>>7967843>Palpatine had no body left to even be plugged into a machine. He was vaporized by the Death Star II's explosion. An explosion that definitely didn't leave an intact chunk including his throne room, either.That's because it isn't his original body. And there's no reason to believe that the Death Star explosion vaporized everything. Explosions can easily engulf physical structures. We even see debris raining down in ROTJ.
>And if you want to argue that he could still have just transferred himself to another body, why would that clone body be worse off than he was at the time of his death?Because clearly the Sith version of cloning isn't very good. Palpatine's body, as we saw, was zombie-ish and decaying. Snoke and the Clone Vat Snokes we saw are all mangled and frail. Not exactly the poster child for heathy physical condition.
>No, they clearly mean that to be his original body somehow, despite making no sense for it to be.I mean, it's clearly NOT meant to be his original body. The movie mentions specifically how he died and is returning. It specifically mentions Dark Science(Sith Alchemy) and CLONING as avenues for how he returned.
Plus, his face in TRoS doesn't have the scarring he has in late-ROTS and ESB/ROTJ. He's got some wrinkling, sure, but just from "natural" aging.
