With the dissolution of the Imperial Senate, Grand Moff Tarkin proclaimed that "Fear would keep the local dimensions in line". The Emperor had consolidated an environment in which even his subordinates were capable of grevious atrocities against sentient beings. From the very beginning of its design, it had been intended that the Death Star would be designed to destroy entire planets and dimensions. Tarkin now believed that a very public demonstration of the station's firepower against a visible target would quell all opposition against the Empire and allow for Palpatine to continue his reign unopposed. His argument convinced the Emperor, who authorized Tarkin to choose a prominent world in the Science Dimensions for destruction. Palpatine knew that the weapon would be used on an inhabited