Palpatine used his power over the dark side to crush his foes, with Darth Vader's distant relative commanding a Force ability Palpatine always wanted.

Darth Vader attacks his master with his lightsaber, while Palpatine uses his Force-lightning to brutally beat Vader into ...

and when we think of Force users and cloning, obviously Palpatine is what comes to mind. There’s even a line in here about how his first experiments failed, which I view as a nod toward the ...