What The Empire Did

I never understood this,and I never will...unless somebody here will explain it to me w/ a good peice of information to BACK IT UP.


After Revenge of the Sith and before a New Hope, what was the Empiror doing that was so dastardly evil?!

Where they causing poverty and despair to all the galexy? i would understand a jedi rebellion agianst the sith, but just the rebels? the alliance? What is the point of them in the first place?

Plus it seemed that NOBODY on the Rebellion actually knew what A jedi was, or had forgotton about them,so it wasnt obviously a fight against the sith!

so just some help please!

-------Thanx in advance

 

Individual freedoms and respect for human (and alien) rights disappeared under the Emperor's rule. The Empire dealt with any form of dissent the way most dictatorships do...with brutality. The Emperor himself may not have played a direct role in atrocities but the Imperial Moffs and governors he apppointed did, and with his consent. Tarkin for example once landed his transport ship on protestors.

 

>>Tarkin for example once landed his transport ship on protestors.<<

Arrgh! ANOTHER SE addition?

 

Just imagine what Hitler did to most of Germany and you can understand what happenend in those years we didn't see. Plus he didnt have any resistance like Germany has in WWII so he could do whatever he want.

There will be a show in a few years that will revolve around the time missed from after ROTS and AHN, hopefully that'll answer your question more.

 

ok thanx, that always irritated me,because the movie starts with a rebellion to destroy the Empire...for who know 4 sure why,thanx for clearing that up.

 

Plus it seemed that NOBODY on the Rebellion actually knew what A jedi was, or had forgotton about them,so it wasnt obviously a fight against the sith!


It seems pretty clear that most people knew about the jedi, but their "knowledge" was more myth like than factual. Luke, a farm boy on a backwater rim world, knew who the jedi were. He was unaware of the Force, but that's not the same.

But I agree, it wasn't a war against the sith.

The "evilness" of the Empire isn't really explained in the films. you just deduce it from the fact that the Emperor is a sith, and the opening crawl says their evil. Specifics aren't given, really.

But we can infer the type of government it was by their actions. The troopers slaughter a jawa tribe to find some lost data. Then they slaughter innoccent civillians for the same data. They destroy billions on Alderaan just for a demonstration. They use torture and "mind probes" freely. They simply seize control of Cloud City because they can.
From the deleted biggs scene we hear that the Empire is taking control of all manufacturing and farming, and that Lar's will lose control of his farm to the state.

From the things we know they do (in the films), we can infer the type of atmosphere that must exist to allow them to do it.

To be honest, I personally don't find it that bad. You would find me fighting against the rebels in the GFFA.

 

You have to look at the Jedi from the point of view of the public.

For over 25,000 years jedi has been a closed society to the public. The public believe that they had some mystical power but unsure how it worked. When people are unsure why these people have power, the general public will see them as a danger to themselves, and not true heros.


ITs the same if you walked down the street and a police officer walks by you, knowing you didnt do anything wrong your heart still skips a beat and you give the cops a little room then you would for anyone else. The same goes when you are driving. The cops have power you do not, so you fear them.

So in ROTS the public is living in this huge war that seems to be fought because of the Jedi. So once a person who is respected says that the Jedi are trying to take over, people will start to hate them even more and despise them. So they were glad that the jedi were gone because they caused the war and not the empire, thats why most systems accepted the dictorship, exactally what hitler did. Germeny was once a dem society, but it fell on hard times, so hitler blammed it on the jews and other minority groups. So did the empire, the republic was failing and Palp's blamed it on the jedi.

so after 20 years of this thinking of the JEdi, No one will reallly know about the force since the jedi kept secerts.

And dont think a goverment doesn't do that now that the empire does. Just look at our own country. We took over two countries in the last 3 years, just like the empire did on bespin, there was a threat so lets take over it. that threat was Luke, han and leia.

we use questionable actions also, we are not much different then the empire. Sorry to be PC, but since it was brought up.

Plus it still a movie and a very nice tale of it too,

 

In an Empire, the Emporer rules no one else--no Senators, no representatives, just himself.

 

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