User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/THE CHOSEN ONE: Part 1, definitive version announced/@comment-20644-20100708024629

Making Palpatine younger was definitely something I also debated back and forth with myself, but in the end the pros outweighed the cons. A lot of the focus on the Clone Wars era of the ASWS is on brotherhood, and due to MAJORSPOILERS I needed Palpatine to be part of that, hence his younger age.