How would you have explained where Palpatine learned to use The Force?

Author: darklordoftech
Date: 11-Jun-2022, 1:23 PM

Author: darklordoftech
Time: 11-Jun-2022 1:23 PM
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The prequels went with him being part of the ancient “Sith” lineage. What would you have done? Something similar? Ex-Jedi? Self-taught? Ancient being?

Author: Superweapon VII
Time: 12-Jun-2022 10:29 PM
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I wouldn’t have. Leave him a mystery.

“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution… There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”

― Leo Tolstoy

Author: Servii
Time: 13-Jun-2022 6:00 PM
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If I had to give Palpatine a backstory, as much as I liked his characterization in the Darth Plagueis novel, if it were up to me, I’d probably go with the “ancient being” angle. Have him be this eldritch, demonic entity where no one knows how long he’s existed.

Author: darklordoftech
Time: 14-Jun-2022 6:32 PM
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Servii said:

If I had to give Palpatine a backstory, as much as I liked his characterization in the Darth Plagueis novel, if it were up to me, I’d probably go with the “ancient being” angle. Have him be this eldritch, demonic entity where no one knows how long he’s existed.

Maybe he could be the one who ruled the galaxy 1000 years before the movies?

Author: Servii
Time: 16-Jun-2022 8:48 PM
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darklordoftech said:

Servii said:

If I had to give Palpatine a backstory, as much as I liked his characterization in the Darth Plagueis novel, if it were up to me, I’d probably go with the “ancient being” angle. Have him be this eldritch, demonic entity where no one knows how long he’s existed.

Maybe he could be the one who ruled the galaxy 1000 years before the movies?

That could be left open to viewer speculation. Though I’d rather they stayed consistent with the “thousand generations” Obi-Wan mentioned in ANH.

Author: Darth Caliban
Time: 16-Jul-2022 10:30 AM
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Think self-taught would be the most interesting idea for story purposes.

Author: Anakin Starkiller
Time: 8-Jun-2023 10:22 PM
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I’d keep it a mystery, but imply he’s been alive well over 500 years, if not substantially longer.

darklordoftech said:

Servii said:

If I had to give Palpatine a backstory, as much as I liked his characterization in the Darth Plagueis novel, if it were up to me, I’d probably go with the “ancient being” angle. Have him be this eldritch, demonic entity where no one knows how long he’s existed.

Maybe he could be the one who ruled the galaxy 1000 years before the movies?

That’s an interesting angle too.