Dracula takes over for Vader on the DS:
Motti: "Don't try to scare us with your bloody ways Drathcula. Your sad devotion to that lustful religion hasn't helped you conjure up the Stolen Arteries, or discover the location of the Hidden Ventricle Aort---"
Drathcula: "I find you quivering neck muscles delicious."
Originally posted by Ianus
Yay for Thrawn bias!
oh, I'm not saying he's infallible. I'm just saying he's the most competent.
Bear in mind the extreme pro-Rebel/New Republic bias that occurs in the novels, the imperials are often led by buffoons, idiots, and people who spend too much time thinking...it's only fair to point out that someone like you or I could probably do a better job of commanding forces...so there is going to be Thrawn bias, whether you like it or not.
One thing though everybody here might want to consider, the Empire does have the superior fire power, they have more ships they have more planets then perhaps even all of them combined and they can probably produce ships faster.
But they don't have the force users, and that just simply sucks for them. They also won't immediately know where the Star Forge is and it might take them an entire war to find out, it did for the Republic. And if the Star Forge can start creating Republic ships, which is very likely actually (if you want an explanation just ask i'm to lazy to type it right now) then the Empire might get into some serious trouble.
With Revan and Ackbar and GG and god knows who else their opposition has some great generals. Thrawn would not be able to beat all of them, if even one of them in an fair battle. The Empire would be taken over at first, I'm sure of it. Force users and equal technology tend to make you win. It won't be until the Imperial fleets find them that the fight will be serious and the alliance of others (AoO) could have very well build a lot of ships by then.
In one battle the Empire wins without a doubt, in a full out war... Well the AoO has a chance
If the Star Forge is ever found, then its most probably game up for the IE, CIS and Republic and most of the rebels.
However even if it is found, there is still the possibility that Imperial ships would be destroyed before they can transmit there coordinates to the fleet, unless its a SD, where its debatable whether it'll hold up for the time required to send a transmission.
If most of the other alliance parties are wiped out, then the rebels will most likely take to the ground and slowly gain more political support in the senate and destabalise the empire. Although the OT was a very perculiar set of consequences for that to happen.
I agree that the Empire would be quite...put out, by them not knowing the SF's location.
But as it has been agreed, the Empire could easily take out all of the others. And I will bring up again, a point I've made before:
Since the Empire would conquer what territory the others have, that means all their worlds would be under Imperial control. And even if the SF remained hidden, where are they gonna find the manpower to pilot their vessels?
This would be like an unintentional blockade of the SF, despite the Imperials' ignorance to its whereabouts. To take on the Imps, the "Alliance," will need ALOT of ships, and that means ALOT of people to man them. And since the only place to find sufficient manpower would be in the galaxy the Imperials have conquered....well, the "Alliance" is gonna be strugglin' for a while.