- "Some of the Empire's fiercest defenders, figures such as Lenang O'Pali who continued to act as polemicists for the Empire long after it had fallen, point toward the industrial and transportation networks created during these years as "things built by the Empire to benefit the populations of Imperial worlds.""
- ―Beaumont Kin, The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
A Call to Empire: The Failings of the New Republic was a public lecture given on[1] the Outer Rim planet[2] Eriadu by Lenang O'Pali, a polemicist who fiercely defended the Galactic Empire long after its fall[1] in 5 ABY.[3] In the lecture, O'Pali argued that the industrial and transportation networks built by the Empire benefited the populations of Imperial worlds.[1] In 35 ABY,[4] the historian Beaumont Kin mentioned the lecture in[1] his[2] book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire. Kin disagreed with O'Pali and argued that it was actually impoverished populations and prisoners in labor camps who built such things, not the Empire, and that they did not benefit its citizens.[1]
Behind the scenes
A Call to Empire: The Failings of the New Republic was mentioned in the 2024 reference book Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, by Dr. Chris Kempshall.[1]
Sources
- Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
- ↑ Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire states that thirty years have passed since the end of the Galactic Civil War and months have passed since the Battle of Exegol. As Star Wars: Timelines dates the end of the war to 5 ABY and the Battle of Exegol to 35 ABY, the in-universe The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire must have been published in 35 ABY.