Things go differently in the current canon, but what you described was more or less what happened in the old EU. There was no line of succession or instructions for what happened if Palpatine died. His death, along with Vader and important central figures in the Empire in ROTJ left a lot of squabbling Moffs and Admirals of dubious levels of competence in control of splinters of the Empire.

It wasn’t until Thrawn that someone competent started consolidating Imperial forces again.

You and @[email protected] are both right on the line for me to step in when it comes to personally insulting each other. You can disagree without belittling each other.

The OP specified canon comics already. The Vader and Doctor Aphra comics are in canon.

Nothing wrong with the old EU material. I like a lot of it, even preferring large chunks compared to the current canon. It depends on your goal, and if your goal is to brush up on current canon then knowing about the canon split will save you a lot of time.

Disney bought Star Wars in 2012, and it officially branched its canon in 2014 away from the existing EU. What that means is anything made before 2014 except for the main movies, the Clone Wars CGI cartoon, and the Rebels cartoon is not part of Disney canon.

Some elements of the classic EU have been reincorporated back into the Disney canon, but often remixed when they show back up.

What that means is old EU material isn’t directly part of canon and can only sometimes at best be used to guess at what might be in the new canon.

That said, the Tarkovsky Clone Wars cartoon rocks. I haven’t played the PS2 Clone Wars game, but the Republic Commando game is really great and has a modern widescreen fan fix now. The books about clones were interesting, a different take than the modern canon with clones having a much more Mandalorian cultural influence.

In that scene the T-Rex is trying to flush out people which it knows are hiding somewhere as well. (Disregarding all the T-Rex specific science and just focusing on the idea of a predator screaming.)

The immunity regarding official acts pertains to judicial proceedings. An impeachment is a legislative proceeding. While it uses judicial terms like “trial” it is not the same thing and can not directly result in criminal conviction or sentencing.

An impeachment conviction results in removal from office. The previous impeachment proceedings did not result in a conviction.

(Edit for additional information: While an impeachment uses terms like “trial” and “conviction” it is not a judicial proceeding. It is entirely a legislative proceeding which is formatted to resemble a judicial one, but is not bound to judicial procedure and it also can not produce a criminal conviction or sentence.)

I thought the reason we spent so much time with the stupid rebels was to really make sure we knew how dumb they are. This will be so that there’s no question why they screw up a mission on Ghormon. I imagine an ISB intermediary supplying them with a lot of explosives and telling them to blow up an Imperial target, but the ISB ensuring the group ends up blowing up civilians instead.

Tay laid it out to Mon: He went out on a limb to help her hide her money and activities, he feels she hasn’t properly rewarded him, his existing investments have been hurt by the rebellion, and his personal life has fallen apart.

He’s a loose cannon.

From his conversion with Mon in episode 2 where he talked about being undervalued and the rebels having caused damage to his investments it was instantly clear to me that he was a problem that was going to be solved.

The ugliest of TIE uglies.

The whole plan was to convince the Ferengi to go along with leaving in a way that fulfilled a local prophecy and supposedly did the least lasting cultural damage.

In the minds of the Voyager crew they were upholding the Prime Directive by minimizing/reversing the cultural damage which Janeway reasoned could be traced back to the Federation’s fault.

No they weren’t. Janeway really stretched the Prime Directive to fit what she wanted to do.

She reasoned that the ferengi were stuck in the delta quandrant during negotiations facilited by the Federation, so therefore the Federation had caused the cultural contamination, so therefore going down to the planet to clean it up was actually following the Prime Directive.

ENT “Civilization” where warp-capable aliens are causing toxic pollution in a pre-warp society.

I’m going to turbo nitpick here. That episode took place before the Prime Directive was written, so it can’t be held up as an example of how the PD is treated.

Played a little college ball, you know.

Scary numbers.

The actual clips seem to show quite a lot of the signature bleakness of the show itself. The trailer seems to have just slapped a poppy song with on-the-nose lyrics over the visuals to make it seem more “fun”.