darth bane's plan would come to fruition through sheev palpatine, a naboo senator, later supreme chancellor, of the galactic republic, and secretly a dark lord of the sith (“darth sidious”). by manipulating disgruntled factions within the galactic republic, palpatine orchestrated a civil war. this conflict, known within the "star wars" universe as the "clone wars", provided a justification for consolidating power in the galactic republic's chief executive and assembling a large army of hastily cloned soldiers—surreptitiously conditioned to obey certain key commands issued by palpatine. although the jedi eventually discovered palpatine's identity as a sith and attempted to arrest him, this action was anticipated by palpatine, who successfully framed their actions as an attempted coup, providing in turn a pretext for annihilating the jedi by activating “order 66,” one of the clone soldiers’ embedded protocols. in the course of effecting his designs, palpatine also manipulated the jedi's most powerful initiate, anakin skywalker, into his service, by promising to teach skywalker dark side techniques that could save the life of padmé amidala, a galactic senator to whom skywalker was secretly married in violation of jedi rules, and whose death in childbirth skywalker had preternaturally foreseen. in a tragic irony, amidala's sheer horror at discovering skywalker's collaboration with sidious in destroying the jedi would itself be the cause of her death during childbirth, though sidious would trick skywalker into believing that an episode of skywalker's physical abuse of amidala had been the actual cause of her death. skywalker's subsequent emotional collapse would lead him to fully embrace the dark side of the force and assume the persona of darth vader, lord of the sith. with darth vader at his side, the emperor would rule the newly styled galactic empire for approximately 20 years as its emperor. initially unknown to vader and sidious, two children were successfully delivered by padme before her death.