| badgenome said: That's fucking stupid. Why would the Empire destroy its own fully armed and operational battle station? |
Didn't you pay attention? It was that Skywalker family who conspired against the empire to get themselves in power!
Just think about how the Emperor died eventually...
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







