What’s up Star Wars Fans, My name is Prince, and I am an Urban Acolyte.
In this video, I’m going to hit you with an old theory about Rey that people are about
to start talking about again—and that theory is that Rey was actually left on Jakku to
hide her from Palpatine.
So this theory is actually the opposite of what a lot of people initially said about
Rey back after The Force Awakens— If you don’t remember, the popular theory was that
Rey was a child studying with Luke, who a number of people thought was her father.
If you’re Corey Broom, you still think Luke is Rey’s father…I guess he’ll get the
memo eventually.
Well anyway— someone, either Luke, maybe Kylo Ren, or someone else— Rey’s mother,
was responsible for leaving her on Jakku.
So in that theory, Rey had been training as a padawan, but she had her mind wiped so that
she would not remember any of her previous Jedi training.
There were a few issues with that theory— like why would Luke Skywalker leave his daughter
on Jakku?
If Kylo Ren were the one who left her there—well, the timeline doesn’t really add up because
Kylo Ren was already and adult when we believe he actually turned and burned the Jedi Order.
By that time, Rey was already a teenager, living on her own, as a scavenger on Jakku.
I have a few videos where I took down that theory that you can check out if you’re
new to the channel.
But I want to revisit this theory…and one that was similar to it because we saw this
image of Rey with an unstable red lightsaber and wearing dark robes, like she could be
a Sith Acolyte, or possibly a member of the Knights of Ren.
So I thought briefly about this older theory about Rey being tied to Emperor Palpatine.
There are several versions of this theory— the most popular one being that Rey is actually
Palpatine’s granddaughter.
I think some said his daughter, but granddaughter makes the most sense—and here’s why
There’s already a story in Legends about Palpatine having a grandson who was hidden
in an underground city on Yavin IV.
It was all detailed in the Jedi Prince series of books.
Palpatine had a grandson named Ken who was the product of Palpatine’s mutant son and
a princess who became a Jedi and survived the Jedi purge.
Ken, having no memory of his parents, believed that he was related to Obi-Wan Kenobi, except
he was not.
Before Luke Skywalker found Ken in the underground city, he’d spent his life living with droids
who were tasked with protecting him, and teaching him about the Jedi and galactic events.
Can you see some similarities to Rey’s situation on Jakku as a scavenger?
So what if Rey actually had ties to Palpatine?
Palpatine claimed to have other assets under his thumb that we never saw— other assets
who could possibly become his next apprentice in the event that Vader fell, or did not live
up to his potential.
Now it’s a possibility that Palpatine was lying to Vader, but I’m going to err on
the side of caution and say that Sheev was probably telling the truth.
In order to carry out his ultimate plans, in true Sith fashion, Palpatine would need
an apprentice to perform the ritual to unleash the full power of the dark side in the Sith
shrine on Coruscant.
So what if in the years after Palpatine’s fall, one of his assets produced a child?
We don’t know the full details of Palpatine’s contingency, but maybe that Sith fleet came
looking for them.
Yupe Tashu said that Palpatine would be resurrected, and I think that it would have required someone
who was Force sensitive, or at least was Force attuned on the level of Chirrut Imwe to successfully
carry out the ritual to bring back Palpatine.
In a previous theory about Rey’s parents, I talked about them having a connection to
the Empire, and perhaps fleeing the First Order, they left her on Jakku, temporarily,
with the intentions of returning once they got the First Order off their back.
If Rey’s parents have ties to the dark side—another popular theory from 3 years ago— if Rey’s
dark side connection turned out to be true, well, it might make sense to leave her on
Jakku.
In the same way Luke was taken to Tatooine to hide him from Vader, maybe Rey would be
taken to Jakku.
It’s a place where the Empire was handed it’s final defeat which forced the remaining
Imperial fleets to either flee into the Unknown Regions, surrender, or declare themselves
independent warlords of a system— this is something we will see in The Mandalorian series.
So if Rey either has no memory of her connection to the dark side, or she has had her memories
removed— it makes this theory not much different from the earlier ones giving her a connection
to Luke and the Jedi— except this time she has connections to Palpatine and the Sith.
If one, or both, of her parents were one of Palpatine’s assets — given the fact that
Rey is so powerful with the Force, having defeated Kylo Ren in a duel, and also being
the person the First Order believes to have killed Snoke, this would make her a person
of interest for Palpatine.
So what do you all think?
Do you think that Rey was actually left on Jakku to hide her from Palpatine and his contingency
plan?
I’m not saying this is something that I believe— I just see it as a theory that
will re-emerge after seeing the image of dark side Rey in the most recent trailer for The
Rise of Skywalker.
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