Bismarck.Josiahfk said:
»You know I just realised something, in Return of the Jedi when the Rebels destroy the Death Star and everything is rosy, what happened to the mighty Imperial Fleet...? The Imperial Fleet on it's own was powerful enough to crush the Rebel fleet easily, and without Vader or the emperor, surely command would simply pass on to the next chain of the hierarchy, but they just vanish without explanation.
All the leaders were on the deathstar since it was unbeatable maybe so the top like 20 ranks of officers were wiped out. if you were an army with just some sergeants and stuff left, none of em would want or have the authority/power to lead everyone /shrug
You're sitting on deck and you watch your boss get blown up on the deathstar. You look around, relise you are now in charge of a Super Star Destroyer.
Do you stay and fight? Hell no. You take that badass juggernaught, jump to lightspeed and go to some far off quadrant of the galaxy, take over some backwater planets and start your own cartel. Who could POSSIBLY stand up to a Super Star Destroyer without the backing of 15+ Republic cruisers?
Living the goodlife.