ImperialFighter said:

Perhaps many 'new recruits' were just 'drafted' by 'the Empire' without a say in the matter?...

...and if that was Palpatine's method to strengthen his reach, then shiny blue makeovers wouldn't have been used to bring them on board in the first place... ;)

I'm not 100% sure there still wouldn't be volunteers. I mean, at the end of ROTS the senate seemed to support the idea of forming into the Empire, which means that it could be possible that their Systems and the inhabitants thereof, might also have been initially supportive.

(Gosh I love speculations like this having to do with a time and place so far away from our own)

LOL