From Clerks: I’m alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn’t so lucky. You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this… (taps his heart) not his wallet.
I remember reading in an expanded universe comic of some kind that storm troopers are actually paid a fair bit above the galactic average, and that the first order is actually the ones who would hold you at gunpoint.
If the choice is between working on a literal genocide machine and dying, the moral choice is dying. Granting an exception for the guy who sabotages the genocide machine by building in a way to blow it up.
Oh, sure, there’s no need to defend the morality of destroying the fucking Death Star. But it’s the kind of thing that would cause a lot of suffering by itself.
There’s very little morality to be found in wars, even Star Wars.
What we need is a Millenium crossover. Time travelers show up and get all the innocents off the Death Star right before the torpedoes drop. Problem solved!
An empire by definition is privately owned and run by a single major power. The Death Star was also a military base and a weapon. So there would be no public sector workers on there unless they knew and accepted the risks or were imprisoned there.
You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this… [taps heart] not his wallet.
I agree, but remember that the state gets to decide who’s a terrorist and who’s a freedom fighter. The empire might have been a fascist dictatorship, but they have the power to call the liberators ‘terrorists’ to turn public sentiment against them
.Wookiee slaves are more of a Czerka thing, really. The empire was extremely xenophobic and I’d think would not have let any aliens near the Death Star.
Wouldn’t anyone not from Naboo be an alien to Palpatine? Jar Jar should have been less of an alien to Palpatine than Anakin was. Luke and Leia were Tatooine/Nabooian hybrids.
Xenophobism doesn’t follow things like logic. It follows arbitrary lines of us against then.
Because of that, the word “race” was equivalent to “nationality” in the Europe of the 1930s (as in “the french/german/italian/english race”), while in the USA it was equivalent to “skin color”. While most European languages don’t use the word “race” anymore, because it’s essentially meaningless since it can mean anything from species (“the human race”) to nationality, this meaning difference lives on in words like racism. Because of that, a white American who hates all white Canadians isn’t considered racist in US-English, but a white German who hates all white polish people is considered racist in German.
Since these words have aso much flexibility in their meaning, it would totally fit that the Empire is xenophobic towards anyone who looks different to humans, no matter where they are actually from.
Kinda how white people in the US are generally more racist against blacks/hispanics/asians than towards descendants from a different European country.
It didn’t melt it, it caused it to explode. And then the debris field to disperse instead of falling back into its gravity well, but not in a way that caused any damage to the Death Star.
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