Warning! SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 2, episodes 7 & 8.Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 2, episodes 7 & 8 showed just how well Palpatine controlled the Imperial Senate during the rise of the Empire, proving Mace Windu was right to believe he needed to be killed in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. There is a sense in which Palpatine's true triumph was over a decade before the end of the Clone Wars, when he orchestrated his ascension to Chancellor in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Palpatine slowly gained more and more power and sway within the Galactic Senate. He did not fight his enemies directly, but rather used their own strength to further his own ends. Instead of leading the Separatists in their battle against the Republic, he fooled them into believing they were fighting for reform – and used them as a pretext to gain emergency powers.

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