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|conflict=[[Galactic Civil War/Legends|Galactic Civil War]]
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|place=*[[Senex-Juvex/Legends|Senex-Juvex]]
*[[Belsavis/Legends|Belsavis]]
|result=New Republic victory
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|side1=[[House Sreethyn]]
|side2=*[[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]]
*[[New Jedi Order]]
|commanders1=[[Roganda Ismaren]]
|commanders2=*[[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker]]
*[[Han Solo/Legends|Han Solo]]
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The '''Ismaren plot''', also known as the '''''Eye of Palpatine'' crisis''' or '''''Eye of Palpatine'' incident''', was a plan executed by [[Roganda Ismaren]] and [[House Sreethyn]] in [[12 ABY/Legends|12 ABY]] in an attempt to revitalize the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]] following the string of defeats that had occurred over the past several years.

==Background==
The instigator of the plot was [[Roganda Ismaren]], an [[Emperor's Hand/Legends|Emperor's Hand]] who had fled to the backwater world of [[Belsavis/Legends|Belsavis]] following the death of [[Palpatine/Legends|Palpatine]]. From there, she spent the years leading up to 12 ABY beginning to set her plan in motion.

The center of the plot was Roganda's son, [[Irek Ismaren|Irek]], whom she took with her to Belsavis. Irek's father was another Emperor's Hand, [[Sarcev Quest]], but Roganda maintained that it was Palpatine himself, thus providing Irek with a claim to lead and reunify the [[Imperial Remnant|fractured Empire]] in [[Galactic Civil War/Legends|its war]] against the [[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]]. Roganda educated him in the use of the [[Dark side of the Force/Legends|dark side]] of [[The Force/Legends|the Force]], and had him implanted with a [[subelectronic converter]]. Along with the education of the captured [[Professor/Legends|Professor]] [[Nasdra Magrody]] and the advanced learning techniques developed by [[Wilhuff Tarkin/Legends|Wilhuff Tarkin]] for his facility over [[Omwat/Legends|Omwat]], Irek became skilled in the control of machinery.

==The plot thickens==
The next part of Roganda's plan was the location of the ''[[Eye of Palpatine]]'', a lost battlemoon from the earliest days of the Empire. Using Irek's abilities, she had it activated and began to approach Belsavis. She then approached the lords of the [[Senex sector/Legends|Senex]] and [[Juvex sector/Legends|Juvex sectors]], [[Senex-Juvex/Legends|a region]] dominated by powerful, oligarchic families that supported themselves by [[Slavery/Legends|slaving]], had fared well under Palpatine, and who had opposed the New Republic.

Assembling them on Belsavis, she presented Irek to them as Palpatine's son. New Republic [[Chief of State (New Republic)|Chief of State]] [[Leia Organa Solo]], who with her husband [[Han Solo/Legends|Han]] had been investigating suspicious activities on the world, had been captured by the Ismarens and was also presented to the Lords, along with the statement of the reactivation and summoning of the ''Eye of Palpatine''. With the combined wealth and influence of the Senex and [[Juvex Lords]], the abilities of the Ismarens, the ''Eye of Palpatine'' and other weapons Roganda had been smuggling to Belsavis over the years, and the Chief of State their hostage, she hoped to deal a decisive turning point to the civil war.

==Failure==
However, Leia's brother [[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker]], along with [[Callista Ming]], [[Nichos Marr]], and [[Cray Mingla]] were able to destroy the ''Eye of Palpatine'' while Han Solo, along with [[Mara Jade Skywalker|Mara Jade]], [[R2-D2/Legends|R2-D2]], and [[C-3PO/Legends|C-3PO]], managed to overrun the assembled Lords. The plot fizzled, and although the Ismarens escaped, they never again managed to rise to prominence.

==Appearances==
*[[Children of the Jedi (novel)|''Children of the Jedi'']] {{1st}}
*''[[The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Essential Guide to Characters]]''
*''[[The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons]]''
*{{GamerCite|5|The Emperor's Pawns}}
*[[The Essential Chronology (real-world book)|''The Essential Chronology'']]
*''[[The New Essential Guide to Characters]]''
*''[[The New Essential Guide to Droids]]'' {{1stID|''Eye of Palpatine'' incident}}
*''[[The New Essential Chronology]]''
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[The Essential Atlas]]''
*''[[The Essential Reader's Companion]]''

==Notes and references==
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{{GCW 12 ABY}}

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[[Category:Battles in the Bozhnee sector]]
[[Category:Galactic Civil War campaigns]]