In principle, the Core Worlds' elite should not have been equated with the Rebel Alliance. After all, most people who rose up in rebellion did so, at the root of it all, to resist exploitation and oppression and fight for freedom. The noble classes of the Core Worlds, however, were themselves among the exploiters.
In many cases, when the Galactic Empire brutally exploited and drained a planet, it was ultimately those noble houses that carried it out.
For example, the uprising on the agricultural planet Lafa that Ahsoka Tano had once experienced was caused by the Imperial Agriculture Department's frenzied exploitation of local labor in order to grow high-energy crops. At the same time, it refused to provide fertilizer, instead allowing those crops to devastate the nutrients in the planet's soil.
In this matter, the Imperial Agriculture Department appeared to be the mastermind, while the Imperial Stormtroopers carried out the suppression. But on closer thought, what did the Imperial Agriculture Department do after obtaining those high-energy crops? Process them itself? Obviously not. Those requisitioned crops were ultimately sold to processing companies, turned into high-energy military rations, and then sold to the Imperial military through military contracts.
And weren't those processing companies owned by the Core Worlds' elite?
But even so, the Rebel Alliance and the noble class had still become entangled with one another.
First of all, the ideological foundation of the Rebel Alliance was liberalism. Liberalism had emerged partly because of the Galactic Republic's democratic parliamentary system, and partly because the noble class of the Core Worlds directly monopolized nearly all avenues for advancement.
Therefore, if ordinary people wanted to rise in status or cross class boundaries, aside from praying to be born into a good family in their next life, they could only attach themselves to the noble