Only the Chiss Grand Admiral Thrawn seemed to exceed this for his sheer brilliance as a commander.
Few nonhuman imperial officers ever get recruited, for their supposed superiority.
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The Wookiees and other strong species are placed in concentration camps and enslaved for manual labor, deemed unintelligent brutes by the humano-centric xenophobia of the Empire. Emperor Palpatine is a human-supremacist, and implements horrid discriminatory policy against alien species within his control. The Empire's most consistent crimes (excluding the genocide of the entire population of Alderaan in an instant, and the purging of even loyal planets during Operation: Cinder, both of which easily read as a representation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) are rarely even described in the films. The quote "So this is how liberty dies with thunderous applause" after the issuing of Order 66 reflects the near unanimous and bipartisan passing of the Patriot Act shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center. George Lucas spoke about the historical falls of democracies and republics, "Democracies aren't overthrown, they're given away". The fall of the republic in the prequel trilogy mirrors the fall of the Roman and Weimar republics, and all content from the Clone Wars era comes from a post-9/11 world. The Empire dresses themselves as Nazi officers and their army is made up of Stormtroopers ( Sturmtruppen/Sturmabteilung), but their direct inspiration (as stated by George Lucas, saying that "Well, when I did it, they were Viet Cong") was the United States of America in a new wave of post-Civil War imperialism, under the Wilsonian guise of fostering and protecting democracy. The Nazi uniforms and consistent black, white, and red darkness to their monochrome color schemes may look on the nose, but it's entirely believable. The Galactic Empire is not nearly as cartoonishly villainous as we'd fool ourselves into believing, it is based entirely in human inspiration. The show features an armored bounty hunter with a mysterious past travelling backwater outer rim planets and hunting down criminals, several homages to Kurosawa samurai duels, and a clear statement of the Empire's inspirations. Each of these elements are featured prominently in The Mandalorian. The aesthetics are all there, but the key parts stem from common genre films of the 1950's and 1960's (namely Sergio Leone "Spaghetti Western" and Akira Kurosawa Samurai films), and 1940's serials and Second World War dogfights from George Lucas's childhood. The origins of what made the original concepts for Star Wars are well known, but somewhat buried in a way.
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