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Anyone organization that would build a Death Star can't be all bad.
And hey! They mostly wear White Hats.
Meh, not really. Frankly, the kinds of resources that would go into building a Death Star could also be spent on infrastructure and winning people's loyalty that way.
You see, here's kind of my problem with TFA. It's 30 years since Endor. The link between the Empire and the First Order is really not made clear. The Galaxy kind of looks like it a mess, though. People on the desert planet are a lot more miserable than the people of Tantoonine were. Rae is someone who is living off the land scavanging the tons of wreckage of the Star Wars lying all over the place.
Yet it looks like the First Order is not only getting the same equipment the Empire had, but they are getting the new upgraded versions.