cap said:

Um, rcb, no offense, but who gives a crap what’s in the novelization?

VADER: Our destruction? Who?
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the guy who penned this line is not regarded by literary critics as one of the premier scribes of our time.

1987 is the copyright date for the novel. and i give a crap about the novel. granted the writing is a little weird, but its a classic.

anyways on ur point corellian, vader was planning to use luke to destroy the emperor so he played dumb during the conversation. whethe or not the emperor was aware i do not know