Timeline for In “The Force Awakens,” how did the First Order obtain their power and resources?
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| Jan 11, 2016 at 21:55 | comment | added | Escoce | There is no flame war going on as far as I am concerned, however this SO isn't the place to discuss this. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 21:52 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | Reports writen by whom exactly? This won't be settled by a flame war on a sci-fi. Time will tell. Our history is littered with panty-waists that love to appease dictators. This has all happened before, which is why they have nukes to begin with. | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 18:19 | comment | added | Escoce | @Mauser how about you try reading some of the reports. | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 18:15 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | Thanks, Escoce, for proving the adage: ' On the internet, everyone is an expert' | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 16:59 | comment | added | Escoce | @Mauser I am telling you, they did not explode an h-bomb. If you knew anything about it, you'd know that the best they exploded was a basic atomic bomb, which they've already done a few times. The announcement was more for their interior than it was for us, because we knew the moment we measures the level of the blast that it wasn't an h-bomb. An h-bomb of any size, even minuturized would have carried a blast magnitudes stronger...I say magnitudes!!! | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 16:50 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | @Escoce - The good thing escoce, is that if you put your head far enough into the sand, you will avoid the immediate effect of an H-Bomb. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 20:11 | comment | added | Escoce | @Mauser no they didn't. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | North Korea has as of today, build a H-Bomb, that is 65 years after the war for them. ISIS has a lot of resources, it could possibly take them less time. I looks like 30 or so years have elapsed from the Return of the Jedi | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 11:48 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @Reisclef: well sure. But I do think the real-world analogy isn’t particularly useful here. Daesh has not, to my knowledge, built an equivalent of the Starkiller. | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 11:46 | comment | added | Reisclef | @PaulD.Waite Fair point. The problem is, as most people have said, there's no real canon answer yet. We'll probably know later on. All we can really do is speculate at this point, so I don't see the point in downvoting a speculative answer based on the evidence available. | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 18:41 | comment | added | TylerH | @spacetyper The Emperor, his right-hand man, and their closest advisors were gone, sure, but regional governors were still in control of their systems (as mentioned in Episode IV), and there were still countless moffs and probably grand moffs, not to mention large portions of the Imperial Fleet still operational. There no doubt was some form of succession established (at least for the military), so the highest ranking members assumed/struggled for control, most likely. | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 12:54 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @Reisclef: I think because we tend to look for supporting evidence and arguments from the fictional works themselves, not analogies to real life (because we’re not asking questions about real life). | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 6:47 | comment | added | spacetyper | I don't know. There were celebrations all over the galaxy in Episode VI, and they had killed the most powerful rulers in the Empire. The Rebels seriously slacked if, when having the upper hand, let them build up something even bigger than the Death Star that was allowed to become functional. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 23:10 | comment | added | recognizer | I think the analogy is an extremely good one. In Iraq, after Saddam Hussein's government was deposed, many former Baath party members and members of Hussein's military joined al-Qaeda in Iraq, and then, years later, joined ISIS. Reports today state that many former members of the Baath government are major figures in ISIS. ISIS is a paramilitary organization that can behave like a government because it has the officials of a former government among its members. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 18:24 | comment | added | Reisclef | Why is this down voted? Good analogy. There's a power vacuum, someone seizes control of assets/resources, and becomes a force of power. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 15:33 | history | answered | Escoce | CC BY-SA 3.0 |