# ROTJ: Emperor wins, so?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotj-emperor-wins-so/100752>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 29, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotj-emperor-wins-so/100752 "2002-03-29T15:33:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Swede\_Hollow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Swede\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swede_Hollow)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotj-emperor-wins-so/100752/41 "2002-04-03T00:43:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by msmith537 \*  
> \*\*Well, after he negotiated a treaty with Bespin, political insurgants attacked the city in an attempt to rescue a know criminal as he was transfered to Tatooine authorities.  
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Well, the treaty was made BECAUSE insurgents were expected on Bespin at any time. The foundation was laid to break the treaty before the treaty was made. Boba Fett was already authorized to take Han away before the treaty was made to keep Han on Bespin. I’ll ignore the issue of Boba Fett being a bounty hunter and Jabba the Hut being a mob boss instead of a government authority. I can see that the rest can be seen that way.

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotj-emperor-wins-so/100752/42 "2002-04-03T05:16:22Z")

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**kingpengvin** , you sound like someone who’s read the [Evil Overlord List](http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html) which contains such gems as:  
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[li]My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.[/li][li]My Legions of Terror will be trained in basic marksmanship. Any who cannot learn to hit a man-sized target at 10 meters will be used for target practice.[/li][li]If my surveillance reports any un-manned or seemingly innocent ships found where they are not supposed to be, they will be immediately vaporized instead of brought in for salvage.[/ul][/li]  
Ah, if Vader and the Emperor had only read a few of them, what they might have accomplished!

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotj-emperor-wins-so/100752/43 "2002-04-03T08:54:46Z")

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kingpengvin said

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> 1. Having that big old power core exposed without any form of secondary shielding.

This is the only one I can think of making sense since they were still building the damn thing. I’m sure they planned to put some shielding in eventually, but the big Laser seemed to be a higher priority.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotj-emperor-wins-so/100752/44 "2002-04-05T16:08:01Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \*  
> **kingpengvin** , you sound like someone who’s read the [Evil Overlord List](http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html)  
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I particularly like the one about not building a weakness into your massive super weapon. I mean really, how hard would it have been to put a steel grating over those exhaust vents?

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