False. The Empire criminalized slavery in all but Hutt Space, a measure not even the Republic took. Its closest own implementation of slavery was forced imprisonment of Wookiees, as they violently opposed the Empire's formation. However, not all were sent to camps and the majority lived normally albeit restricted from traveling off Kashyyyk. Slavery still existed under the Empire primarily via Hutt Space, just as it always had during and before the Republic, though it was far less widespread under the Empire and there were not "camps everywhere".
Neutral here, just correcting you on fluff inaccuracy.
In terms of EUcanon, of course.
>ugh why don't people opposed to my viewpoint agree with my viewpoint?
Jaxon Rodriguez
The Wookiees were hardly the Empire's only slaves in Legends (remember, Ackbar himself was a slave under Tarkin), and definitely weren't in canon either. And these were legitimately slaves under the Empire, not slaves that the Hutts used.
This idea that they somehow eliminated slavery in Imperial territories is straight up unsupported in either continuity.
Evan Bennett
>sometimes I like to think that the "tarkin did nothing wrong/was actually a good guy" posters are merely confused by peter cushing being such a sweetheart IRL I'm just sad that TCW never gave us the "Tarkin and Dooku: Mortal Enemies" plot that they could and should have It would have been great
William Collins
If I recall the first (and among the only) EU works talking about the Empire allowing slavery was a series by Stradley that straddles :^ the line between EU and Nu canon, since it began in either 07 or 08 and continues into Disney's new lore line, so I'm not sure where it falls.
Being a Dark Horse comic I know it would be pretty damn low on the canon tier though, and it does contradict earlier works about the Empire's crackdown on slave trade.
Where your Ackbar point comes in is an Imperial decree issued early in the Empire's formation, I think 18 BBY(?), that authorizes Imperial authorities to sentence criminals guilty of sedition, treason, or general crimes against the Empire to serve their sentence "indefinitely" via penal labor programs, and as some authorities often made false arrests, this could be deemed slavery, though it wasn't slavery in a true sense.
I also recall, maybe incorrectly, that that decree was later re-evaluated and its terms restricted and essentially made more fair and less "fuck with us and you work in our mines forever" as it was.
Angel Ross
It's worse than that. The Tarkin novel, which was actually in the works before the reboot, actually goes so far as to show the two were friends and that Dooku wanted to have Tarkin join him on the Separatists side and let him in on the whole truth behind the war.
Ackbar being a slave serving Tarkin goes back way beyond just 2007-8.
There being slaves serving the Empire has been a longstanding tradition even back in the early 90s. And no, Ackbar was not just a political dissident, he was a straight up slave.
And for the record, if it wasn't TCW or Episodes I-VI, it can't straddle the line - the story you're thinking of is Legends, pure and simple. The only stuff that was kept canon with the reboot was what I just stated, Episodes I-VI and TCW.
Liam Flores
>It's worse than that. The Tarkin novel, which was actually in the works before the reboot, actually goes so far as to show the two were friends and that Dooku wanted to have Tarkin join him on the Separatists side and let him in on the whole truth behind the war. ...fuck
Cooper James
The problem is the same series of comics has continued and maintained its continuity since the Disney shift, which makes it difficult to pin down.
I personally say fuck off to any Disneylore in general though so it's no skin off my boner.
Parker Morris
And in typical Legends style, the only source that states that the Empire outlawed slavery was the Essential Atlas... which also has sections wherein it also instituted slavery as punishments. Typically contradictory, but all the worse for it because this is just one book itself being contradictory with itself.
No, it hasn't. What you're thinking of was a Dark Horse comic, and Dark Horse lost the rights to make Star Wars comics at the end of 2014.
Marvel's Star Wars books have had literally nothing to do with Dark Horse's. There's no connectivity there beyond both being Star Wars.
Thomas Young
>Typically contradictory, but all the worse for it because this is just one book itself being contradictory with itself.
Welcome to the Expanded Universe I guess.
This is why I don't really agree with the rigid canons argument.
Not only did Lucas not think of or really care about any of this, but the biggest part of out-of-movie lore is full of contradictions, as well as generally bizarre shit (werewolves reeee).
Its good stuff is worth paying mind to and its bad stuff can be easily ignored imo. Like just follow what you want to follow, I say.
It does make these morality arguments really difficult though because the cherry picking is crazy no matter who you think is or isn't evil and that level of cherry picking is unavoidable with how messy the EU's structure is.
Also it just furthers Imp/Reb fags being pretty far up their own backdoor Kessel runs too.
