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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9664111" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Like most of the Empire's ill-considered crackdowns, I would presume that even if the Empire kills off 90% of its 800 million inhabitants, the surviving 80 million provide the Rebel Alliance with 400 legions of partisans because well, they have motive now.  Crapping in your own back yard has consequences.  That and there will be a Ghor diaspora already preexisting this move likely to want to send funds and other support to family members that survive the genocide, and since that diaspora is largely going to be on ancient wealthy worlds that is a lot of financial influence.  The only thing Palps could do dumber than this would be blow up one of the most aesthetically and philosophically admired garden worlds in the galaxy, a core world that has been a part of the Republic since before the Empire still has reliable records, just to make a demonstration and then let the Rebels then heroically blow up the very superweapon he'd been planning to hold the galaxy hostage with.  Palps turns into an idiot the moment he goes from plotting to take over the galaxy to actually being in charge of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>