Emperor Palpatine is the main antagonist of the 2001 Star Wars comic book miniseries Star Wars Infinites: A New Hope in which one imagines if Luke Skywalker failed to destroy the Death Star.
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The Comic begins with the pivotal Battle of Yavin. Events begin to change when the torpedoes fired by Luke Skywalker experience a technical malfunction and fail to destroy the Death Star, but prevent the complete destruction of Yavin 4. Unable to fire a fully charged shot from the Death Star's superlaser, Grand Moff Tarkin orders the technicians to fire at reduced power, nearly leveling the Massassi Temple on the moon's surface and fire again to destroy the moon.
The Emperor then captures Leia and brainwashed her
