^ ::i died laughing::

Common HUMAN people of average or better wealth & status prospered, other humans and ALL aliens suffered. The Empire under Palpatine's rule had very strict anti-nonhuman policies that were enforced by Stormtroopers, whether they were clones or not, conscripts or enlisted. Signing up to serve the "common good", putting on a uniform and just following orders to feed your family is also what WW2-era Nazi's did, which the mid-era Stormtroopers and Galactic Empire are clearly meant to symbolize on a lot of levels. If you took a job from a contractor right now and went over to a middle Eastern warzone (to protect your family?) and were killed in a bomb blast, who would your family blame? Not to mention that the Empire imposed severe trade tariffs and demanded tribute from almost all the inner core systems, while summarily ignoring most of the lawlessness it was supposed to be fighting in the outer rim, and openly endorsing illicit bounty hunting and slavery.

Contract workers, if experienced, would know what they were in for. There was a huge war going on only a few decades prior, and clones were used as disposable shock-and-awe resources... this is why they are dressed in generic light biohazard armor and called Stormtroopers. In the years following "the old stories" only the ignorant and over-privileged had the luxury of forgetting about "lazer swords" and "old damn fool wizards."

spit my coffee laughing at ^

something something something TIMES NEW ROMAN.
something something something HELVETICA BOLD.

"Hey, didja hear that Grett over in the shipping & turbolasers department got a surprise promotion to Vice Admiral?" "Uh, yeah, didn't he just get married? ....we should probably shoot him a memo saying to decline the position..."

But how do you avoid eating your collection?!

... i got lazy and let windows stretch it instead... |o/