Nothing late-breaking. Just mentions that Palpatine wasn't able to access the dimension by way of the Living Force, and further mentions that Ezra may have been able to access it due to his Lothal heritage and strong connection to the Living Force.
Interestingly enough, it is stated that Rey DID possess pshcyometry. It also implies that Force-healing(like Rey and Ben displayed) can only be achieved via a Dyad connection. So this may very well be an ability that Rey lost after Ben's death.
Interesting part here is that we get clarification that Rey WAS bolstering her power with the Jedi spirits of Beyond. However, nothing in this book mentions that Palpatine's power was augmented in a similar manner -- by all accounts, the power he displayed in RoS was his... And his alone.
It also states that Rey destroyed Palpatine "body and soul." So it's unlikely that he will ever return again.
Again, nothing we hadn't already pieced together. Snoke is classified as a "genetic strandcast" with free will, who was created(and manipulated) by Palpatine.
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This excerpt clarifies why Leia didn't dissipate into the Force until after Ben died: https://ibb.co/CtLFWT9
Definitely one aspect of the new Canon that's superior to the old. Not as much powercreep, though I'm sure that'll change on a decade or two.
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"The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I drew to one singularly ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here."
I know you've brought this up before, but the book also mentions that there are ~3.2m habitable worlds in the known galaxy. https://ibb.co/YTbsWZX
So that's definitely a thing as well.
Except for Palpatine.
Took Rey, with the power of all the Jedi past, to match/defeat him. And as mentioned, the implication in this book is that he wasn't accessing any power but his own.
I mean the book doesn’t have to mention everything, so Palps could still be. Also since the galaxy is much smaller this probably means the factions as well are much smaller.
They would have to be drawing on it first though no? I don’t see why Vader would, Maul maybe and the Inquistors likely. Though if all of them were amped it sure as hell didn’t seem like it, well Inquistors aside.
The thing with Palps calling on the power of the past sith might be just a metaphor. As we know the sith can't keep their identity after death unless they have some sort of anchor like Momin and his mask, but he is just the exception rather than the norm. The sith just become one with the cosmic force, losing their identity.
I would say that a more lore friendly interpretation is that it's just Sheev's power.
We don't know if a nexus works in canon like in legends. (Amping force user of a certain aligment)
I also doubt Filoni took the nexus into acount when he wrote the story.
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The excerpt just says that Force users "may have" stronger "interactions" with the Force at those locations.
But like Zen said: the power of said vergence has to be consciously drawn upon/accessed first. The Force user in question doesn't receive an instantaneous, passive amp just by stepping foot onto a vergence.
The most obvious example is Anakin on Mortis: when consciously tapping into its power, he was able to trounce the Son and the Daughter simultaneously... But he never displayed power remotely comparable to that later in the same arc(while on the same vergence), because he never attempted to consciously amp himself in a similar way.
*Same thing with Vader on Mustafar, for that matter.
So unless it is explicitly stated, I personally wouldn't assume that a Force user is automatically amped, simply because they are on a vergence/nexus.
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Agreed. Because based on the passages galan posted, after he created the Empire it seems like Sidious basically devoted his entire life to unlocking ancient secrets of the Sith and studying sith arcana. His enormous growth makes sense if he was dedicating every waking moment to becoming more powerful.
We saw how powerful Rey (who was Sidiou's direct offspring and had his same potential) became just by studying some random texts with Leia for 1 year. Sidious himself had basically been doing the same thing on a much greater level for several decades.
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