her son to draw the Separatists to Ord Mantell , where he defeated and captured Dooku. Maul informed Dooku, goading him into allying with him.
Sidious secured his plan for the galaxy by defeating his rivals Maul and Mother Talzin. Maul and Dooku flew to Dathomir, where Talzin intended to siphon Dooku's lifeforce to regain her physical body. Sidious and Grievous also arrived on the planet and attacked Maul and the Talzin-possessed Dooku. Talzin regained her physical body and fended off Sidious's lightning, sacrificing herself to allow her son to escape.
Taking the opportunity, Grievous plunged two lightsabers into her body, eliminating the foe of Sidious. Despite Maul's escape, Sidious was satisfied that the Shadow Collective had been destroyed. This mission was deemed Jedi business, so Palpatine was not informed. However, Skywalker was unsure if that was the correct decision, and he felt that the Jedi keeping secrets from the Chancellor was wrong.
Eventually, aboard the Republic's Venator -class Star Destroyer Vigilance in orbit of Christophsis , Vos, who had fallen to the dark side and tasked himself with becoming Dooku's apprentice so as to discover Darth Sidious' identity, and Dooku, held in captivity of several clone troopers and Jedi, including Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, had enlisted the assistance of Asajj Ventress in their escape.
The trio, however, crash-landed onto Christophsis under Republic pursuit, with the Count of Serenno suffering grievous injuries. Having sought shelter in a hidden Confederacy fortress, Tyranus contacted a long-awaiting Darth Sidious within a hologram communications chamber in seek of help, yet not before Vos and Ventress slipped in. Tyranus was thus forced to introduce Quinlan Vos, presenting the former Jedi as his "new assassin" to Sidious, who had customarily hidden his facial features behind his dark cowl, whilst Ventress remained hidden in the shadows.
After expressing disapproval with his apprentice's new employ, Darth Sidious listened to Tyranus' plea for an evacuation ship as a second battle of Christophsis ensued with Skywalker leading the ruthless Republic onslaught. Giving only a vague answer, Sidious ended the holo-communication as the Christophsis Separatist tower fell to Republic gunship fire. The battle resulted in an inevitable Separatist loss, and with Ventress' redemption through sacrificing herself for her lover, Quinlan Vos, Tyranus' "new assassin" chose to allow Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi take him back to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant for reassessment.
Meanwhile, as the Jedi took Vos, a ship sent by Darth Sidious arrived to retrieve Tyranus, letting the Separatist leader return to safety. Skywalker executed Dooku at the behest of Palpatine, taking another step in his path to becoming a Sith. Towards the end of the war, [87] Palpatine passed [88] a constitutional amendment [87] known as the Sector Governance Decree.
He then devised a plan for Palpatine to be captured and Anakin to rescue him and kill Darth Tyranus, in order to tempt Anakin to the dark side and replace Tyranus as his next apprentice. Sidious ordered Grievous to capture Palpatine and Dooku to hold him hostage. Grievous and Dooku, however, were unaware of Sidious's true intentions.
While the Republic and Separatist fleets clashed above the planet, Grievous went to the ground in order to capture Palpatine Shaak Ti and Roron Corrob , along with a clone task force were sent to protect him. Corrob and the clones fell to Grievous, while Ti managed to fight further. Grievous took the upper hand by electrifying the Jedi Master with cables, knocking her unconscious in the process.
Grievous took her lightsaber and fled with the captive Palpatine to the Separatist flagship Invisible Hand. Kenobi and Skywalker, who at the time were in the middle of making preparations to take Mandalore, were called upon to rescue him. After landing in the Invisible Hand ' s hangar, the two found Palpatine bound to a chair on the bridge.
They were confronted by Dooku, who they entered a duel with. Dooku took out Kenobi with ease and then focused on Skywalker. They continued the duel until Skywalker cut off his hands. Disarmed and on his knees, Dooku was bested. Palpatine commended Skywalker on his accomplishment. However, he then betrayed Dooku by urging Anakin to kill him once he served his purpose.
A horrified Dooku looked to Palpatine pleadingly, only to be met with another, more sinister urging. With one swift move, Count Dooku was beheaded. Anakin was conflicted on his actions but was comforted by Palpatine, who told him that it was a simple act of revenge in return for Dooku cutting off his arm, unaware that Sidious had manipulated him into doing so. Skywalker went to pick up the unconscious Kenobi, to which Palpatine pleaded with the Jedi to leave his master.
His plea was denied, and the three began their descent to the hangar. The Jedi mission to rescue Palpatine was a success, and the Republic claimed victory in the Battle of Coruscant.
Meanwhile, the Invisible Hand was attacked by the Guarlara , with the former taking extensive damage and losing its position, momentarily falling towards that planet's surface. With the ship on its side, the three began running down an elevator shaft, only to lose their footing as the Invisible Hand regained its position. They managed to get out and to a hallway, where they were then captured in a ray shield.
They were brought before Grievous in the control room, where R2-D2, who was also a captive, gave a distraction that allowed Kenobi and Skywalker to take control.
With nowhere to run, Grievous broke open a window and found his way to the escape pods, which he activated as he fled. The ship then became caught in Coruscant's gravity well and began barreling towards the surface. Skywalker and Kenobi attempted to land it, but only managed to ease the crash. Following the crash, Palpatine and the Jedi were escorted to the Senate Building. Sidious recounted the history of his late master as a Sith legend, leading Skywalker to drift ever closer to the dark side of the Force.
Sidious soon began preparing for the war's end. Sidious instructed Grievous to move the Separatists to Mustafar. Skywalker, who had just been hailed as a hero for killing Count Dooku and rescuing the Chancellor, began having visions of his wife dying in childbirth. Sidious decided to use that to his advantage. Throughout the next few rotations, their relationship kept growing. Ultimately, Palpatine appointed Skywalker to be his representative to the Jedi Council.
Meanwhile, the Jedi began to distrust and resent the Chancellor's accumulating power and control. The Council, who was not happy with Skywalker's appointment by one not of their order, denied him the rank of "Jedi Master. The Council, however, decided to use this appointment as a chance to spy on Palpatine.
Skywalker, who felt insulted by that demand, regretfully agreed and began to devote his time to getting to know the Chancellor better. Some Jedi, such as Mace Windu, were concerned about their relationship, seeing that it could be dangerous putting the two together.
Windu ultimately noted that the dark side of the Force surrounded the Chancellor. At an opera show, Palpatine and Skywalker discussed the situation with Palpatine revealing to know that the Council wanted Skywalker to spy on him. At the same time, Skywalker, who was dealing with the fear of his wife's loss was beginning to distrust the Jedi Council. This allowed Sidious to orchestrate Skywalker's downfall; he claimed that the Jedi and the Sith were alike in nearly every way, [20] setting the stage for the young Jedi to switch sides while playing to his devotion to the Jedi ideology.
Skywalker, enthralled by the story, wished to know more about this power, asking him if he himself could learn it with Palpatine stating that, though possible, such things could not be taught by members of the Order. As the situation grew worse, Skywalker went to speak with the Chancellor regarding the Battle of Utapau. Anakin expressed his disappointment that he was not chosen for the assignment. Palpatine told Skywalker that the Council did not trust him and that the Jedi were plotting to take control of the Republic.
Palpatine then revealed that he was trained in the ways of the Force, "even the nature of the dark side. With this, Palpatine told Skywalker that he would teach him to save his wife from death. Skywalker, who desired to kill him, went to the Jedi Council with this information. Windu and the three other Jedi boldly ignited their lightsabers and declared that he was under arrest.
Igniting his own crimson lightsaber, Sidious declared the four Jedi as traitors to the Republic. Letting out an inhuman wail of fury, he then lunged forward and slew Kolar and Tiin in mere seconds , and Fisto slightly later, leaving Windu to face the Dark Lord alone. Sidious and Windu then engaged in a ferocious one-on-one duel. Though Sidious initially had the upper hand, Windu eventually disarmed him, knocked him to the floor and held him at blade point.
Anakin soon arrived after this and both sides tried to persuade him that the other was a traitor. Windu taunted Sidious in his defeat which prompted the Sith Lord to attempt to kill Windu with Force lightning, but Windu managed to deflect it back at Sidious, causing the Sith Lord's face to take on a hideously disfigured appearance in the process, due to the Dark Side energy emanating from the lightning.
As a result of this, Sidious then switched his strategy to pretending to be a defenseless old man, dropping his lightning attack and proclaiming that he was too weak to carry on. Skywalker told Windu that Sidious had to stand trial, though Windu claimed that Sidious possessed far too much influence to be left alive, as he controlled both the courts and the senate. Deciding that his wife's survival was more important than his loyalty to the Jedi Order, Anakin intervened, cutting off Mace Windu's lightsaber hand and giving Sidious the opening to drop his feigned weakness and assault Windu with a full barrage of Force lightning, throwing him out the office window.
Skywalker, although initially stunned by what he had done, ultimately viewed Windu's transgressions as the final act of Jedi hypocrisy that he would not tolerate, and knelt before the now-scarred Chancellor, agreeing to join the dark side on the condition that he was be shown how to save Amidala's life. Sidious bestowed on the young man the Sith name of Darth Vader, promising the young apprentice that together they would discover the hidden art of preventing death.
Sidious informed Vader of his intention to purge the galaxy of all Jedi, claiming that the Order was a threat to the Senate as well as the security of the Republic. He declared that the galaxy would then return to a state of peace under the rule of the Sith. When the newly-anointed Darth Vader was sent to kill the Jedi in the Temple, Sidious contacted the clone troopers on various planets, commanding them to execute Order 66, which meant eliminating their Jedi commanders , [20] as they were now seen as traitors to the Republic.
Sidious, as Palpatine, meanwhile, addressed the Senate and accused the Jedi of attempting to assassinate him and overthrow the Republic, using his newly scarred face as evidence. He ultimately announced the Republic's reorganization into the first Galactic Empire while declaring himself Emperor of the new regime, with little-to-no resistance from the majority of the senators present.
With Kenobi and Yoda realizing what had happened upon witnessing a recording within the Jedi Temple, Yoda went to face the Emperor personally, while a reluctant Obi-Wan stowed away onboard Amidala's yacht , en route to Mustafar to kill Vader.
Upon arriving at the working office of the Chancellery Secretariat , Yoda disposed of the pair of guardsmen by the entryway, surprising Sidious.
Within moments, however, the Sith Lord had recollected himself, unleashing a barrage of force lightning at the Jedi Master after a brief exchange of acknowledgement between the two. Yoda quickly recovered and force pushed Sidious backwards. Yoda then engaged him in a duel when he refused to allow Sidious to escape. Sidious declared that Vader would become more powerful than both of them, while Yoda told Sidious that his faith in his nascent apprentice was a mistake, along with his faith in the dark side.
The two then dueled in the Senate hall, and Sidious narrowly managed to gain the upper hand through the use of his Force powers by sending numerous Senate pods at the Jedi Master, which he closely dodged.
Sidious then unleashed a torrent of Force lightning at Yoda, which he was able to redirect back on him. Yoda fled and was forced to go into exile, but the Emperor did not personally pursue him as he had other, more pressing matters to attend to. However, they could not find any trace of a body. The Emperor had more pressing concerns however: he had sensed that Vader, far away on Mustafar, was in danger of being destroyed.
He ordered the clones to double their search for Yoda, and that his shuttle be prepared to depart. The Emperor made haste to Mustafar, accompanied by [20] a squad of the best shock troopers under the authority of Commander CC "Thire. He ordered the clones accompanying him to prepare a medical capsule for his apprentice.
As they left to obey his instructions, the Emperor crouched beside his fallen apprentice, determined to find a way to keep him alive. The Emperor was keenly aware that, without Vader, the foundations of his newfound power would be badly shaken; he needed an apprentice capable of ensuring that his Empire would survive the inevitable challenges that would rise up against it. To make certain that Vader would be capable of remaining a powerful apprentice, the Emperor contacted the boldest scientists he could, those whose practices would have been frowned on by the Jedi and the Republic.
Among these scientists was an expert in cybernetics named Doctor Cylo. The Emperor brought Vader to the Grand Medical Facility, far above Coruscant's surface as a storm raged across the capital. A strenuous night, followed during which the scientists, their droids and their technology worked to save the critically-injured Vader before he died. The new Sith apprentice was kept awake for the whole procedure, feeling the pain that came with saving his life.
Cylo and the other scientists designed a suit of armor that would protect his weakened body and allow his scorched lungs to breathe. Cybernetic limbs were added to replace the legs and the arm that Kenobi had taken. Returning to Coruscant, Sidious had Vader rebuilt with cybernetic and life support technology.
After what the Emperor would call a "long night," Skywalker was surgically reconstructed as a cyborg and encased in the armor and mask that would forever hide away who he had once been from the galaxy. As the procedure ended and the Sith apprentice rose, the Emperor approached him. Vader's first query was to know whether or not his wife was safe. The Emperor told him that he had killed Amidala in his anger. This final loss sent Vader over the edge of pure wrath and anguish, completing his transition into the apprentice Sidious had spent decades grooming.
In his rage, Vader used his new limbs to tear away the restraints that held him to the operating table and the Force to destroy the droids who had just saved his life, before stepping unsteadily onto his new legs and screaming his despair to the galaxy as a satisfied Sidious looked on with a devilish smile. Vader then turned his rage onto the Emperor, throwing him into the wall of the operating room with the Force. He angrily berated his master for promising that he could save his wife from death.
This pain would fuel his power for decades and make him the dreaded Sith apprentice that Sidious had always coveted. It would also allow him to live. After a tense few moments, Vader released his master and proclaimed that he would live. Satisfied, the Emperor then assaulted Vader with Force lightning and warned him never to use the Force against him in such a way again, or he would finish what Kenobi would not.
During the Imperial Era , secure in power as Emperor of the galaxy, Sidious pursued his obsession with immortality, and mostly withdrew from the public eye to probe the secrets of the darkside and study his Sith arcana extensively to unlock the ability to live forever. He prepared the ancient Sith world of Exegol, constructing a base of power within the Sith Citadel located on the surface, planning to claim the ancient throne of Sith as his permanent seat of power.
His loyal cult following, the Sith Eternal , began to experiment with technology and genetic cloning science to expand his lifespan. Exegol was also home to his most promising experimentations within a vergence of the Force. However, Vos would betray him after Tyranus killed his lover Ventress with Force lightning. Tyranus was replaced by Darth Vader, another fallen Jedi, as Sidious' apprentice. Tyranus remained Sidious' apprentice while Opress' training was continued by his brother Maul.
Their claim to the mantle of the Sith [24] [25] led Sidious to confront his former apprentice, resulting in Opress' death and Maul's capture. After manipulating Anakin with promises to grant him the power to save his wife and convincing him that the Jedi were holding him back, Sidious managed to turn Skywalker to the dark side.
Skywalker pledged his allegiance to Sidious, becoming a Sith apprentice under the name of Darth Vader. They ruled the Galactic Empire for a generation with Sidious as Galactic Emperor and Vader maintaining his status as a Sith apprentice.
During the Galactic Civil War , Vader tried to convince his son, Luke Skywalker , to become his apprentice and rule the galaxy as a family. He goaded Skywalker to kill his father in order to assume his place as a Sith apprentice, but Skywalker resisted the dark side and inspired Vader to destroy his master at the cost of his life.
After returning from death, Sidious conspired to train Vader's grandson, Kylo Ren , by using the strandcast Snoke as a proxy master. It was traditional for a dark side apprentice to kill his master in order to achieve his ascendancy. However, Sidious managed to bypass this custom by having Snoke die in his place.
Wookieepedia Explore. Star Wars. Clone Wars Droids Ewoks. Because of this, anyone who survived his tutelage became a frighteningly powerful Sith in their own right. The original six saga films show his three most famous students, and further material from the current canon and the original Star Wars timeline , the Expanded Universe aka Legends reveal even more.
Though Palpatine personally trained numerous beings as Sith or simply unaffiliated dark side users , there were several instances of tangential apprentices of his in the Legends universe. The same can be said of the canon version of Palpatine, who mentored two non-Force sensitives: The Imperial leader Gallius Rax and his personal assassin, Ochi of Bestoon. The training of the Imperial Inquisitors was overseen by Palpatine, though it was largely carried out by Vader.
Similarly, The Knights of Ren were ultimately loyal to Palpatine and the Sith, despite their training and origins being largely unrelated to the Dark Lord. The terrifying Zabrak Darth Maul was not only trained by Palpatine but raised by him as well.
Sidious said he has no compassion for Maul at all, no attachment. Sidious is just using Maul to get to Mother Talzin. He wanted to get back at Sidious for torturing him, for putting him in prison, for allowing Dooku to exist.
From Savage, Maul learned that he could essentially bully someone into being his apprentice. From Sidious and from Talzin, he learned that sometimes he had to be more subtle. He uses both techniques when he meets Ezra. By the time he arrives on Malachor in Rebels , Maul has lived a long and unpleasant life.
Sidious trusted Maul to carry out important missions like capturing Queen Amidala.
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