Ever wondered what the rest of Emperor Palpatine's tower from Return of the Jedi looks like? Take a virtual tour through his tower! This animation is based on screenshots from the film as well as the cross sections drawings.
There’s a lot of really cool intentional design references in the prequels tied to the OT. I especially like the rots Anakin vs Dooku duel being a reference to Luke vs Vader in rotj and Anakin’s choice to betray Mace being a reference to Vader choosing to save Luke.
@molanohouse I think it's more do with that Papa Palps turned the Jedi temple into his palace on Coruscant because it's built on top of an ancient Sith temple.
So the most hilarious thing I find about the "throne room" is that its just a modified Mooring Tower for Star Destroyers to dock hastily converted, either because the Death Star 2 had no accommodations for the emperor at that point or he demanded a room on the pole and the construction crews had only day to redesign the tower. I'm guessing its why is has all those capped off industrial pipes and that pit straight down to the reactor (I'm guessing for waste removal). Its so funny to think return of the jedi final act takes place in the equivalent of an airport's sky bridge.
I read the Star Wars Technical Journal a lot as a kid. I don't know if it's still considered canon, but it said Death Star I had an identical tower that was never used.
This actually makes the most sense. They could have made a dedicated palace structure but they didn’t. And how many years did Palpatine have to inform he wanted a royal command structure in the Death Star.
TIL the Emperor of the Galaxy sleeps in a children's bed with no space for a lover, and does not go to the toilet. Or does he just drop one down the reactor shaft? What a miserable life.
Fairly certain he didn't live there, it was more of a hotel type thing, he only slept there when he needed to supervise the death star. I guess he just holds it in and goes down the elevator to a communal startrooper's bathroom?
"Your majesty, hum, my emperor, could you just explain to me again why your throne room needs to be directly connected to the reactor core? Please, I'm not questioning your intelligence or anyt..." (Imperial engineer right before being choked to death, probably)
it isn't connected to the reactor common misconception the explosion we see is all the energy from plaps forces power/lighting getting released as he died
@@lordparrot-rq5mw Died from what? Something down there had to kill him. And insane Imperial engineering would totally have a shaft going all the way to the reactor core.
The rebels probably didn't think anyone could be so stupid as to stick the one most important person in the empire at the top of a long spire like an olive on a cocktail skewer. If anyone had seen that ventilation shaft on the MkI, they probably wouldn't have guessed it led directly to the reactor core either
@@GoobNation Oh you are saying they played a game of "Guess which tower the emperor is in"? Firstly, security by obscurity is no security, and secondly, is your idea supported anywhere in the source material? It does say the tower is at the north pole, doesn't it? And once you've wrapped your head around the fact that the emperor is stupid enough to sit in a giant paper target outside the protective shell of the station, it doesn't take a great mental effort to guess he will be in a prominent spot. Know the man, know the method.
No bathroom, but even worse, when you went out the airlock at the end of the video, you created one hell of an explosive decompression throughout the whole 100 stories of the tower. Someone is gonna get fired.😮
I like that the tower’s absurd dangerousness could be in part due to, in whichever canon you prefer, Palpatine has cloning operations underway, and can use the force to transfer his conscious to a clone. It’s like an arrogant expression that he can cheat death. Or that building an empire was just his first achievement and it was a means to accomplish his next.
The most heavily shielded part of the DS2. This was an awesome video that actually adds to the experience of watching Return of the Jedi instead of detracting from it. Very nice work, subscribed. 💯👏👏👏
Like everyone says, no toilet (how can you call it the Throne Tower and forget the most important throne!), no shower, no place to even wash hands or brush teeth. Also, no closet for spare robes. As much as I dislike The Rise of Skywalker, if that extra vault they put in also had a toilet, sink, closet, and shower then I say that's the new canon. I don't want to be thinking of the smells that Luke had to put up with.
Subbed!! Please do more videos like this! I’d love one for all the other buildings and ships in the complete cross sections book. One for Yavin IV Massassi base would be amazing.
@@emilianomartorell3587 thanks! I will be doing more! I'm currently working on one for the Executor bridge, but I don’t know when it will be out yet. These take a lot of time. I'm open for suggestions for other places and ships as well
Aww, the Emperors a traditional storybook Evil Wizard at heart; he's got a massive moon sized engine of planetary destruction but he still can't resist having a Dark Tower on it somewhere. Old habits die hard and the oldest habits die hardest of all, even if they DO come with one of those new fangled Superlaser thingies.
Resistance: So I'm guessing the emperor is, what? in the fortified center of that planet sized death star? I mean where else would the leader of the empire be kept on the galaxy's giant death laser/ Military base Bullseye? R2d2: Uhh no. Resistence: No? Then where the hell is he? R2d2: Hes there....in the tower." Resistence: What seriously? They put the emperor, most important man in the galaxy, leader of the sith, at the top of a thousand foot spire, that if I'm not mistaken is most just glass, on the very top of the deathstar? R2d2: uhh, y-yeah, yeah I believe so. What it says in the schematics." Resistence: "I mean I thought this was gonna be a slug fest to get at him but, I mean...he's RIGHT THERE! R2D2: I know. Resistence: Its like he's dangling on a fishing line. R2d2: I-I know.I'm at a loss. Resistence: I mean does the empire want us to kill him. I was thinking we might have to lightspeed a few cruisers into the fucking thing to even get close, but honestly...1 or 2 blaster shots oughta do it. Admiral Ackbar: Suppose its a trap? Resistance: I mean...possible but how? We could hit that from a distance with the shield down I mean, Is there some kind of armada of cannons or a cloud of fighters surrounding the tower to cut through? R2D2: Uh , amazing uh no.... the tower isn't even independently shielded, No weapons on it at all. Resistence: Your shitting me? Why.... why don't we just....'Snaps finger' I got it. 12 HOURS LATER... Emperor: "Your fleet is lost...your friends on the moon will soon be dead and you-" Intercom beeps "What is it, I'm in the middle of my second monologue." Intercom: "Sir the shield is down and the rebel fleet have stopped attacking and seem to be repositioning." Emperor: Repositioning? Where?! Vader's sithy sense is tingling: Luke... we should probably leave this room... immediately. Emperor looks up: to see 100 ships surrounding the tower. Emperor: "...damn it. " Kaboom!
Y'know, it had _never_ clicked for me until many years later that this tower we see in the establishing shot was the actual place where the subsequent action was taking place. I always though that this was just a random greeble on the surface and the actual throne room was somewhere else 🙂
Within a second of seeing this I was already imaging a military planner: one guy in a small craft with minimum power drift near the tower. Pilot space walks/floats/drifts to the window where the emperor is and attaches an explosive device outside. Kinda like what they used to do to British warships by swimming underneath and attaching a mine while in the harbour.
This is fantastic work. I’m sure Lucas had an idea about all of this but they couldn’t build it, of course - they had to keep costs down because he’s an ““independent filmmaker.”” You definitely put more thought into this than Lucasfilm at the time. Anyone else hear the holomap music from Mass Effect when you see the display? 🤣
Wait wait wait, where's the super secret mirror room which was right off camera in the film the whole time? You know the one, it has the evil mcguffing in it.
I really enjoyed this…. I’ve often wondered about how it might be laid out and this ticked the boxes. I’d love to see something similar inside other ships…. Like a sandcrawler or an AT-AT.
In the grand scheme of a station the size of a small moon a 100 story tower would stick out as obviously as you think. Factor in getting shot at by defense cannons and/or any star destroyers or cruisers in the vicinity and also guess whether the emperor was currently in the tower and it isn’t nearly as much of a target as you would think
That is where palpatine converted the Jedi temple into his palace, right? Converted part of it into his own private museum as well I think. Also completely altered the architecture to make it barely recognizable as the temple I think.
@@jayburn00 in Disney canon he converted the Jedi temple into the imperial palace. In legends he rebuilt the republican presidential palace into the imperial palace. They are different.
Well this adds more fuel to the fire on how badly they screwed up rise of skywalker. They added a whole new area that never existed when Rey is retrieving the way finder
Love this! I actually started modelling Palp’s throne room in 3D years ago back when I briefly entertained a career in digital animation. Never got far with that project, so it’s awesome to see a completed version, especially one that looks so great. Would love to see your take on Cloud City, the Rebel base on Hoth and Jabba’s palace, if you’re looking for ideas. Awesome work! ❤
One thing I've wondered for some time is why the window behind it is shaped like it is. Sure, it's round, but it's the mullions that are shaped that pattern
I always thought the "emperor's thrown room" was nothing more than a spot the emperor chose to confront and turn Luke to the darkside. It's too utilitarian to be his official residence. That was also one of my issues with Rise of Skywalker.
Well at least now we know that the two Royal guards had somewhere to go when they left. Also... WHY would there have been a seemingly bottomless chasm near the entrance? What would have possibly been the reason for that insane safety hazard? Many believe it went straight to the main reactor... again... WHY?
I like to imagine that the general lack of OSHA in the Empire is just the imperial engineering core trying to assassinate the high command with plausible deniability.
He probably drops his deuces down the shaft. But sometimes levitates them and slaps Vader's lenses with the dookie ("Nooooooooo!") or if his ANGUH got the best of him, Vader's air intake grill.
There's no toilet up there. So, I guess that if you want to go, you either go in a corner, or take a lift a hundred stories down, and begin your search for one. Wait. Palpatine has the Sankara Stones? 2:44
All things considered, Emperor Palpatine is rather modest in his attire. He just wears a simple black robe, and even the throne room on the Death Star II is rather utilitarian.
Iunno. Feels like a real downgrade compared to that spacious office on Coruscant with a view of the city. I mean, how often is he even gonna use this anyway? I'd say this might be a case of architects promising a luxury apartment to sell the thing only to scale back.
I always assumed it was a shaft that led down to the main reactor core. Before you say how impractical & stupid that is, remember this IS The Empire we’re talking about. They’re not exactly known for practicality or safety regulations when it comes to the construction of shit like this. I’m shocked there was even a handrail that he had to be thrown over.
Well, it doesn't show Rey's misterious magical pathfinder's (or whatever the name for that thing was) impossible room. That's because it can never be where they showed in the movie.
This is supposed to be his headquarters? I thought this was just his brooding tower where he can sit and stare off into space while plotting his next move without having anyone around to disturb his thoughts. I would've thought his actual living and working area would be more practical.
so this is on the biggest, most important space station/ship of the empire, and for the most important person and this is all the living space they have for him? they could have easily made a kilometer wide mansion or something
