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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Though I realized something as I watched this movie (and I loved it, BTW) - the Rebel Alliance isn't exactly the rag-tag group of misfits that the original trilogy painted them as.
These guys have a fighter wing that rivals the Air Force. And it sure seems like they have some fire-superiority over the Empire with the X-Wing as well.
Rogue One gave us a bit of a different feel regarding our plucky upstarts - these guys are a pretty heavily armed military force in their own right.
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There's a reason for this and I'm not really sure if I like the answer:
Certain factions of the Rebel Alliance (which, as we saw in
Rogue One, isn't the giant, happy family that was portrayed in the OT), is made up of planets that were originally part the Confederacy of Independent Systems, otherwise known as the Separatists, led by Count Dooku and Darth Sidious.
Many Separatist planets had the means to build a mighty military and shunned induction into the Empire. The Empire, meanwhile, has its hand full building the Death Star and managing all of the other worlds its conquered, so it doesn't have time to deal with certain insurgent planets.
Thus, the Rebel
Alliance.