Game, interrupted

It's catchup time around the ol' blog tonight.  Three weeks ago we played a marathon session and things were pretty even by the eighth turn.  Exhausted, we adjourned following our procedure for photographing the board, stabilizing the faction card decks, and all that.  Here's the situation:

Two weeks ago, with full bellies thanks to Kent's special recipe of sloppy Joes, we set the board up as before and resumed the battle for galactic domination.  Rebel Leader Ric started off and promptly conquered Gamorr and rolled into Excarga.  Where the Emperor's Starbase was all along.  Game ova.

With such an anticlimax, we reloaded the game without switching sides.  Kent the Hutt proceeded to march to victory in a very short three-turn game.