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What was Palpatine's original plan for Naboo?

Some have claimed, and done so right here on this board, that the story of Darth Plagueis that Palpatine told to Anakin at the opera house implies that Sidious had a hand in creating Anakin in the first place.
Or Plagueis did.

Sidious creating Anakin might have been a thing in an early draft of ROTS, but I'm glad it was left out of the film because imo it conflicts with the intent of TPM.
 
Or Plagueis did.

Sidious creating Anakin might have been a thing in an early draft of ROTS, but I'm glad it was left out of the film because imo it conflicts with the intent of TPM.

If Plagueis did, then that does not preclude Sidious from knowing about it. That's why I said "had a hand in," like he was Plagueis's Igor. How else could he insinuate the conception, if he wasn't somehow privy to it?
 
In either case, even knowing Anakin had been incarnated, Palpatine would have no way of knowing where he was. He may not even be able to know if it worked at all.
 
In either case, even knowing Anakin had been incarnated, Palpatine would have no way of knowing where he was. He may not even be able to know if it worked at all.
Luke managed to locate Han and Leia in Cloud City without ever having been there himself and without specific knowledge that they were even there. Luke was guided by his visions of the future that he had experienced through the Force. Even if Luke had searched Alliance databases for a city in the clouds, his knowledge of what to search for came from the Force. Sidious was even more powerful than Luke. We cannot conclude that it would be impossible for Sidious to locate Anakin using visions experienced through the Force, given what we know of canonically-established Force-abilities.
 
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But Luke already knew and cared for Han and Leia. The equivalent would be Vader being able to find Luke through the Force (though, to be fair, Vader was clearly able to use the Force to recognize which place was correct as soon as he saw it).
 
The idea that Palpatine, Plageius, or anyone else used the Dark side to create Anakin has been thoroughly and officially debunked by Lucasfilm.
Where? IIRC it was allegedly once stated outright in an officially licensed product, though (a) that was possibly before Disney and (b) it was in a low-profile source that no one really cared about AFAIK.
 
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The concept, if I recall, was that Plageius and Palpatine attempted to create new life. This was probably an early attempt by the Sith to live forever. The Force reacted to this "defilement" or corruption of the Force and created Anakin via a vergence in the Force.
 
Where? IIRC it was once stated outright in an officially licensed product, though (a) that was possibly before Disney and (b) it was in a low-profile source that no one really cared about AFAIK.

Charles Soule's Darth Vader comic contained a panel implying that Palpatine may have been involved in Anakin's conception, but both he and Star Wars Story Group member Matt Martin almost immediately stated that the comic's imagery was a manifestation of Anakin's fears and nothing more.

 
Charles Soule's Darth Vader comic contained a panel implying that Palpatine may have been involved in Anakin's conception, but both he and Star Wars Story Group member Matt Martin almost immediately stated that the comic's imagery was a manifestation of Anakin's fears and nothing more.
So how do Anakin's fears debunk anything?
 
So how do Anakin's fears debunk anything?

The comic panel is a manifestation of Anakin's fear that Palpatine had a hand in his conception, not a Canonical confirmation or statement that Palpatine had a hand in Anakin's conception.

Per that article:
But I can tell you definitively, as someone who worked on the comic, that is 100% not the intended implication.

I’m not saying there isn’t a logical misinterpretation that they’re coming to. I’m just telling you definitively that it’s not correct.
 
The comic panel is a manifestation of Anakin's fear that Palpatine had a hand in his conception, not a Canonical confirmation or statement that Palpatine had a hand in Anakin's conception.
"Not a canonical confirmation" is not the same thing as "debunked".

And nothing is said of Plagueis at all!

Anakin having a fear that Palpatine created him is consistent with any of the following scenarios:

1)Palpatine created him
2)Plagueis created him ( after studying Osha? )
3)someone else created him ( if that can be made to work given the timeline of the Banite Sith )
4)the Force created him
 
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But why did Palpatine order the Jedi to be killed? Worst case scenario, they would return with nothing accomplished after a fruitless negotiation. Trying to kill them would have created too many unpredictable scenarios.

They had almost made it into the command room! And they would have prevented the invasion before it began, interfering with Palpatine's plans.

Bringing balance to the force means 2 Sith and 2 Jedi.

Besides, that was Anikan living up to prophecy, and would have happened even if Sheev was holidaying on Canto Bight, and didn't contribute an ounce of evil to the little shit's upbringing.
 
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