Darth_Garak posted:What and Caamas was a fertile place for dissent? They were as pacifistic (if not more so) than the Aldeeranians, but they got bombed into near extincion. Even sicker is that the largest camp for Caamas refugees was on Alderaan. It's like Tarking thought "Oh they weren't home when we turned it slag and so they missed that party. Well no problem they can blow up along with Alderaan" ... or maybe he didn't even care (very likely actually).
Froggy22651 posted:I could easily point to the destruction of Alderaan or Order 66 or Anakin's murder of children or any other number of great, dramatic atrocities as a demonstration of the most bone-chilling evil in Star Wars, but I can't say those are the worst. Those are merely a symptom of a far greater evil. I think the most evil act we've seen is the passive submission of the senate to Palpatine's will. It's not a very visual evil. It's a much quieter, insidious evil. It's an evil caused by fear or greed or apathy. It's an evil perpetrated by everyone not through malicious intent but through inaction. It's a form of moral cowardice. The most horrifying part of it all, too, is that it's perfectly understandable.
Charlemagne19 posted:Darth_Garak posted:What and Caamas was a fertile place for dissent? They were as pacifistic (if not more so) than the Aldeeranians, but they got bombed into near extincion. Even sicker is that the largest camp for Caamas refugees was on Alderaan. It's like Tarking thought "Oh they weren't home when we turned it slag and so they missed that party. Well no problem they can blow up along with Alderaan" ... or maybe he didn't even care (very likely actually). Actually, Tarkin was correct. Alderaan and Caamas were both enemies of the Empire. They need to build a militant and highly nationalist society. What greater threat to the Empire exists than functioning pacifist states?
Carnage04 posted: The Empire's treatment of the Noghri.