How old is Palpatine?

Dr EMH · Post by **Dr EMH** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:45 pm

I'm looking at The SITH OverLORD's signature, and wondering ... How old is Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious?

He is the only adult character who appear from SW1 - SW6 episodes.
(except for Anakin/Vader, but he's a kid in SW1)

Impulse · Post by **Impulse** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:04 pm

I assume he is 40 at TPM by the looks.
+ 10yrs (AOTC)
+another few yrs(guess 5 yrs?) (Clone Wars + ROTS)

Luke is born at ROTS timeline, he is a fine adult at ROTJ, so i assume luke is 24+ yrs old.

So Palpy is 40 +10 +5 +20 +24
=99 yrs old?

This is MY guess hor. Not sure. But i know he is VERY OLD at ROTJ.

Post by **dranoel** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:30 pm

I guess he should be close to a century by the time of his demise in the Death Star in ROTJ.

by the way, just realised something interesting... Palpatine was not played by actor Ian McDiarmid in ESB

http://www.starwars.com/databank/charac ... ne/?id=bts

Impulse · Post by **Impulse** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:49 pm

Dranoel wrote:I guess he should be close to a century by the time of his demise in the Death Star in ROTJ.

by the way, just realised something interesting... Palpatine was not played by actor Ian McDiarmid in ESB
http://www.starwars.com/databank/charac ... ne/?id=bts

yea, Ian become the full time palpy at ROTJ and the prequels. LOL!
Still love his funny tone speaking in ROTS! That evil voice..heehee

Post by **dranoel** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:33 am

Commander Faie wrote: yea, Ian become the full time palpy at ROTJ and the prequels. LOL!
Still love his funny tone speaking in ROTS! That evil voice..heehee

Check out Order 78...

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Plo Strax-Avix · Post by **Plo Strax-Avix** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:58 am

Dranoel wrote:by the way, just realised something interesting... Palpatine was not played by actor Ian McDiarmid in ESB
http://www.starwars.com/databank/charac ... ne/?id=bts

LOL! I thought everyone knew about the 'Old Monkey Woman' who played Palpy in ESB...

Post by **dranoel** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:54 pm

Plo Strax-Avix wrote:
Dranoel wrote:by the way, just realised something interesting... Palpatine was not played by actor Ian McDiarmid in ESB
http://www.starwars.com/databank/charac ... ne/?id=bts
LOL! I thought everyone knew about the 'Old Monkey Woman' who played Palpy in ESB...

well, I was everyone else back then till 2005, but that was last year

now in 2006 I am wiser on that fact

by the way, this is how the official site described the final moments of Mace Windu's battle with Palpatine:

The evil energies twisted Palpatine's face as they flowed through him, scarring and disfiguring his once handsome features.

I guess that really exemplifies beauty in the eye of its beholder.

Dr EMH · Post by **Dr EMH** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:14 pm

How long do u think Sith Lord like Palpatine can live? ... 900 years like Yoda?

Count Dooku · Post by **Count Dooku** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:22 am

In the comic book "Dark Empire" we find that Palpatine can move his spirit to clone bodies. That is how he planned to live forever.

Impulse · Post by **Impulse** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:27 am

Dr EMH wrote:How long do u think Sith Lord like Palpatine can live? ... 900 years like Yoda?

nah, not too old, perhaps slightly more thannormal human, he feeds the force to live!

freefly · Post by **freefly** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:52 am

palpatine's birth(47Br5:8:11)
events of TPM (3:4:14) or (32BBY)
events of ROTJ(4ABY)

from palpy's birth to TPM - 51 years
from TPM to ROTJ - 36 years
my guess is palpy is 51 + 36 = 87 years old

Impulse · Post by **Impulse** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:18 pm

What's the time between AOTC and ROTS btw, i guess is 5 years, anyone knows the correct value?

freefly · Post by **freefly** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:56 pm

between the battle of geonosis (AOTC) & battle of coruscant (ROTS) there's a span of 3 years over which the clone wars raged. ROTS itself unfolded over a time frame of around 10 days

Impulse · Post by **Impulse** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:09 pm

freefly wrote:between the battle of geonosis (AOTC) & battle of coruscant (ROTS) there's a span of 3 years over which the clone wars raged. ROTS itself unfolded over a time frame of around 10 days

beginning of ROTS till end of ROTS is 10 days? i thought its more than 9 months?

freefly · Post by **freefly** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:20 pm

yep. taking into account that it's been more than 5 months since anakin met padme at the start of ROTS, a result of the outer rim sieges, it's reasonable that padme's already 9 months pregnant

anyway official word on this from starwars insider is 9-10days