You know, I was just eyeballing the pic and an epiphany struck me: how do we know that the empire is evil? they aren’t lining up minorities against walls to be shot, and their taxes/criminal codes are reasonable, considering what they’re contending with.
It seems to me that in the movies, the empire spends an awful lot of time getting victimized by “rebel” insurgents and criminal types setting up mini-kingdoms where the empire isn’t watching, and a few murderous apples doesn’t mean the whole thing is rotten.
