During the Galactic Civil War, the Rebel Alliance had a handful of spies within the confines
of the Imperial capital world of Coruscant.
Each agent served a vital role in giving intelligence to Rebel High Command, and as such each of
their individual existence was to remain a secret, even among other rebel agents on Coruscant.
One of these agents was Eneb Ray, who was under the guise of an Imperial tax collector.
At some point shortly after the destruction of the first Death Star, Ray was contacted
by Princess Leia for an extraction mission on Coruscant.
She told him that she wanted him to extract a group of former Imperial senators who had
been imprisoned due to their anti-Imperial stances and were soon to be executed for their
crimes against the empire.
Although initially hesitant in accepting the mission, Ray caved in and agreed to take up
the challenge of rescuing the Imperial senators from the Imperial prison complex they were
held at.
He eventually infiltrated the prison and discovered the holding cell the senators were being kept
at.
However, upon meeting the senators Ray was told that the Emperor was supposedly coming
to personally meet them right before their executions.
After learning this new information, the plan had changed.
So Ray took over the nearby control center of the prison and took the Imperial tech crew
hostage.
Upon his surprise, one of the Imperial tech crew members was actually another Rebel spy,
the one who originally told Rebel High Command of the imprisoned senators in the first place.
She went on to help Ray contact Leia to inform her of the new situation of Palpatine arriving
to the prison complex.
When Leia answered, Ray told her how Palpatine was going to be within their crosshairs in
an hour, and that he wanted to assemble a team to try and assassinate him.
Understanding that the only way to properly assemble a team needed to accomplish the new
mission in such a short notice would be to dispatch all the other rebel spies on Coruscant,
Leia considered the massive risk this plan was if undertaken.
If it failed, then all of their agents’ identities on Coruscant were going to be exposed,
but if it succeed, then the entire war could be won far quicker without the Emperor in
charge.
She finally made her decision, the new plan on assassinating the Emperor was to commence.
An hour had gone by and all the Rebel agents on Coruscant had arrived to the prison complex,
later all disguised as the senators who were supposed to meet Palpatine before their execution.
Once they saw Palpatine, all six agents dropped the ruse and began to fire at the nearby guards
with their blasters.
Just a side note, these were some of the Rebel Alliance’s highest trained and most talented
agents.
So they were able to quickly drop most of the guards with ease, and were even able to
take out at least one Royal Guard.
However, as the assault continued, the apparent Palpatine began to escape by having his platform
rise toward the open roof top.
Seeing what was happening, Ray latched onto the platform and followed the Emperor.
On top of the roof, Ray shot at the fleeing Emperor and hit him dead on in the back.
A killing blow it was.
As he walked toward the corpse of the supposed Emperor he had just killed, Ray heard a voice
call out from behind.
It was Palpatine, standing inside an Imperial Shuttle that was right over the rooftop of
the prison.
Palpatine was a bit disappointed seeing his decoy not make it out alive, but nonetheless
remained still, watching what was happening below him.
Ray was shocked, not at the fact that he had only killed a decoy, but of the fact of how
the real Palpatine came here knowing that he would be in danger of assasination.
Not wanting this entire mission to be a complete waste, Ray dashed toward the shuttle the real
Palpatine was on and latched onto it.
Still believing he had a chance of killing the Emperor, Ray fired his blaster at him.
But Palpatine easily deflected all the blaster shots with the force.
Palpatine then began to smile and told Ray to look behind him.
He did just that, and witnessed the entire Prison complex go up into flames as it exploded
right before him.
All the agents that were with him perished, along with the senators and other prisoners
who were held there.
It was at that moment he realized the evil he was truly facing, and that he never had
a chance of ever beating the Emperor.
Before Ray could make any moves to escape, Palpatine blasted him with force lightning,
causing him to fall.
But before he fell to his death, Ray was able to latch onto an on coming airspeeder.
When he safely reached the ground, Ray saw a holovid of the Emperor announcing the destruction
of the Prison complex.
He placed the blame of its destruction as an act of Rebel terrorism.
The Emperor stated that the traitorous senators were coerced by the Rebels, and before they
could be given a fair trial by the Empire, the Rebels blew them up alongside with everyone
else in the prison.
For the Rebels cared not for justice and order, and were savage monsters.
With all the Rebel spies on Coruscant eliminated, anti-Imperial senators removed from the public,
and a great propaganda piece against the Rebel Alliance; it was quite a victory for Palpatine.
It was also a devastating defeat for Ray, who after realizing how he was played, had
his entire image of himself be shattered.
He later became a rogue Rebel agent who would go on to cause some havoc for the Rebel Alliance
later on in his life.