Star Wars Hints At Palpatine's Secret Origin
Star Wars has finally hinted at Palpatine's origin on Naboo. Emperor Palpatine is the greatest villain of the Star Wars saga, a Dark Lord of the Sith who infiltrated the Republic and ascended to the rank of Chancellor before engineering the fall of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire. He's something of a mystery to audiences, which might seem strange given that much of his past would presumably be public knowledge in the Star Wars galaxy itself.
In the old Expanded Universe, Palpatine's backstory was eventually revealed in the 2012 novel «Darth Plagueis» — but the book is no longer canon, just like the rest of the original EU. Fans had initially speculated it would remain canon even after Disney acquired Lucasfilm back in 2012, given author James Luceno was believed to have consulted with George Lucas himself while writing it, but that's recently been confirmed not to be the case. E.K. Johnston's novel «Queen's Peril» revealed a few secrets of Palpatine's master, Darth Plagueis, contradicting Luceno's book. But Johnston's latest work, «Queen's Hope,» colors in a little more about Palpatine himself.
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Several sections in «Queen's Hope» are written from Palpatine's own perspective, and one sees the then-Chancellor reflect on his love of using political power to manipulate Star Wars' Republic Senate. It also offers tantalizing hints about Palpatine's backstory:
«Palpatine enjoyed the rush which came with manipulating people. It had been one of his greatest skills since he was a boy, and he had honed it to a blade so sharp, people rarely even noticed he'd cut them with it until they'd lost too much blood. No Jedi-sanctioned cauterization for the
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