"My aim was to bring peace and security to my new empire. In peace, an end to the slavers and pirates who supplied them. Enforced cooperation between systems and corporations so no one starved. It won't happen under Palpatine but I intended for him to live this long. To rule this long. I had other plans for that Throne." But they had failed, Padmè's rejection and death. And that had broken him. In ways only knowing his son had lived had started to repair.