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Star Wars: was The Galactic Empire really that bad?

sparkchaser said:
No, but if she divulged the location of the rebel base, Alderaan probbaly would have been spared. I don't know how far Yavin IV was from the core worlds.
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lol go back and watch it again - your memory is failing you :)

she DID reveal the location of the rebel base on yavin 4. Commander Moff decided that it was too far and isolated to make a suitable statement on the effectiveness of the death star and gave the command to fire on Alderaan anyway.

Very much the action of an evil bad bad horrible overlord type :p
 
No, she gave the location as Dantooine which was an old, abandoned Rebel base. The active base was on Yavin IV.
 
I just checked, Dantooine and Yavin IV were both outer rim bodies so Alderaan would have been destroyed either way.
 
Point is - Commander Tarkin Moff still gave orders to destroy Alderaan after she gave up information ;)
 
Grand Moff Tarkin also landed his shuttle on a group of peace protestors. But that is out of the EU.
 
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp

although this article makes the case for the empire, ultimately it in fact makes the case against it with this one line:

n Episode IV, after Grand Moff Tarkin announces that the Imperial Senate has been abolished, he's asked how the Emperor can possibly hope to keep control of the galaxy. "The regional governors now have direct control over territories," he says. "Fear will keep the local systems in line."

Whatever the faults of the Republic or Rebel Alliance they didn't rule by fear.

(PS the empire also conducted a genocide on all Jedi and potential Jedi because of religious differences)
 
One can say the same thing about the Jedi: they pretty much exterminated all of the Sith for the exact same reason. The Jedi were no saints.
 
sparkchaser said:
No, but if she divulged the location of the rebel base, Alderaan probbaly would have been spared. I don't know how far Yavin IV was from the core worlds.
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No one knows if Alderaan would have been spared. When one intends to rule by fear, they usually do so and destroying Leia's home planet was a perfect example of that.
 
I do like how Lucas made Jar-Jar the deciding vote that ended up paving the way for the Empire.
 
regdog said:
No one knows if Alderaan would have been spared. When one intends to rule by fear, they usually do so and destroying Leia's home planet was a perfect example of that.
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This is why all planets should have some kind of defense.
 
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