Warning : contains spoilers forStar Wars # 26 !

The Rebel Alliance of theStar Warsuniverse are known by many as heroes , but far more known them by another name that makes a disturbing amount of sense . The Star Wars comics serial publication is an anthology script chronicling the tarradiddle of many characters , though it primarily followsthe Rebellion against the Empireof the Original Trilogy . NowStar Wars # 26reveals that the Rebellion is far from the heroic institution ascertain in the film , as the citizens of the galaxy call them by another name : terrorist .

While the films of the Star Wars universe mostly concern themselves with epic battle between good and evil , the comics meet in the blank as to how the ordinary citizen of the galaxy see the war . in particular , the anthology series humanizes the phallus of the Empire ; many of them are ordinary conscripts or citizenry who simply believe that the Empireisthe Republic , just in a different form . TheClone Wars are still fresh in many minds(as , according to the Star Wars timeline , only twenty year evanesce between the founding of the Empire and the destruction of the second Death Star ) .

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InStar Wars # 26 , written by Charles Soule with artistic production by Andres Genolet , an Imperial Unity Day parade takes position on the satellite Bar’leth in the Galactic Core . The parade is being channelize across the Holonet , and potentially millions of people are find out - mean billion of people are able to see a surprise attack on the parade by the Rebel Alliance . TheMillennium Falcon swoop up overhead , leading the charge ; it quickly form the saltation to lightspeed along with the rest of the battler , leaving behind the destroyed carcasses of dozens of Imperial vehicles and ships . “Those terrorists assail us out of nowhere!“dignitaries from the planet protest . “This is the Empire . You ’re supposed to be keeping us secure ! "

clear , the Rebel Alliance has a horrendous subject matter problem . The flack on the parade was perhaps stand for to be a political victory - the Empire has plenty of resources and the chief goal of the attack was to show that the Empire couldbeattacked in the first position . But Luke Skywalker , Leiaand the rest of the Rebel Alliancewill never gain inwardness and psyche through surprisal attacks in this manner - and the quietus of the comedian , showing relatively normal regal enlisted worker go about their day without any loyal fervency proves it .

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The films of the Star Wars cosmos generally keep the morality to a shameful - and - bloodless , upright - and - evil weighing machine . The comics and other supplemental stuff , however , use their freedom to stress thatthe expansive Star Wars galaxyis also a situation of gray-haired and moral nuance . One person ’s terrorists are another mortal ’s freedom fighters , and perhaps theStar WarsRebel Alliance only resorts to surprise attack such as these because it strikes awe in the fondness of the Empire … but unfortunately , it strikes dread into those whom the Rebellion is trying to save as well .

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