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Darth Sidious

Darth Sidious, born as Sheev Palpatine, is a central antagonist in the Star Wars universe and serves as the overarching villain of both the prequel and original trilogies. As a Dark Lord of the Sith and a skilled manipulator, Sidious orchestrated the fall of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order, paving the way for the rise of the Galactic Empire. In his public persona, he was a seemingly benign politician who eventually became the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic and, later, the Emperor of the Galactic Empire.

Under the tutelage of his Sith Master, Darth Plagueis, Sidious learned the ways of the Dark Side of The Force and became a master of deception, manipulation, and strategy. He orchestrated The Clone Wars by playing both sides of the conflict, manipulating the Republic and the Separatist movement to further his own ambitions. As the war unfolded, Sidious gained more power and influence, eventually turning Anakin Skywalker, a powerful Jedi Knight, to the Dark Side and transforming him into Darth Vader, his Sith apprentice.

With the execution of Order 66, Sidious all but wiped out the Jedi Order and declared himself Emperor, establishing the oppressive and tyrannical rule of the Galactic Empire. Throughout the original trilogy, Sidious continued to consolidate his power and maintain his rule through fear, intimidation, and the ruthless enforcement of his will by his enforcers, including Darth Vader and the Imperial military.

Ultimately, Sidious met his demise at the hands of his own apprentice, Darth Vader, who turned against him to save his son, Luke Skywalker, in "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi." However, Sidious` influence and legacy lived on, as seen in the sequel trilogy, where he was revealed to have returned through the use of Dark Side techniques and cloning. This resurrection was short-lived, as he was once again defeated, this time by Rey, in "Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker," finally bringing an end to his reign of terror.

Darth Sidious is an iconic villain in the Star Wars universe, embodying the essence of the Dark Side of The Force and serving as a testament to the dangers of unchecked power, ambition, and corruption. His rise and fall have left an indelible mark on the galaxy, shaping the course of events and the lives of countless characters throughout the saga.

Mentions on Podcast Episodes:

"In the dark side, made so by Darth Sidious, the building had been the place of Dooku's"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"of time in the works, coming and going at will, or as required of him, by Darth Sidious. Even in"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"spent under Sidious's tutelage, learning the ways of the Sith, practicing the dark arts,"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"dark side to be on top, then so be it. With Dooku, Sidious hadn't had to waste precious hours on"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"Temple, for Dooku had long before rid himself of those. Instead, Sidious had focused on giving"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"to Sidious, that at long last he had found a true mentor. The Sith saw no need to take on only young"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"I'm curious who those other disciples that Sidious trained could have been, if there were any. Maybe"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"Darth Revan, Darth Bane, Darth Plagueis, Darth Sidious, Darth Vader, and Darth Krayt."

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"that only Qui-Gon could have stopped Palpatine. Yeah, I agree with that. Totally. Yeah."

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"And he's kind of like guiding them, but he knows he can't act because Palpatine or Sidious would get totally pissed at him."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"Darth Sidious, we know this, Darth Sidious clouds the Jedi's powers."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"Sidious and Pop, or Sidious, I'll just call him Sidious for right now."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"So he's experiencing in his meditation some kind of flashback at the behest of Sidious"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"little bit. Like he's flashing back to a session when he was a kid where Sidious took him into"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"this vision. That's what's. Yeah, but that's a flashback to a flashback. Yeah. But Sidious"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"exactly how I interpret this. This is Sidious. It's a zombie. They look like zombies. Yeah."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"is a manipulation by Sidious to turn Maul to twist Maul into what he has become."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"see the grin on Sidious's face as he's standing above the young Maul being like, oh, my gosh,"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"characters and like he's been raised to do this one thing and this one thing only by Sidious."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"I don't know. I don't know the character. And I still don't know the character after four issues of this comic. All I know is that that he was twisted into being a weapon by Sidious."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"So we've already seen him rebel from Sidious a little bit. Like this whole Padawan mission is his own thing."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"talking to the Emperor saying your overconfidence is your weakness."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"Turn her to the dark side. I thought maybe, you know, into an agent that he could use, possibly against the Emperor."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"So he goes back to Palpatine, and Palpatine's like,"

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"porch. I guess Palpatine's just so really good at cloaking their bad activities but like you would"

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"think if Palpatine's not trying to be seen as a Sith Lord he's not walking around on his deck."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"So number one, Palpatine getting direct access to a Padawan,"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"Wouldn't it have been really cool if they had done a little subtle Palpatine"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"One of the parts that I did definitely enjoy was that Palpatine was happy to be watching"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"And Palpatine's like, is this the young Skywalker?"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"he has no clue, you know, who Palpatine is."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"And it's a nice little moment where Palpatine is starting to corrupt Anakin."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"So it was a nice moment where you can see Palpatine tempting Anakin,"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"because Palpatine can't keep his mouth shut."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"He laughs like evil Emperor Palpatine does."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"And then there's this panel right below it with no words on it. That is fantastic. It's Palpatine just just staring at him."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"You know what Palpatine is thinking. Yeah, that's why it's beautiful. You know exactly what's going through his head."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"Yeah, he's done. He was out. And so so Palpatine is trying to get Anakin out of the orders to turn him."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"So when Palpatine was trying to get Anakin to leave the Jedi, we find out later that had Anakin left the order."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"That's right. And so Palpatine's plans wouldn't have worked out anyway or he would have had to do something."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"Palpatine and Palpatine is just kind of tugging at that thread a little bit"

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"rebel weapons dealing gang that Palpatine has sent him to talk to, but he also needs to have"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"this planet and other planets so that when Palpatine does come to power, he comes to power a"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"you're assuming and I don't know for sure. You're assuming that Palpatine didn't know he was going"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"to be there either. So Palpatine is has understood that there's a gap in his knowledge of the Jedi"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"Or maybe I'm wrong. I mean, maybe maybe Palpatine is this is a test for Doku."

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"And he gets back and he's and of course, you know, Sidious is like, yeah, you know,"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"I enjoyed Palpatine's joke earlier in the comic too."

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"And Palpatine's like, I can only have one."

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"I pictured Yzma from Emperor's New Groove, because that's her voice."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"No, that's Eartha Kitt in Emperor's New Groove."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"I thought you sounded mad that I didn't know it was Eartha Kitt in Emperor's New Groove."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"to the Emperor problems."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"And the Emperor being the biggest example."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"And we know that he's already been talking to Palpatine."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"with Doku, if he was actually helping, you know, the Emperor and he knew"

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"But also, Dooku technically isn't in, or is he in Palpatine's picture at this point?"

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"I don't think he is. I think Palpatine knows about him."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"You watch Emperor's New Groove and then go back and listen to What's-Her-Face Talking and tell me that is not the same voice."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"Darth Maul being dead is not felt by Palpatine."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"It's like faces. They're like, like Palpatine. Yeah."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"I thought that Palpatine was behind that"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"he knows that he's gonna be building his robot army or or Sidious does he's gonna be building"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"chaos so that Palpatine can take over as the leader. I'm glad yeah I'm glad you're not going"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"When he meets with the Emperor at the end, he said everything went to plan."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"Yeah, this is the Emperor playing all sides."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"But he's not necessarily a bad guy. The Emperor is a bad guy."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"Right. I'm sure the Emperor may have led on as well, because he knows that Anakin's there with him all the time and being trained and all that good stuff."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"What? No, no. In the beginning of this movie, he talks about how much time he's... he thanked the... well, not the Emperor, he thanked the... what is his title?"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"No, not Doku. Palpatine."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"He has a special purpose, but he does not foresee him becoming the next Darth, the next Padawan for Sidious, right?"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"When he was talking to Obi-Wan, if Obi-Wan wouldn't have said, yeah, let's do it, they would have... I mean, he would have gone after the Emperor right then."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"Also, too, how does Palpatine get out of his political duties so much?"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"But the clones obviously being part of the Emperor's plan, did they know about it?"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"It's my Palpatine influenced by Palpatine like Palpatine so they're telling them you're gonna be the biggest Jedi ever"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"You said that the person sounded like Eartha Kitt and that she sounded like Yzma from Emperors New Groove."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"That's what I'm talking about. Palpatine established that's just a thing."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"I mean, the Emperor's cheap."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"missive from I was it I think it was from Palpatine himself or"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"valuable she is to Anakin, but Palpatine sure does. You know,"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"show up. She showed up because Palpatine asked her to. Yep. But"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"not know that Palpatine is who he is at this point?"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"You know, once. So basically, Hondo radios up to Southern Honda, raise up to Palpatine."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"And yeah, I thought that was good how Palpatine was like, OK, well, we've got two Jedi on the ground right there. We'll have you guys go over and check them out. Make sure that Doku is doing well and he can be taken prisoner and then we'll pay your ransom."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"It's not even close. I mean, Emperor Cleon I is in the first story of the first book for a couple of pages, and that's it."

23. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E12, S1 E13 & Star Wars Visions Episode 1
"Children's show aimed at children. We got him stealing babies. He's, you know, tasked with going and grabbing four different babies from Sidious."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"Well, that was. But the next level up from that was Palpatine, of course, saying, I don't care if it kills him or, you know, whatever."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"Would you remember that. You remember that comic we read where Anakin goes over to Palpatine's thing and he or his office and don't they go down to like like the lower levels and he takes him around."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"And it just shows Anakin going with Palpatine and they go to lower levels and they're like you know this is where the the scum of the earth live blah blah blah."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"I mean he really is like it's really good. It shows how much you know Palpatine now you know gloves are off."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"But then when you get more into Palpatine in the second episode, I'm like, did Mace kind of like want to keep this thing alive because he."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"And Palpatine realizes that that that they can't necessarily fight this thing with lightsabers."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"It's drawn to Palpatine."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"Because if you remember, like the beginning of Episode 19, he kind of raises an eye at Palpatine when Palpatine's talking."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"And it knows that Palpatine is his mortal enemy now."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"Because Palpatine is being really it."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"This was a nice, nice, you know, progression to see Palpatine being really kind of nasty."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"You took him where he should never have gone because Palpatine had ulterior motives and and you ended up having to kill him."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"Like, I mean, like what is what is her biggest fear, because I mean, she knows she shouldn't be cloning this thing, you know, and it's like, oh, OK, like like like this is where this is where the normal population can start to see evil in Palpatine."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"And Palpatine kind of being behind it, but not being behind it. You know, that kind of stuff."

36. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Eps 20 and 21, Tales of the Jedi Ep2
"He's working for Palpatine."

39. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 4 and 7 & Tales of The Jedi Ep 4
"I believe at this point and basically she goes and follows Doku who is going to meet the Emperor and finds out that Doku is kind of the root of all this evil."

39. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 4 and 7 & Tales of The Jedi Ep 4
"this episode until episode two? He has solidified himself as Palpatine's second, at this point."

39. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 4 and 7 & Tales of The Jedi Ep 4
"And also, too, I like it that the episode shows a little bit of his technical kind of hacking skills, you know, where he gets the he's able to call it the Palpatine and not Palpatine."

40. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E22 and S3 E9 & Stories of Light and Dark

Darth Sidious

"In the dark side, made so by Darth Sidious, the building had been the place of Dooku's"

"of time in the works, coming and going at will, or as required of him, by Darth Sidious. Even in"

"spent under Sidious's tutelage, learning the ways of the Sith, practicing the dark arts,"

"dark side to be on top, then so be it. With Dooku, Sidious hadn't had to waste precious hours on"

"Temple, for Dooku had long before rid himself of those. Instead, Sidious had focused on giving"

"to Sidious, that at long last he had found a true mentor. The Sith saw no need to take on only young"

"I'm curious who those other disciples that Sidious trained could have been, if there were any. Maybe"

"Darth Revan, Darth Bane, Darth Plagueis, Darth Sidious, Darth Vader, and Darth Krayt."

"that only Qui-Gon could have stopped Palpatine. Yeah, I agree with that. Totally. Yeah."

"And he's kind of like guiding them, but he knows he can't act because Palpatine or Sidious would get totally pissed at him."

"Darth Sidious, we know this, Darth Sidious clouds the Jedi's powers."

"Sidious and Pop, or Sidious, I'll just call him Sidious for right now."

"So he's experiencing in his meditation some kind of flashback at the behest of Sidious"

"little bit. Like he's flashing back to a session when he was a kid where Sidious took him into"

"this vision. That's what's. Yeah, but that's a flashback to a flashback. Yeah. But Sidious"

"exactly how I interpret this. This is Sidious. It's a zombie. They look like zombies. Yeah."

"is a manipulation by Sidious to turn Maul to twist Maul into what he has become."

"see the grin on Sidious's face as he's standing above the young Maul being like, oh, my gosh,"

"characters and like he's been raised to do this one thing and this one thing only by Sidious."

"I don't know. I don't know the character. And I still don't know the character after four issues of this comic. All I know is that that he was twisted into being a weapon by Sidious."

"So we've already seen him rebel from Sidious a little bit. Like this whole Padawan mission is his own thing."

"talking to the Emperor saying your overconfidence is your weakness."

"Turn her to the dark side. I thought maybe, you know, into an agent that he could use, possibly against the Emperor."

"So he goes back to Palpatine, and Palpatine's like,"

"porch. I guess Palpatine's just so really good at cloaking their bad activities but like you would"

"think if Palpatine's not trying to be seen as a Sith Lord he's not walking around on his deck."

"So number one, Palpatine getting direct access to a Padawan,"

"Wouldn't it have been really cool if they had done a little subtle Palpatine"

"One of the parts that I did definitely enjoy was that Palpatine was happy to be watching"

"And Palpatine's like, is this the young Skywalker?"

"he has no clue, you know, who Palpatine is."

"And it's a nice little moment where Palpatine is starting to corrupt Anakin."

"So it was a nice moment where you can see Palpatine tempting Anakin,"

"because Palpatine can't keep his mouth shut."

"He laughs like evil Emperor Palpatine does."

"And then there's this panel right below it with no words on it. That is fantastic. It's Palpatine just just staring at him."

"You know what Palpatine is thinking. Yeah, that's why it's beautiful. You know exactly what's going through his head."

"Yeah, he's done. He was out. And so so Palpatine is trying to get Anakin out of the orders to turn him."

"So when Palpatine was trying to get Anakin to leave the Jedi, we find out later that had Anakin left the order."

"That's right. And so Palpatine's plans wouldn't have worked out anyway or he would have had to do something."

"Palpatine and Palpatine is just kind of tugging at that thread a little bit"

"rebel weapons dealing gang that Palpatine has sent him to talk to, but he also needs to have"

"this planet and other planets so that when Palpatine does come to power, he comes to power a"

"you're assuming and I don't know for sure. You're assuming that Palpatine didn't know he was going"

"to be there either. So Palpatine is has understood that there's a gap in his knowledge of the Jedi"

"Or maybe I'm wrong. I mean, maybe maybe Palpatine is this is a test for Doku."

"And he gets back and he's and of course, you know, Sidious is like, yeah, you know,"

"I enjoyed Palpatine's joke earlier in the comic too."

"And Palpatine's like, I can only have one."

"I pictured Yzma from Emperor's New Groove, because that's her voice."

"No, that's Eartha Kitt in Emperor's New Groove."

"I thought you sounded mad that I didn't know it was Eartha Kitt in Emperor's New Groove."

"to the Emperor problems."

"And the Emperor being the biggest example."

"And we know that he's already been talking to Palpatine."

"with Doku, if he was actually helping, you know, the Emperor and he knew"

"But also, Dooku technically isn't in, or is he in Palpatine's picture at this point?"

"I don't think he is. I think Palpatine knows about him."

"You watch Emperor's New Groove and then go back and listen to What's-Her-Face Talking and tell me that is not the same voice."

"Darth Maul being dead is not felt by Palpatine."

"It's like faces. They're like, like Palpatine. Yeah."

"I thought that Palpatine was behind that"

"he knows that he's gonna be building his robot army or or Sidious does he's gonna be building"

"chaos so that Palpatine can take over as the leader. I'm glad yeah I'm glad you're not going"

"When he meets with the Emperor at the end, he said everything went to plan."

"Yeah, this is the Emperor playing all sides."

"But he's not necessarily a bad guy. The Emperor is a bad guy."

"Right. I'm sure the Emperor may have led on as well, because he knows that Anakin's there with him all the time and being trained and all that good stuff."

"What? No, no. In the beginning of this movie, he talks about how much time he's... he thanked the... well, not the Emperor, he thanked the... what is his title?"

"No, not Doku. Palpatine."

"He has a special purpose, but he does not foresee him becoming the next Darth, the next Padawan for Sidious, right?"

"When he was talking to Obi-Wan, if Obi-Wan wouldn't have said, yeah, let's do it, they would have... I mean, he would have gone after the Emperor right then."

"Also, too, how does Palpatine get out of his political duties so much?"

"But the clones obviously being part of the Emperor's plan, did they know about it?"

"It's my Palpatine influenced by Palpatine like Palpatine so they're telling them you're gonna be the biggest Jedi ever"

"You said that the person sounded like Eartha Kitt and that she sounded like Yzma from Emperors New Groove."

"That's what I'm talking about. Palpatine established that's just a thing."

"I mean, the Emperor's cheap."

"missive from I was it I think it was from Palpatine himself or"