From a narrative point of view, I prefer this to the two or three decades of "new Imperial warlord emerges, threatens the survival of the New Republic, is defeated, rinse and repeat" that the old EU had, which I felt was repetitive and anti-climactic, and undercut the optimistic ending of Return of the Jedi. In the Disney canon, the Empire seems to have collapsed very quickly after Endor- going from domination of the entire galaxy to ceasing to exist as a significant military power in only a year or two. Or that it cannot be held together in the absence of a powerful, established organization of Force users like the Jedi Order to keep the peace (I think this may have some truth to it).īut I can't help but wonder if the NR might, paradoxically, have had greater stability if it had been forced to fight a longer war against the Empire. One might also argue that a large and diverse galaxy cannot be effectively governed by a single entity (though the millennium of peace under the Old Republic would seem to tell against that). Now, its understandable that a war-weary galaxy might support demilitarization, and that the New Republic would be under pressure to differentiate itself from the Empire by relying on diplomacy, rather than military force, to hold itself together. Many viewers evidently find this implausible, and some, unfortunately, will use the NR's weakness as a defense of the Empire (ignoring that the Empire was unstable enough to be brought down by the tiny insurgent group that then founded the New Republic). In the Sequel Trilogy, we see a New Republic which is so militarily and politically weak that it allows the First Order to build up its forces unchecked, and is then crippled by a single surprise attack on a single system, to the point where it can then apparently be overrun in days or weeks.
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Surely peace, a quick resolution to a conflict, is something to be desired? And generally, I believe, it is. Okay, I feel like I'm committing heresy by even asking this question.