He killed billions

He killed billions.

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He killed the equivalent of space California

...to save trillions.

...from the Yuhzan Voong

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He was just following orders.

he was just the trigger man, if he didn't do it the Emperor would have had someone else do it

Close but so far off

Literally no one was counting. Not inside the story. Not outside the story where thousands of fans/writers have been writing tons of stuff for decades

Lives were cheap in medieval age.

The Empire's use of terror tactics against its own population was literally conceived and developed by Tarkin personally, they called it the Tarkin Doctrine.

They made CGI Tarkin look older

you don't just blow up planets in the empire without the consent/blessing of the emperor

Why didn't the Empire use droids

racism

Because they are horrible fighters, even worse than Stormtroopers.

Except for the torture droid, mouse droids, protocol droids

No but he was the guy who actually went up to Sheev, the guy loves being evil more than anybody, and told him he wasn't being evil enough. This impressed Sheev so much he put Tarkin in charge of being evil for the whole Empire.

>even worse than Stormtroopers.
Bullshit. Quip droid killed dozens of stormtroopers in Rogue One.

Like how many billions? No one has an official figure because the official doesn't want a galaxy with population census which would make people feel it's a modern world

Forgot about him.
He was a reprogrammed imperial droid, so I suppose the empire did use droids.

They made him far too detailed

And he was a good friend.

Seriously, it's a shame he died. I liked his relationship with Vader. They worked well together.

Sheev cared about creating jobs for imperial citizens. This is also why he didn't wanna use clones.

He was probably expensive. Armies are about doing the most damage as cheap as possible, and while the Separatists had a fuckton of droids they were so shitty that a clone that cost the same as five droids could kill ten. A droid that cost the same would probably still be less effective because clones are sapient and can generally out-think droids. The Empire switching to Storm Troopers in turn indicates that they're on the whole cheaper and/or better value than clones, leaving droids even farther behind.

Tarkin did nothing wrong.

Tarkin did nothing wrong, though. Terrorists were blowing up innocent imperials. Alderaan was a haven for these criminals, so Tarkin did the only thing he could do to stop the problem at its source. Unlike the modern world, the future understands that if you want to kill an idea, you really need to remove the problem at the source, and it was those manhating liberals on Alderaan that caused this whole mess to begin with.

I liked this movie, but it was too on the nose with regards to its nods to current geo-political situations on Earth. They couldn't really come up with something original?

Feels good that this is no longer canon.

>the future

Also the Bronze Age, the Classical era, and Genghis Khan.

the old tarkin wasn't in hi-def though.

Democracy is held up as the epitome of good government, but it's just as likely to be corrupt, if not more so, as every person involved has their own agenda. Ideally, you would want everyone to agree with you, but that is absolutely never the case, as we can see in todays current political climate. It's funny the way anything dictatorial is perceived, when in fact, the chances of getting a good person in power is just as likely as getting a bad person. It worked for thousands of years, and it was only recently that democratic governments started to become more prevalent... and really all it has done is stagnate the development of the countries that adopted it. Just look at Europe - many of the great nations of the world literally being cucked over time by popular opinion, when popular opinion is just as often dumbfucked as any other opinion.

In short, one man (or woman), one rule, is the only legitimate way a world power will ever stay relevant over time. The Empire had some ruthless people in charge, but everyone overlooks the fact that it brought about relative peace and prosperity for the few years before the rebellion of shitsticks started to take off. Some might argue the Republic did the same thing, but it also never did anything of note in the thousands of years since the old republic. Technology and development just stagnated, which is clearly the only thing democracy is good for.

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In general, adversity contributes exponentially to what it is that makes as human. With conflict, we advance as a species on an unprecedented scale.

...to save himself.

there is a Clone Wars episode where Tarkin and Anakin team up to btfo of CIS scum

The fact that democracies are as likely to be corrupt as authoritarian systems (and vice versa) is an advantage for democracy, since the limits on the government and individuals within it tend to limit abuse of power while allowing government functioning relatively well. The increased responsiveness to popular opinion, while at the very least not necessarily producing governing outcomes inferior to autocratic systems, also serves to preserve order by accounting for political opposition to the government within the system. Without these controls a country runs the risk of breeding radical opposition as people conclude that they cannot affect change they see as necessary without destroying the system itself.

The alternative of course is to commit to suppressing opposition, but the lengths necessary to secure a system by brute force in all circumstances are very extensive, and can demonstrably harm things such as economic productivity. Not all autocratic countries experience opposition heavy enough that the most damaging measures are needed, but this is usually due to their particular circumstances that can essentially be described as good luck. This has the overall effect of producing better long-term outcomes in areas such as quality of life, economic growth, and political stability in democracies.

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>Without these controls a country runs the risk of breeding radical opposition as people conclude that they cannot affect change they see as necessary without destroying the system itself.
That isn't true at all, because you get the same thing with Democracy too, which is evident in the US.

Prove it.

Personally, I like the idea that Alderaan was all military personnel and what Tarkin did was drop a nuke on an military base the size of your standard metropolis and all Alderaan civilians had secretly been moved off world because the royalty knew for a long time something like this was happening.

>to save milli-
oh shit

That's sort of true, but there's some key differences between common threats experienced by democracies and radicalized opposition elements. The key is whether the bulk of the population feels enfranchised, if this is achieved then radical opposition will be limited to fringe groups who reject participation in the system outright due to their ideology. These groups at the core tend to be very small since very few people tend to subscribe to radical viewpoints unprovoked. The difference is when opposition factions with views moderate enough to find purchase with significant shares of the population stop believing they can achieve their agendas within the system, causing their members to shift to more radical beliefs or even simply ally with radical factions willing to join them in the fight. As a consequence the political climate in the country becomes less stable, with entrenched factions bitterly opposing each other. This inevitably results in either a chaotic overthrow of the system by a faction with beliefs likely more radical than the previous government, or an incumbent government that's been forced to close ranks and pursue extreme measures to quell opposition, constantly trying to compensate for lack of legitimacy among the population by asserting authoritarian control of various aspects of society. Either way the country finds itself in a hole much deeper than it was in at the beginning of the process, when the government could have enacted reforms sufficient to convince the bulk of society that it was worth working within the system.

It was dark, he couldn't see. Alderan had a ray gun; it looked real enough.

Only shitskins lived on Alderaan desu

Why wouldnt they duplicate the lighting for the cgi model? Its one of the biggest problems with it

Why kill trillions when you can kill....millions

>quora

Is that supposed to mean something? Even if it does, the article still has merit and truth to it.

if its good why not make the argument yourself? im definitely not going to read some article just to support your point

>An interesting article to read
>waaah I don't want to read it
>please say the same thing the article says for me
I feel sorry for you. Really.

Then he died. What's your point?

>find a new planet
>it's a military planet