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Mission Nine: An Engagement With The Emperor
Objectives
- Escort the Emperor to Bothawui and help him show the Bothans the error of their ways.
- Planetary Battle: Emperor Palpatine must survive.
- Destroy all of the Bothans and their structures.
Well, now that you know who's been leaking information to the Rebellion, the Emperor uncharacteristically decides to take matters into his own hands, and heads to Bothawui to deal with the Bothans personally. There's no need to build up a huge land force here; the Emperor will head down to the planet alone. Be sure to have some space units in orbit before sending him down.
When you hit the planet surface, you should find yourself engaged in something of a cakewalk. The Emperor is probably even harder for the enemies to kill than Vader is, mostly thanks to his passive ability to steal health from nearby infantry and add it to his own; as soon as he gets hit, he should be able to immediately regenerate his health. So, yeah, three cheers for god mode!
Anyway, your goal here is to destroy the buildings that will continually spit out Bothans. You can fool around with the Emperor's powers to either kill the Bothans, or convert them to your side, but all you really need to do is task him on a building and let him go crazy. It'll take him a while to destroy the buildings, so you may want to flip on the doubletime toggle to speed things up. As mentioned, he essentially can't die here, so there's no need to really protect him.
You don't need to take out every building in the area; after finishing off half of them or so, you'll automatically end the mission. You may encounter a small space battle after the mission ends, though; thus our warning about including space units on the planet before attempting the ground mission.
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