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Originally Posted by MMM
...... but we are thinking about the loss of innocent life. We cannot accurately guess how many non-military personnel were on DS-1, but I think we can estimate that there were more than zero. A military base does not survive with only military personnel. There need to be cooks, at the least, as well as other off-duty distractions. No one has ever chastised the Rebel Alliance for the mass destruction of the Empire's Death Stars with no discrimination for those that that some were simply innocent individuals at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Ronin pointed out the existance of servants / slaves / droids onboard the Death Star One.
As for "relatively free" cooks and other so-called civil personnel of a military base (vehicle).
They are not innocent people, walking on street of peaceful city. Each so-called *civilian* i.e. cook, electrician, technician of life-support system etc must sign a special contract.
The matter of contract is "to serve a certain system of a military facility under certain conditions". In other words, they are still combatants, not innocent civilians.