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Post #1333551

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canofhumdingers
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Rogue One * Spoilers * Thread
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5-Apr-2020, 11:09 PM

Yeah. While I really like the idea of the rebellion being small and struggling and only really gaining wider support after their victory at Yavin, nothing in Rogue One is too hard to rationalize into the OT.

The Profundity and Admiral Raddus are the only Mon Cal bits we see in the rebellion at that point. While less romantic, it’s not hard to imagine (and perhaps more “realistic”) to think he leads a small band of Rebel sympathizers/supporters that are highly controversial on his home planet and his movement only gains wider Mon Cal support after Yavin. Heck, it’s obvious in the film that the Rebellion’s relationship with many planets/systems/cultures is very strained and tenuous. If I remember, don’t a number of the groups from the big debate scene where they’re deciding whether or not to raid Scariff storm off to go back to their homes rather than risk being more deeply involved in what’s about to happen?

That’s the impression I came away with, anyway: That the Rebellion was losing what little support it had as the debate over the Death Star drug on and then when Jyn and her crew go rogue (ha!) and head to Scariff without full support, its only the really die hards that either join the fight or stay at Yavin to see how it goes. The wafflers all tucked tail and ran.