So, I read "Omen" a couple days ago...

[the_narration]

...and am I the only one that really, really wants someone--anyone!--to to wipe that smug facade of false moral superiority off Daala's face by reminding her that she used to be in charge of the Sun Crusher project? Sun Crusher. It did exactly what it said on the tin, only with more supernova. You want to charge someone with "reckless endangerment

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[tsubaki_ny]

LOL -- Maybe she has repented and wants others to learn from her mistakes? (Haven't read these, no clue what I'm talking about. But I did get horrifically sucked into the Wookieepedia for several DAYS last week. Worse than TV Tropes.)

[the_narration]

Well, I do get the impression that we're supposed to believe that she's not evil anymore. She is still a power-hungry jerk, however, who's positively enjoying being able to use the current crisis to politically embarass the Jedi. Before they started to get it into their heads to make Daala one of the "good" ex-Imperials, they really should have stopped and remembered some of the shit she'd actually done. (I can't really imagine how she could possibly win an election with a past like that. Knowledge of her past just seems to have vanished from the collective memory of galaxy, considering how nobody ever brings it up.)

On the other hand, if it turns out that it's all part of some very-long-term evil plot to put an Imperial in control of the government, I will give props where props are due. The first book in this particular plot arc was written by Allston, and he's made a habit of taking other writers' stupid, cliched, incompetent villains and remaking them into intelligent, creative, dangerous villains

[drenkrelar]

Daala as chief of state is a bit of a head-scratcher.

She was appointed by the Imperials, the Galactic Alliance loyalists, the Jedi, and the now-defeated Corellian Confederation as the only unaversally accepted choice to replace the now-dead sith lord Jacen Solo, and the overly ambitious would-be dictator Admiral Cha Niathal as the Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance.

How the former administrator of the Imperial super-weapon program is somehow the only acceptable choice I don't quite understand, but it makes more sense for her to be appointed to her position than elected. Not much more sense, but a little bit.

Besides political head-scratchers are comon place in Star Wars.
A 14 year old elected Queen?
A seperatist movement being lead by a former Jedi and some pissed off CEOs?
Jar Jar as a politician?
The list goes on.

[the_narration]

You'd think she'd be one of the few candidates that would be unacceptable to all parties. The Galactic Alliance because she worked on Imperial super-weapon programs and committed massacres, the Jedi because she tried to kill them all once, the Imperial Moffs because she's female and was also as I recall a real irritant to them when she was running the Imperial military, and the Corellians because she tortured Han Solo. Not to mention that somebody who previously rose to power by nerve gassing her competitors doesn't exactly seem suited to uphold the democratic ideals of the Alliance. They replaced a would-be dictator with a would-be dictator. Brilliant.

That said, I'd have an easier time accepting this if everyone wouldn't just keep taking her shit without ever once bringing up her own track record.

Besides political head-scratchers are comon place in Star Wars.Yeah, but those three were all Lucas' doing, and all from the prequels. I usually credit the EU writers with more sense, or at least better oversight