@Bobby Hey man, at least the Imperials were semi-competent

Unlike the French <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

The Imps (the in-canon nickname given to them by Rebels) were mainly fucked over by Tarkin's "Rule by Fear" doctrine, which alienated many potential allies and made enemies of some fairly powerful alien races (though, in their defense, they were like this to EVERY race, such as in the case of the Chiss....who were really Pro-Imperial AFAIK). The French on the other hand....are just fucking incompetent.

Also, the Empire being majority Xenophobic also kinda fucked them over

Though, that isn't to say that ALL Imperials were Xenophobic

the Emperor, for instance, was incredibly meritocratic. Tarkin too, in the Extended Universe.

The Emperor being the one who made Thrawn (that's his name in Basic; His actual name in Chiss is **Mitth'raw'nuruodo**) a Grand-Admiral in the Extended Universe (I'm not sure whether or not that was the case in Rebels)

the emperor was just trying to prevent the locusts from raping the galaxy

he dindu nuffin

Tarkin's sole moment of competence in the Extended Universe (to my knowledge) was allowing Natasi Daala to rise up the ranks. One might even say he was a tad progressive by allowing Daala to rise up the ranks

kanye has seen the light 🙏

which shines a light on the disparity of the Empire's high-command and regular Imperials

Regular Imps were for lack of a better phrasing....

Xenophobic and Sexist. Not racist, though. The Imps had transcended racism, to my knowledge

And, to my knowledge, there weren't any female Stormtroopers in the EU

In Rebels, there's a Death Trooper who's female LMAO

Actually

doing a bit of digging, there WERE female stormtroopers in EU

```Service in the Stormtrooper Corps was open to both Human men and women, but female stormtroopers were an extremely rare sight under Palpatine's reign and on average there were never more than three female stormtroopers within a whole legion. In spite of this disparity, some female troopers served in elite units, such as the Coruscant Guard. Female stormtroopers underwent the same hard training as their male counterparts. Only the best of the best recruits were selected for the stormtrooper corps. Once accepted into the stormtrooper corps, every trooper was treated as an equal. There were no differences between males and females. They even shared the same barracks. Wearing the exact same white stormtrooper armor, one could not distinguish between a male or female stormtrooper.```

Which makes the comparison of the Empire to Nazi Germany to be a tad...odd, actually

Rember when Disney didn't own star wars? Rember those blessed times?

If anything, the Empire itself is a hybridized adaptation

of various Dynasties of China (the ruthless meritocracy)

The rise the emperor is clearly inspired by the rise of hitler

But the empire itself wasnt really a nazi empire

Likewise, there is also some elements of the Azad Hind and the USSR

Clearly the empire was good

since, y'know

females were allowed in fighting capacity

The empire was human dominated but so were the republics

Yeah, hence why I compared it to China

They make up lore to say the empire is racist now tho

it was incredibly xenophobic

but there were still chances for non-humans to occasionally rise through the ranks

Albeit rare chances

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/36mugr/star_wars_how_many_storm_troopers_exist/

Is really annoying how they changed the lore to make it more pc

Millions of them

Nah, likely tens of millions or even BILLIONS

given the estimates of the Galaxy's inhabitants

Star wars numbers change all the time