I agree. I could tell that the Emperor was mainly appealing to our attachment to the homes we were taken from. [And, while she doesn't admit so aloud, she expects the appeal to be successful because it resonates on a basic level: instilling fear for the future of their respective worlds, and making people feel extraordinary that it was them, out of millions and billions, who were chosen. Look, she paid attention in her social studies and literature classes. The angle the Emperor took was pretty obvious.]

You've seen the state of the castle library, I suppose. It strikes me as odd that such a degree of damage would occur in the faction's base of operations without anyone noticing.