The Galactic Empire

If there was something lacking from the original Star Wars trilogy, that was the sense that the Empire actually existed and that the Sith (and their followers) were the ones pulling all the strings. Of course, this seems a bit too much to say – but the thing is that everything happened so far away, that we were merely spectators. We weren’t sucked into the actually worlds rules by the malevolent Force users.

It falls onto Rogue One to present us this side of the story and show us what it meant to live in terror. After all, the D25 event from last year featured this Obi-Wan line from A New Hope: “For more than a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the Empire.”

So the perspective will be different, in the sense that it will be the ordinary people the ones who face the Empire.

As a comparison, we may see similar scenes such as the ones in The Force Awakens, when an entire village was slaughtered (of course, scenes on a larger scale). And we should see that, the Empire exerting its force in the far-away regions of the galaxy, since quite a few years will have passed since the events of Revenge of the Sith.

But what happens in the other regions, the ones which were already subdued?