Yeah.
Try some of the mission impossible flicks. It normally takes me a few watches to figure out what I just watched.
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Try some of the mission impossible flicks. It normally takes me a few watches to figure out what I just watched.
That's probably it. The two would stare each other down for about a minute, realize exactly what kind of man the other was, and then grab their own respective sidearms and fire.It's interesting because I've been pondering how cool a Luthen/Garak team-up would be.
Assuming they didn't kill each other of course
If Partagaz hadn't killed himself, he was going to face a much harsher future than Dedra's, execution at least, for running a department with traitors, suspected or actual, and leaks that allowed the Rebels to learn about the Death Star before it was too late for them. I suspect that he indulged in his eleventh hour assessment of the hopelessness of the Imperial cause because he knew that, for him, it was over. The fact that there were stormtroopers waiting for him pretty much confirms this, I think.
(This is a spoiler thread, so I'm not spoiler-tagging my response.)
I was wondering the other day, if Palpatine had openly leaked to the Alliance that he had arrested Leida and was holding her on the Death Star (either of them), would Mon have ordered the Alliance to pause their attacks until an attempted rescue? Or would she go forward with the attack on the Death Star knowing that the galaxy's fate and the potential planets blown up during such a pause outweighs the fate of one person, even that of her daughter?
The way Partagaz mentioned the Emperor's actual name to Krennic - to me, anyways - hints that he was not a true believer. He's old enough to remember when Palpatine was just another Senator from your average world in the Republic and how so many Senators before the Imperial Era were just manipulative, greedy opportunists who'd vote for any bill if it greased their financial wheels.
"Save the sermon for Palpatine" just sounds like it's coming from a man who didn't entirely like the system in which he worked but he was damn good at his job and very secure. At least until the ISB started falling apart in those final years.
"Save the sermon for Palpatine" just sounds like it's coming from a man who didn't entirely like the system in which he worked but he was damn good at his job and very secure. At least until the ISB started falling apart in those final years.
There's contradictoins on how much the Force powers of the Emperor are known. The official stance is that no one knows about the Sith, much less that Palpatine is one. However, we have in the canon comics Qi'ra basically going around telling everyone that Palpatine is a Sith. To most of the galaxy this doesn't mean anything. However, assuming the ISB at least has SOME inkling of what Qi'ra and Crimson Dawn do (not even getting into their previous leader Maul), someone as educated as Partagaz should be able to put the pieces together. As recently as 9 BBY lightsaber wielding Inquisitors were going around openly on Tatooine threatening people in Kenobi (remember Reva literally publicly held a lightsaber to Owen's throat).
Partagaz knows that if even the Inquisitors are kneeling to the Emperor, there's probably more to the guy (otherwise Vader and the Inquisitors would just kill Palpatine and take over themselves, not unlike how the Separatist Council was wiped out).
That also fits with Paradgast’s explanation to Dedra that it didn’t matter that they killed everyone in Kreeger’s group and had no one to question, since they were mostly doing counterinsurgency theater to mollify Palpatine after Aldani, and actually doing effective work could wait until he wasn’t breathing down their necks.
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