BTW, I have updated the crawl above to discuss a civilian fleet angle.

But yes, I’m definitely belaboring the crawl, though I agree with you Sherlock about the Republic being flawed and this being a factor in the return of Imperial sympathies. All of your points are correct.

And yet, if I were to use such a crawl that writes off the Republic and the Senate as a lost cause it would sap almost all tragedy from the Republic’s destruction. More than that, it would be a betrayal of that which our heroes fought and died for over the course of thirty years.

But democracy is imperfect, it is riven with chaos and compromise, constrained by its constitutions and treaties and slow to go to war. These are not failings; these are strengths. If the reason for a return to fascism is that most of the galaxy prefers it over democracy, then there was never any hope for a Republic.

My point, if I have one, is that if the Republic is to fail, it should fail because it is too honorable, too trusting, too idealistic. It should fail due to no fault of its own, but rather because its enemies are unconstrained by honor, and it trusted the Resistance to protect it from just such treachery. Only in this way could the Republic remain sympathetic.

I don’t have a specific crawl in mind for this other than the prior one, just a feeling.