^My friend, the Empire is informally a Sith Empire, and it was planned and created by the Sith, beginning with Darth Bane's vision, all the way to Darth Plaguies's politics and to Darth Sidious's achievements. Why did you think the Rule of Two was established, so the Sith can garden their plants without getting killed? No, they wanted to eliminate the Jedi Order, and it might not be easy as you think.

^My friend the Fact that an Empire was planned and formulated since the days of Bane is not something I disagree with you on, let me further elaborate. It is true that the Sith since the establishment of the rule of two have been conspiring the creation of a Galactic Empire, what I doubt however is that while doing so they would not only create a symbol for said Empire but also put that same symbol into production on a Galactic scale decades in advance before that Empire was even a certainty. It would be a waste of resources, brainpower, and manpower that would be better spend on more important aspects of the Grand Plan such as formulating what shape this Empire would take, how it would come about, orchestrating events that would bring these plans into reality alongside the destruction of the Jedi Order.

Along to my distinction between Imperials and the Sith, while the Empire was the ultimate goal of the Sith the Galactic Empire that they got was not exactly what they intended. Darth Bane and many of his Sith successors envisioned a Theocratic Empire that would worship the triumphant Sith Lords for Eternity, essentially a Religious state centered around the Dark Side of the Force and the celebration of the power it can bring. The Empire that Palpatine brought into fruition however is nothing of the sort (In both Legends and Canon it’s obvious that he intended for it to go down that route but it was never accomplished) The Galactic Empire that was established was a Secular, Humanocentric, and Collectivist Regime that had ideals that conflict with Sith Ideals. Palpatine and even the Sith didn’t establish New Order Ideology on their own they simply took advantage of and subverted pre-existing ideas for their own goals, those being Humanocentrism, Core World Exceptionalism, and even the well meaning but destructive ideal of The Republic’s Collectivism. For Example an ideal citizen of a Sith Theocracy would strive to improve himself not for some lofty goal or utopian reason but for the sake of himself and to increase his own power, there would be a constant presence of competition throughout his life as he would try to out do and suppress his rivals while attempting please or eventually become the Dark Lord of the Sith. This Sith Theocracy would be characterized by rampant individualism behind a guise of Unity while at the same time be all inclusive as the Dark Side does not discriminate, and while yes not all beings could truly harness the power of the Dark Side the incentive would still be there in the form of Acolytes and the like. The Secular Empire that we did get is characterized by Humanocentrism, Core World Exceptionalism, and Collectivist thought, thus the Ideal Imperial would strive in earnest to better Humanities standing throughout the Galaxy and to do so the Galaxy must follow the model of the Core. Imperial is Utopian in the sense that true members of the Ideology want to improve the lives of the whole through means of Order and Social engineering, the Model Imperial would give his life if it meant benefiting the whole (This is clearly exhibited in the mentality of the Stormtroopers) The model Imperial would also want Galactic resources to be used the best they can for Humanity, this can be seen in the implementation of Imperialization (Nationalization) of Companies and even Sectors with the promise of redistributing the Wealth to the Core (They never fully realized this but that’s a discussion for another day). The model Imperial unlike the Sith has to be xenophobic because New Order Ideology not only Stipulates that Humanity is not only the best Species in the Galaxy but that drastically alien species are to blame for every single atrocity in Galactic History, they would cite the Clone Wars all the way back to the ancient Sith Empires which I think is telling enough.

TLDR: The Sith have more important things to do in the Grand Plan than making logos, and the Sith Ideal of an Empire is different from the New Order Empire actually established.

I did not say the Empire was the ideal Empire or what it was supposed to be. There were definetly major flaws in it, but it doesn't matter - it was planned for generations and it's a fact. I am not sure I understand your first paragraph however (perhaps dots and commas could help lol). What is that "symbol" you mentioned, and what is planning if not putting resources and brains into the plan? The Empire did begin its creation even before Bane has taken his apprentice and started implementing the Rule of Two, and while we don't know much about its days through what's now called the High Republic, we do know it kept being created until 19 BBY and the Declaration of the New Order.

@OneNose No problem man. I see where you might have gotten confused.

That is the Symbol I was referring to, it’s called the Imperial Roundel. I’m 100% certain you have seen this before throughout Star Wars and it is usually plastered on Banners or embedded into Steel structures such as Government Buildings and Military vehicles.

My nitpick is that this Symbol, the Imperial Roundel, replaced all of the Republic’s symbols in a matter of weeks even the ones embedded on Steel Structures such as a planetary Space Port.

(This is the Republic Roundel)

I can see newly produced military equipment bearing the Imperial Roundel such as the Bad Batch’s new Uniforms, but not on structures/ vehicles that had likely been produced before the Declaration of the Empire such as on the previously mentioned Space Port and various ships therein.

Again I have to clarify that the Sith did plan out the Empire, however I don’t think they designed the Imperial Roundel or made equipment bearing the symbol in advance. I hope that clears things up.

I know the symbol... were you talking about the symbol the whole time? I thought you were referencing the fact that the Empire and all its mechanics and rules were established and implemented in one day lol

Omega and dirt was the best scene, and that's all I'm gonna say.

"That... would be dirt."

I really liked this episode, even more than the series premiere I dare say.

Cut is one of the most underused and underrated characters in all of Star Wars imo so I was thrilled to see him finally get to come back.

I thought the story was a bit contrived as I think it would’ve been much safer for Cut and his family to go with the Bad Batch on their ship as that would’ve been a lot easier to navigate than the whole chain code situation and the danger of being recognized. It was also weird during the escape because the Imperials should’ve shut down the space port during the fire fight and Echo even mentions this but then they just don’t. These are just nitpicks but still thought they were worth bringing up.

The animation of this show still blows my mind and I think the characters are continuing to grow and come into themselves. I’m super excited to see where things go next.

Spoiler period for this episode has ended.