Palpatine/Relationships

The relationships of Palpatine from the Star Wars universe.

House Palpatine
Sheev hated his entire family. He hated his mother and siblings because he saw them as weaklings. The family member he hated most was his father Consinga Palpatine due to regarding him as an arrogant fool. When the election for Naboo's monarch took place, Palpatine sided with Bon Tapalo, the opponent of his family's canadite. During which, he murdered them all.

Hugo Damask/Darth Plagieus
Palpatine met the Magister Hugo during the above election. It was Hugo who persuaded Palpatine to murder his family in order to liberate himself. Afterwards, Hugo revealed that he is Darth Plagiues the Dark Lord of the Sith; leader of the Sith Order and asked the boy if he would like to become his apprentice. Palpatine accepted and was renamed Darth Sidious and was trained in the ways of the Dark side of the Force by his master. When Plagious was injured in an attack by one of his enemies in the Senate, Palpatine became the leader of the Sith. On the eve of becoming Surpreme Chancellor, Sidious murdered his master and became the official leader of the Sith Order.

Darth Maul
Palpatine took Maul in as an infant. After becoming the leader of the Sith Order, Palpatine took the Nightbrother in as his apprentice and trained the Dathormirian/Zabrak in the ways of the Sith. After Maul was defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi, Palpatine was furious. When Maul resurfaced with his brother Savage Oppress, Palpatine saw the pair as a rivil splinter faction and took Maul prisoner after killing Oppress. It is unknown what happened to the Nightbrother afterwards.

Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus
After Maul's defeat on Naboo, Palpatine took Dooku as his second apprentice. Together, the pair create the Sepratist Crisis and the Clone Wars. When Anakin finally defeated Dooku, Palpatine urged Anakin to kill him. In the end, Dooku was just a tool Palpatine used to convert Anakin into a Sith Lord.

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader
Palpatine desired to have Anakin as his apprentice, since day one both due to the fact that Anakin's Force potential was high and because he saw a lot of his younger self in the boy. Anakin idolized Palpatine since day one. When Anakin finally became Vader, Palpatine finally unleashed the final phase of Darth Bane's Grand Plan and told Yoda Vader would be more powerful than either of them. After Vader became a cyborg, Palpatine's faith in Vader was temporarily shaken due to sensing Vader was still between worlds. His faith in Vader was restored when Vader proved that becoming a cyborg had strengthen Vader instead of weakening him. His faith in Vader made him underestimate Luke Skywalker's positive influence on Vader and made him not take it seriously until it was too late.

Pax Teem
Palpatine hated Pax, the Senator of Malatare and the representative of the Gran Protectorate. After Pax tried to assassinate him and Plagius after Palpatine refused to cast a vote that would have aided his cause, Palpatine dispatched the Senator and his entire entourage.

Mace Windu
Like Anakin, Mace respected Palpatine due to not succumbing to the corruption in the Senate. However, after the existence of Darth Sidious was revealed to the Jedi Order Mace agreed to keep a closer eye on the Senate and by the final days of the Clone Wars Mace began to realize that Palpatine was too good to be true. After Palpatine was revealed to be the Dark Lord of the Sith, Mace tried to kill him only to be stopped by Anakin. Ironicly, Mace was the reason that the Old Jedi Order was destroyed because Mace's extremism enabled Palpatine to convert Anakin to the way of the Sith and gave him the pretext he needed to activate Clone Protocal 66.

Yoda
Yoda got along well with Palpatine. However, by the final days of the Clone Wars, Yoda began to realize that the Chancellor was not what he seemed. After the execution of Order 66, Yoda learned that Palpatine was Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith who was behind all the trouble the Sith Order had been causing for thirteen years. He decided to kill the new Emperor. He failed but managed to gain an insight about the Banite Sith and escape. Palpatine never bothered to look for him. His not looking for Yoda proved to be the mistake that would destroy him because Yoda would goon to train Luke Skywalker, who brought about the event that would undo Darth Bane's Grand Plan in Return of the Jedi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan didn't think much of Palpatine even after the existence of Darth Sidious was revealed being the first to realize that the Chancellor was too good to be true. However, Obi-Wan began to become alarmed by Palpatine's increasingly dictatorial authority. After the Execution of Order 66 and the Declaration of a New Order, Obi-Wan discovered that Palpatine was the Dark Lord of the Sith. After Obi-Wan went into exile, Palpatine, unlike Vader, made no attempt to find him due to regarding him as not worth it. This proved to be a mistake that would become his undoing.