Del-Toro said:
Actually, the Empire primarily focused on putting down resistance, and aside from the occasional bit of censorship (only against music and films that had "fuck the empire" as their primary point) and blowing up pirates, they left well enough alone. Well, that and the slavery, although typically the people in question did something to piss the Empire off, so it was more like Jail and hard labour, something we have here. Economically, the Galaxy was very strong during the Empire's reign, with goods being less likely to be stolen by pirates for fear of Star Destroyers suddenly appearing to vaporize them.
Besides, the Rebellion was formed by a bunch of sentors when their power started to wane. The only one to survive the war then basically took over galactic governance (albeit with a republic), so I kind of consider the rebels to be like the Sons of Korhal from starcraft. Even after Endor, the Empire kept rolling, although it reformed big time, and never died, even though the Rebellion's legacy did. So yeah, I guess it's time to get fitted for an Army (Not stormtroopers, they had a regular army too) officer's uniform.
The Empire was relatively decentralized in some aspects (such as how the Grand Moffs were pretty much left to their own provided they didn't try to rebel themselves). And actually slavery was specifically reinstated by the Empire, though it survived in the Outer Rim during the Old Republic, during the Empire it became a state-sanctioned trade, and even though most slavery was punitive (i.e. commit a crime, get put into slavery) they still targeted those who would make ideal slaves, such as Wookiees for their strength.
And yeah canonically the Empire functioned as the Imperial Remnant following Endor, it wasn't much until the Fel Dynasty. A series of rebellions, some of which were lead by Imperial warlords, pretty much devastated what was left and made it into the Remnant. But yeah the Empire got much better after Endor, since it wasn't being ruled by people like Tarkin or Palpatine anymore and it pretty much had to drop the racism since they just didn't have enough humans to keep doing what they were doing.
One nitpick though: stormtroopers were the core of the Imperial Army, of course they had some more ragtag groups for enforcement on the Outer Rim but stormtroopers were pretty much the way they kept peace on the ground level. Some Stormtroopers were clone soldiers after the Empire restored its old cloning program (albeit with more clone templates than just Jango Fett since it became clear it was a security risk), but they also opened their ranks up to non-clones and even the occasional alien provided he or she was willing to serve and didn't mind some very unsubtle discrimination. It'd probably be not unlike an African-American serving in the U.S. military in the 40's, under the command of human officers and the only ones that really advance are the ones that prove that they can go above and beyond their human cohorts.
