Yeah I know, boo-hoo the new movies, but I'm forever a SW fan and a SW junky.
Feel free to rip this shreds, but I'm still there, day one, with my Galactic Empire shirt on! :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1T3HxHd7Y I might buy a copy when it hits the cheap DVD/bluray bin, but I am not giving too much to the ones who made the expanded universe non-canon and sold the characters and such out to make money everywhere they could.
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Breja: The thing is, according to the books and comics the Palpatine wanted the Empire to crush and burn in the event of his death, and prepared a whole elaborate scheme to make sure it happened, while a huge part of the fleet was to go into hiding beyond the Rim, where he was doing... something. And preparing... things.
It was never really explained in anything I read, and the movies of course so far didn't explain anything at all about the shape of the galaxy in this time period.
It was to protect against that one Y named alien race that would eventually show up, or so some canon says.
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Breja: By the way, if that big laser hitting the ground thing in this new trailer is yet another fucking Death Star this will be the worst SW movie by default. No matter how good or bad everything else is, going for a fourth damn Death Star, whatever they call it this time - Starkiller Base, Peace Moon, Apocalypse Asteroid - is just declaring utter creative bankruptcy.
The valley of the jedi from the Kyle Katarn games making jedi and sith super powerful and the one Sith in KOTOR 2 who could end life easily on a massive scale were more interesting after all that.