Tarkin’s Imperial Remnant
Just as with the Expanded Universe and now even current Star Wars continuity, the Empire was planned to be a major player in Kenner’s plans for a post-ROTJ galaxy, just very much diminished compared to the threat of Atha Prime. Kenner intended them to have a surprising figurehead too: not a returned Emperor Palpatine, but a returned Grand Moff Tarkin, who had apparently mysteriously survived the destruction of the first Death Star, and bided his time in secret until he could take control of the remaining Imperial military forces and re-establish the Empire.
Tarkin was the rare major character Kenner had not actually made into a figure yet—intending to correct that oversight, in The Epic Continues presentation he is simply represented by a still of Peter Cushing from A New Hope.
