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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Palpatine (and the Empire) are/were extremely xenophobic.
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They always said that, but you never really saw that in the movies.
Its funny, but they addresssed it in Darklord when Palpatine had a meeting with Mon Montha and Bail Organa and others. after the fall of the republic and one of the Senators asked the question about the treatment of non humans in the New Order.
Palpatine basically stated that yes most of his advisers and military officers were human, but that was basically just due to circumstance then by choice.
If you look at the prequels. Two of Palpatines key advisors, Sly Moore and Mas Amedda were clearly aliens, Palpatine clearly showed concern for Amedda when during the duel with Yoda he told his speaker to flee.
In the EU Thrawn was clearly an alien as well.
If you go by the purest definition of Palpatine, it wasn't aliens that he didn't trust and wanted to subjugate it was non force users, Palpatine didn't believe that they were capable of ruling themselves.