[ SECRET POST #5545 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5545 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Taking Anakin out of the equation doesn't necessarily fix anything - The Jedi Order already had... Problems, and Sidious probably had a plan B - but it wouldn't have hurt. If nothing else, Padme probably lives and who knows what that does to the political structure of the galaxy?

[(Anonymous)]

See comment above, but Sidious still had his Plan A. The clone army is in production in the Jedi's name, and the Galactic Civil War is already started. Literally all he needs is a pretext to draw the Jedi Order's attention to the former as a solution to the latter, and his plan to topple and almost completely massacre the Order with one booby trap is ready to go off.

Padme surviving is an interesting question. That could have interesting changes. But the fact that neither Padme nor the Jedi know who Sidious is probably means she's relatively easy for him to get rid of the old-fashioned way if he needs to.

The more long-term effects of leaving Anakin on Tatooine are harder to grasp. If there's no Anakin, there's no Luke or Leia. If there's no Vader, there's no-one with Jedi powers directly at the Emperor's side to kill him. So the Original Trilogy follows a significantly different trajectory. Unless Sidious got a different ex-Jedi apprentice who had a change of heart, anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, hey. Alderaan still exists.

[(Anonymous)]

... Alderaan's destruction also had pretty much nothing to do with Anakin. Or Leia, really. Tarkin wanted a planet, any planet, to demonstrate the station's power on, and Leia happened to provide an excuse to make it hers. But even if Leia didn't exist, Bail still did, so there was every chance that it might have been Alderaan anyway. Again, though, Vader was just there. He wasn't making any of the decisions. Tarkin was in charge of the Death Star, and Tarkin was the one who chose to fire it.

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't understand that Alderaan was chosen as a target specifically because it was Leia's, then you're far too stupid for your opinion to be taken seriously. Feel free to keep writing essays in the comments though.

[(Anonymous)]

why are being so bitchy over someone's star wars opinions...

[(Anonymous)]

No, it was chosen because it was Leia's, but it was chosen because it was Leia's because she was the rebel they had. If Bail, who was also a rebel, had fallen into their hands, it would have been destroyed because it was his. They just needed a high-profile planet that they had an excuse to target.

The Empire was always going to destroy a planet to demoralise the rebels as soon as the Death Star was operational. Okay, if there never was an Anakin and therefore never was a Leia, maybe it wouldn't have been Alderaan specifically, but that only means it would have been a different planet, not that no planet would have died.

And it could still have been Alderaan, because it could still have been Bail's daughter, because in a universe where he and Breha didn't get handed a baby by Obi-Wan, they might still have adopted the daughter they'd always wanted somewhere else. And since Bail was always a rebel at heart, this theoretical daughter likely would be too, and we could have wound up in exactly the same place.

Alderaan was not Leia's fault, nor directly Anakin's. It was Tarkin's and, further back, Sidious and his Empire's.

I'm not sure why you seem to think that Anakin/Vader was the cause of all the evil in the Star Wars universe. I mean, he is evil, but he's not the start or main driving force of anything. If you wanted to go back in time and save the Star Wars universe by killing someone, you wouldn't do it by killing him, you'd do it by killing Sidious. Preferably before he caught wind of Sifo Dyas and Kamino, and likely before he got anywhere near the Senate. I mean, if you hate Anakin on a personal level as much as you clearly do, and you want to kill him while you're there, by all means murder him in passing while you've got the chance, but if he's the only person you go back in time to kill, you save nothing. Because Anakin isn't the root cause of anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Leia was a problem because she was following in her adopted father's footsteps. If she wasn't around, Alderaan would still have been a prime target because Bail Orgaana pissed off the Emperor.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe you need a nap

[dancingmouse]

Uh-oh, somebody's cranky! You need some warm blue milk? Maybe a Bantha wool blankie?

[(Anonymous)]

Random anon wondering what in hell things are so bad on this post: I for one would gladly welcome the Banta wool blankie. Tauntaun wool would be good too please.