Why Sidious Was Extremely Disappointed with the Empire - Star Wars Explained

the Galactic Empire was the culmination of everything that Darth Sidious and the entirety of the Sith had been working towards for a millennium it was the ultimate goal and the grand trophy of the Sith so why was it that Sidious was ultimately disappointed with how his Empire turned out greetings and welcome back to the archives a thousand years of training all funneled into one dark lord and this Sith Lord spent the better part of 30 years perfectly setting up and executing the grand plan of the Sith the Revenge of the Sith was complete and the Jedi were no more it had been quite a swift Triumph and now the Galaxy solely belonged to their new emperor Darth Sidious Palpatine had big plans for the Empire and the Death Star was only the beginning he was aiming towards immortality and to reshape the Galaxy in his own Divine image and yet the Empire he found himself running was grossly underwhelming Palpatine's continual daily frustrations with how things were running was compounding each and every every day even though he was on top of the Galaxy the power he now held was not enough to quench the burning furnace of his anger that he felt towards his greatest accomplishment and how it was turning out an utter disappointment of his Perfect Image so why exactly was this why was Darth Sidious infuriated frustrated and disappointed with his Grand Empire and what were the major reasons for his critiques The Source we have today comes from the book of the Sith where Sidious Scrolls his commentary in the margins of the entire book sprinkled throughout the works are various side comments that clue us into how Sidious actually felt about his Empire where we get the most perspective is when he is writing commentary inside of his own chapter in the book of the Sith the first quote we can begin with is that at the beginning of the novel itself where Sidious writes this at the time I write these words I hoped my Empire would provide Limitless reach yet I must still rely on others to do my bidding and they are so often foolish flawed and disappointing this is our first indication of what city is actually got versus what he expected in the end keep in mind Sidious says this about his underlings as this will be a consistent problem that creates the through line of Sidious issues with his Empire having first conquered the Republic with all of his subterfuge in manipulation Darth Sidious had assumed that he was finally going to have Limitless reach that he desired for so long having to work in the shadows is a Sith for the majority of his life saw him having to use proxies in a complicated underground network of contacts for him to get anything done as he personally was unable to work while at the time he didn't mind it now it was becoming a nuisance now Emperor Sidious was the law and could change the law as he desired in his mind this theoretically should have allowed him to reach to extend all the corners of the Galaxy and would never be denied what he desired so what was it that Sidious desired well knowledge usually with the resources that the Empire had Cydia should have been able to pierce every dark corner of the Galaxy to find long-lost knowledge and power hidden away for centuries not to mention all the resources that could be gained from systems in the outer rim in unknown regions that were typically closed off to the rest of the Galaxy and yet this just wasn't the case one of the biggest problems impeding his research was the Imperial Senate itself a senate which took Sidious 19 years to fully dissolve despite the fact that he was the emperor he still had to play his cards right within the Senate until he could completely oust them and replace their influence with the Imperial Governors but until such a time he still had to be careful even as Emperor Sidious notes in the book that he wished that he had dissolved the Senate a lot sooner but that wasn't his only impediment as he mentioned he was still forced to work through servants but they weren't as efficient enough for his taste they didn't have the know-how to get things done properly and it wasn't as though Sidious could go and do everything himself putting his Sith pride aside he was an emperor running the Galaxy was a full-time job and it wasn't like he was getting a whole lot of help from Vader running it who at this point in time was still moping about Padme and had become so obsessed with hunting and killing Jedi survivors that the Empire itself meant merely nothing to him Palpatine's greatest critique of Lord Vader Vader did not desire to rule anything he desired to conquer his past self speaking of Jedi the inquisitors weren't very useful either and were not all that helpful with Vader hunting and killing the remaining Jedi we spoke of earlier why cities actually despised the inquisitors and we can revisit this quote from him Grand Inquisitor torbin is the latest of these fools to perish a bomb a speeder crash drowning in death my inquisitors are making a mockery of their Empire's infallibility when Palpatine needed the inquisitors to break Vader free of his obsession with the Jedi they failed him the inquisitors were valuable to a point but often died swiftly and embarrassingly in a way that left Palpatine himself humiliated as well as this furthering Vader's obsession with killing Jedi but it only got worse Emperor Palpatine was facing Insurgency issues on the newly conquered worlds that he had claimed Palpatine used fear to keep his citizens in line however he began becoming more and more infuriated when the inefficiency and ineptitude began to creep into to his higher ranks about this he had to say it is maddening educating this rabble with the Empire now near the a generation old my Imperial governor should at least understand the principle of the law of fear and yet I would have better success trying to teach aubreish to what gungan we are fully aware of this especially with worlds like lothal as the ghost crew was able to wreak havoc on the planet and eventually Foley win it back from the Empire the Prime Minister was unable to quell the Insurgency and so was agent kallus from the ISB not even the inquisitors three of them in fact and still it took Grand Admiral thrawn to make a real Dent to summarize we could basically wrap all of this up into one final quote by Darth Sidious concerning all of the Empire the defining quote says this my Empire so perfect in Vision has at times proved infuriating in its implementation because of the fact of the sloth and stupidity of my underlings even Vader my minor Masterpiece is often weak and indecisive it is fortunate that I have an eternity to outlive my errors and there it is not only was Palpatine collecting Seth artifacts and knowledge for the fun of it rather he was desperately researching the secret to immortality the essence transfer technique discovered by Darth Bane and lost by the foolish Sith Lord Darth gravitt Sidious in his mind believed that he had to start from the ground up to rebuild his Empire to outlive those that were still greedy rebuilding New Generation completely indoctrinated to his soul well while Cydia still had a treasure Trove of Sith knowledge perfect immortality still always eluded him causing him to grow more and more frustrated with the constant fires he was having to put out in his massively imperfect Empire with a thousand years of Sith plotting ultimately leading to a disappointment even in the eyes of their Emperor a cruel dark reality for this Sith but now my friends in acolytes what are your thoughts on sidious's utter disappointment with his Empire versus of course what he had in his mind what are your thoughts on the insurgencies and the incompetency of his underlings as well as Vader and The Inquisitor was Sidious right to be as Furious as he was about the resulting Empire and what his true Empire truly have been Unstoppable as always my friends if you haven't yet subscribed I would implore you to do so as it helps the channel out a great deal and as always my friends May the force be with you and have a great day foreign

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Length: 8min 31sec (511 seconds)

Published: Thu May 04 2023