Related to http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9525/how-many-planets-were-there-in-the-empire-at-the-time-of-a-new-hope/9534#9534 

OK, so if there were literally Millions of worlds in the Empire, how many total worlds did the Rebel Alliance control? Is there a canon estimate? (any canon).

[Wookiepedia][1] lists 30 of them, but that's just named ones.

Doesn't seem very feasible that Empire would even pay attention to 30 measly worlds and build a frigging Death Star on their behalf ... it's like a country the size of China building a nuke merely to contain a rebellion by 5 small villages. 


  [1]: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rebel_Alliance#Alliance_worlds