Bria LaVorgna takes a look at the Emperor’s contingency plan Operation: Cinder, a plan to scour away the final vestiges of rebellion throughout the galaxy after his death.
Operation: Cinder was, to put it bluntly, part of Emperor Palpatine’s evil contingency plan. In the event of the Emperor’s death, a series of red-robed messenger droids were to go out to designated members of the Empire and deliver his final orders. Those orders? To burn away the ideals of resistance, rebellion, and defiance through attacks that would scour a planet such as Palpatine’s own homeworld of Naboo.
The logistics of Operation: Cinder involved using climate disruption arrays to alter the weather around the planet in order to create catastrophic storms that would wreak havoc on key inhabited worlds. These attacks were supplemented by the Imperial Fleet participating in orbital bombardments. TIE fighter groups such as the 204th Imperial Fighter Wing (also known as Shadow Wing) helped turned the planet of Nacronis into dust.