I was only ever able to get my hands on a copy of Dark Empire II, not the first collection, and that only once when I was in high school a decade and a half ago. But Wookiepedia is our friend.
In Dark Empire, we find that the Emperor had a super-sekrit base with cloning cylinders, and six years after his death (i.e. a year after the Thrawn trilogy) he emerged with a new army and ultra-powerful World Devastator machines more dangerous than the Death Stars! Really, the plot as given by Wookiepedia is pretty incoherent and OOC, so I don't think I missed too much.
Re: I had unexpected amounts of feelings about this one.
I was only ever able to get my hands on a copy of Dark Empire II, not the first collection, and that only once when I was in high school a decade and a half ago. But Wookiepedia is our friend.
In Dark Empire, we find that the Emperor had a super-sekrit base with cloning cylinders, and six years after his death (i.e. a year after the Thrawn trilogy) he emerged with a new army and ultra-powerful World Devastator machines more dangerous than the Death Stars! Really, the plot as given by Wookiepedia is pretty incoherent and OOC, so I don't think I missed too much.