r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Aug 09 '24

Discussion If you enlisted in the Empire’s military, which branch would you join? Army, Navy, Stormtrooper Corps, or Starfighter Corps?

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Apr 30 '18

Discussion My professor said our term paper could be on any topic we chose as long as he approved it. It was an easy decision.

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Jul 14 '20

Discussion Who else thinks that the rogue one stormtroopers have the best looking armour.

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Oct 05 '23

Discussion Does Darth Vader have a dick and balls?

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I was wondering, after the psychopath Obi Wan basically chopped his adoptive son's legs off and Vader got burned, how "extensive" were the injuries to Vader's Fleshsaber, if you will?

Could Vader fuck?

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Oct 05 '18

Discussion In all serious though, would anyone love see an "A Star Wars Story" spin-off movie that's from the perspective of the Empire?

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Like a movie about a unit of low-level imperial officers and storm troopers or whatever just following orders and going about their day to day lives of keeping the galaxy safe, taking on crime lords / gangsters / slavers and other genuinely terrible people.

The viral marketing for it could be like be overly patriotic with a parades and an anthemic version of the Imperial March.

Think "Man in the High Castle" in space.

You could have it set like a few days after episode 4 or something coz it would be interesting to see how the Empire spun things like the destruction of the Death Star and the destruction of Alderaan to its citizens and soldiers. Ian McDiarmid could cameo and give a speech.

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Jan 21 '20

Discussion Who want a DisneyPlus Stormtroopers analogy series? To show everyday lives galactic empire brave men and women who protected galaxy from rebel scums and foe from far edge of galaxy. What do you're would like see that series?

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Dec 26 '17

Discussion Do not believe the Rebel propaganda!

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong May 29 '18

Discussion Who else is happy that the Imperial Army Infantry troopers are finally getting some of the limelight?

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Jan 14 '20

Discussion Are you waiting for Mandalorian season 2 and flashbacks about the Great Purge?

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Aug 27 '24

Discussion 0 BBY was a tragic year for the Empire. RIP to these fallen heroes who served their Emperor with courage and dedication.

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  1. Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin • 64 BBY - 0 BBY

  2. Admiral Conan Antonio Motti • Unknown - 0 BBY

  3. Colonel Wullf Yularen • 57 BBY - 0 BBY

  4. Chief Moradmin Bast • Unknown - 0 BBY

  5. General Trech Morlock • Unknown - 0 BBY

  6. Captain Khurgee • Unknown - 0 BBY

  7. Director Orson Krennic • 51 BBY - 0 BBY

Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Feb 24 '19

Discussion We technically can’t prove that isn’t what Lord Vader did. The padawans that were found dead in the temple later appear much older, much fewer, and in a very different location than those corrupted innocents hiding in the council chambers.

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Sep 24 '22

Discussion End of an era right here

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Mar 11 '18

Discussion OOC: The Empire is not Sith

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I hate to be pedantic about this, but I've seen a lot of people praising the Sith, even Darth Maul in character. As far as the average Imperial citizen knows, Maul is a Seperatist assassin who tried to kill Senator Amidala.

Further, Jedi like Qui-Gon who died before the Coucil tried to arrest Palpatine should be seen as heroes of the Empire, not traitors. They died in service to the Republic and were probably set up by those traitors on the Council.

In short, stop trying to make the Empire comically evil, that's Rebel propganda's job.

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong May 24 '21

Discussion The Dlt-19 is one of my favorite blasters, but i feel like the sound they used for it in the mandalorian, sounds kinda...weak...in comparison to the sound it makes compared to in battlefront...what do you guys think?

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Jun 07 '23

Discussion You're in the Imperial Navy. Who would you rather server under?

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Nov 10 '21

Discussion That’s cause the empire cares for its people

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Nov 13 '22

Discussion What a silly question (from r/StarWars)

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Jul 26 '22

Discussion Still amazed that Obi-Wan Kenobi In chapter 4 he managed to make these Stormtroopers empathize with them by seeing them as workers on a regular work day.

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Feb 06 '22

Discussion Is anyone else really tired of the whole "Elite soldiers that do absolutely nothing" trope? Spoiler

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(This is marked as a spoiler because, although some of the material covered here has already been exposed to the fanbase for a year or two, some mentions of shows like The Book of Boba Fett will come to light in this post so to prevent anyone from reading this and then getting spoiled by proxy you have been forewarned!)

Let me start off by saying that I personally love the idea of Special Forces or even just troopers specializing at a certain field unless it's redundant which you'll find a lot of for Stormtroopers.

But I've been seeing a rather agitating and continuous trope with plenty of troops just being hyped up: They amount to nothing.

Here are some examples.

Death Troopers, debuted in Rogue One. A class of Stormtroopers tied to Imperial Intelligence and are essentially a part of Imperial Special Forces in that regard. Sure, they maimed several rebels, but then they debut in Star Wars Rebels and from that point on just get treated like a bunch of mooks in costumes.

Death Troopers, special assignment commandos for I.I.

Crosshair's "Elite Squad Troopers". These troopers were somewhat hyped up as the canon iteration of the lesser known "Covert Ops Clone Trooper" (a class of Clones from Legends designed to hunt down defective Clone troopers) by the fanbase. Nonetheless, it was revealed they were just human soldiers described by Admiral Rampart as "top soldiers from across the galaxy" and said troopers made up Crosshair's new squad when he abided by Order 66.
My gripe? They have done absolutely nothing throughout the show and, again, much like the Death Troopers they were treated like mooks and fools the first time they encountered Clone Force 99. And how did their "story" end? They all get one shotted (by a pistol no less!) by Crosshair. All but one survive. Hell, that one trooper that survived went off to find Omega and was knocked out like some mook herself too!

Their first debut was good, but was that really it? So much for Elite Squad I guess?

Third Generation Dark Troopers. Canon reinstated the Dark Trooper project (though, this was revealed from the canon "Phase II Dark Trooper" which instead just uses a resized Legends Purge Trooper design) and a third variation debuted in season 2 of The Mandalorian. They were intimidating for sure, hell, their music was fire too... but they have done absolutely nothing that necessitates their creation. What did they do? Capture Grogu and look badass doing it. One fought Din (who somehow didn't get a concussion from all those strikes) but was quickly dispatched after. They show up again to siege the blast door that sheltered those in the command deck only to lose by our Jedi with a green lightsaber friend, Luke Skywalker.

Do you see where I'm getting at? My issue isn't that they lost to Luke Skywalker, in fact, that arguably makes sense. Not at all. My issue is how they're often hyped up and the material's producers feel the need to call them "elite" or "skilled" and then present them as such, but they amount to nothing.

What exactly did the Dark Troopers do that necessitated their creation? Capture Grogu? You're telling me Jumptroopers couldn't have taken care of that? And before anyone states that Moff Gideon likely didn't have such troops in his position, trust me, from the way his remnant's organized and the forces he arrayed he'd certainly have them somewhere in a garrison, right? And with how they treat Imperials nowadays if they needed Moff Gideon or a Stormtrooper Commander to disembark from their transport and then galumph to the battlefield hobbling a pogo stick they probably would. In other words, the writers could've easily decided that Moff Gideon did have them in possession.

I was honestly expecting Dark Troopers to have had a hand in the destruction of Mandalore or something, perhaps their Second Generation model and Moff Gideon reinstated the project to begin a Third Generation unit to finish off the surviving Mandalorians. That, at the very least, would have made more sense but they were created for a reason I haven't yet figured out at least from what we've seen in the show. The Book of Boba Fett, though from what little we've seen at least, seems to have shown The Empire simply nuking Mandalore and sending K2 Security Droids (Really?) instead. From what we know based off this, I guess we can assume Dark Troopers didn't play a key role in neutralizing Mandalorians, but again, keep in mind we don't know for sure so this is a mere assumption.

My issue don't end here though.

Task Force 99, dubbed "SCAR Squadron". Among my peers (who somewhat dislike the concept of Special Commando Advanced Recon Stormtroopers or "SCAR Troopers" for short) I've expressed relief and praise for this Special Forces unit. I initially gave them little attention, but I eventually grew to really like their debut and hoped to see more from them. But then... it went downhill from there.

Sigh

Storms of Crait. A oneshot comic I really don't want to get into, though, you can easily look up reviews and while everyone has differences of opinion, plenty have collectively agreed just how awful SCAR Squadron was portrayed here. They were depicted as mere mooks that were picked off easily, from mere pilots of Rogue Squadron no less. Their downhill didn't even end here, it feels like after Jason Aaron stopped writing the comics featuring SCAR Squadron they just didn't know what to do with Kreel and his Elite Stormtrooper unit. The execution was bland unfortunately.

Task Force 99, AKA, "SCAR Squadron"

S.C.A.R Troopers

This next one is a take on a different issue, that being the constant "Oh, well, The Empire is bad so now we have to turn good" but to make this short...

Inferno Squad, a group of Imperial Special Forces Troopers first introduced in Battlefront 2 EA. My issue with this particular group is really just that we haven't seen much from Inferno Squad gameplay wise. I'm aware they have a novel, but it would've been nice to see them more game wise. While they do have the aforementioned novel, sadly the game seems to have ruined the prospects of seeing more Imperial Special Forces Troopers...

Or did it?

Regardless, his trope extends not even just to The Empire, but even The First Order. I'll make this short.

First Order Raiders

First Order Executioners

Knights of Ren

It's one thing to constantly ridicule the baseline soldier (which sadly Stormtroopers really shouldn't have been) but it's a whole other to suddenly mock elite soldiers who are supposed to excel at their duty and make them incompetent "bigshots" that talk like Skeletor but then do nothing to match the hype. How are we ever supposed to take them seriously then? This trope has been continuous and I'm surprised nobody's said much about it.

My take? There's no sugarcoating it. To me, this is bad writing period. People have tried to make excuses as to why Death Troopers weren't so competent in Star Wars Rebels but none of those excuses pass for me. Because that's just what they are. Unconfirmed excuses.

Hell, in The Bad Batch show the Clone Commandos themselves were treated no differently than Crosshair's "Elite Squad troopers". Before anyone says "they were fighting Clone Force 99" none of the instances where Commandos engaged them was one on four, it was usually a one on one with an outside factor that hindered them. (Smoke bomb is dropped and Hunter dispatched a Commando who for some reason didn't see him at first. The other instance being the Clone Commando being shot by his men which was honestly just a silly scene I really couldn't take it seriously at all.)

Even Clone Force 99 themselves seems to have suffered from this:

- Losing to Fennec (Wrecker and Hunter)
- Hunter losing to Cad Bane (You'd think he'd do better as an Elite soldier. He gets one shotted like he's a nobody.)
- Clone Force 99 loses to SLAVERS (I'm not even going to touch on why this is rather lackluster)

The antagonistic factions seems to have gotten it the worst honestly.

That's all I've got. What do you guys think? TK-1378 "Subject" out.

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Aug 07 '24

Discussion How much of an “Imperial” are you?

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Comment on this post and tell me how "Imperial" you are based off the things you do or have in everyday life that distinguishes you from normal people/rebel scum. I'll go first. Every now and then, I'll cry while listening to the Imperial March because it's just that good. Alright, your turn!

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Apr 09 '22

Discussion Is it me or this guy one of the best imperials we’ve seen in canon?

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r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Jan 17 '21

Discussion Who's your favorite character, and why is it Emperor Palpatine?

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Is it because he's a political mastermind, invests in the next generation with a relentless commitment to mentorship, or spends more time laughing than all the other characters combined?

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Feb 26 '21

Discussion Would you rather be a Scout Trooper or Tank Trooper

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7281 votes, Mar 01 '21
2497 Tank Trooper
4784 Scout Trooper

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Sep 02 '21

Discussion After a possible Palpatine's death, who would be a good successor or leader of the empire?

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Yeah, we know Palps never die for age or another mortal way, but damn a possible future without him, I want to know, who could be a possible good successor that will led the empire

7292 votes, Sep 06 '21
4072 Thrawn
1719 Darth Vader
1283 Tarkin
120 Mas Amedda
98 Krennic

r/EmpireDidNothingWrong Dec 14 '23

Discussion How come the Sith are always portrayed as the bad guys?

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We only ever see the Sith portrayed as leaders, scholars, innovators. It seems like only the Sith are constantly scrutinizing and questioning and studying and manipulating the force in new and unique ways, truly being scientists and inventors in their field. Every single Sith we've ever met has a creative new Force technique that they are developing and refining, whereas the Jedi are pious clones that seem to win via the power of overwhelming faith and studious dedication to following an established doctrine. What if the Sith are freedom fighters trying to usurp the mantle of dogmatic oppression? The Jedi have no drive, they stagnated not one but TWO Republics technologically and culturally for so long they utterly failed to notice or react as they rotted from the inside until collapse.