He never struck me as grooming any of his apprentices for leadership - not Vader not Dooku definitely not Maul, Luke would've been no different. The EU no longer matters for the purposes of this discussion, but I thought the "using clones to live forever" story made for a nice follow-up to ROTS, even if it was written before.
Ackbar's Fishsticks , Nov 12, Registered: Feb 24, Registered: Mar 21, His choice of words for that scene does imply that he hopes that the SIth will rule for generations. I'm not sure how long he personally planned on living; some people have wondered if Force Sensitives live longer than normal beings but they do appear to be more spry in their old age then the average person: Dooku is in his eighties and Sidious is around that age in the OT.
I think it should be noted that with our new knowledge of how the Rule of Two works in RotJ Vader was more or less telling Luke that he, Luke, was going to take his, Vader's, place as the Emperor's apprentice. At that point Vader is beginning to succumb to his injuries and his internal conflict isn't making things better. Luke would be healthier than his father and inexperienced enough to be led to the the Dark Side; bonus points is that he's twenty-three or so.
He will be able to carry on the Sith Legacy when Sidious is dead and gone. And Sidious might have been hoping to 'merge' with the Force. For some reason I'm remembering hearing somewhere that Sidious had become a living embodiment of the Dark Side. I reckon this needs to go to Saga as much of the material which impacts on it is from outside the CT.
Therefore, moving to Saga Registered: Sep 30, Making of ROTJ says that Palpatine uses the dark side to prolong his life for as long as he isn't killed by an external force. I personally got this impression from the movies themselves. He's in his 80s in ROTJ and doesn't seem worried about dying of old age. The Empire was only the second phase of Palpatine's plan. The final phase was to rule the galaxy through the power of the dark side alone, replacing the Imperial military with an army of dark side force users.
I feel he was strong enough with the Force he would be able to prolong his life indefinitely. Registered: Apr 25, So according to Wookieepedia, normal humans live for years while Force-sensitive humans live up to years The Jedi way can help.
Streaming More Netflix News ». More Amazon News ». View all Streaming Sites. More Movie News ». More FS Movie News ». View all Movies Sites. More TV News ». More FS Entertainment News ». View all TV Shows Sites. The Emperor then introduced Thrawn to his personal enforcer, Darth Vader. Later, Thrawn would be dispatched to deal with the growing rebel threat. After a generation in power, Sidious' rule was challenged by the Alliance to Restore the Republic.
Later, the rogue Senator Mon Mothma incurred the Emperor's wrath when she denounced him as a liar and condemned his complicity in the Ghorman Massacre. As a result, Mon Mothma was designated a traitor and Imperial forces were dispatched to hunt her down. After Thrawn's defeat at Atollon , Sidious sensed a great disturbance in the Force somewhere on the edge of the galaxy. Therefore, the Emperor summoned Thrawn and Vader to Coruscant for a meeting.
During the meeting, the Emperor ordered the two to the planet Batuu to locate a disturbance in the Force that he had sensed, testing Vader on his vulnerability to his past and Thrawn on his loyalty. After the discovery of a Jedi temple on Lothal , the Emperor directed Minister Veris Hydan to excavate the ruins and uncover its secrets. Sometime thereafter, the Emperor was contacted by Hydan, who informed him that they had reached the roots of the temple and uncovered a mural of the Mortis gods , which was reminiscent of art and iconography found at the former temple on Coruscant.
The Emperor told Hydan that he had sensed that the death of Kanan Jarrus had altered the fate of Lothal. Vowing to control the conduit between the living and the dead, the Emperor urged his minister to quicken the pace of his work. Later, the Emperor went to the ceremonial chamber in the tower at the Works on Coruscant so he could use Sith alchemy to open a portal to the World Between Worlds where Ezra Bridger and Ahsoka Tano were.
The Emperor taunted them through the portal and unleashed his power against them, which they were able to hold back. He then caught Bridger's leg and pulled him so that he could get through the portal. However, before he could get through the portal to enter the realm, Tano cut the fiery lasso.
The Emperor then tried again but failed as Bridger and Tano made it back to their world. In the process, the Lothal Jedi Temple was destroyed. Following the defeat of the treasonous Grand Admiral Balanhai Savit and Thrawn losing the funding for his TIE defender program to the Death Star, Sidious spoke with his Chiss Grand Admiral over his private communications display to determine if his loyalties truly lied with the Empire, as Thrawn had worked with members of the Chiss Ascendancy to combat a Grysk Hegemony force that had infiltrated Imperial space.
After confirming with Thrawn that Savit had in fact been a traitor, the Emperor turned the topic of discussion to the Chiss officer's loyalties, though Thrawn insisted that his work with the Ascendancy was not treason. Thrawn admitted that the Grysks were primarily a threat to his own people, but he argued that they had taken an interest in the Empire and could want control of the Death Star, a possibility that Sidious instantly denied, telling Thrawn that neither the Grysks nor the Chiss would control his station.
Thrawn denied seeking the battle station for his people and instead said he would fight against such a situation, but Sidious, understanding that a servant who held divided loyalties was not an asset, still questioned Thrawn's true loyalties.
Pondering Thrawn's loyalties, the Ascendancy, and the threat of the Grysks, Sidious wondered if Thrawn was correct, contemplating that an alliance between the Empire and the Ascendancy could be useful.
However, in such a case, Sidious wanted control of both governments and pondered if Thrawn could be manipulated or persuaded into betraying the Chiss. Deciding such a possibility required additional meditation and turning his attention to a more urgent matter, that of the Lothal rebels, Sidious informed Thrawn that he was sending instructions for a chamber to be built aboard the Chimaera.
He ordered Thrawn to put down the rebel insurgency on Lothal and bring Bridger to the chamber, [] which was a portion of the Lothal Jedi Temple he wanted brought aboard "stone by stone. Fulfilling his orders, [] Thrawn brought Bridger aboard the Chimaera when, in order to stop the Chiss officer from bombarding Lothal's Capital City , the young Jedi surrendered himself to the Empire.
After the officer and the Padawan talked about the fate of the Jedi and Lothal, Thrawn brought Ezra to the room that contained the temple portion, bringing Bridger face-to-face with the Galactic Emperor.
Since the Emperor was off-world, he used a hologram projection to present himself in his more benevolent, pre-scarred form. Sidious then ordered Thrawn to leave the room, leaving him alone with Bridger and the temple fragment. In an attempt to get Ezra to unlock the portal to the World Between Worlds, Sidious tried to tempt Ezra with the opportunity of reuniting with his deceased parents. Ezra, however, recalling his earlier lesson in the World Between Worlds, decided to reject this offer, knowing he had a family and then proceeded to pull down the Temple into rubble.
This caused the Emperor's hologram projection to shift from his benevolent persona to his true form. With his plan in tatters, the Emperor ordered three members of the Royal Guard and three stormtroopers to enter the room and execute Ezra. However, after Sidious deactivated his hologram, Bridger was able to use the Force to crush the soldiers with rubble and escaped. Ultimately making his way to the bridge of the Chimaera , Bridger, having previously ordered his ally Mart Mattin to summon a pod of Purrgil with Frequency Zero , successfully liberated his homeworld from the Empire, as the creatures defeated the blockade in orbit and proceeded to take hold of the Chimaera , dragging it, Thrawn, the rest of the crew, and him into hyperspace.
Thus, Bridger unknowingly also stopped [] Sidious' future plans for Thrawn [] from becoming a reality. Sidious further tightened his grip on the galaxy, confident that control could be maintained by fear. Four years after the reveal of a united rebel front on Mustafar, the rebels had reorganized themselves into a larger and more organized movement known as the Alliance to Restore the Republic , or the "Rebel Alliance.
This loss, as the space station neared completion, was a bitter, and potentially fatal, blow to the Emperor's long-term plans. In order to deal with the problem, Sidious sent Vader to find the Death Star plans. Vader destroyed the rebel flagship and much of the rebel fleet. Vader soon trapped the corvette over Tatooine, boarding the ship and taking the Princess as a hostage. Although Vader failed to acquire the plans, he arrested Organa as a traitor and, as such, provided Sidious with the excuse he needed to dissolve the Imperial Senate.
One of the last remnants of the Galactic Republic, Sidious had always planned to remove it but he needed to wait for the Death Star to be completed so that order could be maintained through fear instead of representation in the Senate. With the space station nearly completed and a Senator accused of supporting the rebellion, Sidious ordered the dissolution of the Senate.
Legislative power was transferred to regional governors and select members of the Imperial military , such as Sidious's ally, Grand Moff Tarkin, allowing the Emperor to gain complete control over the Empire with no checks to his power. However, he was still troubled by Kenobi's last words, his body's disappearance upon death, and the still-mysterious whereabouts of Yoda.
Sidious resolved to keep the Empire strong and to destroy the Rebellion. Despite Sidious's careful planning for seizing complete power over the Empire, his plans were jeopardized when the Rebel Alliance launched an attack on the Death Star during the Battle of Yavin. As the Death Star was about to fire, Sidious sensed a disturbance in the Force, merely a blink from his point of view.
In that moment, the Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker launched his proton torpedoes, succeeding in destroying the Death Star, killing Tarkin and most of the Empire's high-ranking officers, while also leaving Sidious concerned of the pilot's connection to the Force. The only survivors were Sidious's apprentice, Darth Vader, who had failed to defend the space station and General Cassio Tagge , who had been sent to investigate Princess Leia Organa's claims about an active Rebel base on Dantooine.
The Rebels' victory at Yavin was followed by another victory on Cymoon 1 , where a Rebel team destroyed the Empire's main production facility, Weapons Factory Alpha. Several other assaults by Rebel forces, such as the bombing of a supply base on Imdaar and the shipyards at Kuat , harassed the Empire in the weeks following the Death Star's destruction. In addition, the aftermath of the Death Star's destruction saw a rise in pirate activity against Imperial supply convoys as the galactic government was no longer seen as invulnerable.
The Empire's hold over vital worlds also began to slip; one of the worlds which began to question Imperial domination was the mining world of Shu-Torun. Ruled by a mercantile nobility called the ore-dukes , Shu-Torun provided important materials the Empire required for its construction projects, including the development of the second Death Star , and the Emperor constantly demanded higher tithes, especially in the aftermath of the Battle of Yavin.
Opposing this unsustainable increase, the Ore-dukes convinced their aged King to rebel against the Empire. In the wake of Darth Vader's failures, Sidious opted to test his apprentice, withholding information about an elusive ally of the Empire.
Determined to prevent the destruction of his Empire, Sidious reorganized Imperial High Command by appointing General Tagge as Grand General with command of all military matters. Tagge had argued against the strategy of having the Death Star as the Imperial military's sole weapon, believing that the military was all that was needed to safeguard the Empire and that depending on a single weapon was inviting catastrophe. Vader, who had failed to protect either the Death Star or Cymoon 1, was demoted and ordered to serve under Tagge as the Grand General saw fit.
The Emperor gave orders that the military was to focus its attention on the conquest of the Outer Rim until the time when the second Death Star was completed.
Tagge and Vader begun targeting the pirates for destruction as well as cracking down on criminal elements which had gone unchecked in the past, such as the Son-tuul Pride. The only ones spared the Empire's wrath were the Hutts , who had entered into an alliance with the Empire. Needing raw materials for Imperial military production and knowing that the Hutts could provide them for the right price, Sidious sent Vader to Tatooine to negotiate an agreement with Jabba for their support in exchange for the Hutts being allowed to maintain their power base in the Outer Rim and the underworld.
The destruction of competitors, such as the Son-tuul Pride, also allowed the Hutts to profit from the alliance as their position in the underworld fell to them. When Shu-Torun rose up in open rebellion against the Empire following Darth Vader's brutal suppression of an assassination attempt made against him by the King, Sidious sent his apprentice back to the mining world with a large military force at his command.
His orders were to end the Ore-dukes' rebellion and preserve the Imperial-backed government led by Queen Trios , whom Vader had placed on the throne after her father's treason. Sidious' personal craft, the Imperialis , was threatened and spoilt by an opportunistic gambler amidst numerous other troubles in the later years of the Empire. At some point following the Battle of Yavin, the Emperor's luxury yacht Imperialis was stolen by the gambler Lando Calrissian and his associates while it was undergoing repairs at Sienar Fleet Systems ' Orbital Shipyard CC above the planet Castell.
Grand Vizier Amedda informed the Emperor of this loss. After the Star Destroyers failed to recover the ship, the Emperor dispatched the bounty hunter Chanath Cha to recover the vessel. Should she fail to recover it, he instructed her to destroy the Imperialis to avoid letting its secrets fall into the hands of others. In the aftermath of Darth Vader's failure to prevent the Death Star's destruction, Sidious was approached by one of the scientists involved in the Tarkin Initiative : Doctor Cylo.
One of the specialists who had saved Vader's life after sustaining his fatal injuries on Mustafar, Sidious had kept him on and funded his research into upgrading organic species into cybernetically-enhanced subjects. Cylo believed that organisms could only survive by adapting with technology, and eliminating weaknesses.
He also believed that in the new world he foresaw, the Force would be rendered obsolete. Although Sidious dismissed these thoughts by saying that everything was of the Force, he was curious to see what these scientists could do unconstrained by the presence of the Old Republic or the Jedi.
During the twenty years which had passed since the end of the Clone Wars, Cylo had worked to create several subjects which possessed the best genetic and cybernetic upgrades that he could provide, preparing them as potential enforcers for the Empire. With Vader's disgrace clear and the Emperor's need for strong elements to prevent further damage being done to the Empire, Cylo suggested that he replace his apprentice with one of his subjects.
Vader's role would be reduced to a ceremonial one, while the doctor's subjects would enforce Sidious's will throughout the galaxy. Intrigued by Cylo's proposition, Sidious agreed to provide his subjects with a chance to impress him. However, unbeknownst to the scientist, the Emperor had come to believe that Cylo had grown too powerful as a result of his involvement with the Tarkin Initiative.
He could do nothing about it because of the doctor's connection with several of the Empire's greatest scientific minds, and removing him could cause a splint among them. When Cylo presented him his plan, however, Sidious knew that he could cause him to overplay his hand which would make him a traitor to the Empire. Knowing that Vader would be the perfect foil to Cylo's subjects, the Emperor made sure the two men met. The day he informed Vader of his punishment for his failure at the Imperial Palace on Coruscant, he also summoned Cylo for a private meeting.
When his apprentice asked who the scientist was, Sidious refused to answer him, leading Vader to conduct his own investigation into the Emperor's secrets. After Vader's hired bounty hunter Black Krrsantan successfully apprehended Cylo in his fourth body, he revealed under torture the location of his secret research base.
The Sith Lord made his way to the base where he began an assault to find his potential rivals and destroy them. However, Cylo-IV's death at the hands of Vader's torture droid had not killed the scientist: having recreated himself as an immortal system, whenever one of Cylo's bodies died, another was activated on board his research base. Cylo-V had guessed that Vader had discovered the location of his base and that he would be coming when he was activated.
As such, he contacted the Emperor so that he could give him a demonstration of his subjects. Sidious arrived as Vader was about to kill the scientist. Only his intervention saved Cylo-V from suffering his predecessor's fate. With all the elements for his plan to begin, the Emperor demanded Cylo start the presentation.
Finally, Cylo had created a system which could possess various hosts, tested on a Trandoshan , and remove any traits the Emperor would not desire, such as pain and emotions. Sufficiently impressed, Sidious demanded a real demonstration of their abilities. Vader and the subjects began to fight to the death against one another, and the Trandoshan was killed by Morit before the Emperor called a stop to the fight.
He announced that he would find a use for every one of them, but that only one would win a place as his enforcer. The sole rule he established was that they not kill each other; or make sure if they did that he not find out. As he made to leave, the Emperor called Vader to speak to him privately. When they were alone, Sidious complimented Vader on his ability to discover Cylo's project.
He was also impressed with his apprentice's ability to act beyond his knowledge, and how he had been able to acquire a private army of Separatist-era commando droids to use for his own ends. Vader was displeased with being forced to prove himself against Cylo's subjects, especially as he considered them blasphemous to the ways of the Force. Sidious chastised him for reprimanding him, reminding him that he was the teacher while Vader remained the apprentice: his task was to learn what Sidious knew, and Sidious's was to discover what there was to teach.
The Emperor also revealed that he needed Vader to overcome the disappointment he had caused in him when he almost fell on Mustafar, and prove himself worthy of carrying the name Sidious had given him when he had pledged himself to the Sith.
With his business concluded, the Emperor left Cylo's base and returned to Coruscant. At the Emperor's directive, Cylo's subjects were placed at Grand General Tagge's disposal, while the doctor acted as a consultant for the military.
The rivalry between them and Vader eventually led to the confrontation with the Rebel Alliance on Vrogas Vas. As a result of Karbin's manipulation, Vader crashed on Vrogas Vas when he confronted three Rebel squadrons. On the surface, Vader confronted a large force or Rebel soldiers assembled by Leia Organa to eliminate his threat.
The confrontation culminated in a battle between the Sith Lord and Karbin, which resulted in the latter's death. The Rebellion suffered important losses on Vrogas Vas, and Karbin's disappearance led the Emperor to search for him.
Vader eventually made his way to Coruscant where he presented his master with Karbin's corpse. Although Sidious was annoyed that his apprentice had violated his rule, he was impressed when Vader challenged him to provide him with another way to prove himself worthy of his trust.
The Emperor gave his apprentice command of the military force he was sending to Shu-Torun to preserve Queen Trios's hold on the throne. However, he also sent Cylo and his remaining subjects, apparently on Grand General Tagge's request.
Before Vader left the Imperial Palace, Sidious warned him not to disappoint him, as he relied on him more than he let on. Vader's campaign on Shu-Torun was a success, and the rebellious Ore-dukes were brought down. In the middle of the battle, Cylo attempted to have his rival killed by forming an alliance with Baron Rubix , the leader of the Shu-Torun rebels.
Vader evaded the trap and, with the help of a dying Aiolin Astarte who had been betrayed by her brother, secured the proof needed to prove the doctor's treachery from her memory circuit. Once Vader's business was concluded on Shu-Torun, he informed the Emperor of Cylo's betrayal and told him that he had fled with his remaining subjects. Pleased that his plan had worked, Sidious summoned Vader to him on the shipyard where the Executor -class Star Dreadnought Executor was being built.
Vader destroyed Doctor Cylo and his creations in order to safeguard his position as Darth Sidious' apprentice. At Kuat, the Emperor revealed his fear of Cylo's growing influence to his apprentice, the doctor's role in rebuilding him, and the purpose of the contest for his position as an enforcer.
Vader recognized that, should one of his rivals had been the last one standing, the Emperor would be having the same conversation with them. However, he declared that he had succeeded and that he represented the strength of the dark side. Sidious was pleased with his apprentice's success and ordered him to find Cylo and destroy him.
While the Executor was still under construction, Cylo's fleet attacked the dreadnought. During the assault, one of his creations, Tulon Voidgazer sabotaged the vessel. Sidious contacted Tagge, demanding to know what was happening, however the general and his crew were knocked unconscious by toxic gas.
The Emperor was then informed by one of his guards that they were trapped. After Vader killed Cylo's minions and destroyed his current body, he informed the Emperor of his success. Pleased with his apprentice, Sidious told him to finish his mission then return.
At that moment, the archaeologist Dr. Aphra entered his private chambers. She then claimed they had a "mutual friend" and that she had things the Emperor needed to know. After Vader finished off Cylo for good, he returned to his master. It was then that Sidious told Vader that Aphra had informed him of all of his secret endeavors, many of which had been technically treasonous. However, rather than chastise or punish Vader, the Emperor told his apprentice that he was impressed with his ambitions and that he was everything he could have hoped for.
He then left Vader to deal with Aphra as he pleased. Due to Tagge's failure, the Emperor demoted him and transferred command of the Executor and its fleet to Vader.
Pleased with his apprentice, he left him to "educate" his subordinates of the future. The Sith discovered a new threat to their reign in the form of Luke Skywalker, son of Anakin Skywalker and Jedi-to-be.
Three years after the Battle of Yavin, the Empire had managed to gain a major victory by capturing the Rebel base on the ice planet of Hoth. However, something bigger was growing.
Sitting within his Imperial Office, Sidious sensed a great disturbance in the Force. It was not unlike that which he had sensed within the moments before the Death Star's destruction. Sidious sought to see within the disturbance, which brought him to a vision of a boy holding a crimson lightsaber, having seemingly decapitated the Emperor's Royal Guards within his very own Imperial Office. As he watched, the boy approached a seated Sidious within the vision, calling to the Force to choke Sidious' doppelganger.
The doppelganger attempted to electrocute the boy with Force Lightning, but failed to stop him. The doppelganger attempted to call upon his lightsaber but instead the boy commanded it and turned the saber on midflight, eventually overpowering the doppelganger when the Sith Lord's own saber struck him down.
A familiar voice then called to the boy, who proceeded to walk to the same spot the real Sidious now occupied. The boy knelt in front of the hidden figure as the voice noted that the boy had done well. Sidious then realized who the voice belonged to: That of Anakin Skywalker. Sidious concluded that this must be a dream of Anakin's.
Probing deeper within the vision, Sidious witnessed the scene of the unmasked and unburnt Anakin Skywalker walking beneath the sight of endless Star Destroyers, walking together with a figure that seemingly resembled him as well as the looming figure of the long deceased Senator Padme Amidala, now alive once more.
The figure referred to Anakin as Father and to Padme as Mother. Anakin then motioned to the fleet, referring to the boy as Luke, stating that the fleet that flew above them was now the most powerful in the galaxy. Having witnessed this, Sidious was thrown out of the vision, but he had witnessed enough.
From these pieces he deduced that Vader's prior actions made supposedly under the guise of destroying the Alliance leadership were actually motivated by a desire to find his son and shape him to his vision. Sidious then resolved to give Vader the resources to do just that while waiting for Vader to make a mistake. When he made that mistake, Sidious would be ready to take advantage of it for his own purposes and ensuring Vader's simultaneous downfall.
Vader did as he was instructed and was told of his son, Luke Skywalker , [15] fully aware that Vader was knowledgeable of this information. With calculated words of approval, the Emperor allowed his enforcer to pursue this possible "asset.
However, Skywalker evaded capture and was confronted by Vader in a duel on Cloud City. There, with the Jedi-aspirant beaten by a precarious ledge, Vader divulged knowledge of his relationship with Skywalker, his son, and gave an ultimatum for the youth: to join forces—as said to be destiny—with his father, Darth Vader, or die. However, Luke Skywalker rejected his newfound father, and allowed himself to fall into the abyss.
Having failed in recruiting or destroying Skywalker, Vader returned to the Executor , only to be interrupted by its crew, which reported the Millennium Falcon ' s escape from Cloud City. Upon the Executor ' s bridge, Vader sensed the presence of his son aboard the Falcon.
Calling out for the young Skywalker to join himself in vain, the father of Skywalker watched as the Falcon slipped past Imperial forces with its fully functional hyperdrive. Angered, Lord Vader left his flagship aboard an Imperial shuttle with a forensics droid and a unit of death troopers for revenge against those responsible for withholding the knowledge of his offspring's survival, altering the droid's systems that would force its motivator to trigger a self-destruct sequence should the droid reveal any information to anyone—including Imperials and the Emperor himself—regarding their quest.
After Piett's confirmation on the escape of the Millennium Falcon , the Grand Vizier relayed the Emperor's demand for Vader to contact him immediately, yet an officer alerted Piett of the departure of Lord Vader's shuttle as the admiral reached for his comlink to Vader. Cautiously wording his response, Piett told Vizier Amedda of Vader's unavailability. Hearing word of Vader's failure and his leave from Imperial command, the Emperor began to laugh before the holo-transmission of Piett while he sat on his throne in his palace on Coruscant as Amedda stood next to him.
The Emperor tricked the Alliance into attacking the second Death Star, using himself as bait. In the months after the events on Bespin, Luke Skywalker would continue to hone his skills in the light side of the Force ; nonetheless, Sidious still believed Skywalker liable to turn to the dark side. In an attempt to gain a new Sith apprentice as well as end the Galactic Civil War, Sidious purposely allowed the Rebels to obtain the plans of the new Death Star under construction over the forest moon of Endor.
However, rebel agent Kyle Katarn infiltrated the Arc Hammer , and destroyed the ship, while killing Mohc in the process. After this event, the Emperor shutdown the project. However, Imperial governors were able to keep various different models in their planetary garrisons.
But, the project resulted in a massacre of the Holowan scientists. As a result, the Empire had bounties placed on the rogue assassin droids. Darth Vader oversaw a experimental programs that created new trooper variations of the stormtrooper, which was at Timara City , located on Kamino. The Terror Trooper were created as cyborg experiments that specialized in direct combat with sharpened, durasteel talons on their hands and feet.
The cybernetic limbs gave them enhanced strength, speed, and agility. Admiral Galak Fyyar infused these crystals to create a stormtrooper- Dark Jedi hybrids called " shadowtroopers ". Moff Jesco Comark believed that the Empire couldn't rely on bounty hunters for its 'dirty work'.
Thus, Comark began Operation Death-Hunter , a program designed to create skilled hunters. The project ended when Comark's base was destroyed by the Rebel Alliance. Starfighter development projects weren't uncommon in the Empire, examples of these include: Director Lenzer 's TIE Experimental Project which oversaw innovative, new remote-piloted starfighters based upon TIE technology. Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo engineered the Missile Boat , a hybrid of a scout fighter, long-range bomber, and a space superiority starfighter.
Imperial engineers were successful in experimenting with cloaking technology , and they notably used it in special projects. Emperor Palpatine had a protoype dreadnought equipped with a cloaking device undergoing at Fondor shipyards , it was destroyed by Rogue Squadron [76].
Thrawn was able to fine a fully-working cloaking device on Wayland , located in Mount Tantiss. One tactic he did was when he captured Ukio , Thrawn had cloaked cruisers slip past the planetary shield, when the Imperial II -class Star Destroyer Chimaera opened fired on the shield, the cloaked cruisers would open fire on the planet as well, this tricked the natives into believing the Empire developed a new superweapon, however, it was just a ruse to fool them.
Another example was when Thrawn had twenty two asteroids installed with cloaking technology deployed in orbit over Coruscant , in return, it made it appear that there was over three hundred asteroids in orbit, which forced the New Republic to keep their planetary shield up. It analyzed the data of starfighter movements, predicting the attack vector course, and how to handle the situation.
Various biological agents were created, and deployed by the Empire. However, her plot was foiled by Omega Squad , who later gave several samples of the nanovirus to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. In 7 BBY , Darth Vader ordered an orbital bombardment on Falleen after flesh-eating bacteria broke out from an Imperial research outpost. An estimated two hundred thousand Falleen perished. General Evir Derricote developed the Emperor's Plague , a deadly virus that the Emperor himself feared, he would later keep it in a asteroid storehouse located in the Deep Core.
Derricote would later develop the Krytos virus underneath the orders of Director Ysanne Isard who unleashed the virus in an effort to cripple the New Republic. Crix Madine 's storm commandos deployed the Candorian plague on the rebellious world of Dentaal.
Imperial research also employed weaponized gases, notably the cryseefa gas was an acidic poison that proved to be lethal to oxygen -using species and corrosive. Project Starscream oversaw the attempts to create super-soldiers by reanimating the dead. Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine personally oversaw the project. Doctor Cornelius Evazan was hired by the Empire, with his expertise lying in reanimation. In 11 ABY , Imperial scientists at Carida successfully created nano-destroyers , artificial viruses keyed to a target's genetic makeup that were not only incurable but also completely undetectable by conventional medical means.
Decades later, the Imperial Remnant began experimenting with nanoviruses. They made one to specifically target Boba Fett , preventing him from returning to Mandalore. The Galactic Empire's territory at its peak consisted of some one and a half million member and conquered worlds , as well as sixty-nine million colonies, protectorates and puppet states spread throughout the entire galaxy, stretching from the borders of the Deep Core to at least Wild Space.
The Grand Admiral set up a command post at a fortress on Nirauan and from there brought the rule of the Empire to the uncharted regions of the galaxy, creating the Empire of the Hand. Grand Moff Tarkin right before destroying Alderaan also implied that the Empire spanned over millions of worlds during that time. The original name of the Empire's capital world was Coruscant ; however, it was renamed Imperial Center by the Empire. Few outside the Empire's government used this name, and upon the capture of the planet by the New Republic, the name "Coruscant" was readopted.
After the Battle of Endor, large sections of the galaxy threw off Imperial occupation and became Republic members, and by 6. Imperial warlords comprised most of the lost territory, with the Republic still relatively in its infancy. By the fall of Coruscant, Warlord Zsinj alone had control of almost one third of the Empire's former territory.
Under the Chiss Grand Admiral, the Empire's territory nearly doubled in less than a year, nearly seeing the death of the Republic. During Operation Shadow Hand, the Emperor would unite the warlords and the mainstream forces and consume well over half of the Galaxy. After the Emperor's death, the Republic took back their holdings with surprising speed, and the remaining Imperial forces fled into the Deep Core.
The Republic remained weakened by the efforts of Thrawn and the reborn Emperor, and the warlords and Moffs consolidated fortress worlds across a third of the galaxy. After the Reunification by Daala, and the establishment of the Imperial Remnant, the Imperial fleet took over the remnants of the Pentastar Alignment, a breakaway warlord fiefdom.
They then pushed coreward against the Republic. Later, Daala would lead a second offensive against the Core worlds themselves from the Deep Core. This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. In the present, the huge success of the Star Wars franchise has turned the Empire into the best-known example of a " galactic empire " theme in science fiction.
According to George Lucas, the empire from Star Wars was largely based on the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series , although Asimov's empire was depicted as a benign, if collapsing government. In addition, Coruscant was based on the planet Trantor , the capital of Asimov's empire.
The Galactic Empire has been also influenced by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany [90] ; for example, the Imperial stormtroopers share a similar name to the German stormtroopers, and red, black and white, the most recognized colors of the Empire, are also the colors of the Nazi Blutfahne.
Palpatine's promise of an Empire that would last for ten thousand years, and the Empire falling far short of that goal, also echoes Adolf Hitler's promise of a "Thousand Year Reich". The Galactic Republic's transformation into the Empire is perhaps modeled after the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire ; the Roman Republic was transformed because of war, infighting, and two of its leaders, Julius and Augustus Caesar.
Other reasons for the transition were based on the transformation of the First French Republic into the French Empire by Napoleon after a coup , and the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich. Lucas, during the Cannes film festival, implied that the similarities between these historical elements, and to a lesser extent America's fighting in the Iraq war, were deliberate as part of Lucas' philosophy that democracies tend to be turned into dictatorships at the people's willing support, a philosophy that he implied had stemmed from American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Similar to the Soviet Union under Stalin specifically the aftermath of Stalin's death , as soon as Palpatine met his first demise on the Battle of Endor, various insurgencies throughout the Empire were attempted before being put down by the Imperials. One insurgency in particular, the Coruscant Uprising , had notable similarities to the Hungarian Revolution of that commenced shortly after Stalin's death.
Lucas himself was quoted in an interview conducted in on Skywalker Ranch that: "It was really about the Vietnam War, and that was the period where Nixon was trying to run for a [second] term, which got me to thinking historically about how do democracies get turned into dictatorships?
Because the democracies aren't overthrown; they're given away". He further opined in the interview that "no matter who you look at in history, the story is always the same, that's what's eerie. It was a little eerie that things have developed the way they have. Wookieepedia Explore. Star Wars. Clone Wars Droids Ewoks. Administrators' noticeboard IRC Discord. Tutorials Editing sandbox Things to do Status article nominations Featured article nominations Good article nominations Comprehensive article nominations.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. For other uses, see Empire disambiguation. An Empire ruled by a new Constitution! An Empire of laws , not of politicians!
An Empire devoted to the preservation of a just society. Of a safe and secure society! We are an Empire that will stand for ten thousand years! In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire , for a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for ten thousand years.
An Empire that will continue to be ruled by this august body and a sovereign ruler chosen for life. Main article: Imperialization. Imperial stormtroopers set up defensive weapons on a backwater planet.
The Jedi are relentless. If they are not all destroyed, it will be civil war without end. Main article: Galactic Civil War. I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it! But there's nothing I can do about it right now.
It's such a long way from here. We're not waging a full-scale war here, we're hitting the Republic anywhere we can. Main article: Imperial crest. Dismantling every vestige of democracy, seizing assets, killing whole populations. He thinks I'm joining the bad guys. The Death Stars were the ultimate expression of that order. No longer would the Empire's citizens be forced to live in fear of cowardly terrorists striking from their hidden lairs.
No longer would lawlessness and chaos touch the lives of law-abiding innocents. Palpatine took a stand: Disrupt order and the Empire would restore it…by any means necessary. Main article: Galactic economy. Yes, our army is human, I am human, and most of my advisers and military officers are human. But that is merely the result of circumstance. Main article: Imperial Military. Never before in the history of the galaxy has such a fighting force been assembled. Never in such numbers, never with so much variety, and never on so many worlds.
There is little in the galaxy that is not under the Empire's control, and it is but a trivial act for the Empire to annex a new world when the Emperor wills it. Main article: Imperial Department of Military Research. Main article: Imperial Biological Weapons Division. Please help Wookieepedia by adding references. I find your lack of sources disturbing. His attempt failed and his fate was left unknown.
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