>send Death Star to destroy rebel base on yavin, a small and mostly undefended jungle moon >it gets blown up >"well shit, we better give up and never attack here again"
If the Imperial Navy had several THOUSAND Imperial-class star destroyers to use at the time of the Battle of Yavin, and if just ONE of them could lay waste to an unshielded planet, and if just ONE of them could've taken out every big ship the Rebels had at that point (mostly light frigates), then why didn't the Empire just immediately send a shitton of star destroyers to blow up Yavin? Why did they send the Death Star alone and without support? Why did they prolong the Civil War instead of literally ending it right then and there?
Lincoln Adams
Their overconfidence was their weakness
Joshua Nguyen
>why prolong the civil war Exactly. Empires thrive in war. What treasonous fuck wants reform during a war
Christopher Gonzalez
I believe Imperial retaliation on Yavin was implied in Empire Strikes Back since the rebels had to move their HQ.
Julian Adams
For some reason the empire keeps wanting to build these Death Stars even though they keep getting destroyed. I frankly just don't get it. Now... if they built ten-thousand, smaller death stars and focused on impenetrable shields instead of one large one, they could focus their attacks in an array, likely causing more damage.
Just don't get it.
Oliver Jones
The Empire did attack Yavin. Didn't you think it was weird that the Rebels were all on a different base in Episode V?
Evan Carter
WHO FUCKING CARES ABOUT STAR WARS THIS MUCH FFS ARE YOU 12
Anthony Parker
they did try again. Almost immediately afterward. which is why they were on hoth in empire.
Ryan Taylor
Once the death star blew up and they handed out awards they fucking folded camp and booked it, hence the next major rebel base being on Hoth.
Fucking DUH...this shit ain't complicated.
Jaxson Morales
blow up a planet? That'd take a thousand ships, like half the Imperial navy, at least.
Colton Jackson
>Send kamikaze squad to US coast to destroy their retarded harbor >My country gets nuked >Well shit, better give up and never attack here again
The Death Star was a massive symbol of power, both to the outward galaxy and inside the Empire. When that was destroyed, the imperials had no idea what to do.
Anthony Brooks
Because it's a plot device, nigger
Ian Sullivan
why do you keep over thinking these stupid children's movies???
We get it, they are most stupid movies but visually pleasant for kids and autist. Is the very definition of cashgrab, please stop trying to take it as a serious piece of film.
Hunter Murphy
>The old Expanded Universe made the Empire speciesist and sexist, making it clear that only human males were really welcome there >/io9.gizmodo.com/why-having-grand-moff-tarkin-in-rogue-one-is-even-bette-1789437338
What did the SJW libshit writer mean by this
Dominic Peterson
^ not giving that post a (you). no way.
Isaiah Parker
It's in the title crawl for Empire nigga >"It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy.
Cooper Barnes
There was a cool dynamic with Admiral Thrown and the xenophobia in the Empire. Others in his ranks didn't take him seriously until he showed me all up. It was a bad idea to mock his being Chiss then.
Zachary Martin
The Empire blowing up Alderaan destroyed their public image.
Before that people didn't really care and actually were cool with the Jedi being purged and living under sheevs dictatorship.
Tarkin was an idiot.
Ethan Stewart
>When that was destroyed, the imperials had no idea what to do.
But the Empire attacked Yavin almost immediately after, which is why the Rebels packed up and moved to another base right after the Death Star Wars destroyed.
Also, this
>Send kamikaze squad to US coast to destroy their retarded harbor >My country gets nuked >Well shit, better give up and never attack here again
Is the dumbest fucking analogy I've ever seen.
Charles Gray
The death star was suppose to be used against a bigger more deadly threat than the rebels.
But of course SJWars and JarJar Abrams erased that.
David Perry
want to bring rebels out of hiding? >if you build it they will come >the rebels are ghosts
Nathaniel Moore
>Before that people didn't really care and actually were cool with the Jedi being purged and living under sheevs dictatorship.
They did care. The Empire had already committed genocide on a different planet that didn't have any planetary shields. And the Empire's preferred method for handling large-scale protests was to land a star destroyer on top of the city in question. The rebellion had support for a reason.
Levi Clark
>he thinks the empire never attacked Yavin again, or at least didn't intend to
Why do you think the rebels moved their base to Hoth? Use your fucking brain, retard.
Colton Lee
>muh Yuuzhan Vong
Yeah, I'm sure the Death Star would have worked really well against all those tiny little biotech ships.
Christian Johnson
wtf I love the Rebellion now.
Henry Scott
Most of their support came after Alderaan happened.
Before that the Rebellion was a small fringe group.
Brayden Thomas
Writers don't remember scale or things that would mean they would be visionaries, and writers aren't visionaries. visionaries think to completion, they plan writers just..they want what sounds good and justify it as "disregard that, it's not part of what sounds good"
Brody Russell
>I'm a faggot who doesn't like one armed man-hating amazons, anti-human centauresses who get killed offscreen, and big gold blobs from other dimensions
Jack Phillips
Reminder that even though the Empire "lost", all those millions and millions of tons of metal that exploded right in the atmosphere had to go somewhere. Endor burned
James Ward
>in the atmosphere shit was so fucking far outside the atmosphere it's not even funny
Luis Young
yeah whatever man
Hunter Moore
yeah whatever the fuck ever
Ryder Miller
It wasn't speciest or sexist in the EU. Only the new Disney shit canon makes it that.
In the EU it was humanity-first, but some species like Chiss were welcomed into Imperial ranks. Chiss were the second most common species in the Stormtrooper Corps next to Humans.
Juan Mitchell
ameridiots just love to work in their war history, what did you expect?
Grayson Price
>Apocalypse Endor tells the story of a retired stormtrooper's experience on Endor. It starts in a cantina, years after the Battle of Endor. The old man is asked and teased about how the 'cute and cuddly widdle' Ewoks defeated the Emperor's best troops. The former soldier tells his story. >Years ago, upon setting up a base on the forest moon, the Imperials went to meet the natives to determine hostility and behavior. The curious Ewoks welcomed the troopers with flowers, but when they tried to use a stormtrooper's E-11 blaster rifle for a flower holder, the paranoid troopers considered that an attempt to block up their weapons, and opened fire. The Ewoks then went completely hostile. Over time they kidnapped and murdered any stormtroopers they could get, and tortured the whole garrison with eerie drums in the night. During a daytime battle, Ewoks swung from vines and shot arrows in the troopers' necks, one of the armor's weak spots. They caused other stormtroopers to slip into a pit of sharpened stone spikes and dropped boulders on other groups. >When the remaining Imperials were being rounded up, the narrator surrendered quickly and asked for the Ewoks to be taken away. In the cantina, the veteran says that he hasn't slept well since Endor, but what keeps him going is the idea that the second Death Star's debris rained down on the moon and killed many Ewoks. His fellow patrons crush his last happy thought about Endor by revealing that as a myth, that most of the debris was vaporized during the violent explosion of the Death Star and the rest was intercepted by the Rebels, preventing any harm to the forest moon. Kek.
Jaxson Parker
>Chiss were the second most common species in the Stormtrooper Corps next to Humans.
The fuck? The Chiss lived on a far out planet and only a miniscule number joined Thrawn and the Empire. If Chiss were the second most numerous, it was because nobody else but humans got to be Stormtroopers.
Caleb Collins
Wookiepedia
"Siege of Yavin"
You're welcome
James Torres
I don't know if it's Canon, but the empire does attack Yavin in Rogue Squadron Rogue Leader, they go back and that's what forces them to abandon the planet and seek refuge on an uncharted Hoth.