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The empire blew up a planet because a couple interrogators couldn't crack a 19 year old princess. Merit isn't a strong point among them.The author is dead wrong about the Star Wars empire. The empire is a meritocracy. The rebels are old regime dead-enders, a hereditary aristocracy backed by a mystic warrior cult with a belief system almost deep enough to have been authored by Rhonda Byrne.