She at least had understood that not only was the battle about to be lost but that the entire framework of the Empire was about to utterly change. Because within the battle station Emperor Palpatine, in his arrogance, had set in motion a series of events that would spell his own death. So fixated had he been on his attempts to lure Luke Skywalker to the dark side he had hamstrung his own military forces and turned his own apprentice against him.
