As Piet manages the vast civil service of a galactic dictatorship
It really does seem as though the Empire is in two parts: the Emperor and Vader, dark lords of the Sith, and everybody else, a military/bureaucratic machine who don't believe any if it. I don't know whether the Emperor decided at some point that it would serve his purposes to eliminate any memory of the Jedi, or whether he made an alliance of political necessity with the military/bureaucratic types. If the latter, they may well be doing all the real work of running the Empire, and everything we see in the movies is just a side issue, although I usually hate "what if we're missing the whole point" theories about well-known stories.
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It really does seem as though the Empire is in two parts: the Emperor and Vader, dark lords of the Sith, and everybody else, a military/bureaucratic machine who don't believe any if it. I don't know whether the Emperor decided at some point that it would serve his purposes to eliminate any memory of the Jedi, or whether he made an alliance of political necessity with the military/bureaucratic types. If the latter, they may well be doing all the real work of running the Empire, and everything we see in the movies is just a side issue, although I usually hate "what if we're missing the whole point" theories about well-known stories.