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Eye of Palpatine

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the specially-designed starship Eye of Palpatine was basically a huge dreadnaught hidden inside an asteroid-like shell. The moon-sized craft could travel hyperspace until it neared a target, then drop into normal space. It would then swing into the destination system as a piece of space debris. It automated firing controls could then unleash a huge gout of firepower, capable of destroying an entire planet. In overall length, the ship was larger than a Super-class Star Destroyer. As part of the mission of the Eye of Palpatine, special stromtrooper squadrons were dropped on hostile worlds in the Outer Rim Territories and told to await pick-up by the new starship. They were never told what to expect, let alone that the Emperor Palpatine himself was the only personal holding all the cards. When the Jedi Knights discovered Palpatine's plans for the Eye of Palpatine, they sent Callista Ming and another Jedi to disabled the craft. Callista sacrificed herself to the ship's automated defenses as the other Jedi escaped. She then used the Force to lock herself into the computer's automated firing controls. In this position, she was able to counteract The Will of the ship and keep it from being reactivated by incoming Imperials by destroying any approaching ships. Over the years, with Palpatine's involvement as Emperor and his death at Endor, the various stormtrooper groups died or were killed by indigenous life. Callista remained resident in the firing control section of the computer core. When Luke Skywalker, Cray Mingla, and Nichos Marr went to the Moonflower Nebula, they activated the Eye of Palpatine's proximity alarms, and Callista fired on them, stranding them on Pzob. This somehow set off the Eye of Palpatine's seek-and-recover systems, and it wnet about its preprogrammed mission. However, it could only collect native life-forms, not the stormtroopers it should have. Various life-forms were then subjected to the Eye of Palpatine's brainwashing indocatrination and turned into stormtroopers. The brainwashing included the implanting of false images portraying the Jedi Knights as murderers and plunderers.