Sheev Palpatine

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== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
=== Double life ===
=== Preparations ===
=== The Clone Wars ===
=== Reign of the Galactic Empire ===
With the Jedi mostly defeated, Sidious felt secure behind his huge galactic military and dominion over most of the known galaxy. Despite this, remaining Separatist holdouts and surviving Jedi would gnaw at his confidence of the longevity of his new Empire. Seeking to secure the center, the Emperor supported mass military excursions into the Outer Rim Territories in an effort to bring more systems under his fold. With his ultimate goal of bending reality into something of his own creation, an omnipotent Empire would allow all the galaxy's inhabitants to be held in his dark embrace.
==== The return of Obi-Wan Kenobi ====
In 9 BBY, the Third Sister hired a group of mercenaries to kidnap Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, believing that Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi had survived the Great Jedi Purge, and would emerge from hiding in order to rescue the princess. The Third Sister's true motivation for capturing Kenobi however, was to gain favour from and get close to the Dark Lord, and assassinate him as an act of revenge for his role in executing Order 66. The capture of Bail Organa's daughter posed a risk to the Empire's reputation within the senate, due to the senator's popularity, prompting the Inquisitors to have a further distaste towards the Third Sister. Darth Vader and the Inquisitorius took up the responsibility of hunting Kenobi themselves. Eventually, Kenobi succeeded in rescuing the princess, and the Third Sister's attempts to asassinate Vader failed, with the Sith Lord leaving her for dead on Jabiim. 
Ultimately, Vader and Kenobi engaged in a lightsaber duel on a barren moon, where Kenobi bested Vader, damaging his armor in the process, and he managed to evade the Imperials on his tail. Not long after, Vader reached out to his master via a hologram at Fortress Vader, his castle on Mustafar. He informed Sidious he had dispatched probe droids to continue the search for Kenobi, adding that the Jedi Master would not evade him once again. Sidious questioned Vader's agitation, before asking if Vader's thoughts on the matter were clear, continuing that perhaps they feelings he bore towards his former master had left him weakened. As Sidious asked if Vader could not overcome his past, Vader declared that Kenobi meant nothing, for he only served Sidious.
=== Growing rebellion ===
==== The children of the Force ====
Despite the Jedi being all but extinct, Force-sensitive children were still being born throughout the galaxy. Foreseeing the threat of their potential future of becoming Jedi, Sidious commanded his apprentice, Lord Vader, to contact the Grand Inquisitor and instruct him to complete his task as leader of the Inquisitorious by hunting them down and destroying them if they would not serve the Empire. Vader soon passed on the instructions to the Grand Inquisitor, informing him that they were the commands of Sidious himself, and the Inquisitor promised that the job would be done. Shortly afterwards, Imperial Security Bureau agent Alexsandr Kallus reported the presence of what he believed to be a Jedi following a skirmish on Kessel. The identity of this Jedi was Padawan Caleb Dume, a survivor of Order 66 now under the name of Kanan Jarrus, who had decided to take on the former Lothalian theif and con artist Ezra Bridger as his own apprentice. The Grand Inquisitor, alongside Kallus, would continue to hunt down Jarrus and his apprentice over the course of the following year. 
==== Response to the Aldhani heist ====
Within that same year, a rebel infiltration team consisting of seven members attempted a heist on the Imperial garrison on Aldhani with the goal of stealing the sector's quarterly payroll of more than 80 million credits. The heist was a success, and news of the raid became public, dealing a significant blow to the Empire. Upon hearing of this, Palpatine increased Imperial security measures in place, and spoke with Colonel Wullf Yularen of the Imperial Security Bureau. Palpatine decided to invoke new regulations in the form of the Blockade Order, the Imperial Emergency Act, and the Public Order Resentencing Directive, and gave the ISB direct control of operations going forward and the authority to arrest anyone who was considered a disruption to the Empire. Palpatine then prepared to address the situation to the senate. The next day, Yularen passed Palpatine's orders across to the ISB Board. Meanwhile, the Emperor convened an emergency session of the Senate in order to propose a legislative package of bills and amendments and to officially invoke the Public Order Resentencing Directive. 
During the fifteenth Empire Day, celebrating the anniversary of the Empire's rise to power, the Emperor presided over the Imperial Senateon Coruscant with his Royal Guards, and invited Lothal governor Arihnda Pryce to celebrate with him.
==== Lord Vader's report ====
After the Inquisitor's death, at the hands of Kanan Jarrus and his Padawan Ezra Bridger, the Emperor dispatched his apprentice to Lothal as an "alternative solution" to the growing rebel problem. Not long afterwards, The Emperor was contacted by Darth Vader after he had defeated the Rebel fleet in the Lothal system. Vader informed his master that he had discovered that his former Jedi apprentice, Ahsoka Tano, still lived. The Emperor was pleased with the news that Tano possibly knew the location of other hidden Jedi, and capturing her would allow the Empire to find them and destroy them before they became threats. Although Vader was more interested in finding his former Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Emperor told his apprentice to have patience and to send an Inquisitor to hunt down Tano and the other Jedi discovered on Lothal. 
==== The promotion of Thrawn ====
In 2 BBY, the Emperor promoted the Chiss Imperial Navy officer Thrawn to the position of Grand Admiral for his role in suppressing the rebel insurgency in the Batonn sector. During the promotion however, Thrawn questioned Sidious on the practicality of the Death Star. The Emperor questioned if the reason for Thrawn's worries were because of the threat the station posed to the Chiss species. However, because Thrawn had fulfilled his end of the bargain by sharing his information on the Unknown Regions, he let the issue go. The Emperor then introduced Thrawn to his personal enforcer, Darth Vader. Later, Thrawn would be dispatched to deal with the growing rebel threat.
==== The formation of the Rebel Alliance ====
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. Despite the efforts of Grand Admiral Thrawn to trap Mon Mothma and the Spectres in the Archeon Nebula, Hera Syndulla managed to deliver Mon Mothma safely to Dantooine where she gave a speech urging the galaxy to rise up against the Empire.
==== Disturbance from the Unknown Regions ====
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.
=== Galactic Civil War ===