Star Wars: was The Galactic Empire really that bad?

[Meadow337]

wee wee?

 

[sparkchaser]

Close enough.

 

[Meadow337]

 

[regdog]

True, he lorded over his own people, but didn't try to rule the world. His "Empire" was a Caribbean island. His rein may have ended differently if he'd sought global conquest.

 

[regdog]

We defeated the Brits for several reasons:

1. Their diet: tea and crumpets. Our diet: whiskey and raw squirrel.

2. We wore not fancy uniforms and hid behind trees and shot at them while they lined up to shoot us and wore bright red uniforms that were easy to hit.

3. We had George Washington, Paul Bunyan, and Ulysses S. Grant. They had Mr. Bean.

One overlooked reason we won was the actions of Benedict Arnold on the battlefield. He turned the tide in the Battle of Saratoga and won they day. Had we lost that battle, we may very well have lost the war. Because he was wounded in the battle he was unable to attend the celebration dinner where those in power, mostly the Continental Congress, refused to give him proper credit because they thought he was crude, uncivilized and didn't give them enough "proper respect". George Washington told them off for it, saying Arnold was one of his most valuable Generals and needed to be treated as such. They refused to listen to Washington and the rest is history.

 

[sparkchaser]

True, he lorded over his own people, but didn't try to rule the world. His "Empire" was a Caribbean island. His rein may have ended differently if he'd sought global conquest.

Troof.

 

[sparkchaser]

Was it movie canon or EU canon that the first Death Star was built with slave Wookie labor?

 

[Meadow337]

EU

 

[sparkchaser]

Relevant:

 

[sparkchaser]

Apparently Lucas had a response to that clip.

No Wookies. "Termites"

interesting

 

[regdog]

I think I love George Lucas now more than ever before.

 

[sparkchaser]

So they were not slave wookies, but instead paid termites.

 

[regdog]

How many innocent people do you think the Empire killed?

 

[sparkchaser]

More than I have.

I dunno, over 2 billion probably.

 

[regdog]

If they killed over 2 billion, do you really think they weren't that bad?

 

[sparkchaser]

It was more of a way to get a discussion going. I admit The Empire was bad.

 

[sparkchaser]

I think one could make the case for the Jedi being fundamentalist extremists.

 

[Meadow337]

I think one could make the case for the Jedi being fundamentalist extremists.

and the Sith weren't more of the same?

 

[sparkchaser]

I don't think anyone thinks they weren't. I'm just saying that the Jedi probably aren't as "good" as everyone thinks they are.

 

[Meadow337]

I think their biggest sin was complacency.