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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [QB] [QUOTE]But the Emperor's lie that Anakin had killed her was stupid; he didn't know it for certain, no body at the scene after all, and if he knew she died in/after childbirth then surely he'd know that the children survived and there were two of them![/QUOTE]I wouldn't doubt that Palpatine would know Padme was dead, reports from Naboo or not. Especially if, as some have suggested, Palpatine had something to do with her death. Throughout the saga, it seems that Palpatine only experienced major surprise when Vader turned from the Dark Side and threw him in the pit. As for Anakin's children, who says Palpatine didn't know that they had survived? In Return of the Jedi, Palpatine obviously intended to replace his "damaged merchandise" (i.e., Vader) with Vader's significantly more intact son. He could have been planning this since Vader was injured. While Luke was growing up, Palpatine would have wanted to keep Vader away from his son for as long as possible due to the Sith tendency to betray their masters. As we saw in the Empire Strikes Back, as soon as Vader had the chance, he tried to recruit Luke as his new apprentice and planned to destroy the Emperor. Anakin had even proposed a similar plot to Padme while on Mustafar. It's likely that Palpatine had sensed that Anakin would betray him at the first opportunity (such as gaining his son as an apprentice) and thus kept him in the dark for as long as possible. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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