Galactic Empire Government Structure Explained | Legends Lore

In today's Star Wars video, I explain the structure of the Galactic Empire's Government from Legends Expanded Universe. The Empire's had a complex set of agencies who sometimes fought against each other to gain favor from Emperor Palpatine.
Source information from the Star Wars Sourcebook 1989.


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[parkinglot]

This is more of what I want to see from future SW shows, going more into the Empire and how it functioned on a real level.

[jasonkiefer]

Star Wars was awesome when Geroge allowed a few things and some people at Lucasfilm coordinated efforts. Sure there were some issues, and a couple of retcons, but generally nothing so egregious to break canon. Timothy Zahn and those early writes told great stories IN UNIVERSE. West End Games (I miss them SO much) fleshed out the structures well for the roleplaying game. The universe got bigger and did expand, even at the same time of keeping the Skywalker family at the center. What a golden age.

[KenWojcik]

"Enter the bureaucrats, the true rulers of the Republic"-Sheev Palpatine

[grandadmiralzaarin]

It's no wonder the Empire fragmented into Warlord states due to how Palpatine structured it and encouraged rivalries between all the higher ranks and different organizations. Without the central hub of that megalomaniac the promise of unlimited power from taking the vacant throne and a desire to settle twenty four years of scores and vendettas the Imperial Civil War was an inevitability.

[vortega]

I have that source book - it was from West End Games (I bought two copies - one as a gaming resource and one for collecting purposes) - it was a great read and very informative and useful if I ever do a non-SW/ST/SG galactic setting - very useful tool for world building.

[OrsonCallanKrennic]

Great stuff. I look forward to the video about COMPNOR, to me it is the most interesting organization in the Imperial power structure after the Imperial Navy.

[sword]

i always compared the high up in the empire to Chinese/Korean dynasties and their imperial courts, including the odd hats their ministers wore

[GageCole-yl]

You should do a video on the framework of command in the Imperial Army and Stormtrooper Corps. Example: fire team -> squad -> platoon and so on.

[erikjager]

It sounds like the former Soviet Union given all the beuacracy. No wonder it failed.