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 Executor Star Destroyers, the Death Stars, Naboo, Byss, Wayland, 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 burnished staircase 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.

Palpatine also had a smaller, private throne room in the center, adjacened to the operating 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 were flat stone benches arranged in long arcs, where visitors could come to hear pronouncements from the Galactic Emperor himself. The audience could hear everything the Emperor said and the Emperor was likewise able to hear everything 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 in his seat. And at the bottom, around the tower of the Throne, six Imperial Royal Guards stood at attention at all times, protecting His Imperial Majesty Emperor Palpatine&mdash;except when Palpatine left the Throne Room with them or when he ordered them to leave him. This was Emperor Palpatine's favorite Throne Room and also the most important one, the Throne Room of the Imperial Center. It was located on the highest tower of the Imperial Palace, overlooking all of Coruscant, since it was the highest room in the highest building on the planet.

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, a sleep chamber that monitored his health, and a massive Galactic Map Hologram.

The throne room itself was in many ways similar to his throne room in the EmPal SuRecon center.

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

Palpatine's skyhook
Palpatine's skyhook could be treated as a throne room, as it was used only by top Imperial officials at Palpatine's permission. It was a very luxurious place, and contained many of his private artifacts.

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 unavailability 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 apparatus to remove all rivals and seize 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 center 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 New Galactic Empire's conquest of Coruscant at the end of the Sith-Imperial War, a Throne Room was quickly prepared for Emperor Roan Fel. This was a broad chamber, with squat, heavy pillars along either flank, but massive skylights in the roof and vast windows in the end walls opened the space up to the sky and cityscape.

In contrast to earlier throne rooms, the dais was the only large area of open flooring in this space, with steps leading down from the here and from the side walls to a sunken floor in the center of the room, which seems to have been taken up by an ornamental pool. Given that this Throne Room was functional within a few days of the Imperial conquest of the Jedi Temple, it may have been an existing structure taken over by the conquerors, and although it satisfied the basic architectural requirements of an Imperial throne room, the only detail to define it as such was the throne itself, which rested on repulsorlifts and was not even physically fixed in place.

After Fel's supposed death, this Throne Room was immediately taken over by Darth Krayt.

Appearances

 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars Dark Times: The Path to Nowhere
 * Star Wars Empire: Betrayal
 * Vader's Quest
 * Allegiance
 * Star Wars: TIE Fighter
 * Shadows of the Empire novel
 * Shadows of the Empire comic
 * 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
 * The Last Command
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
 * Dark Empire
 * Dark Empire II
 * Empire's End
 * Star Wars Legacy: Broken