RE: origins of palpatine

My friend has informed me that the only area which is a complete no-no in EU is Palpatine's history. Lucas wants to keep him within a veil of mystery.

 

Yup most liely till after ROTS

 

Did I fudge up and post a new topic instead of a reply?

Sorry...

 

Yes you hit post new topic, what thread were you repling too.

 

Is it important that we know of Palpatine's origins? I like the character the way he is. There's no need for us to learn about him being a mistreated child growing up on Naboo.

 

I know all about him. George has given him a backstory. It just hasn't been given to EU yet.

 

Okay, but a far more interesting topic: Yoda's origins! I don't think there are any books out about that. I'd like to see one.

 

I enjoy much of the EU, but we really don't need to know EVERYTHING about EVERYBODY. I think it's best that some characters such as Yoda and Palpatine not have stories told about their pasts. Every legend or fantasy/sci-fi world needs to have some unanswered questions for people to wonder about, or else it gets boring.

 

Yes you hit post new topic, what thread were you repling too.

Origins Of Palpatine. The post basically asked why we don't know about him.

 

Once we know more about the origins of Palpatine and Yoda, the entire saga will have lost much of its allure...

 

I don't think we'll ever learn either. But I don't agree with it being the Saga's only allure remaining.

 

That is crap! Many people said knowing the backstory of the OT (the PT) would ruin the OT. It hasn't. If anything it has made the OT richer. Has knowing how 3PO and R2 first met ruined them in the OT? Some people are just afraid that whatever the EU decides to write for these characters, it won't be the same as what they've cooked up in their heads.

 

According to ROTS Visual Dictionary "records of Palpatine's ancestry, immediate family members, and upbringing on Naboo have mysteriously vanished."
The plot thickens...
Is this a cop out to prevent telling this story or maybe it gives way for the story arc of how theese records went missing.

 

I think i heard somewhere that Palpatine killed his sith master, darth plagueis and took his seat of power as the leader of the sith. He has had many more apprentices than darth maul and vader including a guy named darth rage i think.

 

g-rett-fett: Where did you hear about Darth Rage? I've never heard of him... Please don't say Supershadow...

 

Darth Rage is a SuperShadow thing I think.

 

It was revealed at C3 that Palpatine was ordered untouchable by Lucas. He wants it to remain unknown. Rumor has it he told Stover about Palpatine's backstory but asked him not to use any of it in the ROTS novel.

In addition to Palpatine, I do believe Yoda is on that "better left a mystery" list. There's even an old game card whose production was halted because it tried to shed some light on his origins.

 

Yeah, the card showed Yoda's planet with a statue of a Yoda and a bunch of worshipping Yoda-people.

I've seen the card. I think some actually went out to the public. It was in one of the old Insiders or Topps Magazines.

 

Minor history of Palpatine--



Not much is known, but what is known....


Firstly, Palpatine is Darth Sidious (DUH, but we gotta start somewhere....)

Darth Sidious was apprenticed under Darth Plagious, a dark lord of the Sith.

According to Sith Lore (supposedly), there are only supposed to be two Dark Lords of the Sith--A Master, and an Apprentice.

Plagious, who found out how to preserve life, and essentially could live forever (Unless someone killed him, meaning he couldn't grow old, but he's killable), he taught this to Darth Sidious, who promptly kills him.

Sidious takes on many apprentices, three are known--

The Zabrak known as Darth Maul, who is killed by Obi-Wan

The Human Ex-Jedi Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus, who, for the sake of the movie, I'll refrain from saying what happens to,

The Human Ex-Jedi Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, who gets killed by Luke Skywalker.

Not much of his history aside from that is covered...

also, I don't want to see Yoda's history, but I at least want to know WHAT HE IS... and I swear, if Lucas states "He's a little green man from Mars", I'm gonna be bashing my head into the wall...

Haha....A long time ago....Yoda's a Martian!

 

Rage never existed, its a load of bs made up by Supershadow. Find it for me in any book, comic series, or any other official star wars merchandise, and well talk

 

Where was Darth Plagious mentioned?
Also i remember reading something that said Yoda was Whill or something but I never took any notice of it because it's not mentioned anywhere else

 

quote Jaydn_Dra-al
The Human Ex-Jedi Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, who gets killed by Luke Skywalker.

em cough cough i think it was the emperors force lighting that killed vader seeing as his suit is a lighning conductor

or maybe you mean vader the sith and anakin as seperates?
use that to save yourself LOL

 

In another similar thread I remember asking what do you think about Palpatine being born in Naboo (after all he is the senator of Naboo)