It's in the movies, if not directly addressed. The imperial command structure is exclusively human, as are their footsoldiers, and in A New Hope Luke sees joining onto this as a more desirable career path than anything to do with non-human cartels or businesses. It also seems like at least some of its foundational support comes from humans that had directly been oppressed or threatened by non-human institutions, between Naboo and its invasion by a non-human federation being a rallying point for Palpatine's bloc and Anakin having literally been enslaved in a society that seemed to put humans on the bottom.
Like this is clearly part of the worldbuilding, especially given that per Lucas the Empire is a mashup of America and Nazi Germany with the human dominance angle being a clear analogue to the white supremacism of its inspirations, it just doesn't do a good job of addressing or articulating it.
The implication is there I guess. If it's that crucial and these are kid's movies then they should have made an actual point of it. Cause also what even is a human in the star wars galaxy? And wasn't the senate mostly weird aliens? It seems humans were the vast minority in that organization and territory. They needed bug men to build their robots and long neck freaks who live in apple stores on a rainy planet to clone the clones. I'll allow some eu bs here, but like...why was Palpatine racist? Just.csuse he's evil? Darth Maul was an alien, if he had killed both the jedi in phantom menace and became the Darth Vader, what was his an there? I for sure have seen it by implication and get the symbolism, but it raises more questions than it answers. Star wars is stupid as hell
It really is. Lucas had a few good points, and maybe some writers have done something interesting with the setting, but it's ultimately just vibes based slop and even Lucas didn't do a very good job of articulating his points.
I think the most impressive thing about the franchise is that a janky sci-fantasy samurai cowboy movie about Space-WWII-Vietnam-War-mashup in space managed to mainstream and legitimize sci-fi as a genre.
Sfdebris (super old online video guy, like rlm ancient) did a really good George Lucas examination. Part.one is The Heroes Journey covering his rise to star wars, the shadows journey about him becoming a corporate hack (the videos do it more gently) and the hermits journey about the prequels. It's super well researched and fairly sympathetic to.the guy. George Lucas at this pont to me, with what I know, is a pretty tragic story and I do think as a person he really really didn't want to become who he is. He thought he could use the money and the money used him.
The Clone Wars TV show kinda gestures at it vaguely sometimes, but it's all background stuff that the child audience probably won't pick up on.
Like, there's a recurring bit of Palpatine consolidating senatorial power out of alien hands and into human ones as part of laying the groundwork for his rise. For example, all the heads of the banking clan are set up and Rush Clovis is appointed to lead them.
Or, like, how Gungans are treated in the senate, (they don't have a representative and the (Palpatine organised) senate celebrations of Naboo history all revolve around the human invasion of the planet and how cool they think the settler colonists were).
I think Tarkin rants about human supremacy in one of his republic is too weak speeches during the Citadel arc.
I said no book bs. Did human supremacy come up in a TV show didn't watch?
Do we ever see a nonhuman in empire uniform in the movies?
It's in the movies, if not directly addressed. The imperial command structure is exclusively human, as are their footsoldiers, and in A New Hope Luke sees joining onto this as a more desirable career path than anything to do with non-human cartels or businesses. It also seems like at least some of its foundational support comes from humans that had directly been oppressed or threatened by non-human institutions, between Naboo and its invasion by a non-human federation being a rallying point for Palpatine's bloc and Anakin having literally been enslaved in a society that seemed to put humans on the bottom.
Like this is clearly part of the worldbuilding, especially given that per Lucas the Empire is a mashup of America and Nazi Germany with the human dominance angle being a clear analogue to the white supremacism of its inspirations, it just doesn't do a good job of addressing or articulating it.
The implication is there I guess. If it's that crucial and these are kid's movies then they should have made an actual point of it. Cause also what even is a human in the star wars galaxy? And wasn't the senate mostly weird aliens? It seems humans were the vast minority in that organization and territory. They needed bug men to build their robots and long neck freaks who live in apple stores on a rainy planet to clone the clones. I'll allow some eu bs here, but like...why was Palpatine racist? Just.csuse he's evil? Darth Maul was an alien, if he had killed both the jedi in phantom menace and became the Darth Vader, what was his an there? I for sure have seen it by implication and get the symbolism, but it raises more questions than it answers. Star wars is stupid as hell
It really is. Lucas had a few good points, and maybe some writers have done something interesting with the setting, but it's ultimately just vibes based slop and even Lucas didn't do a very good job of articulating his points.
I think the most impressive thing about the franchise is that a janky sci-fantasy samurai cowboy movie about Space-WWII-Vietnam-War-mashup in space managed to mainstream and legitimize sci-fi as a genre.
Sfdebris (super old online video guy, like rlm ancient) did a really good George Lucas examination. Part.one is The Heroes Journey covering his rise to star wars, the shadows journey about him becoming a corporate hack (the videos do it more gently) and the hermits journey about the prequels. It's super well researched and fairly sympathetic to.the guy. George Lucas at this pont to me, with what I know, is a pretty tragic story and I do think as a person he really really didn't want to become who he is. He thought he could use the money and the money used him.
https://sfdebris.com/videos/special/herosjourney.php
The Clone Wars TV show kinda gestures at it vaguely sometimes, but it's all background stuff that the child audience probably won't pick up on.
Like, there's a recurring bit of Palpatine consolidating senatorial power out of alien hands and into human ones as part of laying the groundwork for his rise. For example, all the heads of the banking clan are set up and Rush Clovis is appointed to lead them.
Or, like, how Gungans are treated in the senate, (they don't have a representative and the (Palpatine organised) senate celebrations of Naboo history all revolve around the human invasion of the planet and how cool they think the settler colonists were).
I think Tarkin rants about human supremacy in one of his republic is too weak speeches during the Citadel arc.