Oh Great, Star Wars Just Created ANOTHER Rey Lineage Mystery
There's a new Star Wars mystery surrounding Rey's (Daisy Ridley) lineage. After Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker confirmed that Rey descended from Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), an excerpt from New Zealand author Adam Christopher's upcoming novel Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith (via USA Today) suggests that there's more to her character's lineage than previously believed. The sequel trilogy set up the question of who Rey's parents were from the onset, showing a troubling flashback of a young, distraught Rey yelling at a transporter on Jakku while being taken away by Unkar Plutt (Simon Pegg) in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Even though Star Wars: The Last Jedi brought forth the idea that Rey came from "filthy junk traders who sold her off for drinking money," The Rise of Skywalker explains Rey's parents a little more in-depth by revealing that they left her on the planet Jakku to protect her from Palpatine, who was looking for her. Being Palpatine's granddaughter creates enough intrigue in and of itself, particularly upon considering that Rey's father was technically a Palpatine clone as revealed in The Rise of Skywalker novelization. Coming from one of the most powerful and sinister Star Wars characters existing in canon certainly gives a lot of significance to Rey's Force abilities and genetic lineage, and it brings forth its own well of potential material for Star Wars to explore if the franchise ever chose to do so.
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However, anything surrounding Rey's strange Palpatine lineage is not the most intriguing mystery in Shadow of the Sith's excerpt. In the excerpt, Rey as a six-year-old child is escaping Jakku on a scrappy ship with her
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