Return of the OTHER Jedi 8.26
For those who’ve forgotten (i.e. everyone but me) the guy in the blue cap is wedge’s personal nemesis who pops up from time to time to make Wedges life a little bit worse. We last saw him early in ‘mission improbable’
Originally one of the ideas I had for the comic, was that without the threat of the death star hanging over them many people who wouldn’t normally have joined the rebellion would end up signing on. This would result in the rebels acquiring some… less then stellar recruits.
The guy in the blue cap was going to be the first of these, but as things went on the opportunity to include that story element never really arose, and this guy just mutated into Wedges Nemesis. Everyone needs one after all 
At some point I’ll probably get back to the idea of the rebels inadvertently recruiting complete idiots, but that’ll have to wait until ‘The Empire strikes back’ or possibly even ‘Return of the Jedi’
Wouldn’t the threat of a death star incite more people to help destroy it? Or would the empire only destroy those who resisted.
Alderaan for example. It wasn’t even resisting. It had no weapons!
Believe or not I covered the idea behind this in the very first story, nearly two years ago. Tarkins plan in the films was for the empire to rule through fear of force, rather then force itself. The Death Star was never intended to fly round the galaxy blowing up planets left right and centre. The THREAT of the Death Star was supposed to keep people in line, not the Death Star itself. the destruction of Alderaan was just to add weight to the threat. One of the effects I thought I would include was that the Death Star did indeed scare a lot of people out of joining the rebellion, but it didn’t scare off the really dedicated rebels. So you ended up with a rebellion in the films that was small, but highly skilled and dedicated. In this version of events no Death Star means all the less dedicated more easily put off people do join the rebels, leaving the rebellion with bigger ranks but full of imbeciles
Well that was the original plan anyway. Tarkin summed it all up in his speech to the emperor back in January 2014.
It’s also possible that I may have put WAY too much thought into it