[SPOILERS?] Where's baby Palpatine

So on the Jedi Knight story/class quests I've noticed "The Emperor" mentioned several times by various quest givers and NPCs. Most notably there's the unfolding backstory with Kira about the "Children of the Emperor."

However no one in the Senate seems to talk about him, certainly not as if he's leading the Senate.

Plus... if the events of SWTOR take place some 3000 years before Anikan/Luke/Leia storylines, and Palpatine was the first Chancellor to make himself Emperor (or maybe he wasn't...?)...

Just had me a bit confused the other day and thinking I'd missed an important plot point somewhere, given everyone seems to know what's going on with the Emperor except for me.

Have you seen the timeline? This tells you what happened before SWTOR.

I don't know the Jedi Knight class story. The only emperor i know of is the one that is in charge of the empire, although in reality the dark council governs in his place. The republic is governed by the senate.

In the centuries before the movies, there are only two sith lords at any one time: one master and one apprentice. If i'm not mistaken this is called the rule of two and is the result of sith lords not being able to get along enough to rule the galaxy. That there are two remaining sith is not known by anyone in the republic when palpatine decides the time has come for the sith to rule again.

Well, I've progressed to lvl43 and many of my previous Emperor questions have been answered. :)

I suspect even more will be answered in the next level or two.

Just started on Voss.