I love that Sabine and Ezra both get knocked down a peg in the same episode. They're pretty much kids still and in a war and that arrogance was going to get them and maybe others killed. They needed to be booped in the nose considering how cocky both were getting.

I'm sorta okay with the Mandolorian story right now. My impression is this:

A long time ago Mandalore went down a road similar to Japan. They became a power in their corner of the world/galaxy that was strong enough not to be taken lightly by the other galactic powers. They eventually got so confident in their abilities I imagine something similar to Imperial Japan's pacific expansion happened and a militaristic Mandalore tried to expand and conquer, similar to the old canon.

However eventually the Republic and Jedi had to intervene starting the war. Inevitably the Mandos lost and were conquered. Mandolorian culture then was pushed into a path of peaceful advancement sending them to the culture we see in the Clone War. I like that more then the old canon if that's what do because again it gives a better sense of history and a culture and people changing and evolving over a long period of time as would happen in real life.

Maybe the first Mandolorian Jedi was a political move as well as a standard Jedi induction. Maybe Vizla was force sensitive but because of tensions never taken at a young age but was instead a teenage or young adult when he was inducted. How cool would it be if the first Mandolorian Jedi is the reason the Jedi Order doesn't induct older padawans because of something that happened with that Vizla?

This whole post is awesome.

is it me or does Sabine know way too much about the empire?

i understand that she went to the imperial academy on mandalore however she knows stuff that would be way above stormtrooper pay grade

how would she know about banned weapons (ion disruptors) and pre-prototype ships (interdictor), even if she was rebellious and tried hacking the computers she could only get so far

the only way i could see her knowing these things is if she went to officer courses (i don't think Sabine is cut out to be an officer) or special ops,

if sabine was special ops than one of her possible missions would be to infiltrate a rebel cell

If she was in the Imperial Academy, that implies she was on path for becoming an officer. You don't use Academies for foot soldiers - they don't need that sort of knowledge to do their jobs.

This would be why Minister Tua would be impressed with what level exams she was supposedly working towards at the Academy. Becoming a Stormtrooper is not something that is going to require exams of that sort.

Edit: Why wouldn't she be cut out to be an officer? Intelligent, quick thinking, wide variety of skills and knowledge, plus she's respectful of the chain of command (though just not the _Imperial_ chain of command, these days). If she weren't opposed to the Empire, those seem like the kind of attributes one would want in an officer.

is it me or does Sabine know way too much about the empire?

i understand that she went to the imperial academy on mandalore however she knows stuff that would be way above stormtrooper pay grade

how would she know about banned weapons (ion disruptors) and pre-prototype ships (interdictor), even if she was rebellious and tried hacking the computers she could only get so far

the only way i could see her knowing these things is if she went to officer courses (i don't think Sabine is cut out to be an officer) or special ops,

if sabine was special ops than one of her possible missions would be to infiltrate a rebel cell

If she was in the Imperial Academy, that implies she was on path for becoming an officer. You don't use Academies for foot soldiers - they don't need that sort of knowledge to do their jobs.

This would be why Minister Tua would be impressed with what level exams she was supposedly working towards at the Academy. Becoming a Stormtrooper is not something that is going to require exams of that sort.

Edit: Why wouldn't she be cut out to be an officer? Intelligent, quick thinking, wide variety of skills and knowledge, plus she's respectful of the chain of command (though just not the _Imperial_ chain of command, these days). If she weren't opposed to the Empire, those seem like the kind of attributes one would want in an officer.

It's possible people are hung up on 'bad SciFi movies', where graduating an academy as an officer puts you in command of a ship.

That's not how it works .

Academy graduates come out of their education as O1s (IE., for a naval academy, an Ensign). IE, the sort of folks you see sitting around in the bridge pits of Star Destroyers, or flying your bog-standard TIE Fighter. (The 12-pt 'Academy Pilot', after all, is not a trainee - but simply a fresh academy graduate that is an officer. Just...an inexperienced one.)

Looks like wooden sticks before lethal blades.

OH PSSH.

We can't be SURE they're wooden sticks!

Dude, you are just stiring the fire...

If he's using a wooden stick to stir this fire, is he doing so figuratively or lterally?

Looks like wooden sticks before lethal blades.

OH PSSH.

We can't be SURE they're wooden sticks!

Dude, you are just stiring the fire...

If he's using a wooden stick to stir this fire, is he doing so figuratively or lterally?

You can't just ASSUME I'm stoking the fire!

If the stick weighs the same as a duck, then it's made of wood, and Sabine is therefore a witch.

But wait, does she float?

is it me or does Sabine know way too much about the empire?

i understand that she went to the imperial academy on mandalore however she knows stuff that would be way above stormtrooper pay grade

how would she know about banned weapons (ion disruptors) and pre-prototype ships (interdictor), even if she was rebellious and tried hacking the computers she could only get so far

the only way i could see her knowing these things is if she went to officer courses (i don't think Sabine is cut out to be an officer) or special ops,

if sabine was special ops than one of her possible missions would be to infiltrate a rebel cell

If she was in the Imperial Academy, that implies she was on path for becoming an officer. You don't use Academies for foot soldiers - they don't need that sort of knowledge to do their jobs.

This would be why Minister Tua would be impressed with what level exams she was supposedly working towards at the Academy. Becoming a Stormtrooper is not something that is going to require exams of that sort.

Edit: Why wouldn't she be cut out to be an officer? Intelligent, quick thinking, wide variety of skills and knowledge, plus she's respectful of the chain of command (though just not the _Imperial_ chain of command, these days). If she weren't opposed to the Empire, those seem like the kind of attributes one would want in an officer.

And how long has she been in this academy? She joined Hera's "cell" when she was 16, and between abandoning the academy and joining Rebels she worked as a bounty hunter.

So when she left she was what, 14? 15?

Why does the Empire call their elementary schools "academies"? Would Luke end up in a class with 7-year olds had his uncle let him go? Is this why Biggs left?

So many questions!

If he's using a wooden stick to stir this fire, is he doing so figuratively or lterally?

You can't just ASSUME I'm stoking the fire!

The Love/Hate for this Community is unreal

is it me or does Sabine know way too much about the empire?

i understand that she went to the imperial academy on mandalore however she knows stuff that would be way above stormtrooper pay grade

how would she know about banned weapons (ion disruptors) and pre-prototype ships (interdictor), even if she was rebellious and tried hacking the computers she could only get so far

the only way i could see her knowing these things is if she went to officer courses (i don't think Sabine is cut out to be an officer) or special ops,

if sabine was special ops than one of her possible missions would be to infiltrate a rebel cell

If she was in the Imperial Academy, that implies she was on path for becoming an officer. You don't use Academies for foot soldiers - they don't need that sort of knowledge to do their jobs.

This would be why Minister Tua would be impressed with what level exams she was supposedly working towards at the Academy. Becoming a Stormtrooper is not something that is going to require exams of that sort.

Edit: Why wouldn't she be cut out to be an officer? Intelligent, quick thinking, wide variety of skills and knowledge, plus she's respectful of the chain of command (though just not the _Imperial_ chain of command, these days). If she weren't opposed to the Empire, those seem like the kind of attributes one would want in an officer.

It's possible people are hung up on 'bad SciFi movies', where graduating an academy as an officer puts you in command of a ship.

That's not how it works .

Academy graduates come out of their education as O1s (IE., for a naval academy, an Ensign). IE, the sort of folks you see sitting around in the bridge pits of Star Destroyers, or flying your bog-standard TIE Fighter. (The 12-pt 'Academy Pilot', after all, is not a trainee - but simply a fresh academy graduate that is an officer. Just...an inexperienced one.)

We actually get to see this in Lost Stars where the main characters are earning good grades and the like and then start out as fighter pilots or low level officers or ensigns.

is it me or does Sabine know way too much about the empire?

i understand that she went to the imperial academy on mandalore however she knows stuff that would be way above stormtrooper pay grade

how would she know about banned weapons (ion disruptors) and pre-prototype ships (interdictor), even if she was rebellious and tried hacking the computers she could only get so far

the only way i could see her knowing these things is if she went to officer courses (i don't think Sabine is cut out to be an officer) or special ops,

if sabine was special ops than one of her possible missions would be to infiltrate a rebel cell

If she was in the Imperial Academy, that implies she was on path for becoming an officer. You don't use Academies for foot soldiers - they don't need that sort of knowledge to do their jobs.

This would be why Minister Tua would be impressed with what level exams she was supposedly working towards at the Academy. Becoming a Stormtrooper is not something that is going to require exams of that sort.

Edit: Why wouldn't she be cut out to be an officer? Intelligent, quick thinking, wide variety of skills and knowledge, plus she's respectful of the chain of command (though just not the _Imperial_ chain of command, these days). If she weren't opposed to the Empire, those seem like the kind of attributes one would want in an officer.

And how long has she been in this academy? She joined Hera's "cell" when she was 16, and between abandoning the academy and joining Rebels she worked as a bounty hunter.

So when she left she was what, 14? 15?

Why does the Empire call their elementary schools "academies"? Would Luke end up in a class with 7-year olds had his uncle let him go? Is this why Biggs left?

So many questions!

I'd imagine that the academy is late middle school or high school plus which would mean twelve or thirteen. Besides the Empire would want to indoctrinate the officers young to better have them follow their dogma, similar to a certain organization that kidnaps children by law and forces them to live a specific way without really much choice and telling them how good and responsible they are to do this. You got to love how the Jedi generally come off as cool, but when you take a closer look at them the worse they seem to be.

It's reasonably fair to point out that the Star Wars universe, by and large, is a lot less pleasant a place for most people to live than "21st century first-world country on Earth".

Literacy seems to be low-to-nonexistent outside the professional classes, slavery and human trafficking commonplace, 'child soldiers' the norm on all sides of every conflict, casual drug use so widespread that smugglers are given a pass in civil society, assassinations and bounty hunters not something anyone looks twice at, extrajudicial executions by pseudo-government forces not even questioned.

It's... not a happy place . Very, very much a Feudal age - which is by intent, it was written that way.

Applying "but in OUR world that person would be too young/irresponsible/uneducated/etc" logic to things is just not going to work out for you. At least, looking at anything more recent than the Renaissance, perhaps...

It's reasonably fair to point out that the Star Wars universe, by and large, is a lot less pleasant a place for most people to live than "21st century first-world country on Earth".

Literacy seems to be low-to-nonexistent outside the professional classes, slavery and human trafficking commonplace, 'child soldiers' the norm on all sides of every conflict, casual drug use so widespread that smugglers are given a pass in civil society, assassinations and bounty hunters not something anyone looks twice at, extrajudicial executions by pseudo-government forces not even questioned.

It's... not a happy place . Very, very much a Feudal age - which is by intent, it was written that way.

Applying "but in OUR world that person would be too young/irresponsible/uneducated/etc" logic to things is just not going to work out for you. At least, looking at anything more recent than the Renaissance, perhaps...

Not to be a downer or anything but that's kinda how it is in real life too outside of first-world countries. There are about 21 million slaves in the world to day, right now. Most of them are in second or third world countries, 76% work as laborers or in the service industries, 22% are put into prostitution and the like, and of all of the slaves together over a quarter are children. It only takes a Google search to get the details.

Aside from slavery, most of the 6-7 billion people in the word today do live in poverty or without educational options due to various factors*. It's only in a pew places, and for small groups of people with very hard-working hard-fighting ancestors that the easy 21st-century life is a reality. America only has about 200 million people living in it, and the only reason that those people are as well off as they are is because the founders of their country spent 200 years fighting natives, disease, and other colonists, and another 200 fighting depression, communism, and scary dictators.

So, I figure Star Wars is the same way. You go to Corellia or Coruscant and you see 21st century America, you go to Naboo and see something like Ireland or England.

You go to Lothal, and now you're somewhere in Africa. A few government-owned factories in the center of the only big city, and for mile after mile around that nothing but nerf-herders, small towns, and generations of farmers.

*(evil, crap-tastic governments)

If he's using a wooden stick to stir this fire, is he doing so figuratively or lterally?

You can't just ASSUME I'm stoking the fire!

The Love/Hate for this Community is unreal

It can be fun at times..!

The thing is that that lawless aspect is one of the appeals of Star Wars.

Who knows; in the core world the adventure might be less. They might have blaster restrictions, ship permits, docking fees, taxes of every kind. But out on the rim, it is kind of like Africa or the Old West: everyone has a blaster, you only pay taxes if the guy asking for them has a bigger one, and you can fly a hunk of junk from one system to the next with no batted eyes.

If, well.... you'know.

You don't mind the downsides.

Like the slavery.

And the gangsters.

And the space slugs.

And the slaving, space slug gangsters.

We also know that the Mandalorians started their War when the Jedi and Republic were weakened by the War with the Sith. So there is probably no connerction simmilar to Legends.

Well actually this is not terribly far off from Legends. The Mandalorian Wars occurred not terribly long after the Republic fought a grueling was against Exar Kun and his Sith forces.

It's reasonably fair to point out that the Star Wars universe, by and large, is a lot less pleasant a place for most people to live than "21st century first-world country on Earth".

Literacy seems to be low-to-nonexistent outside the professional classes, slavery and human trafficking commonplace, 'child soldiers' the norm on all sides of every conflict, casual drug use so widespread that smugglers are given a pass in civil society, assassinations and bounty hunters not something anyone looks twice at, extrajudicial executions by pseudo-government forces not even questioned.

It's... not a happy place . Very, very much a Feudal age - which is by intent, it was written that way.

Applying "but in OUR world that person would be too young/irresponsible/uneducated/etc" logic to things is just not going to work out for you. At least, looking at anything more recent than the Renaissance, perhaps...

Not to be a downer or anything but that's kinda how it is in real life too outside of first-world countries. There are about 21 million slaves in the world to day, right now. Most of them are in second or third world countries, 76% work as laborers or in the service industries, 22% are put into prostitution and the like, and of all of the slaves together over a quarter are children. It only takes a Google search to get the details.

Aside from slavery, most of the 6-7 billion people in the word today do live in poverty or without educational options due to various factors*. It's only in a pew places, and for small groups of people with very hard-working hard-fighting ancestors that the easy 21st-century life is a reality. America only has about 200 million people living in it, and the only reason that those people are as well off as they are is because the founders of their country spent 200 years fighting natives, disease, and other colonists, and another 200 fighting depression, communism, and scary dictators.

So, I figure Star Wars is the same way. You go to Corellia or Coruscant and you see 21st century America, you go to Naboo and see something like Ireland or England.

You go to Lothal, and now you're somewhere in Africa. A few government-owned factories in the center of the only big city, and for mile after mile around that nothing but nerf-herders, small towns, and generations of farmers.

*(evil, crap-tastic governments)

Which is basically exactly what I was getting at.

Maybe too generously, though - I mean, looking at some of the canon material that has come out about even the 'underworld' of Coruscant...

There are very, VERY few people in the Star Wars galaxy who are living like 2017-era Americans/British/French/Germans/etc. The very, very upper crust of Coruscant, maybe . But not even the Jedi, not really. And CERTAINLY not most of the population.

And, absolutely - you are dead-on about Lothal. Basically Africa. Strong, centrist governments - oppressed populations (mostly at the behest of overseas interests) - otherwise 'subsistence-level' farming, etc.

I dunno, perhaps digressing a bit from the thread, but I think people do tend to get their SciFi universes mixed up. A lot of people seem to see the Star Wars universe as an interesting place to live...maybe 'like Star Trek, but with more freedom!'...but they just aren't paying attention, or connecting the dots. For 99% of its population, the Star Wars universe is basically horrific .

(I mean, at least until the Empire finally restored some order to all this lawlessness... )

That does, of course, make it basically a perfect setting for telling tales of heroic characters, fighting against impossible odds, but...well...do be careful about how you perceive it!

It's reasonably fair to point out that the Star Wars universe, by and large, is a lot less pleasant a place for most people to live than "21st century first-world country on Earth".

Literacy seems to be low-to-nonexistent outside the professional classes, slavery and human trafficking commonplace, 'child soldiers' the norm on all sides of every conflict, casual drug use so widespread that smugglers are given a pass in civil society, assassinations and bounty hunters not something anyone looks twice at, extrajudicial executions by pseudo-government forces not even questioned.

It's... not a happy place . Very, very much a Feudal age - which is by intent, it was written that way.

Applying "but in OUR world that person would be too young/irresponsible/uneducated/etc" logic to things is just not going to work out for you. At least, looking at anything more recent than the Renaissance, perhaps...

Not to be a downer or anything but that's kinda how it is in real life too outside of first-world countries. There are about 21 million slaves in the world to day, right now. Most of them are in second or third world countries, 76% work as laborers or in the service industries, 22% are put into prostitution and the like, and of all of the slaves together over a quarter are children. It only takes a Google search to get the details.

Aside from slavery, most of the 6-7 billion people in the word today do live in poverty or without educational options due to various factors*. It's only in a pew places, and for small groups of people with very hard-working hard-fighting ancestors that the easy 21st-century life is a reality. America only has about 200 million people living in it, and the only reason that those people are as well off as they are is because the founders of their country spent 200 years fighting natives, disease, and other colonists, and another 200 fighting depression, communism, and scary dictators.

So, I figure Star Wars is the same way. You go to Corellia or Coruscant and you see 21st century America, you go to Naboo and see something like Ireland or England.

You go to Lothal, and now you're somewhere in Africa. A few government-owned factories in the center of the only big city, and for mile after mile around that nothing but nerf-herders, small towns, and generations of farmers.

*(evil, crap-tastic governments)

Your numbers are way off, Europe has a population of 700 million, north america has a population of 600 million and the united states of america make up 300 million of that, Japan and South Korea make nearly another 200 million. Poverty and hunger have been reduced massively (more than halved) in the last 30 years and we have a good chance to eradicate poverty within the following 15 to 30 years completely. The BRIC countries account for another 3 billion people and are emerging quickly into western standards of living even when it will take some time until the new wealth of those nation reaches their population as a whole.

So your view might be a bit to negative. It is indeed a lot better than the star wars galaxy, even when many european brothels are full of sex slaves.

Meanwhile in a galaxy far, far away not even the handmaid of a senator can afford running water and lights at night in coruscant, because it is too **** expensive. And Hunger is a omnipresent theme in star wars. So yeah, the analogy to the worst regions on earth is not wrong, but actually most of the star wars galaxy is in such a bad shape and the situation under the empire is in many sectors actually better than it used to be under the republic.

Star Wars is a space western/samurai movie/WWII warmovie.

A mashup of three settings that we want to hear stories of, but under no circumstances we would like to live at.

The best prospect for a inhabitant of Star Wars galaxy is to live in a planet so remote and uninteresting, doing subsistence farming, that no one looks at their way. Basically what Beru and Owen Lars, Galen Erso, the gungans... were doing. Kind of space-amish. And still most of them died.

Meanwhile in a galaxy far, far away not even the handmaid of a senator can afford running water and lights at night in coruscant, because it is too **** expensive.

So.... Coruscant is San Francisco?

...yea, I guess I can see that...

It's reasonably fair to point out that the Star Wars universe, by and large, is a lot less pleasant a place for most people to live than "21st century first-world country on Earth".

Literacy seems to be low-to-nonexistent outside the professional classes, slavery and human trafficking commonplace, 'child soldiers' the norm on all sides of every conflict, casual drug use so widespread that smugglers are given a pass in civil society, assassinations and bounty hunters not something anyone looks twice at, extrajudicial executions by pseudo-government forces not even questioned.

It's... not a happy place . Very, very much a Feudal age - which is by intent, it was written that way.

Applying "but in OUR world that person would be too young/irresponsible/uneducated/etc" logic to things is just not going to work out for you. At least, looking at anything more recent than the Renaissance, perhaps...

Not to be a downer or anything but that's kinda how it is in real life too outside of first-world countries. There are about 21 million slaves in the world to day, right now. Most of them are in second or third world countries, 76% work as laborers or in the service industries, 22% are put into prostitution and the like, and of all of the slaves together over a quarter are children. It only takes a Google search to get the details.

Aside from slavery, most of the 6-7 billion people in the word today do live in poverty or without educational options due to various factors*. It's only in a pew places, and for small groups of people with very hard-working hard-fighting ancestors that the easy 21st-century life is a reality. America only has about 200 million people living in it, and the only reason that those people are as well off as they are is because the founders of their country spent 200 years fighting natives, disease, and other colonists, and another 200 fighting depression, communism, and scary dictators.

So, I figure Star Wars is the same way. You go to Corellia or Coruscant and you see 21st century America, you go to Naboo and see something like Ireland or England.

You go to Lothal, and now you're somewhere in Africa. A few government-owned factories in the center of the only big city, and for mile after mile around that nothing but nerf-herders, small towns, and generations of farmers.

*(evil, crap-tastic governments)

Which is basically exactly what I was getting at.

Maybe too generously, though - I mean, looking at some of the canon material that has come out about even the 'underworld' of Coruscant...

There are very, VERY few people in the Star Wars galaxy who are living like 2017-era Americans/British/French/Germans/etc. The very, very upper crust of Coruscant, maybe . But not even the Jedi, not really. And CERTAINLY not most of the population.

And, absolutely - you are dead-on about Lothal. Basically Africa. Strong, centrist governments - oppressed populations (mostly at the behest of overseas interests) - otherwise 'subsistence-level' farming, etc.

I dunno, perhaps digressing a bit from the thread, but I think people do tend to get their SciFi universes mixed up. A lot of people seem to see the Star Wars universe as an interesting place to live...maybe 'like Star Trek, but with more freedom!'...but they just aren't paying attention, or connecting the dots. For 99% of its population, the Star Wars universe is basically horrific .

(I mean, at least until the Empire finally restored some order to all this lawlessness... )

That does, of course, make it basically a perfect setting for telling tales of heroic characters, fighting against impossible odds, but...well...do be careful about how you perceive it!

The further you get from the core the more and more it becomes harder to live too, due to mostly less ideal planets and that being so far from the core means that there has to be at least one large criminal organization set up on the planet as the Republic or Imperials are less likely to care about the matter. What makes matters worse is that the New Republic is even worse though, while the Republic might end up sending a Jedi or group to investigate and the Empire might send something to crush the resistance and take over themselves, the New Republic would deadlock itself in the senate and do absolutely nothing.

I think an interesting concept for a movie would be to make a movie from an Imperial PoV. Have it set maybe 5 years at most after RotS, and make it about the 501st. I think it would be an interesting concept to see people in the Empire* (maybe even including some clones like Cody, or Jesse) who truly are working to try and establish order, and make the galaxy a better place to live. Maybe have some radical terrorists openly revolting on some planet, and the troops have to do a Hard Contact style insertion**.

*Emphasis on people. Making the Empire out to be good guys undermines the story, and the OT, but I think having those people working in the Empire who are good people adds to the story greatly.

**Reasons why they might have to covertly insert could be a Choices of One style story, where the Empire knows there are terrorists in the government, but they also know there are loyal officers in the government and they don't want to take them all out. Heck you could even throw in Mara Jade, or an inquisitor/Emperor's hand type character into the mix.

I think an interesting concept for a movie would be to make a movie from an Imperial PoV. Have it set maybe 5 years at most after RotS, and make it about the 501st. I think it would be an interesting concept to see people in the Empire* (maybe even including some clones like Cody, or Jesse) who truly are working to try and establish order, and make the galaxy a better place to live. Maybe have some radical terrorists openly revolting on some planet, and the troops have to do a Hard Contact style insertion**.

*Emphasis on people. Making the Empire out to be good guys undermines the story, and the OT, but I think having those people working in the Empire who are good people adds to the story greatly.

**Reasons why they might have to covertly insert could be a Choices of One style story, where the Empire knows there are terrorists in the government, but they also know there are loyal officers in the government and they don't want to take them all out. Heck you could even throw in Mara Jade, or an inquisitor/Emperor's hand type character into the mix.

Lost Stars already had some of those aspects, would be just lovely to put them on the big screen. With the direction Rogue One took I also don't think it is too unlikely, they seem to be willing to experiment some with the spinoffs and deviate from the general Star Wars formula.

(I mean, at least until the Empire finally restored some order to all this lawlessness... )

A Dornian gunship, you say?

Yes. A gunship of Dorne.

That is no ship of mine, carpet-wearing individual. My ships are the most architecturally-gifted ships in the Imperium of Man, and that is not one of them.

(I mean, at least until the Empire finally restored some order to all this lawlessness... )

Yeah, places like Lothal, Jedha, Alderaan, Geonosis and Kashyyyk are great examples of the order the Empire brings.

Compare old republic tatooine with empire time Lothal and you see the progress. Jedha, Alderaan, Geonosis and Kashyyyk are all places of rebellion and disturbance for the galaxy. You gotta do something about terrorists. Alderaan send a huge fleet against imperial installations just a day before its destruction, the Geonosians tried to enslave the whole galaxy with their mind-controlling bio-weapons, Jedha had some of the most ruthless, brutal and extreme terrorists of the whole galaxy, even to extreme for the alliance. Now the enslavement of the wookies … calmed down the trandoshans and protected the piece. Still a crime and Vader was not happy at all about it.

https://imgur.com/a/1mAFM#qACHLoS

I'm fairly certain that Germans under the third Reich could still read and write, and as that's who the empire is modeled after I'd imagine humans (the master race to the empire) would by and large be well trained. Others, maybe not so much.