Rise Of Skywalker’s Superweapons Proved Palpatine Never Learned From The Empire’s Fall

Superweapons are doomed to fail in Star Wars, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker proves that Palpatine never learned this lesson. Palpatine returned in The Rise of Skywalker, which retconned not only Return of the Jedi’s ending but the first two Star Wars sequels as well. The Rise of Skywalker established that the First Order was part of Palpatine’s contingency plan all along, and that Snoke was a clone deployed by the Emperor. Another portion of Palpatine’s secret plan to retake the galaxy involved a massive fleet of superweapons, which set up the tone for the Skywalker saga’s final battle sequence.