[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Duruss

Sounds like you are describing a massive power vacuum left by the empire and that the reality is that the New Republic failed utterly to fill it. Now why did they fail? Was there a schism of some kind? Or did the rebellion punch way above it's weight, catching the galaxy off guard resulting in said power vacuum because no one was really prepared for the empire to fall?

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The common story thread whether its EU or legends is that the Republic and democracy has never been the guiding light in the GFFA. While the Senate always believed that it was successful and the system worked, it rarely did.

The GFFA and the implementation of democracy was never going to be successful. There are too many people (Trillions and Trillions) Too many different species with different view points, and too much economic disparity between the various rims of the Galaxy.

The Inner Rim worlds were the heart of industry and business, and all they needed the outer rim for was really the exploitation of resources, so the senate even though they talked about things like anti-slavery never really strongly pushed for it (TPM talked about this with the whole, we're too far away from the Core for them to care). They had constant wars between planets especially in the Outer Rim because the Republic had no real military, and the Jedi didn't have enough peace keepers (10,000).

When you look at the Legends EU and especially the Bane books, he saw the problem clearly. He was forced to work in a mine run by a mining company almost in a slave state, and he hated the republic because they didn't care as long as they got their minerals. He saw the need for a strong central authority that would rule over the rest. Palpatine took it further in that strong central authority was needed to protect the myriad of species and civilizations from themselves. One strong body could in theory create a unified galaxy where each system would play a role, and if you tried to break that order the government would be able to enforce the rule of law.

The Old Republic never had that, and probably the new republic wasn't willing to do that. They probably thought, hey man, if we give each planet a senator to sit in the Senate, we'll all talk things out. While the Inner Ring had the power and the money, and could make demands for order, while the outer rim was always left on its own, and became disgruntled.

I can almost guarantee that the inner rim worlds didn't really care about whether they were ruled by an empire or a democratic system. The outer rim worlds for a time would welcome an empire because democracy and order were a failure out there.

Even when you read the aftermath books and the movie novelizations and add ons, the Outer Rim and even what was left of the empire absolutely welcomed the first order, because it could enforce order. The Republic failed because it couldn't and we saw the result.

You look at Russia after the wall fell, for a long time there were a lot of people that began to see Stalin in a positive light and wanted a return to a government with the authority to move things along and bring order out of the chaos that was happening.

When Palpatine fell, a lot of the worlds celebrated because of the concept of having freedom from big government, with a reliance of enforcing order and destroying all those who oppossed the order. The Inner Rim worlds probably didn't care because the New Republic probably catered to them. But I it didn't take long for the Outer Rim worlds to see anarchy and slavery and poverty pop up and the New Republic had no plan to address it, and no strength of will to fix it. So yeah they probably saw the loss of authority and strength of will that the empire provided as a bad thing.

Most people probably celebrated because of the death of Palpatine not the Death of the Empire as a whole.

If Palpatine would have let the First Order continue, hadn't announced that he was back. Wouldn't have started imposing his will and blasting planets as part of his Final Order. The Galaxy would have probably welcomed the rule of the First Order and turned against a group of aging rebels with a romantic notion of a system that had failed throughout the history of the galaxy.

Sadly the Bane Books, and the book Darth Plageius books were relegated to the Legends dust heap. But if you read them you can understand that the Sith knew that the idea of a democracy of billions of voices was doomed to failure, that that the people would welcome a strong voice, and that For the Sith the aquisition of power and being able to buy pass their morality was all in search of a greater goal which was the enforcement of order and justice and peace.