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TIL the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) was actually made after a book adaptation, which means Star Wars hype is technically literary-based in nature

starwars.fandom.com Star Wars: A New Hope (novelization)

Star Wars: A New Hope, formerly titled Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, is a Legends novel ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster and credited to George Lucas. It adapts the film of the same name, and it was based on the screenplay by Lucas. The novelization was first published on Novembe...

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The book actually features a backstory pretty close to the Prequels with Senator Palpatine using the "massive organs of commerce" to gain power and become president of the Republic.
The biggest difference is that by the time of the book, he's pretty much a puppet to people like Tarkin.
- All I wanna know is, was he Sheev back then?
  
  That name came after the Disney takeover and the continuity reboot.
  
  I thought Sheev was named for the prequels. I could've sworn they even made light of his name in the Robot Chicken specials.
  
  The name was created for a book that came out in late 2014 after the reset. In the original EU no one knew his first name.
  
  I could be mistaken because I haven't read the book in a couple years now, but I believe the Darth Plagueis novel from 2012 gave us Palpatine's first name.
  
  It first appeared in Tarkin by the same author. The Darth Plague is novel just mentions why he doesn't use his first name but but what it is.
  
  Tarkin was 2014, Plagueis was 2012 according to Wookiepedia
  
  Plagueis is pre-continuity reboot and has no first name, Tarkin is post-reboot and has the name.

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