Cool detail about Zerek Besh that I just realized. If you paid close attention to the armor of Zerek Besh enforcers you could see early hints that they were an Imperial plant criminal organization as pieces of their armor are derived from Scout and Storm Troopers

Next thread where I delve into the first chapter I want to pose you a question that I will later answer. What does Luke Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine share in common?

Time are unable to do, its truly expand upon the scope of what a Galactic wide facist state truly means. The novel, essentially being an in universe academic paper works so well in highlighting this concept. When thinking about the rise and fall of the empire we are so used to

Events like Alderaan and the Hosnian system, the battle of Endor and Exegol, and how the roots of the first order draw all the way back from the remnants of Imperial ideology. By taking advantage of a new perspective and room for new story this novel is essentially positioning

Background information that serves as the contextual primer for the book in my opinion helps elevate the battle of exegol. The book explicitly frames the battle of exegol is such an interesting new light, less one of jubilation that palpatine is gone, but rather one of eerie

To me was this concept that Beaumont Kin (I will be referring to as Kin from now on) is a Historian, who was driven to fight for the resistance out of a duty to not let the atrocities of the past repeat once more, but also a historian with a specialty in researching the mystical

being said mainly to help to audience understand a story beat” rather than “this is a line being organically said by a character’s unique driven experience” looping back to this thread’s thesis statement it was an aspect of the films that felt lacking. So when simply reading

Stuck out upon the first few pages. Instantly what stood out was how this book is amongst the first Star Wars stories to take place after TROS. Along with timeline placing what also stood out to me was that this book was from the perspective of Beaumont Kin, the “Dark Science,

Now that that’s out of the way let’s return to the opening statement of this primer thread. Star Wars’ extended universe is an integral aspect of the franchise that serves to elevate and contextualize areas of where the films may lack. That was the first point that immediately

I want to first begin by first giving a primer to how I will organize my thoughts, and opinions on The Rise and Fall of The Galactic Empire by Dr. Kempshall. I will be organizing 27 unique In depth threads that cover my own thoughts upon each section of the book starting from

Analyzing “The Rise and Fall of The Galactic Empire” (Reposted from Twitter)

A Thread 🧵 Series

Part 1: Why Star Wars’ extended universe is integral to elevating and contextualizing areas of where the films lack

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