A Call to Empire: The Failings of the New Republic

A Call to Empire: The Failings of the New Republic was a public lecture given on the Outer Rim planet Eriadu by Lenang O'Pali, a polemicist who fiercely defended the Galactic Empire long after its fall in 5 ABY. In the lecture, O'Pali argued that the industrial and transportation networks built by the Empire benefited the populations of Imperial worlds. In 35 ABY, the historian Beaumont Kin mentioned the lecture in his book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire. Kin disagreed with O'Pali and argued that it was actually impoverished populations and prisoners in labor camps who built such things, not the Empire, and that they did not benefit its citizens.

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