Emperor's throne room

Inside his Coruscant fortress, the Imperial Palace, the Emperor possessed two throne rooms. One was intended for public functions, resembling a sunken auditorium, akin to a massive crater carved into the bedrock. The visitor areas featured level stone benches arranged in sweeping arcs, allowing individuals to listen to the Emperor's proclamations. The audience could clearly hear the Emperor, and conversely, the Emperor could hear them. An angled, prismatic skylight at the throne room's apex cast rays of light onto the Emperor as he sat. At the base, surrounding the throne's tower, six Emperor's Royal Guards stood rigidly at attention. The second throne room, Palpatine's private space, was located in the palace's highest tower. This was his most cherished and significant throne room. It was slightly elevated on a platform with a small staircase above the floor. The circular window in front of the throne, lined with the usual web-like framework, gave the Emperor a view of all of Coruscant. When staying in this primary chamber, Palpatine was usually flanked by at least two to four Royal Guards. It was here where Palpatine promoted his most trusted military commander, Thrawn, to Grand Admiral.

Palpatine's initial throne room was situated on an upper level of the EmPal SuRecon, designed to echo the Chancellor's holding office. A broad, short, polished staircase divided the room into two tiers, with the upper tier featuring long permaplas windows. A pair of Emperor's Royal Guards were stationed at the base of the staircase. Behind the Guard stations was a table for Palpatine to meet with his Imperial Advisors, and behind that table stood his large mechanized throne, integrated with the building's communications and computer systems.

Palpatine relocated the majority of his artwork and statues (including the Massassi frieze) from his Republic Executive Building office to this new throne room. Palpatine also maintained a smaller, private throne room at the center, adjacent to the operating room.

The throne room of the Emperor on the first Death Star was located in an observation dome atop a tower positioned next to the station's superlaser. This platform served as Palpatine's vantage point for observing the laser's firing demonstrations. Access to the Emperor's chamber was granted through a massive circular doorway secured by a rotating metal beam. Inside the main chamber, the Emperor's throne was elevated slightly by a short staircase and guarded by his Royal Guards and Imperial Senate Guards. The room was equipped with numerous control consoles surrounding Palpatine's throne and adorned with large statues crafted from black stone.

Palpatine established this chamber early in the construction of the first Death Star to closely monitor the workers and ensure its timely completion. During the Battle on Death Star I, Galen Marek arrived to rescue the leaders of the newly formed Rebel Alliance: Rahm Kota, Bail Organa, Garm Bel Iblis, and Mon Mothma. Palpatine brought the Alliance leaders here in order to execute them personally; he would interrogate and torture them to the point of death, retaliating for their "betrayal" and learning the names of their allies. He also intended to show their painful deaths to the rest of the galaxy as demonstration and to crush the resolve of further dissent.

After fighting his way through the station, defeating one of the Emperor's Shadow Guard and his group of Royal Guards protecting the doorway, and severely injuring Darth Vader in a duel in the tower's carbon-freezing chamber, Galen Marek made it into the chamber and fought Darth Sidious. Sidious and Marek battled with their lightsabers and the Force. Marek emerged victorious, freeing the Senators. Just as Juno Eclipse arrived in the Rogue Shadow, Palpatine revived and attacked Kota with Force lightning. Galen deflected the blast, enabling the rebels to escape by releasing his spirit to the Force. The ensuing explosion nearly destroyed the tower, leaving only Vader and Palpatine standing.

Following this encounter, Palpatine abandoned the throne room, entrusting the Death Star's oversight solely to Darth Vader. The Emperor did not revisit the station before its destruction.

On the second Death Star, the Emperor's throne room was situated atop a 100-story tower at the superweapon's north pole. Serving as his command center, it granted access to all the station's systems. Fortified by numerous turbolaser turrets and more shielded than any other part of the station. The standard circular viewport, framed by the web-like structure, offered Palpatine a spectacular view, while armrest controls maintained his connection with his countless subordinates. Barracks for a legion of Royal Guards and living quarters for his advisors were located at the tower's base.

In addition to being guarded by Sidious' loyal Royal Guards, all entrances to the throne room were equipped with security scanners and traps to deter intruders. A docking rig for his personal shuttle was present, along with chambers for receiving guests resembling his Coruscant quarters, a health-monitoring sleep chamber, and a large holographic map of the galaxy used to identify planets or star systems for subjugation or punishment.

The throne room itself bore similarities to his throne room in the EmPal SuRecon Center. The tower was intentionally designed to mirror the central spire of the Jedi Temple. However, unlike the Jedi Temple spire, which had four smaller supporting towers, this tower stood alone, symbolizing the solitary nature of the Sith. It would become the site of his first death in 4 ABY.

Following the Battle of Endor, the throne room was seemingly placed in a state of formal mourning. Mara Jade took the black drape covering the throne and used it as a cloak when she left Coruscant. The unavailability of the primary throne room may explain why Sate Pestage tended to use a throne room in the Imperial Sanctum instead, during his brief reign as "Interim Emperor." This throne room was a much more sparse environment than the more famous throne room, with the throne itself jettied out on a long, blade-like balcony in a vast empty space. The only entrance lay at the far end of the balcony, which Pestage quickly arranged to be guarded by a pair of Royal Guards.

After Pestage's overthrow, the Tribunal governed from the chamber where the Ruling Council had once sat. Subsequently, Director of Intelligence Ysanne Isard used her powers as head of the security apparatus to remove all rivals and seize control of the entire administration, making herself de facto Empress, but she eschewed the formal trappings of power, and her existing office took over the functions of the throne room as a control center and high-level audience chamber. Similarly, Grand Admiral Thrawn would use the secondary command room aboard the Star Destroyer Chimaera.

The throne room within Palpatine's citadel on Byss appeared as a semi-circular space with rounded walls and ceiling. A significant portion of the rounded wall was occupied by a large circular display screen, enabling the throne room to function as a military command center. The throne, also rounded, was positioned in front of the screen. Palpatine utilized this throne room after his resurrection as a clone following the Battle of Endor. During the commencement of Operation Shadowhand, he would routinely receive visual transmissions from the various battles on the display screen.

It was here that he met with Luke Skywalker after forcibly transporting him to Byss with a Force storm and successfully turned the Jedi to the dark side.

Following the Galactic Empire's conquest of Coruscant at the end of the Sith–Imperial War, a throne room was quickly prepared for Emperor Roan Fel. This broad chamber featured squat, heavy pillars along its flanks, but massive skylights in the roof and vast windows in the end walls opened the space up to the sky and cityscape.

Unlike earlier throne rooms, the dais was the only substantial area of open flooring, with steps descending from it and from the side walls to a sunken floor at the room's center, apparently occupied by an ornamental pool. Given that this throne room was operational within days of the Imperial conquest of the Jedi Temple, it may have been an existing structure repurposed by the conquerors. While it met the basic architectural requirements of an Imperial throne room, the only defining characteristic was the throne itself, which rested on repulsorlifts and was not even physically secured.

After Fel's decoy's death, this throne room was immediately taken over by Darth Krayt.