6/8/2023 0 Comments Empire of storm![]() According to the canon video game Star Wars: Uprising, the Empire had 25,000 Star Destroyers. Their endless numbers serve across theĪs a side note, there might not be quite as many stormtroopers as one might imagine. Stormtroopers have replaced the clone armies of the Republic asĮxpendable soldiers. The number of stormtroopers also reinforces their expendability: ![]() Monitor politically sensitive areas-stamping out all signs of They guard mining operations, factories, and commercial On planets like Lothal, Tatooine, and Coruscant, they serve a variety Stormtroopers are stationed on strategic worlds throughout the galaxy. Their purpose is to safeguard the Empire’s interests through fear and violence: ![]() They are in some ways less a regular army than a fusion of army and police force (again, reinforcing the “police state” motif). Coruscant, the capital of the galaxy, by itself has 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) people 1, though most planets are significantly more sparsely populated. Even with advanced weapons and relatively fast transportation, considerable numbers of troops are needed to deal with the thousands of situations that might arise at one time (and a “situation” could be the equivalent of a full-scale catastrophe on a planetary scale). ![]() It needs enormous numbers of stormtroopers to instill fear, to put down rebellions on the worlds it rules, and so forth.Ĭonducting oppression at the galactic scale is a difficult business. ![]() The Empire is indeed a totalitarian state. ![]()
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