In truth, the Dark Prophets had not been having an easy time lately. Over the past half year or so, the Dark Prophets led by Kadan had come under immense criticism.
Moreover, the Imperial Marshal Conferment Ceremony that had originally been scheduled for the New Year Celebration at the end of 10BBY was postponed, an incident also regarded as Kadan's major blunder. Naturally, Blackhole, who oversaw the intelligence departments, was dragged into the matter as well.
The reason Dark Prophet Kadan had personally inspected the construction of the Death Star and attended its trial voyage ceremony was because he wanted to use that ceremony to place more halos around himself, thereby...
Avoid disaster.
What, exactly, had happened to cause the Marshal Conferment Ceremony to be delayed?
Emperor Palpatine had been assassinated.
The masterminds behind the assassination were Grand Moff Bartam, Grand Moff Trachta, and Moff Kadir.
They planned to plant bombs and destroy the shuttle's barracks section when Emperor Palpatine visited Bartam's sector, eliminating the Emperor's Guard first. Then, under the pretext of strengthening the Emperor's security, they would transfer a specially modified unit of Clone Troopers to Palpatine's side.
Finally, those Clone Troopers would carry out the assassination. All of them had been specially modified by the Kaminoans, possessing strength far beyond that of ordinary Clone Troopers. Enhanced biochips had also been implanted in their brains, making them as cold and merciless as machines, with almost no independent thought.
This ensured that the Clone Troopers would be powerful enough to carry out the assassination, while preventing Emperor Palpatine from sensing their thoughts and discovering the plot.
At the same time, the trio had organized a similar operation to eliminate Darth Vader, who was reinforcing the Core Worlds defensive line in the Delon system.
However, this assassination ended in an