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What Sith Troopers may imply for Star Wars Episode 9
While everybody was questioning what was up with the Knights of Ren, Disney went forward and launched one other new flock of baddies to the Star Wars universe. Enter the Sith Troopers.
Not a lot has been revealed in regards to the Sith Troopers moreover their look. Their position in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, aside from being baddies, continues to be obscure.
What we will glean from the brand new Sith Trooper title is that they probably work for Emperor Palpatine, not Kylo Ren.
Sure, Kylo Ren had been framed as the principle villain within the modern saga so the comprehensible conclusion to attract could be that the Sith Troopers are Kylo’s new military.
This assumption, nevertheless, has a giant drawback: Kylo Ren doesn’t just like the Sith. Kylo Ren doesn’t just like the Jedi, both. In truth, he hates all of them a lot he needs to ‘kill the previous.’
Why would the man who hates trad labels go forward and title his military after the very faction he needs to obliterate?
Answer: he would not. But Emperor Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith and No.1 Evil man confirmed to be returning one way or the other in Ep IX, most undoubtedly would.
In truth, Disney’s introduction of the Sith Troopers show that Episode IX is definitely following a rigorously curated plan in the case of Palpatine’s resurrection.
In April, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that Palpatine’s return had “been in the blueprint for a long time.” How lengthy? Since the event of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The Sith Troopers bear a placing resemblance to each Snoke’s Praetorian Guard from Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Palpatine’s clones from the prequel sequence.
The Sith Troopers additionally pose an even bigger drawback for Rey, Finn, Poe and co. Either the goodies break up as much as battle each Kylo Ren and Emperor Palpatine, or they be a part of forces with the baddie previously often called Ben Solo.
This would see the Jedi participating within the ‘enemy of my enemy is my pal’ tactic, which all the time comes with a built-in contradiction on the finish when a kind of enemies is defeated.
The solely supply of knowledge we’ve got up to now is the teaser. In it, Kylo Ren holds grandpa Darth Vader’s helmet and says “I will finish what you started.”
The first conclusion to leap to is the destruction of the Jedi and the triumph of the darkish aspect of the Force.
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But in the event you forged your thoughts again (a very long time in the past), you will keep in mind who was liable for Emperor Palpatine’s apparently versatile dying: Darth Vader. If Kylo Ren is following in his pricey ol’ grandad’s footsteps, it may very nicely be to kill Palpatine.
Whether this might result in a Bendemption arc arc, nevertheless, is pure hypothesis.
One factor is for positive: if this have been Star Trek, the Sith Troopers would most actually solely be cannon fodder.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is out in UK cinemas on December 19 and US cinemas on December 20.