aita?

[insertusername]

am i the asshole?

Life isn’t always black and white. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s really at fault, and no one wants to believe they’re the bad guy. Sometimes you need an outside opinion. Or several.

Tell your side of the story and crowdsource an honest answer to the age old question; Am I The Asshole?

Top Level

with your character explaining a situation where they might have been the asshole.

Comment

with your hot takes. Anon or IC.

Comments

[nouskaiananki]

To be fair to the Republic, Palpatine did speed that war up by several centuries and it may have simply decayed into clusters of a confederacy by then. But it was decaying and needed radical restructuring in order to survive at all.

His ultimate goal was to become immortal and as powerful or more so than the last Sith Emperor. Which meant making sure what proved Vitiate's downfall - the Dark Council - and so there could never be a united group against him.

[iceheart_imperial]

[All of that provokes a sigh, and briefly closed eyes.]

Thus the competing magocracy. When he should have simply done away with them. Such inefficiency.

Yourself excluded, of course. Their attempts to ensnare you in their games universally led to less complication when you'd killed them - and you commanded the fleet's loyalty.

[nouskaiananki]

He wanted entertainment or deniability.

[ Both, it was both. ]

Solely because I'd rather be with the fleet than with the officers. It's easy to earn loyalty. Keeping it is more difficult - and requires one to put in work that is both mentally and physically taxing. Most of them seemed allergric to the concept.

[iceheart_imperial]

[And best of all, it kept him far away from political power. Win-win.]

I am well aware. I reprogrammed more than a share of those inside the Lusankya.

[nouskaiananki]

[ Only because he didn't want it. For himself anyway. ]

Not enough or I'd have killed less of them.