But what if we go one step further.
Perhaps, Pryde is a resurrected or reincarnation of Grand Moff Tarkin?
After all, Palpatine survived his fall in Return of the Jedi, creates clones like Snoke and knows how to cheat death with the “unnatural” methods of the Sith.
So why could he have subtly brought back Cushing’s Tarkin himself after he died in the original trilogy?
source: express.co.uk