Long Ago, In Galaxy Far Far Away, War Among The Stars Never Changes
Posted: November 28, 2014 by kdatherton in Uncategorized
Tags: fallout, Star Wars, star wars: the force awakens, war never changes
Screenshot, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens Official Teaser Trailer #1
War. War never changes.
The Old Republic waged war to preserve order and commerce. The Separatists built a counter-empire from their lust for wealth and territory. Palpatine shaped a battered Republic into a Galactic superpower.
But war never changes.
In the last century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: force users and conscript-able populations that could control them. For these resources, the Empire would destroy Alderaan, the Rebel Alliance would annex Hoth, and the far fringes of the Old Republic would dissolve into quarreling, bickering feudal states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources in the galaxy.
After the Battle of Yavin, the storm of world war had come again. In four brief years, most of the galaxy was left unmoored, adrfit from a broken Empire, not yet part of the New Republic. And from the ashes of total galactic devastation, civilization would struggle to return as it once was.
In this chaos, a few were able to cling to power. The Sith been declared dead and ranks of the Jedi reduced to one. That, alone, was change, and it would not last. Power abhors a vacuum, and from among the scattered remnants of the reeling Empire and the growing edge of the Republican frontier, a new chapter in Galactic history would be written, echoing that of its forefathers.
For a select few, life in the Galaxy is about to change.
Watch the new Star Wars trailer below:
Text adapted from the Fallout: New Vegas intro and best read in a Ron Perlman voice.