Why Palpatine Claimed He DESPERATELY Needed the Death Star (Not Why You Think)

Vader: palps, why do we even need such a big station? We got plenty of big ships!
Palpatine: exactly! Lookie here Vader, I’m a big emperor with a big empire. I have a big apprentice with a big ship. Why would I bother to size you up when I could have the biggest ship of them all! A space station.
Vader: wait, all this so you could have a ride?
Palpatine nods
Vader: But it has a planet destroying laser!
Palpatine: and yours could raid a whole planet, I fail to see the problem. Also, my massive fuzzy dice have no ship to hang on and now I have to somehow get my deposits back for this plant order I made.
Vader looks at Palpatines data pad: are those racing stripes?
Palpatine: and flames Vader. Flames! I was this close in pimping out my ride and now it’s space dust! Oh well, thankfully I got a second Death Star in the works.
Vader: how-
Palpatine: Pimpin!

Fear does not keep people in line. When people are afraid, sanity goes out the window. Using fear only means you will be unable to predict people's actions.

Could have sworn the Death Star was also made for countering the Yuuzhan Vong.

Death Star = Darth Sidious has a small penis.

Why does this seem like KK's plan for star wars as well😑😑😑

Alter reality?
How about these:

six Infinity Stones, which are:

Space Stone: Blue

Reality Stone: Red

Power Stone: Purple

Mind Stone: Yellow

Time Stone: Green

Soul Stone: Orange

Palpatine is one evil power-hungry dude

I really can't believe that he actually believes that he could become a god

He was trying to get that warhammer god emperor vibes

He needed to prop up the failing Imperial steel industry.

Dang Palpatine would love the Scarlet Witch.

Palpatine wanted more time to film Gamorrean porn.

I respect the hell outta you man

I find it interesting how much more open palpatine was gonna be with vader after the rebels were crushed and the death star truly established. I wonder if it would come to a point where palp would be willing to help vader get a completely restored body whether it's through essence transfer or something else or if he'd still be too afraid to allow a prime anakin to return in any way possible

In the book “Outbound Flight” (EU) Is when Thrawn And Sidious first met. The Chiss knew about the Vong and so did Sidious. They both knew that a galactic invasion was coming. That’s why Thrawn agreed to destroy Outbound Flight. The Vong capturing that many people would speed up the invasion with that much gathered information.

He needed it cuz he hadn't mastered the Force Storm yet.

I love that both Vader and Thrawn turned out to be right about the death star after all.

It sounds like Palpatine was searching for the anti life equation

I had no clue... this is amazing

It sucks they never planned the sequel trilogy around this. Instead JJ and Rian were running in circles for four years.

I would go so far as to say Sidious is was the Anti-Christ of Star Wars!!!

Just started the video but I want to see if it gets right "the death star was a planet killer test bed in preparation for the Yuuzhan Vong"

The subjugation of the galaxy in the name of the empire was simply the trial under which the platform was to be refined.

That was after all the long game according to the EU.

he played ball with the universe

essentially, generic or classic anime shonen villain ambition

Shibai Otsosuki

In Legends he knew about the Vong because Thrawn's people the Chiss, had been keeping them at Bay by resisting small shorties into the Galaxy. But the Amarda was still out there.
The vong had world ships, planets that were pilotable.

This is one reason he had Thrawn destroy OUTBOUND FLIGHT. (See novel of same title) Jedi Ark exposition to travel out of the Galaxy.

Tiny penis syndrome

Finally more details and descriptions that aren't about the YV. Excellent content.

This is all for that. Galactic Empire started to fail and his plans failed. He wanted to change space-time,eevrything. Insane genius,like you said. May the Force be with you too😊

That's quite a gargantuan investment of time, money, resources, and military personnel for a mere convenience. All of it just for Sidious to relieve his responsibilities as a governing emperor.

So reading so many comments about the Vong…the Deus Ex Machina of the SW universe. Never understood how they can be outside the force if all life is connected through it. Whether you like it or not.

Seemed like the author who I forget needed a villain for villains sake.

So much like most of Legends it has ideas but if you use literary sense most of it is crap

He was gonna use it for freak off parties.

The real enemy wasn't The Vong, the real enemy was The Disney.

The Death Star was bad idea even for Sidious needs, Darth Bane would probably would agree with Vader and Thrawn. At most the Death Star been built after fullfill in his own goals and point outside of the galazy not inward.

Palpatine: What! You say the Galaxy next door already has a God like being?
Palpatine Lacky: No I said all the galaxies have God like beings and their at the front door...... They don't seem happy,
Palpatine: Oh........................... "0_o"

i dont think i like this that mutch as this seems more like vititate than palpatine
i think it would be better if he needed it because of things like yuuzhang vong to destroy their world ships or to destroy planet sized beings like Zonama Sekot or Mnggal-Mnggal and as a symbol or threats like it as there are a suprising amount of entities/ aliens that its better to destroy the planet they are on then to try and reclaim

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The major issue with being a LITERALLY Evil Ass... is even if we go down roads that it was multipurpose.. MOSTLY outta fear BUT a practical purpose like fighting the Vong.. It DOESN'T excuse ALL the Death an Fear an terrorizing it did BUT in cases of the Vong an stuff like the Darkside.... which coulda been that "only Force Users can handle" sorta things.. NO ONE, would believe he honestly intended to strike off on his own an keep to himself an pull a Dune verse Paul God Emperor became Hermit thing... an the Former DEFINITELY NOT "I did it for rest of yall" thing to take out invading mother ships an decimate capital ships while hoards of Stormtroopers an TIEs an ATs crushed the alien forces with absurd levels of number San fire power... Even if that's BASICALLY the role they helped fill if what Lil I remember is right from the Vong Conflict

Day 637 of asking for a part 3 of what if anakin was trained by qui gon

He likes balls

I’m surprised sidious didn’t try to create something similar to the star forge of the rakata

You know if it wasn't for the governors he put in charge of the worlds there would have never been a rebellion. Instead he treated every single citizen of the Empire like dirt and slave labor. Made everyone live in constant absolute terror. And did so many stupid things that were a waste of resources. Even real life dictators don't go that far because they know it will incite a rebellion they cannot ever hope to quell

I don’t know… this all seems really complicated compared to Palpatine’s ultimate goal. Did he really need to rule the Galaxy to be able to alter reality? If he could alter reality, he could quite easily create a reality in which he rules the Galaxy as a fanatically worshipped deity. He can complete step 1 by just skipping to step 2.

What Palpatine forgetting is to installed Cloaking technology on it


Imagine Cloaking used Death Star after firing it's laser to prevent it's location find out by Rebels

And in the meantime (while Palpatine were planning his takeover of the Republic) the Jedi, effectively ruling the Galaxy for centuries already, planned to do... what? Did they plan to build, to create something?

No. Impotent, all of them.

Not a man with small aims, eh? XD

As insane as this sounds, it fits perfectly the sith mentality. Vitiate was already an immortal sith emperor, way stop there? According to the rule of two, every next generation of the sith must be better than the previous. Since some ancient sith achieve a simple immortality, the next logical step should be a divinity - becoming a god.

As some people in the comments have pointed out before, the death would have been very effective against the vong. I would use it in hit and run tactics if necessary since it is hyperdrive capable. I would take it with a fleet of ships, preferably some star destroyers, but more anti fighter and anti frigate type ships. Then jump to whatever system the vong are in large numbers, target and destroy many of their high value ships and possibly transformed planets like they dod with coruscant. Then i would jump out system away with the fleet, refuel, re arm and prepare for possible counter attacks if the vong follow back to where we exited to re supply

Somehow ... nah, nice work.