The point you miss is that the “Rebel terrorists” were just a false front, a puppet group (((Palpatine))) used to continue The Clone Wars under a different name. Or, more accurately, the largest and most high profile participants. There were, among the “Rebels,” true believers, who had been brainwashed and led into zealotry and even faith in the old (((Jedi))) religion (Luke Skywalker, like his father Anakin), but if you look at the key players and founders of the movement, it was former Imperial Senators and high ranking military officers: Mon Mothma, Bail Organa and his “daughter” Leia (Palpatine had plans for an unwitting incestuous relationship between the Skywalker twins to produce a child with massive Force potential for another ritual, by the way), Obi-Wan Kenobi and Crix Madine. To be fair, you had genuine rebellion from people like Saw Gerrera and the former “Darth” Maul. However, they were conveniently dispatched in the early days of the founding of the “Rebel Alliance” to prevent the success of splinter groups with plans to actually tear down the system, rather than just rebrand it under a new name. Populist outsider, Garm Bel Iblis, now conveniently labeled a “legend” or myth in the modern revised so-called “history” of Star Wars, escaped assassination by the “Rebels” by hiding out in remote sections of the galaxy. As for the Ewoks, their threat was so great that Palpatine coordinated the “Battle of Endor,” whose massive fallout would allow the propagation of a huge lie about a disastrous ecological “accident.” This lie was a cover story for the intentional raining down of hazardous radioactive materials onto the forest moon which would eliminate all life, particularly, the pre-space-faring civilization of Ewoks and their rivals, the Duloks. This pair of species was so dangerous that, had they overcome their differences and unified the moon under harmonious rule, they would have created the greatest threat the Republic/Empire/Rebellion had ever faced. The lie also conveniently allowed Palpatine to move into a shadow government role, pulling the strings in the “New Republic” and “First Order” from behind the scenes, and granting him continued funding for his (((Sith))) blood ritual alchemy as he pursued his own aims of transhumanist eternality, while the galaxy rested in the false faith that he had been killed. His granddaughter, Rey, will doubtless continue his legacy.