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Jan 10, 2017 1:59 AM
LokiOnTheCouch
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source : http://www.tickld.com/x/this-guy-just-changed-the-way-we-see-star-wars-mind-blowing
elgalileo
And how Palpatine would have anticipated an invasion 25 years before it happened ?
kuroze
Dude this is pretty much justifying fascism because it gets things done. Protip: it sometimes doesn't, and it is always ugly.
mexicutioner07
Giving George Lucas this must credit.
HickLife
Daervon
Interesting (though not OC) thought, but for the fact the Emperor is extremely unlikely to have known of the Yuuzhan Vong through the... 1/2
Daervon
force (since the Yuuzhan Vong are outside it), and no overt (or covert for that matter) acts by them were recorded. Also, moot cause Disney.
jrhawk42
1. this relies on Palpatine having info on the Vong. 2. & that he kept that info a secret 3. didn't attempt to use the Vong to his advantage
nycterelis
1. In legacy canon he did. 2. In legacy canon he did. 3. In legacy canon he... hmm... may have. It's unclear.
Obi1thejedi
That's like saying Hitler was kinda okay.
mtbelley
Actually if you read the series they actually talk about how they could not have defeated the empire if it were there at the time.
SmartestDumbGuy
Yuuzhan Vong invasion= Disney takeover.
pagliacci323
I've never heard of this vong invasion...
Rebar77
Check out the "New Jedi Order" series of books. (There's 19 in that series alone) From the "Expanded Universe" of books from 90's to now.
z3lfmoord
If that was true, then why did he blow up a whole planet killing millions?
Garzhuk
Was tarkin
Stonedpingu
And instead of this we got ep 7...yaaaay.
DrDave94
Man there's a lot of hate for the EU here. I'm just about to finish the Vong stuff now, I think it's decent. Why all the negativity?
Dalumbr
Three words, THEY KILLED CHEWIE
t0mn8r
Interesting hypothesis...
AUBURN520
r/empiredidnothingwrong
suckmyballssatan
That's like saying mkultra was okay!
StephanieWasTheTrueVillainOfLazyTown
It gave 11 superpowers
LeMorteDRando
Aside from killing an entire planet of innocent people, but that doesn't count right?
Moswaldo
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dadecorban
I had almost forgotten about those horrible books. thanks dick.
Geo80
The fuck is a Yuuzhan Vong?
BlueLanternBraxx
New Jedi Order is an amazing series. At one point Wedge Antilles decides they should start fighting more like the Empire and destroys-
BlueLanternBraxx
a Vong occupied planet's colonies from orbit with Turbolasers. Great now I just wanna talk about NJO all night.
BlueLanternBraxx
Oh look, you mentioned the Yuuzhan Vong. Looks like it's time TO UPVOTE EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER POSTED!!!!
echoingwhisper
DestroYersul
Counterpoint: The Yuuzhan Vong are dumb, and got thought up many years after the fact. We're better off without them.
TheEmptyChairOverThere
After seeing the post where I bitched about Disney nuking the eu it's nice to see some good ole shit here.
level5detentionblockAA23
But, according to Disney, none of that ever happened
Carger
Well it's fiction, so none of any of it ever happened.
level5detentionblockAA23
don't you ruin this for me!
LostCause97
No, Palpatine was a power hungry Sith. What you're talking about is Thrawn's plan to unify the galaxy under his leadership to fight the YV.
PatrickRandolph
Non of that is canon anymore????
A10ThunderboltIICASJetAircraft
This is a repost, the first one was posted long before Disney acquired Star Wars.
PhillyDillyDee
Newp
awkwardmoment
Now Palpatine was searching for the source of the dark side or something to that effect, and the First Order is a remnant of that effort.
PartyPete
None of it ever was. Lucas never thought up the Yuuzhan Vong. The Death Star was a terror weapon to maintain order and nothing more.
VeryEnthusiasticWalksThroughtheWoods
Its canon in my heart
Zatheron
Ya that entire post was pointless. Non of that will probably ever happen.
LeMorteDRando
I especially like the part where they murder all the warrior monks because they "stopped doing their job." For the greater good.
Dreigiau
I AM your 'greater good'!
VeryEnthusiasticWalksThroughtheWoods
Its canon in my heart
psionoblast
I lobe this theory but its wrong especially with the new cannon. They explicitly state in catalyst, aftermath and rogue one that they just
psionoblast
Wanna subjugate planets and supress any rebellions that may rise up
SquirtleSquad420
It gives the emperor absolute control through fear, and he no longer has to please a senate.
theboned1
The ends always justify the means right?
VaultDweller
Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.
akalien
always
ZakAmetyst
theboned1
Says the Jedi with an absolute statement.
ZakAmetyst
CoSaR
Here's the thing, if he had actually wanted to do that he could have. The Rebellion only had strength due to the atrocities he committed.
CoSaR
And none of those atrocities were needed to stop the Vong.
TruFox
Or that's all a bunch of retroactive theory-crafting and not at all the original intent.
nycterelis
Correct, considering Lucas himself wrote none of the books.
Cyanide555
Also the entire eu was retconned. So none of this means anything. Although i do hope thrawn shows up
ParappaTheVelociraptor
Thrawn's back now. He's currently the main baddie in Rebels, and Timothy Zahn has a new Thrawn book coming this year.
CoSaR
Poorly thought out theory-crafting. Because, last time I checked Aldeeran wasn't a Vong stronghold, and the Vong were never mentioned.
Haiddon
did you miss the part where tarkin destroyed alderaan as a show of force?
CoSaR
In fact, if the Galaxy wasn't just coming down from decades of war then they likely would have been in a better position.
astrangehop
Are the republic ever shown to actually have big ships?
dthninja2
How'd he know about the Vong? They're immune to the Force, so their arrival couldn't be foreseen and that's mostly all the Emperor did
BlueLanternBraxx
The vong have had spies in the known galaxy going back as far as the clone wars. Palpatine's intel was always good, he would have known.
Starwars2thewrathofhan
Outbound flight project + rouge planet
nycterelis
Thrawne.
Starwars2thewrathofhan
Thrawn
nycterelis
Thanks!