warwon said:Geez, I can get over the whole thing with the dath vader ghost being replaced as it fits into the new series.
I can't. That was a travesty.
The empire ending after the death of the emperor is the way a lot of people understand the end of ROTJ, including before the SE and back in 83. It's in the ROTJ novelization too. The last words of the novelization are "The empire was dead. Long live the rebellion."