When Padme died on Polis Massa, her body was in the possession of Obi-Wan, Yoda and Bail Organa. However, we can assume she was handed over to Imperial management since she was permitted a very public state funeral on Naboo - something the Jedi cannot personally organise at this point in time without attracting Imperial attention.  How did they deliver it to the Empire without arousing suspicion?  Also, what is the official Imperial statement on her cause of death? Since the Empire permitted the state funeral, we can assume that the Emperor did not expose her relationship with the "traitorous" Jedi Anakin Skywalker. The surviving Jedi also covered up the birth of the Skywalker twins by setting up the illusion her child (Anakin nor Palpatine knew there was more than one until Endor) died with her, still in the womb. So it can't be said that she died of a "broken heart" nor in childbirth.  So what did the Empire tell the galaxy?
In Revenge of the Sith, after first being Force-choked by Anakin and then given births to Luke and Leia, Padme Amidala eventually lost her life on Polis Massa. We later, however, see her in the funeral procession on Naboo. The question is, how did she get there?    I mean, whoever delivered her there must have faced a lot of difficult questions, not just from her family but also from both the people and the authorities, since she was the former queen of the planet. Whoever it was, he could not have been just somebody, because it most certainly must not have been an easy task. It most likely was not any of the Jedi, since the world was probably half full of Palpatine's collaborators who would have immediately given them away.  So, who was it? And how was it carried out, in practice?
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As such, the ISA as presented to the programmer is little more than an interface to issue commands to the processor, rather than a representation of the actual low-level operations the chip performs.  Then again, implementing this translation layer requires additional silicon space on the chip...  That said, assuming that they are implemented using the same semiconductor process, is ARM inherently more efficient than x86? With a properly designed , is it possible for an x86 processor to deliver the same performance per watt as an ARM processor?  Remember, I'm looking for a well-written technical answer in the spirit of Stack Exchange and not mere speculation. Is it possible to serialize and deserialize a class in C++? Why is it important to override GetHashCode when Equals method is overridden? 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