>>95950773
The Empire, like most enormous entities, collapse because of a death by a thousand cuts and this is just one them
>create a hostile culture of fear where people are afraid to fuck up
>competent imperial leaders are killed, or kill themsleves, because of this culture
>literal who incompetent idiots rise to the top by default
>Death Star is a literal rebellion recruitment machine
>senate dissolved and gives no voice for the people, even if it was corrupt. It was corrupt and inefficient because of palps

Amongst other things it’s just an incredibly stupid organisation. I honestly believe Palpatine was just pumping out battle mediation everywhere to keep it semi afloat and it just collapses when he dies in ROTJ because his force steroids have stopped