[ EU ] On the imperial planet of Coruscant , a family is together when they receive news of the destruction of the Death Star . The discussion turns into a political argument as one of them reveals sympathy for the rebel alliance .

We interrupt `` The Real Housewives of Naboo'' to bring you this special bulletin; reports are coming in from the Yavin system that the Imperial Navy's research starbase for Dimensional Elasticity And Temporal Heuristics has been destroyed in a terrorist attack by a fringe group of traitors calling themselves `` The Rebel Alliance.'' 
 
 In a cowardly attack, Rebel Alliance Terrorists used photon explosives on the starbase's experimental reactor, triggering a chain reaction which destroyed the station. At this point we are unsure how many were killed but the death toll is likely to be in excess of a million souls. Additional casualties are expected in the Yavin system as fallout from the runaway reaction which destroyed the starbase settles on the surrounding.... 
 
 My mother turned the program off and we sat in silence for a moment with only the hum of the compressors from the floor below to fill the moment. 
 
 `` A million dead'' she whispered. She looked at my father, a spoon still clutched in his right hand, a thin trickle of soup dribbling into a his bowl. `` You could have been on there!'' 
 
 `` Now Karen...'' 
 
 `` Do n't'now Karen' me! I told you I did n't want you working those military contracts! I told you I did n't want you on Imperial ships! The risk is too much! You have a family to take care of and what would your son do if something happened to you?'' 
 
 `` The academy'' 
 
 `` He is NOT going to the Stormtrooper Academy!'' 
 
 `` It was good enough for me, why not him? It's an honorable profession!'' 
 
 `` Is n't he a little short for a stormtrooper?'' my sister piped in. 
 
 `` SHUT UP!'' At least we could all agree on something. 
 
 `` Besides,'' I added, `` I do n't want to be a Stormtrooper.'' 
 
 `` And why not?'' My father turned on me, eyes suddenly hard and flinty in the blue glare of the kitchen's industrial lights. 
 
 `` I do n't think I can serve with them if I do n't agree with what the Empire is doing!'' 
 
 `` Oh here we go again. And what, in your august political opinion, should the Empire be doing? The Jedi were traitors and the Emperor restored order. He brought the galaxy together. We've never been better off'' 
 
 `` Or better oppressed'' I muttered 
 
 `` You sound like those filthy RATs! Wringing your ideological hands instead of fighting for your Emperor, your Empire! Watch what you say, son, someone might think you're a terrorist.'' 
 
 `` Better than a mass murderer!'' 
 
 `` They killed a *million* people!'' 
 
 `` The Empire has killed a million times that! A billion times that! What about the Jedi younglings? What happened at Alderaan!?!'' 
 
 `` Alderaan was a stellar core breach. The news even reported on how the provincial government -- especially that Leia Organa woman -- ignored the warnings from the hyperspace physicists.'' 
 
 `` The Empire-owned news you mean. How can you trust what they say? It's not like there are a lot of folks from Alderaan left to argue.'' 
 
 `` What are you saying? That the Emperor ordered the **PLANET** destroyed? Do you have any idea how crazy that sounds? What can destroy a planet?'' 
 
 `` Oh... maybe a Death Star?'' 
 
 `` Are you serious? It's a research station!'' 
 
 `` Right. Sure it is. A research station with a reactor powerful enough to blast itself to atoms and a 100,000 troop complement. What kind of research are they doing there?'' 
 
 `` If you hate the Empire so much maybe you should leave it!'' 
 
 `` Maybe I will.'' 
 
 `` And what, join the RATs?'' 
 
 `` The *Alliance* has some good men; at least they're fighting for something!'' 
 
 `` What the hell is that supposed to mean? I fought and bled for this Empire!'' 
 
 `` So did Alderaan! So did the Rebels who fought at Yavin!'' 
 
 `` Who fought? Fought? It was a terrorist attack!'' 
 
 `` It was a battle. X-wings out of Yavin-4 fought against overwhelming odds. They were heroes dad.'' 
 
 `` You... you knew? You knew that there was going to be an attack? You knew that the RATs would bomb the starbase and you did **NOTHING** you said **NOTHING**? I had friends on that station! Men I served with since the end of the Clone Wars!'' 
 
 `` They....'' 
 
 `` They **MURDERED** my friends. My brothers. My family. They are traitors and terrorists, and if you knew, if you did n't do anything to stop them, so are you. Now, we are going down to the recruitment office, **today. ** You can leave in armor or irons: it's your choice.'' 
 
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 Edit: Changed the ending. I was rushed yesterday and I do n't think the tone was right.
