13 CORPORATE ENTITIES HAD BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN THE REPUBLIC When Palpatine eventually announced the new Imperial Order, most of the senators welcomed the prospect of an authoritarian ruler who could deal with problems swiftly and effectively. When Valorum proposed an official committee to investigate whether Naboo was in fact being invaded, Amidala’s call for a vote of no confidence was immediately answered by a chorus of “Vote Now!” in the senate chamber.
The then Supreme Chancellor Valorum had lost the respect of the senators and his effective authority with it.
Despite the apparent abuses of civil liberties committed against the people of Naboo by the Trade Federation, Queen Amidala’s pleas for help fell on obstructive ears. The Naboo Crisis brought this failure into sharp focus. The bloated bureaucracy had encouraged senators and local government officials to curry and keep as much personal power as they wanted. 15 IT ENDED THE TURMOIL OF THE CLONE WARSīy the time the Clone Wars had broken out, even those still supporting the Republic had come to realize that the Galactic Senate was corrupt and ineffectual. Here are 15 Reasons Why The Galactic Empire Was Actually Good. What if we actually explore the argument that plenty of Star Wars fans have made over the years that the Empire might have had some redeeming qualities? Perhaps they were even closer to being the real good guys. After all, the Empire is supposed to be a brutal dictatorship that murders billions of innocent people just so it can stamp out some dissidents who don’t enjoyed being ruled by a Sith autocrat.īut, let us entertain the dense over-analysis of Star Wars as a franchise for a moment. In other words the Rebellion is definitely the good guys and the Empire is definitely the bad guys. The original Star Wars Trilogy is on the level of modern legend in its thematic and narrative broad-strokes. The problem is, it wasn’t really designed to support this, at least at first. Its success and engagement with fans has spawned hundreds of additional stories and thousands of pages worth of lore that fans pride themselves on keeping internally consistent. As one of the biggest sci-fi franchises ever, Star Wars has been subjected to a lot of nerdy, obsessive deconstructions.
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