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[star wars] During the galactic civil war, did anyone know (or suspect) that Palpatine was also Sidious?
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"Sidious" was an unknown to all but his inner circle. Were there people aware that Palpatine was not the kindly grandfather he appeared to be up to and during the Clone Wars? Absolutely. But most who could link Palpatine to the mastermind behind the Confederacy were dead at the end of the Clone Wars.