The Rise of Skywalker (novelization)

Originally posted by Sheev
As much as I love Sidious wank, they should not have brought him back.

Well, right, he shouldn't have come back in this trilogy because we'd hadn't started with that in mind. I mean, he shouldn't have come back at all, because there's no way to make a good story with Palpatine just returning after his death, but that's a different story. What I mean is that I'm open to this idea (just like I was open to and liked Dark Empire) if they'd planned for it to go this way from the beginning and had made it make sense.

Ooooooor maybe I'm grasping at the shreds of a good dream, because I got too excited seeing ol' Palpy.

Originally posted by Zenwolf
I still can't get over the fact....Abrams could have literally undone Snoke's death with the cloning thing and yet...he didn't. ...He had the means to continue off of TFA, the movie he made....but didn't...just...uughh...

Not really a huge revelation, but the novel also confirms that Rey's new yellow saber is a single blade.

Originally posted by Galan007
Not really a huge revelation, but the novel also confirms that Rey's new yellow saber is a single blade.

...Ya know...the one thing that would have made sense. Just...the tiny thing...make it a saberstaff, it's what we saw her using before even getting a lightsaber.

But I guess we can't even have the small things.

Damn. Was hoping it would be a double blade. 🙁

My other question is where she found a new kyber crystal to begin with? Ilum isn't around anymore, and it's not like you can just find kyber crystals laying around on the ground. 😕

Originally posted by Eli Vanto
Damn. Was hoping it would be a double blade. 🙁

My other question is where she found a new kyber crystal to begin with? Ilum isn't around anymore, and it's not like you can just find kyber crystals laying around on the ground. 😕

Originally posted by Galan007
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if she just made the kyber herself. ermm

It came out of her vagina.

Another excerpt:

Palpatine's eyes widened with zeal. "With your anger, you will strike me down, and you will ascend. As I did, When I killed my Master, Darth Plagueis. Now, raise your saber and strike me down."

Rey frowned, Luke had warned her about this. "All you want is for me to hate. But I won't. Not even you."

As if reading her thoughts about Luke, the Emperor said, "I've made this very proposal before. But on that unfortunate day Luke Skywalker had his father to save him. You do not [...] Strike me down. Take the throne as Empress. Reign over the new Empire and the fleet will be yours to do as you wish. Only you have the power to save them all. Refuse and your new family dies."

I guess it's open to interpretation, but this could imply that Palpatine wanted Luke to kill him during RotJ so that he could hop into his body(like he was going to do with Rey.) ermm

What the hell is this dialogue...

The sheer amount retcons'revelations' in the Palpatine/Rey scene alone is absurd.

Originally posted by Galan007
Another excerpt:

Palpatine's eyes widened with zeal. "With your anger, you will strike me down, and you will ascend. As I did, When I killed my Master, Darth Plagueis. Now, raise your saber and strike me down."

Rey frowned, Luke had warned her about this. "All you want is for me to hate. But I won't. Not even you."

As if reading her thoughts about Luke, the Emperor said, "I've made this very proposal before. But on that unfortunate day Luke Skywalker had his father to save him. You do not [...] Strike me down. Take the throne as Empress. Reign over the new Empire and the fleet will be yours to do as you wish. Only you have the power to save them all. Refuse and your new family dies."

I guess it's open to interpretation, but this could imply that Palpatine wanted Luke to kill him during RotJ so that he could hop into his body(like he was going to do with Rey.) ermm

😂

**** this shit. This stuff is straight up non-canon at this point.

It's definitely canon but jfc it's hard to make sense out of all this. 😖

Guessing I'm the only one who likes the idea that Palps wanted to possess Luke 😛

^Me too tbh

It makes absolutely no sense. Sorry, but it's factually shit. Which isn't a surprise considering it came from Rise of Skywalker.

During that part of the novel, when the two proposals were compared, it seems that Palpatine was leading Rey to believe that his spirit passing into her was just a metaphor for her ascending. It wasn't until later, when she was able to peer his thoughts, that she realized he was literally wanting to possess her body.

The proposal was the same, but the intention was different. That's how I'm interpreting it, anyway.

Novel also confirms that Rey learned the healing technique from the ancient Jedi texts, and preforming it requires transferring her own lifeforce into the being she is healing.

Originally posted by Galan007
Novel also confirms that Rey learned the healing technique from the ancient Jedi texts, and preforming it requires transferring her own lifeforce into the being she is healing.

Originally posted by Zentrex
What? But, then?...what about...the Child? Did he discover an ancient technique that requires manipulation of your very essense itself at the age of basically 5?

The Child has a natural(and extremely powerful) affinity with the Force... and given the longevity of the species, I'd imagine that it has more lifeforce than most to give. /shrug

Oh and the novel also explains how Ben managed to get from the ocean moon of Endor to Exegol.

In short: he somehow managed to find a ship among the Death Star ruins that was in decent working order. After he tweaked it a bit, he flew to Exegol.

That's one hell of a durable ship, lol. facepalm

Originally posted by Galan007
Healing wounds and such requires varying levels of lifeforce transfer. When Rey healed the Vexis snake, its wounds weren't overly severe, so she was none the worse for wear afterward. When Rey healed Ben, however, it took a decent toll on her afterward, and she had to recover a bit once she got to Ahch-To(as the novel explains.) And resurrecting the dead, like Ben did, requires transferring all of one's lifeforce.

The Child has a natural(and extremely powerful) affinity with the Force... and given the longevity of the species, I'd imagine that it has more lifeforce than most to give. /shrug

Oh. For some reason I assumed that the ancient texts including it meant that prequel-era jedi didn't have the ability.

But then like, what is life force? Do you have a limited amount of it? Can you then heal small wounds only a number of times?