20th October 2004, 12:02 PM
That would take minimal modification to make sense. After all, someone had to have designed the Death Star! So they weren't Imperials yet... really, it's a small thing. Scientists would obviously have to design it and they well could have been where they are in that series. You only need to modify it to reflect the fact that instead of Imperials running it back when the Death Star was first worked on, it was people who Palpatine was manipulating.