Warning! This submit incorporates SPOILERS for Star Wars: Reign of the Empire – The Masks of Concern
Star Wars has lately confirmed the existence of “The Century Plan”, a key motive for Palpatine’s overconfidence that was initially justified when his Empire first got here into energy. As revealed in a brand new novel set mere weeks after the occasions of Revenge of the Sith, it is confirmed that Mon Mothma, the long run chief of the Insurgent Alliance, had a darkish dialogue with Mas Amedda, Grand Vizier to the Emperor himself. Now, this beforehand unseen second within the Star Wars canon serves as the primary time Mothma understood the true scope of Palpatine’s energy underneath the brand new Imperial regime.
Alexander Freed’s Reign of the Empire – The Masks of Concern is the primary in a brand new trilogy of books through the Darkish Instances, revealing how the renamed Imperial Senate reacted to Palpatine’s rule and what it actually meant for the galaxy. This notably contains Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, senators who finally motivated the formation of the Insurgent Alliance years later. Nonetheless, Masks of Concern is about at a time when Mothma specifically gravely misreads the restructuring of the galactic authorities, and the way far Palpatine was prepared to go to take care of his energy together with his “Century Plan”.
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Turning the Republic into the primary Galactic Empire, many senators within the Imperial Senate wrongly believed that the transition was in identify solely, and that democracy would nonetheless be allowed to proceed. Working example, Mon Mothma thought compromise might be achieved. Gathering company leaders, senators from former Separatist worlds, the Aristocracy, and the elite, Mothma steadily amassed a big coalition of help for her “Imperial Rebirth Act”, a invoice that will be certain that the Senate may nonetheless have energy, seemingly a masterstroke within the recreation of politics she thought would power Palpatine’s hand regardless of his new title as Emperor.
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Though the invoice passes by The Masks of Concern’s finish, Mothma failed to comprehend that Palpatine was not taking part in the sport, and he’d even gone as far as to flip the board fully. Based mostly on his plans to safe energy lengthy into the long run, Palpatine did not care how he can be perceived even when Mothma motivated shutdowns to commerce, communications, and manufacturing. Moreover, Palpatine’s Grand Vizier confirms that “any try and rally help shall be seen fairly rightly as an influence seize enacted by corrupt senators clinging to previous Republic methods or to radical Separatist ideologies.”
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“The Century Plan”- Palpatine’s Grand Vizier Confirms The Full Scope Of The Emperor’s Imaginative and prescient
Palpatine Wasn’t Bothered By The Current When The Future Was Secured
By bringing an finish to the Clone Wars, Palpatine had received the hearts and minds of the bulk, bringing “peace” and a brand new period of “prosperity” throughout the galaxy. Moreover, the Grand Vizier shares Palpatine’s confidence when assembly with Mothma after the invoice’s passing, confirming that Palpatine could have no bother ignoring the majority of the Rebirth Act, regardless of Mon’s protests that Palpatine could not simply veto the Senate-approved invoice:
“He’s The Emperor. That is the Empire. His energy Senator Mothma, is absolute.”
Mas Amedda continues to indicate Mothma how the galaxy now operates underneath the Imperial regime. The firms may be disruptive, however the Emperor will merely seize their property and take over operations as a matter of galactic safety utilizing the clone military (and the imminent volunteer force of stormtroopers on the way). The Grand Vizier then exhibits Mothma the primary of many Imperial facilities constructed to carry and “reeducate” those that attempt to defy the Empire, successfully holding services for political dissidents. Final however not least, Mas Amedda confirms the existence of Emperor Palpatine’s “Century Plan”:
“None of that is greater than a minor effort within the eyes of the administration. The trillions of credit spent on this challenge are a pittance. The Emperor, the governors, all of the minds we’ve introduced collectively have grand plans for the galaxy, not only for the subsequent 12 months, or the subsequent 5 years, however for the subsequent century. We’re the architects of the universe our grandchildren will stay in, and it will likely be one the place there isn’t a battle, no dissent, and no visionaries who would undo the work of their betters. At the moment, we’ll keep order by way of navy may. However sooner or later, each youngster will be taught a superior historical past, and be raised in a superior household, and the idea of defiance shall be as antiquated because the spear.”
Having requested one another in the event that they’d begin a battle with the opposite when Mon Mothma is a professed pacifist, and that historical past would come to view Palpatine as a tyrant, Mas Amedda counters by saying that the Emperor’s already received. Likewise, Mothma realizes that Amedda’s proper, and that it will likely be a while earlier than a brand new battle can start as soon as the galaxy sees simply how far Palpatine is prepared to go to take care of his energy. Palpatine already has his victory within the current, and he already had plans to safe the long run for many years upon many years.
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Limitless Energy For A long time To Come
As if Mon Mothma’s hope wasn’t crushed sufficient, Mas Amedda confirms that Palpatine needs a sure stage of opposition inside his Empire, recognizing that the proper of resistance can solely make the general public love and help him extra with the facade that he is combating for his or her freedom and safety:
“The Emperor’s concern is the Century Plan. Not with tomorrow. Tomorrow is secure. Tomorrow he leaves to folks comparable to myself, and to you, if you want it. You’re free to go dwelling and maintain your information convention and name the passage of the Rebirth Act a triumph. You possibly can choose fights with the governors, and push again in opposition to the chief, and earn the admiration of your friends who want for a return of the Republic. The Emperor understands the worth of opposition….however you’ll not try and intrude with issues that matter. The Century Plan will transfer ahead as a result of there are actions the Emperor won’t abide.”
As long as The Century Plan remained, Palpatine did not care about who was attempting to talk out or make strikes in opposition to him within the current. Whereas it is clearly not spelled out for Mon Mothma throughout this dialog with Amedda, massive components of Palpatine’s Century are in fact the continued development of The Loss of life Star, making certain that any important resistance can be met with the destruction of whole worlds. Likewise, secret operations such as Project Necromancer have been tasked with growing the means for Palpatine to unnaturally prolong his life into immortality have been additionally essential, permitting Palpatine and his Empire to reign in perpetuity.
Luke Skywalker Destroyed The Total Century Plan When He Took Out The Loss of life Star
Destabilizing Palpatine’s Basis of Energy
Certainly, the Empire’s Century Plan was an enormous supply of Palpatine’s overconfidence. To that finish, the eventual formation of the Insurgent Alliance solely had Palpatine’s consideration as soon as the Loss of life Star plans have been stolen and Luke Skywalker blew up the battle station in A New Hope, destabilizing the inspiration of energy the Emperor had spent years constructing. It additionally explains why the Empire virtually instantly started work on a second planet-killing weapon.
The Masks of Concern’s encounter between Mon Mothma and Mas Amedda on the daybreak of the Empire is essentially devoid of hope within the face of Palpatine’s limitless energy. That is to be anticipated as this guide is simply the primary within the aptly titled Reign of the Empire trilogy. That mentioned, it is fascinating to check this primary assembly between the 2 leaders and their final recognized encounter within the Star Wars canon: when a defeated Amedda indicators the Galactic Concordance with Chancellor Mothma following Palpatine’s dying and the Battle of Jakku, marking the Empire’s official surrender to the New Republic.
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