When Empire Strike Back
Black Deaths & the War of Position
Origins
There is a galactic civil war happening between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The former is fighting to maintain hegemony while the latter fights to restore the Republic, said to have existed for over 25,000 years prior to the rise of the Empire. To explain its raison d’être, the Rebel Alliance details the Empire’s record of crimes in its founding document, the Declaration of Rebellion:
“The history of the present Galactic Empire is of repeated injuries upon its members, with the direct objective of establishing you, Emperor Palpatine, as absolute tyrant over the Galaxy:
1. You have disbanded the Senate, the voice of the people;
2. You have instituted a policy of blatant speciesism and genocide against the nonhuman peoples of the Galaxy;
3. You have overthrown the chosen leaders of planets, replacing them with Moffs and Governors of your choice;
4. You have raised taxes without the consent of those taxed;
5. You have murdered and imprisoned millions without benefit of trial;
6. You have unlawfully taken land and property;
7. You have expanded the military far beyond what is necessary and prudent, for the sole purpose of oppressing your subjects.
At the end of this declaration the alliance lists the four intentions, which guides…
