Fel Empire...Good?
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DarthVectivus
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Fel Empire...Good?
Just finished the Legacy comics and I love the new Empire. Anyone else think the Fel Empire is good or is it just a charade?
"I encounter civilians like you all the time. You believe the Empire is continually plotting to do harm. Let me tell you, your view of the Empire is far too dramatic. The Empire is a government. It keeps billions of beings fed and clothed. Day after day, year after year, on thousands of worlds, people live their lives under Imperial rule without seeing a stormtrooper or hearing a TIE fighter scream overhead."
―Captain Thrawn, to Tash Arranda
―Captain Thrawn, to Tash Arranda
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SpaceMarine93
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Re: Fel Empire...Good?
I think it simply the lesser of two evils compared to the Sith or the previous Empire. It's definitely not as BAD per say as the original Galactic Empire (Less xenophobia and sexism in policy, less corruption and tyrannical excess, permitted proliferation of the Light Side Force users in the form of the Imperial Knights, the Emperor a more reasonable and pragmatic guy until the very very end), but it is still far from the Galactic Republic, New Republic or the Commonwealth with centralized rule, no democracy, Grand Moff Council rule, Imperialism etc.
To put it in the words of John Ostrander, in Star Wars Insider 87, the Fel Empire is "not as inherently evil [as the earlier Empire], but still not a republic, not a democracy. It's the rule of the few, or the one, over the many. It has a lot of strengths; it has a substantial amount of weaknesses. It values power more than anything else."
To put it in the words of John Ostrander, in Star Wars Insider 87, the Fel Empire is "not as inherently evil [as the earlier Empire], but still not a republic, not a democracy. It's the rule of the few, or the one, over the many. It has a lot of strengths; it has a substantial amount of weaknesses. It values power more than anything else."
Life sucks and is probably meaningless, but that doesn't mean there's no reason to be good.
--- The Anti-Nihilist view in short.
--- The Anti-Nihilist view in short.
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Pelranius
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Re: Fel Empire...Good?
They also have a pretty large Peace Corps type component, to the point that its leader gets to sit on their Moff Council.
Turns out that a five way cross over between It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Ali G Show, Fargo, Idiocracy and Veep is a lot less funny when you're actually living in it.