Johnny Ringo said:maybe you could show a few planets with burning imperial outposts also.
Now that's a good idea. By the sheer number of people celebrating the Emperors death you kind of have to wonder why they sat back and did nothing to end his reign.
I'd always assumed the general public were well duped by his charm and propaganda. But if so why sould the celebrate his death.
I havnt looked into this much, but I guess it would be similar to the fall of Rome. A empire that power reaches vast space, but was stretched too thing and was eventually defeated by barbarians/rebels Some would of celebrated and some wouldn't Best thing would be to research the fall of Rome to find the answers. This link will help with understanding how the emperor ruled at different times. http://www.jallman.net/entry.php?id=44 its also obvious that Luke/tatooine knew of the empire, and again it would of effected people on the planet differently,... "Listen, I can't get involved. I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it! But there's nothing I can do about it right now. It's such a long way from here." ?Luke Skywalker to Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]..how much influence the empire had on that planet is unknown, but both Biggs and Luke wanted to join the Rebels to stop them..Even Solo, was not too fond of them...but I don't think the galaxy would of celebrated...there would of been chaos as other powers tried to fill the void of the emperors rule. If after 20 years of empire depression and domination and alot of people hating the empire if the empire fell it would of gotten very ugly for the empire and it makes no sense for civilians to want to celebrate until after you see that the empire has been crippled. ..its like watching a movie about ww2 and seeing hitler die at the end then cutting to the allied victories celebrations. ...The death of the Emperor was a symbol just like the death of Hitler. coruscant was also the symbol of the emperors power as was Berlin to hitler. When Hitler killed himself in his bunker underneath the Reichskanzlei, the fighting finally stopped in Berlin - a city then in ruins from air bombardment and the shelling of Soviet artillery. After the fall of Berlin, the war was not over - some units of the German army continued fighting for nearly another week, and some deserters were even shot a day after the unconditional surrender was signed. ..After ROTJ things would of been different...The rebels never destroyed the armies of the empire, nor did they take coruscant . \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ I got the idea for the outposts from the darkforces/jediknight game. The outpost I thought of was a grey stone like outpost/castle high up and built into a mountain..possibly over looking a settlement. The idea probably comes from Roman settlements.