xhonzi said:

TMBTM said:

Well, Luke was not there to kill the Emperor after all, he was there to meet his father. Lando and friends would have killed the Emperor in the end no matter what.

Wow, you're right. I guess the setting would have to be moved too.

This is the statement I disagreed w/ earlier, i think i posted to the wrong entry.

I don't think it was a given Lando and Han would have succeeded, had the emporer not been killed. The Empire still had a vast numericall superiority in the battle and they just seemed to come apart once Palpy died. I mean one lone A-wing took out a super star destroyer.

I haven't wathed ROTJ in a while, but if memory serves the sheild generator was destroyed before Palpy died, but the destruction of the Executor and the superstructure attack all happened after he died.

Hmmm... Maybe it was the Ewoks that Palpatine failed to underestimate? They were the ones that turned the tide on Endor... So the Ewoks saved the galaxy?!

So the Rebel victory was probably contigent on several factors. Cheif among them the death of the emporer. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it :)