Plot Ideas, Free to a Good Home

[Matrix Dragon]

My thinking was a lot more simple actually. While powerful, Palpatine isn't omnipotent, and doesn't pull every string in the Force. It's nothing but bad luck and horrible timing. The initial idea was of something like a drunk driver in an aircar, when Palpatine's being covertly transported back from a meeting as 'Sidious'. The other driver slipped out of the registered flight lanes, and while Palpatine might sense the threat, he's stuck in the back seats of his air limo, and doesn't even have time to warn his driver. A disaster that would shake the galaxy, but the sort of thing that comes out of nowhere, even to those with a near perfect ability to see the future.