Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Emperor Sheev Palpatine is often recognized as being a major antagonist in the Fandom Wars Universe, secondary only to Caidus Imperio Crow, but often times overshadowing the Volternian Warlord and becoming a major foe against not only the Jedi, but numerous Heroes across the Multiverse as his evil exploits and schemes have affected untold millions of different timelines and dimensions and his Galactic Empire's expansionist ideology has burned thousands of worlds to the ground for their resistance against his iron-fisted rule.

Formerly a Nabooian Noble Family member that eventually rose to power as Supreme Chancellor and destroyed the Jedi, the Emperor is the archetypal master manipulator, having created an entire brutal Galactic Conflict simply to rise to power eternally, using his executive authorities to formulate a ruthless Imperialistic war machine that came to dominate not only his native Galaxy, but hundreds of Galaxies and entire Universes at its utter apex.

Palpatine's first incursion into Fandom Wars came upon the Universal War timeline, in which his vast empire began expanding outside the Galaxy, rolling over opposition for the most part but finding long-term occupations rather difficult to maintain. Alongside this, the Emperor's aggressive actions and the callous undertakings of his governors and Moffs in quelling rebellion against their fascistic rule drew the ire of many Galactic factions in their neighborhood, especially that of the United Nations Space Command, though the Crystal Gems, Autobots, and Galactic Federation were wary of the Empire as well. Eventually, the Empire's neighbors began conspiring to stifle its unadulterated conquest. Realizing this through Force Meditation, the Emperor decided to form a coalition of like-minded factions to provide the Empire allies and protection. The culmination of this scheme became known as The Shadow Hand, consisting of the National Socialist Lone Star Republic Branch, also known as the Lone Star Reich, an alternate universe version of the Texan-born freedom fighting rebellion that had fallen prey to despotism and xenophobia and used these values to shape a new society of brutal conquest, the Terran Dominion, Decepticons, etcetera. Though, the Covenant Empire joined later on. Using the Shadow Hand's system of pooling resources and doctrines of protective counter-fleets to any incursions made by hostile neighbors, the Emperor's alliance was able to quickly dismantle any hostile threats against its undisputed reign. Unfortunately, the Particle Accelerator Incident seemed to have changed everything.

Sidious ended up being thrown through the Multiverse, as his Empire was ripped apart into cosmic dust and different timelines by the brutal ripples of the device, ending up in a timeline where Lord Vader had killed the Palpatine there and ruled the Empire without an equal. Despite Vader's Force-Based prowess and mastery with a Lightsaber, his skills at political governance were non-existent, as he commanded an Empire of utter brute force that made Palpatine's referendums and edicts seem tame in comparison, with worlds that even slightly disagreed with Vader's ideology of a pure Galaxy suffering Orbital Bombardments or their economies being ransacked by legions of Stormtroopers propagandized and bred to have utter loyalty to the masked Dark Emperor. Sidious once more operated from the shadows to overthrow this alternate Vader that'd grown too ambitious, first by stealing a shuttle from a crime syndicate and retreating to his private throneworld of Byss, already well-established by the local dimension's Palpatine. There, the Emperor used his mastery of dark science and cloning to re-activate the industrial factories there, which quickly began using the Dark Side Energies present on the world to churn out large armies of clone warriors based on an altered version of the Fett Genetic Template. These Warriors, while defective in certain visual aspects, some bearing sharp teeth that gnashed against each other or bulbous, freakish alien eyes or bug-like antennas on their foreheads, they were extremely effective soldiers, with the DNA of war and conflict being bred into their veins. With a sizable army prepared, Sidious searched the Galaxy for a proper network of admirals, governors, and generals to lead them into battle and use them to dismantle any threats against his oncoming rule. Eventually, he settled for a Jakkuian scavenger boy named Gallius Rax to become Supreme Commander of Sidious's Secret Army, before then using proxy agents and intelligence officers to reach out towards admirals, governors, officers, and military brass that were disaffected and disillusioned by Vader's ruling style to become Sidious's network of reliable generals, promising a better reign that would come after this foolish brute force Empire. Massing a powerful fleet at Byss, Sidious then began his conquest, testing his army's capability by sicking them on the industrial Core World of Foerost, guarded by a Vader loyalist fleet led by Admiral Rae Sloane. Sidious's Clone Army had the advantage of advanced understanding of Star Destroyer schematics given by their new military leaders during extensive intel briefings. Not only this, but Byss produced a legion of Xyston-Class Star Destroyers, from knowledge and technologies Sidious gained during his expansion and meeting other factions.

Each Xyston was armed with turbolasers capable of shattering tectonic plates and creating magma explosions that shook entire cities, and Auto-Cannons that burst entire continents like eggs and a massive Axial Superlaser that destroyed entire worlds with a single burst. These ship advantages worked in Palpatine's favor, as Gallius Rax's fleet was easily able to destroy Rae Sloane's forces after a quick kerfuffle over Foerost's orbit, in which Sloane, foolishly underestimating the fleet and construing them as some random Imperial warlord angered by Vader's edicts and wanting revenge, nearly perished while all her escort fleets, frigates, and Star Destroyers were exploded into fireballs in space. After the enemy fleet's TIE Fighter Compliments were eviscerated by the superior targeting computers of Rax's fleet, Sloane herself disappeared onto her private shuttle, aiming to flee to Coruscant and warn Emperor Vader of this unstoppable force that was going to demolish his reign if he didn't act fast. Unfortunately, her ambition dissipated when Rax had a Tractor Beam lock onto her vessel, pulling it into the hangar bay of his capital ship, where his Clone Warriors took her prison and tossed her into the ship's brig. Subsequently, Rax ordered an invasion of Foerost, which proceeded excellently, as the world's occupants were overrun and decimated by the superior fighting styles and combative nature of the Clone Warriors.

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