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EveryStar Warsfan make out thatDarth VaderisEmperor Palpatine ’s number one majestic hatchet man , but one other effect - wielding assassin Palpatine used to have a bun in the oven out his bidding was really trusted even more than Vader himself .
Mara Jade Was Palpatine’s Top Apprentice & Assassin
Mara Jade was sent after Luke because , for a period of time , Palpatine wanted him numb . What ’s interesting is that he sent Mara to do it rather than Vader . Perhaps this is because of Vader ’s failure to kill Luke in Cloud City inEpisode V , or maybe it ’s because Palpatine knew that Vader wanted to recruit Luke against him . shit her master is something Mara Jade never considered for a moment , which is why she was sent on this commission to kill Luke rather of Vader , despite the fact that Darth had been Palpatine ’s act one assassinator against Jedi for the last twenty years .
Mara Jade Was Trusted Even More Than Darth Vader
Palpatine does n’t worry that Luke is Vader ’s Word – which is made clear when he calls him the boy of ‘ Anakin Skywalker ’ inEpisode V – so that ’s not why the Emperor had Vader sit around this one out . He did so simply because he did n’t confide Darth Vader , mean that Palpatine trust Mara Jade even more .
Not only did Palpatine trust Mara Jade to do something he did n’t trust Darth Vader to do , but she had a way to do it intimately than Vader – and her peers can attest to that . later on in the series , one of Mara ’s fellow Imperials says that she ’s arguably deadlier than Vader since she can pussyfoot through a crowd and kill her target before they even love they were in danger . Her stealing is something Vader could never compete with , and while that did toy a office in Mara ’s mission to hook into Jabba ’s Palace , wait for Luke , and bolt down him for the Emperor , that was n’t the existent grounds she was hired for that job . Star Wars ' Mara Jade was ordered byEmperorPalpatineto killing Luke for the lone reason that he trusted her more thanDarth Vader .
