From Clerks: I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.
There's very little morality to be found in wars, even Star Wars.
What we need is a Millenium crossover. Time travelers show up and get all the innocents off the Death Star right before the torpedoes drop. Problem solved!
I remember reading in an expanded universe comic of some kind that storm troopers are actually paid a fair bit above the galactic average, and that the first order is actually the ones who would hold you at gunpoint.
If the choice is between working on a literal genocide machine and dying, the moral choice is dying. Granting an exception for the guy who sabotages the genocide machine by building in a way to blow it up.
I agree, but remember that the state gets to decide who's a terrorist and who's a freedom fighter. The empire might have been a fascist dictatorship, but they have the power to call the liberators 'terrorists' to turn public sentiment against them
It didn't melt it, it caused it to explode. And then the debris field to disperse instead of falling back into its gravity well, but not in a way that caused any damage to the Death Star.
.Wookiee slaves are more of a Czerka thing, really. The empire was extremely xenophobic and I'd think would not have let any aliens near the Death Star.
Wouldn't anyone not from Naboo be an alien to Palpatine? Jar Jar should have been less of an alien to Palpatine than Anakin was. Luke and Leia were Tatooine/Nabooian hybrids.