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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7308676" data-attributes="member: 37579">There's precious few borders in real life. There's a small wire fence dividing the USA from Canada from kilometres and kilometres that you can just hop over. But I agree with space maps being weird. I was looking at Star Trek maps recently and it occurred to me that the Federation must be filled with holes, as there are planets inhabited by less advanced people in the middle of their territory. Or people who just don't want to join the Federation. I'm more thinking of actually taking control of said pinpricks in the ocean. Which is implied to be the First Order now that the New Republic has been blown away. They dance around that works in A New Hope with Tarkin's "the Galactic Senate has been dissolved" bit where they talk about how to keep control over their systems. With the local governors in charge and presumably reporting to the Emperor rather than their senator. So the governors likely had their own police and security forces to maintain order. (Almost a feudal type system.)If you blow up the heart of the Republic, you don't take control. That's dissolving the senate... with lasers. But the people in charge locally are still in charge and aren't going to automatically bow down to the First Order, whom even a coalition of one or two local forces will presumably outnumber. Again, without a Death Star, fear of which would keep the smaller systems in line, there's nothing stopping the former Republican worlds from flipping the First Order the bird or quickly uniting to re-reestablish the Republic. We've never seen a First Order world or what territory they have. It's likely not that much compared to the sheer size of the former Republic (after all... if they had more ships, wouldn't they have called reinforcements in to cut off the Resistance?).And, for that matter, what happened to the Republic fleet? Was it really all parked around the single system?</blockquote>

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