Star Wars Explains Why Rey's Parents Left Her On Jakku
Star Wars has finally revealed why Rey's parents left her on the junkyard planet Jakku. For Rey, the sequel trilogy was the story of her quest for identity. For years she had waited on Jakku, confident her parents would one day return for her. Ironically, it was only when she left the junkyard world and headed out into the wider galaxy that she learned the truth.
Rey only learned the truth about her parents in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Her father was a flawed clone of Palpatine, one who did not possess the Force, and who had escaped the Sith redoubt of Exegol to build a life of his own. Palpatine had only become interested in his clone when he somehow learned he had sired a daughter, one the Emperor believed had potentially inherited the Force. Palpatine sought Rey as a potential host for his malevolent spirit because other genetically-engineered creations had proved unable to contain his darkness.
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The full story of Rey's parents has been revealed in Adam Christopher's novel Shadow of the Sith. This tells the story of Dathan and Miramir, Rey's parents, who had tried to hide on Jakku. Unfortunately, Palpatine's agents successfully tracked them down and they were forced to flee. Only the intervention of a random New Republic task force saved them, prompting Palpatine to send the Sith assassin Ochi of Bestoon in his place. Dathan and Miramir ultimately decided to fight back, successfully stealing Ochi's ship in the hopes it would slow him down. They then doubled back to Jakku, leaving Rey there because they figured the Sith would never think to return to Jakku.
Unfortunately, a homing beacon had been placed upon Ochi of Bestoon's ship, and the assassin was
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