Empire post Battle of Endor

[sinkie]

Yep! And there's no sound in space and a lightsword would seem to be a scientific impossibility. Not to eliminate any criticism, because it sure could be criticized, I just look at it as an effective ending to a 6 year ride. Party!!! Heck you could justify it by saying perhaps what we didn't see on screen was the rest of the rebel fleet chasing off the imperial remnant once chaos started to kick in and/or they had no idea where the Ewok village is. For that matter, why would any realistic and respectable army use something like a walking robotic dinosaur when they could just carpet bomb or use tech that would obviously be beyond even the smart and dirty bombs we've got today? For me it comes down to: based on the chaos we were shown, in the DS II hangar for example, the biggest Star Destroyer crashing into the DS and all the battles we were not shown, I can buy they would have fled feeling they'd just gotten their tails handed to them, even if to rethink how to go on from here. I mean, who was in charge when it comes down to it? I'd guess they went down with the ship and no one worthy of command was really left behind to think long term. I think we are meant to think the rebels had the upper hand at that point. No DS, no big weapon to keep the systems in line and the SEs would seem to support that once the head had been cut off, it was all down hill for them then, and almost instantly!

[kingbrat]

what is this "post Battle of Endor" you speak of? I thought when the credits rolled someone just pulled the plug on the SW universe and shut it all down.

OT being all that can ever be, and all that...

[CadBane]

I believe that there would be enough power hungry high ranking imperials that they would want to strike back at the rebels. All your stormtroopers and their variations(sand troopers, snowtroopers ect.) were brainwashed. Theybieved in the Empire and that's all they knew. Therefore between the lust for power by the higher ranking imperials and the brainwashed pawns would strike back at the rebels. Another incentive to maintain power/strike back would be to prevent them from being sentenced to a life long prison sentence and execution.

[CadBane]

what is this "post Battle of Endor" you speak of? I thought when the credits rolled someone just pulled the plug on the SW universe and shut it all down.

OT being all that can ever be, and all that...

I'm seeing a movie called The Phantom Menace in 38 hours so I think you need someone to help push that Rock off of you that you've been living under since '99 or earlier. just kidding

[Leif_G]

All your stormtroopers and their variations(sand troopers, snowtroopers ect.) were brainwashed. Theybieved in the Empire and that's all they knew. Therefore between the lust for power by the higher ranking imperials and the brainwashed pawns would strike back at the rebels.

I wouldn't say that all Imperial troopers were brainwashed. There's ample evidence that at the time of the OT, some troopers were not clones with built in mechanisms for control. But since they would likely follow the orders of their officers (who were not clones), its a moot point anyways. All that really matters is what the surviving Imperial commanders would choose to do. I think even those interested in continuing the fight against the rebellion would regroup after Endor. "Run away and live to fight another day" and all that, as sinkie alluded to.

[CadBane]

I'm not talking about just clones. Think about real world tyrannical groups and how they implemented powerful propaganda that brainwashed their soldiers. An Empire and all of its soldiers can't just disappear like that after 25 years. All these guys know is power, intimidation and ruling with an iron fist.

[Leif_G]

I tend to see the troopers as being more like modern soldiers. They do a job, put in their time, then leave the service and move on to other things. If they were power hungry they simply wouldn't be content with being regular troopers, taking orders. There is also a difference in political involvement. It's a bit like the differences between the WWII German Waffen-SS (schutzstaffel) and wehrmacht forces. There were soldiers who were more politically devoted, and others who were just devoted to their jobs and careers (if they were a career officer). Though you can't really stereotype everyone, generally speaking a lot of German's were supportive of Hitler's Nazi party at first, because they saw some justification for it early on, but very few could be described as being loyal to the point where they approved of the entire war, and all that happened. There were a lot of German soldiers who were just happy to see the war end. I personally know a few German vets who still speak favorably of some of the things Hitler did for Germany early on, but they have had no problem leaving the war behind and going on to be good citizens under other governments, including coming to North America. Most soldiers have families and friends in home towns they just want to get back to. I don't see SW universe soldiers being any different.

Leif

[CadBane]

Interesting theory