In A New Hope, the minute Palpatine has his Death Star he dissolves the Senate, believing he no longer needs the administrative infrastructure it provides to maintain his grip on the galaxy.
In A New Hope, the minute Palpatine has his Death Star he dissolves the Senate, believing he no longer needs the administrative infrastructure it provides to maintain his grip on the galaxy.
Thus, I think it is reasonable to conclude from Andor that Emperor Palpatine constructed the Death Star so he could stop having to go to boring parties.