I recall the shock I felt when Resistance agents brought back from Batuu—among other things—word that there were traders in Black Spire Outpost selling busts of Emperor Palpatine and other trinkets of his fallen Empire. How could this be? What must have happened to make the image of the Emperor—a man responsible for the murder of billions—acceptable enough to sell and own, even long after his apparent death at Endor? How could we all have gone so astray?
