Second, the shriveling-up thing. What was that about? Why did his skin do that?
It has been a story point in the official books that deep involvement in the Dark Side has a destructive effect on the human body. Supposedly darkside masters waste away fairly quickly.
The big "how the heck" question for me in the first three was simply this: How in the name of all that's reasonable are we supposed to believe that Palpatine/Sidious had almost daily contact with the members of the Jedi Council for 20 years without a single one of these most powerful Jedi Masters ever getting even a hint through the Force of what and who he was?
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It has been a story point in the official books that deep involvement in the Dark Side has a destructive effect on the human body. Supposedly darkside masters waste away fairly quickly.
The big "how the heck" question for me in the first three was simply this: How in the name of all that's reasonable are we supposed to believe that Palpatine/Sidious had almost daily contact with the members of the Jedi Council for 20 years without a single one of these most powerful Jedi Masters ever getting even a hint through the Force of what and who he was?