Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-206.74.175.104-20151018163917/@comment-33128831-20180628021813

Skyrim is fine on its own without the empire. Commonly Look at Hammerfell. They have artillies such as Cannons and have years of Battles against the thalmors in their own homeland at the time when the concordat was signed. Skyrim's Economic system wont collapse, Instead, it will be reseted.

The Rebel alliance is composed of not just some farmers but mainly legion veterans and adventurers who will gladly help liberate Skyrim the empire's hand and Talos-ban. As you can see, Not everybody trusts the Empire. I can Hammerfell Resitance have that as well instead of just native civilians. Stormcloaks were founded in 4E 176 so they will already be Skyrim's Millitary by the time the civil war is over.

The weakened legion had struggles against them over the few years. That's irony to people who says the legion can easily crush the stormcloaks. The Legion can easily crush the stormcloaks if the septim dynasty was still around. There is no excuse otherwise to say that its game-mechanics same that can be said for joining the stormcloaks as Any race. The legions outside of game are mostly heavy-armored equipped soldiers and well-equipped, Lightly armors can be for soldiers choice of lightly-armored.