Grand Moff Tarkin's Doctrine of Fear was meant to solidify the Empire's control over the galaxy. Unfortunately, it became its undoing. patreon.com/TheRogueScoundrel41
The carrot and stick method doesn't work if you get the stick either way. That's the Tarkin Doctrine in a nutshell. Tarkin fancied himself a Machiavellian but forgot a crucial part about his old maxim; it's better to be feared than loved, but one should take care not to become hated. In destroying Alderaan, Tarkin ensured a bunch of planets hated his guts and wanted to give the Empire a black eye.
I will face my fear. I will allow it to pass over me and through me. And when thr fear has passed, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. And when the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Both the Star Destroyer and the Death Star had Sith heritage... but that in turn was shaped by the enviorment of the Outer Rim. When chasing down enemies is difficult and life is cheap, Orbital Bombardment is a great way to both deter future enemies and force combat with a weaker opponent. Large capital ships on the other hand are the easiest way to distinguish yourself from smaller powers like the Hutts. The mistake Tarkin and Palpatine made was applying doctrines intended for brush wars and gunboat diplomacy in the Outer Rim and applying them to an existential conflict in the Core. Even on a purely practical level, the threat wasn't hostile forified planets, but mobile fleets hopping from Asteroid to Ice Moon and the creeping destruction of the state due to graft or black markets. The Empire didn't need a Death Star, it needed swarms of Corvettes, Green Berets, and a more modest political program. It got none of those until it was far too late.
While I’ve seen longer videos that discus the Tarkin Doctrine in greater depth, I’m impressed with the quality of writing here. You cover the subject with a bit of narrative flare that I appreciate. Not all lore-masters are great writers. Well done.
I have no idea what the Deathstar was meant to suppress. They already had the means to destroy planets, just not completely and in the blink of an eye but they did burn Mandalore. Any superweapon is a mistake, they take much more resources than what equivalent of regular troops would be needed for that same task.
Some people here and there say it was meant to stop a menace that Thrawn warned about, but frankly it has no use whatsoever other than nagging the galaxy’s economy and their atoms staying disperse. It’s not a spy station, it doesn’t protect, it doesn’t really provide of anything. There’s really nothing in it that either controlled planets or Star Destroyers didn’t do anyway, Leia could’ve been interrogated in the Executor, or Alderaan been bombarded with an orbital strike of a fleet, and nothing much would’ve changed
Grand Moff Tarkin's policies are pretty bad in a setting like this it's just horribly self destructive and incompetent. Even the Imperium of Man's Inquisitors would call him a foolish secular tunnel visioned brainless man. If another faction with more advance firepower then the Galactic Empire were to go to war with them with large numbers like the Katzenartig Imperium from Stellaris Gigastructural Engineering, those domestic and inter galactic policies with those current conditions would not fly so well and completely backfire once their military assets and fielded manpower was crushed and many would begin to defect or begin uprisings or ally with the adversary.
There is no "real hero" in this. The Death Star was brought down by the efforts of many people. Galen built the weak point, which Luke would exploit, and the many Rebel pilots who died to make such a shot possible. They were all heroes, let's not try to pin the credit of the success on just one person.
@@danielschoch4881 Na; rogue one is mid. The space battlle is cool and could be repurposed, but almost everything else a mid. k2SO was kinda funny though. My tentative canon is the 6 movies and the old EU, and rogue one doesn't fit into that
