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I disagree...  





Palpatine underestimating the Rebellion was the major issue and down fall. Also he couldn't deploy everything after the Rebels because you had entire regions and sectors to control. The Empire was vast and powerful and at the same time fighting a COIN while trying to garner more and more support from the population. On top of all that you had the build up of forces in the unknown regions battling the scouting force of the Vong. You had border issues with the Hapans and the CSA. The Chiss while friendly were also a danger to the Empire, etc...
The fact that the Empire continues to shrink in the EU but not cease to exist and still stay as a major political, economic, and military power actually speaks volumes of it. For all the shit the Empire went through, it survived. Sure, they lost a lot but they didn't cease to be like the Third Reich. On top of that, the support that they had and still had was impressive.  
The Rebels could pick their time and place to a degree. The Empire had to be everywhere.
What made the EU great was that everything had to tie into each other. One author couldn't do something without a previous author affecting his work and all of it was actually reviewed by Lucas Arts.
The whole thing with the EU started with the Novelization of the films. That was the core work and it expanded. In the novels tings could be explained that couldn't in the films.


 





EDIT TO ADD
Also having stories that didn't revolve around the force was awesome! Nice reading some stuff about Rouge Squadron and Wraith Squadron. Reading material from the Imperial view point, etc....

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I think Joss Whedon and Tim Minear were washing each other's hair that week.

That being said, SW is clearly better than the smog-free lotus-eating socialist groupthink YMCA summer camp utopia of ST, which sucks and is bad, and Gene Roddenberry should feel shame for ever having existed.

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figures from some nerd page may be slanted but they say they are "legit" figures from both galaxies.

Max hyperspace speed: not stated (however, the ability to travel "halfway across the galaxy" in a matter of hours as demonstrated in ANH, TPM, and AOTC requires speeds in the range of 10 million to 100 million times c).


Max warp speed: ~2000c (warp 9.6), sustainable 12 hours for a single sprint of roughly 3 light-years. This appears to have increased to roughly 3000c for newer ships such as the Intrepid-class.


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I believe DS9 corrected all that shit. The episode in season six "in the pale moonlight" is the best episode of trek ever.

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Haven't read all 6 pages, so maybe this has been covered, but how do they make this

jibe with the Solo boast on his ship, which did that thing in less than twelve of those other

things.

"She'll make POINT FIVE (.5) past light speed.she may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts."

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That's not a Star Wars problem. That's a "George Lucas' Writing Both Sucks and Blows" problem. No different from everybody always having a bad feeling about this or hating sand or addressing each other as "my Master."

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I think Joss Whedon and Tim Minear were washing each other's hair that week.

That being said, SW is clearly better than the smog-free lotus-eating socialist groupthink YMCA summer camp utopia of ST, which sucks and is bad, and Gene Roddenberry should feel shame for ever having existed.

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I'm wondering how old you are.  Let's take a look at humanity from the time when Roddenberry was alive.  He was a bomber pilot in WWII.  Later on a police officer.  Then he sees the Korean War.  Now comes the civil rights movement and all the violence and strife associated with it.  Maybe he just wonders to himself if there is not something better for humanity.  Maybe he hopes that we will eventually stop killing each other and this is his vision of the romantic ideal of what we can become.

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Haven't read all 6 pages, so maybe this has been covered, but how do they make this
jibe with the Solo boast on his ship, which did that thing in less than twelve of those other
things.
"She'll make POINT FIVE (.5) past light speed.she may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts."

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I'm wondering how old you are.  Let's take a look at humanity from the time when Roddenberry was alive.  He was a bomber pilot in WWII.  Later on a police officer.  Then he sees the Korean War.  Now comes the civil rights movement and all the violence and strife associated with it.  Maybe he just wonders to himself if there is not something better for humanity.  Maybe he hopes that we will eventually stop killing each other and this is his vision of the romantic ideal of what we can become.