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The Death Star in orbit over the moon of Jedha.
AN IDEA IS BORN Palpatine felt rather confident about
the outcome.
Palpatine was evil. His lust for ultimate WHO’S THE BOSS?
power thrusts the galaxy into two different
wars and had a disastrous effect. However,
Palpatine was a skilled planner. He was Not to keep referencing the immense
patient beyond belief; he excelled at playing size of the Death Star, but given its mass,
the long game. The first look at his plans the fact that the project was kept under
for the Death Star came all the way back wraps from all but the necessary parties
in Attack of the Clones, 22 years before the is remarkable. The sheer amount of raw
Battle of Yavin. See? Long game. In the film, material that had to be brought to the
Poggle the Lesser handed over the Death table was one consideration. The Empire
Star design to Count Dooku on Geonosis for used their people where they could, but it
him to deliver the plans to his master. The wasn’t always possible. They had a lot of
Geonosians were responsible for crafting mouths to keep quiet.
the initial blueprint. Poggle told Dooku, As the Emperor had a full docket
“The Jedi must not find our designs for the leading a double life as Palpatine and
ultimate weapon. If they find out what we Darth Sidious and also manipulating the
are planning to build, we’re doomed.” rest of the known universe, he had to
The top secret project began then, appoint a right hand man to oversee the
kept hidden from even the Jedi. The Emperor Palpatine, the master planner. project. As we learn in the novel Tarkin, by
Clone Wars weren’t even over, but James Luceno the Emperor initially thought
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