Īfter Palpatine, perished in 4 ABY at the hands of his former apprentice, the redeemed 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 incursionsĮmperor Palpatine, known also as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, had had planned to replace the Galactic Empire with the 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.

The Emperor 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. Despite being trained and empowered by the Emperor himself, the Elite took heavy casualties during Operation Shadow Hand and were wiped out by the end of it. 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 reincarnated 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 new regime tried to reclaim the territory of the Old Empire after it had succumbed to a civil war and splintered into various opposing factions. The Dark Empire, also referred to as the Empire Reborn, was a restoration of the Galactic Empire located in the Deep Core and led by the reborn Emperor Palpatine, also known as the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious, following the Battle of Endor.

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