10 Smartest Decisions In Star Wars History

First off, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is amazing. Sure there's some funky editing where you can tell when the film was chopped and changed in post-production, but at its core is an inspiring, heartfelt tale of a group who come together and sacrifice EVERYTHING to lay the foundations of the Empire's collapse.

By providing further context to the first Death Star's destruction, Rogue One transforms a much joked about plot point from A New Hope into something emotionally wrought, that lays bare the odds the Rebellion was up against in sometimes terrifying detail.

So a shout out, if you will, to Galen Erso - the former Imperial engineer-turned-saboteur who purposefully designed the Death Star's fatal flaw. Played by the ever wonderful Mads Mikkelsen, Galen was one of the principle architects of the Death Star who went into hiding. But, after realising the Empire would complete the weapon with or without him anyway, he understood that the best shot anyone had at destroying it would be if he undermined its construction from the inside.

Without Galen's noble sacrifice, the Empire may have been able to build a truly impenetrable planet killer. A hero of the Alliance, along with the rest of Rogue One.