Fair, but had they completed their contracts under duress, who's to say they wouldn't be executed anyway? Those people were dead from the word go.

There's very little morality to be found in wars, even Star Wars.

What we need is a Millenium crossover. Time travelers show up and get all the innocents off the Death Star right before the torpedoes drop. Problem solved!

I remember reading in an expanded universe comic of some kind that storm troopers are actually paid a fair bit above the galactic average, and that the first order is actually the ones who would hold you at gunpoint.

If the choice is between working on a literal genocide machine and dying, the moral choice is dying. Granting an exception for the guy who sabotages the genocide machine by building in a way to blow it up.

Never heard anything about Bevel Lemelisk's family being threatened, and Qwi Xux thought she was working on a piece of mining equipment.

Considering I brought up that there may be prisoners, I don't disagree. However, I don't think it was particularly common.

My understanding is that the staff manning the station were all volunteers, but everyone involved in the designing and building of it were enslaved

Signing the contract to build the empire's new wunderwaffe moves you from "working class" to "ACAB means you too".

You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... [taps heart] not his wallet.

I don't think they know about second Death Star, Pip.

Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1013/

Wouldn't anyone not from Naboo be an alien to Palpatine? Jar Jar should have been less of an alien to Palpatine than Anakin was. Luke and Leia were Tatooine/Nabooian hybrids.