Quotes About Emperor

The second Death Star is destroyed. The Emperor and his powerful enforcer, Darth Vader, are rumored to be dead. The Galactic Empire is in chaos. Across the galaxy, some systems celebrate, while in others Imperial factions tighten their grip. Optimism and fear reign side by side. And while the Rebel Alliance engages the fractured forces of the Empire, a lone rebel scout uncovers a secret Imperial meeting….

The second Death Star is destroyed. The Emperor and his powerful enforcer, Darth Vader, are rumored to be dead. The Galactic Empire is in chaos.

Tashu's lip quivers. Palpatine was his everything. To serve someone else feels treasonous beyond the pale. The void awaits those who betray Palpatine—that much has always been clear. The void awaits traitors. "I only serve Palpatine." "Emperor Rax serves Palpatine, too. Now go." Tashu nods. "Yes. Yes. It makes sense. It's part of a plan, isn't it? A plan I couldn't see? Sidious always had a plan…

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams; I crown me with the million-colored sun Of secret worlds incredible, and take Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar, Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.

Is this a good time to consider the habits of very effective people?' (Emperor Tai-Tsung, newly crowned) 'Ahem'.

But Christianity did not become successful through Constantine giving it imperial approval. Instead, Constantine adopted Christianity likely because it had already become so successful despite earlier efforts to destroy the movement.

The Emperor tells us that civilization will only achieve perfection when the last stone of the last church falls upon the last priest.

I was there the day that Horus fell.

He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.

The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, king of Spain, archduke of Austria, and master of several European tongues, professed to speaking "Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Five standard years have passed since Darth Sidious proclaimed himself galactic Emperor. The brutal Clone Wars are a memory, and the Emperor's apprentice, Darth Vader, has succeeded in hunting down most of the Jedi who survived dreaded Order 66.

Not yet, Shryne said, as if to himself Then you're his apprentice? His eyes darted right and left, searching for some means of escape. Is Sidious also in league with Emperor Palpatine? Vader fell silent for a moment, making up his mind about something. Lord Sidious is the Emperor.

For the moment it was enough that his advisers and minions respected him–for reestablishing peace, for eliminating the group that had posed the greatest threat to continued stability–but eventually those same advisers would need to fear him. To understand the great power he wielded, as both Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith. And to that end, Sidious needed Vader. For if someone as potent as Vader answered to the Emperor, then how powerful must the Emperor be!

How Plagueis would have mocked him for allowing himself to become personally involved in such a seemingly trivial matter; but then his Master had never foreseen that his onetime apprentice would become Emperor.

But no one outside the Emperor knew the full history of the moonlet-sized project. Some claimed that it had begun as a Separatist weapon designed by Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser's hive colony for Count Dooku and the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Artists. If the Emperor has his way, you'll be the first ones targeted for eradication.

Good. The Emperor sat back. And, tell me, what is your opinion of Lord Vader's handling of the occupation of Kashyyyk? He proved very capable, my lord. No one involved in the operation will soon forget his ... sense of commitment, shall we say?

For the moment it was enough that his advisers and minions respected him–for reestablishing peace, for eliminating the group that had posed the greatest threat to continued stability–but eventually those same advisers would need to fear him. To understand the great power he wielded, as both Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith. And to that end, Sidious needed Vader.

In the throne room, he had tried to puzzle out which among the Emperor's cabal of advisers, human or otherwise, were aware that Palpatine was a Sith Lord who had manipulated the entire war and eradicated his sworn enemies, the Jedi, as part of a plan to assume absolute power over the galaxy.

The Emperor's furtive smile gave Tarkin pause. Had he actually seen through Rancit's and the dissidents' schemes from the beginning? Had the events of the past few weeks been less about unmasking a cell of traitors than testing Tarkin's ability to foil the plot and to work effectively with Vader?

Good," the Emperor said. "Let that be a lesson to all of them"—he narrowed his eyes at Tarkin—"including the one who apparently got away.

Tarkin was surprised when Mas Amedda charged the car to descend. "I would have expected the Emperor to reside closer to the top," Tarkin said. "He does," the vizier allowed. "But we're not proceeding directly to the Emperor. We're going to meet first with Lord Vader.

No matter what, it was unlikely that he would ever have crossed paths with the Emperor—when he was still known as Palpatine. It was while Tarkin was attending the Sullust Sector Spacefarers Academy that they met—or rather that Palpatine had sought him out.