Emperor's throne room

The Emperor's Throne Room was the command center of Emperor Palpatine. It was located in the Imperial Palace on Imperial Center, formerly Coruscant. The Emperor also had other throne rooms on all of his Imperial and Super Star Destroyers, the Death Stars, Naboo, Byss, and all other locations that he might be expected to visit. His favorite throne room was on Coruscant, located a meter higher than the surrounding rooms.

EmPal SuRecon
Palpatine's first throne room was in an upper level of the Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center, built to resemble the Chancellor's holding office. A wide but short burinished staricase bisected the room into two levels, with the upper level replete with long permaplas windows. A pair of Imperial Guardsmen were to stand at attention at the staircase's foot. Behind the Guard stations was a table for Palpatine to meet with his advisers, and behind that table stood his large mechanized throne, integrated with the building's communications and computer systems.

Palpatine moved most of his artwork and statuary (such as the Massassi frieze) from his Republic Executive Building office into this new throne room.

Imperial Palace
The Emperor's Throne Room on Coruscant was a sunken auditorium like a huge crater dug into bedrock. In the audience decks, there are flat stone benches arranged in long arcs, where visitors can come to hear any pronouncements from the Emperor himself. What was unique about this chamber was that the audience could hear everything the Emperor said; the Emperor was also able to hear anything said to him from the audience decks. At the pinnacle of the throne room was an angled, prismatic skylight, which poured rays of light onto the Emperor Palpatine in his seat.

Death Star II
The Emperor's Throne Room on the Second Death Star was on the top of a 100-story tower located on the north pole of the superweapon. It was his command center that had access to all systems on the station. It was also protected by several turbolaser turrets and more shielded than any other part of the station. Beneath the throne room were living quarters for his Royal Guards and his advisors.

All entrances to the throne room were lined with security scanners and traps to prevent intruders from coming in, in addition to being guarded by his loyal Royal Guards. There was also a docking rig for his personal shuttle to dock, chambers for receiving guests and a sleep chamber.

The tower was to resemble the Jedi Temple towers on Coruscant. While the Jedi Temple has one tower with four supporting towers, Palpatine only wanted one tower to show that the Sith could stand on their own.

Imperial Sanctum
After the Battle of Endor, the Throne Room was apparently placed in a state of formal mourning&mdash;the black drape placed over the throne itself was taken by Mara Jade and used by her as a cloak on her departure from Coruscant. The inavailability of the primary Throne Room may explain why Sate Pestage tended to use a throne room in the Imperial Sanctum instead, during his brief reign as "Interim Emperor".

This was a far more sparse environment than the more famous Throne Room, with the throne itself jettied out on a long, blade-like balcony in a vast empty space. The only entrance lay at the far end of the balcony, which Pestage quickly arranged to be guarded by a pair of Imperial Royal Guards.

After Pestage's overthrow, the Tribunal governed from the chamber where the Ruling Council had once sat. Subsequently, Director of Intelligence Ysanne Isard used her powers as head of the security aparatus to remove all rivals and sieze control of the entire administration, making herself de facto Empress, but she eschewed the formal trappings of power, and her existing office took over the functions of the throne room as a control-centre and high-level audience chamber. Similarly, Grand Admiral Thrawn would use the [secondary command room aboard the Star Destroyer Chimaera.

Fel's throne room
Following the end of the Sith-Imperial War, Roan Fel established his own throne room on Coruscant. After his supposed death, it was used by Darth Krayt.

Appearances

 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: In the Empire's Service
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Masquerade
 * Dark Empire
 * Dark Empire II
 * Empire's End
 * Star Wars Legacy: Broken