Emperor Palpatine was a very secretive man who kept his personal affairs and dealings
hidden from the general public, so much so, that most of the public didn’t even know
he was force sensitive, let alone a Sith Lord.
One of the things kept most secretive about him were his love affairs, and his possible
offsprings.
Palpatine was known to have had only one son, whom was named Triclops.
It’s not exactly known how Triclops was created or who is mother was.
It was rumored that Palpatine’s close advisor, Sly Moore, was the mother of this mutant.
Other rumors suggested that he was the result of a failed midichlorian experiment to create
life from Palpatine’s DNA.
Triclops was thought to have been created a few years into the Empire’s reign.
He was a mutated Human, having three eyes, with the third one being on the back of his
head.
He also possessed a very unstable personality.
Triclops was considered to be one of the Empire’s biggest secrets, only known by Palpatine,
Moore, and a few other high ranking Imperial officials.
Initially Triclops was trained as an Emperor's Hand, a dark side adept position whose purpose
was to see and predict the future using the force.
But this didn’t last long, as he failed many times and was considered too dangerous
by his unstable personality.
As a result, Triclops was imprisoned in a Kessel spice mine and was considered by Palpatine
as one of his greatest failures.
While imprisoned, Triclops fell in love with Kendalina, a former Jedi who was forced to
work as a nurse for the empire.
Together they had a son named Ken.
However, when this relationship was discovered, Kendalina was killed and Ken was secretly
taken away to Yavin 4.
Many years later, when Palpatine was killed during the battle of Endor, rumors began to
spread about his supposed three eyed son.
Imperial Grand Moffs didn’t want to risk an unstable individual taking over the empire,
so they set up a false entity in his place, another three eyed mutant named Trioculus.
Claiming to be the emperor’s son, Trioculus was able to gain control of significant Imperial
territory and assets from other Imperial warlords.
Despite being the new emperor, Trioculus was just a puppet to the Central Committee of
Grand Moffs, who held the real power.
Trioculus was later accidentally killed by the Leia Organa droid to which he tried to
marry about a year later.
Yes this actually all happened in Legends.
Anyway, back to Triclops.
Under Trioculus’ rule, Triclops was sent to another prison where he was unknowingly
providing the empire with designs for new superweapons from his dreams.
He later was able to escape with the help of the Rebel alliance, and eventually met
up with his son Ken.
Even more mad and dangerous from the torture and experiments he went through while under
Imperial imprisonment, Triclops forced himself to get lost in the galaxy and stayed away
from the few people he knew for their own safety.
And that’s the last we heard of him.
His son Ken spent the first 12 years of his life on Yavin 4 being raised by droid caretakers.
Not knowing his true heritage, Ken joined the Rebel Alliance and helped them in their
struggle against the empire.
He became a target for the empire after his existence was discovered by Trioculus, who
viewed him as a threat to his rule.
But he was able to avoid the assassination attempts, and would later help rescue his
father, Triclops, from imprisonment.
Though he at the time didn’t know Triclops was his father.
Shortly afterwards, Ken would eventually find out his true heritage, and that he was the
grandson of Emperor Palpatine.
Initially saddened by this, believing he was the byproduct of evil, Luke Skywalker was
able to convince him otherwise, telling the young teen that he still was just as capable
of doing good as anyone else.
After finding this out, Ken realized Triclops was his father.
He tried to meet him with this newfound knowledge, but soon discovered that Triclops left and
was nowhere to be found.
He did, however, find a letter written by Triclops telling Ken that he knew he was his
son and telling the boy to always trust in the force.
Afterwards, it is unknown what happened to Ken.