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InvisibleBison
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Given what they've done with Nute and with Anakin, and how much material there is between now and the reveal that Palpatine is back, I think all bets are off as to who or what Palpatine actually is.
Spoiler: Episode IX
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I honestly hope they'll initially play the "somehow, Palpatine returned" scene straight, with an NPC uttering the infamous line, only for the players to spend the next several strips tearing the DM a new one over it before starting to list increasingly ludicrous ways he could've lived.
Come to think of it, was that mcguffin that helped Padmé live actually destroyed or kept by anyone? Could be one possible way.