[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by calgarywinning

Ep: 4 was great when they were talking about the outer rim and control and they said the Galactic Empire couldn't do anything about it so why does the Rebel Forces (.. mistype on exact reference) think they can do anything about which harkened to many posts by you CaptainCrunch.

Edit for exact:
“They should leave the Outer Rim alone. If the Empire couldn’t settle it, what makes them think they can?”


Seriously, so good. You have the Rebels interrogating and intimidating.

Each scene has so much nostalgia and craft to it that is true to the original trilogy. A++

Frankly there's a link to the old concept of colonialism. The outer rim is resource rich, the inner rim isn't. The inner rim or cold worlds have always seen the outer rim as exploitable. Its also why the New Republic turned a blind eye on smuggler, slavery etc.

The core worlds had a completely un equal and dishonest view of how the galaxy really worked. Its why the Republic really fell so quickly after the Clone Wars.

The Empire had a great selling story to the outer rim, everyone in Star Wars talks about the Tarkin Doctrine as this terrifying statement of using fear to keep the citizens of the empire in line. But when you look at it, it made sense, and was a great piece of propaganda that the outer rim probably ate with a spoon.

The factor that contributed most to the demise of the Republic was not, in fact, the war, but rampant self-interest. Endemic to the political process our ancestors engineered, the insidious pursuit of self-enrichment grew only more pervasive through the long centuries, and in the end left the body politic feckless and corrupt. Consider the self-interest of the Core Worlds, unwavering in their exploitation of the Outer Systems for resources; the Outer Systems themselves, undermined by their permissive disregard of smuggling and slavery; those ambitious members of the Senate who sought only status and opportunity.

n the contrary, he has been tireless in his devotion to unify the galaxy and assure the well-being of its myriad populations. Now, with the institution of sector and oversector governance, we are in the unique position to repay our debt to the Emperor for his decades of selfless service, by lifting some of the burden of quotidian rulership from his shoulders. By partitioning the galaxy into regions, we actually achieve a unity previously absent; where once our loyalties and allegiances were divided, they now serve one being, with one goal: a cohesive galaxy in which everyone prospers. For the first time in one thousand generations our sector governors will not be working solely to enrich Coruscant and the Core Worlds, but to advance the quality of life in the star systems that make up each sector-keeping the spaceways safe, maintaining open and accessible communications, assuring that tax revenues are properly levied and allocated to improving the infrastructure. The Senate will likewise be made up of beings devoted not to their own enrichment, but to the enrichment of the worlds they represent.

I mean when you look at it, the whole idea of the Rebellion was based around rising up against tyranny and the suppression of individual worlds etc. But you look at what happened when the Empire fell, the outer rim went back to atrophy, slavers stepped in again, and why, for the mines and resources.

As much as the Empire was horrifying and run by a Evil/Not Evil despot, the Rebellion were people deluded by this glorified vision of the good old days, of freedom, of one being one vote. When in truth the Republic was corrupt, uncaring unless you had money, and your vote really only counted if your world was rich and in the core.

I wouldn't have been surprised if the New Republic had evolved into being a clumsy version of the Empire in the outer rim.