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did sidious ever encounter ilum or has he ever heard about it?

Yes. The Empire strip-mined most of the planet to gather kyber crystals for the Death Star:

Most likely. Palpatine had full access to the Jedi archives, remember.

sadly, my knowledge on the empire is incomparable to my knowledge of force sensitives. please tell me when he had this information.