Was the Galactic Empire a good place to live?

[Orcoa]

No it was not a good place to live for one reason...The sith were in power and anytime when a Sith is in power, nothing is good about life. If I had a choice between the Empire and The Rebellion..I would pick The Rebellion anytime of the day

[New Manvir]

And Mussolini kept the trains running on time, or so we're told.

Also, these people blew up a FUCKING PLANET with probably billions of inhabitants.

[Der Teutoniker]

No it was not a good place to live for one reason...The sith were in power and anytime when a Sith is in power, nothing is good about life. If I had a choice between the Empire and The Rebellion..I would pick The Rebellion anytime of the day

Why is it that when the "Sith are in power" "nothing is good in life"?

You make the statement, but give no examples, and do not back it up at all. Do you have any real reasons aside from "because"?

Also, until George vomited that crap out, the emperor wasn't Sith either. Darth Vader has been listed several times as "The" Dark "Lord" of the Sith, while the emperor, until the new movies came out, was never described as such.

[Der Teutoniker]

And Mussolini kept the trains running on time, or so we're told.

Also, these people blew up a FUCKING PLANET with probably billions of inhabitants.

Still good for everyone not on Alderaan....

Though that was a pretty big dick move.

[Putria]

And Mussolini kept the trains running on time, or so we're told.

Also, these people blew up a FUCKING PLANET with probably billions of inhabitants.

I think you guys are not understanding that in the Star Wars universe, planets are a dime-a-dozen. Easy to terraform, live on, and profit off of. Heck, entire planets are owned by a single company (not the huge, sprawling ones either) and easily decimate anyone living there. Your homeworld got blown up because you were actively supporting rebellion? Go find a new one.

[New Manvir]

And Mussolini kept the trains running on time, or so we're told.

Also, these people blew up a FUCKING PLANET with probably billions of inhabitants.

I think you guys are not understanding that in the Star Wars universe, planets are a dime-a-dozen. Easy to terraform, live on, and profit off of. Heck, entire planets are owned by a single company (not the huge, sprawling ones either) and easily decimate anyone living there. Your homeworld got blown up because you were actively supporting rebellion? Go find a new one.

There's so many things wrong with this that I don't even know where to start. How about the fact that killing billions of innocent people is bad?

[Nazis in Space]

Would you like to live in a country whose military dresses in uniforms that look like full body diapers?

I didn't think so.

[Britain Germany and Scandinavia]

Yeah the empire was awesome, free dental and a fuck load of taun taun kebabs

[Britain Germany and Scandinavia]

Would you like to live in a country whose military dresses in uniforms that look like full body diapers?

I didn't think so.

rebel scum

[Orcoa]

No it was not a good place to live for one reason...The sith were in power and anytime when a Sith is in power, nothing is good about life. If I had a choice between the Empire and The Rebellion..I would pick The Rebellion anytime of the day

Why is it that when the "Sith are in power" "nothing is good in life"?

You make the statement, but give no examples, and do not back it up at all. Do you have any real reasons aside from "because"?

Also, until George vomited that crap out, the emperor wasn't Sith either. Darth Vader has been listed several times as "The" Dark "Lord" of the Sith, while the emperor, until the new movies came out, was never described as such.

Really? Ok then, give me one example of a sith run government that did not break human/alien rights. The empire was not a good place to live because even if the emperor was not a sith himself and he is a sith because he has been shown to have knowledge of the dark side and could use it...yeah I would not like the idea of living under a empire run by a power mad wizard that shot lightining out of his finger tips

[JJ Place]

The Empire did have an entire Galaxy worth of resources to develop technology on. Technology was developed on blood; not quite a sustainability production method, nor that much of an accomplishment all considered.



More scapegoats of Palpatine's plan; remember that Star Wars only grants a window into the actual participation. All of the species weren't particularly inclined against the Republic in the Clone Wars, Palpatine only makes the situation out to this to build his credibility and bolster his position in leadership. Palpatine was a complete a-hole; to give the Emperor his dues, he knew quite a few tricks to governance, particularly those of psychotic dictatorial governance.

I'll admit, the Empire was indeed violent, but they DID rely on Aliens somewhat. For example, their spy on Tatooine in the first movie? He certaintly was not Human.

Somewhat. A few hand selected individuals whom where racial non-human were placed in higher-government roles through-out the Empire, however, as a general truth though-out the Empire, non-humans were treated miserably under Imperial control.

Blood doesn't make a very good building matieral...

Yes, blood is not a typical building material; but it does provide quite a good incentive to keep sentient production working, fearfully, at that.

[Francis Fitzgerald]

Of course, it was.

[Naboui]

I think excluding EU content kind of makes this very wrong. I wonder though are you including the "Novelisation" of Star Wars books (mainly the Book III) as a part of EU content?

The original trilogy doesn't shed any light on the reasons of rebellion, it just starts with a full fledged war, so we cannot judge whether Empire would be bad place to live or not. (But, of course if you were a citizen of Alderaan, I'd imagine the idea wouldn't have felt terrific) The prequel trilogy just shows us the systematic problems in Republic's structures. It ends before we get to examining how Empire was.

So, I'd say the data is insufficient to make a call if we exclude EU material. If we include EU then there's no question, unless you were a human living on one of the core worlds, things were awful.

[JJ Place]

And Mussolini kept the trains running on time, or so we're told.

Also, these people blew up a FUCKING PLANET with probably billions of inhabitants.

I think you guys are not understanding that in the Star Wars universe, planets are a dime-a-dozen. Easy to terraform, live on, and profit off of. Heck, entire planets are owned by a single company (not the huge, sprawling ones either) and easily decimate anyone living there. Your homeworld got blown up because you were actively supporting rebellion? Go find a new one.

Being killed by the super-laser of a moon-sized Imperial military battlestation does not allow you to look for a new homeworld. It makes you dead.

[Ceannairceach]

No; Any political entity that loses to Ewoks is not deserving of its existence as a governing body.

[Offenheim]

No; Any political entity that loses to Ewoks is not deserving of its existence as a governing body.

Hear hear.

[United Dependencies]

Being killed by the super-laser of a moon-sized Imperial military battlestation does not allow you to look for a new homeworld. It makes you dead.

I'm going to let that sit in my signature for a while.

[Greater Cabinda]

Not Palpatine's Galactic Empire.

Living in the Fel Empire would have been teh shiznit, though.

[Greater Cabinda]

I don't know about the Empire, but Dooku's confederacy sounds like it should have been given a chance.

The CIS was a blatant attempt by business interests to force the Republic to submit to their rule. They were just as bad as the Empire was.

[GreaterPacificNations]

And Mussolini kept the trains running on time, or so we're told.

Also, these people blew up a FUCKING PLANET with probably billions of inhabitants.

A rebel planet. The empire says that Alderan was state sponsor of terrorism- that they were ading, abetting and harbouring violent, armed rebels. Alderaan was a military target, the fact that they fight their war by hiding behind innocent women and children is what causes this kind of collatoral damage. The skulking rebellion killed the people of Alderaan- they would never been in the crossfire if the rebellion had faced the Empire out in the open like men.

[Mongolian Khanate]

It was no bigger than a womp rat! And what were they suppose to do, slap some ply wood on it?

Put shields on the damn thing. Seriously, how in HELL is an enemy squadron with various rather powerful ships able to fly right onto your space station? Ever heard of shields, they're cool, they keep those damn flies from blowing shit up. That or have computers man the turrets, not humans.

This is what happens when you work solely on a "lowest submissionner" basis

[Mongolian Khanate]

A rebel planet. The empire says that Alderan was state sponsor of terrorism- that they were ading, abetting and harbouring violent, armed rebels. Alderaan was a military target, the fact that they fight their war by hiding behind innocent women and children is what causes this kind of collatoral damage. The skulking rebellion killed the people of Alderaan- they would never been in the crossfire if the rebellion had faced the Empire out in the open like men.

Uh... what?

[Greater Cabinda]

And Mussolini kept the trains running on time, or so we're told.

Also, these people blew up a FUCKING PLANET with probably billions of inhabitants.

A rebel planet. The empire says that Alderan was state sponsor of terrorism- that they were ading, abetting and harbouring violent, armed rebels. Alderaan was a military target, the fact that they fight their war by hiding behind innocent women and children is what causes this kind of collatoral damage. The skulking rebellion killed the people of Alderaan- they would never been in the crossfire if the rebellion had faced the Empire out in the open like men.

They didn't have to blow it up. Surely not every person on Alderaan aided to the rebels?

[GreaterPacificNations]

I don't know about the Empire, but Dooku's confederacy sounds like it should have been given a chance.

The CIS was a blatant attempt by business interests to force the Republic to submit to their rule. They were just as bad as the Empire was.

Nonsense, the CIS was a coalition of industrialists, capitalists, and traders who wanted out of the Galatic Republic's failed bureaucracy. They weren't fighting to conquer the galaxy, but to seceed.

[Ceannairceach]

And Mussolini kept the trains running on time, or so we're told.

Also, these people blew up a FUCKING PLANET with probably billions of inhabitants.

A rebel planet. The empire says that Alderan was state sponsor of terrorism- that they were ading, abetting and harbouring violent, armed rebels. Alderaan was a military target, the fact that they fight their war by hiding behind innocent women and children is what causes this kind of collatoral damage. The skulking rebellion killed the people of Alderaan- they would never been in the crossfire if the rebellion had faced the Empire out in the open like men.

While I am in no way defending the ideas of the Rebellion, the Empire forced itself into a bad position with that one; Alderaan was a major planet, as I understand, likely a location on major trade routes and housed prominent senators and representatives to the Empire, such as Princess Leia. By destroying the planet, they might have killed of some rebels--not much, considering they still had enough to win the war--but they most certainly let themselves appear weak and fearful; Who else but a scared child would blow up a planet at the mere instigation of rebellion, rather than go down and rout the upstarts themselves? To continue, they also provided the Rebellion with something of an Alamo cry; What better a show of Imperial cruelty than the destruction of a reportedly peaceful world?