I just had a thought.
Is it just me, or does Luke contribute very little to the battle of Endor after he gets captured? Like, I can’t imagine the battle going too differently regardless of what happened between him, Vader, and the Emperor.
He’s important to the set up for the fight (I’d hardly see shuttle Tydirium getting through without him), yes, but the Death star II would have been destroyed after he got captured no matter what, it seems.
Yeah, the old EU tried to retcon this by saying the Emperor was using “battle meditation” to direct the Imperial fleet and once he died it all fell apart, but battle meditation has always felt like one of the dumbest concepts in the old EU.