Battle of Onderon (Galactic Civil War)

The Battle of Onderon was the final battle between the reborn Emperor Palpatine's forces and the New Republic. During the battle, Luke Skywalker and his Jedi team engaged Palpatine and his Dark Jedi and Imperial Guards in a fierce duel, which resulted the final death of Palpatine and his crew, and the deaths of Rayf Ysanna and Empatojayos Brand, as well as the slight injury of the rest of the Jedi crew. In the end of the battle, the Galaxy Gun crushed with Eclipse II as a result of a Rebel sabotage, and, in its last moments, the galactic weapon shot a projectile that destroyed Byss, the Emperor's throneworld.

Background
Having returned in yet another clone, Palpatine continued his scourge against the New Republic. Armed with the deadly superweapons, the Galaxy Gun and his Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer Eclipse II, Palpatine forced many New Republic worlds to submit to Imperial rule. Despite his growing Empire, Palpatine was again growing frail and weak.

Even worse, the resurrected Emperor began to succumb to accelerated aging due to genetic tampering done to his clones by the treacherous Sovereign Protector Carnor Jax. He tried to clone other bodies so that he could resurrect himself, but Jax had succeeded in tainting even the genetic source material.

Even his scientists and doctors were rendered helpless. With his body wasting away rapidly, he went to the Sith world Korriban to consult the ancient Sith Lords. Clearly stating that even they can do nothing about his degenerating body, they advised him to gaze into the Oracle stone, where he saw Anakin Solo. The Sith told him that this boy would either be his salvation or his bright doom. They told him where to find him: Onderon.

The Battle
The Emperor brought the Eclipse II to Onderon, where the Solos had relocated their children. While the New Republic engaged the Imperials, a team of Jedi led by Luke Skywalker along with Han Solo, sought out the Emperor. Brand sensed the Emperor's intense darkness in a nearby shuttle. They fought their way to the Emperor's shuttle past his guardsmens and stormtroopers, but did not find him aboard the ship. Instead, they encountered a Dark Side Adept, whom informed them that they had been deceived and that the Emperor has slipped down to the Kira fortress to find Leia and her child.



During the battle, Lando Calrissian and R2-D2 infiltrated the flagship. R2-D2 then sabotaged the vehicle's automated hyperdrive engines and set the coordinates to match the location of the Galaxy Gun, which orbited the Imperial throneworld of Byss in the Deep Core. The flagship fled into hyperspace, despite the efforts of the crew to regain control of the vessel.

Meanwhile, Palpatine faced Leia and demanded the possession of her youngest child Anakin Solo, stating that he was no longer willing to be gentle to her. She fought back, managing to knock the Emperor off his feet with a powerful Force Push; allowing her children to slip to safety. Enraged, Palptine stood and unleashed a barrage of Force lightning. Leia fought back but was no match for the Emperor, and was finally knocked unconscious by one of his lightning bolts.

With Leia immobilized, Palpatine now attempted to enter Anakin's body. Before he could complete his plan, Skywalker and two other Jedi&mdash;Rayf Ysanna and Empatojayos Brand&mdash;arrived. Palpatine, along with two Dark Jedi fatally injured Brand with force Lightning despite his attempts to fight back. However, Palpatine's use of the Force drained his weakened clone body.

The Dark Jedi T'iaz then engaged Ysanna in a lightsaber duel but was killed himself. However, Rayf was then cut down by the Dark Lord himself, whom Rayf had underestimated, even stating that frail old man like Palpatine would be easy to defeat, and that and that he would protect anyone Palpatine tried to harm. Nevertheless, he could not defend himself from the rage and the tremendous power of the Emperor, despite the inferiority of his clone body.

After having killed Rayf, Palpatine noted that it was not the first time he saw "poor fool" die with the Jedi fire burning in his eyes. Luke Skywalker tried to stop the Emperor from grabbing Anakin. The Emperor ignored Skywalker's warnings and fought back with all his remaining energy against the Jedi Master. Despite the loss of his adepts, he finally managed to grab the boy.

Leia and Han Solo attempted to stop Palpatine's efforts to claim their child. Leia commented that she would only let Palpatine to get the baby over her dead body. Han quickly shot the Emperor in the back, which Palpatine purposely did not block so that he could be free of his physical form and "enter the child as he had promised". Luke knew that this would be the beginning of the end, as they could not fight Palpatine's ghost.

His last clone body destroyed, the Emperor's cackling spirit flew towards young Anakin Solo, but was intercepted by the dying Brand, who threw himself in the way. The Purge survivor shielded the baby with the Light Side of the Force and bound the Emperor's departing life essence to his own, taking it with him as he became one with the Force. Railing and cursing the Skywalkers, Palpatine's spirit was dragged into the depths of Chaos. There he would experience disembodiment in darkness, perpetual madness as if to always live with an open wound, terror without respite.

Darth Sidious, considered by many to be the greatest Dark Lord of the Sith of all time, was finally dead.

New Republic

 * Empatojayos Brand
 * Lando Calrissian
 * Modon Kira
 * Lady Kira
 * Luke Skywalker
 * Anakin Solo
 * Han Solo
 * Leia Organa Solo
 * Kam Solusar
 * Rayf Ysanna

Galactic Empire

 * Palpatine
 * T'iaz
 * Unidentified Dark Side Adept

Appearances

 * Empire's End
 * Crimson Empire