The Sith could still return afterStar war : The Rise of Skywalker . The unexpected resurrection of Emperor Palpatine recast the entireSkywalker sagaas the battle to destroy Darth Sidious , mark the culmination of the Sith air . In the officialStar war : The Last Jedi Visual Dictionary , Lucasfilm ’s Pablo Hidalgo substantiate the divination of the Chosen One , which foretold a being born of the Force who would touch on ultimate balance , was all about the destruction of the Sith .

Of course , the Sith attempted to cheat the vaticination , with Palpatine ’s spirit muster up to own a clone body at the ancient Sith redoubt of Exegol . This is a world steeped in the sorry side of the Force , where the humeral veil between life and decease is unco thin;Exegol was the only space Palpatine could be resurrect . It ’s tempting to assume the line of the Sith has been wreak to a ratiocination , but if there ’s one affair the Jedi should have instruct by now , it is that dark can never be defeated forever .

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So how could the Sith return after Palpatine ’s final frustration , and the demolition of the Sith ageless rage at Exegol ? Even despite the bright ending toThe Rise of Skywalker , there are quite a few possibilities .

The Sith Can Be Reborn Through Holocrons

TheSith may have been destroyed , but they left an indelible bull’s eye on the galaxy . Fortunately , it ’s reasonable to assume many of the most severe artifact were hold out of circulation by the Jedi Order , and have actually been destroyed . In the decades before the prequel trilogy , several Jedi scoured the galaxy look for artefact steep in the dark side of the Force , and they accumulate them in a seal hurdle in the Jedi Temple known as the Bogan Collection . Naturally , Palpatine coveted the Bogan Collection , and after the fall of the Jedi inStar Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sithhe raided it and added its treasure to his own computer memory . He scattered these across the wandflower in secret storehouses ; after his expiry , Imperial loyalist target these storehouses for end in Operation : Cinder , a brutal scorched - earth scheme that , amongst other thing , helped ensureclues to Palpatine ’s inevitable return were wipe off . Thus it ’s likely most of the Sith Holocrons were fall back .

ButStar Wars Rebelsmade it percipient there were other Holocrons out there , hidden and never recoup by Palpatine . It ’s probable there are still Holocrons concealed on ancient Sith world like Malachor or Korriban , just waiting for an unwary Force - user to stumble upon them and unlock their secrets . Thus the Sith may have been destroyed , but they can be born-again through habit of these Holocrons .

Sith Spirits Can Possess The Living

Charles Soule’sDarth Vaderrun inclose readers toDarth Momin , an ancient Sith Lordwho had successfully preserved his spirit inside his masque . The Emperor discovered Darth Momin ’s masquerade , and no doubt he was fascinate by this method acting of cheating death , which used the long - forget power of Essence Transfer . There is no reason to wear Darth Momin was the only Sith Lord to have ever channelize his spirit into an target , and thus other Sith could have avoided end in a similar room , their corrupted individual still acting in the dark .

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To jade Darth Momin ’s mask was to lessen under his control , to admit his disembodied spirit to possess you and turn your physical structure into a puppet . If there are other Sith masks like Momin ’s out there , then ancient Sith could return to threaten the Galax urceolata .   Indeed , Chuck Wendig’sAftermathtrilogyintroduced an esoteric Force cult called the Acolytes of the Beyond , who treasured Sith masque and don them before go into battle . Many of these masks appear to have a transformative force upon their wearers , increase their aggression and bloodlust , perhaps suggest the spirits of the ancient Sith were reach out to the nation of the keep through them .

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There May Be Other Sith Worlds In The Unknown Regions

TheUnknown Regionswere once the seat of a Brobdingnagian Sith Emperor , one that was ultimately brought down in battle with the Jedi . This huge area of space is almost impossible to voyage , because it was waste by a serial publication of chained supernova explosions that sent immense multitude tumbling at speed between the lead . As Timothy Zahn noted in his bookThrawn Ascendancy : Chaos Rising , " The crusade of all these masses , coupled with regions of toilsome electromagnetic flux , resulted in the constantly changing hyperlanes that made any voyage longer than a match of maven systems unmanageable and unsafe . " It ’s unnamed whether this calamity was a natural result , or whether it was cause by the Sith , as part of their interminable polite war or in parliamentary law to drive the Jedi back .   This is why Exegol had been lost to the galaxy ; because it was conceal in the depths of the Unknown Regions , a so - called " box organisation " with only one room in or out - and that only navigable through usage of the Force .

But Rae Carson ’s novelisation ofStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalkerhintsthere are other ancient Sith and Jedi worldsconcealed in the chaos of the Unknown Regions . " A few planets had been describe , " it expose , " but their population re­mained small , and their trade with the residue of the galaxy had been throttled by the navigational risk . The Sith and the Jedi had found paths through to even more dangerous , more concealed worlds — or so caption said — and the specific , carefully stepped coordinate start required to safely navigate the anomalies were among their most closely guarded secrets . " Even Palpatine himself may not have known all the ancient secrets of these Sith colonies , which existed in isolation , no longer supervise by the Dark Lords of the Sith . They would n’t have been as important as Exegol ; that world was unique , a vergence in the Force where the dead could be raised to life . But they would be immerse in the dark side nonetheless , and they could therefore be key to work the Sith back .

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The interesting question is whether or not the return of the Sith would invalidatethe Chosen One prognostication . That probably is n’t the case , only because it ’s reasonable to assume Palpatine ’s ability to go past death was the reason he brought such a great imbalance to the Force . The dark side is rude , and therefore there will likely always be Sith ; but the Emperor , as the windup of the line of Darth Bane and the one who could potentially become an interminable Sith Emperor , was unquestionably unnatural . So long as Palpatine never fall back again , there is no reason to view the Chosen One divination as invalidated in some way by the Sith ’s return .

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