Chancellor Palpatine was the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars.
Chancellor Palpatine
About Chancellor Palpatine[]
Homeworld: Naboo
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Born: 84 BBY
Died: 4 ABY, Death Star II (original body), 35 ABY, Exegol (clone body and spirit)
Height: 1.73 meters
Mass: 75 kilograms
Skin colour: Fair, later pale
Eye colour: Brown
Hair colour: White
Affiliation: Galactic Republic, Jedi Order, Galactic Empire, Sith, Sith Eternal, First Order
Masters: Darth Plagueis
Apprentices: Anakin Skywalker
Palpatine was in control of the Galactic Senate as well as the Grand Army of the Republic. He rose to power after Chancellor Finis Valorum stepped down during the Trade Federation conflict on Naboo. Palpatine promised peace, safety and a prosperous society, but he was secretly a Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, in disguise, in fact plotting to take over the galaxy. He held a powerful influence over the Senate and stayed in office long after his term expired.
Palpatine oversaw the trial of Ahsoka Tano when she was accused of bombing the Jedi Temple. He acted as the judge of the case and claimed that the attack was a Separatist scheme involving Ahsoka. He stated that the Galactic Republic had been deceived many times by the Separatists and the attack was most likely another trick.
Eventually Palpatine was found out and four Jedi were sent to arrest him. He managed to kill all of them in a vicious lightsaber battle but the fight left him scarred and deformed, forcing him to have to wear a hood. Soon, the Galactic Republic became the Galactic Empire and Palpatine became its emperor. He was thought to be dead 23 years later during the Battle of Endor when Darth Vader threw him down a shaft into the Death Star's main reactor.
Through his master's teachings, however, Sidious transferred his essence to an imperfect clone vessel that had been modeled on his original body. Anticipating the possibility of defeat, he created the Contingency to destroy the Galactic Empire and replace it with a new Sith Empire, in the event of such a setback. His plans culminated in the destruction of the New Republic and the emergence of the First Order, the creation of Supreme Leader Snoke, who turned Ben Solo—heir to the Skywalker bloodline—to the dark side, and the establishment of the Final Order. When the Emperor announced his return to the galaxy in 35 ABY, the Resistance invaded the planet Exegol, Sidious' hidden stronghold in the Unknown Regions. During the battle, the resurrected Emperor discovered a dyad in the Force in the form of the bond between Solo and Rey, a Jedi apprentice sired from the Palpatine bloodline. His lifelong dream of eternal rule was finally quashed when Rey called upon the strength of past Jedi to vanquish her grandfather by turning his own power against him, destroying Sidious and his Sith Eternal cultists.