The newest novel hints that Jakku may be more important. The final chapter of Life Debt takes us through the story of a young Gallius Rax first meeting Emperor Palpatine.
Epilogue
Set 30 years before the events of the novel (just after the events of The Phantom Menace) the epilogue reveals that Rax was born on Jakku.
Rax (who could be Snoke) actually grew up on Jakku as an orphan.
Upon their meeting, Palpatine tasks Rax with staying on the planet to stand guard over something “precious.”
Chancellor Palpatine's grand plan
In an attempt to escape the dusty world, Rax sneaks aboard a Republic ship that lands on the planet one day... and finds himself face to face with none other than Chancellor Palpatine, who’s visiting the planet for undisclosed (and presumably nefarious) reasons to excavate a piece of land.
“I give you a new life. A better one. I give you a task that, if you manage, will lead you to greater things. Not some thing so mundane as a job, but a role. A purpose. I sense in you potential. A destiny. Most people have no destiny.”
Rax agrees to join Palpatine
Palpatine gives the child a mission: return to Jakku, and guard the area that Palpatine’s droids were excavating with his life. Why? Palpatine espouses that the area, whatever it is, will have a major part to play in the future of the galaxy:
“You will go back to Jakku. The spot there in the dirt where my droids were operating is precious. Not just to me, but to the galaxy at large.”
He sweeps his decrepit hand as if to the greater universe.
“It is significant. It was significant a thousand years ago and it will be significant again. You will go back there and you will monitor my droids excavating the ground. Then I will send more droids and they will build something there below the ground. I want you to guard this space.”
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