Now I'm imagining the Death Star built to look like a gigantic Palpatine-head, with one of the eyes being the superlaser emitter.I think one minuscule detail about the Empire was the apparent lack of Palpatine statues littered across the empire lenin statue style, except with an anti tamper device to keep rebels from trying to deface it.
"Only a Sith could conceive of something that combines such genocidal lethality with equally monumental bad taste."