Metahive wrote:I would actually question if the ship in orbit belongs to the Galactic Empire at all since they act way out of character. Standard procedure of the Empire WRT primitive and unaffiliated worlds would be to simply demand submission under the threat of destruction, not to randomly attack a rather insignificant military force on the planet that has to largely make do with looted equipment. If they attacked anyone, wouldn't it be the actual military superpowers on the planet like the US, Russia and China?
So my judgement is that the ship belongs to impostors, maybe it's those interstellar con artists from the TNG episode The Devil's Due.
It may not be the same Empire as the Empire of the Star Wars movies.
There is the theory put forth earlier in the thread that the Star Wars movies could be propaganda. Would explain easily why the Empire is all hearts and minds rather then turbolasers and kneeling.
Could be a future Empire, Star Wars taking place a long time ago in a galaxy far away. Takes time to get here so those ships could be part of Fel Empire. They had the Imperial Mission as part of their Victory Without War strategy of spreading Imperial influence and it wouldn't be surprising that they'd be using older ships. Their missions is to help those in poverty and even Earth 1st worlders by their standards are poverty stricken, to say nothing of the millions or billions of actual poverty stricken hoomangs. They were supposed to have sites set up on places like Tatooine to help the needy there and Tatooine people are probably doing a bit better then many Earthers.
Speaking of Tatooine, that is a world that is pretty primitive. No real natural resources unless you like sand and whiny blond kids. The Empire had a presence there but mostly took a hands off approach. Same with another even more primitive world, Endor. Again hands off, let the locals do their own thing mostly. We are probably somewhere between Tatooine and Endor. If the Empire showed up it would most likely be just to plant their flag, blast some belligerents to clean the dust off their cannons and to show to not fuck with them, and other then that would probably leave us mostly alone unless we were strategically important. They'd probably set up a base or embassy even then.
The main thing we would have to worry about in corporations following the Imps looking for primitive worlds to exploit. I doubt we'd be dumb enough to trade off Australia for some space beads or all the contents of Fort Knox for a space can opener but still I could see mega-corps trying to exploit us, either for our culture or anything we have that is unique.
Or could be intergalactic space douches have a giggle at our expense by dressing up as fictional characters.
