Stofsk, yes, exactly. I try to use EU sources as rarely as I can and speculate on the canon (then giving notes on EU). Except some thingies worth mentioning (the
not-line-of-sight artillery ability of the SPHA-T is one of those), I don't spend much of the webpage on EU.
His Divine Shadow
I speculate on the canon first. If I need to, I mention the EU source data. And, as I already said, I will include the WEG stats for additional support.
No it doesn't, the problem is you are over intreprepting everything that is said, it's just a colloquialism.
Well why the hell would one subjugate UNinhabited worlds with the Death Star? I don't get it. Maybe that's my English. To my mind, the Tarkin quote is enough to claim that he's speaking about inhabited systems.
I see no reason as to why the Republic should be that much smaller
That is not so.
The Republic was built on tolerance. It was a vast network of tens of thousands of systems, and even more species, each with a distinct perspective.
AOTC novel. Tens of thousands would NOT be used if the Republic had HUNDREDS up to a million.
In the time of Qui-Gon Jinn, ten thousand Jedi Knights in service to the Republic carried on the struggle each day of their lives in a hundred thousand different worlds spread across a galaxy so vast it could barely be comprehended.
This TPM nov. quote regards the number of worlds the Jedi service on. Although it is not open-stated that it is the number of Republic member worlds, that is implied, IMHO.
Another issue is that we have
thousands of Senators in the Republic Senate. Now, if that is even 9.000 senators, each Senator would have had to be a representative of 100 systems to make a near million for Republic members.
But that is not so even as I assume that, using EU data:
Some Senators represent only a single world, while so-called sectorial Senators represent multiple worlds within the same sector.
A total of 1,024 repulsorlift platforms lined the interior space of the Senate rotunda.
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Whatever, the Republic is not that huge. Of course, if we're only speaking of members.
Not to mention the vaugeness of that statement
Vagueness? Two statements above. The "Jedi service" one is not that clear, but the other is enough TMM.
"That implies that the Empire can't have 1.000.000 fully inhabited member systems."
That's not MY words. I speak for the "A" guy in the Q&A. "Q's are composed from RSA arguments (yes, he does not admit the Empire has 1.000.000 members, because the Republic did not have such number

) and other stuff as well.
everything else I've seen is just vauge stuff thats mentioned in the same spirit as one might say
Vague stuff like Han Solo's "I've been across the Galaxy" is really something that can be thrown away due to Han's boasting. But when statements are NOT made by characters speaking, but rather by the author's depictation, it is not something that can be easily disregarded.
when we have the figures in the forms of dry enyclopedic facts
Yes, and I
do know the EU data. I already told
why I am not using it.
it's an game. Called Cold War. Trying to beat the opponent on his field, y' know
