Oh boy. I just bought Rebellion again, after a year or two of having lost it, and played the Empire on a Medium Difficulty / Huge galaxy game... 'course, I didn't have too many problems - until the end. Leia, Mon Mothma, 90% of the enemy characters captured, all core worlds mine, I was scouring the outer rim for the rebel base. I checked it all, didn't find it on the first pass, so second pass I decided I wasn't taking any chances. I used a fleet of SSDs to melt any habitable planet into slag (General Bombardment) and still didn't find it...so I built a couple of deathstars. I found rebel HQ, it was on a populated planet (when it was neutral) that had 1 energy slot and 1 mining slot to begin with. So I death-zapped it. I didn't get Luke. So, I quite literally destroyed every single Rebel planet in the outer rim. Which was a PR nightmare. I watched my Maintenence points go from +1100 (2 deathstars, a large capital fleet, TIE Defenders and about 120 regiments of Dark Troopers will do that to you) to -2000 fast. After ripping the outer rim a new one, I still didn't have Luke. So I pressed on - to the core worlds. (I had the game going on Fast to save time, I was annoyed, the Rebellion had been smited except for him). A few had defected so I started with them, then I uh, well how should I put this. I destroyed 3 sectors of space. Maybe more if you count the odds and ends. I worked may way around in a clockwise motion, starting from the Corellian sector, I spared Coruscant, and blew everything up til I hit Sluis Van. I had my finger on the Destroy System button when Luke tried a kill deathstar mission. This didn't work out well for him, and at day 4000 ( longest game ever, I generally win at no later than 1700) I had finally won. I didn't think anyone who had been on those planets really cared much. Oh, and I had something like -8,000 maintenence. The oddest thing happened - in some sectors, killing planets raised my popular support. Some systems declared neutrality before I even got to them, from 100% Rebel. I wasn't amused and still zapped Phew, mega-block of text.