If they didn't detect him being RIGHT FUCKING THERE as Chancellor in the prequels, it's not a huge stretch to imagine him being able to hide out all these years.t0mby wrote:And Emporer Palpatine.
Who was thrown down a shaft.
And then the Death Star exploded.
With Palpatines body inside.
And no Jesi had sensed him since.
But he's in the movie.
Yoda and Obi-Wan got away with it too.
Star Wars has long established the Jedi as being, well, pretty shit at their jobs