Jaitea said:
Just maybe.....he escaped
J
No - the logic (as per FS's analogous thread) goes as follows:
Is there any actual evidence that Tarkin died? Does any source actually say that he died? If you can't produce some actual quote that says specifically that he died, then it is reasonable to imagine that he survived.
The good news about this, is that the same logic can be used for each of the remaining thousands of inhabitants of the Death Star, which in turn means that maybe the Rebels didn't kill anyone at all. In fact, the only person we know anything at all about who was on the Death Star was Vader, and we saw him survive. So the Rebels really are good, all they destroyed was the Death Star itself... all the people survived because there is no specific mention anywhere of any particular person dying. Empire=bad, Rebels=good. QED