As when it comes to fleet of Star Destroyers that Palpatine resurrected in Episode IX‘s opening series, these people weren’t leftover from the Empire. The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary tell us (via MovieWeb) that the Sith Eternal and their particular slaves on Exegol invested many years building the huge vessels, including earth killing tools. Palpatine invested the totality regarding the sequel trilogy preparation and manipulating the galaxy, equally he performed into the prequels. And their program nearly been successful.