Jumping in here a minute, the whole bit with "Palpatine didn't like non-humans" was some retcon West End Games cooked up in the late '80s-early '90s to explain why the Imperial ranks were all basically white British guys while the Rebels had a more diverse mix of women, Wookiees, droids, big talking squids, Ewoks, and so forth.
Of course even the EU began to deviate from that in the 1990s, introducing femme fatales like Ysanne Isard, Grand Admiral Thrawn, and a parade of freakish Imperial officers. Then the prequels pretty much blew it all out of the water when Palpatine seemed more than comfy with having non-humans hanging around him, so long as they served his purposes.
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Date: 2009-10-14 03:33 pm (UTC)Of course even the EU began to deviate from that in the 1990s, introducing femme fatales like Ysanne Isard, Grand Admiral Thrawn, and a parade of freakish Imperial officers. Then the prequels pretty much blew it all out of the water when Palpatine seemed more than comfy with having non-humans hanging around him, so long as they served his purposes.