Mara jade michael a stackpole5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Is Mara Jade waiting to help with Grogu? Very doubtful. Luke’s backstory before The Force Awakens is crowded enough But this approach forgets how special Mara was to the old canon, before Palpatine put these other complicated contingency plans into place. Sure, the glass-is-half-full observer might note that Palpatine has enough secrets that adding Mara into the mix would be easy. The idea that the Emperor could have had yet another secret project in place during the classic trilogy might be a bit much, even for the more flexible Star Wars fans among us. Palpatine’s pulled off many surprises in the canon thus far, including the Final Order, various clones, a secret granddaughter, Sith Wayfinders, and a group of loyal followers (on a secret planet called Exegol, naturally). This person, code-named “The Emperor’s Hand,” was none other than Mara Jade. Back before he had a first name, and well before we knew he was once a senator from Naboo, the Emperor employed a secret assassin to operate alongside Darth Vader. If there’s one thing contemporary Star Wars canon has accomplished, it’s a lot of retroactive work on Mr. ![]()
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