Lit Pellaeon and the Imperial Remnant (split from Thrawn thread)

Mas Amedda being the Grand Vizier is one of the new canon's most insane changes for a multitude of reasons. Just let him be in charge of the Senate until its dissolution and then go on to a quiet retirement on Byss.

 

Why's that?

 

Aircraft carriers can have multiple Captains (O-6) on board, sometimes with captains serving as CO and XO (plus senior medical officer, CO of the air wing, senior engineer). I don't think two (or more) captains on an ISD would be out of the question.

 

Pestage still exists, but honestly, Amedda made more sense than him as Grand Vizier ever since the PT. He was the politician/administrator - pre-Empire Pestage was more Palpatine's dirty tricks guy.

 

The decision to use Amedda to this degree in the new canon is among my top favorites. Tied with the use of Mon Mothma. Great way to use these classic characters, plus a tie Prequel tie-in as well in the case of Mas Amedda.

--Adm. Nick

 

He was. And he would have taken command of the fleet after Piett, had he not died. The command system at the Battle of Endor didn't account for the Grand Admirals on the Death Star - they weren't on Command Ships, so they weren't in the command line of succession.

It went "Executor commander, Pride of Tarlandia commander, Chimaera commander"

At least, that's the way The Essential Guide to Warfare seemed to portray it.

Even in the newcanon we have multiple Admirals at Endor (Montferrat and Sloane in addition to Piett) - just no Grand Admirals escaping from the Death Star. Big fleet - Admirals probably command squadrons of ten or so SDs (with a Admiral's SD like Sloane's probably having extra command and communication gear) - with a Fleet Admiral (Piett?) in charge of everything.

 

The Essential Guide to Warfare is pretty explicit about command of Death Squadron being legitimately in Pellaeon's hands at the time he orders the retreat.

Note the omniscient narrator stating "leaving command in Pellaeon's hands" and Admiral Harrsk later agreeing that command had been in Pellaeon's hands during the battle but wasn't anymore.

This is an argument that's been rehashed on these forums countless times, but Warfare is the most recent (and likely final) authority on the subject and there's no reason to disregard what it says.

 

That's what I always gathered. The galaxy is simply too big for every single being to get representation. The Empire (Esp. after Palpatine) is really a superior alternative to the constant piracy, starvation, corruption and general disorder experienced under the Old and New republics. I'm glad the Empire came out on top at the end of Legacy.

 

Even in the ancient legends old republic-politics was controlled by various corporations, aristocratic families and the rich urbanized core population.

In the dark ages-the worst days of the new sith wars you have Jedi running the republic and Jedi running planets as warlords stemming the sith tide.

And I recall the new essential chronology making a point that the "republic was born crippled". It was simply too fast with too many competing interests to endure forever.

 

Amazing it even lasted that long. I bet the Empire will last much longer, considering the stark contrast in stability post-19 BBY compared to the prior years.

 

I wonder in the post-legacy era how long the galactic triumvirate would last-Stazi, Marasiah Fel, and Kr'uhk seem like a very combustible combination even without sith influence.

 

IDK, but the Empire was infinitely stronger than the mere fleet that remained of the GA. If it came down to a civil war I have no doubt who would win.

 

A sith Thrawn would be incredible, a sith Thrawn with batte meditation would be nearly unstoppable.

As for a post legacy civil war-the Galaxy would be divided and I imagine the Jedi would overmatch the imperial knights and Stazi would go down a hero.

 

As an Fel Empire supporter, what's your opinion of Emperor Roan Fel, who wanted to kill all life on Coruscant. Which, at last count, was approximately 2 trillion sentients.

 

and 582,797,754 Jax Pavans.

 

Ending 2 trillion Sith-Imperial lives would spare 2 trillion Allied lives. Killing that many people is never that great an option, but it really comes down to who has to die; If you can save your own people, then go for it. Coruscant was just a hive of traitors, anyway.

 

So, according to you, Antares Draco shouldn't have struck down his rightful Emperor as he was trying to murder 2 trillion innocents? What about the Code of the Imperial Knights? They are duty bound to strike down their Emperor if he turns to the Dark Side.

 

What constitutes the "dark side" is completely subjective. Personally, I don't think ancient jedi politics really belong in the Empire.

 

Not even when the Emperor is a Force-wielder?

I just love the fact that Roan Fel couldn't arbitrarily massacre trillions of citizens. The Emperor isn't infallible or all-powerful in the Felpire. The Imperial Knights stood up to him and stopped him.

 

The Praetorian Guards codifying their habit of assassinating bad Emperors is hilarious to me but it is literally true in the case of the Imperial Knights as their job to judge whether or not it's necessary.

In the case of Roan Fel, destroying Coruscant wasn't going to actually do any good.

Certainly, it would just villify the Imperial Loyalists forever. Look what doing it to Mon Cal did for the Sith. They weren't from, "Nobody likes these guys but whatcha gonna do" to "Everyone needs to kill these psychos."

 

The problem is, GAJ that it was a retcon that put a Grand Admiral at the battle in the first place.

Albeit, that actually is legitimately a thing which can happen.

A higher ranking officer is not necessarily in the chain of command in militaries as those are set up before hand. The Grand Admirals exist, also, outside of Imperial High Command in order to make it more difficult for the latter for Palpatine's orders to be opposed. He and the others there were to observe not participate.

As for everyone else? Well, the Empire having a nonsensical nonfunctioning military of cronies isn't unusual.