Star Wars Thought: The wrong alliance

Finished season 2 of The Mandalorian (Short review-  it's awesome.  Longer review- it expanded the Star Wars Universe and managed to show characters who were shades of grey without going away from the themes of the Universe.  And the characters and stories were inrcredible.  Jon Favreau and Dave Filono are on the short list of creators I will trust with just about any franchise).

One thing I kept noticing- the Empire kept advocating 'Order'.  "Bringing Order to the Galaxy"- that was their justification for waging war on the Republic.  That's what the Empire believed- order over chaos.  Which makes sense.  

But that's not what the Sith believe.  The Sith believe that passion creates strength creates power creates victory (courtesy of Knights of the Old Republic 2).  The Sith don't care about Order, or Discipline... if anything, they advocate the exact opposite of it.

So why are they always allies?

For the original trilogy, and the prequels, the answer is- Emporer Palpatine.  Palpatine viewed the Empire and the Sith as tools to use for his cult of personality.  He told the Empire that he wanted to bring Order to the Universe, and he told Vader to embrace his feelings.  Vader thought he was using the Empire, the Empire thought they were using Vader- and both were being used by the Emporer.

But now that the Emperor is dead?  There's no reason for them to be working together.  The Mandalorian gets around this by not having any Sith.  Their opponents are only the Empire.

But the Sequels (cue my rant about the failure that was the sequels)... they just put the First Order and Kylo Ren together.  And since Ren was the far more interesting character... really, the First Order was nothing more than scrubs for the heroes to level up on until they were ready to face Ren.

And that's a missed opportunity, in my mind.

What if the overall arc of the sequels had been a War between the First Order and the Sith?  Between Order and Chaos?  

It would have taken the sequels in a new direction instead of a rehash.

But wouldn't that have put the Republic- the heroes- on the sidelines?

Not necessarily.  The first movie could have had them acting as heroes trying to save the worlds caught in the crossfire of the Empire-Sith war.  The second movie shows Rey's training (the rebirth of the Jedi), as the Sith (Kylo Ren and his Knights) decimate the Empire...

... which forces the Empire to turn to the Republic for an alliance.

Because the Empire is about Order.  The Sith is about Passion.  The Republic is about Balance and Compassion.  

Which takes the Star Wars Universe to a different path and many more interesting stories.