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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4858126" data-attributes="member: 710">Lots of neat ideas. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> My turning point might be Endor. Darth Vader orders the bombardment of the djungle and Ewok settlements in a 500 miles radius around the Shield Generator. The whole "sneak in" plan of the Rebels would need to be revised considerably if there is no forest to take cover in. They would basically have to land directly on the shield generator base and fight their way through, which seems unlikely to work. So, instead of the plan they went with in the movie, they try to smuggle a big ass explosive into the base using their captured Shuttle. It is really a suicide operation. This might change who is found in the shuttle - would it be some of our favorite heroes? Would Han blow himself up for the Alliance? Would Alliance Command risk their Princess and their only Jedi Knight? Probably not.So, instead, in go the PCs. Let's see how they get out of this. Unfortnuately for them, for safety reasons, the shuttle is guided to a different landing platform and the three powerful Ion Cannons (this wasn't mentioned in the reports!) surrounding the base will make it impossible to get the Shuttle.Whatever the PCs do, it won't kill the Emperor or Vader, since neither is on the base, and without Luke to interfere with Vader, Vader won't turn against Palpatine. If the PCs are lucky, they make it out alive and the Death Star and the Executor are destroyed, but Palpatine and Vader escape, and the Rebel Fleet is severely weakened.----Another take might be that the Emperor simply falls into the shaft, uses the force to soften the fall. As he recognizes the Death Stars destruction is imminent, he escapes aboard a Shuttle. Vader dies or dies not (depending on preference), Luke escapes, the Death Star blows up. The Galaxy does not revel in the big Rebel Alliance win, since the Emperor is still around. The Emperor now needs a new Sith Apprentice... Mara Jade, perhaps? Or that nameless TIE Fighter pilot that had defeated the traitors Harkov and Zaarin?  The Death Star project was a neat idea, but seriously, both plans to use it failed, and he won't be able to make a third Death Star unnoticed. So, back to systematically hunting down the Rebels and their supporters all over the Galaxy. Who could lead a strategic operation like this better than Grand Admiral Thrawn, who had already proven himself in destroying Imperial traitors that were trying to defect to the Rebels or just replace Imperial authority?</blockquote>

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