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[ Star Wars Legends ] in ROTS, why does Palpatine claim that the Republic will be reorganized into "the FIRST galactic Empire" when there aleready WAS another galactic Empire im command a few thousand years before it?
gpt
I think you can honestly chalk it up to it being ancient history really. Like, a few thousand years? *Nobody* from that era is still alive, hell you might be hard pressed to find anyone who knows about it who isn't a Historian. The galaxy is so vast, with so many people, it's not really surprising that some history gets lost or just stuck in history holos that get read by a tiny percentage of the population overall.

Plus, Ol' Palpy is a populist dictator, kind of undermines *his* achivement if he's just ribbing it from some ancient dude. It's the First Empire that matters. It's the first Empire for the "people". If people knew the old Empire was run by ancient Sith who scoured planets, well it's not really sending a good image, especially when that Empire eventually fell.