Palpatine further clarifies that he had been "every voice [Kylo] had ever heard inside his head." Meanwhile, Leia's resistance had also been clued into Sheev's little game of chess (cue the ...

How exactly did Emperor Sheev Palpatine show up in The Rise of Skywalker when any fan will tell you he plunged to his death in Return of the Jedi? The novelization has an answer, it turns out.