Palpatines Motiviation for leaking Death Star 2 Intel

[ConRefit79]

In Return of the Jedi we learn that the Emperor allowed the rebels to obtain intel on the Death Star 2 and the shield generator. Why? I would think he would keep it secret until the station is 100% and not have the vulnerability of the first Death Star. He may even include a new fake weakness in the leaked plans to set his trap. But he does it early when the station is truly vulnerable. I can only assume he feared waiting would allow Luke to grow stronger as well as weaken his grasp on Vader more than he feared the Rebellion.

Did the novelization shed any more light on his urgency?

 

[StarCruiser]

Oh...I don't know, maybe to lure them into a trap?

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[Mr. Laser Beam]

Oh...I don't know, maybe to lure them into a trap?

Yeah, that's what I assumed as well.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Palpers obviously didn't count on the Ewoks, and he didn't think Annie was strong enough to just say no.

 

[StarCruiser]

Yep - didn't count on anyone knocking out that shield generator, or ol' Darth turning on him...

Apparently, NOT all proceeded precisely as he had foreseen...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Also, Lando and Nien Nunb were both top notch.

Nien quickly figured out there might be jamming, which led Lando to the idea that the shield was still up, probably saving a lot of craft from simply crashing into the shield. And later, Lando's order to engage the Star Destroyers point blank evidently had the effect he wanted of stretching the space battle out as long as possible, to still have something left when the shield went down.

 

[Jedi_Master]

The Emperor made several errors because of his unbridled arrogance and hubris, primarily refusing to accept that alien savages could pose a threat to his overall plans, and assuming he could turn Luke to the Dark Side.

 

[ConRefit79]

I guess that doesn't match who the prequels portraid. He was patient and calculating in those.

 

[Ithekro]

From the novel it seemed that Palpatine had envisioned all that happening. It just didn't matter to him at all. All that mattered was the last Jedi turning to the Dark Side. When Luke refused...that is when all his plans fell apart. Because right after that was when the shield generator blew, and Palpatine dropped all his false faces and let his rage and hatred take over. That this boy would defy HIM....that is what pissed him off the most, and what caused him to loose control of everything else. Vader included.

 

[Nightowl1701]

Why the intel? To not only make a final death trap for the Rebellion, but to make that trap irresistible to Luke Skywalker. He had to come to Endor, right into the spider's lair.

Luke was right on the cusp of becoming a Jedi, a Jedi the Emperor had foreseen could and would destroy him. Vader had taken his best shot at converting Luke and failed. "Only together now can we turn him to the Dark Side." It was now or never.

Yep - didn't count on anyone knocking out that shield generator, or ol' Darth turning on him...

Apparently, NOT all proceeded precisely as he had foreseen...

He'd anticipated the Rebels might get lucky and knock out the shield generator - in deleted footage, he'd ordered Moff Jerjerrod in that instance to turn the Death Star on Endor and blow it up. Both fleets would either scatter or get wiped out in the blast. How he planned to escape, if he did, is unknown. The only thing he truly didn't anticipate was Vader's change of heart.

 

[JeffinOakland]

This is pretty clearly explained in RotJ. Palpatine wanted to crush the resistance once and for all by luring them into a trap. He also wanted to convert Luke, who he knew would seek him and Vader out for direct confrontation.

 

[Set Harth]

How he planned to escape, if he did, is unknown.

His shuttle... the same one Luke used.

 

[Nightowl1701]

^ The obvious answer, though he would have had to scramble.

 

[Mr Light]

He did escape. His disembodied spirit went into a clone body.

 

[Reverend]

Lets not forget that there's an aspect of predestination to his plan. It seems a lot of his machinations were concocted with the benefit of foresight. So in some version of the future, he saw the rebellion crushed over Endor and Luke taking Vader's place. So he he manipulated events to create the scenario he saw.

Obviously it wasn't perfect because as Luke pointed out, his overconfidence was his weakness. He was too quick to believe the outcome that favoured him was the most likely and didn't foresee his ground forces overcome by primitives nor that Anakin was still in there somewhere.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Overconfidence was his weakness.

 

[publiusr]

If I wanted to lure Jedi away--I'd keep them far from any important projects.

 

[Tribble puncher]

I figured that allowing the rebels to get Intel on the second Death Star before completion was to give the Rebels of false sense of "We've got them with their pants down if we strike now!" As others have said, Palatine was over confident. He planned to pick off the Rebels from behind his shield, he just failed to see a couple of critical cogs in his Imperial war machine being jammed with the bodies of Teddy bears. Plus Luke giving him the polite finger.... Just threw him for a loop. I always noticed the couple of second pause Palpatine has after Luke proclaims he's still a Jedi. He just looks at him like: You....... Mother........$&!$#!

 

[Solid Snack]

I remember that "The Force Unleashed" game also had a bit of a Palpatine manipulation-that he pretty much started the rebellion so he could get Mon Mothma, Bail, Leia etc. all in one place, but it backfired. That twist didn't really sit well with a lot of fans, if I remember.

 

[Richard Baker]

'Pink Five', a wonderful and very funny series of Fan Films (on Amazon Streaming now) had the Emperor place a second force field around the central power core of the Death Star II. Even if the Endor shield generator failed the Rebels still couldn't destroy the reactor.