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The Emperor betrays his apprentice by urging Luke to kill Vader and take his place, but Luke refuses and declares himself a Jedi. Enraged, the Emperor attacks Luke with Force lightning . Unable to bear the sight of his son in pain, Vader throws the Emperor down a chasm shortly before the Death Star is destroyed.
Vader then travels to Mustafar to assassinate the Separatist leaders, while Palpatine declares himself Emperor before the Galactic Senate, transforming the Republic into the Galactic Empire. He denounces the Jedi as traitors. Obi-Wan and Yoda survive Order 66 and learn that Anakin has turned to the dark side.
The Alliance is portrayed as a stateless coalition of rebel dissidents and defectors who oppose the Galactic Empire and its authoritarian rule. Its stated goal is to restore the liberal governance of the previous Galactic Republic, which had been dissolved after its leader Palpatine seized absolute power and declared himself emperor.
By the end of Revenge of the Sith, Emperor Palpatine had slaughtered the Jedi and silenced the senate.Bummer! But a new upcoming trilogy of Star Wars books will show the seeds of rebellion ...
Ancient Jedi, introduced in the Star Wars Dark Empire comic series, who sacrifices himself to help destroy the soul of the resurrected Emperor Palpatine. Malcor Brashin — voiced by David Warner Grand General in the Imperial Army who was heavily involved in the Battles of Tatooine and Yavin 4.
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Palpatine's consolidation of power and declaring himself emperor is like the Roman political figure Augustus Caesar, in that Augustus manipulated the Roman Senate as Palpatine did with the Galactic Senate; he legitimized authoritarian rule by saying that corruption in the Senate was hampering the powers of the head of state; he pressured the ...
Darth Sidious (Emperor Palpatine) was a human Dark Lord of the Sith who appeared in each trilogy of the Skywalker Saga. Originally the eldest son of an aristocratic family from the planet Naboo , he rose to power within the Galactic Republic's government system starting from Senator of his homeworld, then to Supreme Chancellor of the Republic ...