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Eh, i'm not letting the Emperor off the hook on this one.
If it happened as the Emperor states, fair enough, i'm not holding it against him acting in self preservation.

But, there's at least the implication that Ansur tried to kill him because he was up to some shit and given that he later started to run a weapon smuggling operation and meddled in politics via proxies, gives me reason to think that Ansur might have been onto something.
Ansur stated
>You were becoming Illithid
But he already was Illithid at that point, which implies that he was starting to act like your usual Illithid.
And the Emperor also says
>I was on the cusp of greatness
which i think sounds rather questionable, coming from a morally dubious character no less