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** The Battle Droids of the prequel trilogy are treated as nonhuman, and their "deaths" at the hands of the heroes are even played for laughs. But they still react in a very lifelike way, even acting scared when someone comes at them brandishing a lightsaber!
*** In [[The Phantom Menace]], their brains were not in their skulls, but they were remote controlled from the Droid Control Ship in the orbit, so their program survived the body being gleefully chopped to pieces. Until young Anakin murdered them all.
** A chunk of the Empire's cultural backbone is its doctrine conforming to [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Human_High_Culture Human High Culture], holding to the belief that humans were inherently superior to others. Healthy male humans, at that. The [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/NhM NhM category], standing for Non-huMan, was applied to various degrees to droids, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801030343/http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Imperial_non-Humans aliens, near-humans, cyborgs], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120105153837/http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Imperial_women women]. Some from each category except the droids, if they were devoted and forceful enough, rose to power anyway, but it was an uphill battle, and in several cases was only possible at all because they [[Never a Self-Made Woman|hitched their careers to those of male human officers]].
*** Interestingly, of Palpatine's thirteen handpicked Grand Admirals, three of them - Thrawn, [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Osvald_Teshik Teshik], and Pitta - fell under the Non-huMan category. Thrawn was a striking near-human who got his position by being almost obscenely good. [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Osvald_Teshik Teshik] was the most compassionate and non-evil Grand Admiral, but after suffering serious injuries and being forced to replace 75% of his body with cybernetics, was widely derided and dismissed, though he kept his rank. [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Danetta_Pitta Pitta], interestingly, a human with near-human blood, was the one most obsessed with Imperial racial purity, "purging" anyone who was revealed to have an impure ancestry.
*** A [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Uwlla_Iillor female officer] who rose to commanding an Imperial Interdictor Cruiser while serving under Thrawn got transferred into the regular Imperial navy, and ended up [[Defector From Decadence|defecting]] to the New Republic after finding that her superiors didn't listen to her suggestions.
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