Darth Sidious

Darth Sidious, born Sheev Palpatine and known simply as The Emperor, was a human male Dark Lord of the Sith who reigned over the galaxy as Galactic Emperor of the First Galactic Empire. Rising to power in the Galactic Senate as the senator of Naboo, the manipulative Sith Lord cultivated two identities, Sidious and Palpatine, using both to further his political career. He masterminded the Clone Wars in order to gain dictatorial powers during the final years of the Galactic Republic. After the fall of the Jedi Order, Sidious established a reign lasting from 1957 until his demise in 1983. Death was not the end for Sidious, however, as the dark side of the Force was a pathway to abilities that made his return possible.

Born on the Mid Rim planet Naboo around 1897 during the Republic Era, Sidious possessed a strong connection to the Force, and was secretly trained in the ways of the Sith by Darth Plagueis. He eventually killed his Sith Master in order to train his own Sith apprentice, Darth Maul, for the Rule of Two limited their ranks to two Sith Lords at any given time. As a result of the Invasion of Naboo, a crisis orchestrated by Sidious, the Senate elected Palpatine as Supreme Chancellor. The Separatist Crisis and the Clone Wars were masterminded by Sidious and his new apprentice, Darth Tyranus, in an effort to achieve galactic dominance. Following an attempt to arrest the chancellor, the Great Jedi Purge commenced with Sidious enacting Order 66.

With the Jedi all but extinct, Sidious installed the New Order in the Republic's place, declaring himself Galactic Emperor and bringing an end to a millennium of democracy. He had also taken another new apprentice, having lured the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker to the dark side and transforming him into Darth Vader. Their reign was virtually unchallenged for a generation until the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. During the Galactic Civil War, the Emperor sought to replace Vader with his son, Luke Skywalker. However, Sidious' plan backfired when Vader ultimately renounced the dark side and killed Sidious to protect Luke. Thus, with the Sith's destruction, the Force was brought back into balance, fulfilling Anakin's destiny as the prophesied Chosen One.

Throughout the rest of the Galactic Civil War, the remnants of the Empire experienced a sharp decline while the Alliance reformed itself into the New Republic. However, Sidious did not stay dead, and eventually used a rare and ancient Force technique to transfer his spirit into one of many clone bodies stored on the Deep Core world of Byss. In 1987, Darth Sidious resurfaced in the galaxy in a bid to rebuild his Empire, temporarily converting Luke Skywalker to the dark side and installing him as his apprentice. Sidious's efforts to live forever, however, were undermined by subversives within his own inner circle, including his Royal Guard Carnor Jax. With the last supplies of healthy clone bodies sabotaged and their genetic source material contaminated by his allies, Sidious desperately tried to take over the body of Darth Vader's youngest grandchild, the infant Anakin Solo, in 1988. Sidious's spirit, however, was intercepted by the dying Jedi Knight Empatojayos Brand, who dragged the Dark Lord down into the depths of the Force, though his legacy continued to live for countless years.

In 1998, Sidious' spirit discovered that the wizard Zordon had been killed in a sacrifice-by-proxy by Red Astro Ranger Andros Khayman. In addition to destroying the United Alliance of Evil, this undid another one of Sidious' projects by freeing Michael Myers from the Curse of Thorn which Sidious had been involved with the placing of on Myers. While Sidious was annoyed with this, there was little he could do but watch as the Empire attacked the Earth in 2001 and be defeated in 2003 by a team which was led by the Rangers under the leadership of Khayman's brother Bryan who was one of the members of Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order. He also watched as Myers became a father to a son Josh on Halloween 2002. Sidious was unaware at the time of the birth two weeks prior of Mace Windu's Great-Grandson Darius Carpenter.

In 2008, Sidious emerged at the Smith's Grove Sanitarium and began preparing with Doctor Terence Wynn to inflict the Curse of Thorn on Josh using his mother Kelsey as a sacrifice. This plan however was foiled by Michael, Kyp Durron, Tommy Doyle, and others with a surprise for Sidious in that Michael and by extension Josh were Force-Sensitive. With Michael being aided by the spirit and Lightsaber of Qui-Gon Jinn and Durron having cornered him, Sidious made his escape. He returned in 2009 where one of his henchmen managed to murder Josh's grandfather Peter Hill until they were defeated by Michael, Durron, and Anakin Skywalker's spirit. At this point, Sidious realized the raw power in Myers and began to fear that Myers had become extremely powerful with both The Force and the powers left in him from the Curse of Thorn and set his sights on removing Bryan Khayman who was attempting to organize the Jedi living on Earth into what would become the Jedi Order of Earth. In 2010, Sidious managed to murder Khayman but fled from New York City once he sensed that Myers was in town and looking for the Sith Lord.

Sidious would go into hiding for several years as The Force worked to restore its balance on Earth by resurrecting Anakin Skywalker, his wife Padme, and Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2013 putting them in New York where they would formally create Khayman's Jedi Order and would join Ahsoka Tano's granddaughter Erica Rex and later be joined by Vader's former Sith Apprentice Galen Marek. Sidious then set his sights on another one of Anakin's grandchildren choosing the anti-social Jacen Solo to be his next apprentice giving him the Sith Name of Darth Caedus. The two later became heads of a faction that had split from the Remnant formed in 2003 out of the Empire and eventually called itself the First Order.

First Order
In 2018, Sidious discovered that Ezra Bridger had appeared on Earth. Sidious remembering how Bridger had literally spat in his face ordered Caedus and General Armitage Hux to move a fleet to Bridger's homeworld of Lothal and launch an invasion. While Sidious hoped to catch Lothal off-guard, Hux had not jammed communications in time and Governor Jai Kell was able to send a signal to Coruscant advising them of the presence of Hux's fleet. The New Republic responded by sending two Jedi Masters to Lothal and they were soon joined by Bridger, his newly recruited team of Spectres, and the Ghost followed by the arrival of a large fleet from Earth commanded by Admiral Firmus Piett and General Tevin Felth resulting in a battle that not only ended in a heavy loss for the First Order but also the redemption of Caedus by his grandfather and twin sister Jaina Solo and the capture of Hux by military forces from Israel. Eventually, Sidious ordered General Enric Pryde to leave the Earth alone so that they could rebuild their forces after hearing that Captain Moden Canady had not only been captured by the Israelis, but had also somehow attracted the attention of Thrawn. This also allowed them to focus on building their own version of the Death Star.

Future
Sometime around the Year 2024, Sidious and the First Order were defeated in a major battle that saw Sidious vanquished by the combined powers of Josh Myers, Darius Carpenter, Mace Windu, and Qui-Gon Jinn. Sidious was noted to have shown surprise at finding out Darius was not only a Windu, but quite powerful in The Force.