The Rise of Skywalker novelization apparently reveals that Palpatine’s son was a clone!
Arrrrgh. I did honestly really like The Rise of Skywalker, but it annoys me so much that they had all this great material and just… didn’t put it in. What’s the story of Rey’s father, how did he escape Palpatine’s clutches?! What’s his name, even? I really, really want to know all that, that could be a movie or TV show in itself, but will it ever materialise…?
Rae Carson’s novelization for The Rise of Skywalker officially releases on March 17, but parts of it have hit the internet early.
Included in that was the big but not crazy reveal that Palpatine’s spirit occupied a clone body in the film. That meant that there were two clones in the film (in Palpatine and Snoke)… but it turns out there was a third.
The novelization apparently reveals that Palpatine’s son was a clone.
Posted to the Star Wars Leaks subreddit, we read this excerpt from the book:
“The heretics of the Sith Eternal toiled, splicing genes, bolstering tissue, creating unnatural abominations in the hope that one of these strandcasts would succeed and become a worthy receptacle. The heretics would do anything, risk anything, sacrifice anything, to create a cradle for their god-consciousness.
“Nothing worked. But their efforts were not entirely in vain.
“One genetic strandcast lived. Thrived…
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