This is Emperor Palpatine’s Real Name

<p>Everything is as the universe foresaw&colon; Palpatine&&num;8217&semi;s name is about as &ast;ahem&ast; &&num;8220&semi;unusual&&num;8221&semi; as we&&num;8217&semi;d have expected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For decades&comma; fans of Star Wars have pondered the name &&num;8220&semi;Palpatine&&num;8221&semi; since his visage graced cinema screens in 1980&&num;8217&semi;s <em>The Empire Strikes Back<&sol;em>&period; What&&num;8217&semi;s the name that&&num;8217&semi;s printed on his mail&quest; &&num;8220&semi;Palpatine Palpatine&quest;&&num;8221&semi; That undoubtedly conjures up buried memories of a certain plumber&&num;8217&semi;s cinematic debut&period; No&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s something entirely more bizarre than that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A leaked excerpt from James Luceno&&num;8217&semi;s upcoming novel <em>Tarkin<&sol;em> reveals that the galactic emperor&&num;8217&semi;s FIRST name is none other than&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Duh duh duh&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sheev&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a galaxy dominated by figures going by the likes of Jar Jar and Savage Opress&comma; maybe it&&num;8217&semi;s hardly that daunting of a revelation&period; For now&comma; the name&&num;8217&semi;s Wookiepedia entry &lpar;Wookiepedia&&num;8217&semi;s the official Star Wars online encyclopedia&rpar; remains unedited&comma; and while it can be edited by just about anyone&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s been no correction in the meantime&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll no doubt learn just a bit more when Luceno&&num;8217&semi;s novel comes out this November&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Tarkin<&sol;em> releases next month to tell the tale of the Grand Moff of the same name that oversaw and managed the original Death Star that<strong> &&num;8220&semi;gives Grand Moff Tarkin the<em> Star Wars&colon; Darth Plagueis<&sol;em> treatment&comma; bringing a legendary character from A New Hope to full&comma; fascinating life&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong> We&&num;8217&semi;ll have to see about that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can read the full publisher&&num;8217&semi;s summary below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Five standard years have passed since<br &sol;>&NewLine;Darth Sidious proclaimed himself galactic<br &sol;>&NewLine;Emperor&period; The brutal Clone Wars are a memory&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;and the Emperor&&num;8217&semi;s apprentice&comma; Darth Vader&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;has succeeded in hunting down most of the<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jedi who survived dreaded Order 66&period; On<br &sol;>&NewLine;Coruscant a servile Senate applauds the<br &sol;>&NewLine;Emperor&&num;8217&semi;s every decree&comma; and the populations<br &sol;>&NewLine;of the Core Worlds bask in a sense of<br &sol;>&NewLine;renewed prosperity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the Outer Rim&comma; meanwhile&comma; the myriad<br &sol;>&NewLine;species of former Separatist worlds find<br &sol;>&NewLine;themselves no better off than they were<br &sol;>&NewLine;before the civil war&period; Stripped of weaponry<br &sol;>&NewLine;and resources&comma; they have been left to fend<br &sol;>&NewLine;for themselves in an Empire that has largely<br &sol;>&NewLine;turned its back on them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Where resentment has boiled over into acts<br &sol;>&NewLine;of sedition&comma; the Empire has been quick to<br &sol;>&NewLine;mete out punishment&period; But as confident as<br &sol;>&NewLine;he is in his own and Vader&&num;8217&semi;s dark side<br &sol;>&NewLine;powers&comma; the Emperor understands that only<br &sol;>&NewLine;a supreme military&comma; overseen by a commander<br &sol;>&NewLine;with the will to be as merciless as he is&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;can secure an Empire that will endure for<br &sol;>&NewLine;a thousand generations&&num;8230&semi;&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;toybox&period;io9&period;com&sol;emperor-palpatine-has-a-new-first-name-and-it-is-ridic-1646942227">i09<&sol;a> &amp&semi; The <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;starwars&period;wikia&period;com&sol;wiki&sol;Sheev&lowbar;Palpatine">Wookiepedia<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;