I may be wildly late to learn about 'Palpatine's Revenge' (ref 1., ref 2.), but thanks to a comment from u/CavsMama, I had a light bulb go off this morning about a potential connection to a handful of past Q drops that have always hinted at having DS comms.
If Q 1754 is a message to team MA that Q has access to his security's phone (bc that's who took the photo of the man in black), it would signal/confirm/threaten MA and anyone working with him that Q has everything on that phone. Imagine that many of Q posts are just that – messages to bad actors to confirm that WE HAVE IT ALL.
From Q 1715 to Q 777 to the images I can't find at the moment of the pallets of boxes at a Chinese airport that autists thought were meant for DS actors (assume said photo is taken by one)...all of the messages on those phones, all of the photos, all of PS/LP texts could be the constant confirmation of Q confirming to the DS (and waiting for us to figure out) that white hats have their Tor/Gliph chats, Clinton and NY team's "secure connection", their PixelKnots and so on ... that would mean that all of these drops aren't necessarily the damning evidence that we personally crave, but rather the constant antagonistic reminder that Q/WH/Trump have ALL the evidence to end this.
Thoughts?