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>>12485673
there are actually quite a lot of characters you could put into a story like this which would change the conventional Good Rebels Bad Empire narrative. to my mind, the real struggle is only between the Empire and the Sith themselves, because in that you have a contest between materialism and idealism - a materialism that becomes corrupted by idealism, and an idealism (however selfish and evil) which actually undercuts the desire for the materialists to flatten out the universe into Gestell, teleoplexy, &c.

another character i would include would be like an Imperial contractor whose life was destroyed by Rebels, in an attack on some base, and who becomes a kind of a rogue. now you have a guy who really hates the Jedi. the basic trope behind him would simply be that he was a victim of an excessive Good, or a casualty of a war fought propagandistically. when Rebels attack imperial strongholds, more lives are always lost than only the lives of soldiers. in the space between these is the realm of the smugglers and so on, but the smugglers always roll over for money, and the Empire itself always has more money to offer than the Rebels. you might be a Han Solo figure if the Rebels really are the Good 70s Lefties that this lore was all conceived by, but things have changed somewhat by 2019, and things are much greyer and darker now.

there really are no Rebels in this world anyways - or if there are, they are old and crusty and embittered. wherever Yoda is, there is the essence of the thing, and if Yoda is disgusted, or dead, then it's a whole new world. Hutts are the ideal model of a species which the new Jedi Empire prefers, because they are the perfect image of bloated plutocracy.

but that is also why i would include this twist also: it's actually the Hutts who are now - provisionally - taking on the role of the rebels, because the fact is they really hate what the Empire is doing, they know it's fucking and wrong and horrible, they know they are being abused and used as agitprop symbols, and their ultimate goal is going to be to quietly fund not a *Rebellion* but something much more subtle. really it's just a defection. they are, in a sense, waiting for the Jedi to appear. they kind of miss them, and they know something is deeply fucked up with the universe, and they know that they don't have a cure for it.