Utter garbage. I hate everyone involved.

Filed Under: More Next Button Bullshit/I Only Read The Main Page

"A voice came to her through the Force, clear and strong," it reads. "'I will always be with you,' Ben said. She smiled. Let the truth of it wash over her. 'No one's ever really gone,' she whispered."

PLEASE, STOP WITH THESE “NEXT” ARTICLES!

Lately I visit one of these bogus posts and the “article” justs gets STUCK in a particular point, and there’s no way to move forward! (Here it stopped in “ Kylo Ren Meets Darth Vader's Oracle”).

Same bug happening either in Chrome for Windows and iOS 13.

What’s the point of this? More pageviews?

Regardless, they had a really muddled idea of what Palpatine was supposed to represent there at the end, clone or no clone. The "I am all the Sith" thing really raises way more questions than it answers.

Rather than the collection of all of the Sith (whatever that means), maybe reveal that he was originally Darth Plagueis and he has been body hopping for ages... that was the secret to beating death that he discovered. So as each body aged, he would find the most powerful force user alive (which would often require pitting them against each other), make them his apprentice, and then when his current body was waning he'd possess the apprentice (likely through their anger and ambition as they struck his old body down) and continue the cycle... hence the whole "rule of two" with the Sith. Vader broke the cycle when he struck down his master not out of anger and ambition, but while sacrificing himself for his son.

Disembodied, Plageius was only able to possess an Imperial Officer named Snoke who was weak-willed but had some force sensitivity as that man escaped the explosion of the Death Star. As Palpatine, he had left some genetic material for cloning as a back-up plan now that cloning was a thing, but cloned bodies don't hold up well to the amount of the Darkside that resides in him. He set himself up on Exegol and worked to overcome this deficiency in the cloning solution, and in the meantime looked to rebuild his empire with the First Order. He had thought that he'd be able to jump into Kylo Ren's body when that apprentice killed him, but Kylo's link to Rey somehow blocked him. So once again, he retreated by possessing a weak-willed First Order person as a means to escape and returned to Exegol, where he took up a cloned body of Palpatine to try one last time.

And then in the end, instead of Rey being "All of the Jedi", Rey faces cloned Palpatine and defeats him, and being pure enough is able to fight off his attempts to possess her. So when the spirit of Plageius tries to escape to another body the Force Ghosts of the Jedi who learned to go on after death are there to stop him once and for all.

A bit fanfic-y, I suppose, but it ties everything together and makes a lot more sense (to me, at least.)