Darth Sidious

Anakin Skywalker

Galactic Empire

Ian McDiarmid

**Darth Sidious** born as **Sheev Palpatine** was the ruler of the galaxy.

## Biography

### Naboo Crisus

He manipulated Nute Gunray into blockading and invading Naboo which led him to become Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.

### The Clone Wars

When Count Dooku was discovered creating the Confederacy of Independent Systems to destroy the Republic, Palpatine got emergancy powers so that he could create a Clone Army.

#### Becoming Emperor

During the Battle over Coruscant, Palpatine ordered Anakin Skywalker to kill Dooku. After doing so, Anakin became Darth Vader. Sidious executed Order 66 which wiped out the Jedi Order. While Sidious declared the Republic as the Galactic Empire, Vader was on Mustafar wiping out Gunray and the rest of the Confederacy leaders. After Vader was burnt in lava, Sidious had armour made for him.

### Galactic Civil War

Over twenty years later, the Emperor contacted Vader to tell him that Luke Skywalker must not become a Jedi.

In 4 ABY, Vader brought Luke to Sidious on the Second Death Star. The Emperor tried to turn Luke to the Dark Side but the boy refused. Sidious tried to kill him with Force lightning but Vader turned on his master and threw him down a reactor shaft. When Sidious was falling, he transferred his body into a clone of himself.

### Return and death

Almost thirty years later, Sidious' new armada revealed themselves to the galaxy. The First Order - Sidious' new Empire that was publicly run by Snoke, was merged into the Emperor's Final Order. Rey Palpatine came to Exegol where Sidious was hiding with a group of Sith Cultists known as the Sith Eternal who had helped keeping his rotting clone body alive with medical systems. The Resistance arrived with a fleet of civilian starships and started attacking Sidious' armada. When Rey and Ben Solo tried to kill the Sith, Sidious became more powerful and was freed from his medical implantments. Sidious shot Force lightning at Rey to destroy her, claiming that he was all the Sith. However, Rey used the Force to summon another lightsaber and declared herself all the Jedi. Rey then summoned the power of the past Jedi and deflected the lightning back at Sidious. Realizing his plans were foiled, Sidious stopped shooting lightning but it was too late and Rey used all her strength to consume the lightning onto the two lightsbers and then shove it back onto Sidious' face, causing him to disintegrate. Darth Sidious' body then started to crack before it exploded, causing his temple to collapse. The Sith Eternal cultists who were watching the fight were all killed by falling stone.

## Behind the Scenes

* Darth Sidious was created as the Emperor for Episode 5: Empire Strikes Back.
* In Empire, he was played by Marjorie Eaton and voiced by Clive Revill.
* For Return of the Jedi, Ian McDiarmid replaced Eaton and Revill as the Emperor.
* In 1999, he returned to the screens as Senator Palpatine.

## Appearances

* Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (First named Palpatine and Darth Sidious)
* Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
* Star Wars: Clone Wars
* Star Wars: The Clone Wars
* Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
* Star Wars Rebels
* Episode 5: Empire Strikes Back (First appearance)
* Episode 6: Return of the Jedi
* Episode 9: Rise of Skywalker