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84 BBY (1331 NE) |
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Emperor |
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Autocratic ruler of the Galactic Empire |
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deceased |
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Cosinga Palpatine (deceased) |
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Erdas Palpatine (deceased) |
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Sheev Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious, was a Force-sensitive Human male who served as the last Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic and the first Emperor of the Galactic Empire from the Viau Universe. A Dark Lord of the Sith in the Order of the Sith Lords, recorded by history as the most powerful who had ever lived, his entire life was the culmination of a thousand-year plan to overthrow the Allies from within, but he was duped by the Cruel Lord before he could enact his plan. He was first killed during the Great Battle of Endor.
Born on the planet Naboo to the aristocratic House Palpatine, Palpatine discovered the Sith at a young age as a collector of dark side artifacts. In 65 BBY (1342 NE), he met Hego Damask, a Muun businessman who was in reality the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis. Under Plagueis's manipulation, Palpatine killed his father and pledged himself to his new Master's dark side teachings as Darth Sidious.
Biography[]
War across the Multiverse[]
New order in Peril[]
After Vader's duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Vader reported to Sidious the death of Kenobi, to Sidious' surprised glee. 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.
However, the emperor felt a strong shift in the force of a rift opening up, receieved contact of an unknown, ordering his admirals and Darth Vader to intercept this fleet who made no move at all until they contacted the emperor personally, revealed to be large grub-like creatures who say they lead the Empire of the Combine Race.
The Axis of Empires[]
Pol Earth Invasion[]
Discovering backwatered and primitive Earth, Palpatine had learned about this Earth in a state of war and a nation who somewhat parallel to his own a sense, Palpatine Dismissed their racial ideology as a primitive belief but saw value of exploiting them by showing his forces to launch a full scale attack in their enemies, the United States of America and proved successful if them pushing the Americans into submission but taken a portion of their territories under the rule of the Empire for their part in the occupation.
Imperial-Republic Conflicts[]
When the Emperor received reports of Republic Cruisers fighting alongside the Rebels, he and his council assumed they were derelicts from the Clone Wars era, only to learn of their actual origins from an alternate version of their reality according to the Combine, but also Jedi who among those he recognised long though to be dead by his hand and the Purge. He demanded further intel to find out about this universe and discovered that their reality is almost 20 years apart from their time period of which the Cloen Wars should have ended by his alternative self and Anakin Skywalker betraying the Jedi Order, he had learnt that their reality had diverged where as Anakin successfully defeated his counterpart and the Empire never formed. Unwilling to let the Rebellion gain support from the Republic or the Jedi, he immediately gave the order to sent a fleet to attack their Republic worlds with the Combine with the belief their galaxy is still in need of recovery from the battles but realised that they too have allies of their own from the Golmar Universer and Anakin Skywalker betraying the Jedi Order, he had learnt that their reality had diverged where as Anakin successfully defeated his counterpart and the Empire never formed.
Unwilling to let the Rebellion gain support from the Republic or the Jedi, he immediately gave the order to sent a fleet to attack their Republic worlds with the Combine with the belief their galaxy is still in need of recovery from the battles but realised that they too have allies of their own from the Golmar Universe.
Investigation of the Combine[]
Suspicious of the Combine's claim of his counterpart's suppose death and sensed that his 'allies' were hiding something over how his alternate version had failed and the galaxy knew of his plans, the Emperor conducted some investigations with his Acolyte agents and hired skilled mercenaries from the Filo Universe such as their version of Cad Bane to find the wreckage of any surviving data. Receiving data of the location, and used the ancient Sith relics to contact his counterpart from the dead and received advice to go to his world to find the truth. Setting course on his private shuttle with his imperial guards into the Filo Verse, masking his presence from the Jedi. Reaching his journey to the death of his most loyal followers and was confronted by the Combine's soldiers by the time he had discovered the truth through the force and personally killed them using force choke.
Plot Against the Axis[]
Disappearance[]
The Empire knew if word of Palpatine's sudden disappearance and presumed death by the Imperial government were to revealed to the public, it would be a disaster and be seen as invulnerable to not only their enemies but the Axis as well, not to mention would also result in the splintering of the Empire into several factions for control of their territories. Darth Vader, his former apprentice took immediate action into making a cover up for the Imperial Council that the emperor was in need of medical care, and with that in mind instead of claiming himself the active regent he called himself the hand of the emperor, and placing Grand Vizier Mas Amedda as the acting regent until the situation had been settled but in truth Vader himself would rule from behind the scenes as the Empire's shadow emperor and continue the war with the New Republic, immediately restricting laws of slavery but using prisoner force labor in its place.
Meanwhile, his disappearance was currently under investigation to find out the cause of the Emperor's sudden disappearance and presumed death without raising public awareness, Darth Vader ordered to find anything about it whether it was the work of the Jedi, his Filo counterpart, or the Combine themselves being behind it. With various operations to expand their territory into the Outer Rim against the Crime Lords and the Hutts to stand a better defense against the Republic and the Alliance. Vader and Thrawn concluded to begin the expansion of their territories beyond their home galaxy as various uprisings against the Empire at Viau versions of Bespin, Tatooine, Naboo, and even Imperial Center, which experienced at least initial success. However, in the cases of Naboo and Imperial Center, the victories were short-lived as the Empire managed to suppress the insurrections, the latter at the behest of the Director of Imperial Intelligence, Ysanne Isard.
With new evidence by the Inquisitors that Palpatine's disappearance was indeed done at the hands of the Combine, raising further questions as to what it is they were hiding and also discovered their involvement of the Filo Republic not being turned into the Empire as it should when they exposed their version of the emperor as a Sith (Which was covered up by the few high ranking officers and Vader himself). The Inquisitors also revealed that Palpatine was still alive and that he is likely held somewhere in the Combine held territories, something that Vader had already assumed to be the case but wanted more evidence to confirm his suspicion.
Palpatine Reborn[]
But even death was not the end for Palpatine. Unlike his Sith predecessors, Palpatine had never intended to be replaced by an apprentice, expecting his Empire to rule the galaxy eternally and beyond, with only himself as its true leader. Unable to fully master his former Master's secret, Palpatine had to find a different way to cheat death. During the First War he tasked Jedi Arligan Zey to capture rogue Kaminoan Chief Scientist Ko Sai following her defection to the Separatists a year and a half into the war. Palpatine hoped Ko Sai would be able to engineer him a longer life span in. However, he was denied the chance when Ko Sai showed up dead in 21 BBY (1395 NE).
Resuming his throne as Emperor of the Galactic Empire after his first death (not: open for options of his first death) and memories of his previous life. The revived Emperor learned how much has passed and began his work to restore much of the Galactic Empire’s territories and the war still resumed and settled to a new location away from the Republic, the Jedi, and even the Alliance. Memories of the Combine's true motives became clear to him about their true objectives of the war and had his plans prepared for their moment of betrayal is revealed for the Empire to be ready, while leaving the rest of the surviving Axis states to fend for themselves or be targets for his conquests. Discovering the reason they hadn't made their move was because the Alliance could have a powerful ally that rivaled the Combine, in the form of the Second Human Empire who were referred to as the Ancients and was humanity's oldest civilization and the precurisor to all other civilizations in much of the known multiverse in some way. To be certain no one would find anything of his operations in the secluded sector to convince the majority of the Axis leaders and factions with the support of the Combine Emperor to build a planet-sized battle station as a successor to his original Death Star that would annihilate the Alliance and the Coalition rivals for good, finding his blueprints and secrets still remained and under operational as planned
In 1XXX NE (XXX ABY)
Downfall of the Empire[]
Great Battle of Endor and First Death[]
Hoping to put an end to the Galactic Civil War that lasted almost a millennia and solidify his rule once in the Viau Skyriver Galax and beyond once and for all with he Galactic Empire as the ultimate power, Palpatine crafted an intricate plan to lure the entirety of the Alliance into an inescapable death trap, crushing the New Republic and begin to make his move against the leading members of the Axis before the Combine would make their move. A second, more powerful Death Star was being built in a secret location within Viau Universe, creating portal gates for his outposts across Endor and its moons, protected by a shield generator from each moon. During this time, he also orchestrated various Allied and Horde victories to get them to become overconfident enough to walk into his trap when the time is right, including manipulating the defeats of his Axis allies to make them desperate to support his scheme and eliminate any foe, even an assault on the Fondor Shipyards that resulted in the destruction of a prototype Super Star Destroyer with cloaking abilities.
In 786 ABY (2190 NE), Palpatine undertook a pilgrimage to the Sith tomb world of Korriban, accompanied by a large number of stormtroopers. Although he sensed the presence of the New Republic Renegade Squadron and Jedi knights on Korriban, he dismissed them as an insignificant threat and allowed his stormtroopers to deal with them. However, after the Allied forces not only captured a Sith tomb close to the Emperor's shuttle but also began destroying valuable Sith artifacts and a large statue, the enraged Palpatine entered the chamber and began slaughtering most of the members of Renegade Squadron and fought the Jedi Knights. They managed to flee, and as they left, they blew explosives that closed all three of the tomb's entrances, trapping Palpatine inside the tomb. While he was trapped, Renegade Squadron stole his personal datapad from his shuttle and learned he and the leaders of the Axis would be on the Death Star at the time of their attack.
Palpatine turned this temporary setback to his advantage and allowed other Allied and Horde spies to learn of the Death Star's location while planting disinformation which suggested the superweapon was not yet operational. In reality, the station's prime weapon was complete and fully functional, and an enormous contingent of the Imperial Navy was there to protect it. Darth Vader, along with several Sith Acolytes and later Palpatine himself went on board the battle station, believing that if the Alliance, especially the Jedi thought they had a chance to destroy the Empire's new superweapon and kill the leaders of the Axis in the process, they wouldn't pass up an opportunity to launch an all-out attack, and they were correct. In addition, as he was completely confident of the Empire's victory against the Alliance of Nations, he also dismissed the reports of a planet liberated by the new Republic as being of no concern when Vader inquired if he was to respond to that information. He also anticipated the possibility that the Alliance would send a strike team to the forest moon to take down one of the gates' shield to pass through, and made sure that both the main entrance and back-door bunker for the shield generator were under close guard, also having the forces near the generator be guarded by an entire legion of his best troops belonging to the various primary branches of the Imperial Military specifically to ensure the strike team failed to destroy the generator before the Rebel fleet arrived. Despite this, however, he failed to sense Luke Skywalker on board the shuttle Tydirium. When Darth Vader, disobeying his prior orders to remain on the Executor, returned to the Death Star in order to tell him about Luke being on the vessel—although he was aware of Tydirium managing to land on Endor—he was genuinely surprised that Vader sensed Luke on the vessel whereas he himself had not. However, when making sure Vader's thoughts were clear on the matter, Sidious assigned him to capture Skywalker, stating that he would come to Vader.
Subsequently, Luke Skywalker, who was convinced that his father could be turned back to the light side, allowed himself to be captured and brought to the Death Star—just as Palpatine had foreseen. Upon meeting Luke, Palpatine learned about Yoda's recent death from probing Luke's mind, and proceeded to mock the late Jedi master. In addition, as a demonstration of his power, he also removed Luke's binders by barely lifting his finger, citing that he no longer needed them, before dismissing his royal guard, before making it clear that he intends to make Luke join his side. When Luke insinuated the imminent death of all on board the Death Star, Sidious revealed how he was well aware of the Alliance's plans, both to Luke's surprise and his own amusement. The Emperor further taunted the Jedi aspirant with the revelation that he had manipulated the Alliance into a trap of his own design; the Allies had been allowed to discover the location of the new battlestation, and thus Palpatine anticipated their infiltration of Endor. Palpatine had also ordered Fleet Admiral Firmus Piett to not have the Star Destroyer fleet attack the collective fleets of the Alliance when they arrive, as he intended to unveil a surprise for the Allies and the Horde, and only wanted the Star Destroyers to prevent them from escaping. When the Alliance Fleet arrived, Palpatine unveiled his surprise: the Death Star's superlaser was operational, contrary to what the enemy forces had expected. As Luke's frustration grew with the Alliance's desperate situation, the Dark Lord manipulated him into a duel with Darth Vader. Palpatine also ordered for Jerjerrod to blow up Endor if the shield was taken down by the rebels, regardless of who got caught in the crossfire.
Luke initially restrained himself at first, until Vader probed his mind and learned that Leia was his own daughter. With this knowledge, Vader speculated that he could corrupt her instead, but the threat enraged the Jedi Master and drove him to attack Vader in a frenzy. Although he nearly killed Vader and cut off his mechanical right hand, Luke controlled his anger at the last minute; realizing that he was dangerously close to suffering his father's fate, he discarded his lightsaber and turned to face the Emperor, stating that he was a Jedi, like his father before him.
Enraged, but still using a portion of his powers to monitor the battle, he was aware that the Allied fleet, though bloodied, was now holding its own against his most powerful armada, and that, worse still, the allies on the moons of Endor had somehow cut off the shields protecting the Death Star; the station was now vulnerable to attack. None of these problems were insurmountable: He already had a contingency plan of blowing up Endor system and wipe out the fleet before using a dimension jump to move the station elsewhere in case the enemies of the Empire, (specifically the Combine) did such an action, and regardless, as long as he had Skywalker in his grasp and/or turned Luke to the Dark Side in any way, he felt he'd ultimately succeed. However, as with Galen Marek, he had failed once again.
Balance of the Force[]
Sidious had one concern left: the venting of his awesome rage. He knew that it would not be enough to simply kill Luke Skywalker; he had to suffer for his defiance. Raising his arms, Sidious released his rage and fought him with his lightsaber, his training in centuries to fight Luke made him a formidable foe to Luke and used his force lightning on him, Although Skywalker attempted to deflect his barrages with his hands via the Force, the intensity of the lightning, combined with his from long years of training on repelling it.Sidious taunted the Jedi without pause, calling him a weak, feeble fool. He told him that the war would be lost anyway with the Combine, questioning him why he thought they kept the war going for many centuries and allied with nations they could easily conquer, he learned it from experience of how he did the same to the Old Republic and that was what the Combine Emperor was going to do next.
Palpatine intended that Vader also pay for seeking to use Skywalker against him; Vader would be forced to carry his son's dead body to the core shaft and throw it into the chasm and perhaps force him to slay Luke's descendants as well. If Palpatine had any doubts, they were answered when he saw Vader dragging himself to his feet and resuming his place at his master's side as he stood by the downed Skywalker. However, Sidious had long forgotten what had first enabled him to convert Anakin Skywalker—his desperate need to keep those he cared for from dying—and he had never expected that Vader would refuse to watch his son die, much less act to prevent it.
Without warning, Anakin, now reformed fought Palpatine and used his strength to throw him using the force, pinning his upper arms to his torso and lifted him in the air. The Dark Lord struggled against Anakin's grip, his hands forced high into the air, shooting bolts at him, electrocuting himself and damaging Anakin's life-support systems beyond repair. Sidious also screamed upon being lifted up, both out of shock at Anakin's sudden action for betraying him after being loyal to him for centuries. The only thing entering the Emperor's mind during this unforeseen turn-out was to cause his betrayer even more pain, realising the visions he saw of his fate was foreseen. Desperate to escape, his lightsaber was activated and struck his former apprentice through the chest, despite the attempts, Luke's father used with the last of his strength, hurled the Emperor into the abyss. He plummeted kilometers down the shaft, and even as he fell, he refused to admit defeat. Shortly after hitting the reactor, still discharging his force lightning, Palpatine then exploded into dark side energy, with it encompassing the throne room before eventually falling back down the shaft.
Emperor Palpatine, Darth Sidious, was dead. Minutes later, his former apprentice Anakin Skywalker also died. It was this that brought about the long-awaited restoration of balance to the Force and restore the peace in their universe. But the New Republic and the Jedi Order still had much work to do on its own before the era of peace foretold by the ancient Jedi prophets came to pass. The Empire would not surrender its holdings without pitched struggle, and the Emperor himself was loathe to cast off his power, or his life.
Final Death[]
Meanwhile, the Emperor faced his granddaughter Rey Skywalker in a desperate act to be his new body to possess. She fought back, but was no match for the Emperor. Before he could complete his plot, Luke Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker helped her, along with the redeemed Kylo Ren, his death was made permanent with their combined efforts using the Force to sent his soul to the furthest depths of the Force with all the Jedi and Sith from present and spirit from the Viau and Filo Universes to help them.
Legacy[]
Personality and Traits[]
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- "Your deception was flawless. To learn that the Advisors are the puppets, just as how we are all to you! You may have destroyed my other self's plans, but you will not. Destroy. ME!!!"
- — Palpatine's confrontation of the Pure Combine after discovering their true purpose.
- "Come now, Skywalker. had it not occurred to you the real reason why the Combine, the most ancient and most powerful empire known to sentient life, one that has conquered hundreds of thousands of realities, exterminated whole worlds and civilizations would strangely ally themselves with less advance worlds to prolong a war for centuries? Unlike the pitiful fools who were blinded by power and greed. I was not so fooled and deceived. They are preparing for a plan, a final plan, and we are their puppets, their chess pieces."
- — Palpatine's knowledge of the Combine's true plan to Viau Luke during the Battle of Endor.
- "Your imperial highness, might I inquire why you seem less concern that the enemy could use this knowledge against us?"
- "It is simple, not all of their knowledge from these Earths are close to our universe. Even if they were to use the knowledge, it is of no concern to me. But to be sure, make sure that ONLY a handful of my trusted officers are aware of this and only their eyes and ears. Any who learn of such about us, and even myself will be eliminated. Is that clear?"
- "As you wish, emperor. I understand completely."
- —Darth Sidious' response to certain media and fiction related to his reality.