Tyrphanax said:
I dunno. Vader didn't seem too impressed with the Death Star as compared to the Force, but then he had a lot of respect for Tarkin, and the Death Star was really the pinnacle of The Tarkin Doctrine of "Rule by Fear". I feel like he would have used them had he had access to them.
Luke refused Vader's offer to join him because he was a stronger person than Anakin was when the dark side came a-callin'. Though they did share similar attachments (Anakin's visions of Padme dying in childbirth; Luke's visions of his friends being tortured on Cloud City), Luke wanted to fight for good for the sake of fighting for good, because that's what his father did, because Luke is selfless; while Anakin wanted to save Padme at the cost of everything else. In the end, his drive to do good and save her brought only evil and cost him her life, as well (this is why Lucas calls the story a "Tragedy") because Anakin is selfish.
Luke was always the epitome of the optimistic, incorruptible hero; whereas Anakin was the tragic figure who was doomed to fall, if you look at them from an "archetype" standpoint.
What exactly was the tarkin doctrine??? Rule by fear?? What does that even mean??
Besides, darth vader probably would've destroyed dissneting planets with the Force-storm.
You are assuming that he respected tarkin and his ideas, which, again, is just not true. You could tell from a new hope that he was annoyed with tarkin and his plans and ideas.
The Sith were not evil just because they had a death star........
My theory is this. As the Emperor of the galaxy, Darth Vader would've been a stalinist-style dictator/tyrant, who force-chokes and kills any officer, commander, soldier, or anybody with rank or status that he feels is a dissenter or disagrees with him. And, he would have done other evil atrocities- for instance, the sith once ruled the galaxy even before the prequels, in galactic sith empires, before the jedi defeated them (hench the revenge of the sith), and that was long before the deaths stars even existed. So, emperor darth vader would've done many of the similar things that the ancient sith emperors did......
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sith_Empire