Emperor Palpatine (Darth Sidious) is a Human, hailing from the planet Naboo and belonging to a noble human family, though his appearance became disfigured by the dark side of the Force and Mace Windu's reflected lightning, obscuring his original features.
Palpatine was always intended to be a human. His appearance is mainly caused by using force lightning, and mace windu reflecting it back. That, and the dark side has various affects on the body.
The answer, revealed in Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, rewrote much of what we thought we knew. Rey is the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious or Sheev Palpatine—not through a traditional lineage, but through a failed clone named Dathan, Rey's father.
This isn't true, it's never been true, Plagueis' only contribution to the entire Star Wars universe was training Palpatine and that's it.
Palpatine engages Windu in a duel and attacks him with Force lightning; Windu deflects the lightning back into Palpatine's face, deforming it into the gray, wizened visage first seen in the original trilogy.
Darth Maul is the weakest. Bane was strong : he killed all the Sith and lots of Jedi.
Likely unaware of his true nature, Snoke was an artificial genetic strandcast created on the planet Exegol by the resurgent Dark Lord of the Sith and Galactic Emperor Darth Sidious as a proxy and the product of cloning experiments.
Qimir has already been calling himself Darth Venamis, and is ready to officially be a Sith Lord Apprentice, but, is also already conspiring to get a pupil of his own, & eventually kill his own master as well.
Luke was the last Jedi, then. Rey is the last Jedi, now. The title of each film in the sequel trilogy is a direct reference to the main protagonist of the sequel trilogy, Rey. In the Force awakens, it awakens in her.
The death of 99 showed how truly tragic the Clone Wars were. 99 was a clone trooper who had a genetic defect and was forced to be a maintenance clone on Kamino. While he wasn't enhanced genetically, he was probably the wisest clone on Kamino.
Darth is a title for a Sith Lord. There have been more than one Darth, but only one was named Vader.
Ben Solo. Ben Solo (portrayed by Adam Driver) is the son of Leia Organa and Han Solo, the nephew of Luke Skywalker, the grandson of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, and the great-grandson of Shmi Skywalker. He initially trains to be a Jedi under his uncle, Luke.
Ben Solo is the love of Rey's life. Initially unknown to Rey, she forms a dyad in the Force with Ben. The dyad is an unbreakable Force-bond that makes them one in the Force, despite being born as two physically separated individuals.
Palpy was stronger with the force, absolutely. But Yoda was the better duelist. Hence why he forced a sword fight vs a force fight. It could have gone either way depending on the circumstances, but the fact that Palpy kept keeping distance is the only reason he won.
Similarly to how the clones consider themselves to be brothers but not part of the Fett family, Rey has no true relationship nor lineage to Palpatine. Thus, Palpatine truly cannot be considered as Rey's grandfather, and in turn, she cannot be named as his real granddaughter.
According to wookieepedia , special contingency order 37 was: Capture of a single wanted individual through the mass arrest and threatened execution of a civilian population . Follow-up directives include scenarios for body disposal of civilian casualties and suppression of communications.
So in the comic it's stated that it was Luke who crippled Snoke. (Scar on top of head, part of his left face missing, having problem to walk properly and sit down).
Storm Troopers weren't clones. They were recruited as children from the Empire. Finn was a child taken and trained to fight.