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Old 12-29-2017, 01:00 PM   #29
warellis
 
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Default Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
How the "Empire" works and how planetary government works need not be the same. Anakin was a slave under the old republic. What if the Empire outlawed slavery and required planetary governments to be actual democracies.

We sentimentalised the South's rebellion for more than a century. What if the Jedi in this alternate Star Wars are fighting for slavery, religious intolerance, and aristocratic privilege?
Tatooine was outside of the Republic's jurisdiction, to the point that "Republic credits" apparently weren't acceptable there. IIRC it was under Hutt jurisdiction.
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