Screen Rant

Emperor Palpatine may take all the credit for his win... 1 / 11

But if you look at how his Empire actually took shape... 2 / 11

He had no idea how to rule a people, let alone a galaxy. 3 / 11

Now the comics have revealed who actually had the plan... 4 / 11

Minister Pitina Voor, founder of the Coalition for Progress. 5 / 11

After persuading her mindless husband to take his life... 6 / 11

She rolled out a plan to slowly persuade worlds to submit... 7 / 11

Which worked... until Palpatine started destroying it all... 8 / 11

Not realizing nobody would want to serve an evil maniac. 9 / 11

Showing Palpatine created the Rebels, despite Pitina's efforts... 10 / 11

And the First Order is making all the same mistakes. 11 / 11