I thought Tarkin’s objective was to use fear to get the systems in line, therefore maintaining peace.
Yeah, that’s true. Still kind of a weird way to define “peace”, but in their twisted mind that mentality does make a lot of sense. Although it’s more of a “control” thing as apposed to “peace” in the general sense of the word.
Not exactly a “terrorist attack”, but more of a “terror”-attack or intimidation-attack.