However, the Dark Empire's leader suffered a loss of sanity as a result of this brush with death, and utilized the Galaxy Gun to destroy various targets, eventually cowing several former Imperial worlds into surrendering and having the New Republic scattered. However, he designed a reboot method in case this were to happen and proceeded to take over another clone body, although the rest of his clone bodies were destroyed by Sa-Di and Nefta, and orchestrated Operation Shadow Hand. However, Sidious' plan backfired when Skywalker and his sister, Leia Organa Solo, cut him off from the dark side and had him consumed by his own creation. The Sith Lord eventually traveled to the New Republic's headquarters, Pinnacle Moon, in his flagship, the Eclipse, and created a Force storm to destroy the Pinnacle Moon.
In actuality, Skywalker feigned allegiance to Palpatine in order to defeat the dark side from within, and proceeded to leak the override codes for the World Devastators, although this did not last long. He then seemingly converted Luke into his Sith apprentice, and proceeded to launch an attack on Mon Calamari with his World Devastators. In 10 ABY, having recovered more than enough of his strength, he eventually decided to reveal himself via summoning a Force-created wormhole that resulted in damage to Coruscant - which had already seen enough damage from feuding warlords after it was reconquered by the Galactic Empire - although he deliberately didn't stop the mutiny sooner out of revenge, wanting them to "cull the weak." His Force Storm also resulted in Luke Skywalker being captured and delivered to Byss. The Emperor's Citadel on Byss, stronghold of the Dark Empire In addition, after Cronal's presumed death at the Battle of Mindor, it was rumored that Pestage used Cronal's codename and identity of Blackhole to further push the Dark Empire into open existence. Palpatine and Pestage were also indirectly responsible for the Trioculus affair in 5 ABY, as they had leaked information about the Glove of Darth Vader to the false Kadaan with the intention of using the Sith amulet to boost Sidious' weakened power and regain control of the galactic stage. Likewise, the New Republic, although fully aware of Byss's existence, did not know of its connection to Sidious, and likewise thought it was simply a civilian population, and thus did not investigate it. The Emperor, needing to recover his strength before resuming his conquest and revealing his revival, observed the crumbling state of his Empire from behind the scenes. Īfter Galactic Emperor Palpatine, the public identity of the Darth Sidious, perished in 4 ABY at the hands of his former apprentice Anakin Skywalker, the Emperor's spirit traveled to Byss by possessing Jeng Droga, one of his Emperor's Hands, a process that cost the latter his sanity until he managed to gain a clone body as well as contact Sate Pestage, who was also partially responsible for his revival. The first was consumed by Palpatine's Force Storm, which he lost control of, and the second was destroyed when R2-D2 set it on a collision course with the Galaxy Gun, another superweapon, similar to the Tarkin.Ī map of Emperor Darth Sidious' territories and military incursionsĭarth Sidious had planned to replace the Galactic Empire with this Dark Empire since prior to the Galactic Civil War. Both of them, the Eclipse and later Eclipse II, were destroyed. They were the Eclipse-class dreadnoughts, massive warships that were equipped with small superlasers. His rule introduced a new line of superweapons to take the place of the two Death Stars his earlier Empire had. Despite being trained and empowered by Palpatine himself, the Elite took heavy casualties during Operation Shadow Hand and were wiped out by the end of it.ĭarth Sidious intended to eventually use solely the dark side of the Force to run the Dark Empire, but had to use regular vehicles until that could be accomplished. There were always seven of them, and once one died, another was immediately appointed.
The Dark Empire was openly run by dark side users, and the Emperor kept a group of Force-sensitives, called the Dark Side Elite, to carry out his will, similar to the Emperor's Hands of the Old Empire. It fell apart less than a year later in 11 ABY, upon Palpatine's final death on Onderon, as well as the destruction of Byss, the stonghold of the Dark Empire. Although this renewed Sith Empire was formed when Palpatine revived himself in a clone body in 4 ABY, it officially revealed itself in 10 ABY, when the Sith Lord became strong enough to attack the New Republic. The Dark Empire, also referred to as the Empire Reborn, was a splinter faction of the Galactic Empire located in the Deep Core led by the reborn Emperor Palpatine, also known as the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious that tried to reclaim the Empire that had been in a civil war by 10 ABY.
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