It was an act of intentional irony that the operation was named after the New Republic's greatest enemy, Emperor Palpatine, and made use of one of his former command vessels, to engage in a tactic unused since his reign. It is named such in reference to Wedge Antilles' idea to fight the Yuuzhan Vong using the guerilla warfare tactics and strategies of the Rebel Alliance when needed, and using the tactics of the New Republic at other times. Antilles realized that the usage of sheer, massive, overwhelming force—i.e. the Galactic Empire—would also be effective at times.