Emperor Palpatine suffered two major defeats in the original trilogy, yet Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker shows Sidious did not learn from them.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Superweapons are doomed to fail in Star Wars, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker proves that Palpatine never learned this lesson. Palpatine returned in The Rise of Skywalker, which retconned not only Return of the Jedi’s ending but the first two Star Wars sequels as well.
Darth Sidious’ return in The Rise of Skywalker had many problems, mostly because the film never properly explained how Palpatine returned. Regardless, the Emperor now had, in theory, more firepower than the Empire’s weapons ever had. Still, Palpatine’s The Rise of Skywalker plan ignored his first two major failures and led to yet another defeat.
The Destruction Of The Death Star Proved Superweapons Are Just Bigger Targets Palpatine’s Death Star plan failed twice in Star Wars. One of the most iconic Star Wars moments is Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star, which would then become a Star Wars trope when Return of the Jedi did something similar. In both cases, the Rebels explored a design failure within the Death Star to destroy the superweapon using nothing but a few X-Wings.
Star Wars’ Death Star trope would return 32 years later in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, during which the First Order launched the Starkiller base. As Han Solo put it, the Starkiller base was essentially a Death Star bug bigger. Once again, a few X-Wings managed to destroy this superweapon by exploring small flaws in its design. Similarly, the Supremacy ship was nothing but a big target for the Resistance’s fighters to aim at.
Palpatine's Response... Was To Go For More Superweapons Despite all the times the Empire or the First Order failed due to their superweapons being easily destroyed, Palpatine went for more superweapons as his ultimate plan against the galaxy. Instead of just one Death Star, Darth Sidious’ “final order” brought countless Xyston-class Star Destroyers from his secret Sith fleet into the galaxy.
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