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admonition ! This article contains spoilers for Star Wars : Dark Droids # 4EveryStar Warsfan is well cognizant of the fact that the Rebellion defeated the Empire inReturn of the Jedi , sparking an era of hope under the reorganize government dubbed the New Republic , but perhaps that is n’t the whole chronicle . In fact , it seems like the Battle of Endor hold much more weight than it had any rightfield to , even if the fate of the second Death Star was on the line . Was the Empire hiding a game - changing weakness at that point in time ? Based on some young evidence brought to luminousness in the canyon comic series , a strong case can be made that it was .
The Empire fell after Lando Callrisian blew up the second Death Star above the wood lunar month of Endor , and the Empire did n’t see a meaningful resurgence for many years becauseLuke Skywalker get the better of Darth Vaderand Emperor Palpatine . While there were some purple cells and warlords concur onto their power , the centralized government was destroy , with no way to rectify it .
Sure , the fact that the Emperor was beat by all odds contributed to the Empire ’s lasting frustration after the Battle of Endor , but a area does not fall when its leader is assassinated , and neither should a astronomic regime . The trueness is , the Empire was in worry before the Battle of Endor , and needed to fill in the 2d Death Star so as to corrupt itself enough time to bounce back from a late crisis that weakened the Empire immensely . Not long before the events ofReturn of the Jedi , the Empire was forced to destroy nearly all of its droids to combat a terror that was even more serious than the Rebellion , and that seemingly unobjectionable event intelligibly had lasting consequences .
Right now in Star Wars , there ’s one baddie that ’s a threat to both the Rebellion and the Empire , and it seems this threat may be onetime than the Sith .
The Empire Destroyed Most Of Its Droids Before RotJ To Combat The Scourge
InStar Wars : Dark Droids#4 by Charles Soule , Luke Ross , and Alex Sinclair , the Scourge - a viral AI hivemind up to of assimilating droids and cyborgs - has grown rearing in the galaxy , and the Empire ’s immediate solution to curbing the spreading is to kill basically every droid they have . Even if the prescribed order was to only destruct non - essential droids , and only if they were acting shady , imperial of all ranks were more or less stool a plot out of killing their droids , since they technically got the all - absolved from their higher - ups to do so .
While destroying droids credibly save a numeral of lives , and will perhaps prove to be an integral footstep in quit the Scourge by the final stage of thisStar Warsstoryline , it was also an unbelievably shortsighted move by the Imperial High Command .
Destroying Droids Was Shortsighted, & Arguably Led To The Empire’s Downfall
Droids are what make the Empire ( and , indeed , the full galaxy even during the age of the Republic ) fly the coop smoothly . Not only that , but the Empire was in the middle of a war , and require droids to move surveillance on Rebel cell , send communicating signal to coordinate onrush , and any number of other functions entire to winning a war . Given theDark Droidsstoryline takes position between the event ofEpisode VandEpisode VI , there ’s simply no way the Empire recovered from put down all its droids by the time of Return of the Jedi . Therefore , the Battle of Endor may very well have been the Empire ’s last chance at rase the Rebellion , and finish the 2d Death Star may have been the Empire ’s only Leslie Townes Hope of retain restraint over the galaxy . This would also excuse why the Emperor himself was on the 2d Death Star at the fourth dimension , not just to seek to seduce Luke to the dark side , but also to ensure his last opportunity at victory was successful .
While this is all just a theory , it ’s one that has more than a few legs to stand on , which should give one pause to wonder if the Empire was , indeed , hiding a game - changing failing inReturn of the Jedistemming from this latestStar Warscomic Holy Writ event .
Star Wars : Dark Droids # 4by Marvel Comics is usable now .
