Well just like in the real world I'd imagine every individual has their own perspective and opinions, many of them perfectly valid and shaped by their own experiences, even if they are misinformed.
For example, someone like Hera or Numma who grew up on war torn Ryloth saw first hand the valour and integrity of the Jedi and also watched what the Republic became after Palpatine declared himself Emperor. They likely didn't believe a word of the official story.
On the other hand, imagine someone who grew up on a mid-rim world that went untouched by the fighting but suffered in other ways. Like heavy rationing due to disrupted trade routes and delayed food shipments. Increased pirate and slaver activity thanks to a booming black market and more political and police corruption due to war profiteering and lack of oversight. Such a person would see the Empire as finally restoring order, getting the transports running on time, stamping out the criminal parasites. That the Jedi were blamed for all this probably wouldn't phase them.
Such a person had probably only ever heard about Jedi in stories. Some where they're heroic warriors with impossible supernatural abilities. Others where they're stuffy old religious zealots and charlatans who steal children and indoctrinate them in their ancient dogma.
Then think of a person from a Separatist world that were already told of the corruption and arrogance of the Jedi, the weakness of the senate. They might see Palpatine's Empire as succeeding where the Separatist Parliament failed. Wiping out the corruption and reuniting the galaxy in peace.
Now think of someone in Coruscant's middle class. Who's father was an honest man but passed over for promotion again and again under the republic thanks to the rampant corruption. But under the Empire, his talents were recognised and his family given the opportunities they deserved. Better, cleaner housing. A job at the Imperial Civil Administration Bureau and free education for the children at the Coruscant Imperial Academy.
As for the Jedi? Those snobby elitist wizards? Claiming to protect the galaxy while propping up an obviously corrupt Senate? Good riddance!
As to the official story, I think from a logistical point of view, the less the Empire needs to invent the better. Best to simply re-contextualise what is already there. So every Republic victory at their hands is a ruse to win over the locals, every Separatist atrocity is staged by their puppet Dooku and his corporate collaborators.
Even Palpatine's "kidnapping" could easily be said to have been an attempt by the Jedi to personally bring Palpatine into line and when he refused to bend to their nefarious demands, they tried to murder him in his own office.
I am curious if there's an official story concerning Anakin. If he was simply added to the list of the dead at the temple or credited with dying in defence of Palpatine. More likely his records were simply deleted with the rest of the Jedi, with no full accounting appearing in any official Imperial records.
), but have been holding out for Tarkin in paperback. Then again, the people in charge of the SW new canon might be deluded enough to think the saturday morning cartoon book fits with an actual SW novel, but I'd feel better thinking it was just a cheap way of making people buy Tarkin on paperback at a slightly higher price by putting a few short stories and a chunck of worthless filler with Tarkin. I'd prefer to think that the people in charge of the books are money focused instead of outright delusional.[/quote][/QUOTE]
