Full Name: Darth Sidious (publicly known as Emperor Palpatine)

Age: 79

Gender: Male

Homeworld: Unknown, but rumour says Naboo

Race: Human

Occupation: Sith Lord/ Emperor

Eyes: Red/ Yellow

Clothing: Varies whether he acts as Emperor or Sith Lord

Weapons: Lightsaber

Other Equipment: Unknown

Transportation: Imperial Lamda Shuttle

Inventory: Unknown

Family: Unknown, information is erased from Imperial records

History: Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious, was the last Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic (32-19 BBY) the self-appointed Emperor of the Galactic Empire (19 BBY-4 ABY), which he established after orchestrating a full-scale galactic conflict known as the clone wars to seize dictatorial powers through special emergency measures given to him by the Galactic Senate.
During the Clone Wars, he was also the secret de facto leader of the Separatists as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, as well as the de jure leader of the Republic, allowing him to plan and execute the entire war, thus resulting in his ultimate triumph with the rise of his Empire.
Considered by many to have been the greatest Dark Lord of the Sith in the history of the Sith Order—something he himself also firmly believed—he was the only Sith Lord in a thousand years to achieve the ultimate goal of the Sith: to eradicate the Jedi Order and bring the Galaxy under the rule of the Sith.
But his greatest strength, what made him the appropriate Sith to exact their order's revenge, was not his supreme and deadly skills in the dark side of the Force, but rather the way he could manipulate beings all across the Galaxy—good or evil. Indeed, as Jedi Grand Master Yoda once described it, the shroud of the dark side clouded everything.
A diabolical genius, he exacted the revenge of the Sith not only through political machinations and his mastery of the Force, but also with the help of several powerful apprentices—including Anakin Skywalker, whom he manipulated into falling to the dark side and becoming the Sith Lord Darth Vader.
Some believed that he was so powerful, he had predicted his rise to glory and every other aspect of his life from his early days on—except for his deaths.
Information about Palpatine's youth is extremely hard to come by, since most records on his homeworld concerning his ancestry, his immediate family and his upbringing had "mysteriously vanished.". According to rumour, he was born on Naboo, in the backwaters of the Chommell Sector of the Mid Rim, and he claimed the capital city of Theed, nestled on the quiet banks of the Solleu River, as his home.

Palpatine was Force-sensitive, exceedingly so, but for reasons unknown, the Jedi never learned of this. Whatever the reason, the Jedi passed him over. Instead, this gifted and ambitious young man was discovered by a Muun who was actually a very powerful Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Plagueis by name.
Nothing is known about how Plagueis and Palpatine found each other, or just what marked Palpatine's fall to the dark side. Whatever the cause, Darth Plagueis found him suitable and inducted him into the cult, declaring him to be one with the Sith Order.
Under Plagueis's tutelage, Sidious learned the history of the cult, of how there had once been many Sith Lords, until internecine warfare and Jedi intervention brought them down. He learned of Darth Bane, who had brought the cult back from near-extinction and formulated the diktat that had established the framework of the Sith ever since: that there would only be two Sith Lords at any one time—a master and an apprentice.
Plagueis’ obsession however led to his death. He was obsessed in the power for immortality, to create life. He started to experiment with something that would be a threat to Sidious himself. Plagueis spoke of an experiment to use arcane Sith disciplines to influence the midi-chlorians to draw life directly from the wellspring of the Force itself. The child that resulted from this experiment, Plagueis insisted, would potentially possess astounding power and be the living embodiment of the Force, more powerful than Sidious himself, thus he would be replaced.
The only choice was to kill the experiment, but it would only result in failure as Plagueis would not stop attempting to create another child, so there was no other option for him to kill his master in his sleep. For decades he would look back on this moment of personal triumph, to his attainment of mastery at the cheap price of his own outdated master, with a self-satisfied smile. "It's ironic," he once remarked. "He could save others from death, but not himself."
Despite Plagueis's death, a Force-conceived child was born. Whether this process was initiated by Plagueis, Sidious, or the will of the Force itself remains unknown, but in 42 BBY, on an unknown world (possibly Tatooine), Shmi Skywalker gave birth to a child with a Force potential greater than any other documented in history. When Palpatine met Skywalker he immediately decided to wait till he could someday take him as his apprentice.
Outside of his second existence as a Sith, the course of Palpatine's life is somewhat easier to trace. At a young age, Palpatine began his political career, carefully hiding his true persona of Darth Sidious. Palpatine entered his full-fledged political career in local Naboo politics (62–52 BBY), working upwards through the lower levels of power. Although not every fact of this period is known. By the time Palpatine stepped onto the Senate floor for the first time, he was already a superb manipulator.
He created a superb plan in a political scheme and during that period he trained his first apprentice, Darth Maul, a Zabrak with exceptional fighting skills. His first move was to rise to the position of Supreme Chancellor by removing the Chancellor Valorum from office. He manipulated the Trade Federation who were angered by a murder none other planned by Sidious himself. They formed a blockade around Naboo. But he knew nothing of Valorum’s plans to send two Jedi, namely Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, to solve the matter. Sidious ordered Viceroy Nute Gunray to kill them, but they managed to escape. They managed to free Queen Amidala and fled to Tatooine, since their ship did not have enough power to bring them to Coruscant.
On Tatooine Qui-Gon met Anakin Skywalker, who Sidious swore to take as an apprentice one day. Though the plan of the Viceroy did not succeed, Palpatine managed to rise to the position of Supreme Chancellor by manipulating Queen Amidala to put a vote of no confidence in Chancellor’s Valorum’s leadership. However during the liberation of Naboo, he lost his apprentice who was to overconfident and was killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi who swore to his master to train Anakin Skywalker.
Sidious needed a new apprentice so he approached Count Dooku, who was discontented Jedi who was fascinated by the Sith. Or at least, he firmly believed that the Jedi were not the ones to save the Galaxy from itself. Dooku was receptive to Sidious's words. They both believed that the Republic was collapsing under its own weight, that a new order was needed to improve things. After much discussion, Sidious gradually persuaded Dooku that their separate visions of improving things were actually quite similar. They became partners, but Apprentices by definition were never equals, could never be. Dooku would be a useful placeholder, until Skywalker was ready for conversion. That was all.
Being friends with Dooku, it was easy for Palpatine to convince Sifo-Dyas to commission a massive army of cloned soldiers on the distant planet of Kamino, home of a species that specialized in genetic engineering. It would become an army that would defend the Republic in the future. But there was always the chance that Sifo-Dyas might someday inform his Jedi comrades; in order to keep the army a secret, Sidious sent Dooku to eliminate his old friend Sifo-Dyas.
Tyranus's second task was to find a source of DNA for this clone army. Tyranus determined that Jango Fett, the last survivor of the old Mandalorian shock troopers, would be the perfect candidate. On Bogg 4, Tyranus offered Fett a generous payment for serving as the Kaminoans' genetic template. Fett accepted, on the condition that, in addition to the credits, he received an unaltered clone of himself.

Under Palpatine's direction, Count Dooku united several commercial organizations—foremost among them the Trade Federation that had been Sidious's tool for seizing the Chancellorship—into the Confederacy of Independent Systems, thus forging the Separatist movement in 24 BBY. These organizations pledged the massive armies they had used to protect their profits to Dooku, thus making the Confederacy capable of overthrowing the Republic, and a threat in the eyes of the Senate, which he used in his advantage to gain more power.
As the threat grew, Palpatine received Emergency Powers which allowed him the use of the Clone Army ordered by Syfo-Dyas, discovered by Obi-Wan Kenobi only ten years later. The Clone army’s first act was to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, which was imprisoned by Count Dooku. Meanwhile Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala were also captured in an attempt to rescue him. Succeeding in rescuing them, it only resulted in a massive battle on Geonosis which was the start of the Clone Wars.
The great project that Sidious had spent more than ten years in making—the first full-scale conflict in a thousand years, and one of the most destructive in history—began on the right foot for him. He had at his command a force of well-trained, well-equipped soldiers answerable ultimately to him, and sweeping discretionary powers to use as he saw fit, which undermined the Constitution to an unprecedented degree. Now he put both of these to work in the long and bloody conflict that history calls the Clone Wars. On the surface, it was seen as the Republic's effort to suppress the militant Separatist movement. It was actually a war waged against the Republic itself by its own head of state.
After three harsh years of war Grievous, the Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies, "kidnapped" the Palpatine which was only a scheme to lure Anakin Skywalker closer to the Dark side. During the rescue attempt Anakin confronted Count Dooku again. Dooku was aware that this duel was meant to lead Anakin to the dark side, but he was unaware that he would be sacrificed to achieve this. He called upon Anakin’s anger and in an eye-wink Anakin sliced off Dooku's hands and had him down on his knees, Palpatine manipulated Anakin to kill Dooku. Dooku begged for mercy, By this point, Palpatine had long desired and plotted to take Anakin as an apprentice, and he needed to have Dooku removed to do so. The only flaw in his plan was that Dooku failed to kill Kenobi and Anakin refused to leave him behind.
After their escape and back in safety, Young Skywalker saw a vision of his wife, Padmé Amidala, dying after giving birth to their child. Palpatine, who could have planted this vision of the future in Anakin's mind himself, promised the young Jedi to open his mind to the Sith knowledge of sustaining or creating life, which—as he claimed—was the only way to escape Padmé's death. He was able to secretly lure him by making him his representative on the Jedi High Council, however they didn’t make him a master which only angered him to Palpatine’s advantage.
Eventually the inevitable confrontation emerged, and Anakin delivered the revelation that Palpatine was really Darth Sidious, the Sith Master for which they had been searching for thirteen years, to Jedi Master Mace Windu. After dueling a group of Jedi who entered his office to arrest him, he managed to kill everyone of them except for Mace Windu. Despite Palpatine's formidable lightsaber style and technique, the Jedi Master managed to disarm Palpatine with a kick to the head, apparently causing Palpatine to drop his lightsaber out a window only moments before Anakin Skywalker entered the room. This may not have been a coincidence, as it is possible that Palpatine had sensed Anakin coming through the Force. Palpatine's attempts to defend himself with Force lightning were futile, as Windu used his lightsaber to reflect it back at the Sith Lord, seemingly melting and disfiguring Palpatine's face
Mace deemed Palpatine too dangerous to be left alive, but Palpatine attempted to gain Skywalker’s sympathy and by manipulation that only he could save his wife from the death he had seen in his visions. He had to choose between the Jedi that appeared to abuse their power and the seemingly helpless and weak old man. The young Jedi Knight chose Sidious, severing Mace's sword hand. Sidious then sprang back to life and blasted Mace from the building with a devastating blast of Force lightning.
Still with the promise that he could save his wife, Anakin pled himself to Palpatine’s teachings in the Dark Side. Thus he finally gained a new apprentice, the one who would be known as Darth Vader. As a first act Vader had to kill all the Jedi at the Jedi temple. After Vader’s departure he executed order 66, which turned the clone troopers against their Jedi Generals killing most likely most of the Jedi who were scattered acrossed the galaxy. Almost to a man, the clones performed spectacularly; a later estimate indicated that out of nearly ten thousand Jedi, fewer than one hundred survived the initial wave—99% of the Order had been eliminated at a stroke.
Vader’s second task was to eluminate all the Seperatist leaders which were hiding on Mustafar. Through hologram Palpatine witnessed the whole slaughter. In the senate he claimed that the Jedi wanted to assasinate him and overthrow the republic. As evidence he used his own face which was scared for life through his own Force Lightning. He proposed a new order, a stronger order which would be the first Galactic Empire, declaring himself Emperor for life. Now the Republic was gone and there would be no Jedi in his way to stop him except for two who survived the Jedi Purge. Senator Bail Organa managed to rescue both Master Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi who insisted to go back to Coruscant to spring the trap which was set for Jedi who were still alive, a message which ordered them to return to the temple.
In the temple Obi-Wan Kenobi learned the terrible truth of Anakin’s turn to the Dark Side. Yoda decided to confront the Emperor, while Obi-Wan had to confront Anakin. Sidious was surprised Master Yoda survived but it soon resulted in a duel that took place in the Senate itself. It resulted in Yoda’s failure to destroy the Master of the Sith and he had to flee. Sidious sensed Vader was in danger who was battling Obi-Wan at Mustafar. He succeeded in wounding his former apprentice, leaving him for dead. Hurrying to Mustafar with speed only the Emperor of the Galaxy could afford (and with vigor that surprised even himself), Palpatine found his apprentice more dead than alive. Sidious ground his teeth. A life's work, ruined on the verge of fulfillment.
Even as he made his way to the body, Sidious wrestled with anger and indecision. Part of him wanted to leave what was left of Vader to burn to ashes in the rising lava; even if he had survived, his body would be crippled, as would be his powers. Even the dark side of the Force required living beings to generate it, and too much of Vader's living flesh would have to be sacrificed in the act of saving him. Whatever the outcome, Vader would no longer be the perfect being to continue the Sith legacy, no longer be able to fulfill his promise. Still, perhaps Vader would still be useful. Hobbled as he was, he would still be powerful, and there were no more Jedi to oppose him. As always, Sidious was loathe to cast anything aside when it could still be of use to him. So he kept walking and, finally reaching his apprentice, placed a hand on Vader's forehead, using the dark side to keep him stable, while his shock troopers prepared a medical capsule for the return to Coruscant.
Darth Vader, over manly painful hours was reconstructed into a half man, half machine hybrid. This was a great disappointment to Sidious as his once “Chosen One” apprentice had had his powers limited by his injuries on Mustafar, and though still powerful, Vader was not what he could have been. In his waking Sidious revealed that Vader had killed his wife Padmé and their unborn child. This was a lie, but it was the final step to securing Darth Vader as his apprentice, and his journey to the Dark Side. Despite Vader’s disadvantages in his form, his anger and hatred of himself was enough for Sidious to accept.
Over more than a decade, Palpatine in the Senate has carefully been planning to dismantle it. At this time he is in the final stages of doing so. Which will give the regional governors complete control over their systems, and the need to debate in the Senate will no longer be required.
During this time, he has also limited his public appearances in the Senate and in general. And controls the galaxy from wherever he sees fit.
Now, together with his apprentice, he overlooks the construction of the Empire’s ultimate weapon, The Death Star. When this space station is completed, there will be no turning back to freedom in the galaxy…..

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