Was the Imperial Governement Always in Chaos?

Shadowtraveler · Post by **Shadowtraveler** » 2006-06-26 04:21pm

I don't know about that. It's possible that this only happened because of the changes during the Ruusan Reformation.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2006-06-26 04:26pm

The Empire was built around the abolute power of Palpitine.

Without him and without a definate successor the Empire falls inot internicen warfare as one leader tries to take control. This sort of thing happened in the Roman Empire many time. Lucky for Rome there usually wasn't another powerful empire around to take advatage of the chaos.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-06-26 04:45pm

Shadowtraveler wrote:I don't know about that. It's possible that this only happened because of the changes during the Ruusan Reformation.

Of course, we don't really know very much about the pre-Ruusan Republic government, aside the fact that it had a stronger executive and a functioning military. Do the Tales of the Jedi comics reveal anything about the structure of the Senate, beyond the fact that it was huge (possibly suggesting smaller "branches" of legislation) when called for a full meeting? The KotOR series only mentions it in passing.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2006-06-26 05:05pm

Shadowtraveler wrote:I don't know about that. It's possible that this only happened because of the changes during the Ruusan Reformation.

It doesn't matter. The post-reformation government existed on a galactic scale for longer than any government in the history of Earth with the Jedi, while the New Republic using the same system without the Jedi collapsed like a house of cards in a few decades and was toothless and inept for most of that time anyway. They never could have gotten away with the system depicted in the PT for any appreciable length of time without the Jedi to hold it together.

Shadowtraveler · Post by **Shadowtraveler** » 2006-06-26 09:40pm

Point. The Jedi have always been respected by virtually everyone (well, maybe not the criminal elements) for their sense of justice and willingness to get to the bottom of things. This was slowly but surely eroded after Ruusan when the public started to think of them as nothing more than tools of the Republic, and Palpatine destroyed most of their remaining popularity during the Clone Wars and perhaps before.

So now (during the NR era) you have a government no one really trusts and a new Jedi Order than no one can 100 percent rely on.

Not to mention they made Borsk Fey'la Chief of State. I can't imagine how he got elected...

Shadowtraveler · Post by **Shadowtraveler** » 2006-06-30 01:04am

Chris OFarrell wrote:Luke essentialy neetly comes up with a way to better integrate the Jedi into the New Republic, a method which is more or less completly ignored in every EU book since, even if the 'High Council' is mentioned in passing. Hell the whole Dark Nest series (spits) completly ignores the idea to create the whole Jedi/GA friction.

It says on Wookiepedia that Luke disolves the Jedi's involvement in the Council due to act of plot, and the whole thing is called off afterwards.

And it was such a perfect idea, too.....

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2006-07-03 04:35pm

Why can't the Star Wars galaxy be run by a "normal" government comparable to a modern Western democracy? Why is it too heavily dependent on either noble Jedi Knights or scheming Sith Lords?

Lord Sander · Post by **Lord Sander** » 2006-07-03 07:47pm

Big Orange wrote:Why can't the Star Wars galaxy be run by a "normal" government comparable to a modern Western democracy? Why is it too heavily dependent on either noble Jedi Knights or scheming Sith Lords?

Probably because Star Wars governments reign over 20 million different species, each with its own morals, values and concepts of what a government should be. Such notions are a cause for states breaking up on Earth, where its the same single species (see the recent breakup of Serbia and Montenegro). Now multiply that by 20 million. A galactic government needs a stabilizing factor like the Jedi and Sith.