Palpatine a subject I don't touch on very much cause he is creepy!
But I have heard many myths about Palpatine being older than Yoda now I know about the clones of himself that he had to keep himself alive during his reign as Emporer. So did he use those clones before the Empire even to the extent that he lived before the Republic? During the time of the first Sith reign? and was kept hidden until 1,000 years later when he found an apprentice and put his plan in motion first by causing the Trade Federation Naboo struggle and creating Anakin using the power of his master Darth Plaguis and using that struggle to become Chancellor and using Anakin as his new apprentice by being close to him and becoming his mentor and after using the Clone Wars to get more power as Chancellor and a longer reign and he turned Anakin to the Dark Side using his fear of losing Padme` and using Anakin to destroy the Jedi so he could turn the Republic into the Galactic Empire! What a schemer!!!!!