Palpatine convinces Amidala to call for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Finis Valorum, who is removed from office as a result. In the subsequent election, the Senate makes Palpatine the new ...

As it turns out, however, red wasn't initially Palpatine's lightsaber color — it was blue. And not just any blue-bladed lightsaber, either.

It turns out Anakin Skywalker was not the only young Jedi that Chancellor Palpatine nudged toward the Dark Side. In an exclusive excerpt from the upcoming expanded-universe novel Star Wars: Inquisitor ...

It's absolutely riveting to watch McDiarmid glide through how this chaos unfolds, from his withering Chancellor Palpatine begging for mercy to his horrifyingly proud boast of "UNLIMITED POWER!!" ...

That’s what Steve Simon gets to do in part of his garage, which has been remodeled into a home theater resembling Chancellor Palpatine’s office from Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith.

In The Phantom Menace, Chancellor Valorum was a do-nothing, but Palpatine is a doer. (If you didn't know he made the Clone Wars happen, you might think he was doing a good job trying to end them.) ...

Several deleted scenes from Revenge of the Sith further explain how Palpatine took control, ... But several deleted scenes explored this consolidation of power by Chancellor Palpatine even more.