There are rumors Emperor Palpatine will appear in detailing his Contingency Plan and the First Order rising from the ashes of the old Empire.

With Star Wars 9 set to be the final episode in the Skywalker saga, many are wondering how director J.J. Abrams will attempt to weave the three trilogies together. Of course, official plot details are being closely guarded for the time being, meaning the ever-churning rumor mill has become a source for fans eager for new information. And while this speculation can be quite fascinating at times, usually it's all smoke and mirrors.

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Case in point: the latest Episode IX rumor that states Palpatine will return to the big screen. The alleged scene (hat tip Syfy) involves Kylo Ren visiting a vault on a jungle planet, projecting an image of the Emperor, and seeing "blueprints or plans that could be a new weapon."

The Last Jedi, it was to shed some final wisdom on Luke. Callbacks to the original movies are fine, but they have to be organic to the story.

There's also the nature of there being yet another super weapon in a Star Wars movie. With Abrams at the helm, it's easy to make Return of the Jedi 2.0 jokes, but the director was actually quite conscious of the parallels between Force Awakens and A New Hope. When defending those story choices, fumbling a Wrath of Khan redux with Star Trek Into Darkness, Abrams should know by now there's only so many times you can go back to the well before audiences start to tire of it. Odds are, the Resistance will have some sort of master goal in order to win the war, but hopefully it doesn't involve blowing up a big gun.

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Source: Syfy