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Cool detail about Zerek Besh that I just realized. If you paid close attention to the armor of Zerek Besh enforcers you could see early hints that they were an Imperial plant criminal organization as pieces of their armor are derived from Scout and Storm Troopers

Next thread where I delve into the first chapter I want to pose you a question that I will later answer. What does Luke Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine share in common?

Empire. I also really enjoyed the fact that the book gives an in universe meaning to the BBY/ABY system by framing it specifically as a clear and notable shift in the empire’s philosophy towards inflicting atrocity and maintaining its grip upon the galaxy. Lastly to lead into my

Rather than the more complex reality that fascism is a system upheld by maintained by in this case billions of individuals and countless institutions. Something which further chapters will demonstrate more is the concept of deconstructing the myth that is the emperor and the

I also really enjoy the book going further to deconstruct the myth of dictatorships stemming from one centralized source. So often both in fiction and in real life ppl run under the assumption that fascism and authoritarian states effectively disappear once a dictator is disposed

To conclude this primer thread I want to point out thoughts less related to the thesis of the thread but still notable observations. Firstly I love how this story targets the concept of ethics of archiving historical events that are integrally tied to atrocities fueled by bigotry

Challenge of piecing together millions of raw data from countless worlds, first hand accounts, and data repositories that it’s an ongoing collaborative effort to piece together the real story of what happened

Conceptualizing it as a very linear and tight story that focuses primarily on the nine films and some TV shows, that often time we fail to grasp the scope and logistics behind it all. Kin acknowledges that simply investigating the history of the Empire is one filled with the

Time are unable to do, its truly expand upon the scope of what a Galactic wide facist state truly means. The novel, essentially being an in universe academic paper works so well in highlighting this concept. When thinking about the rise and fall of the empire we are so used to

Itself to take aspects of the narrative of the sequels and enhance them. But even moving from the sequels the novel helps enhance other eras of the Star Wars universe. One aspect that I think in specific the novel helps demonstrate that other Star Wars stories by nature often

Events like Alderaan and the Hosnian system, the battle of Endor and Exegol, and how the roots of the first order draw all the way back from the remnants of Imperial ideology. By taking advantage of a new perspective and room for new story this novel is essentially positioning

Saw spell the warning of what occurs after a facist state collapses, that being people are so quick to try and look onto the future, that the past is never fully reflected upon enough to learn why it happened and how to avoid repeating it. Kin draws clear lines of patterns of

Warning. Imo the book turns one of the flaws of the sequel trilogy which was the idea of familiarity of the conflict that struggled to at times differentiate its overarching conflict with the story beats of the OT, into a compelling narrative idea, that being that the events we

Background information that serves as the contextual primer for the book in my opinion helps elevate the battle of exegol. The book explicitly frames the battle of exegol is such an interesting new light, less one of jubilation that palpatine is gone, but rather one of eerie

Aspects of the Star Wars universe from the perspective of an outsider academic. Automatically getting this level of detail from a story from his perspective rather than a wookieeepedia bio gave a recontexualized perspective of his line that I onced scoffed at, going further the

To me was this concept that Beaumont Kin (I will be referring to as Kin from now on) is a Historian, who was driven to fight for the resistance out of a duty to not let the atrocities of the past repeat once more, but also a historian with a specialty in researching the mystical

The introduction of this book it reminded me why other extended lore of Star Wars past is so beloved, because extended lore is given the room to be able to flesh out and recontexualize the films in ways that breath new life into the story. Delving into specifics that struck out

being said mainly to help to audience understand a story beat” rather than “this is a line being organically said by a character’s unique driven experience” looping back to this thread’s thesis statement it was an aspect of the films that felt lacking. So when simply reading

Compelling, with that line being one of many where not uniquely bad, had the compound effect of breaking my subconscious suspension of disbelief. Not because the moments were inherently unbelievable, but because internally for a while my brain processed it as “this is a line

cloning, secrets only the Sith knew” guy. I say all of this to put you into my perspective going in. I wasn’t a huge fan of TROS with my primary criticism being that many of the plot elements felt very rushed, given too little time be fully developed in a way that I find

Stuck out upon the first few pages. Instantly what stood out was how this book is amongst the first Star Wars stories to take place after TROS. Along with timeline placing what also stood out to me was that this book was from the perspective of Beaumont Kin, the “Dark Science,

Now that that’s out of the way let’s return to the opening statement of this primer thread. Star Wars’ extended universe is an integral aspect of the franchise that serves to elevate and contextualize areas of where the films may lack. That was the first point that immediately

The introduction, then analyzing each chapter individually, and then finally having a conclusion thread that summarizes my experience with the narrative of the book. One complete I will organize one large comprehensive thread of all of the threads for easier consumption

I want to first begin by first giving a primer to how I will organize my thoughts, and opinions on The Rise and Fall of The Galactic Empire by Dr. Kempshall. I will be organizing 27 unique In depth threads that cover my own thoughts upon each section of the book starting from

Analyzing “The Rise and Fall of The Galactic Empire” (Reposted from Twitter)

A Thread 🧵 Series

Part 1: Why Star Wars’ extended universe is integral to elevating and contextualizing areas of where the films lack

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