He created a clone of himself and, with the help of Sith loyalists, rebuilt himself to a fragmented and unstable state. wanted to bring him back to reveal that Palpatine wasn't completely destroyed in Episode VII. ' Ian was such a major part of the original films.

Don't forget that this comes after the revelation of Palpatine's return was relegated to the opening crawl of the movie. Secrets only the Sith knew.' It's the most vague of explanations and that's all we're given. Kin attempts to explain how this is possible by saying, 'Dark science. This was alluded to in a more presumptive fashion by Dominic Monaghan's character Beaumont Kin after Poe Dameron confirms that somehow Emperor Palpatine has returned. It was an imperfect vessel, though, unable to contain his immense power. Emperor Palpatine lived, after a fashion, and Kylo could feel in his very bones that this clone body sheltered the Emperor's actual spirit. The liquid flowing into the living nightmare before him was fighting a losing battle to sustain the Emperor's putrid flesh.

He'd seen this apparatus before, too, when he'd studied the Clone Wars as a boy. Here it is: All the vials were empty of liquid save one, which was nearly depleted. The detail about Palpatine being a clone comes in the description of the machinery and equipment attached to Palpatine. The excerpt from the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker novelization was posted at ScreenRant, and it comes early in the book when Kylo Ren arrives on Exegol and meets Palpatine in-person. It turns out that Emperor Palpatine is a clone in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Why did the empire not use clones